Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-24
The Werld Against Him
By WILL N. HARDEN.
Copyright. 1900, by
A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Company.
SYNOPSIS.

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Ing member of the Fanshaw household, uri-
appreciated by any of the others. save his
sa Saved e o o ssseonG
ter of Col. Hasbrooke, the county's great.
est planter. and whose splendid hsme vas
known as "Carnleigh."
CHAPTER II. At Carnleish, James
Hardy. q Charleston cotton merchant and
brooke's eldest, daughter, and Capt.
an schoo day 81 ee a1t
her by chance. when she again thanks him
for the fight he had made with the angry
bull which had t tn her Us She {,
few minutes before. who had conde-
scendingly thrown him coin for q little
CHAPTER 111.-Ronald. returning home
with his brother, Is overtaken by the Has
brooke trap. Wrinkle. holding tho reins.
basket in his hand to the ground. Ronald
desfTnneE 80 Rayf ns19 VIII,
two revolvers in his pockets. Ronald makes,
his way to q place where Wrinkle may be
met. Wrinkle refuses to fight man in
humiiating the coward grasps him by
the collar and deliberately cuts on 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 buttons and shoulder straps,
that they might be put again on the cap
CHAPTER y.-That night In the draw
the sad story of Mrs. Lancaster. one of his
guests. In early life during the war her
"a had been
Capt. Wrinkle gives coiored account Of
n his 81, meeting with Fanshaw: BY sly
true version. When he finds her alone, he
threatens to tell her father Of her being
in correspondence with Fanshaw. She de-
Of having the buttons and shoulder straps
IN IN hes 15 1o ER Nfons 1,v ,norn,,a
aid finds lynching plot on. A woman
has been murdered for her money, and the
suspect. caught with blood. stained hands
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.
trying to dissuade them from their pur-
pose Of lynching the man when captured;
wants to write note of encouragement.
Mrs. LANCASTER, who has been made con-
f1dante. disapproves,. but compromises by
CHAPTER WILL is after dark when
the fugitive is finally captured. Ronald
speaks to the crowd, and. on the prstext OF
Is. he lifts the lad to tho saddle. wheels his
horse. and is off for. the jail 1t Danube
Sydney s. 70 Hart, ringleadeE Of the poh md
figure. but David knocks the gun barrel
up. SO that no one is hurt. Evelyn anxiously
watches the road until in the early morning
"a folly rat, To u 10 hor
CHAPTER IX.-At the breakfast table
the guests at Carnleigh hear Of the cap
ture OF 9 negro who has confessed to the
~ praised. Mrs. Lancaster, who had been
struck by the resemblance OF Ronald to
her lost hu Us sails at the
also that on account of their different sta
tions IN Ill life he has no hops Of winning her.
neht IF tbs thw,sd on the
guarrel. with Ronald. Ronald. warned by
Dave. is armed when the clash comes.
mar 81 I'M and during the fqsads
mortally wounded. Thad Williams. one one
Of 9Th the Hart gang; rides up just in time to
CHAPTER XI.-Ronald. burdened with
knowledge of having Killed man. starts
to give himself over TO Sheriff Ratciiff.
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 Wrinkle. -
CHAPTER XII:.-Ronald is driven to the
jail at Danube. The Judge is found to be
CHAPTER XIII-on reaching home
MyeS 9 is eSa By her sister
to Winkle.s account. had been guilty OF
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. presupposing an
slopebms en- nt H sb rings to call his
Ronald after the killing of Hart. After
her love for Ronald. : a sad Blow . to the he
CHAPTER X1v.-sunday morning Mr..
Redding. the lawyer under whom Fanshaw
had been studying for the bar, calls to see
the prisoner. He has found 1t a bad pros
pe eco as far ar 81 securing immediate ball on
mined to give.
CHAPTER Xv.-The trial comes Off
Win dark prospects for Ronald. but the
dramatic discovery is made in court that
have come from Harris own revolver. VIII
liams is then forced to testify that. accord
ing to Harris last words, 1t was the rear
Ing of the horse that had caused the dis
charge, of the pistol In such a way as to
mortally wound him. The prosecution can
then only move the discharge of the pris-
CHAPTER XvI.-Col. Hasbrooke who
was present at the trial. Is the first to
who almost faints with Joy.
CHAPTER XVI-It is only a little later
that Caroline tells him of Hardy's proposal
she has thought 1t over. then says TO write
him. 1t Is all right" After supper he
sends quietly for Ronald. He congratu-
lates him on the developments made at
the trial. then speaks to him Of Evelyn.
he says It isn't pedigree he demands
with mn, his a, daughter's husband. but he fears
had the record Fanshaws have. Ronald ad-
mts he loves Evelyn, but assures him he
her. Evelyn at this point comes into the
study, is surprised to find Ronald there,
and learns with sad heart, but unmoved
features. the object and result of the con-
fArence
CHAPTER XVIII.
The next month was December.