Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-30
THE MASTER OF APPLEbY
{-- BY FrAnco Lynds =--==--=
BY Francio Lynde.

/ which trade he had been bred.
The hint of srossness which his fig
4 uic gave WAS not borne out by his face.
Like my Lord Cornwalis his eyes
We're womanish large. and nose and
mouth and thu l!ft of the brow We're
cast in mold 10 match; yet there was
I thai in his face which made it the mask
OF Il soul thoughtful and serene. and
his ruddy complexion and fair hair
gave him Il look OF openncss that
4 dark man is like to miss
\ skilled soldier, with q good prom
Use OF strenuous patience, WAS my sum
4 ming w of him, and DICK s;lw him as
did, though with tnurc prophetic
4 eye
"lfo viii make his mark. .I4ick, look
yol:nol in stubborn in-iighting at the
barrier. loisynap, like Dan Morgan, nor
I in Il brilliant dash. like our colonel. bat
I IN his own ancllorsmith's Wsly;l heat
4 At II time, and n blow ut il time, said
Jellnifer; and ! nodded.
Sti'rup to stlrup with the new COM
lnantier as he passed down the line
rode Dan More N, biz, strong, MASTER
full handsome, the v@ly pick and choice
of leaders for his rough and ready rifle
men. Like most of his men he scorned
To wear Il uniform, Appearing on parade
as in The field, in !, neat lifting hunting
shirt OF Indian tanned bucksliin With
| frin2ings of thu salnc-;l costume that
/
fine coat could have set it off.
When he pusicd his horse down to
make it keep step with the sed;lter
pacings of the generals, we could hear
MIN declaring, with an oath. tina: his
Eleventh Virginia alone would give Il
good account Of all the tories between
| the catawba aad the Broad and when
the c;iNalcade passed the rifle corps. the
men Hung thc.1' hats ;nd cheercd their
lcader in open defiance of an discipline
An me. they tell me that in after
yc&rs this stout Daniel, the Lion
bcardel," as we used 10 dub him, he
came a doGticTiass old man, even ms thy
old lale-telle,T Is now that lie put off
IN his roistc.ina ways and might be
found amy Lords Day shouting, no
oiiiseS. ~, of gore, but psalm tunes. in
the church whereof he WAS Il pillar.
liut twas the other Daniel we knew:
the bluff hearty man of his two hands,
who could punncl the best boxer in his
own regiment OF fistcuffors: who could
out recourse, out buffet and out drink
| the h;,rdcs. frnnticrsman on The Dor
dor.
Next conspicuous i'm the generals,
suit was our colonel. the pink of light
horse commanders with only Harry
Lee i'm all the patriot rank and file for
his peer. lis a thousand parties that
William Washing pn, the Marcclus of
the army" has had to suffer the eclipse
which must dim the luster of
all who walk i'm the shadow
of Il greater of the same
name. For surely there never was a
finer gentleman. Il trucr friend, a mo-
bier patriot, or, according TO his oppor-
tunities, ADLER officer than was our
beloved colonel of the light dragons
But this is all beside the mark YOU
Viii Say; and YOU will be cl;.ting rest
| ively to know how Dick and had come
together IN This troop of Colonel Wash
ingtons; to know this i'm 4, word and
70 pass on at q gallon 10 the happenings
which followed. Nay. in fancy's eye 1
lean see You turning the page impa-
4 tiently. wondering whore and when
;,nd how this tresome old word-spin-
| her will make AN end.
rs Marsery had promised, l passed
out of my garnet prison and out of door
Aor the memorable evening of October
i IA To find the British gone from Char
4 lotto and the town iubilant with patri-
otto joy.
4 Having nothing to detain me. and
being hound i'm honor by the wish of
my daar lady not to follow and give
lrnysef up TO the retre;iting British
general, | took horse and rode to Sails
bury where had the great good for
4 tune 30 find Dick, already lDreveted u
captain in Colonel Waslhingtors COM
mand, huirying his troop souiliward to
whip nn the British withdrawal.
4 Iicra Was my chance 10 drown heart
burnir.s i'm m onsWceping tide of ;ic-
ton, and then and there became II
gentleman volunteer i'm Dicks com
pany. asking nothing of my dear lasl
save that might ride 1T his stirrup
and share his hazards.
Touching the hazards. there We're
plenty of them i'm the seven weeks pre-
redill:s and the month on more follow
ing our new generals coming to take
the field. as YOU may knew in detail il
you care to follow the galnpings OF
Colonel Washington's horse trools
1 through the pages of the histories. Blit
thc}e. have little or n;tlght To do with
my tale. aud | pass them by With the
word YOU will anticipate; that i'm all
the dashcs and fGrays and brushes with
the eneny's forasing parties and out
posts no British on Tory bullet could
find its billet in the man who was
ell4motnd OF DEATH
AS for my most miserable entansle-
inent, The lapse of time made it neither
better nor worse, nor greatly different:
and ths,rc Was little in al the skirins,il :
ings and gallopings 10 beat off the
handns of conscience. or that other and
still fereer wild beast of starved love,
til;d sllwefl at me day and night.
Though the hope for some easement
would nuW and then lift its head, | MAS
reminded daily that hope itself was
hopeless; and when the days length
c!ied into weeks and the weeks into
months. bringing no salving for the
double hll3t l knew chat time could
oriy make mo love Margery the more:
that there he wounds that heal, and
others that open afresh at each rennenn-
i,,lnce OF the hand chat gave them.
one grain of comfort had in all
these drealN weeks. Twas whilst we
We're Q;fmtering in Charlotte, and | had
ii
seipio who had been left by tiilber;
s7t.'1 To be the caretakel Of the Dc
solt~. tnN N house.
As You Viii remember twas he who
had ai@tiGht me the di.ugged tea. am!
NJ word had from him made me hot
M(h shatne tor the erael inipat.ttion |
md fal moon my dear lady. VAS
sai. sib ua ;lecp-drop 10 nalle buetlg,
,n..ss;l boil san twell we could tote
iln froo de window AN roam de
house AM up dc starr. s0ljah sSards
&sttth UNI mighty close dat night; MAS
s;s..f Aif3 thus This nightmare
Thought OF mine WAS turned into am
other thorn 10 prick INC on the self
aeclisiilg side. ''rwils her Keen won-
ans Wt and no coldlilnoded plan &c
,heat the gallows, chat made her give
ne The sleeping draft. Having the NIB
ie,t lesson of my late surra.ifler before
, her She !eitd no MIND TO let me MAJ
, The rescue by waking 10 forbid it. And
hen | t;,%eei her. Twas natuiai pride
chat drove her to let me go on thinking
the unworthy thought if so would.
did penance for nay disloNiiltN as 3
despailing lover might. and | do no,
| think il made me tende"et OF Dick
whose bearing To me through all these
tempestuous weeks was most noiols
/. generous and forgiving. ] say forgiv-
ing because was often but the curst-
est of companions as you would guess
For uhcn | WAS not bent upon finding