The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-10-28

Laying his head gently back upon the
ground, I turned and saw Mumfee bend
ing over the PROSTATE form Of Phelps.
Approaching, I asked '.'
-" Is he badly hurt p" ."G.'f "....
~ "Badly hurt the devil. Why, ho
was dead before he touched the ground.
: Look at that" and he pointed to bull.
let-hole just between the eyes. Glow
about Barton ?" '.'' . ''''
"He is dead, too. Shot directly
through the heart" g.. ...,,.jt =
For time we wefe both silent. Mum
fee was first to speak. g.. ....... .o.. .,
"Weu, he said, rising, "'somethinR
must be done-one of us must report
this at the college. Will you go2" -
"Yes," I replied, and, without a mo-
ment's delay, hurried to the college. L
found Col. VI in his room. and re-
ported the affair to him. At, first he
seemed to think 1 was drunk or crazy,
but when ] told him that Cadets Barton
and Phelps were lying dead ii: the ce-
dar grove he sprang from bis chair, ex-
claiming: r.....aco .;.r
" And you assisted these two in mur-
dering each other ?" ~~s..
acted as Barton's second, SIR" /
replied. ... .'...--0'.'
"Then 60 to your room and consider
yourself under close arrest. You will
answer to higher court than a colleee
court martial, and, seizing his hat, he
hurried from the room, -, -, :..
went up to my room, and threw my
self into chair. My state of mind can
more easily be imagined than described.
In few minutes L heard footsteps as
cending the stairs, and then the KEY was
turned in my door, from the outside, and
the steady tramp of some one back and
forth before my door told me that sen-
tinel was on guard there.
The hours dragged wearily on, and.
just as the clock in the hall told the hour
OF 10, the door was opened and cadet
came in with orders for me to report to
Col. W Immediately. He followed
me down the long hallway, down the
stairs to the door of the COMMANDMENTS
room. I entered, but the guard re-
manned on the outside. I found Col.
W excitedly walking the floor.
Turning to me, he asked, fiercely: ...
What did you know of Leslie Bar
ton?" .yaa
Nothing, Colonel, until to-day, when
he told me his name was not Leslie Bar
ton," replied.
did he tell you what his name
was?'t -. 7--@s
"He did not, but he told me some
thing else" And 1 told him of the con-
versation L had with Barton, and what
he said in reference to injuries received
ut the hands of Phelps, and that his only
object in attending the college was 60
seek out Phelps, and be revenged.
"Then L can tell you something that
you did not know" he said. "Leslie
Barton sOaS o. aOon1an. No one ever
dreamed of it until since her death. /
have not the slightest idea who she was,
or where she came from, for she declined
to give any place of residence when she
entered. But why L have sent for you
is this You will be arrested tomorrow
if you are here, and my advice to you is
to leave tonight, and the further you are
from this town tomorrow morning the
safer you will be. There is train
leaves in twenty minutes when it goes
out, be sure that you are among it's pas
sengers. Don't bother about your bag
gage: you can write back and have it
shipped to you" ... ''." " 49,
The advice was too good not to be fol-
lowed. Iwent to my room and changed
my uniform for plain citizens clothes,
hurried to the depot, boarded the train
just as it was pulling out, and before
daylight the next morning was in an
other State.
A week afterward I read an account of
the affair i'll d newspaper, but 80 differ
ent was it from what really occurred
that, had it not been for the names, +
should have failed to recognize it us tlle
same.
The mystery was never cleared up,
and in the cedar grove where she tell and
was buried there stands marble shaft,
erected by the cadets of the college,
with the name of Leslie Barton upon it,
and underneath the Latin injunction,
MI n1Ort,sats ni8i 6Oglas'1a.
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