The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-04-14

stone. II was q good blade: a true ole
Andrea Ferara got in batrie in I'll,
seventeenth century by II OF the Not
tinghaU; lretunS.
whetted it well and carefully. II
was no; that / feared my enemy's
strength OF wrist or tricks of fence:
put fShting had been my trade, and h
is but n poor craftsman who looks rot
we'll 10 see thai his tools are in order
against their time of using.
CHAPTER II.
WHICH hNITS Up SOME BROKEN
ENDS.
= II was IN the autumn of the year "a,
9 as n was coming of age, that my fa-
.ner made ready to send me to Eng
land. Himself a conscience eXile from
episcopal Virginia. IL n descendant
or those Nottingham Iretons whose
bes'' known son fought stoutly against
= church and king under Oliver Crom-
well. he was yet willing to humor my
bent and to use the interest of my
mothcr's family To enter me in the
Nif.--s service.
Accordingly. l took ship at Norfolk
Tor home as We called it in those
days; and, after a stormy passage and
oNern1uch waiting as my cousins
guest in Lincolnshire. had my pair OF
rolors in the Scots Blues. lately home
NAhs vi
OF the life in barracks of a young
ensign with little wit and les wisdom,
and with more suineas in his purse
than was good for him. the less said
the better. But OF this you IA like to
know that, what with Il good fathers
Puritan decency come down to me
from the sound-hearted old Round
head stock. l won out of that devils
~sponglng- house, an ARM" in the time
Of peace, with somewhat less to my
score than others had TO theirs.
1t was IN this barrack life that !
came to know Richard Coverdale and
MS evil genius, the ma Francis Cow
srdale. Coverdale was an ensign in my
avn regiment. and we We're sworn
friends from the first. His was Il clean
soul and brave: and 1t was to him that
lowed escape from many of the grosser
charsines on that score above named.
As for Falconnet, he was even then II
fuff1er n a bully. though he was not
Of the army. He was a younger son.
n at that time there We're two lives
between him and the baronetcy; but
with a mothers bequeathings to pur-
chase id!eness and to gild his iniquities
ne was a fair example of the jeunesse
doree of that England: a libertine. a
gamester. Il rakehell: brave as the tiger
is brave, and to the full as p%itiless.
He was a boon companion of the Off
rers' mess; and for a time-and pur-
pose-posed as Coverdale's friend, and
mine.
Since I would not tell my poor Dicks
story to Richard Jennifer. | may not
set it Town in cold words here for you.
1t was the age-old tragic comedy of
a false friends treachery II a wom-
ans weakness; a duel, and the wrong
mar slain. And YOU may know this.
that F~'alconnet's most merciful role in
1t was the part he played chill No
vember morning when he put Richard
Coverdale to the wall and ran him
through.
As you have guessed, I was Cover
dale's next friend and second in his
affair, and but for the upsettins news
of the Tyron tyranny in Carolina
news which reached me on the very
fay of the meeting-I should there and
then have called the slayer to his ac-
count.
How my father who, Presbyterian
n Ireton though he was, had always
been of the kings side. came to espouse
she cause of the Regulators" as they
called themselves. l know not. In my
youthful memories of him he figures as
che feudal lord of his own domain,
more absolute than many of the petty
kinglings l came afterward to know in
the German marches. But this, too.
[ remember; that while his rule at Ap-
pleby Hundred was stern and despotic
enough, he Was eve ready to lend a
willing ear to any tale of oppression.
And if What men say of the tyrant Ty-
ron's tax gatherers and law court rob-
bers be no more thai half truth, there
wa need for any honest gentleman 10
oppose them.
What that opposition came to in II
is nov IL tale twice told. Taken in
arms against the governors authority.
and with an estate we'll worth receiv-
t~~ $500, ,%l@ 1,rl 1;tt11 i,ctteo md
less mercy accorded him. With many
others he was outlawed; his estates
were declared forfeit: and Il few days
later he. with Benjamin Merrill n
four more captivated at the Alamance.
was given some farce OF a trial and
banged.
When the news OF this came to me
you may we'll suppose that | had no
heart to continue in the service of the
King Who could sanction and reward
such villainies as these of the butcher,
William Tyron. So l threw up my lie,l-
tenants commission in the Blues. took
ship for the continent, and, after wear
ing some half dozen different uniforms
in Germany, was lucky enough to come
at length to se.viceable blows under
my old field marshal on the Turkish
frontier.
TO you of a younger generation,
born in the day of swift mail coaches
hllH W. NV VS. ASooS liS Nv NtlCoS
with which II laggard news Travelled
In that elder time must needs seem past
belief. 1t was early in the year 10
before ! began to hear more than vague
campfire tales of the struggle going
pn between the lonie and the mother
country: and from that to setting foot
unce more upon the soil of my native
Carolina was still another year.
What l found upon landing at New
Berne and saw while riding a jog-trot
thence to the Catawba was a province
ent and torn by partisan warfare.
Though I came not upon The partisans
themselves in all that long farins,
there We're trampied fields and pillaged
houses enough to serve as milestones;
and in my native Mecklenburg Il mine
full charged, with slow match we'll
alight for it's firing.
Charleston had fallen, and Colonel
Tarleton's outposts We're already wide
spread on the upper waters of the
Broad and the Catawba. Thus it was
that the first sight which greeted my
eyes when l rod into Queensborough
was the familiar trappings of my old
service, and l was made to know that
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