Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-06-29
SYNOPSIS.

ing member of tue Fanshaw household, an
apprecia!ed by any of the others. save his
blotseT RaTu ira n ne vn o sumner ne
ter of Col. llasbrooke. the connty's great
est planter, and whose splendid home was
known as "Carnleigh"
CHAPTER II. = AT Carnlcish. James
sutton for the hand OF Caroline. Has
brooke's eldest daughter. and Capt.
Wrinkle. an admirer of Evelyn. are guests.
her by chance. when she again thanks him
for the fight lie had made with the angry
bull which had threatened her life. She is
glad of rebuke he had given Wrinkle. but
a few minutes before. who had conde-
scendingly thrown him coin for little
CHAPTER III.-Ronald, returning home
with ais brother. is overtaken by the Has
brooke trap. Wrinkle. holding the reins,
tries deliberately to ride Ronald down.
the. trap coming SO near as to knock the
basket in his hand TO the ground. Ronald
determines 10 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
humilia,ng the coward, grssps him by
and shoder fr ru,s on 1ne
form. Wrinkle sneaks back 10 the house.
Evelyn, who mad been gathering flowers,
tells Ronald she had been eavesdropping
Sorry for what he had done in anger, he
gives her the buttons aud shoulder straps,
that they might be put again on the cap
tain's. coat.
ing-room at Carnleigh. Masbrooke tells
the sad story of Mrs. Lancaster, one of his
guests In early life during the, war. her
husband, confederate officer. had been
baby lost, perhaps killed. little later
Capt. Wrinkle gives a 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-
way. saying she was a witness. and tells
of having the buttons and shoulder straps
In her. possession.
CHAPTER vL;.-one July morning Ron
aid finds lynching plot on. woman
has been murdered for her money, and the
suspect. caught with blood-stained hands
and considerable money, had escaped from
the sheriff and known to be in hiding in the
swamp Young Fanshaw determines to
thwart the mob.
CHAPTER V!I.-The. mob beats the
swamp but Rona1d goes from 9rn man to
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 a con-
1idante, disapproves, but compromises by
CHAPTER Wilt is after dark when
the fugitive is finally captured. Ronald
speaks to the crowd. and. on the preteNt OF
showing the crowd how small the prisone;
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, bat David knocks the gun barre
up. so that no oaei is hurt. Evelyn anNiously
watches the road untilin the early morning
she sees him safely return to his home
CHAPTER IN.-At the breakfast tab!,
tire of negro who has confessed to the
killing of the woman. and Ronald Is high
~ praised Mrs. Lancaster. who had beer
struck by the resemblance of Ronald Il
her lost husband, calls at the Fanshaws
She learns of Ronald's love for Evelyn, blu
also that on account of their different sta