Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-10-07

AND DASHED RECkLESSI.Y THRO'
TIE WOODS
cd YOU that your plot did not 40 far
succeed as to enable you to burn
alive in our beds my guests and nv
self yet if you could have hcar,; the
nouns and seen the wounds of the
half score poor soldiers whom had
carried into my house and could have
viewed the destruction wrought to
my fathers property, mcthinks YOU
miStt have felt that YOU had lust
cause for citation and that YOU still
mcritcd the appellation OF spy. ban
dlt ana midnight assassin in which
| understand yon and your hcnchmcn
take such Wcll-carncd pride"
Young Worthington's expression
at first astonishcd and then fcckcd
with amusement, had famed into an
ger rs she proceeded
Madam. | congratulate YOU upon
being 50 apt pupil of Col. Besse-
mcr. The terms which you have lust
used are few of the mildcr cpithcts
which, | understand. he applies to
myself and that band OF brave pat
riots with whom | have the honor to
ight for my country. Had | known
that Col. Bessemcr was an honorcd
and welcome guest instead of being
as ! presumed he was. an intruder
upon your hospitality. | would have
been more loath than I was to make
the attack which ! felt my duty to
make. While | feared that some de-
struction of your fathers property
might cnsuc. | fattered myself that
by relieving YOU of the presence of
BesSemcr'S tircbrands and Iootcrs-
appcllatiOns which. assure Won.
they have earned quite as indus
triously as we have our pseudo
nymes-wc might be doing you "A scrv-
ice that would in n measure recon-
pcnSe for the loss but il seems
was mistaken, and that Col. Bcsse-
mer is justified in the boasts he has
made of tho handsome entertainment
ne received at the home Of his
bctrothcd, the beautiful Jane FL
lery, to whom his troth was plighted
so he says, in Philadelphia town these
three years past"
james trcachcrous color fed az
these last astounding words. and
then came back with brave rush.
Ills easy" she remarked disdain-
fully ito place false speech upon the
tongue OF the absent. I congratu-
late YOU upon the facility with which
you have placed il upon Col. BeSsc-
m"r's.' and with that she drew down
the curtain to the window ON the side
nest Capt. Worthington. thus shut
ting out that wrathy warrior.
The soldier reared his horse bacI,
upon his Launches while his breath
came hard and the healthy ruddincss
Of his skin gave place to an angry
pallor. An insult. such an insult Il.
and from Jane, Had it been from n
man. nc would have dragged him
from the carriage and wiped M the
earth with him, but To first dot,bt
his word and then drop the curtain.
a. though she had slammed a door
IN his face! Really. IL was too much,
lie dug his spurs into his horse
mat pampcrcd animal tina: seldom
knew touch which was not gentle
and dashed rccklessly through the
woods. II was well that his mount
was a. good forester rs hc. else
they must have como to- grief.
" for Jane. she drove ON with her
brain ia whirI What had Godfrey
meant by attributing such speech TO
Col. icssemcr? Pah, IL was but some
idle gossip which those bandits with
whom he associated had picked up
at some vavsidc inn.
She was too experienced in such
matters not TO have read the SINGER
ity Of Col. Bcsscmer's admiration for
herself underneath his ornate
speeches and too ardent glanccs.
That he thought her beautiful she
could not doubt. Most men did. Even
when she was but raw schoolgirl
OF rs in Philadelphia nc had singled
her ont for marked attention during
his stay in tho city.
True, lac had brought letters Of in
PRODUCTION to her stepmother's