Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-09-17

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erner," he presently said; you have
made me like him; is he agreeable. is he
handsome, Rosalie?"
Il hardly know how to answer He
is kind, alfable, polite, and am sure he
is honorable; but one can hardly call
him handsome He's great big, strong
man, broad faced, deep eyed, and, |
think, remarkably intellectual"
"How does he feel toward southern
people? Is he a radicalY'
He seems liberal; he and Uncle
Roosevelt have grown to be great friends,
and you know Uncle Roosevelt cannot
tolerate radical"
HAS he made a very warm friend of
you, Rosalie?"
"Oh, yes, | like him very much" she
said with emphasis.
Colonel Chenier smiled; it was the
first since the death at the mill.
"You haven't let him convert you to
the Yankee idea, have your he inquired,
toying with the cross and throwing a
little touch of pleasantly into his voice.
mo, not that. but | like the north,
especially the west, and the people up
there are delightful; they are so much
in earnest, so thrifty and industrious,
and yet so kind and hospitable. You'd
like Chicago. papa, | know you would,
and you'd like Mr.. Julian too"
perhaps, perhaps" said Colonel
Chenier in tone of doubt. 81 suppose
he is too young to have been in the
Yankee army"
"Oh. he was with Sherman all the
way to the sea- said Rosalie quickly;
"he remembers all the little towns along
the line of march; he spoke Of Dalton,
Resaca. Calhoun, Kingston and Mari
eta; he was mere boy, but he went
through it all"
A grim, ashen shadow settled over
Colonel Chenier's face as her words called
up the memory of his burned up home
and devastated plantation, his slaves set
free and his fortune dissipated by the
breath of that army of Sherman's.
"He was one of the house burners and
woman insulters then, perhaps"
"Oh, no, he wouldn't do that: he's too
much of gentleman to ever have been
guilty of such acts" she quickly ex-
claimed. her voice full of earnest faith
in the young mans innocence. He is a
proud, honorable, conscientious man, not
at all what imagined northerner to
be; but, in fact, papa, all the northern
people are different from what we have
thought them; they are really charm.
ing"
"They were Internal vandals when
they marched with Sherman, no matter
what they are now Why. don't you
know that one of them stabbed A Adelaide
in the arm with his bayonetY
But he WAS some low down hanger
on OF the army. or some foreigner; he
could not have been representative
northern man.
"They We're all of a piece; they stole
with one hand and carried the torch in
the other"
Colonel Chenier was growing excited,
and Rosalie artfully changed the sub
Ject of conversation. She inwardly re-
sented having Edgar Julian classed with
the common vulgar soldiery; but she
did not wish to antagonize her father
She felt sure that if Julian could have a
talk with Colonel Chener he would win
way to his respect. A sense of high
duty urged her to present the young
man to her father in the most favorable
light, but innate maidenly modesty for
bade any unseemly haste to become his
defender. 1t would be hard to discover,
and still harder to define. the amount of
advantage that the simple fact of JUL
ans visit to Provence gave him in hold
ing his own in the estimation of both
Rosalie and Colonel Chenier; for, al
though the latter had never seen him,
the cross and his words at second hand
from Rosalie We're sufficient to win for
the young man IA favorable prejudice in
the Old soldiers heart Still there was
a great barrier to pass.
Colonel Chenier nursed an implacable
hatred against the men whose acts-in
his Judgment altogether unjustified by
honorable rules of warfare-had rem
dered him almost pauper, The chains
of poverty CALLED him and kept alive his
enmity toward those whom he habitually
called Shermans thieves. Against them
ne charged up all the toll privation and
humiliation of these reconstruction
years through which he had dragged
himself, ptiable and despondent Grip
pie He often said that the man who
shot nm in battle, if he could ever find
nm should have his forgiveness and
Friendships but the vandas who burned
MS mousse and assaulted his daughter
who devastated his plantation and en-
ticed away his slaves, should never be
recognized as fellow citizens by him.
Aunt Marguerite used Colonel Che
nier's season of grief to the effect of
bringing about a reconciliation between