Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

lay regular seige to her hand.
At this par ocular time there happened
to be innumerable trade riots and distur
Dances throughout the cotton towns, and
especially in Warwick, where l was about
| to go, al I beheld the name Of Devon (my
antagonist) mentioned in the papers as .
man particularly active in the interest OF
the operatives against some new regula-
tons which were being made in the mills.
I do not, to this day, know what these re-
gulations were, or what awakened such
violent opposition to them; and am on
| ly aware that the promoters OF the new
ideas were in extremely ill favor with the
operatives, and that, in many cases, per-
sonal violence had been used to get them
| from the town.
| This, however, had in my mind very
| little to do with Miss Mails, or my visit
to her towp, and SO went. as l planned,
much TO the delight of this sister of mine,
who instantly began making estimates for
/ house of fearful dimensions, which was
to be occupied at an early day by me and
mine. I descended at the station of War
wick and looked about me. The first per-
son I beheld as he stood with group of
hungry cotton spinners (syeing all who
came by the train with savage looks OF
suspicion,) was this self same Devon, who
scowled at me and followed me with his
eyes.
| / thought little of it, and drove to the
only hotel of the place, noticing, as /
went that crowds of men were abroad,
singing and hootine, that many Of the
shops were closed, and that the place had
the appearance of indulging in rather
a disorderly holiday.
instantly went to the Malises, good
two miles into the country, and was there
received with all becoming warmth which
could be shown to man not yet in the
family, yet who might be heartily well
coined if he chose to be one of them. She
miss Malis) was lovely. She was rather
tallish girl, finely proportional and
strong. l mention this as it appears
hereafter in a rather extraordinary way.
I was pressed to carry my luggage up to
their house, but az I observed that there
was great deal of company present, I
refrained from doing so. .-----
| I threw myself h1adlong at Miss Mails,
in the midst of the kind smiles of the peo-
ple about. and, am happy to say, Miss
Mails was weak enough to throw herself
beadiong at me. There was no boldness
about it. approached her frankly, and
she frankly received me, without any fur
Their ado.
There were walks in the garden, nice
tea and then more walks in the garden,
and there happened TO be moon.
| We could hear the shouts of the men in
the village, and some distant roars as if
there were some street contest going on.
Miss Mails grew white and chung to my
arm.
ooh, how frightfull And you must go
among them tonight Cannot it be pre-
vented / wish it might Here she
burst into tears, which gloated over, and
endeavored to double by assuring her that
nothing could prevent me.
But at least go armed, won't you,
please? Please do. l will give you re-
volver of mine; it is pretty toy, and on
ly toy, but it can shoot, know, for
once killed dear little pet puppy with it.
He ran mad and was biting all the fowls
in the barn yard. Now you will be care
full, and take it, won't you?
| calamity replied: "No, Miss Emily ;
my best inducement to be careful is
my hope and desire to see you to-mor-
row.
She looked at me and laughed a little,
bat l always felt that we became much
nearer to each other from that moment.
/ parted from the family at q quarter
past eleven, and from her at quarter to
twelve. 1t was parting To be remvm-
bered. She again pressed her revolver
upon me, but l declined it on the same
grounds as before and went away.
Iwalked for full mile, one-half the
distance. and passed through wood. As
I was leaving man spoke to me from
across the way, and approached me. He
was rather civil in his manner, and took
off his hat and gave me a strip of paper. !
lighted match and read it. 1t contained
: single word-'Leave.'
looked up. The man was gone. /
called to him, but got no reply. l rum
pied the paper up, and threw it away,
divining instantly what induced the note
and who was the author of it.
Il I Of course took no notice of it, other
than TO keep my eyes abont me-. and con-
, tiuued TO my lodgings, where / stayed, as
[ intended.
The streets, in the morning, seemed 10
be much more disturbed than on the
night before. More men were about, and
were much more noisy and qnarrelsome
than on yesterday. / descended to the
-treet at eleven O'Clock, and was instantly
approached ny tall fellow with slee YES
, rolled up and paper cap on his head. He
grufHy demanded
BE ye goin' to leave p
, told him no that / had no such in
tention, and turned my back on bin and
walked away TO the Malises' | found
them ali grave and mysterious, and Emily
was little pale. She drew me aside, and
said that they were forbidden TO entertain
reformerg at the pain of having their
house aud property fred about their heads
I instantly set about quitting the house,
but the old gentleman met me in the hall,
nervous and excited.
MY dear boy you shall not stir step.
You are no reformer. l know they have
been misinformed; but if you were forty
reformers. they should not induce one to
leave. Therefore, stay"
would not think of it, however, and
hurried away to find the fellow Devon,
t who had made all the trouble. I looked
] through the village, but got nothing but
, impertinent answers. l soon satisfied nv
self that he was not in the place, and
drove to village ten miles off, where he
was. | found him addressing a crowd Of
D workmen, and exciting them violently
, with his language.
: When he had finished, I approached
, him oivilly, and asked him to withdraw
, his charges against me, and also the
, notice to tie Malises'. He refused, with
! show of indignation, and again repeated
! his order to leave the town before night.
r promptly knocked him down.
He floundered about,and left the place.
3 1t was a cloudy day, and was dark when
| returned to Warwick. Emily was in
the parlor of the hotel, and she ran to me
) with clasped hands.
oh, Eugene, Eugenev you see she
called me Eugene now) Thank Heaven !
J Oh, how l have trembled for you. We
} have been in torrents of fear. They have
been looking for you high and low, and
are very savage and fierce. Now, Eugene,
know you're not coward at all-but-
, really, Eugene