Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-06

" But at least go armed, won you
please? Please do. | will give you q
revolver of mine; it is pretty toy, and
only toy, but it will shoot, | know, for
I once killed dear little pet puppy
with it. He ran mad and was biting all
the fowls in the barnyard. Now you will
be careful, and take it, won't your
| gallantly replied: "No, Miss Emily
NV best inducement to be careful Is my
hope and desire to see you to morrow. u
She looked at me and laughed little,
but I always felt that we became much
nearer to each other from that moment
Iparted from the family at a quarter
past eleven, and from her at a quarter
to twelve. 1t was parting to se remem
bered.- She again pressed her revolver
upon me, but declined it on the same
grounds as before and went away.
walked for full mile, one half the
distance, and passed through wood
AS | 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 'reac
it. 1t contained single word" Leave. >
looked up. The man was gone.
called to him, but got no reply.
rumpled the paper up, and threw il
away, divining instantly what in
duced the note, and who was the au
thor of it.
| of course took no notice of it, Other
than to keep my eyes about me, and
continued in my lodgings, where
stayed, as | intended.
The streets, in the morning, seemed
to be much more disturbed than on Che
night before. More men were about,
and were much more noisy and quarrel
some than on yesterday. | descended
to the street at eleven o'clock, AMI
was instantly approached by a tall fel-
low with sleeves rolled up and a pa
per cap on his head. He gruffiy de-
manded:
" Be ye goin' to leave ?"
[ told him no that | had no such M
tention, and turned my back on hin
and walked away to the Malises'. |
found them all grave and mysterious,
and Emma was little pale. She drew
me aside, and said that they We're for
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pain of having their house and property
fired upon their heads. | 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 a
step. You are no reformer. | 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 De-
Won, who had made all the trouble. |
looked through the ,iIEee I, but got
nothing but impertinent answers.
soon satisfied myself that he was not in
the place, and drove to village ten
miles off where he was. ! found him
addressing a crowd of workmen, and ex-
citing them violently with his Ian
guage.
When he had finished, | approached
him civilly, and asked him to Withdraw
his charges against me, and also the
notice to the Malises' lie refused,
with show of Indignation, and again
repeated his order to leave the town
before night. promptly knocked him
down.
He foundered about, and | left the
place. 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.
ooh, Eugene, Eugene" (You see
she called me Eugene now.) Thank
Heaven Oh, how [ have frembled 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
The short of it was, that she wished
me to go away. 1t was plain enough
that [ could have more solicitude for
her family and her peace of mind than
| had reason to remain on account of
my own personal ideas of bravery, and
so it was. | assented, but told her
wished to 60 to her father to warn him
of what Devon had Threatened, and
then would go. also begged her to go
to my home, back to the city, where
she would find the warmest welcome
from my sister, who was her closest and
most intimate friend. She assented,
and | set out for the Malises' in midst
of many prayers from Emily to be all
lowed to 90 with me. She had Ter ri
diculous little pistol by her still, and
aimed it at many imaginary foes by way
of showing me how easily might de-
fend myself against a legion, but [
would not take it.
| went on my journey in safety. i
found Malls, Senior, armedto the teeth,
with all the children and ladies dis
tributed between garret and cellar. He
was little vexed at my going away, as
he understood the reason well enough.
But my object was not so much to tell
him of Devon as to ask permission to
pay my attentions to Miss Emily. AS
fully expected, the kind old boy shook
me by the hand, and declared that |
made him extremely happy | set out
on my return, completed the woods,
and was emerging from the shade, when
was fired upon from the bushes. 1t
was binding and stunning | felt my
hat twitch, and took it off and felt of
it. 1t had two bullet holes, two inches
above my head. I dashed into the
bushes, when two men broke cover and
rushed upon me. They seized me, and
we struggled back into the road-they
trying to throw one down, and trying
to get my arms free. 1t was quite dark,
and we fought calamity, when, like
flashes of lightning, two streams of light
shot down, two sharp cracks were heard,
and my principal assailant fell. The
other was instantly seized from behind
with as perfect a garrotte as ever was,
and was half strangled in a second.
By Jove, it was Emily She had fol-
lowed me with her pop-gun. A broken