Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-03
The World Against Him
By WILL N. HARDEN.
Copyright. 1900. Ivy
AN Kellogg Newspaper Company.
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I.-Ronald is the one promis.
ing member of the Fan shaw household, IN
apprcciat by any of the others, save his
brother David. The preceding summer he
had saved the life of Evelyn second daugh-
ter of Col. liasbrooke, the county's great
Ssl Mhehe home was
Hardy, a Charleston cotton merchant and
suitor 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
glad of rebuke he had given Wrinkle but
a few minutes before, who had conde-
scendingly thrown him coin for a little
CHAPTER 1II.-Ronald. returning home
with his brother, is overtaken by the Has
brooke no trap. Minkle' holding The reins,
the trap coming so near as TO knock the
basket in his hand to the ground. Ronald
desf5mtneE 70 GayT salisfae,on
his way TO a place where Wrinkle may be
met. Wrinkle refuses to fight a man in
humlia,ing the coward. grasps him by
the collar and deliberately cuts off the
buttons and shoulder straps from his uni
form. Wrinkle sneaks 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 her the buttonsan shoulder straps.
that. they might be put again on the cap
tain's- coat.
CHAPTER What night in the draw.
ing-room at Carnleigh. Hasbrooke tells
husband, confederate officer had been
killed by mountain bushwhackers. and her
baby lost, perhaps killed A little later
n of
his meeting with Fanshaw. By sly
stroke Evelyn shows him she knows the
true version. When he finds her alone, he
threatens to tell her, father of her being
in correspondence with Fanshaw. She de-
MES having learned of the affair in that
way. saying she was u witness. and tells
CHAPTER Vl.-one July morning Rom
aid iinds lynching plot on. A woman
suspect. caught with blood-stained hands
and considerable money, had escap ped from
the sheriff and known to be In hiding in the
swamp Young Fanshaw determines to
CHAPTER VII.--The mob beats the
swamp, but Ronald goes from man to man.
pose of lynching the man when captured
Evelyn learns of his noble course and
wants TO write note of encouragement.
Mrs. LANCASTER. who has been made con-
writing such note herself.
CHAPTER Wilt is after dark when
the fugitive is finally captured. Ronald
speaks TO the crowd. and, on the pretext of
showing the crowd how small the prisoner
IS, he lifts the lad to the saddle. wheels his
horse, and is off fol-. the jail at Danube.
Sydney Hart, .ringleader of the mob, find
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 secs him safely return to his home.
CHAPTER IN.-At the breakfast table
the guests at Carnleigh hear of the cap
ture of 4 negro who has confessed to the
killing of the woman, and Ronald is high
ly praised. Mrs Lancaster. who had been
struck by the resemblance or Ronald to
her lost husband. calls at the Fanshaws
She learns of Ronald's love for Evelyn. but
also that on account of their different sta
t!ons in, life he has no hope of winning her
CHAPTER S.-Hart, ,thwarted on, the
quarrel with Ronald. Ronald warned by
Dave. is armed when the clash comes.
Hart is mounted. and during the fusilade
one of the shots takes effect. and he falls
mortally wounded. Thad Williams, one
OF the Hart gang, rides up just In tire to
hear the mans last words.