Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-04-04

him for his success.
Annette, my pretty prize" said
the victor, taking her passive hand,
81 have won you fairly"
Annette's cheek became paler than
marble, she trembled and clung closer
to her father, while her dropping
eyes sought the form of her lover. At
the words of the stranger CAROLS
face grew dark and determined.
81 have won you, my pretty flower,
to make you bride-tremble not so
violently-I mean not myself. however
proud I might be" he added, with
gallentry, "to wear so fair gam next
my heart. l think there is favored
youth among the competitors who has
higher claim than mine. Young,
sir" he continued, turning to the sur
prised Harry, "methinks you were the
victor in the lists before-l strove not
for the maiden, though one could not
well strive for fairer, but from love
of the manly sport in which | saw
you engaged. You are the victor
and as such, with the permission Of
this worthy assembly, you receive from
my hand the prize you have so well
and honorably won."
The youth sprang forward and
grasped the strangers hand with graf
itude, and the next moment Annette
was weeping from pure JOY upon his
breast. The place rang with the ac-
clamation of the delighted people, and
amid the excitement the newcomer
withdrew, remounted his horse and
rode briskly out OF the village.
That night Harry and Annette
were married, and during the festivi-
ties many and many a bumper was
drunk to the health of the mysterious
and noble hearted stranger
Passing on several years we find
that Harry Carroll has become Col
onel Harry Carroll of the Revolution
airy army. One evening the Colonel
after Just returning from a hard cam
paign, was sitting with his family on
the piazza of his handsome country
house, when an advance courier rode
up and announced the approach Of
Gen. Washington and suite, who would
crave the Colonel's hospitality for the
night. The necessary directions in
reference to household preparations
being given, the Colonel ordered his
horse and rode forward to meet the
distinguished guest, whom he had
never seen, though servingin the same
widely extended army.
That evening, at the table, Annette,
now the dignifed, matronly, and still
handsome Mrs. Carroll, could not keep
her eyes from the face Of her Illus
trious visitor. Every moment or two
she would steal a glance at his COM
manding features and half doubling,
half assuredly, shake her head and
look again to be still more puzzled
Her absence of mind and embarrass-
ment at last became evident to her
husband, who inquired affectionately
if she were i'll. II suspect, Colonel, y
said the General, who had been some
time, with a quite meaning smile, OBJ
serving the lady's curious and puzzled
scrutiny of his features, "that Mrs.
Carroll thinks she recognizes in me an
old acquaintance. And he smiled
with mysterious airas he gazed upon
both alternately.
The Colonel stared, and faint men,
ory of the past seemed to be revived
as he gazed, while the lady rose i'm
pulsively from her chair, and bending
eagerly forward over the tea urn, with
clasped hands, and an eye of intense
eager inquiry fixed full upon him,
stood for a moment with her lips
parted as if she would speak.
Pardon me, ny dear madam-par-
don me, Colonel must put an end
to this scene. | have become, by dint
of camp fare and hard usage, too un'
wieldly to leap again twenty-five feet
one inch, even for so fair bride as
one wot of.
George Washington was indeed the
handsome young athlete whose mys-
terions appearance and disappearance
in the native village of the lovers was
still traditionary; and whose claim tc
a substantial body of bona fde flesh and
blood was stoutly contested by the
village story-tellers until the happy
denouement which took place at the
hospitable mansion Of Colonel Carroll
ooh, We had the loveliest arrange
ment at our church society last week,
Every woman contributed to the mis-