The Washington herald., 1909-10-15
THE LITTLE BROWN JUG
By XII hADE Copyright
MEREDITH IN AAAAAOTAINE
NICHOLSON BOo6sNsHdn Co
Copyright. 1913.
by the
Bobbs-M Merrill Co.


office at Columbia only ten days ago,
and he put me off. He said he had to
prepare an address to deliver before the
South Carolina Political Reform Associa-
tion, and he couldn't take up the Apple
weight case; and 1 called on BOswOrth,
the attorney general, and he grew fu-
riOusly angry and said ! was guilty OF
the gravest malfeasance in not having
brought those men TO book long ago
When I suggested that he conniye with
the governor toward removing our sheriff,
he declared that the governor was a
coward. He seemed anxious to put the
governor in a hole. though why he should
take that attitude 1 can't make out, as
1t has been generally understood that
Gov. osborne's personal friendliness for
him secured his nomination and election
TO the attorney generalship, and 1 have
heard that he Is engaged to the COVER
nor's Oldest daughter"
He is a contemplate hound, replied
Grlswoid with feeling. and at the proper
time we shall deal with him; but it is OF
more Importance just now to make Apple
weight a prisoner in North Carolina. II
he's arrested over there. that let's us out;
and II the North Carolina authorities
won't arrest their own criminals well go
over into Dllwell County and show them
how to be good The mans got to be
locked up, and he'd look much better
in a North Carolina Jail, under all the
circumstances"
That's good in theory, but how do
you justify it in law?"
"Oh, that's the merest matter OF form
ulae! My dear Habersham. all the usual
processes OF law so down before emer-
genciest"
I'll. .t-t...uz - r--t.-.o,5,. .o,o oo,,sod
the prosecutor 70 laugh. for this was
not the sober associate professor Of ad-
miralty whose lectures he had sat under
at the University Of Virginia. but diff
ferent person, whose new attitude to-
ward the law and its enforcement shocked
him UNNECESSARILY.
You seem 10 be going in for pretty
loose interpretations, and II that plaster
bust Of John Marshall up there falls
from the shelf, you need not be sur
prised," and Habersham still laughed.
Il might be impudent and cite you
against yourselfr"
THAT would constitute contempt of
court, and I can not Just now spare
your services long enough for you 10
serve q Jail sentence. Go on now, and
tell me what you have done and what
you propose"
We'll. as 1 told you over the telephone.
we hear a great deal about Appleweight
and his crowd but we never hear much
OF their enemies, who are, nevertheless,
OF the same general stock, and equally de-
termined when aroused. Ten OF these
men I have quietly called to meet at
my farm out here few miles from town,
on Thursday night They come from
different points over the country, and
we'll have small but grim posse that
will be ready for business. You may
not know it. but the Appleweights are
most religious. Appleweight himself
boasts that he never misses church on
Sunday. He goes also 20 the mld-week
service on Thursday night. so l have
learned. and thereby hangs our Oppor-
tunity. Mount Nebo Church lies off here
toward the north. It's a lonely point in
Itself, though its the spiritual center and
rendezvous for a wide area. II Apple
weight can be taken at all, that's the
place, and I'm willing to make the trial.
Whether 20 stampede the church and
make fight, or seize him alone as he
approaches the place. is a question for
discussion with the boys I have engaged
to go into the game. How does II strike
your"
First rate Ten good men ought 10
be enough; but IL II comes down to num-
/ bers. the State militia can be brought
/ into use. The South Carolina National
/ Guard is in camp. and we can have a
] regiment quick enough, II I ask IT,"
Habersham whistled.
osborne is certainly up and doing"'
| he exclaimed. chucklng. Il suppose he
/ has tossed a quarter, and decided It's
/ better 20 be good than TO be Senator.
BY the way, that was a curious story In
( the newspapers about Dangerfield and
/ Osborne having a row at New Orleans.
I wonder just what passed between
| them?"
/ Griswold was conscious that Habersham
glanced at him a little curiously, with
look that implied something that half
! formed itself on the prosecuting attor-
ney's lips.
L know nothing beyond what I read
In the newspapers at the time. Some
political row, I fancy"
Il suppose Gov. Osborne hasn't dis
cussed Il with you since his return to
Columbian" asked Habersham carelessly.
The shadow OF a smile fitted across his
! face but vanished quickly as though be-
fore a returning consciousness Of the
fact that he was facing Henry Maine
Griswold, who was first of all a gentle
man, and not less a scholar and a man
of the world. who was not to be tri1ed
with
/ No" replied Grlswold a little shortly.
/ Il was appealed to in rather an unusual
way In this matter of Appleweight. It
/ is quite out of my line as a legal PROPOSE
/ ton, but there are other considerations
/ Of which I may not speak"
/ Pardon me" murmured Habersham
/ but he asked What was Gov. Osborne
/ doing when you left Columbia?"
''WRen I left Columbia" remarked Girls
void, and 1t was he that smiled now.
TO the best OF my knowledge and be-
/ lief the governor OF South Carolina was
! deeply absorbed in knitting a necktie, the
/ color of which was. I think the orange
/ Of a blue Ridge autumn sunset. And
now. Il you will kindly give me pen and
! paper, l will communicate the Apple
weight situation and our prospects to my
honored chief"
ITO BE CONTINUED TO-dORROw.I