Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-11-28
"GUNNY" AND "DUMPS." 4"
Their Story as Told by the Girl
from RedhCrse.

SAAS
from Redhcrse.
June 2o.-l find myself more and
more interested in him. 1t is not, am
sure, his-do you know any noun cor
responding to the adjective hand
somc?'--onc does not like to say
beauty" when speaking of q man.
He is handsome enough, Heaven
knows; I should not even care to trust
you with him-faithfulcst of all pos
sible wives that you arc-whcn he
looks his best, as he always docs.
Nor do think the fascination of his
manners has much to do with it. You
recollect that the charm of art inhercs
in that which is indcfinable, and to You
and me, my dear Irene, fancy there is
rather less of that in the branch Of art
under consideration than to girls in
their first season.
lie seems to know everything, as in
decd. he ought. for he has been every
where, read everything, seen all there
is to sce-somctirncs ! think rather
more than is good for him and had
acquaintance with the quecrcst pco-
pie. And then his voice-Ircnc. when
hear it. actually feel as if ought to
have paid at the door, though, of
course, IL IS my own OOOr.
July 81 fear my remarks about
DR.. Barritz must have been, being
thoughtless, very silly, or you would
not have written of him with such
icvity, not to say Glisrespect. believe
Inc, dearest, he has more dignity and
seriousness (of the kind, mean, which
is not inconsistent with a manner
sometimes playful and always charm
in,r) than Of H., l,,f I'D
! ever met.
And young Raynor-you know
Ruynor ut Monterey-tells me that the
men all like him, and that he is treated
with something like Difference every
where. There is Il mystery, tco-somc-
thing about his connection with the
Elavatslly people in northern India.
Raynor either would not or could not
tell me the particulars infer that
DR. Barritz is thou; ;cht-don't you dare
to laugh-a magician! could anything
be finer than that?
July l6-Thc strangest thing! Last
evening while aunt was attending one
Of the hotel hops q hate them) Dl.
Barritz called. 1t was scandalous!y
latc-I actually believe he had talked
with aurty in the ballroom, and
learned from her that l was alone.
! had been all the evening contrivinG
how to worm out of him the truth
about his connection with the Thugs
in Sepoy, and all of that black bust
ness, but the moment he fixed his
eyes on me, for l admitted him, I'm
ashamed to say l was helpless |
embed | blusked. I--oh, Irene!
Irene! love the man beyond cx-
preston, and you know how it is your
self.
Fancy! l, an ugly duclsling from
Ecdhorsc--daughtcr they say, of old
Calamity Jim'-ccrtainly his hcircss.
with no living relation bat an absurd
Oh aunt who spoi!s III a thousand and
fifty ways-absolutcly destitute of
everything but one million dollars and
4 hope in raris-l daring to love a god
like him! Mr. dear, il had you here
| could tear your hair out with mortifi-
cation.
July l1.-That little wretch Raynor
| called yesterday, and his babblc set
| me almost wild. lie never runs down
| that is to say, when he does run
| down n score of regulations more or
| less he does not pause between one
reputation and the rCXt By the way
he inquired aoout You, and his man
| ifcstatiors of interest in you had, I
must confess, n good of genuine vrai-
sembiancc.
| Mr.. Raynor observes nc game laws;
| like the death he would infct if SLAM
| lcrs were fatal, he has all seasons for
| his own. Bat like him, for we knew
| one another at Rcdhorsc, when we
| were young and truc-hcartcd and bare
| footed. He was known in those fair
days as "Gigg'cs," and 10! Irene.
| can you ever forgive mc?-l was called
| "Gunny." God knows why; perhaps in
| allusion to the material of my pima
| forcs; perhaps because the name is an
ALTERATION with "Gigrlcs," for Gig and
We're inseparablc playmatcs, and the
miners may have thought it n delicate
relationship between us.
! Later we took in third-anothcr of
advcrsity's brood who, like Garricli
| between tragedy and comedy. had 4
chronic inability TO adjudicatc the rival
claims Ito himselD of frost and famine.
| between hirn and the grave there was
| seldom anything more than single
suspcpdcr and the hope of meal.
| which would at the same time support
| life an! make it insupportablc.
He literally picked up prccarious
| living for himself AMI mother by
| 'chlCridinT the Dumps" that is to say,
! the miners permitted him to search the
| heaps of waste rock for such pieces of
| pay ore" as had been overlooked, and
these he sacked up and sold to the
| Syndicate mill.
lie bUeame Il member Of our firm -
| "Gunn~, GiEglcS 4 Dumps" thence.