The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-25


is prosperous?'
Mr.. Beasley laughed heartily. Prosper
Gus! If pride is prosperity, he's up 10 ms
eyes in it. Why, when the mortgage -
, foreclcsed he'll be rich in free nigSers, white
dependents and that pride Of MIS-. MI.
Beasley pulled off his hat, wiped BIS 1ore-
head with his handkerchief and walked
back and forth a moment. Il tell YOU al'
when a man has been made the victim
of these peoples contempt, the Hour tnaI
is coming for me is worth WAITING :, ne.
time for. Yes, sir, a whole Htetlme! ne
brought his heavy fist down in the PAIN OIL
his hand so violently that it sounded IKE
the popping of a wagon whip
"You seem to have some feeling in the
matter" suggested the young man.
'reeling!'' exclaimed Mr. BGaSley. Feel-
ing! My dear sir, it is ten thousand feel
ings!" He seized his beard, gave it tWlst
stuck it between his teeth, ana heid IL
there q moment.
Here was real ferocity. made ridiculous
by a turn OF the hand. The young Boston
ian had never seen, even on the stage, such
an intricate and ineXplicable combination oI
the serious with the come.
"Wen,' said the young man, you law
yers have a sreat deal OF trouble, first and
last"
Good day. said Mr.. Beasley, chrtly'
and went Off up the street. Mr.. Otis, as
he chose to call himself, went back to the
tavern.
".
Bright and early the next morning the
young Bostonian made his way toward
Herndon oWod. He had dreamed through
the night of Old times--it is curious ROW
very young men can have such very old
times behind then-and all through his
dreams there came and went the slight
figure of a child-a slip of a young girl,
with black hair and lustrous brown eyes
that looked at him appealinSly; such eyes
as give a touch of pathos and romance to
the cid pictures of women that have Eeen
treasured by mankind through the ages.
In his Dreams as in his waking hours, the
thought came to him that he ought to so
to the rescue of this young girl, who had
grown to be a woman Like all young men
who have been reared to q healthy ambi-
ton, lie wanted to be q hero, but like most
lnoderns he didn't know how to go about
it, Nevertheless, here was a condition that
had very much the appearance of an OPP
portunity. And yet there were some COM
plicatons in the way.
In the first place, he was sailing under
false coorS. He could not appear at Hern-
don Wood under one name and on the old
registry book of the tavern under al other
The community was too small AS q mat
ter o. fact, although he did not know it,
word had already gone to Herndon Wood
and over the whole village that a Mr.
arn. AS the tavern register knew him, so
the whole community knew him.
IN the second place, an explanation that
- AS using only g. part of his nielne would
'pe an awkward one 10 make TO his fathers
cid friend Awkward, because there was no
rea sOnable excuse for it. 1t i,l5t the
Whim of a foolish young man, setting forth
to strange country of which he rad heard
reports shat We're both striking 81 d re-
voting. The general, being an Old man,
NJ, i-i- T,AlF- o,s.1 ,ic 4, ,,yI,a
being . young woman, would think it silly.
No; on second thoughts, and very sober
ones indeed, be would make 10 explanation
at all He would permit events to develop
themselves, and if there were no develop
ments, Why then nobody would be any the
wiser.
AS he went incoming along through the
dim Woods-it the primitive forest that
man had found there-a strange Inquire
suddenly came out of the green wilderness
ard struck into the path along which the
young man was going. 1t moved rapidly,
and vet cautiously. Occasionally It would
raise 4 hand above its head; its ragged
coat fiuttered in the morning air. For
moment NIr. Otis was thrilled with the
sense of pending adventure, but he
laughed when, getting little nearer to the
appalition, he sa it was Blind snack. Inc
blind negro had stopped and placed NM
self in a listening attitude, and he was
smiling when the young man came up.
"Ycu are not lost, L hope" sa,d GUS
pleasantly.
Lord No subj said Shack ''Er /
want bornded in deze woods want born
ded many miles fun UNI. Ges come out
here ter tell yo fortune. Look like L kin
tell fortunes some days N de year when de
win don't set in fun de east. Ill tell
yone suh fer one dime er fer one Chaw ter
hacker. Eff l cont tell I'm true, you KIN
hit me wild dat long stick IN W nan
ne.
man.
''Oh, no, sun Shack been bin deza many
long year L done got so / Kin see via
my ear mos good ez lem what got eyes.
| hear de cen er dat stick hit 4 lin bOve
yo' head. Totner cen hit lie groun' SO