Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-08-19
GENTLEMAN GEORGE.


= When George Faulkner called at
ooionel Dysart's Office and told him he
!, s,anted to marry his Kitty, the ruined
pld colonel turned in his wrath and
'ade him leave his presencei
!, We amt got down to that" said he.
Jo1 have mighty lot OF assurance
to ask for her."
: Yet Kitty was only a little waif,
Colonel Dysart had raised as a kind Of
waiting maid for his two daughters she
mad been given no advantages in the
way OF education, but everybody in the
pouse had made pet and plaything of
Altty, and she was as pretty as a wild
rose-iust the faintest color in her
cheeks gave slight suspicion of quad
room blood, but her beautiful brown
nalr was no curlier than Fanny Dysart's.
Her form was lovely; her hands and
arms studies for sculptor, and Gentle
man George, as Faulkner was called,
had tried by every unfair means in his
spower to WOO and win her. tried and
failed and loving her all the more fol
her sweet strength of innocence he for
tiled himself with some Virginia tangle
foot and walked up to the cannon''
mouth-in other words, he bluffed the
colonel, and demanded Kittys hand il
marriage.
"a loafer end hoss thief" continued
the irate colonel, when Gentleman
George springs at his throat like bull
dog.
"Take that back !" he shouted. "I'n
no hoss thief no mon you are. Take
it-back," an athletic shake with every
word.
"Well, well," gasped the chokine
colonel, 'smebbe you amt; but you'll
allow you're a moonshiner and gam
bier"
"Oh," smiled Gentleman George
showing his handsome teeth-there wa'
more than a suspicion of color in his
ntlood-''you gamble yourself. colonel
mats gentleman's game what's yor
a,,goin' to do bout it. and the law is toe
close on little whiskey, and revenoC
officers mighty hard lot. Eff that's al
You've got again me. mought as we'll LEI
ne have the gal"
N ''Pll see you hanged first, said tht
colonel, smartly, and the negotiations
en- led then and there
<1s>aon<e1 DyEart was OF the old Vir-
I o;uja stock. a blue -blooded gentleman
! Tsing re0ally with open doors, while he
.apad anything, and maintaining a great
| he lived hinaalf. white or black
Touch one of colonel Dysart's servants
and you touched him. He was faith
iul steward while the estate lasted
That was why he hated to give up Kitty
ohe was almost like his own, though h.
mad picked her up in the highway
squalllng three-year-old, and riddel
INTO the door yard with the kicking
child under his arm. He transferred
her to the cook, thence she went to th,
housekeeper; by degrees she reached
MRS. Dysart. who made her an especia
pet, rs long as she lived, and dying, be
queathed her to Fanny, her eldes
daughter.
The Dysart girls were good to her
put indifferent. Kitty missed some on,
to love very much, as she did good Mrs
iDysart, and her heart went out to tn,
handsome fellow who smiled on her q
barbacues, and met her at preacher
meeting, and tried to entice her off tt
clandestine trysts.
Bnt Kitty was wide awake, and knew
that If she had neither blood or birth t.
boast of, she had reputation, and Gen
tleman George was known to be wild
so sne held her own and compelled hin
TO ask for her duly in honorable mar
rlage. You have heard what the colone
said, but when did love ever fail in it
undertakings and who came to tn,
rescue but romantic Louise Dysart, tn,
Youngest daughter of the colonel, whom
Kitty had confded in, and she planned
the whole thing-an elopement, earrings
and pair, marriage before Justice, anC
herself as witness. Then she went hom
and laughed to hear her father storm
All this happened the year before "
went to the Planters House, on tn
Horseshoe Mountain, where we ha
made up party for the season and W
heard from Colonel Dysart that Kilt
had made fool of herself, and he ha
sent Louise to seminary North to g
some sense in her head, and he'd t
hanged il he'd ever help that sly Kilt.
not il she starved And then we learne
that he had inquired all along aboI
them, and found out that Gentlema
George was very good to his little WI
} that he still eluded the excisemen. an
gambled, but otherwise conducted hlr
| self properly. Defrauding the COVER
ment was not much OF crime ther
The people had their own views abo
that that. II Gentleman George did nothlI
worse than disseminate the moonshinel
J whiskey, without paying the taxes,
t wouldn't lose much in the respect
the people.