The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-13
CHAPTER xxx.
TIE HIGHER LAW.

AS soon as CASTOR could leave the
| throngs of friends who were congratu
lating him on his remarkable speech and
! his certainty of election he fastened to
find Sallie.
"My lover, my king" she cried i'm
puIsively as he clasped her in mis-
! arms.
| Your eyes kindled the fire in my soul
and gave me the power to mould that
crowd to my Will" he softly told her.
ut is sweet to hear you say that
| though / know it is only half true"
| Nov, my love, I am in an awful
situation. What are we to do with the
General storming around preparing for
/ a grand wedding? What if that jaler
gives out the news? Mcleod can get
| it out of him if he ever suspects any
| thing
"non't worry. dear. III manage
everything. We've fixed the wedding
on the Inauguration day-so you can't
be defeated! We will be busy day and
night getting ready my trousseaU, and
| issuing our invitations. Papa will never
dream that one ceremony has been per-
| formed already. He need never know
it for that matter, until we are ready
to tell him"
| eff he discovers it, he will swear I
have tried to humiliate him. and he
| will never forgive it. Telegraph me if
anything happens. and I will come i'm
mediately. ] can't see you for weeks in
the campaign but l will write to you
every day
| 'Ris Excellency, the Governor of
North Cardinal" she softly exclaimed
with dreamy look into his face. MY
/ distinguished lover!"
| "Don't make me vain. J may be the
Governor, but 1 shall always be the
slave of beautiful woman who came
one day to a Jail and made it palace
| with the glory of her love.'
I'm glad 1 didn't wait for your sue
| cess"
The campaign which followed was the
| most remarkable ever conducted in the
history of an American Commonwealth.
In the dawn of the twentieth century,
| a resistless movement was inaugurated
| to DESTROY the party in control of a
| State; and affiliated with the most
powerful National Administration since
Andrew Jacilson's, on the open declara-
| ton of their intention to nullify as a
sovereign people the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitu
ton of the Republic.
There was no violence except the
calm demonstration in open daylight
OF ominpotent racial power, and the de-
! fiance of any foe to lift a hand in pro-
test.
L
| when CASTOR spoke at Independence,
| hVe thousand white men dressed in
scarlet shirts rode silently through the
streets in solemn parade, and six thou
| sand negroes watched with fear There
was no cheering or demonstration of
any kind. The silence of the procession
gave it the Importance os religious rite.
A thousand picked men were in line
from Hambright and Campbell county
| and they formed the guard of honor for
| their candidate for Governor.
McLeod's secret anger against the
preacher and CASTOR, his pet knew no
| bounds. Chagrined at his repulse by
Mrs. Durham and the attitude of indif-
ferent contempt she had maintained to-
ward him, his tongue began to wag her
name in SANDER to the crowd of young
satellites loafing around his office in
Hambright.
eyes, boys" he said, 1.-The preacher is
a great man, but his wife is greater.
She's the handsomest woman in the
State in spite of a gray thread or two
| in her rich chestnut hair. She has the
. most beautiful mouth that ever tempted
| the soul of man-and boys, my lips
know what it means to touch it,