The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-02-02
GLEN, THE OUTLAW.
By OPIE READ.
copyright, 1890. by the Author.l
CHAPTER L.

i.
The people of the Bald Knob neigh
borhood, ON the Missouri Pacific rail.
way, couldn't understand why Glenn
Holder should go wrong. His people
were surely honest, and certainly did
everything that lay within the range of
their ability to give the boy a start in
life, but he went wrong. But not in tho
tiresome, everyday manner, mind you.
He didn't steal q horse, and thereby in
vito the contempt of tho ~ncighborhood.
He did not commit IN offense 80 COM
monplace and SO free from exposure that
a man of ordinary nerve would have
contemplated it without alarm. No; he
jumped on q pay car, robbed the pay
master and killed q mcddlesome fellow
who yentured to protest or offer advice
or something Of the sort.
What q handsome fellow Glenn was!
He was strong and Of rather good size,
but his features were as delicate and as
refined as q girls. His eyes were Of that
peculiar blue that bespeak innocence or
deviltry, you can never determine
which, and hjs b"ir was long and in
olined to curl. Had he been reared in
the old atmosphere of Italy he would
either have been an artist or a bandit.
He had been morbidly restless all his
life, dissatisfied with tho present and
feeling that tho future had nothing for
him, and when his parents had bade the
world good night and gone to %etcrnity's
bed he yielded no longer TO restraint.
The Missouri Pacific Railway COM
pany offered q largo reward for him.
Tho sheriff Of the county happened to
want money at that time and said that
he believed no would go out and lead
Glenn to Justice. He went out on a fair
ly good horse and came back in q wagon,
and, while his friends wero burying him
near old Ebonczer church, some one re-
marked that Glenn always had boon a
sort of independent follow, and that he
was powerful slow" in yielding to
persuasion. Well, Il very noted man, o
great catcher Of illicit distillers, said
that Glenn must answer for his crimes,
and, with n few selected mon, went aft
or him.. Glen met them unexpectedly,
and-well, he still refused to yield to
persuasion, and when the fragments Of
the argument were gathered up the
great catcher of illicit distillers was la
beled and sent to his friends.
After several other attempts had been
made the arrest Of Glenn Holder was re-
garded as an eyentful but u~ncnjoyable
undertaking. The young fellow lived in
the hills, rode a good horse, and, in the
opinion of many people who knew him,
was about as near q king as an American
could wish to be.
For many years Glen had beer deeply
in love with Silla Garrett, q handsome
young woman, tho belle of q hundred
country dances. She was a cold piece of
proud flesh. Your celebrated beauty
may be cold, but she cannot hope to
rival the imperial ehillincss Of the back.
woods belle. Tho rough homage Of the
fellow, with his trousers in his boots,
inspires more OF Il c~ontemptuous lofti-
ness in q backwOods queen than the pol.
ished worship Of the courtier could pos
sibly inspire i'll a beauty celebrated by
two continents.
Silla did not tell Glenn that she would
not marry him. When he had actually
fallen at her feet, long before he had
robbed the pay car, and implored her to
be his wife, she had told him that she
was SO poor herself that she could not
afford to marry a poor man. He had
oOoh hSpV bo pucJ I'LL a llulo ullGT IC
committed the robbery that he did not
have an opportunity to call on her, but
several days after he had parted with
the great catcher Of illicit distillers he
rode up to tho fence surrounding old
man CARROTS house and yelled, "Hello,
in therel'
Silla came to tho door and exclaimed,
why, Glenn Holder, what on earth are
you doin here?"
"Oh. Pm out payin up a few calls
that l happened to owe. I've been kept
pretty busy lately. I used to think that
l might never get into business, but Two
had no cause to complain since I took
up railroad work"
"Clem Holder, you ought to be
ashamed Of yourself"
ooh, I reckon it amt as bad as that!
Idon't sec why a man should be ashamed
of himself when he's lone as we'll us he
can. In this life we ought to be censured