The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-19

among the bystanders. being fresh com,
from the night without to the glare o
candle-iisht within: II while tn,
Swart-faced colonel piled him Will
questions I had n chance TO look him
up and down. Though his arm was still
in its sling, he was seemingly the bet.
ter OF his wound. There was a glow OF
health and strength returning in cheek
ard eye. and l thought him handsomei
than ever what time he stood forth
boldly and confronted the bullying
olonel.
Knowing the Jennifer stock and Its
fine scoru of subterfuse, l feared II
would go hard With Richard: and so
indeed. it had gone. lacking a word ir
season from an enemy. When Tarieton
would have him choose between the
taking of the kings oath and captivity
in the hulkS at Charleston. a burly Hes.
sian captain at the table spoke the word
in season.
"Nerdammt. mine Colonel; l viii
know dis Mr.. Yennifer. He is a prave
yoong schalavass. and he is not gone
out nit der rebels. Give him to me
for mine plumbers"
The colonel laughed and showed his
teeth. HAVING one man to hang he
could afford to be lenient with another.
What Will o do with him. Gap
tail Lauswoulter? BY the look OF
him he'd make but Indifferent sausage
meat"
Vat shall do nit him? l shall
make him mine best bows and send him
home. Ply Colt! We did had some lid
die roubles nit der cards, and Ven
mine foot was slipped on dis verdammt
greasegrass, he did not run me trough
so like lie might"
"Oh; an affair of honor? Well. We'll
count that in his favor. Take him
away, Trelawny. and quarter yourself
and twenty men upon him at Jennifer
House. o have your parole. Mr.. Jen-
infer; but by the Lord. if YOU break it
by So much as a wink or a nod. Ire
lawny will hang you to your w ridge
pole"
Given a hearing, Jennifer would hay
spoiled it all by swearing hotly he had
given no parole, but at the word the
colonel roared him down like IA u Of
Bashan. and in the hubbub my brave
lad was hustled out.
Though l vas full to bursting with
my news there was nothing l could
do; and when it was fairly over he was
gone. l was right glad he had not
seen me. For l knew we'll his steel
true loyalty. and that at sight of me in
trouble he would have lost his slender
chance of guarded liberty. and With it
my last hope of sending word across
Vic iiioaiiSaIliS, liIodSi, GS lol lcil lllC
hope was we'll night dead at any rate.
While Jennifer's guard and quota
We're mounting at the door the aide-de-
camp returned. and that without the
baronet l caught but here Il there
a word of his report; enough to gather
that the captain-knight was not yet
in from posting out the sentries.
1 made no doubt his absence was de-
signed. He would nave Margery be-
lieve that he had spared me honorably
as an enemy wounded, and so had left
me to the tender merices of his colonel,
well assured that Tarleton would not
spare me. And this the colonel did
not mean to do, as l was not to hear
in brief.
Ireton. but tits to no purpose. this
time" he began. Ills charged against
you that you rode here from the baron's
camp with your commission in your
pocket, and came and went within our
lines like any other spy o are a
soldier, sir, and you know that's hang
ing. Yet l will hear you ii you've any
thing to say"
l made so sure that / should hang in
any case that it seemed foolish to an
swer, n so l saved my breath. With
al he was the terror of our Southland.
this tyrant colonel gave me time to
consider: n while he waited, grim and
silent the candles on the table guttered
and ran down, and the dim light
failed till l could no longer see the
face of her l loved framed in the arch
way of the stair.
thought it hard that l had seen my
last of her sweet face thus through
t~hickening shadows, as a dream might
fade. Nevertheless, 1 would be glad
that I had seen her thus, since other
wise, l thought. 1 must have gone With
Ot,t tlts, lnrf ~ n ~, Otl,n, ~i-1t - L~-
1t was While l was still st-aining my
eyes for one more glimpse of her. and
while the court room silence deepened
dense upon us like the shadows, that
Colonel Tarleton signed to those who
guarded me. a han was laid upon
my shoulder, but when l would have
turned to go With them a woman's cry
cut sharp into the Stiffness. Then. be-
fore anyone could say a word or think
a thought, my dauntless little lady
stood beside me, her eyes alight and all
her glorious beauty heightened in a
blaze of generous emotion.
For shame! Colonel Ta%rleton." she
cried. D you come thus into my ia
TIERS house and take a wounded guest
and hang him? You say he is a spy,
but that he can not be, for he has lain
abed in this same u a month or
more. You shall not hang him!"
AT this there was a mighty stir about
the table. as you may guess: and some
| would smile, and some would huff the
candles for a better sight of her sweet
face. And through it all. the while my
heart went neal to bursting at this
fresh proof of her most fearless loyalty,
1 ground my teeth in wrath that all
those men should look their fill and
say by wink and nod and covert smile
that his We're somewhat more thar
hostess loyalty.
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