The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-06-30
Now, this w,tless speech was no better

Now, this witless speech was no better
than q whip to fog him on.
What %things?" he questioned, promptly.
"Oh. many things. She spoke often of
you"
What did she say Of me, Jack? Tell
me what she said" he begged. 1T can
make no difference now; she is less than
nothing to me-nay, It's even worse than
that, since she would play Delilah If she
could. But oh. Jack, l love her.-I should
love her If l stood on the gallows aSd she
stood by to spring the drop and turn me
or"
Truly, II the lash OF remorse had lacked
its keenest thong, this passionate out
burst OF his would have added it. None
the less. I must needs be weaker than
water and fall back another step and put
him off.
Another time, Richard. I am strange
ly %unnerved and dizzy-headed now. BY
and by. when l am stronger, I will tell
you ALL
Taking a reproach where non was
meant, he sprang up with a self-aimed
madison upon his lack OF care for me,
stirred the fire alive and brewed me q
most delicious smelling cup of broth. And
afterward. when I had drunk the broth
with some small beckonings Of returning
appetite, he spread his coat to screen me
IoI tIG IRE 1ROt ana WOulQ nave OTlNcU
me TO sleep again.
promised. IF you are wakeful 1 will talk
to you and tell you what little 1 have
CLEANED about the fighting
His news was chiefly a later repetition
of Father Matthew's and Captain Abram
Forncy's, but there was this to add: the
congress had appointed the Englishman,
Horatio Gates, chief Of the army in the
south, and this new leader was on his
way to take command.
De Kalb, with the Maryland and Della
ware lines and Colonel Armand's legion,
was encamped on Deep river, waiting for
the newly appointed general: and Caswell
and Griffith Rutherford, with the militia,
were already pressing forward to some
handgrips with my Lord CORVALLIS in the
south.
Nearer at hand, the partizan war-flre
famed afresh wherever a Tory company
met a patriot, and there were wicked do
ings, more like savage massacres than
fair-fought battles of the soldier sort.
When he had made an end OF his small
war budget, l set him on to tell me how
he came 10 be at hand to help me so in
the nick Of time on the night of the cabin
sack.
Twas partly chance" he said. ga red
| coat troop had me in durance at Jennifer
house, and while they affected to hold me
at parole, I never gave consent TO that,
and SO was kept a prisoner. They shut
me in the wine-bin with a guard, and
when the fellow was we'll soaked and
silly, I bound and gagged him and broke
Jail. I took the river for 1t, meaning to
outlie until the hue and cry was over; and
just at dusk Uncanoola dropped upon me
and told me Of your need. From that &c
helping him cut you out of your rattle
with the Cherokees was but a hands turn
in tbs days work." zssa:
IA lucky tufn for me-" I said; and then
at second thought l would deny the say
ing, though not for him to hear. But this
was dangerous ground again, and I
clawed off from 1t like a desperate mari
ner tempest-driven on a lee shore; asking
him how he had learned the broadsword
play, and where he got the antique clay
more.
He lauehed heartily, and more like my
care-free Dick, this time.
Thereby hangs a tale. 1 told you how
I was out with the minute men in '76 at
Moore's creek. where we fought the
Scotchman. 1t was our first pitched bat
tie, and l opine 1t smelled somewhat OF
severity on both sides-no quarter was
asked, and the Tory MacDonalds fought
like fends for King Geurge. small cause
as they had to love the house of Han
over"
How was that?" I would ask, being
as little familiar with the low country
settlement as any native-born Carolinian
could be.
They were expatriates for the pre-
tenders sake, many of them. Mistress
flora's husband was one Of the prisoners
we took. But, as l was saying, they were
tories to a man, and they fought wicked
~. When 1t was over, the prisoners
would have Jared hardly but for a wom-
an. In the thick of the fight, Mistress
Mary Slocumb of Dobbs, whose husband
was with us, came storming down upon
the held, having rode a-gallop some forty
odd miles because she dreamed her good
man was killed. She begged for the pris-
oners, and SO Caswell hanged only those
who were blood ~guilty-thcse and the
house burners. A raw-boned piper named
McGillicuddy fell to my lot, and he is now
my maJordomo at Jennifer house: as hon
est a fellow as ever skirled a pibroch.,
That was like YOU" 1 said; ito make a
friend and retainer out of your prisoner,
And so this Highland piper has been
your fencing master, has he?"
TWAS he taught me what little I
know of the claymore play; and this stout
old blade is his. TITS as good as a wood
mans AK when YOU have the knack of
swinging It,"
Truly said I. "Also. you seemed to
have the knack, and the strength as wei
in spite of the crippled arm You were
carrying in a sling the night before when
they hailed you into Colonel Tarleton's
court at Appleby."
"a little ruse OF war; he said, laugh
ing and making a fist to show me his arm
was strong and sound again. ",Twas
McGillicuddy put me to it, saying they
would be Ike to deal the gentler with a
wounded man. But how came Won 10
know?"
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