Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-06-30


Now, this witless speech was no better
than q whip to fog him on.
.'Wha things?' he questioned, promptly.
''oh, many things. h spoke often OF
YOU
What did she say Of me, Jack2 Tell
me what she said, he begged. 1T can
make no difference now: she is less than
nothing to me-nay, tits even worse than
that. since she would play Deiiah II sne
could. But oh. Jack, / love her!-l shouio
love her If l stood on the gallows and she
stood by to spring the drop and turn me
offv'
Truly, IL the lash of remorse had lacked
its keenest thong, this passionate OUT
burst OF his would have added IL. None
the less, / must needs be weaker thari
water and fall back another step ana put
him of.
Another time, Richard. I am strange
ly unnerved and d~izzy-headed now. BY
and by, when l am stronger, i VIII tell
you ALL"
Taking a reproach where none was
meant, he sprang up with a self"ainseo
Madison upon his lack OF care TOT me-
stirred the fire alive and brewed me q
most delicious smelling cup OF broth. Ano
a%tterward, when l had drunk the broth
with some small beckonings or returning
appetite, he spread his coat 10 screen me
from the fire hight and would have driven
me to sleep again.
AT any rate. you shall not talk, ne
promised. IF you are wakeful i Will talk
TO you and tell you h little l have
CLEANED about the fighting"
His news was chiefly a later repetition
OF Father Matthews and Captain Abram
Fornoy'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 mis-
way TO take
De Kalb, with the Maryland and Deia-
ware lines and Colonel Armand's legion'
was encamped on Deep river, waiting TOT
the newly appointed general; and Casweil
and Griffith Rutherford, with the militia,
|. were already pressing forward to some
handgrips with my Lord CORVALLIS In the
south.
Nearer at hand. the partigan war-ffre
famed afresh wherever a Tory COMPANY
met a patriot. and there were wicked 40
ings. more like savage massacres than
fair-fought battles of the soldier sort.
When he had made an end OF his small
war budget, / 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. "A red
COal tTOOD Hh0 LIiC III -
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 well soaked ana
silly, / bound and gagged him AND broke
Jail. I took the river for 1t. meaning 10
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
-i-a- A3~z 1.N n1af NJ OniIr rAfhA
with the Cherokees was but a hands turn
in the days work"
"a lucky turn for me-" / said; and then
at second thought / would deny the say
ing, though not for him TO hear. But this
was dangerous ground again, n i
clawed off from II like a desperate mari
, ner te~mpest-driven on a lee shore; asking
him how he had learned the br~oadsword
play, and where he got the antique clay
more.
He laughed heartily, and more like my
care-free Dick, this time.
Thereby hangs a tale. / told you how
/ was out with the minute men in T6 at
Moore's creek, where we fought the
Scotchman. II was our first pitched bat
tie. and l opine IL smelled somewhat OF
severity on both sides-no quarter was
asked, and the Tory MacDonalds fought
like fiends for King George, small cause
as they had to love the house of Han
over"
How was that?" / 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 / was saying, they were
tories to a man, and they fought wicked.
~. When II was over the prisoners
would have Jared hardly but for a won.
an. In the thick Of the fight, Mistress
Mary Slocumb OF Dobbs, whose husband
was with us, came storming down upor
the field, having rode a~-gallop some forty.
odd miles because she dreamed her gooc
man was killed. She begged for the pris.
oners, and so Caswell hanged only those
who were blood ~guilty-these gnd thu
house burners. A raw-boned piper nance
McGillicuddy fell TO my lot, and he is nov
my majordomo at Jennifer house; as hon
est a fellow as ever skirled a pibroch."
That was like YOU / said; ito make
friend and retainer out of your prisoner
And so his Highland piper has beer
your fencing master, has her
-TNwas he taught me what little
know Of the claymore play; and this tour
old blade is his. "Tis as good as a wood
mans ak when you have the knack o.
swinging It,"
Truly" said /. ALSO, you seemed IA
nave the knack, and the strength as well
In spite Of the crippled arm you were
carrying in a sling the night before wher
they hailed you into Colonel Tarleton'i
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. "'Twa!
n - n 49,. -xN "a
would be like to deal the gentler with
wounded man. But how came you K
known"
Continued Next Week.)
Two of a Kind.