Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-07-23

H.-CoNTINUED.
"Your surroundings are n perpetual
inspiration. Miss Hester" said Ring
brand, feasting his eyes with the keen
appreciation of an artist upon the mag
nificent panorama of the mountains
and valleys and forests stretching away
10 the westward.
81 am glad you like Tennessee" re-
piled the girl, with a touch of pathos in
her yoice. so many people-especial-
Iy northerners-seemt to think II an I'M
profitable wilderness"
who colld be so unappreciative as to
say that?"
Miss Bradfern, for one. She is from
Boston. and she visited friends in Dun
bar last summer. She was continually
pining for New England in general and
Boston in particular. Tn sure / can't
understand how she will be able 10 live
here"
"Is she coming mere TO live?"
YES; as the wife of our rector in
TregArthen. / tell him he's setting n
lad example by going so far from
home"
Then presume he is a southerner?"
lie is: he's a Georgian; but believe
he wac educated in the north"
Am 20 understand that you think
one ought not 10 marry out of his sec
iion?" he asked, making the rector's
case a possible opportunity for ascer-
tanning his own standing.
> s'Oh! wouldn't say anything SO
radical as that" she replied, stroldng
her horses name; "only, IL seems TO
me, there are many reasons against il.
You don't understand-you can't Nm
ierstand-hoS much sectional feeling
there is in the south"
SI'~know there used to be, but ]
,boueht>it was q thing of the past,
since the war.
1T is, in some senses, a supp
in others / think il is as strong as eVeI.
Ny father fought for the south; and il
you could know how strongly my sym
pathies ere enlisted upon the side of
some of the things which yon think are
dead issues, there would be only one
word in your vocabulary that would fit
mean ugly little word of five letters"
Il hope am broad enough not to ap-
NV IL. Miss Latimer. think can put
myself Ia your place sufficiently 10 I'M
derstand that there may be many and
honest differences of opinion"
Its right kind of you TO say that
especially as your side has the better of
the argument; though I'm not 80 sure
about that, either. It's one thing 10
starve people into submission and quite
another to subjugate them"
II believe can appreciate that, too
Neither of them spoke again for a
few moments, and then Hester called
his attention to a Uniting crag project
ing far out from the cliffline at their
feet. do you see that point over yonder
10 the right?" she asked.
"Yes; and 1 was going to ask you IL
il has a name"
1T has; il is called Toms Jump
It's not a very poetic name. and il could
hardly be called a Lovers Leap al
though the story is dreadful enough"
Tell me about it."
Its short and quite prosaic. There
used to be a moonshiner's still some
where in this neighborhood, and one Of
the men was young Tom Cragin, the son
of the mountaineer who owned the still.
One day the revenue men were trying to
arrest the party, and they chased young
Cragin out into this road. He ran
down that way, and two more officers
came out into the road ahead of him.
When he saw he was surrounded, he
climbed out to the point of that rock
and flung himself down."
Ringbrand looked surprised. "Ididn't
know the Penalties were severe enough
80 warrant a man In doing that" he
said.
I'm not sure that they are" replied
the girl. though a long term in tile
penitentiary is hard enough after the
free life of the mountain. But in era
gins case i think there were Other
things; there was long story OF blood
shed and violence leading up to tbs
tragedy. and perhaps he had reason u
fear something worse than a prison
You don't know anything about the saw
age history of these mountains. Nh
Ringbrand." she added, turning hes
horses head homeward. Nearly
every family in the neighborhood is Of
has been mixed up in some dreadful
trouble; even our own has not escaped.
She did not offer any further eKplapa
tions as they rode back 10 "Th'
Laurels." and Ringbrand felt instinct
lively that il wss a matter about which
he could not ask questions. What sh
had said. however. made him thought
full, and he resolved TO ask Ludlow IL b
knew the story
When they reached the house Heste
asked Ringbrand TO stay to tea, AM
after the meal they sat together on tn
yeranda while the colonel and his sos
rode to Tregarthen. Since they wer
well beyond the period of Appropriateness
ship IN which young lovers take ese'
other seriously and talk upon abstras
subjects. tsse conversation drifted aim
Iessly and easily from one topic to an
other until it finally came back 10 tn
rector and his approaching marriage
Hester spoke of it again in terms NJ dis
approval. 1T seems 10 me like case @
snfatuation on his part" she said
-'though / suppose I'm prejudieed.
can't see how they are ever going TO b
able to maize peace between the SCI
lions"
lis Miss Bradfern 20 very pronounce
In her yiewsr asked Ringbrana-