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

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of any pretty girl anywhere-"and
he was fighter from Wayback. AS !
say meyer visited the generals
house, but I did meet his daughter at
the houses of my friends, aud OF
course she, of all the girls I meet
must be the one I should fall in love
with. I don't know why Cupid sends
his victims such luck, but 1 notice
that he often does. I had known the
generals daughter about o year when
the forty-seventh revolution-or was
it the hundred and forty.seventh ?"
he asked of his wife with smile
occurred, and i was in it up to my
neck. The others I had managed to
keep out OF, but this one caught me
before knew it, and 1 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 at the head Oh the Govern.
ment party, and the generals daugh.
ter was the sweetest woman in the
world, and we were in love, general
or no general. Well, the scrap came
off in due course, and after shooting
the town full OF holos for q week or
so, any soaring the women and chill.
dren into ftsarny side went to pieces
and ten OF lis leading spirits went to
Jail. From that point the transition
was easy to The sunnyside of q wall on
the outskirts of town, ard early one
fine morning we found ourselves
grouped there with fifty Govern
lnent soldiers drawn up in line
pointing loaded guns at us. In plain
English, it was an execution bee, and
wewere the guests of honor. 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 yvilled 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 insist
ed on facing the shooting party and
giving the command to- fire. They
wouldn't let me do that, though, and !
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 I tried to steady my
self, but in spite Of all I could do
when the guns went off I went up into
the air as if had been bounced on
spring board and came down in o
heap?"
"You weren't killed then?" ex-
claimed my wife, in the ]pre-eminentlY
rational manner of all women.
"Yes, madam, I" smiled O'Grady.
"Why, Mr.. O'GSady," she began,
but laughed, and she realized that
MIR. O'Grady was not as dead as his
statement might lead one to suppose.
"Just the same, Toul," I said, 81
should think the nervous strain and
your Imagination combined would
have snapped the vital cord when
those guns went off. 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.
SIT is very SIMPLE" she said, with
an accent SO charming that any at.
tempt to put it into written words
would be sacrilege. "You know it
was the 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 MIR.
O'Grady, because he was an American
citizen, and 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 great secret and they thought
they would frighten Mr.. O'Grady SO
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"
Son earth," interrupted Mr.
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-
ued his wife, "when one of the officers
requested to send the body to Mr..
O'Grady house. There he was re.
vived, and in few days he had es.
capped from the city and was safe cut
of the country"
"And the generals daughter, what
became of herr" asked my wife.
'She waited until times were easier
for the O'Gradys" replied Tom, talk
Ing up the story again, "and then he
came back under On amnesty act. In
the meantime the general had died"
ooh, how glad I am," exclaimed
my wife. in quite rapture of interest.
Mrs. O'Grady looked at her with
great seriousness.
"You shouldn't speak SO of the
father in the daughters presence. pshe
said, and O'Grady actually laughed at
my SRife's utter discomfture.-Wush'
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