New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-08-12

| plantation in South Carolina in time of
British dragons arrive and ask accom-
mediation OF Miss Jane Ellery in the Ab-
sence of her father and mother who are
| disturbed by firing, and an American Of
| ficer dashes through the lines and disap-5
pears il 3,1 the woods;
| of British soldiers, and Col. Bessemer,
! quite willing to remain in the company Of
Miss Eefy During D. u di Inn strange
+! long coat, enters dining-room and gives
Miss Ellery a note.
! CHAPTER lII.-.British officers startled
by appearance Of stranger but did not
recognize in him Capt. Worthington, who
| they much wished to capture. He was a
| the British were attacked at the Ellery
| plantation, and many OF them killed and
| wounded. a..
visit to her aunt, patriot. Capt s,' Worth 1
quarrel because Of his night attack on her
him. Rim He tells her that Col l.. Bessemer
boasts of his engagement to her.
! CHAPTER X;;-Capt Worthington pre-
trap set for the British. She accused
and ordered him never to visit her again
dragons, among the officers of Which
| was her brother, again visited her home
| during the presence of her father and
Sltp-mOlI1eI.-
The brilliancy had died out of the
scene. The outbuildings which had
been ablaZe were either smouldering
or completely out. The only building
which had burned to the ground, and
which was the one that had acct
dentally been setafire by the invaders,
was a supplementary stable in which
had been quartered many Of the
British horses that could not find
accommodations in the main stable.
I'm breaking open the door and re-
leasing the horses torch had caught
the straw in stall and the conha graz
ton ensued.
The handful of soldiers who had
been left upon the premises went
about gathering up the camp equip
age, which had been badly scattered
in the melee, and caring for the
wounded comrades who had been left
behind in the general pursuit of the
Americans. Jane ordered these
carried into the house, and made cots
for them in the wide hall, turning
the residence into a temporary hos
pital.
She had just finished breakfast
when an orderly arrived with a note
from Bessemer, filed with grateful
appreciation of her hospitality to
him and his men, and with regret that
it should have caused her to be the
victim of an unmannerly invasion by
horde of ruthless desperadoes, upon
whose trail he and his soldiers were
then hot.
Jane thought it most mannerly
note, and if some of the sentences
| were SO fulsome as to almost draw
from her a smile, she was yet
| accustomed to such gallantries, hav-
ing spent two winters in Charleston
with her mothers Hugenot relatives,
mingling in that polite society whose
| daily conversation was shower of
| bouquets; though, indeed, sometimes
the bouquets were made of flowers
which pricked.
She could not Hut contrast Besse-
mer's polished Difference with Worth
ington's more abrupt ways. What
had her stepmother so often termed
Godfrey-a rude boor? And she,
! Jane, had ever come to his defense;
| yet what thanks did she get? He
| would have roasted her alive in her
| fathers house without qualm in
| order that he and his lawless band
might slaughter those who were her
=, guests.
The next few days, after Bessemer
had sent to take away his wounded
and she had no longer their care to
occupy her, were lonely ones for
Jane. She was tempted to follow the
advice her stepmother had given her
before leaving home and send for
some of her girl friends to keep her
company, but the mail brought her
such unfavorable news of her fathers
condition that she had little heart
for the entertainment of guests, and,
moreover, the war had either
estranged or separated from her
those whom she liked best.
Even her own Aunt Susannah, to
whom her heart turned more warmly
than to any of her other relatives
and whose affection for herself she
could not doubt, had vowed never to
step her foot within her brother-in-
laws's door as long as his Tory wife
was it's mistress. This rupture was
brought about by one of those caustio
speeches for which James stepmother
had no little reputation in the neigh
borhood. =
Jane knew her aunt too well not
to realize that she would keep her
word; but if she would not come to
Jane, at least Jane might go to her
so one morning she ordered the car
riage and set out for her Uncle
Elijah's in no little state, for, though
her stepmother had taken the gilded
coach with it's painted panels and its
six black horses to Charleston that
she might impress her royalist
friends there and overawe her hus.
bands first wife's relatives, yet the
equipage in which Jane set forth
with it's maroon cushions and it's two
negroes On the box seat in their
white-and-maroon livery made an at.
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