The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-06-29

Now, this witless speech was no better
than q whip to fog him on.
What things?" he questioned, promptly.
"0h, many things. She spoke often OF
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what did she say Of me. Jack? Tell
me what she said" he begged! 1T caa
make no difference now; she Is less than
nothing to me-nay tbs even worse than
could But oh,sJac.s. I o Y her.I should
love her II I stoodson the gallows and she
stood by to spring the drop and turn me
on,
Truly, IL the lash of remorse had lacked.
Its keenest thong, this passionate out
burst of his would hav added 1t. Meme
the less. / must needs be weake than
water and fall back another step N put;
him off.
Another time, Richard. I am strange
" unnerved and diszy-headed now. BY
and by, when / m stronger, I will tell
o ALL"
Taking a reproach where rome was,
meant, he sprang up with q ~self-ain,ed
madison upon his lack Of care for me,
stirred the fire alive and brewed me a
most delicious smelling cup OF broth. And
afterward, when I had drInk 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.
any rate, you shall not talk he
promised. IF you are wakeful I will talk
to you and tell you what little I have
CLEANED about the fighting"
His news was chiefly a later repetition
of Father Matthew's and Captain Abram
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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 encanped on Deep river, waiting for
the newly appointed general; and Caswell.
were already pressing onward to some
handgrips with my Lord CORVALLIS in the
south.
Nearer at hand, the partizan war-fire
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 and 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 Jennifer
house, and while they affected to hold me
at parole. I never ave consent to that,
and so was kept a prisoner. They shut
me in the wine-bin with a guard, n
when the fellow was we'll soaked and
silly, I bound and gagged him and broke
jail. 7 took the river for 1t, meaning to
outlie until the hue and cry was over; and
j,3Sf of 1y,Slr 1Ipca rnnlaa HrnnnaH lfn0n me
and told me Of your need. From that tc
helping him cut you out of your rattle
with the Cherokees was but a hands turn
in the days work.
"a lucky turn for me-" I said; and then
at second thought I would deny the say
ing. though not for him to hear. But this
was dangerous ground again, and I
clawed off from it like a desperate mari
ner tempest-driven on q lee shore; asking
him how he had learned the broadsword
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. I told you how
I was out with the minute men in '76 at
Moore's creek. where we fought the
S~cotchman. 1t was our first pitched bat
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?'' I would ask, being
as little familiar with the low country
settlement as any native-born Carolinian
could be.
They were expatriates for the nre-
tenders sake, many of them. Mistress
flora's husband was one of the prisoners
we TOOK. But- as T was Ga wing tbeJ r-aro.
tories to a man, and they fought wicked
ly. When 1t was over, the prisoners
would AVE 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 field. 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-these 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" I said; ito makes
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 T
know Of the claymore play; and this stout
old blade is his. TITS as good as a wood
mans ak when you nave the knack of
swinging it."
Truly" said I. "Also, you seemed to
have the knack, and the strength as wen.
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
YOU be like to deal the gentler with a
wounded man. Blu how came you 10
know"
Continued Next Week.)
Two of a Kind.