Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-07-09


McGregor, concealing his modification under a
assumed appearance of calnness. "Walsh is gon
for the present He is however Known at the Pr
vost Office, and will leave an order there for hi
arrest We will return. ;" - o.. ......
McGregor and his men gave up the chase an
dismissng his detailto repair to the camp, he him
self having first called at the Provost Office to eav
request for the arrest of Walsh, afterwards re
paired to the guard house by the bridge, to rejo
Victor, whom however he failed to find. Conjec
turing the cause of Victors absence, he remounte,
his horse, which he had called for on the way, ant
returned to camp.
! In the meantime we will return to follow the fu
gitive Walsh His pursuers had passed within
three or four feet of him, and had even brushed q
gainst his place of concealment, without havinl
discovered him. 1t was moonlight night, and
knowing the risk he would run from the bullets o
the soldiers, who he was aware would soon be up
on his heels, as he darted around to the rear of tn
building, he looked around with painful eagernes
for some place of temporary concealment, The en-
closure Of the lot was broken down, and fev
bounds would place him in the street, but that wa
too open for place of refuge, from swift and vel
armed pursuers, whose object was to take him deat
or alive, and whose bullets could easily overtak
him if he bade fair to escape. Fortunately 70
him, there were few empty hogsheads lying a
round, and into one of these lying in the deel
shadow of the building he eagerly darted. Th
mouth was turned towards the building, and hi
pursuers in their eagerness to capture him, rushet
close by his narrow hiding place, undreaming o
his arti6ce. Walsh heard them rush by, and
though he congratulated himself upon his escape
yet he was too wary to come forth until severa
minutes had elapsed, and his quick hearing hat
detected the footsteps of those who were in pur
suit of him, departing in the direction in which
they had come Even then he did not venture II
trust himself at once, in the open streets, but pas
sing through the adjoining enclosure, and, making
his way across the lots embraced in the square, e
merged into the street at some distance from tn
scene of his late difficulty.
Prone to anger and revenge, the blood Of th'
wretched man was in fever Of excitement HI
longed to follow up his late pursuers and inaic
some signal evil upon them. But he was unarm
ed and he shrank from the risk of being captured
which foreboding of his mind told him would b.
fatal event to one so deeply involved in guilt a
himself. The mention Of Brack's name and hi
capture, at time when Walsh felt assured tha
he was on his way to the feet as messenger froll
Isolette, was to him sufficient indication Of th'
motives that led to the attempt to arrest himself
He had no doubt that Brack had confessed every
thing, and that his REASONABLE practices and con
neetions were oil exposed. 1t was dangerous fo
him to remain in the city, 80 dangerous in fact
that he was already fully resolved, that the morn
ing sun should find him far away but he wished
to infict some further evil on the cause before hi
left, to do something at parting to recommend
himself to his employers. If Brack were captured
with dispatches, he thought it would be well Il
warn Isoette of the fate of her messenger both t.
put her on her guard against an arrest, and als'
to enable her to forward, by his instrumentality
any information which it was deemed importan
to communicate to the enemy.
Chafng like bear that the spear of the hunte
has reused from his den, and muttering many al
angry curse through his clenched teeth, he set ou
on his way to Miss DeVere's stealing along rs fa.
as practicable, in the shadows of the buildings ant
walls The house was soon reached, and gliding
like fox across the street where the moonligh
fell, he entered the gate and with noiseles
tread assembled the steps of the portico. His hant
was on the knocker of the front door, but he hest
tated. There was the sound Of voices and musi
within the parlor, and, knowing that he was nov
an outlawed traitor, he feared lest his summon
might bring some one whom it were better not t.
meet He stood, for many minutes, at the door
and, at last, he heard the moving Of feet as if tn
guests were about to depart. The moon, near!
at the full, was pouring food of light into tn
portico from the eastern sky. The guilty mai
trembled and feared as only the guilty can. ID
wished no one to encounter him where he stood
He partially opened the door that led into the pas
sage way, thinking to hide himself in the darkness
that reigned at the farther end, and meet Miss De
We're when her guests had taken their leave HI
hesitated at the liberty he was about to take, ant
the dangerous suspicious it might draw upon him
SELF But was not he hunted man? And thos
muskets cleaning in the moonlight, and that squa'
of men, in dusky grey uniforms, crossing the stree
and approaching, seemingly, to enter the gate
what did that mean? He hesitated no longer
No danger that Miss DeVere would have him ap
pretended as burglar; she would, on the con
trary, rejoice to aid and hasten in his fight on
whose tongue could utter secret as fatal to he
as any charge could be to himself Startled b.
the disclosures he had come 10 make, she woult
have no leisure to bestow even thought upon hi
conduct, that, under other circumstances, woule
be so glaringly improper. He noiseessly opened
the door, and, treading softly as he went, seated
himself near the farther end of the passage way
on the bottom step of the flight of stairs leading
to the story above. Partially screened from an!
light passing from the parlor, by small tab'
against the WALL few feet from his seat, he cow
cred down and awaited his time 1t seemed II
him weary time he thus sat, waiting till Mis-
DeVerc should be left alone and the opportunit!
be presented of approaching her.
The sound of voices in conversation, indistinctl!
audible, and of soft music floating out distinct.
and clearly upon the ear, continued for sometime
for hours as it seemed to the wretched man Wit
sat waiting its conclusion, and whom the fairy lk
music caused to feel more than ever, like parial
and outcast.
i Let us enter the chamber-we have been Their
before-where the fair Isolette sits like prestes
in the well furnished and rich apartment sacred t.
hospitality. There is but one companion-on
guest we should say-with her, and that is tn
wretched Victor, who has load at his heart o
which he wishes to rid himself, and knows no
how. The nolsssin,a tandi tempora, he is watch
ing and waiting for. There is no one to whom h
can dalegate the unpleasant duty of speaking tina