The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-05-04
BY Fraaess Iyrsas.

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4 Whereby IN u wnmaNlS heart h
seemed 40 stand at Win foa that whiel
ne was }.ot.
3, As / have said, I knew hin wel
!, enough; Knew him iucapaNle OF Tow
apart from passion. and hat 10 hin
there S5aS no s~acred1cSS IN fnatdel
> chastity or wife}y vows, So he hi
gained as y .ae cared no Whit MIA
followed AFTER, cujn. broken hearts, los
sa3>S, q man slam now and toea TO kee1
: the scale ttpping-aN were as one Il
him. or 10 the Francis ~Eaieonnet
knew,
Ana touching marriage. witk Mar,
gerry or any otheu. ] feared tha@ love
woold have no word TO say. Passion
there might he, ana that fierce desire q
have and wear which burns like s
I nliSer's fever IN tha blood; u never
love as lovers measure it Why. then
had ne proposed 10 Margery2 The an.
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Ss3t & sG~t.1fesT1aR volunteer Ii WIS pfafT
that he Mad sauaRdered his estate. an6
50 might brook the marriage chain II
IT were linked UP with my fathers
acres.
Ii was a bait 20 lure such q gameSter
strongly, AS matters stood with Us in
that wan summer OF exhaustion and
defeat. The Kings cause waxrd and
7 -t>N A@tR A'RPSt"l nay HE t"S fN'lS lf
event of final victory q landleSs
ba.onet. marrying MarssrS's dover OF
Appleby Hundred, might snap his
fingers at The Jews who, happy. had
driven him forth from England.
And as for Margery2 Truly, She had
told me-, or as good as told me, that her
maiden love had pledged Itself a pawn
for JeDnifev's rcosenlnS. Sut there be
other things thar love ts sway a wom-
ans will This volunteer captain with
the winning way was OF the hants
nobiesse. and he could make her Lady
FalconDct. Moreover, he was with her
day by day. ana o may mark This as
you Will, that a present suitoT hath
ever .he I'M cards 80 play against
the absent over.
So. b%rooding V { this, l wore out Two
most dismal days-the first in many L
had had to pass alone. But on The
morning of the third the sky vas light
ened. though then the light was but a.
flash n darkness followed quickly
after. She came again and brought ME
n visitor; 1t was this same Father Mat
tlieu with whom she had ieStingly
compared me. n lest l should take my
punishment too lightly. stayed but to
make the good priest known to me.
Now 1 was born and bred an hereto,
by any papist's reckoning, but l have
ever held it witless in that man who
lets a creed obstruct q friendship.
Moreover. this sweet-saced cleric was
the friendliest of men; friendly, and yet
the widest Jesuit of them all, since he
read me at a glance ard fell straight
way to praising Margery.
"A truly sweet young demoiselle,' he
said, by way of foreword. no sooner
was the door closed behind her, and
while ne preached q sermon on this text
| greT to know and love him.
He was a little man, as o and
muscle go, with deep-set eyes. and fea-
lures kind inc mild and fine as any
woman's; some such face as Leonardo
gave st. John, could that have been less
youthful. l could not tell his order.
though from his well-worn cassock
girded at the waist with {, frayed bit
OF hempen cord he might have been a
Little Brother of the Poor. But this 1
noted; that he was not tCnsured, and
his white hair, soft and fine as Mar
sery's. was like an aureole to the finely
chiSeled features. AS missionary men of
any creed are apt. he looked far older
than he really was; and when he came
to tell me of his life among the Indians,
1t was patent how the years had multi
piled upon him.
1 listened, well enough content to
learn him better by his own report.
But you must find it thankless
work: this gospeling in the Wilderness
[ ventured, when all was said. '+'Tis
but a hermit's life for any man of
parts; and after all, when you have
done your utmost, your converts are
but savages. as they were"
At this he smiled and shook his head.
NO, monsieur, not so. You are a SOL
der and cannot sec beyond your point
OF sword. Mails, mon ami, they have
souls to save, these poor children of
the forest, and they are far mora4sinned
against than SHINING. | find them kind
and true and faithful; and some Of
them are noble, in their way"
i laughed. i've read about these
called .Hakluyt's Volages.' Truly, I
Know them not as you do, for in my
youth knew them most In war. We
called them brave but cruel then; and
when | was a boy I could have shown
you where. within a mile of this, they
burned poor Davie Davidson at the
stake"
All, yes; there has been mucn OF
that" he sighed. But you must con-
fess, Captain Ireton, that you English
carry fire n sword among them, too"
From that he would have told me
more about the savages, but 1 was in
terested nearer home. AS 7 have said;
l was like any prisoner in a dungeon
for lack of news, and SO by degrees r
fetched him round to telling me of
what was going on beyond my Window
sight of lawn and forest.
Brave deeds were to the fore, 1T
seemed. At Ramsour's mill. a few
miles north and west, some little hand
full of determined patriots had bested
thrice their number of the kings par
tisans. and hat without a leader big
ger than a county colonel. Lord Raw
don, In command of Lord Corn
wallis van, had come as far
as WaXhaW creek, but being
unsupported, had withdrawn to Hang
ing Rock. Our Mr.. Rutherford was on
his way to the Forks of Yadkin to en-
gage the Tories gathering under Colo
mel Bryan. AS yet, it seemed, we had
no force Of any consequence to take
the field against CORVALLIS, though
there We're flying runors Of an army
marching from Virginia, With a new
appointed general at its head.
On b whole it wassthe kings cause
that prospered, and the rising wave OF
invasion bade fair to inundate the land.
So thought my kindly gossip; and, hay
ling naught to gain or lose in the great
war, or ather having naughts to lose
and everything to gain, whichever way
these worldly cards might u n he was
a fair, impartial witness.
As you may we'll suppose, this news
awoke in me the lust of battle, and !
must chafe h more for having 1t,