The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-11-13
TRAVERS' "SACRIFICE." ("
Showing What a Man viii Do for
the Woman He Loves.

Young Travers. who has been engaged
to girl down on Long Island for the
last three months, only met her father
and brother few weeks ago. The
brother is master of hounds near
Southampton, and shared the expense
with young Van Bibber Of importing a
pack from England. The father and
son talked horse all day and until one
in the morning, and arose at four to see
the horses take their practice runs, for
they own fast thoroughbreds, that they
entered at the Sheepshead Bay and
other race-tracks. Old Mr.. Paddock, the
father of the girl to whom Travers was
engaged, had often said that when a
young man asked him for his daughters
hand he would ask him in return, not If
he had lived straight, but If he could
ride straight. And on his answering
this question in the affirmative depended
Travers had met Miss Paddock and her
mother in Europe, and had not met the
men of the family until his return. He
was invited to their place last week,
when the hunting season opened, and
spent the evening most pleasantly and
satisfactorily with his fancee in corner
of the drawing-room. But as soon as the
women had gone, young Paddock joined
him and said: "You ride, of course?"
Travers had never ridden any thing but a
hansom-cab, but he had been prompted
how to answer by Miss Paddock, and so
said that there was nothing he liked
better. AS he expressed it, he would
rather ride than eat.
"That's good" said Paddock; 'I'll
give you a mount on Satan tomorrow
morning at the meet He is q bit nasty
at the start Of the season, and ever since
he killed Wallis, the second groom, last
year, none Of US care much to ride him.
But you can ride him, no doubt. He'll
Just carry your weight"
Mr.. Travers dreamed that night of
taking large, desperate leaps into space
on q wild horse that snorted forth
flames, and that rose at solid stone
walls as though they were hay-ricks.
He decided to say he was Ill in the
morning, which was more or less true,
but then he concluded that, as he would
have to ride sooner or later during his
visit, and that If he did break his neck
IT would be in q good cause, he changed
his determination. He did not want to
ride at all, for two excellent reasons:
first, because he wanted to live for Miss
Paddock's sweet sake; and, second, be-
cause he wanted to live tor his own.
The next morning was most forbid
ding and doleful-l looking morning, and
yonng Travers had great hopes that the
meet would be declared of, but just as
he lay In doubt, the servant knocked at
his door, with his riding things and hot
Aotes
miserable indeed. Satan had been taken
over to where they were to meet. and
Travers Viewed him on his arrival there
with s36kening sense of fear, as he
saw him pulling three grooms off their
feet.
Travers decided that he would stay
with his feet on solid earth just as long
as he could, and when the hounds were
thrown off and the rest had started at
gallop, he waited, under the pretense of
adjusting his CATERS, until they were
al we'll away. Then he clenched his
teeth, crammed bis hat down over his
ears and scrambled up on to the saddle;
his feet fell quite by accident into the
stirru)s, and the next instant he was of
after he others, with an indistinct feel
ing tlat he was on o locomotive that
was jumping the ties. Satan was in
among and had passed the other horses
in les than five minutes, and was so
close N the hounds that the whippers-
in gaze cry of warning. But Travers
could IS soon have pulled boat back
from yoing over the Niagara Falls as
Satan, and 1t was only that the hounds
were veil ahead that saved them from
havingSatan ride them down. TrAvars
had talen hold of the saddle with his
left hind to keep himself down, and
sawed md swsyed on the reins with his
right. He shut his eyes whenever Satan
jumped, and never knew how he hap
pened 70 stick on, but he did stick on,
and vas so far ahead that no ons could
see, in the misty morning. just how bod
ly he rode. Al u vas. Tor dasin4 md
speed be led the neld. and snet evss ,
yeuns Psddock was q u from - sedsA J
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