Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-29
HORSE SHOE
ROBINSON
A Tale of the Revolutionary Struggle In
Upper Carolina.
BvJOHN p. KENNEDY.

sired assistance. LINDSAY "oulo
had been already staunched, and all
that remained to be done was to put
him in some place of shelter and COM
fort. A cottage at the foot of the
mountain was pointed out by Camp
bell; a litter was constructed and the
sick man was borne upon the shoulders
of four attendants to the designated
spot. Meantime, Campbell rode off to
communicate the discovery he had
made to Mildred and her brother.
tindsay's story, since we last parted
from him, may be briefly told. He and
Tyrrel had journeyed into the low
country Of Virginia, to meet the friends
OF the royal government. These had
wavered, and were not to be brought
together A delay ensued, during
which Tyrrel had prevailed upon Lind
say to extend his journey into North
Carolina; whence, after an ineffectual
effort to bring the Tory party to some
decisive step they both returned to the
Dove Cote, having been nearly three
weeks absent.
Upon their arrival, affecting intelli-
gence met Lindsay Of the departure OF
Mildred and her brother for the seat
of war. Mildred's letter was delivered
to him; and it's contents almost struck
him dumb. 1t related the story Of Ar
thur Buffers misfortunes and an
nounced, that, for nearly a year past,
Mildred had been the welded wife OF
the captive officer. The marriage had
been solemnized in the preceding au-
tumn, in a hasty moment, as Butler
travelled south to join the army. The
only witnesses were Mistress Dimock,
under whose roof It had occurred,
Henry Lindsay, and the clergyman.
The motives that induced this mar
riage were explained; both Mildred
and Arthur hoped by this irremediable
step, to reconcile Lindsay to the event,
and to turn his mind from its unhappy
brooding; the increased evaporation
Of his feelings, during the succeeding
period, prevented the disclosure which
Mildred had again and again essayed
to make. The recent dangers which
had beset Arthur Butler, had deter
mined her to fly to his rescue. AS his
wife she felt it to be her duty, and she
had, accordingly, resolved to encounter
the peril of the journey.
For a day or two after the perusal
of this letter, Lindsay fell into deep
melancholy. His presentiments SEEM
ed to have been fatally realized, and
his hopes suddenly destroyed. From
this dependency, Tyrrels assiduous
artifice aroused him. He proposed to
Lindsay the pursuit Of his children, in
the hope of thus Turing him into Corn
wallis's camp, and connecting him with
the fortunes Of the war. The chances
of life. he reasoned, were against
Butler, if indeed, as Tyrrel had ground
to hope that officer were not already
the victim Of the snares that had been
laid for him.
Upon this advice, Lindsay had set
out for Cornwallis's headquarters,
where he arrived within a week after
the interview Of Mildred and Henry
with the British chief.
Whilst he delayed here, he received
the tidings that his daughter had
abandoned her homeward journey and
turned aside in quest Of Butler. This
determined him to continue his pur-
suit. Tyrrel still accompanied him;
and the two travellers having arrived
at the moment of the attack upon
Kings Mountain, Lindsay was persuad-
ed by his companion to make the rash
adventure which, we have already
seen, had been the cause of his pres
ent misfortune.
It is not my purpose to attempt a
description of the scene in the cottage,
where Arthur Butler and his wife and
Henry, first saw Lindsay stretched up
on rude pallet. and suffering the an
guish of a dangerous wound. 1t is suf-
ficient to say that, in the midst
of the deep grief Of the bystand-
ers, Lindsay was composed and tram
quill, like one who thought it vain to
struggle with fate. Il have foreseen
this day, and felt it's coming" he NUT
tered, in a low and broken voice: 1T
has happened as 1t was ordained.
have unwisely struggled against my
doom. There take it," he added, as
he stretched forth his hand to Butler,
and in tones scarcely audible breathed
out, God bless you, my children!
forgive you."
During the night fever ensued, and
with it came delirium. The patient
acquired strength from his disease,
and raved wildly, in a strain familiar
to his waking superstition. The same
vision of fate and destiny haunted his
imagination; and he almost frightened
his daughter from beside his couch,
with the fervid eloquence Of his mad
ness.
The cottage was situated near half
mile from the encampment of the
army. Towards daylight, Lindsay had
sunk into a slumber. and the attend
ant surgeon began to entertain hopes
that the patient might successfully
struggle with his malady. Mildred
and Mary Musgrove kept watch in the
apartment, whilst Butler with Horse
Shoe Robinson and Allen MusgroVe,
remained anxiously awake in the ad-
Joining room: Henry Lindsay, wearied
with the tolls of the preceding day,
and old Isaac the negro, not so much
from the provocatiOn of previous LABOR
as from constitutional torpor lay
stretched in deep sleep upon the hoor'
Such was the state of things when
near sunrise, a distant murmur reach-
ed the ears of those who were awake
in the cottage. These sounds attract
ed the notice of Horse Shoe, who I'M
mediately afterwards stole out OF the
apartment and repaired to the camp
During his walk thither the uproar be-
came more distinct, and shouts We're
heard from a crowd of soldiers whe were
discovered i'm a confused and agitated
mass i'm the valley, at some distance
from the encampment. The sergeant
hastened to this spot, and, upon his
arrival, was struck with the shocking
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