The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-12-13
syuop.i. of Preceding Chapters.

AL the Oedtn OF 1enerdl GluluLdru dl
Carolina little boy named Hannibal
is discovered by those who are settling
up the estate to have been left without
strange ana secluded life and what kin,
if any, Hannibal is to him nobody knows.
Bob Yancy-a native Of the mountains
takes Hannibal home with him and be-
Barony is sold to Mr.. and Mrs. Ferris,
who take possession Of it and who have
as their guest Betty Malroy. Mrs. Der
ris and Betty conduct a Sunday school,
which Hannibal attends and Betty be-
comes very fond Of him.
Soon after a stranger-Captain Muir
rell-of handsome, dashing appearance,
comes into the neighborhood and secret
get Hannibal away from Bob Then one
day Bob is absent Hannibal is stolen
but Bob intercepts at cross roads the
man who is carrying him off and rescues
Hannibal. A warrant is issued for Bob S
arrest.
Betty closes her visit at the Barony
and starts west to her own home at
Bells sha in saa fo ro be
cause Of the unwelcome attentions Of
Captain Murrell. who has been fire.
quent caller at the Barony Bruce Car
rington, river man of attractive per-
neighborhood where his family once
lived, takes the same coach with Betty,
to whom he has been greatly attracted
Betty at first, feeling that he is social
ly beneath her, is inclined to snub him,
but his good natured perseverance and
mate worth make themselves felt and
she is unable to resist his advances al
together. At Belle Plaine Betty is well
coined by Charley Norton, her friend
from childhood and long her sutton The
house and plantation withdrawing her
absence at school-have been in charge
of her step-fathers son-Tom Ware
have, she finds, been greatly neglected
To Wares disguest, Betty insists on re-
storing the place to its former beauty.
boR f daddes
him and make his way toward Belle
PLANE where Betty has suggested that
he should come. On the way they are
on by Slosson and Murrell and terribly
beaten. Surprising him to be dead, they
drop his body in the river Hannibal,
Bob's cry and escapes over the shed roof
to the yard outside. He sees the two
men carry Bob's still form to the. river
and fees through the woods he knows
After a time he comes on cabin
where is living Slocum Price, once rich
and highly respected, but who, through
misfortune or drink has become nnnra dere,
ten-dollar bill that Murrell had given
him, and gets drunk with it.
At PleaSantville new Jail has been
raised and when it is discovered that
the bin which Judge Price has passed
at the tavern is counterfeit, he is made
prisoner.
He fears lynching, but has a
chance to escape with companion
prisoner horse thief-is that night
rescued by his band. Prices friend.
Solomon Mahaffy, who in the meantime
has had Hannibal in charge, joins him
and the three make their way to Raj
81 where
progress and whittier Betty and Ware
have come.
Betty IS delighted at seeing f:an-
nlbal and kindly welcomes the
fudge as his protector. Meanwhile Bob
has been picked up by man named
who with his family is drift
ing down river. With their nursing Bob
the process by the little Cavendishes
and by the story that the father is real
ly an earl and heir to an English estate