The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-10-27
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The Bloody Scouts.

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The Bloody Scouts.
For time she obeyed the COM
mands of her father, but the prob
abilities are that it was because she
had nothing worth telling. A few
weeks later. however. it came to
ner ears accidentally that a. band
or Tory outlaws called sBloody
Scouts" because of their ruthless
ciuelty in wantonly killing and
psundering of defenseIess families
known to be sympathizers with the
patriots were next day to attack
Little Eden settlement near where
her brother and his little band lay
IN hiding. She knew that the band
was especially incensed at her
brother and that il captured he
and all his band would be put to
death. Orders or no orders she de-
termined to warn her brother and
the people of little Eden settle
ment. Yet how, was the question.
The slightest suspicion falling
Oh her fathers family would
bring down on their heads the
wrath of the Bloody Scouts" al
ready looking for an excuse to har-
ry the man and plunder his proper
ty. She had no one to send, no
one whom she could trust even to
take with her. No she must go
alone at night and on foot IL she
would avoid suspicion.
Across Country.
That was a journey long to be re-
membered. Starting late at night.
after the 8family and servants had
gone to bsd, she walked many miles
through fhe woods, across marsh
es and creeks, over which there
was no bridges and often no foot
logs, and finally came to the Tiger.
stream where the only shance of
crossing lay in wading a ford. 1t
had rained and the stream was
swollen, yet there was no other way
than wading through, and she wad-
ed. Deeper and deeper the water
became and stronger grew the cur
rent with each forward step. Near
the middle of the stream, in fight
ing to retain her footing against the
current, with the rushing water up
TO her shoulders, she fell, and
becoming bewildered, turned
around" as she expressed IL in Ia
ter years and could not tell for the
life of her, from which bank she
mad come and toward which bank
she wanted to go. For some time
how long she never could tell
she plunged and struggled out in
the stream, falling and regaining
her footing only to fall again, until
she finally dragged herself out on
the bank and lay, half drowned
and water-soaked, until she had re-
covered. She found the path again
deciding she was on the right side.
and after a short time she was with
her brother and his little party.
In a few words she told of the
coming attack and of the peril of
the little settlement aud urged that
nc delay be made in sending the
warning to every settler. The SOL
diers had just returned from n long
and tiresome excursion, and were
worn out, wet and hungry. There
came complaint that the men were
lalnt from lack of food, though
tired, wet and shivering herself. the
girl at once said:
Build me a fire and get me
corn meal or flour"
The Quarry Flown.
IL was short work to pull down a
lew boards from the roof of their
howell and start a fire and in n few
minutes hoe-cake lay baking in
the embers. This Drowned and
broken into pieces, was thrust into
the shot pouches of the men so
that they took warning. So we'll
young Langston and his party did
Ihelr work that when morning came
and the Bloody Scouts" descended
upon the settlement of Little Eden
IL was as empty OF human occuna-
tion as was that other Eden after
Ihe Angel of the Lord had driven
out Adam and Eve. And the de-
mure Miss Dicey, fresh and dainty
sat with her family at breakfast
ana made prevalent replies to the