The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-06-23

Now, this witless speech was no better
than a 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. III can
make no difference now: she is less than
nothing to me-nay, It's even worse than
that. since she would play Delilah II she
could. But oh, Jack, I love her!-l should
love her If l stood on the gallows ana she
stood by TO spring the drop and turn me
off,
Truly. II the lash of remorse had lacked
Its keenest thong. this passionate out
burst of his would have added IT. None
the less, ! must needs be weaker n
water and fall back another step and put
him off.
Another time, Richard. l am strange
ly unnerved and dizzy-headed now. ny
and by, when l am stronger, l VIII ,elA
you ALL"
Taking a reproach where none was
meant, he sprang up with a SCREAMED
madison upon his lack of care for me,
stirred the fire alive and brewed me q
most delicious smelling cup of broth. And
a~fterward. when l had drunk the broth
with some small beckonings of returning
appetite, he spread his coat to screen me
from the fire light and would have driven
me to sleep again.
AT any rate, you shall not talk he
promised. IF you are wakefui ! Will tax
to you and tell you what little l nave
CLEANED about the fighting
His news was chiefly a later repetition
Of Father Matthews and Captain Abram
Forncy's, but there was this to add: the
congress had appointed the Engiishman,
Horatio Gates, chief of the army IN the
south, and this new leader was on hla
way TO take mma
De kalb, with the Maryland and Della
ware lines and Colonel Armand's legion,
was encamped on Deep river, waiting Tor
the newly appointed general. and Caswell
and Griffith Rutherford, with the milltla,
were already pressing forward to some
handgrips with my Lord IN the
south.
Nearer at hand, the p%artizan war-fre
famed afresh wherever & 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 TO be at hand to help me so IN
the nick of time on the night OF the CABIN
sack. ~ -,
Twas partly chance he said. "a red.
coat troop had me in durance at Jennlfer
house, and while they affected TO hold me
at parole, l never gave consent to that,
and so was kept a prisoner. They shut
me in the wine-bin with a guard, ana
, when the fellow was we'll soaked ana
silly, l bound and gagged him and broke
jail. I took the river for It. 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
l in the days work.
i; "a lucky turn for me-" I said; and then
4. -,-L 7 -,-,,ll lanSy fha. q n ~
r Ing, though not for him to hear. But this
r was dangerous ground again. and ]
! clawed off from it like a desperate mari,
, ner tempest-driven on a lee shore; asking
him how he had learned the broadsworc
play, and where he got the antique clay
0 more.
He laughed heartily, and more like my
. care-free Dick. this time,
t Thereby hangs a tale. I told you how
I was out with the minute men in '76 al
Moore's creek. where we fought the
Scotchman. 1t was our first pitched bat
tie, and l opine 1t smelled somewhat o
severity on both sides-no quarter wa:
" like fends for King George, small caus
: as they had to love the house of Han
a over"
n How was that?' I would ask, bein,
as l:ttle familiar with the low countr.
r. settlement as any native-born Carolinial
could be.
They were expatriates for the pre-
tenders sake, many Of them. Mistres
Flora's husband was one of the prisoner
we took. But, as I was saying, they wer
tories to a man, and they fought wicked
10 ly. When 1t was over. the prisoner
would have Jared hardly but for a won
an. In the thick of the fight, Mistres
Mary Slocumb of Dobbs, whose husban
7 was with us, came torming down upo
the field, having rode a-gallop some forty
odd miles because she dreamed her goo
man was killed. She begged for the pris
- oners, and SO Caswell hanged only thos
- who were blood guilty-these and tn
:. house burners. a raw-boned piper name
- McGi!licuddy fell to my lot, and he is no,
~ my majordomo at Jennifer house: as ho1
est q fellow as ever skirled a pibroch."
THAT was like you" I said; TO make
friend and retainer out of your prisone
,e And so this Highland piper has bee
n your fencing master. has he?"
Twas he taught me what little
e. know Of the claymore play; and this stol
ou old blade is his. IT'S as good as a Woo
~ mans AK when you have the knack
ne swinging It,"
de Truly" said l. ALSO, you seemed
It, have the knack, and the strength as We.
lr. in spite of the crippled arm you wei
lg carrying in a sling the night before whe
ne they hailed you into Colonel Tarleton
court at Appleby."
"A little ruse OF war he said, lauRI
or Ing and making a fist to show me his ar
was strong and sound again. "'Tw,
on McGillicuddy put me to 1t, saying tn,
cA would be like to deal the gentler with
wounded man. But how came you
IS known"
," Continued Next Week.)
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