The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-02-21


ton, governor"
ernor knows the difference as well as
you or me. Well, just now Brother
Parish he met the old governor singing
about going to the Gilman camp meet
ing, an he says to him: 'How's this,
governor, going to Methodist camp
meeting? I thought you turned Bap-
tist last week. The old governor just
says, See Marse Mont Stuart over there
across the road?' An when Brother
Parish said yes he says, 'Marse Mont
Stuart got rich tending to his own bus
mess, an that's what I'm adding.
Some of the boys heard it an come
right up to tell. It's pretty hard to get
ahead of the old man, amt it?"
''He's an old nuisance" said Adams,
laughing slightly, but feeling more than
ever that Newton was unpleasantly as
we'll as dangerously dominated by Gov
ernor Brown.
On his way home, to add to his vex-
alton, Adams came across the governor
again. How the old man could have
got so far north of town when he
had lately heard his voice resoundinS
so far down the south road was hard to
understand. But it was useless to try
to explain the governors presence in
one place or another. He knew all the
short cuts and byways, and his long
legs carried him SO swiftly over the
ground that sometimes his guard of
dogs despaired and submitted to be
dragged, fore legs in air, rather than to
follow him at such a steady trot. Peo-
pie said that he brought news from the
neighboring villages quicker than the
telegraph could,
"Storm a.comin! Storm a-comin
Wild man loose! Wild man loosen'
was the refrain he shouted as Adams
passed. Adams, noticing an unusual
eagerness in his manner, thought that
the coming storm was exciting him
dangerously and reined in his horse to
say:
"Don't come step farther in this
direction, governor. You know I'll
have you locked up if ever catch you
on my farm, and I'm going to be on
the watch. Turn back, tell you."
Adams horse was good one, and
| Adams put it to its best pace, yet they
did not gain very fast ON the governor,
who, instead Of turning back, was press
ing forward almost at run.
"Storm a.comin! Storm a-comin"
! Adams kept hearing, and then more
family: "Wild man loose! Wild man
loo-oose!" until at last hill rose be-
hind him and shut out the sound.
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whole sky was overcast, but full OF
dazzling, diffused light. Under its
strange brightness the trees and grass,
the green crops in the fields and even
the brown earth seemed to shine with q
yellowish luster of their own. Behind
| broad stretch of forest that bordered
one side of the road the clouds were
gathering more densely, and one OF
them which showed above the tree tops
was the only dark thing in the world.
A moment after it first came in sight il
was moving fast up the sky-a broad
sinister bar of indigo, bordered with q
lashing fringe of white.
Adams leaned forward, urging hi:
horse into run. The first gust of tbs
wind rushed past him as he sprans
down at his OWE gate, but he scarcely
felt it. for there. running down the
road through his orchard, came his wits
screaming something hs could not un
derstand.
THE childrenl The children!" III
heard as he buried to meet her. "We'vt
searched the whole place. Come bacl
to the Taylor woodsr
Adams turned his horse and lifted hi
wife into the wagon.
"How long ago:" he asked between
his teeth.
II don't know how long. though
Nanny Jane had them. and sh'
thought they were with me. When VI
missed them. we called the men. ant