The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-09-21


e ing ner. Indeed, he had even delibers
Is ted whether he ought to 90 away with
n out disturbing her. But some fascinl
e ton held him to the spot. Wonderfr
{, power OF humanityi Far beyOn
= Jutted an outlying spur of the SierTs
n vast, compact and silent. Scarcely
= hundred yards away q Ieague-lOn
e chasm dropped its sheer walls of gran
r ite 4 thousand feet. On every sid
ie rose up the serried ranks Of pine tree:
t. in whose close set files centuries G
i storm and change had wrought II
/ breach. Yet all this seemed to hav
y been planned by an allwise Provi
n dence as the natural back ground Z
e the figure Of pretty girl in a yellow
y dress.
i Although Miss JO had confident,
:. expected to meet Culpepper some
g where in her ramble, now that h
= came upon her suddenly, she felt dis
: appointed and embarrassed. His man
t ner, too, was more than usually grav
: and serious, and more than ever seem
d ed to jar upon that audacious LEVITT
: which was this giddy girls power anC
= security in a society where all feelin,
: was dangerous. As he approached
. her she rose to her feet, but almost be
: fore she knew it he had taken he
s hand and drawn her to a seat besid,
; him. This was not what Miss 10 hac
e expected, but nothing is so difficult a,
= to predict the exact preIiminaries of {
4 declaration of love.
7 Whatdid Culpepper say? Nothing
2 l fear, that will add anything 10 tht
: wisdom Of the reader; nothing. / fear
that Miss 10 had not heard substanti.
ally from other lips before. But there
, was a certain conviction, (fire-spesd
and fury in the manner that was de.
liciOusly novel to the young lady,
1t was certainly something to bc
: cOurted in the nineteenth century with
. all the passion and extravaganza ol
the sixteenth; it was something to
hear, amid the slang of frontier so
ciety, the language Of knight eFrantry
poured into her ear by this lantern
ijawed, dark-browed descendant Of the
: Cavaliers. .a
. do not know that there was any
thing more in IT, The facts, howey-
er, go to show that at certain point
Miss 10 dropped her glove, aud that
in recovering it Culpepper possessed
himself, first of her hand and then OF
her lips. When they stood up TO GO
Culpepper had his arm around her
waist, aud her black hair, with its
sheaf of golden oats, rested against
the breast pocket Of his coat. But even
then / do not think her fancy was en-
tire captive. She took a certain sat
isfactiOn in this demonstration of CuI-
peppers splendid height, and mental
IVT a rod 10 rn-sNI =.
one Lieutenant McKirk, an active
but undersiZed Hector, who subse-
| quently fell victim 10 the ineauti-
ously composed and mOnOtOnGus bav-
erages Of frontier garrison. Nor
was she so much preoccuppied but
that her quick eyes, even while alb
sorbing Culpepper's glances, were yet
able to detect at a distance the figure
of man approaching. In an instant
she slipped out of Culpepper's arm,
and whipping her hands behind her
said, 'There's that horrid man ~
Culpepper looked up and beheId his
respected uncle, painting and blowing
over the hill His brow contracted as
he turned to Miss 10: "YOu don't
like my uncler ...- ........
"I hate him :" Miss Jo was reeoy-
ering her tongue.
Culpepper blushed. He would have
liked to enter upon some details of
the COlOnels pedigree and exploits,
but there was no time. He only
smiled sadly. The smile melted Miss
| 10. She held out her hand quickly.
and said with even more than her us
ual effrOntery, "Don't let that man
get you in any trouble. Take care of
yourself, dear, and don't let anything
happen to your l .. ,
Miss JO intended this speech to be
pathetic; the tenure of life amOngher
lovers had hitherto been cry uncer-
tain. Cu!pepper turned toward her,
but she had already vanished in the
thiclet.
The Colonel came up painting. "pve
looked all over town for you, and be
dashed to you, sir. Who was that
"A lady" Culpeper never lied. He
was discreet.
'D-n 'em all! Look var, Culp, ,Pve
spotted the man who gave the word
to put me off the floor ITO was what
the Colonel said, the other night ?n
"WhO was it," asked Culpeper list
lessly.
"Jack Folinsbee."
FWho?u
"Why, the son of that dashed mig
ger-wOrshipping, psalm singing puri- |
tan Yankee. What's the matter, now! |
look var, Culp, you amt going back |
on your word? Ye amt going down |
at the feet of this trash; like whip
ped hound ?''
Culpepper was silent. He was very
white. Presently he looked up and
said quietly-'NO." -....
Culpepper StarbOttle had challenged
Jack FOlinsbee, and the challange
was accepted. The cause alleged was
the expelling Of Culpepper's uncle
from. the floor of the Assembly Hall
by order of FOlinsbee. This much
MadrOno Hollow knew and could
swear to; but there were other strange
rumOrs aliOat, of which the black
see, gentlemen" he said to the crowd
gathered around his anvil, "I amt
got no theory OF the affair, only give
a few as have come to my knowledge.
Culpepper and Jack meets quite acci-
IDENTIFY like in BOb's saloon. Jack
went up to Culpepper and says, "A
word with you Culpepper bows and
steps aside in this way, Jack standing
about here.n The blacksmith DEM
Onstrates the position of the parties
with two old horse shoes on the an
vil.) "Jack pulls bracelet from his
pocket and says, do you know that {
bracelet? Culpepper says, Il do not
quite coOl-like and easy. Jack saws,
'YOu lie Cd d-n yOu,' and draws I
his derringer. Culpepper Jumps for
ward about here" reference is made
to the diagram) ''and Jack fires. No
body hit. It's a mighty curious thing,
continued the black
smith, dropping suddenly into alb
stract, and leaning meditativeIy on
his anvil, otis a amighty curious thing
gets hit so often. You and
me empties our revOlVers socially at
each other over a little game, and the
room full and nobody gets hitI That's
what gets me-"
''Never mind, Thompson chimed
in Bill Masters, "ther's another and a
better world where we shall know all
about that and-becOme better shots.
Go on with your story" ...F
"Well, some grabs Culpepper and
some grabs Jack, and so Separates
them. Then Jack tells 'em as how
he had seen his sister wearinga a brace
let which he knew was one that had
been given to Dolores by Colonel |
StarbOttle. That Miss 10 wouldn't
say as where she got it, but owned to
having seen CUlpepper that day. Then
the most curious thing of it vet, what
does Culpepper do but rise up and
takes all back that he said, aud allows
that he did give her the bracelet. Now
my opinion, gentlemen, is that he
lied it amt like that man to give a
gal that he respects, anything of that
piece, Dolores. But it's all the same /
now, and there's but one thing to be
done"
The way this one thing was done
belongs to the record of Nadrona Hol-
low. The morning was bright and
clear; the air was slightly chill, but
that was from the mist which arose
along the banks of the river As ear
ly as six o'clock the designated ground
"a little opening in the madrono
gr0ye-was occupied by Culpepper
Colonel StarbOttle, his sec
Ond, and the surgeon. The Colonel
was excited and exalted, albeit in
rather imposing, dignified way, and
pointed out to the surgeon the excel
lonaa Of tho orr,unI yr-bioh ,t 4L,E