Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

Pleasantly, as II sue nau no iears HOW
of any pretty girl anywhere-seand
he was o fighter from Wayback. As /
say I meyer visited the generals
house, but I did meet his daughter at
the houses of my friends, aud OF
course she, of oil the girls meet
must be the one I should fall in love
with. I don't know why Cupid sends
his victims such luck, but I notice
that he often does. I had known the
generals daughter about year when
the forty-seventh revolution-or was
it the hundred and forty-seventh ?"
he asked of his wife with q smile
occurred, and 1 was in 1t up to my
neck. The others I had managed to
keep out of, but this one caught me
before I knew it, and I found myself
the head and front Of the party against
the Government. The only thing
did not like in the affair was that the
general was OF the head OF the Govern
ment party, and the generals daugh'
ter was the sweetest woman in the
world, and we we're in love, general
or no general. Well, the scrap came
off in duo course. and after shooting
the town full OF holes for q week or
SO, any soaring the women and chill.
dren into ftsamy side went to pieces
and ten OF its leading spirits went to
Jail. From that point the transition
was easy to the sunnyside of wall on
the outskirts of town, and early one
fine morning we found ourselves
grouped there with fifty Govern,
ment soldiers drawn mp in line
pointing loaded guns at US. In plain
English, it was an execution bee, and
wewere the guests ofhonor. Ihad fixed
up my business affairs in the few days
allowed me, and as there was no one ]
thought as much of as i did OF the
generals daughter, I willed all my
property to her, thus proposing to
heap Goals of fire on the old gentle,
mans head while he was after mine.
You might think I was frightened as ]
stood there before those guns, but ]
wasn't. True, I was bit nervous,
but wasn't scared at all, and I insist
ed on facing the shooting party and
giving the command to fire. They
wouldn't let me do that, though, and I
had to face the wall with my back to
the foe. I stood at the head of the
line, about three feet from the man
next to me, and waited calmly for the
end of things. At the first command
braced myself, and when the COM
mand Fire came 1 tried to steady my
self, but in spite of all could do
when the guns went off I went up into
the air as if I had been bounced on
spring board and came down in
heap?"
"You weren't killed then?" ex-
claimed my wife, in the prs-eu.inently
rational manner of all women.
"Yes, madam" smiled GpGrady.
"Why, Mr.. O'Grady," she began,
but laughed, and she realized that
Mr.. O'Grady was not as dead as his
statement might lead one to suppose.
"Just the same, Tom,"I 1 said, 81
should think the nervous strain and
your Imagination combined would
have snapped the vital cord when
those guns went of. You know there
are any number Of such cases we'll au-
thenticated. You must have had strong
nerves to have withstood the shock"
"suppose, Dolores" said Mr..
o'Grady to his wife, "you take up the
story and finish it"
est is very simple" she said, with
IN accent SO charming that any at.
tempt to put it into written words
would be sacrilege. "You know it
was .he daughter of the general who
saved Mr.. O'Grady's life. OF course, if
he had known, he would have died
with the others when the guns were
fred at him, but the Government
party did not want to shoot Mr..
O'Grady, because he was an American
citizen, aud that might cause the
Government great difficulties. So it
was arranged that the shooting party
was not to kill him, as it did the 9th.
ers, but to let him escape the bullets.
1t was o great secret and they thought
they would frighten Mr.. O'Grady 80
much that never any more would he
be in trouble of that kind. And no
doubt they would have frightened him
to death, and he would not have been
in any more trouble"
"0n earth," interrupted MIR.
o'Grady.
"For," continued his wife, smiling,
"the shock might have killed him.
But it was not to be that way. The
generals daughter learned the secret
and sent him word by faithful SER
| want, and when the others were led
out to their death, Mr.. O'Grady knew
that some other fate was reserved for
him. Even as it was, the strain was
SO much that he tainted away, and
those who saw the shooting thought
he was dead also"
$50 did l." again interrupted Mr..
O'Grady.
"And they were about to put him
in the ditch with the Others" contin-
ueu ul5 Wlle, Wueu oue VI tuo ouiCers
requested to send the body to Mr..
O'Grady house. There he was re.
viyed, and in few days he had os.
capped from the city and was safe out
of the country"
"And the generals daughter, what
became of herr" asked my wife.
stShe waited until times were easier
for the O'Gradys'" replied Tom, TAX
ing up the story again, land then he
came back under an amnesty act. In
the meantime the general had died"
"Oh, how glad I am" exclaimed
my wife, in quite rapture Of interest.
Mrs. O'Grady looked at her with
CREST seriousness.
"You shouldn't speak SO of the
father in the daughters presence, "she
said, and O'Grady actually laughed at
my.Rife's utter discontinue. re.-Wush,
ington Star.