The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-31
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existence till but now they had ignored,
and their dancing, by the way, though
trifle more energetic than is fashiona.
BILE, was not bad.
For time all went swimmingly,
though the demoralizing features Of so.
cial democracy grew upon Harry when
he asked Charley to dance with him,
only to be told that she had already
promised more dances than she expect
ed to perform.
A new quadrille was just forming
when something happened--in fact,
good deal happened all at once. or so
near 1t that the effect was the same, and
now I sympathize with Carlyle in his
despairing sense Of the inadequacy Of
narration, which must proceed by se.
quences, to the task Of portraying his.
tory, where things are always happening
simultaneously. 1t is like trying to
draw house with one line.
Mrs. Peytee was standing up to dance
with the bridegroom and was near the
open door. As the inevitablepreliminary
squeaks issued from the fiddle a man,
in her own phrase, "lunged" through
the door, threw an arm violently around
her waist and-was knocked down by
the bridegroom. Mrs. Peytee was not
the woman to throw away any cards fate
in the course of the game put into her
hands. She flew into the arms of the
colonel, who had risen precipitately from
his seat by the fire, crying piteously up
on him, her Cousin Charles, for protec-
tion. One of the young Harkinses, not too
sober himself, alas recognized in the in
toxicated intruder his long lost brother
lin the Texas penitentiary he had been
when last heard of-and, suddenly fred
by that ardor of blood relationship al
waysso easily awakened by those intrud-
ers known as skin by marriage" he
fell upon the bridegroom with blows.
The brother rose and proceeded to take
his own part as we'll. and in seven Sec
onds from his entrance all the men in
the place were in one wild melee and
the women were hpddled together as far
off as they could get, some screaming.
some fainting, while Mrs. Harkins and
Dade, stirred by different spirit, loud-
ly called upon Art and Bill and ''you. =
Hank, to be ashamed of themselves, and
to stop their 'scandalous' behavior, in.
terspersing their adjurations with severe
comments OH the male sex generally and
individually and with some very sound
abuse of the whisky. which was indeed
at the bottom of the trouble. There was
something comforting to the other wo-
men in their accustomed air through all
this. but even their wrathful equanimity
broke down when the sound of pistol
shot rang out. It was fired by the youp.
ger Harkins boy. who only aimed at the
wall and was merely carrying out his
youthful ideas OF what was fitting
A few minutes before the row began
Charley had stepped out of doors with
the other young man to look at the
moon. She was SO tired of him that she
had then invented an errand to get rid
Of him for five minutes and had sent
him to look in the buggy for suppositi.
tious fan. just as the shot was fired she
appeared. white faced. in the doorway,
much nearer the indistinguishable com
batants and peacemakers than any Of the
other women:
go back. Miss Charleyi For Gods
sake. 60 awayr Harry cried ont, his
voice saying deal more than his words.
but Charley didn't 90 back. She only