Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-02-27
The Desth..Ghsse.

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one pleasant afternoon a few years
ago; 4 pap Was riding slowly aeross
an expansive and rolling prairie, and
bending his course still farther west
ward.
Well armed with a revolving rife
of seven shots, two silver mounted
pistols Of Colts. patent, and large
Bowie knife, he Was also splendidly
mounted; while bis fne form, clad
in a SUIT of bnck-skin, tastefuliy
fringed and wrought with beads, and
his stern handsome face, altogether
betokened him a reliable friend or a
dangerous foe.
Five years Minturn Burke had
,assed among the mountains and Oh
he plains of the far West, and his
lite of solitary freedom, away from
the civilized haunts of nah, he en-
joyed, for great grief had fallen
upon him, heart of sorrow had
been his, and sorely wounded there
by, he had fed from social life 10 one
Of self-e1ile.
Reared through the kindness of an
uncle, for his parents we've both lost
at sea when their son was few years
old, .Minturn Burke had not known
poverty, and at twenty-five was an
educated, refined man Of the world,
practicing his profession, which was
that of a physician, in a little New
England city, for. he would not be
dependent on his guardian s generoai-
ty after he had completed his course
Of studies.
In the little town where he COM
mehced his professional career, Min,
turn had met his fate; that is be
learned to love a woman with all the
power of strong mans passion.
Eve Carleton was, when she and
EMinturd Burke first met, a beautiful
young girl of eighteen. the only child
of the, Mayor Of. the town, q ,pomp-
Gus, selfish old man of considerable
means but little brains.
From their first. meeting Minturn
and Eve had loved each other, and
from the discovery of that fact. May
or Carleton had banished the young
man from his house.
Stolen interviews followed between
the lovers, and upon being found out
iv he enraged father, Eve was sent
kof' to q convent near New York, :apd
Zone year after was married by. hel
fathers Inauhuvres, to the son of y
millionaiH e. and her, arrival in hen
home with her, rich husband was
Minturn's first .-in,imation. thai. she
Was untrue to her. pledged; worl to
him. - .t'ssi:.;
Crushed by the blow that fell 50
heavily .upal him, Mintur | Burke
gave mp. his, growing practice .ape
sought the western wilds, where, in. q
distant Territory, he built him r'lds
home, and seemed thus content. to lel
his years pass by, rowing over the
prairiea and mountains. of the beau;
tiini country. -.
1t wast wlliIe returning from ,
Hunt on, the rl>lirie. five years after
he had fed from his .mnlptaiR home
tha, he is first brought before the no
ftlce Of Inc reader, and as he rirle,
| quietly &leng he is startled by u dis
l tant cYy as if for help.
A. glance behind showed a horse
man rushing .madIy toward him. bu
vet a quarter off mile distant, while
in his rear and in close pursuit came
a d ,zen painted Indians, hotly press
ling on to captpr- the fugitive.
Y In an fnataht Minturn Burk,
Wheeled lis horse anu seated him
self firmly in his saddle, examined
his arms and stood on the defensive
al the same time waving his bant
toward the. horseman urging him t.
greater speed.
Calmly he waited the coming Q
pursued and pursuing, and bis eyes Ii
up with a dangerous light, and h'
face grew hard and stern as he nery
Led himaelf for the contest OF one mai
against q dozen, .;i.t,
On they came. and when the whit
man, whom Miuturn noticed was we!
] amounted, but clad as citizen. ant
apparently unarmed, had come with
4 in a hundred yarelr, and his ssvag
pufsuers were not twice that dlstanc
; a},Fha t1asssisisioBly ndaed, af''
mingling with its sharp report, cam
! the death cry IF q painted warrior.
!. Again and .agaia rang the sh&rl
.,a,.ort of the rifia n,t;1 :, ca she Sr,oi