Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-13
The World Against Him !
BY WILL N. HARDEN.
Copyright. 1900. by
A. n. KELLOGG Newspaper Company
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CHAPTER I.-Rona!d is the one promis.
Ing member of the Fanshaw household, un-
appreciated by any of the others, save his
brother David. The preceding summer he
had saved the life of Evelyn, second daugh-
ter of Col. Hasbrooke, the county's great
EST planter, and whose splendid home was
CHAPTER II. : AT Carnleigh, James
Hardy. a Charleston cotton merchant and
sutton for the hand of Caroline. Has
brooke's eldest daughter. and Capt.
Evelyn's school days over. Ronald meets
her by chance, when she again thanks him
for the fight he had made with the angry
buil winch mad threatened her life. She is
glad of rebuke he had given Wrinkle. but
a few minutes before, who had conde-
ssce.ndingly thrown him coin for little
CHAPTER III.-Ronald. returning home
S %ien nus bro brother, is overtaken by the Has
tries deliberately 10 ride Ronald down,
the trap coming SO near TO knock the
6asket in his IS hand and to the ground Ronald
CHAPTER IV.-The next morning. with
two revolvers in his pockets, Ronald makes,
his way to PLACE where Wrinkle may be
Ronald's position in life. Ronald, bent on On
humiliating the coward. grasps him by
the collar and deliberately cuts off the
putlOllS dlIL SIIouluET Straps from his UNI
form. Wrinkle siieaks back to the house.
Evelyn, who had been gathering flowers,
tells Ronald she had been eavesdropping.
sorry for what he had done in anger, he
gives ner the buttons and shoulder straps,
that they might be put again on the cap
tains. coat.
CHAPTER y.-That night in the draw
the sad story of Mrs Lancaster, one of his
guests. In early life during the war, her
h h"1sI6dapd, eonfedera5e officer had been
6aby lost, perhaps killed. A little later
Capt. Wrinkle gives a colored account of
MS meeting with Fanshaw. BY a sly
true version. When he finds her alone, he
threatens to tell her father of her being
MES having learned of the AFFAIR in that
way, saying she was a witness, and tells
of having the buttons and shoulder straps
CHAPTER VI--One July morning Rom
aid finds lynching plot on. A woman
mas been murdered for her money, and the
and considerable money. had aped from from
sRs Sher y aHh sn4H Il he determines to
CHAPTER VII.-The mob beats the
swamp. but Ronald goes from man to man.
pose of lynching the man when captured;
F--syn learns of his noble course, and
..ants to write note of encouragement
Mrs. Lancaster, who has been made con-
tidante, disapproves, but compromises by
" cHApT FER Witt e is after dark when
the fugitive is finally captured. Ronald
speaks to the crowd; and, on The pretsxt Of
Is, he lifts the lad to the saddle. wheels his
sydney Hart, ringleader Of ' the MOB, ind
ing himself thwarted. fires at the fleeing
figure, but David. knocks the gun barrel
up. so that no one,is hurt. Evelyn anXiously
watches the road until in the early morning
she sees him safely return to his home
CHAPTER IN.-At the breakfast table
the guests at CarnIeigh hear of the cap
ture of negro who has confessed to the
killing of the woman. and Ronald is high
ly praised. Mrs. Lancaster, who had been
her lost husband calls at the Fanshaws.
She learns of Ronald's love for Evelyn, but
also that. on account of their different sta
tons In life; he has no hope of winning her.
CHAPTER N.-Hart, thwarted on the
night of the attempted lynching, seeks a
quarrel. with Ronald. Ronald, warned by
Hart is mounted. and during the fusillade
one of the shots takes effect, and he falls
mortally wounded. Thad Williams, one
Of the Hart gang, rides up just in time to
hear the mans last words.
CHAPTER XI.-Ronald burdened with
knowledge OF having killed man, starts
He meets Evelyn, who is out in her pony
cart. She offers to drive him to Ratcliff's
house, but he objects to compromising her
by letting them be seen. together at this
the way they meet Capt Wiukle.
CHAPTER XII.-Ronald is driven to the
away, it being Saturday, SO Fanshaw is
locked up until Monday
CHAPTER XIH.-On reaching home
Evelyn is coldly tainted by her sister caro- caro-
line for defending Ronald. who, according
to Wrinkles account, had been guilty Of
Sold,blooded murder. In the meantime
Wrinkle has gone to Hasbrooke with his
story. of the duel. and says he had seen
Fanshaw and Evelyn riding together to-
ward the railway station, presupposng an
elopement. Hasbrooke rings to call his
daughter, but she has to confirm that part
Of the story as 10 her having been With
Ronald after the killing of Hart After
her love for Ronald. sad blow to the