Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-01-07

7 luWiully WaTIleut IL Will DC easy 10 nave but
ceremony lawfully performed. shall not
answer Colonel Barwelrs hings at my
fathers business. Some people, whom the
world considers great have not been
ashamed of the labor Of their hands Aud
| there are many rich men whom would not
exchange places WITH if | had TO take their
ignorance, their animal habits and brutal
temper"
A few minutes earlier, this retort would
have cost the young man his life. As it was,
| Celia turned pale, while she watched the
play Of passion in her fathers face. But
! he, feeling pretty sure of triumph, was will
ing to let the youth talk and preferred on
the whole not to have the trouble and scam
dOl Of fight. .... ...
"COme, daughter you have heard the
young spark. lie can talk, though he hasn't
the pluck to do any thing else. (Stll feel
ing the edge of the knife, and showing his
teeth to Nlanley, with an expressive SMILEY
"Will you 60 home with me tell you in
/ three weeks you shall have your choice"
She wavered. She looked toward her
lover with fearful eyes. Perhaps one word
from him would have brought her to his
side. But that foolish uprightness of his
| held him silent lie had said what he
| thoughts she must come Of her own free
! will. He would not lift finger to induce
| her.
"Decide," said the Colonel 'If you leave
me, leave your name behind you; for l
! swear l shall never own you, nor shall you
ever have q crust from me to keep you from
starving"
She moved step toward her father. He
opened his arms.
"Can you forgive me, George Z" she said.
! ut is only for little while. swear
! will never marry any one but you. But to
! please my father, and you know what he
has promised, will you not let me go? Then
well have a wedding, with our relations and
friends. / can't bear to 60 off with my
fathers curse on my head. Won't you for.
! give me, George2 l will be true to you"
What the father thought he kept in his
own breast. He clasped his daughter in his
arms and throwing a cold glance over his
shoulder TO Manley, said, with ironical cour-
tesy 'You can go, young man. And you
may as well order your horse to be fed for an
early start"
~ am obliged to you" said Manley. 'You
can keep your advice for another. AS for
you Celia, l must abide by your decision.
Something within tells me that we part for
ever. But the die is cast by your hand.
FAREWELL
Next day, Colonel Barwell and his daugh-
ter started homeward. Manley and Cock
burn sat at the door, but no words were in
terchanged. An hour or two after the young
men followed, reaching harrington in the
evening. The. most disappointed and en-.
| ragged man in the party was Cockburn
: Though less stalwart and muscular than the
| Colonel, he was full of reckless impetuosity,
and was keenly sensitive to the imputation
of cowardice. 1t chafed him to see his
friends tame acquiesence in Colonel Bar.
wells insolent dictation, and he would have
been glad to have brush, if his principal
had shown the least disposition to sustain
him.
ave shall be laughed out of the world for
this" was his hundred times repeated con-
ISOLATION to the downcast bridegroom on the
way home 1.-TWO young men to let one old
fellow bully them, ride over them rough
shod, and carry off the girl when they had
her surel You and could have chaWed
him up in three minutes"
'But he was too well armed"
"Never mind his butcher-knife That
isn't worth shucks when you close in. Give
a regular bears hug, and man can't carve
you up.
"But don't want fight"
"Then what on earth did you 90 in for
Don't grip with the devil unless you mean
to use your nails. We go home like couple
of dogs with their tails between their legs.
You can jump into Green River, or take
lodgings in the Mammoth Cave, but you
can't hold up your head in harrington.
What made you tell him about that lisense?'
"Why, you said it was legal"
$50 l say now; the girl is your wife.
But you might have kept your mouth shut
The nearer they came to the town, the
more the dread Of rdicule weighed upon
Cockburn. Again and again he repeated /:
awe are disgraced-cowed like spaniels-
not worth the powder to blow US up"
'Well, what could have done"
"StoOd up for your rights demanded your
wife, and showed fight. The old man
wouldn't care to have ball through his
body any more than you and l. Besides,
your wife had nobody to go to. You didn't
show her that you would protect her, and
so you made her give up to him."
"But it's over now; and I've agreed to
wait three weeks"
"Don't be spooney, and let the wool be
pulled over your eyes in that way. l tell
you she is your wife, end she showed her
disposition plain enough. Go out to her
fathers place and take herp
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