The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-04-13
CHATTER II.
WHICH hNITS UP SOME BROKEN
ENDS.

CHAPTER II.
WHICB FNITS UP SOME BROKEN
ENDS. ...
II was II the autumn OF the year ga,
as "A ! was coming of age, that my ia
fheF made ready to send me to Eng
ihfrU. himself a conscience exile from
Episcopal Virginia, and u descendant
OF those Nottingham IretonS whose
best known son fought Stoutly against
church and King under Oliver Crom-
well. bic was yet willing to humor my
bent and 10 use the interest of my
mothers family 10 enter me in the
kings service.
Accordingly. | o ship at Norfolk
Tor home as we called it in those
days; and. after Il stormy passage and
ovsrTnuch waiting as my cousins
guest in Lincolnshire, had my pair of
color in the Scots Blues. lately home
from garrison duty in the Canadas.
OF the life in barracks OF n young
ensign with little wit and lcrs wisdom.
and with more guineas in his purse
than was good for him, the less said
the bette. But of this you may like TO
know that, what with a good fathers
example, and some small heritage Of
Puritan decency come down to me
from The sound-hearted old Round
head stock. | won out of that devils
sponging- house, an army in the time
oE peace, WIN somewhat less 10 my
score than others had to theirs.
1t was in this barrack life that I
came 10 know Richard Covcrdale and
his evil genius, the man Francis Gov
srdafe- CoVerdale vas an ensign in my
own regiment, and we were sworn
friends from the first. His was a clean
soul and brave: and it was to him that
L oWede escape from many of the grosser
on that score above named.
As for Falconnet, he was even then n
rufffer and q bully, though he was not
OF the army He was a Younger son,
and at that time there were two lives
between him and the ~baronetcy; but
with y mothers he%a"eathinSs to pur-
a idieness and to gid his iniquities
ne was q fair example of the %jeunesse
sioree of thai England; a libertine, a
gamester, a rakehell; brave as the tiger
is brave, to the full as pitiless.
He was n boon companion of the Off
GERS mess, and for Il time-and pur-
p~ose-posed as Corerdale's friend, and
mime.
Since I would not tell my poor Dicks
story 10 Richard Jennifer. / may not
set 1T down in cold words here for you.
1t Was The age-old tragic comedy Of
Il false friends treachery and a wom-
ans Weakness; a duel. and the wrong
man slain. MI you may know this.
that FNalconnet's most merciful role in
I ~ III t,ttil lie lliSeu one CIlll NO
Nember morning when he put Richard
Covertiale to the wall and ran him
through.
As o have guessed, I was Cover
dafe's next friend aud second in this
affair, and but for the upsetting news
OF the Tyron tyranny in Carolina
news which reached me on the very
day of the m~eeting--I should there and
then have called the slayer to Isis ac-
count.
How my father who, Presbyterian
and Treton though he was, had always
been Of b kings side, came to espouse
the cause Of the Regulators as they
called themselves, / know not. In my
youthful memories of him he figures as
the feudaf lord of his own domain.
more absolute than many CT the petty
akfnglings ] am afterward to know III
the German marches. But this, too.
I remember. that while his rule at APP
Gpteby Hundred was stern and despotic
enough, he was ever ready to lend a
willing ear to anya tale of oppression.
And If what men say of the tyrant Ty-
ron's tax gatherers and law court rob
hers be nj more than half truth. there
was need for any honest gentleman to
oppose them.
What that opposition came to in II
is Il tale twice told. Taken in
arms against the governors authority,
AAhlN& I'LL q WCii fCCSIN .
Ing, my father had little justice and
less mercy accorded him. With many
others he was outlawed: his estates
Were declared forfeit: and a few days
later he. with Benjamin Merrill and
four more captivated at the A.lamance.
WAS given some farce OF a trial and
hanged.
When the news of this came to me
Yen neay eaell suppose hat had no
heart 10 continue in the service of the
king who could sanction and reward
such Villainies as these OF the butcher,
William Tyran. So ] threw up my lieu
tenants commission lin the Blues. took
sssfip for the continent, and, after wear
anss some half dozen different uniforms
In Germany. was lucky enough to come
mt length to serviceable blows under
my old field marshal on the Turkish
frontier.
70 you q a younger generation,
horn IN the day of swift mail coaches
and well kent post roads, the slowress
with which u laggard news travelled
In that elder, time must needs seem past
belief. II was early in the year 10
before 4 hasan2to rear more han vague
ssssnlp-tre tales of the struggle going
on between the colonies and the mother
coGn1t--J md from that TO setting foot
S5asyss more upon the soil Of my native
Carolina was still another YEAR.
What found upon landing at New
Berne and saw while riding Il jog-trot
IhGnce "a the CataWba Was a province
rent and torn by partisan Warfare.
ssEhough / came not upon h partisans
themselves ID all that long faring,
thess. we're tsilnlpled fields a.ii8 pillaged
hpIlses efasssgh to serve as ,ailestones.
and In my native Meelsenhusg Il mine
full CHARGED. With SLOW iiatch we'll
aiight fas Its firing.
Charleston had fallen. asd Colonel