Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-05
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-Ronaid is the one promis.
Ing member OF the Fanshaw household, un-
Bother David. The preceding ding. SUMNER Il naea he
had saved the life of Evelyn, second dauEh-
ter of Col. Hasbrooke. the county's great
known as "Carnleigh."
CHAPTER II.-At Carnleigh. James
Hardy, a Charleston cotton merchant and
sutton for the hand of Caroline. Has
bTooke,s eldest daughter, and Capt.
Evelyns school days over, Ronald meets
her by chance, when she again thanks him
for the fight he had made with the angry
bull which had threatened her life. She is
glad of rebuke he had given Wrinkle, but
few minutes before who had conde-
s sssndingly y, thrown him coin for little
CHAPTER III.-Ronald, returning home
with his brother. is overtaken by the Has
brooke trap Wrinkle, holding the reins.
the trap coming so near as to knock he
basket in his hand to the ground. Ronald
determines to have satisfaction.
CHAPTER IV.-The next morning, with
two revolvers in his pockets. Ronald makes
met. Wrinkle refuses to fight a man in
Ronald's position in life. Ronald bent on
the collar and deliberately cuts cuts OF tR s
buttons and shoulder straps from his uni
form. Wrinkle sneaks back to the house.
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
tain's coat
CHAPTER y-That night in the draw
ing-room at Carnleigh, Hasbrooke tells
the sad story of Mrs. Lancaster, one Of his
gsussSts In early life during the war her
killed by mountain bushwhackers, and her
baby lost. perhaps killed: little later
capt. Winkle gives colored account 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 witness, and tells
of having the buttons and shoulder straps
4 In her possession.
CHAPTER VI-One July morning Ron
aid finds lynching plot on A Woman
has been murdered for her money, and the
suspect, caught with blood-stained hands
9s fonsideraSle money had escaped from
swamp. Young Fanshaw determines tc
thwart the mob
CHAPTER vII--The mob beats the
K 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.
fidante. disapproves, but compromises by
writing such a note herself.
CHAPTER VIII.-It is after dark wher
the fugitive is finally captured Ronald
speaks to the crowd, and, on the pretext OF
IS, he lifts the lad to the saddle, wheels his
horse, and is off for the jail at Danube
Sydney Hart, ringleader of the mob, find
ing himself thwarted, fires at the fleeing
figure, but David knocks the gun barre
up, SO that no one is hurt. Evelyn anxiously
watches the road until in the early mornins
she sees him safely return to his home
CHAPTER IX-At the breakfast table
the guests at Carnleigh hear of the cap.
ture Of a negro who has confessed to the
killing. of the woman, and Ronald is high.
struck by the resemblance of Ronald t.
her lost husband, calls at the Fanshaws
She learns of Ronald 8 love for Evelyn, bu,
tons In life, he has no hope Of winning her