Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-05-25
CHAPTER V.-Continued.

CHAPTER V.-Continucd.
1 have heard papa say that life Is
short and the tenure OF Office uncer-
tain. can remove you at any time
please Now do you understand that
this is serious business. There's
likely % Ire lot of trouble. and no
time for asking questions, so when I
say it's SO IT'S So
It's So" repeated Ardmore do.
cilely.
Nov, here's the sheriff at Kildare
on our side of the line, who writes
to say that he Is powerless to catch
Applewoight. He's afraid of the
dark, that man! You see. the grand
Jury IN Dilwell county--that's Kill
dare. you know-has indicted Apple.
weight as common outlaw. but the
grand jurors were all friends of Ap-
pleweiSht and the indictment was
only to satisfy iaw-and- order senti
ment and appease the Woman's Civic
league OF Raleigh. Now. papa doesn't
i mean don't want to offend those
Appieweight people by meddling in
TINS business. Papa wants Gov. Os-
borne TO arrest Appleweight In South
Carolina: but I don't believe Gov. Os.
borne VIII dare do anything about IL.
NOW. MIR. Ardmore. am not going to
nave papa called a coward by any
body. particularly ny South Carolina
people. after what Gov. Osborne said
Of our state"
Why. what did ne say"
He said in a speech at Charleston
fhnt
their meat can ever amount to any,
thing. AID he meant us! can never
forgive him for that: besides, his
daughter is the stuck-upcst thing!
And ia like Barbara Osborne to tell
me how she got into the Colonial
DANES, and what call she has to be
inspector general of the Granddaught-
ers Of the Mexican War: for I've
heard my grandfather Dangerfield say
many time that old Col. Osborne
and his South Carolina regiment never
did go outside 81 Charleston until the
var was over end the American army
rad come back home"
Gov. Osborne Is a ccntemptibIe
rufflan,' declared Ardmorc with deep
feeling.
MISS Dangerfeid nodded judicial
approval and settled back IN her chair
the better TO contemplate her new
secretary. and said:
I've written-that IL tn say. mana
wrote before nc went away. q strong
letter 90 Gov. Osborne. complaining
that Appleweight was hiding in South
Carolina and running across the state
line 30 rob and murder people in
North Carolina. Papa told Gov. Os-
borne that he must break I'D the Ap-
pleweight crowd or nc would do some
thing about It himself It's splendid
letter. you would think that even
coward like Gov. Osborne would do
something after getting such let
ter"
"Didn't nc answer the letterg"
Answer It? He never got II! Pa.
pa didnt send it: that's the rcasonl
Paps's the kindest man in the world,
and nc must have been afraid of hurt
ing Gov Osbornc's feelings He wrote
the letter. expecting 20 send Il. but
when nc went on TO New Orleans he
told MIR Bassford to hold It tn no got
back Vie had even signed it--you
can read IL ~ you like"
II vas undoubtedly a vigorous
spistis. and Ardmore felt the thrill OF
IL rhetorical sentences as ne read
The dignity and authority OF one OF
The sovereign American states was
represented here. and he handed the
paper back 90 Miss DangerheId az
tendcfiy as though u had been the
original draft Of Magma Charta.
IT'S corker. all right"
y don't much like the way II ends.
u says. right here"-and she heat for.
ward and pointed 10 the place under
criticism-"it sayB. Trusting to your
sense Of equity. and relying upon a
continuance Of the traditional friend
ship between your state and mine. I
am, cir. awaiting your reniy. very
respectfully. your obedient servant
Now. wouldn't trust to hls sense Of
anytbins. and that traditional friend.