The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-05-04
passionate action; the riding-whip tapped
hastily against her habit, and she spok g:

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hastily against her habit, and she spoke Q
81 do love you, Gerald; believe me, ]
do. But what more can 1 say? They
have positively forbidden me to speak tc
you alone again, and they forced me. to
promise I would no. meet you. ar
I 'Yes, but about Poll-about Williams;
is il true you are engaged to himE,
She sunk her head low, the bright,
bitter tears fell, the whip ratified against
her dress as though ague-stricken,-
Almost" she murmured. i
He turned away with harsh laugh
to go; she made gesture to stop him,
and went on:--
Almost engaged; they drove me into
it, hate the very thought of it; but
what could do?"
Her besecchiug, upcast eyes proved
to the utmost the constraint under which
she had been driven by her worldly
minded parents, and Rollynge know that
she was true TO MIN.
"Would they let you marry if 1 got
the adjutancy, Mctty?" he asked, after
a pause.
II would marry you whether they did
/ or not, she answered almost fiercely,
locking boldly aud yet loveingly straight
liz his blue eyes; 81 would marry you to-
morrow, Gerald, if could be ouIy sure
| was not running you-yes: in defiance
of them ALL"
Darling" he was beginning, when
the ghord ,eoLtth struck in With
"Sahib, ,sahib! Major memsahib alta
byc."*
go! go! oh, for heavens sake, gon'
she cried, in an agony of fear.
In the hurry he gave her the, first
wild kiss of love, jumped into the sad
die, aud dashed away through the thick
jungle in the opposite direction to that
in which Jrs. Vernon was taking her
morning ride. The yhora -,oaUah, with
the true instincts Of his race, pitched
Hetty into the saddle with one nervous
jerk, gave the horse pat with his hand
that set him off at smart canter that
fully accounted Tor the high color in the
daughters face as she reinel him in
when she CAME up to the mother. The
yhoru- ,cdNuh painted dreadlully when he
got up to hold her rein, and Hetty was
sharply called to account for her cruelty
in making the poor man run so fast after
her. Such are the gentle devices OF
that art that laughs at locksmiths.
Col. Estcourt was expounding the
law in the large mess-teut, after break.
fast. In othur words, he was holding
"orderly ROOM" receiving the doctors
reports, the quartcrmaster' complaints
the adjutanl's list of offenders dealing
with e,ch with all the gravity and Gas
he thoughD justice of Solomon. But
if he tempered justice with mercy" his
soldierly conscience compelled him tc
reverse the operation in due turn in a
manner peculiar to himself, so that his
judgments were formed in sandwicL.like
layers now justice, thcn IL fcy-il
pretty equal proportions, and with d
singularity that excited both mcrriment
aud dismay.
Private Ram Sing, sir" read out
paddy Creagh; beating his wife, Chun
dee, insensiblc with totdh"
"Bad case; very bad case Mr. Creagh
Let him have an extra baggage guard ;
But, sir, he nearly killed the pool
woman" the surgeon vcntured to re
monstrate, at this absurdly y-lcnient seu
teuce.
1--WE written down the punishment
uum, Dr Hunter, ami ii can De altered
,nuflivd the colonel through his nose
The doctor subsiled.
These are three camel. wuHahs, sir
they were nearly ten minutes late will
their tents this morning" AMI the quar-
termastcr put forward the three cover
ing natives in fault.
"Ah, We shall never have these fellow
in time without an example let theu
, have four dozen lashcs apiece"
The poor wretches howled, and calle,
on their dead fathers and mothers t,
save them from the suffering and indig
nifty, alleging that they could not be il
tine, as their loads were given them 80
late.
Pooh! nonsense example--must
: aud see you, drunr-inajor, let your lad
fog them properly"
So the farco went on. When it wa