Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-01-23

move her to Charleston, where, secure
amidst assiduous friends, she would
pass the brief interval of alarm, and
leave you free to act on this theatre
as your honor and duty may impe
you"
Mildred will not leave me-" said
Lindsay; "my dear daughter would
suffer a thousand deaths in the anx.
iety of such a separation"
Then why not accompany her to
Charleston" asked Tyrrel. "Your
presence there would be equally eff
cient as at headquarters-perh
more so.'
There are other obstacles, Mr..
Tyrrel. You talk Of Mildred as If her
heart were to be disposed Of at my
have long struggled to subdue an at
tachment that has bound her to our
worst enemy, I fear with little sue
cess. I have trusted to time to wear
out what 1 deemed a mere girlish lik-
ing; but it seems to me the traces fade
but slowly from her heart.
'T know Of whom you speak," said
Tyrrel-"that hair-brained enthusiast
Butler. 1t Is freakish and transient
passion, and cannot but fall into for
getfulness. Miss Lindsay, has from
circumstances been but little con-
versant with the world, and, like an
inexperienced girl, has fostered in SOL
itude a romantic affection. That alone
should be a motive to remove her into
a buster scene. Besides, this Butler
will be himself forced to give over
his hopeless aim-if he has not done
so before this; measures are already
taken and do not scruple to tell you,
at my instance-to conflscate his
lands in Carolina to his majesty's use.
The close Of this war will find him
penniless, and not unlikely, my dear
sir, I myself may be the possessor
of his inheritance have some
pledge Of the pre-emption Of these
lands at small fee."
1T will win you no favor with Mil
dred," said Lindsay, ITO tell her that
you succeed by such little to this
mans wealth. She is a wayward
girl, and is not used to crosses. Her
devotion to her purpose, as it some
times excites my admiration, gives
me, in the present case, cause Of pro-
found alarm"
you have spoken to her on this
subject?"
81 have not" replied Lindsay, land
almost fear to broach 1t. I can, there
fore, give you no encouragement.
Some little time hence-perhaps to-
morrow may sound her feelings.
But remember, as her father, I claim
no right beyond that Of advice. I
shall think myself fortunate If, by
giving a new direction to the current
Of her affections, I can divert her
mind from the thoughts of an alliance
to me the most hateful-to her full
of future misery. A maiden's fancies
are scarcely ineligible even to a
father '' ..'... ... g.. ''->.-. = --'.
"These subjects require medita-
tion," said Tyrrel. Il will not press
them further upon your thoughts to-
night"
Heaven guide us in the way Of
safety and happiness!" said Lindsay,
almost in a whisper Good night
my friend"
When Tyrrel was left alone he
strolled forward to the terrace and
passing round to that end which over
hung the cliff, near the door that
opened from the library he lean
ed his breast upon the parapet and
looked down upon the wild and beau
tiful scenery Of the valley. The night
was calm and full Of splendor. The
tops of the trees that grew in the ra-
vine, almost perpendicularly beneath
his eye, here and there caught the
bright moonbeam where 1t glowed like
silver, and the shades, rendered deeper
by the contrast, seemed to brood over
a black and impenetrable abyss. Oc-
casional gimpses were seen of the
river below, as 1t sparkled along such
portions of it's channel as were not
| hidden in darkness. The GOODNESS of
the hour and the solitude Of the spot
were not ungrateful to the mood of
Tyrrers mind whilst the monOtonOus
music Of the river fell pleasantly up
on his ear. He was not unheedful of
these charms in the scene, though his
I.t- h,,cf Il q
subject foreign to their contempla
ton.
Have I advanced" was the tenor
Of his present self-communion, 1.-The
purpose I have so much at heart, by
this nights conference? Could l but
engage Lindsay in the issues Of this
war, so commit him in its purposes
and it's plots as to render his future
residence at the Dove Cote insecure,
then would l already have half COM
passed my point. Where could he
remove but to Charleston? And there
amidst the Establishments of friends
and the allurements Of gay society, /
might make sure of Mildred. There,
cut off from all means or nearing OF
this Butler and swayed, as she must
necessarily be, by the current of loyal
feeling. she would learn to detest his
foul rebellion, and soon lose her favor
for the rebel Then, too, the confisca-
ton of his lands-but l am not so
sure of that.-she is rich and would
make a merit of sharing her fortune
with a man whose brave resistance of
oppression-for so. doubtless, Butler
persuades her 1t is-has cost him his
wealth: the confiscation should not
seem, at least to be my doing. Well
WELL let her be brought to Charles
ton. Any change were better than to
remain here, where anxiety and sus-
pense and solitude nurse and soften
her womans affections, and teach
her to fancy her lover whatsoever
her imagination delights to think
on. Then may not the chances
of war assist me? This Butler,
all men say, Is brave and ad-
venturous He should be short-lived.
Whatever i'll may befall him cannot