The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-05-09

panion had strengthened certain doubts
which had at times come up to trouble
her as to tho ultimate success, the real
motives which underlay her cause, and
with her intense, devoted nature had
led her to feel that all this vast effort
put forth by her people might in the end
avail nothing or would only, if success
full, perpetuato wrong. Her lover saw
her troubled expression. He did not at
tempt to comfort her by recalling what
ho had said. Ho pushed on further.
"Darlin, he said, "ye're right when
yo say Oi'm needed in Oireland. Go with
me, darlin. Bo me wife. Let all this
intense effort. this sacrifice ye're put
tin into cause, which Oh forcseo is
doomed, be given to me tenants. Tho
estate is q largo ono, and thoro arc hun
dfoLs Of people for ye to befriend. There
70 can work to purpose. There yer ef-
forts i'll behalf of a really downtrodden
people will be for good"
''And leave my brothers in tho midst
Of this horrid struggle? l will stay here
till tho last gun is fired, till tho last
blow Of tho hammer has rivetod our
chains. -
, Born and bred in tho south, Miss Fitz
Hugh had never seen except with south
ern eyes. Hero was a man who was Civ
ing her views never before open to her.
Sho had mind capable Of grasping
them and SAW tho strength, tho solid
sense, beneath them when properly pre-
sonted
"Darlin," said tho young baronet,
s'the world moves Oh quickly. If yer
people succeed III this war, in less than
a quarter Of a century yen either free
yer slaves or bo q blot Oh tho face of the
oarth"
ooh, Rats" she exclaimed, "why
did I over meet you? You've sappod the
strength I possessed for my work can
never again do my duty rs havo done
1t thus far. "
"Darlin," ho said, drawing her nearer
to him, "Oi'll replace what Oi've taken.
Oi'll give ye other duties, tho duties
that belong to tho mistress Of q fine os-
tate, tho duties Of woman Of high do
gree in a country whore birth is re-
spected far moro than hero With your
vigor, your strong impulses"--
"Guided by your moro steady light. "
"Yo may hocomo ono Of tho most in
fuential women in tho three kingdoms.
In her Dyes camo that humorous
twinkle he had onco seen before whel,
sho stood in her buggy in tho road uI
in Tennessee and tantaliZed him for his
stupidity in having been duped by her.
"It would bo nico to boz
"To be what, darlin?"
"Lady Rats" and sho hid hor blushos
in tho pillow OH which his head rested.
Y v
Tho sun setting over Lookout noun.
tain shono directly in tho faces Of May
nard and his party as returning from
Ringold they rodo into Chattanooga. II
was q glorious October evening, and the
heights towering them, covered by un.
soon Confcdorates rcposod about the
town liko hugo lions watching a wound
cd animal, confident that at last it must
fall into their power.
Dismounting before his tont, Maynard
entered it, and thero found lette
from his wife. Sho begged him to com
to hor if it woro possible, and if not t.
write to hor. Flo road and roroad tn
letter again and again, and thon mad
Ill NIlClnpG uG ~ IoplS. Al1ci "lltliI
half dozen, all Of which ho tore NJ
he abandoned tho task in despair. Hi
position was too uncertain. Tho Sol
tonco Of tho court martial hung ovt
him like sullon cloud. What could h
say to hor to comfort hor? Ho we
knew that tho only comforting ST.
needed was to know that no was III
miserable, and Of that no could not a
suro her.
And so matters hung for wce]
Having no duties to perform, tho tin
passed all tho moro slowly. Tho Coz
fedorates woro sonding occasional shol
from Lookout mountain, and as th'
, woro harmless tho reports woro som
: thing Of relief to Maynard, broakil
tho monotony Of tho silence. Ho spe
much Of tho timo thinking Of what
would do in oaso tho sentence Of t.
court wero approved and carried IN
effect. He formed many plans, whi
wero all abandoned. At last ho settl