Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-12


highest tree; the wanton murder Of th'
shrieking babe. quieted in its screams
upon the bayonet Of the yelling soldiers
these are the modes by which, re-
pairing one wrong, war does thou
sand greater. Oh, when, calling things
by their right names, shall we discover
that all the glory Of the warrior Is th'
glory Of brutality?"
The picture which the enthusiastic
girl had given of the terrors OF war
was too felicitously just, as 1t had oc
CURED in Carolina, to be denied BY
her auditor; and as she had herself
made the right distinction between wal
as an absolute necessity, forced upor
people In their defence, and pursued
only so far as adequately to obtair
the mere object Of justice, and war as
a means of national or individual ag-
grandizement or fame, there was nc
legitimate answer to her exhortation
A momentary silence ensued, which
was due to the exhaustion following
her effort at speech. In a little while
she again addressed her brother
And how long, Robert, do you stay
in our neighborhood?"
But a few days more, Emily; lin
ger now somewhat over my time; but
my objects are various and important
| And where then do you go?"
Either to the Santee or the Peedee
wherever there is a chance Of finding
Colonel Marion, to whose brigade an
attached"
And not so easy a matter" sale
Kate Walton. III reports speak truly OF
your colonel He Is here, there, and
everywhere. and they say cannot Otter
be met with either by friend or foe
except when he himself pleases. What
Is 1t Colonel Tarleton calls him."
The Swamp Fox; and a good name
for certainly he knows more Of the
navigation Of the thick swamps OF the
Santee and Peedee, than ever seaman
of the broad ocean. In circuit Of five
miles he will misguide the whole
force of Tarleton for as many days;
| then, while he looks for him In one
quarter, Marion will be cutting up his
foragers or the Tories in another. He
is fearless, too. as we'll as skilful and
in the union Of these qualities he is
more than match, with an equal
force, for any score of the captains
they can send against him."
| AS the major spoke with that warm
enthusiasm Of his commander, which
distinguished the men Of Marion gen.
orally, an audible sigh from his SIS
| ter recalled him to his consideration
and he turned to her with some obser-
vation on an unimportant subject. She
did not seem to heed what he said, but
| after a moments pause, asked, rather
| abruptly. II he should not move first
for the Santee.
II think so." was the reply: "the prob
ability Is that I shall there find my
orders. If indeed, l do not find my
commanding officer. l wait but to full
fill some important duties here, when
I shall move direct in that quarter"
And when, Robert, do you expect
to return?" was the farther inquiry
put with considerable earnestness OF
danner.
IN three or four weeks, Emily; not
before, and probably not even then;
for I may be ordered to join the con-
| tinentals. on Gatess arrival, and shall
then have a more limited range and
exercise than now"
That will be too late, too late!'
murmured the maiden with an ex-
preston of deep regret.
TOO late for what, dear Emily?'
said the major quickly, in reply; but
when he met her glance, and saw the
mournful utterance which 1t looked
he needed no answer to this question
| Never did eye more explicitly speak
than hers. and he turned his own away
to conceal its tears.
ITO late to see me die!" she muir
| mured as he bent his head downward
concealing his face in the folds OF her
encircling arms. "Ah, Robert! l leave
you, but not lonely l hope-not alto
yether alone" Her eye rested upon
the face OF Kate Walton, as she uttered
this hope: and though her brother
saw not the look, yet the cheeks OF
the conscious Kate so silently yet ex-
pressively appealed to, were deeply
crimsoned on the instant. She turned
away from the couch and looked
through the window opening upon the
waters of the Ashley. which would at
| a little distance beyond them, stealing
off. like u creation OF the fancy, under
the close glance of the observer. Her
fingers played all the while with the
branches of the oak that rose immedi-
ately beside the window.
Emily then intimated to her brother
her increasing debility, the necessity
Of her own repose and Of his depart
ure. with a calmness which was per-
feet, and painfully appalling to him in
consequence.
But come to me tomorrow, tomor-
row nlSnt, ROBERT, coine early "'u'u
speak with you: have much to say
| to you. and feel that have but little
time to say II in. Fail me not. unless
there be hazard. and then heed not my
desire. You must risk nothing, ROD
ert: your life Is more valuable to me-
| strange to say, as my own Is leaving
me. l know its value, as l am now
about to be taught its loss. But GO
now-and remember tomorrow"
His grief and her farewell were alike
voiceless. He pressed her cold cheek
| with his lips at parting; then, like
one who had left behind him all his
consciousness. he descended with his
| beautiful cousin from that sad but sa-
cred apartment, where life still linger-
I'd, neutrallZing decay with It's latent
freshness. but where immortality al
ready seemed to have put on some hue
of that eternal morning, whose bloom
| and whose freshness speak not only
for it's lasting existence. but for Its
holy purity.
| ITO he COntlnued)