The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-10-27
put a bullet through your heart, -
he snarled.
"YOu Coward

You Coward
He's an old man, you coward,''
said the girl almost beside herself
with terror. but only clasping her
father the closer and still keeping
herself between him and his would
be assassin. Her fearless devotion
must have touched another of the
Bloody Scouts" for he interfered
and the old man was spared.
At another time when coming
home from a Whig settlement. Miss
Langston was met by company of
ioyalists who ordered her to tell
them the news among the rebels.
have seen no rebels and L
know no news" she said trying to
evade further parley, as the leader
was a lawless character who had
been renegade from justice be-
lore he won the protection of the
British by taking up arms against
his neighbors.
Yes you have, too. Now tell or
III shoot you," at the same time
drawing his pistol.
"Ill tell you nothing" was her
spirited reply.
Tell, d you, or you'll die in
your tracks"
Shoot If you dare, have moth
ing to tell
The outlaw would have carried
out his threat had not a young man
of the command struck up the bar
rel of his pistol and the bullet was
wasted in the air. In the aIterca-
tion which ensued between the
guerrillas the girl, who was mount
ed on a fleet horse, made her es-
cape.
1t Is told of her that at one time
her brother, James Langston, had
left a rifle in keeping with the un-
derstanding that he would send a
man for 1t who would give q GER
tain countersign. A company of
men came to the house one day and
one of them said that her brother
had told him to bring his gun back
with them. Then all at once she
CHANGED to think that they might
be Tories. So she refused to give
up the gun until they had given
her the countersign.
You're too late, Mistress Lang
ston," replied the ledaer, a big
handsome. happy-go-lucky sort of a
fellow, both you and the gun are
now in our possession"
oh, we are,' she said quick as
flash turning the gun point blank
at his head and cooking it. then
come and get u.s."
She was SO deeply in earnest that
the young man lost no time in Civ
ing the countersign, and that very
respectfully, while his companions
laughed long and loud. This was
the young man, it is said. who
came back after the war was over
and then kept on coming until one
day he carried her away with him,
for better or for worse.
A Narrow Escape.
On one occasion Mistress Dicey
came near getting into trouble from
trying to carry water on both
shoulders. A party of Wings stop
ped at her fathers house for re-
freshments and in the conversation
said that they were on their way
TO visit Tory neighborhood of the
Langstons and take away his
horses. AS the neighbor was in
the main, peaceable citizen an d a
good neighbor, the girl determi ned
TO save him his horses. She s,lip-
ped out and going to the neight ,or's
mouse, warned him that his
mad been marked for a cha1A
her CONSERVATION to hear
ally, Just before leaving 2
That the neighborhood, - -
ger to band of ToM :
about in the neighbo < q
ture the unsuspecting&
hurried back in time tS&
wings, and so in one d.
ed the property of a To =
and probably the lives
Whig friends. ~
Dicey Langston wi =
shortly after the waU
Springfield, off Greg
where she lived w Z
very old age. =
large and prosy ~
was wont to boH =
that she had ; =
grandsons abI. RI
defence OF thu Z RI