The Washington herald., 1909-10-08
Copyright. 1905.
by the
BobbS Merrill 90.

see. the grand Jury in Dilwell County
that's Kildare. you know-has indicted
Appleweight as a common outlaw, but
the grand jurors were all friends OF APP
pleweight, and the Indictment was only to
satisfy law-and-order sentiment and ap-
pease the Woman's Civic League OF RAJ
leigh. Now. papa DOESN'T mean l dom:
want TO offend those Applewelght people
by meddling IN this business. Papa wants
Gov Osborne to arrest Appleweight IN
South Carolina; but I don't believe Gov
Osborne Will dare do anything about e..
Now, Mr. Ardmore, I am not going TO
have papa called a coward by anybody,
particularly By South Carolina people
after what Gov. Osborne said OF our
State"
why. what did he saw"
He said in a speech AZ Charleston
last winter that no people who frv their
meat can ever amount to ANYTHING and
he meant us. / can never forgive him
Tor that; besides, his daughter IS the
stuck-upest thing. And I'd like Bar
para osborne TO tell me how she got
INTO the Colonial Danes, and what call
she mas TO be inspector general OF the
Grehddaughters OF the Mexican War: for
We heard my Grandfather Dangerfield say
many time that old Colonel Osborne
and his South Carolina regiment never
did go outside Of Charleston until the
war was over and the American army
had come back home"
one tiny fist this timel Ardmors was
sure Of It. Her Indignation against the
Osbornes was SO sincere. the pouting pet
ulanee TO which II diminished so like
child's. and the gravity OF the ofrense
so novel in his simple experiences that
Ardmore was bound IN chains before her
speech was finished The little drawl
with which she concluded gave heighten-
ed significance 10 her last words. so
that IL seemed that all the veterans of
the war with Mexico trudged by. bearing
the flag Of North Carolina and no other
banner
Gov. Osborne 10 a contemplate ruff
fan" declared Ardmore with deep feel
ing.
Miss Dangerield nodded judicial ap-
proval and settled back in her chair
the better to contemplate her new sec
Rotary. and said:
I'm a Daughter Of the Confederacy
and a Colonial Dame. What are your"
L suppose you'll never speak 70 me
again; papa sent three expensive sub
sututes 10 the civil war.
Three! Horrlble."
Two Of them deserted. and one fell
into the Potomac on his way South and
was drowned. l guess they didn't do
you folks much harm"
''Wel forgive you that; but what dld
your ancestors DO IN the Revolutlon?"
I'm ashamed 10 say that my great
grandfather was a poor guessor. He died
during Washington's second administra-
ton sull believing the Revolution a fall
ure"
DO YOU speak Of the war OF 1861 as the
rebellion or as the war between the
States? I advise you TO be careful what
you say and Miss Jerry Dangerneld was
severe.
I don't believe I ever mentioned It
either way. so I'm willing to take your
word for H."
The second form IS correct. Mr.. Ard
more. When well-bred Southern people
say rebellion they refer TO the uprising
Of 1776 against the British oppressor."
Good. I'm sure shall never get them
mixed. Now that you are governor what
are you going to do first about Apple
weightg'
I've written-that is 10 say, papa wrote
before he went away. a strong letter to
Gov. Osborne. complaining that Apple
weight was hiding In South Carolina and
running across the State line 20 rob and
murder people IN North Carolina Papa
told Gov. Osborne that he must break up
the Appleweight crowd or he would do
something about IL himself. It's a splen-
did letter; you would even think that even
a coward like Gov. Osborne would do
something after getting such a letter"
Didn't he answer the letter.
Answer e? He never got Il! Papa
didn't send It: that's the reason. Papa s
the kndest man In the world. and ne
must have been afraid OF hurting Gov.
OsbOrne's feelings. He wrote the letter.
expecting TO send II, but when he went
of 20 New Orleans he told Mr.. Bassford
70 hold it till he got back. He had even
signed it-you can read 4 II you like"
IL was undoubtedly a vigorous epistle.
and Ardmore felt the thrill OF rs rhe-
torical sentences as he read. The official
letter paper on which It was typewritten.
and the signature Of William Danger /
field. governor OF North Carolina, affixed
in bold hand. were SOLDERING in them
selves. The dignity and authority Of one
OF the sovereign American States was
represented here. and he handed the pa
per back TO Miss Dangerfield as tenderly
as though IL had been the original draft
of Magma Charta.
IT'S a corker all right"
I don't much like the way Il ends II
says. right here'-and she bent forward
and pointed 10 the place under criticism
1t says: Trusting to your sense of
equity and relying upon a continuance
or the traditional friendship between your
state and mine. 1 am, sir, awaiting your
reply. very respectfully. your obedlent !
I TvfA
sense Of anything. and that traditional
friendship business Is Just fuzzy nonsense.
and l wouldn't DO anybody's obedient
servant. 1 decided when wasn't more
than fifteen years old. with a lot OF other
girls in our school, that when we got
married we'd never say obey. and never
have. though only three Of our class are
married yet, but we'rO all engaged
"Engaged7"
"Of course we're engaged. I'm en-
gagged TO Rutherford GiIlngwater, the
general Of this State. You
couldn't be my private secretary II I
wasn't engaged; It wouldn't be proper"
The earth was only a flying cinder on
which he strove for foothold She had
her engagement TO be married
with a cool finality that took his breath
away; and not realizing the chaos into
which she had flung him. she returned
demurely 20 the matter Of the letter.
We can't change that letter, because
it's signed close to the 'obedient serv-
ant and there's no room. But I'm going
TO put II into the typewriter and add a
She sat down before the machine am
inexpertly rolled the sheet into place
then. with Ardmore helping her 10 find
the keys, she wrote:
L demand mediate reply"
" Demand and Immediately are both
business words. Are you sure there's only