The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-08-28

vision OF raw, country boy, golh
homo from church through the moon
light under the whispering trees, viii
q tlmid, little hand on his arm. Th
boy had devoured the sweet, lunoccn
Young face beside him with huusr,
eyes, and had hated Frank Yancey II
his heart for having woocd and wol
her before he had chance. If he hal
seen her first, he told himself, she
would have taken him; and he tosscC
on his bed all that night, torn wnl
jealous rage and love that could never
be told. No mattcr-that was long
ago-hc came TO the city the next
morning and entered upon his career.
When he thought of her during the
next few years it was to thank heaven
that he had escaped marriage that
would have kept him a grounding TO
the end of bis days. But now, as he
looked away down the avenue some
how the old thrill went to his heart -
he felt the light touch on his arm, max
ing a leaping madness in his VEINS
and saw the moonlight drifting over
the brownest hair and bluest eyes in
all the world. His own eyes dimmed
at the momory of it. Well, it was long
ago, and he was successful among men,
but there had never been another night
like that.
"Oh, dea,l If papa could only ,Jm
home," was the tired little sigh tnal
awakened INN, lie started and TUNED
to see Boy asleep Oh his sisters lap,
while two tears rolled slowly down her
thin cheeks.
" You-you mustn't cry!" he STAN
mered. Perhaps"
" l don't let mamma SEQ me cry"
she replied, smiling up at him with a
childish womanlucss that broke his
hea." He snatched bis hat from the
bon.h and started up, looking at his
watch. If there were only timcl
:; See here" ne said, with an excite.
ment that he had not felt in many
long day. "You go home and-and
talk over things with mamma-and
tell her--ask her if she Remembers
Dick Flomau-and tell her-well toll
her that Frank isn't without a friend,
after all"
II there were only timcl
Ten minutes afterwards he was
pushing through throng of spectators
that crowded the court room and ex-
tended into the corridor outside. Men
stood on tip-toe to peep over one an
others heads, that they might catch a
glimpse of the prisoner who was OF
with the strikers and yet had done
single handed what some Of them
longed, yet d,d not dare to do; who had
kept persistent silence daling his I'M
plisonmcnt, and who refused 10 employ
a lawyer, though he knew himself 20 be
in dire extremity,
"Ten TO one bis ncck'll stretch"
SAID a man in the door, as Floman
pushed by him. lie heard the whisper
and saw the dark looks cast upon the
prisoner; then he walked across the
court room and took his place at Che
side.
He was just in time.
"Docs anyone volunteer TO repro.
sent Francis Yanccy2" the judge was
asking, and Floman stood up.
do, your HONOR" he sad.
There was a moment Of amazed 81
lence, broken by an excited whisper
that went around the court room. If
Floman had taken up this casc-thc
great Floman, why, then
People Who saw him saw how he
stopped and whispered a word in the
stupefied prisoners ear and claspcd his
hand. Then he arose with head thrown
up and lips set, and those who knewhin
knew hat there was q battle in hand.
What that battle was is still rcmem-
bcred and spoken of with a tbrlll of
pride by those who watched its prog
ress, who heard the examination aud
cross examination of Witnesses; who
wept and laughed for two hours,
swayed by such oratory as he had
never uttered and as they had never
he8rd. If he had been famous before,
those two hours left his fame doubled,
for the jury returned verdict of not
guilty, without leaving the box, and
holly denied afterwards that ,hey were
uoder spell. When the verdict was
rendered, men shouted and threw
up their hats, and when the court room
was cleared went out wlplng their eyes.
Frank Yancey was led out staggering
by the man who had saved him. AS
Floman put HIM into cab, he leaned
forward, h's face working.
"As Ion syou'vc done this, Dick,
be whispe' ,,"I' tell you why t
that hound. / reached home IN time
to hear him insult my wjfe-an' I'd a.
gone to the gallow's before I'd - mix
ed her name up in it,"
Good for you, old man." returned
Floman, with barren speech, but with
return of bis long-gone heartiness thai
gave him a tender feeling about The
eyes. Perhaps the tender feeling
re-" .cd lts root down further, for he
gra ped the trembling hand on The cab
window. Keep up a stout heart,
Frank" he said. "I'vc got my eye
on position-worlds better than the
one you hod-chance of promotion,
loo. Well, goodbye. Give my love
Toto the little girl that talks thinge
over with mammal"
| II "
1t was late when tho great lawyer
reached home that evening. He had
been deta;ned by box-a vesy impor.