Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-02-21

enough to hold up all creation. fur the
minute you begun to mount all four
of them overweights at our house would
start after you, an they'd stick to you
ef they saw you on the climb-they
would ef they fell an smashed the'rsels
into a jelly. Huh! I'd a run fol
president myself long ago, but l don''
Ike the idea O. them three In low
neck an short sleeves helpin' men my
wife shake hands in the white house
with the whole shootin.match o big
Ikes."
Ronald gave up the discussion. His
brothers coarse allusion to his mother
and sisters failed to appeal to his sense
of humor. He was thinking of Evelyn
Hasbrooke's patrician features and 1.-THE
form-of her exquisite refinement and
delicate sympathy. BY this time the
two brothers had almost reached their
home; they could see tine sagging roof
OF their fathers house. Half mile fur
ther on in the gathering dusk loomed
the white walls and lighted windows OF
Carnleigh. At this point the dull,
steady beat Of horses hoofs fell on
their ears.
ats the Hasbrooke gang" an
nounced David,
Ronald's heart sank like a plummet.
He had hoped to res 81 home before
the party overlook him. He reproached
himself for the feeling, but he shrank
from being seen by Evelyn and her
friends In company with one as H.
clothed as his brother. David stepped
70 the side of the road and stood open
mouthed, to see the trap and horses
pass, but Ronald, without looking back,
simply kept on his way. He had made
up his mind that he bould not doff his
hat, as he knew David would, like the
peasant he was. He heard a woman's
voice singing a plantation melody. ac-
companied by q mellow bass. He de-
cided that the woman's voice had a
harsh quality which could not have be.
lopged to Evelyn's, although he had
never heard her sing. The vehicle was
Just behind him. He heard his broth
er shouting out shrill warning, and
was turning to see what had occasioned
it., wher the horses brushed by him, the
front wheel of the trap striking the
hand which held the basket, dashipg 1t
10 the ground and scattering It's con-
tents over the sand. He heard Evelyn
scream out In terror from her seat be-
side Capt. Wrinkle, who was driving. and
saw her desperately pulling on his
arm.
The vehicle drew up a few yards
away, and 1t looked as If the driver was
going to offer some apology, but see
ing that Ronald was still or his feet,
Wrinkle vigorously applied the whip to
the horses and drove on rapidly. David
ran up and began to pick up the fallen
articles.
"By Joe, you had n close shave" he
grunted. ~ lowed once you was a
dead goner.'
He had put all the things back into
the basket, when he noticed for the
first time the awful white look Oh Ron
AIDS face.
"Why. what's the matter?" he asked.
did II hurt you?"
Ronald was slowly rubbing a bleed
ing hruise on the back of his hand, but
he seemed not to be thinking Of It.
HE drove against Inc on purpose" he
said, the words seeming 10 come from
far down in his thro n-"deiiberately
on purpose, tell YOU"
do you reckon SO, Ron?"
81 know it!".
David gazed at hilc steadily for q
moment, then he remarked:
"To tell you the truth, Ron. l thought
so myself. You see, ! was behind; he
kept the hosses squar in the road till
he passed me, an then seed i'm pull
like all possessed on the left rein. But
why don't you come on? You know it's
late an the old man fuses when we are
late"
Still our hero stood rubbing his hand
and staring in front OF him. When he
finally spoke, his voice quivered and
sounded unnatural.
~ shall never rest till have resent
ed It," he said, as II communing with
himself. 81 could not live and take that
off any man alive"
"Oh, come off" said his companion,
You don't really mean you will take
i'm to taw about it,"
~ certainly mean nothing else"
David laughed. Hen you is differ
ent In sech things, Ron. Now ef fe!-
ler O. my own sort gets on the back
O. my neck an pulls hair to blow his
nose OH, politely invite i'm down to
see which has the most grit, me or
him, an ef man who amt my equal
"a buck niger for instance---dares to
give me any'o' his lip, jest knock m
down an wash my hans, but law me!
! hain't no han to pick difficulties
with the big rich. never knowed no
body to do II that didn't come out at
the little end O. the horn with their
clothes drug or. A feller like that
souint-eyedf dude will jest set up in
court au' look tired when he swe irs
out case agin you FUR assault an
battery, an all the good lawyers in
town will huddle round him like q
passle O ants round dead doodle
bug. The court will have obliged to
appoint some new beginner to defend
you an thar you are-the laughin'
stock O. the whole layout. No, I'll
take a lot .offn one o that sort fore
I'll gil up scrap with m"
They were moving on now, and Ron
aid p,ade no comment on what his
brother was saying. The fire Of his
angry heart still burned in his eyes and
his chin was quivering helplessly. That
night he sat only for 3 moment at the
supper table, and then, unnoticed by
the others, he went UP to his little room
under the sloping roof and lighted his
lamp. Four or five new magazines lay
unopened on his table, but he did not
look at them.
About ten o'clock, when the house
was still, Dave crept up the rickety
stairs softly, SO as not to disturb hiI
father, who was light sleeper, and
was about to turn into his own room