The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-04-13

Of Appleby Hundred there was no roof
to shelter the son Of the outlawed
Roger Ircton save that Of this poor
hunting lodge in the mighty forest of
the Catawba, overlooked, with the few
runaway blacks inhabitins it. in the
intakine Of an estate so large that l
think not even my father knew all the
meteS and bounds of it.
| shall not soon forget the interview
with the lawyer in which | was told
the inhospitable truth. Nor shall |
forget his truculent lecr' when he
limited that had best be gone out OF
these parts, since 1t was not yet too
late to bring down the sentence OF out
laWry from the father 10 the som.
1t was We'll for him that knew not
at the time thai he was Gilbert Stairs
FACTOR. For was mad enough to have
throttled him where he sat at his writ
ing table, matching his long fingers
But."i ms man m"f--in. his
tiiiiG and place. Ills maine was owen
~Pensarvin. l would have you remem-
Der 1t.
For a week and n day | fingered on
at QueenSborough, for VIA l knew
suddenly to have grown stale and prot
itless. and my life a thing OF small ac-
count. One day j would be minded to
so back TO my old field marshal and
the keeping Of the Turkish border:
the next | would ride over some part
of my stolen heritage and swear d
great oath to bide till l should come to
my w again. And on these alternat-
Ing days the storm of black rage filed
my horizon, and became Il dereilct to
drive on any rock or shoal ln.this I'M
chartcd sea OF wrath. b.
on one OF these gallops tarthest
atleld / chanced upon the bride path
mat led 10 our ora hunting lodge IN the
forest depths. tracing the pain 10 lts
eno among me lllap'es louho me cap
M so hshtly toucheu by 1hle NAT the
mere Slghl OF II earned me sWlLtly
PACK 10 NOSE happy Gays When my IA,
iher ana nan staIked me Whlte-taliad
deer IN the mn slades beyond with thls
log-bufit cabin for a rest camp. l
spurIeu up ulloei the loW-hanslhs
.fees. Inc uoor $1,000 Woe open, ana
q tnli Mseatn VI piue Siiiohe curieo up,
MaIu from we mouth % 'he "a'''eo
ch,.llieS.
1nen aiiu lielG nau my lltst wei,
uu,i n Iro haa ~ n,aLh Daitusn1lu
w,,sn, ! i'aa iasa seer, mn .. applept
h'ui'ui1u Wv g 80
anois,.a" v o"e nv
49, = 800 nar,oo Ha Ine ~.
fatbarss bodv-snrvant ana notuith,
sta lai1ig all, wears t},a h y ri w,,.,,
he knew me at once.
Thereupon, as YOU would guess T
came Immediately into some norton of
NV kingdom. Though Darils v.as the
natrinrch the other hIacks were .lso
fnpitives from, Annlehv Hurdred. ,nd
for ma son Of Rnpa,. I,otnn t,aTo w,s
instant vassaIage and loyal service.
But best OF all, on my first evening be-
fore the handful of fire in the great
Fireplace, Darius brought me a pack
age swathed in many wrappings of In
di~an-tanned %deerskin. 1t contained my
fathers sword, and, more precious than
| this. a message from the dead. NV
fathers farewell was written upon Il
leaf torn from his journal, and was but
a hasty scrawl. L here transcribe it.
My Sol
II know not IL this will ever come
into your hands, but it and my sword
shall be left in trust with the faithful
Darius. We have made our illtimed
cast for liberty and it has failed, and
tomorrow / and five others are to die at
the ropes end. I b%equeath you my
sword-'tis all the tyrant hath left me
to devise-and my blessing to go with
1t when you, or another Ireton. shall
once more bare the true old blade in
the sacred cause of liberty. Thy father,
Roger I~reton.'
You may be sure I conned these few
brave words till | had them we'll by
heart, and later. when my voice was
surer and nv ewes less dim T srn,,,on-
ed Darius and bade him tell me ali he
knew. And it was thus 7 learned VIVA
1 have here set down of my fathers
end.
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