Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-09-01
"Yes."
81 know the place well"

"Shall L hint to him what you want
of him?"
''Not unless he refuses to come,
which don't think he will. If he
does, tell him that there is to be wed
ding"
Every well. But in regard to this
wedding. What is to be done if the
bride will not consent
'She will; she must consent. If
she will not, she must be placed in a
condition so she will not know what is
going on. The preacher will not be
particular, so long as he gets his pay.
| am determined that this game shall
not slip through my fingers to enrich a
son of Allen Comfy. have learned
to day that the young rebel is home
again, and being the case, he will try
and seek an interview with Annie, and
perhaps try and persuade her to fly
with him. But this shall not be. l
will watch her so close that she shall
not meet with him, and in three DAYS
she shall be Louis wife, by foul means
if it cannot be done by fair
4 little more conversation followed
which would be unnteresting to the
reader, and the worthy couple sepa-
rated. The master went up to the house,
and the man rode his horse round to
the stables.
When they were out of sight, the
thicket near which they had been
standing was violently agitated, and
out from its tangled depths sprang a
negro youth of some twenty years of
age.
"Golly, dis beats dis darkey all hol-
ler," he exclaimed, his eyes rolling
about in his head till they showed vast
patches of white "Neyer seed the |
beat of this in all my born days. Co.
ing to marry her to Massa Louis
whether she wants to or no. Guess
not, if this ere darkey knows what he
is up to. l belongs to Missis Annie,
and guess l can take care of her.
If can't, Hugh can, and he's got
home again, so dey say. Guess dis
nigger better be stirring his huffs round
little, cause it would be good plan
to let Miss Annie know what they are
up to-"
With these words to close his solilo-
guy, the darkey went off through the
grounds, and after making quite a cir
cult, came round to the house under
the veranda above which was the win
dow of his mistress chamber.
Here he paused for minute. to see
that there was no one observing him,
and then with monkey-like agility,
clambered up the post near which he
stood, aud in a moments time was on
the roof.
Annie was sitting by her window,
her mind filed with the image of Hugh,
when her servant appeared before her {
She was too well accustomed to bis i
pranks to experience as much as start {
of surprise, for he frequently took this '
way of communicating with her. s
Therefore glancing up at him, she said: '
"Well, Sam, what do you want?" c
"Got some news to tell you, missis," {
he replied, again showing a large c
amount of white about the eyes. S
"What is it Sam?'
"You's going to be married, Miss
Annie" i
"You going to be married, Sam?- n
Well, that is news. Which is it that
has won your hearth" v
''Not l, misses. Sans heart is as
whole as the grindstone. But It's you, h
Miss Annie" n
"Me, Sam? What do you mean?- P
If l am going to be married, it seems IL
hat l ought to know it as soon as any P
one" j
"But it's fact, Miss Annie, Massa U
Earle says So" and then the faithful u
elbow went on and narrated word for
word what he had heard while he had i
ain concealed in the thicket. =
From the flush of anger to the pale c,
lesgo death Annie alternated as he NJ
vent on, and when he was through she b.
,lasped her hands in the agitation tc
which convulsed her soul. a
"Sam, what you have told me is the b.
ruth" she said, gazing up into his b.
ace.
every word of it, Miss Annie"
"Then, Sam, what shall do? How J,
hall 1 escape from this net they are tr
Weaving about me?" OF
"Massa Hugh has got home from the 81
rmy, cause l heard 'em say so. Fly HI
o him, and tell him that the debbil am Iii
n 'em here" te
"You are right, Sam. 1t is my only D!
ope, and we will go to him at once hl
Who knows but what he may be at the al
pot where we have met so often in the
ines? If he is not there, we will keep
n, if we have to walk all the way to an
lis fathers house. In half an hour l vi
Till be ready, and do you be on hand 20 20
0 attend me-" ry
eyes, missis," and Sam scrambled III IL,
own over the roof, and in a minute tb
7as on the ground. wi
An half an hour later, and Anna be
merged from the house, with shawl ete
brown carelessly over her shoulders, ow
s though she was going on short
,alk. Carelessly she sauntered down
D the foot of the lawn, and here she az
ras joined by Sam, who was on the .J
,okout for her. Once out of sight of ~
he house they increased their pace, r
nd in little time reached the edge
f the pine woods, into which they
lunged and hurried onward through -
he tall trees in the direction If the =:
pot where Annie had often met her 3.
,ver, and where she hoped to now SI- sT
,eet him. -
Arrived at last at the spot, she felt a ma
tile disappointed at not finding him
here, although in truth she had hardly
expected to do so; and as they paused h.