The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-28
SEMI wFEKrY MINER BUTTE MONTANA OCroBEK 28 $3.50

dar' soueerm! He tot five duets cos ne
wus so drefful speritty, an lows de cuiiu0
pussons mex deirselbs mighty skearce wen
de ole gin'ral go stompin ,ro1n,. 0la;e;
Goals enter a yallah boys face dat maddea
i'm: mos done pntted lis heyes put. Dat
vnz de way wild i'm alters. Wen he want a
+;no ,nears like he mus hab it Ell he had ter
tar de worl' up by de ruts TO- ter GIT IL.
wy, my baby when he was drenul slck-
dat was endurin' 3 las sicknis-de doc1or
SOW as low he mustn't tax no mo- sperlts:
IT, WIZ no'ful fond er drinkin allus an
gitin''toxerated de wus' kin. An de doctor
says: One mo- drunk finish you, Gln'ral'
an, no m~istake!' But all mars Gin'ral say,
wuz: D de Doctor! an drink oes de
saine an. TO- de Lawd, he wen oifen er per
pIexity fit befo' sun-up. He did TO- sho,.
Whar he done gone l isn't gwlne 10 Ter say,
but pears like he'd be mighty omstreper""e
comp'ny TO- de angils!
Grace asked if his son was any better.
"Some ways he wuz an some ways again.
he wuz not" said Tempe judicially: Oar
| wa mt skearce a likely lookin gyurl en- dc
| plantation dat he didn't go TO ter reduce
| her. Dat wuz his kim. But he wuz right
! free.handed an pleasant. Laws, deys heaps
| wusser men nor ole mars. Spec hit wuz
| des dat he wuz like all de Asburys, mus nap
wat he wanted, cos he wanti it so tqrr1nui
bad! l lay it's in de blood. MISS 80, 10
all she's so soft like an sweet, she hab H.
too."
"Freddy," said Grace after Tempe had
gone. 81 have an opinion about MRS.
Ravenel now; but I think I sha'nt tell
you" .o,,a
only discover that her theory quite rehabl-
itated the doctor. 1t goes withoutsaylng
that l did not share her trust ana my
doubts were confirmed by a trltilng clrcun-
stance which occurred on thetollowlngo Gay.
Wanting to make some return for Mrs.
Ravoneis gifts, l had managed latter
a deal OF Machiavelian strategy to buy a
ruby ring of her at a price which apppeased
nv conscience. / CHANGED to come out into
the hall directly after our little transac-
ton.
Mrs, Ravenel was standing on the TIRES
hold of her door facing her husband ana
tears were running down her cheeks.
"Oh. please" I heard her beg him,
"nlsaselet me keep five dollars OF the money.
l have not had five cents for a whole
year."
nut his arm about her to lead her back into
the chamber. That afternoon when we were
out walking together, Mrs. Revenei, Miss
Sally and i, Miss Sally paid her cousins
street-car fare. 49,.
7 told Grace. I confess that / felt an ex-
trayagant Indignation. Grace listened at.
tentiyely, though it was plain that she did
not sympathize, for she said: perhaps 1
had better tell you, Freddy! l believe Mrs.
Ravenel is crazy" !,
Nonsense" cried l, "she is SO mild and
5entle."
what does that matter? 1t is the ill.,
termittent form. P~aroxysms. Freddy,
naroxyms. Think Of Charles and Mary
Lamb"
"Well, I think badly OF the doctor, but
can't quite think that he would turn a lun-
a tic loose on his cousins boarders."
.sThat's the point" answered Grace, SCI.
EMMY: "she isn't loose, she is watched
every minute. Besides, Southerners are
40 queer, they have everything out ol
DOORS"
~ don't believe she is any more crazy
than YOU are" said I. But all the same
T tTrned Grace's uncomfortable notion over
in my mind.
Meanwhile the doctor continued to regard
us with favor. He was always contrlvlng
little measures for us. He brought us wild
flowers, he told us the local legends, he
drove us about the country in his antigua
ted buggy. He told me that he was CRATE
ful to me because l had been kind to his
> wife.
II feel it deeply, Miss Frederick, said he
"Allow me to say that yourfriend and you
have revolutionized my opinions-doubtles'
! too hastily formed-of Northern ladies'. II
! is the same with Mistress Ravenel. Sh
= was very bitter, ma'am, very bitter. I'M
e legacy OF the war, you understand. Womel
, feel it more than men, the female mind
!; gentle, and, 1 may say, angelic as it is
! With QW-'is as&enaclous OF anger as Q
. l said that was only natural; the womel
q had lost more in the war than the men.
!. omit sTfu tho %a'hamo cd hs ae e. me. Our 1 adGiss
= naturally see only the sorrows and pr
vations resulting from the war, and do no
] reckon the compensating gains. For one
: Miss Fredrica, l rejoice in the loss of ou
slaves. The system was a curse more t.
= masters than to slaves. Our fervid, i'm
= %petuous, Southern natures require to b
. curbed rather than have every passion
pampered by servile ~flattery and the pos
session OF despotic power. When we ex
! cluded negro testimony from our courts, W
: made the stakeholder a despot; and Cicer,
= n~itatatis spes.' The greatest Indictment t.
= guilt is the hope OF SHINING with impunity.
- It was while this conversation was il
+ progress that Mrs. Ravenel approached he
! husband to say something in d low voice
= "With Miss Grace?" he answered, "a driv
q in the pine woods? Yes, certainly, my dear
= 1 hope you will enjoy it," He was very al
- fable. Did she have to 60 to him, l won
= dered, for permission to take a drive?
= was not as pleased with the plan as h
seemed to be-. OF course, 1 did not shar
Grace's fantastic ideas, but 1 thought i
anything but consistent in her to go war
= dering about the woods with a possibl
lunatic. A thunder storm which came u
an hour after their departure, did not ten,
' to quiet my mind. IF Mrs. Ravenel doesn'
whip out a knife and stab Grace''-so raj
I drenched, and Grace will have pneumoni,
, afterward and that will be q~uite-as fatal!'
u Drenched truly, they were, but to all an
= pearanee Mrs. Ravenel had not beee1
u doing anything with a knife. TIL
9 doctor took charge OF his wife
= while l put Grace to bed directly. The lat
: ter came out OF the affair unframed; no
: so Mrs: Ravenel, who took a severe cold
= and did not appear the next day. Thi
q was Thursday. All Friday Mrs. Ravene]
> kept her room. Saturday she was re
! . ported better. Saturday afternoon wen
! | out to buy a now novel which l fanciet
> might amuse her. Returning to the nous,
. l had mounted to the stairs and was pass
: ing Mrs. Ravenel's door when, to my un
> bounded surprise, it Opened and disclosed
I Grace Adams. She heckoned me to stet
oSSI CAe Fiji. 1HeI L pefCelVeu Ine reason
, for her pre>ence-Mrs. Ravenel in ner nigh,
clothes, with her long black hair over hel
: shoulders, lying in a crumpled white heal
! on the floor. She lay between the bed and
the writing-desk, and a torn spot in the
carpet explained her fall. She was moan.
ing family. Instinctiyely | bent over her,
only to recoil a second later, dazed and
sickened, my heart throhbing with a squalid
fear.
ooh, she is not hurt much," said Grace,
} smiling a bitter smile, lit is only-that!''
} She touched a bottle on the floor with her
foot. My tongue could not move, l stared
yacantly at Grace, at the faded elegance OF
the room, at the sunbeams quivering along
the floor and over the prone figure in its
cloud of loose, black hair.
eve must get her TO he'd, anyhow, "Grace
began and s~topped-Miss Sally had opened
the door.
She flashed one glance at us, turning a
deep red: without q wore she walked to
Mrs. Ravenel. The unhappy creatures
eyelids futtered, her eyes opened, she mur-
INJURED, ooh, Sally, take me back to bed
don't tell Raoul!"
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