New Ulm review., 1901-06-26

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keep you out of further mischief. y
| Il shall never forgive you, she said.
| 1 could afford to laugh at such a
| threat.
! IT trust that nobody will forgive me
until [ ask for forgiveness, I said
She looked at me, her eyes full of re-
bellion. thought she was going to
raise her hand to strike me, but women
are so changeable and uncertain. In
stead she held out her hands meekly.
bound her wrists together and no.
ticed that they were white and we'll
nodded. The handkerchief was soft and
could not pain her at all, and, besides,
| her hands were bound in front of her
| and not behind her. She need feel no
inconvenience, but she must realize that
her opportunities for mischief were di-
minished vastly. Old Put looked at her
| with an air Of triumph, as much as to
say, Now, miss you are being pun
ished, and punished deservedly, for beat
| ing me so much. " That seemed to be
her own understanding Of herself.
| We resumed our march, the horses
walking behind US. The rim Of the sun
was now meeting the rim of the earth,
and the western skies were tinged with
ruddy fire. In the east the misty gray
| of twilight was descending on field and
forest, and the chill of night was creep
ing over everything. Even in our South
Carolina latitudes the nights are cold in
midwinter, and shivered as a twilight
| wind, with raw edge to it, swept over
| the plain.
There was a heavy cloak hanging at
her saddle horn, for she had not ven
tured upon her journey unprepared I
took it off and threw it over herashoul-
Gers e fell below her waist like great
coat, and buttoned it securely around
| her neck.
| You are a barbarian, y she said.
81 know it, replied, .sbut lido moi
intend to let you suffer more than is
necessary for your own good That is
the kind of barbarians we are in this
country.
| The country was lone and desolate,
for we were on the sterile slopes Of the
hills. 1t was thinly peopled at the best
of times, but now, raided incessantly by
Tarleton's legion, which knew no mercy
to anything, whether animate or mani
mate, and plundered, too, by wild bands
which claimed to belong to either army,
as the occasion served, and perhaps be-
! longed to neither, the people had fed to
+ securer regions, where one side or the
other was master. Only those who have
seen it know the sufferings Of country
harried by opposing armies and preda-
tory bands. / had hoped to find some
friendly farmer bolder than the rest with
whom my prisoner and I could find
shelter, or if not that, at least some
abandoned house which would give us
roof, but / saw no sign Of a human
| face except our own, and no roof appear
| ed either in the fields or among the
trees. 1t was solitude bleak and cold,
| and the declining sun, now half way
| behind the earth, warned me that it
would soon be time to stop, for the
darkness would be upon us, and in a
land of hills, gullies and no roads we
could not travel well without light.
Despairing of such shelter as / had
expected, turned our course toward a
| thick grove of trees rising like great
castle on the left. When we entered it,
| the shadows already made darkness
there, and the night wind moaned
among the dry branches of the trees. I
saw the girl shiver,. and again I felt
pity for her in spite Of all that she tried
TO do, though I lost none of my distrust
and caution.
Almost in the center Of the grove was