Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1903-07-18
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There Is a great reserve In the Scotch
physique as there is IN the Scotch
character. Mr.. Burns was an extreme 1
example. else how could he have lain I
there on the wet soil OF the woods for \
three DAYS and nights without so much /
rs n sip Of water and with nothing 20 /
stop the bleeding Of .his wound? He I
Was but half conscious most OF the I
time, and yet he heard a panther +.
screaming al through one night, aud !
once a wolf barked aud howled close
by. There was nothing in these
sOands 10 brighten him; they came to
him as in a dream, appealing TO no
particular sense. touching no particu-
lar chord OF consciousness. simply
echoing through him. Slowly he sank
away. weaker and weaker. down into
darkness. Every thought faded out
bat one-the thought OF fallure-the
thought that he was dying without
hope.
On the third day, in the afternoon,
some great black birds, evil-lOoking.
with bare. congested heads and
hungry eyes, came sailing low round
aud round above him He saw
them. and thought: They will eat me
as soon as an dead" But there was
no horror connected with tho vision,
which went farther aud displayed his
s--ttore3 and clea1 picked hone.
( " nat could 10 matter D him. old. de
I featei, abandoned, dying, II vultures
I began their work az once2 Gould
their beaks add one pang 20 his tor
ture2
With singular minuteness, for his
Z leisure was ample. he reviewed his
2 religious life. seeking for some justi-
T fcafioa Of the act OF Divine Provi-
6ence in thus casting him aside like
bit % old rubbish after sll this
wearyiuS aud frait.ess el1rt-aftcr ell
his trust aud prayer.
And little Nargarct-what of hey
Beautiful, young, pure, with every
bud of tender promise Just showing
the pink-wny should she have been
made tho plaything az an enormous
wong, the helpless victim OF an ac-
tr0cious fGtes he saw her as she was
when SIZE left him, fair. bright, low
ing. the idol cf has widowed heart.
and he followed her. steu 10y step
+ through .Le cruel descent. till she lay
Ia her cofhn. murdered by that man.
Br some mysterious cercbal action.
he was able 20 note the correlation OF
has own experience with the girls.
aud g. ok. as by flash. the meet
i1r OF LIS prayers with the success
sive downward rushes ot her mise--
able career.
At every point where he sought
he- with utmost confidence aud bee
sought heaven with greatest faith,
there she hal me. with calamity or
taken some desperate step in infomv.
Aud whose was the .fa1ite Surely
she had l0t been bora with the faint
O. evil in her blood.
Arl XIX MacColoughi The name
rang through the OLD mans fevercd
brain. and the tau, dark outiaw
stalkel across his vision like an actor
across the stage Of meiodrama. Whet
health. what strength. what immunity
from the physical effect OF moral
rcckl cssuessi In tie pursuit Of this
man. Barns had wasted himself. hi.
fortune. his career, his prayers, las
liie. while not a drop Of desire
had been lost 10y the outlaw II
was bitter io,l for reelection for tls
aged preacher as De lay on tns
ground, has witherei nmbs ont
stretched and the WEAKNESS of death
IN his nerves. Slowly has man,
worked its way down 20 that las
scene and bean 20 take mp the d.
tails one by one, analyzing them with
illerciiess cxactness Meanwhile. d
tlat curious pow er OF the brain which
enables Do when abnOrmaily stimulated
20 follow two lines Of thought a
once. be was reviewing Kirk Mac
F CcliOugh's -rigin AID accOuntin.
fox his career by referring all hi
. darker characteristics 10 iaheritsrc
from bis father. Thomas MacCoilough
who committed great political Grim
aud vas transported therefor IN IN
fret prime OF has manhood while Mir
was yet mere boy. Burns had neve
seen Thomas MacCollough. nor ha
; he known much OF the family befor
p KIRK began 70 pay attention TO Mar
p garet. but since then he had found on
2 the history which now seemed 20 %
2 count ftly fo- the young man's VI
2 paraileled course Of evil. From fathe
2 % son had descended the curse Of GU
p lawry.
Bntitwas natural that Burns's minS
J. even ia the last extremity Of despair
e sao1ld tarn with ali its Scotch stint
e b0raness aud ten acity 90 take n
3 iigious suryey.so 20 call it, OF the sitT
e.ion. Perhaps IL would be better
say that his thoughts were not drive
: a. once. even by direst calamity, OF
Of the groove in which they bad bee
running since first he began 20 be