The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-04-27
THE LOVERS TETE-A-TETE.
CHAPTER TX.

he had raised nine different brand
of blisters on her lips, Rose flnall
gained sufficient breath to tell hir
the story of the massacre of the bal
ance of the haywood family.
The story she told flied Alber
with horror, and inspired him wit
more intense hatred of the flend
who had robbed him of all his famil.
connections in one brief hour. TIL
story Rose so graphically told wa
about as follows: A few hours afte
Albert had left on that eventfu
morning to trail the renegade VIII,
had visited the home of the May
woods the day before the massacre
Beech White at the head of the Jim
toben free silver club, had suddenly
swept out of the forest and surround
ed the haywood residence. They
were all disguised in full Indiar
dress, and presented most warlikt
appearance. After executing the
scalp dance and interspersing the
performance with blood curdling
shouts for Bryan and Sewall, Beech
approached the front of tho house
and demanded parley. They all
recognized Beech by his resemblance
to the pictures of him on his cele-
brated neuralgia cure, bottle of
which they always kept in the house.
Captain haywood consented to par
ley with Beech and in so doing sign
ed his own death warrant. Beech
plunged at once into the question of
the free coinage of silver and in a
half hour had so undermined the
health of the Captain that he was
unable to escape into the house. As
Beech continued to talk, the Captain
gradually grew weaker and weak, r
until he sank down and died before
the family could rescue him. The
band then retired to the forest and
robed themselves in their campaign
night dresses and then filed out again
before the terrified gaze of their
hapless victims. Mrs. haywood,
Hammer and Bill all succumbed at
the sight and died almost without
struggle. Bill, however, struggled
some and in doing so overturned the
cook stove, which was full of live
Goals, and soon the house was in
flames. Rose, who was near sighted
and color blind did not get the full
force Of the awful sight and was only
shocked moderately. She tainted
however, and might have been con-
sumed in the flames if Ed Wetzler
had not rushed in and at the risk of
scorching his mustache, dragged her
from the house. Rose was now i'm
great quandary. Her home was de-
stroyed, her friends were defunct,
with the exception of Albert, who
was far away. She had no rich re-
lations to sponge off of and no near
neighbors to visit for the time being.
She could not stay there with no one
to keep her company except ghosts
and spirits, and as she was not n
medium and Charley Carter was not
available, she consented to accom-
pany the Jimtoben braves back to
Tarhetown and await her rescue or
ransom by Albert.
The journey to Tarhetown was at.
tended with somo hardships, but
Rose stood up under them with the
fortitude of the typical frontier
woman.
The members of tho club were
reasonably gallant and did not COM
pei her to carry their baggage all the
time, but frequently came to her re-
lief and took turns with her when
she showed signs of fatigue. The
trip would have been really quite
pleasant one II Col. Hite and Mike
Daugherty had not insisted on con-
tinually practicing their campaign
speeches, which was very trying up
on the poor girl, who bad lived in a
quiet neighborhood and had been I'M
accustomed TO wind storms.
In due time the club, with their
fair prisoder, reached their destina-
tion and Rose was placed under the |
guardianship of Gus Hamberger and
other squaws, who gave her such at
tention as their limited facilities
would allow. She was permitted to
go wherever she wished inside the |
corporation limits, though squaw
always attended her at all times.
After she had been in the village for
few days and had shown no dispo.
sition to escape, tho vigilance some
what relaxed and she often found |
herself wholly unmatched. Her
beauty and gentlemen soon won the
friendship of tho savages and they
became uniformly kind and affec-
tionate toward her. Nearly every
Indian in the village had proposed
TO her before she had been with them
n week and offers Of fmatrimony came
from all the surrounding tribes in
every mail. III she had been so III
clined, she could have had husbands
to burn and would have been verit-
female Solomon, if she had so desir-
ed. But her heart cNung to Albert
through all these temptations and
hundreds of sad eyed braves sighed
and sobbed as they wandered, broken |
hearted, from her shrine.
When Rose related fhis mart of har