Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-10-03
CHAPTER xxvI-continued.

CHAPTER XXvI-Continued.
Aurelie was flying to him. The out
law did not stop-she fung herself
against him, clasping him, looking
up; and John put his stub Of an arm
about the girl, holding her closer al
IL to shelter her, and came on, hi'
winchester swinging up to his othei
shoulder as he strode.
He fired sQuarely into the line Of
his advancing enemies. A man drop
ped; he fired again, again, again, COOL
sure, merciless, the mutter OF a prayer
upon his lips, the pleadings OF the
girl within his ears. But he wouio
not stop. The God who ruled above
mans petty justice was with him.
he had come forth to save his wife
and children from the hurricane OF
bullets slivering his home, but nc
yielded nothing.
The girl clinging to him was trying
to reach his neck, seeking to draw him
down, to kiss his gaunt lined cheek
It seemed. And he did stop. They
saw his left arm swing the rifle down
until he was clasping Aurelie, listen
ing to her, moved by her. Then from
the groups Of men about the cottage
who could not see what those On TINS
side could see, came the tsh OF
another voley. From the fence ia
Janet knew a great silence nae
ing out his hands, and then stopped
to stare through the thickenins
smoke about the cottage.
Janet knew a great silence hao
come. Van Hart's line Of men had
stopped. They were staring-an the
hundreds Of people were staring. ia
net knew Lindstrom was down, rid
died by the deputies behind him
And that Aurelie had fallen not twenty
wards from her old home. The roses
she had clung to as she ran lay REQ
and scattered about her on the frozen
clods. Curran was kneeling by her
And the silence held as If earth and
sky-the gray lonely land with Q
CLINT of sun through the clouds-had
hushed her, had followed to hold the
agony that broke from Curran's
heart. ..-.- ~ +. .r-... =.
When Janet and Arne reached
them, Curran had turned Aureiie's
face, upward. Curran himself was
bloody from tassel Of a wound tori
across his forehead. Men We're IN
and about the bullet-swept and burn.
ing house, kicking away the barri-
cade of boxes from the door. Under
the window they found Ladeau dead
his lips forever sealed, and in anoth'
er room lay Albert the peddler. his
piteous life come to the inevitable
nothingness. The women and chill
dren burrowed in the cellar, cold
starved, were unhurt.
But out on the frozen field grouI
had formed. Curran knelt to water
his child's face. Harlan had dis
mounted and was staring. He coule
not speak as Curran wiped the blooe
from his eyes and muttered:
"She kept crying for you to stop
Couldn't you hear? Crying to you
Harlan, to stop. That she loved yot
with all her soul she loved you!"
The other mans lips moved use
lessly. Then he turned to the 9TH
ers. Your machine, Arne! Quick!
STOPPING, he seized the girls body
The father clung to her and 1t wa!
as IL the two were fighting for hel
possession. Then Harlan whirlet
back, with the blood from her lip'
staining his shoulder. Keep back
Wiley. The machine-quick.
Home" And as they all ran. Cur
ran trying to keep her hand in his
as 1t hung from Harlan's arm, the
younger man kept murmuring: y
didn't know-God help me, Wiley
didn't know"
They thrust Old Michigan aside II
the car and were in. The two mel
seemed again struggling to hold her
as the machine ground OF through
the field. Janet was conscious OF TIT
awed white faces-thousandso OF them
IT seemed-along the roads TO town
Only they knew that Michigan
girl was being borne from her ol'
home now shot-riddled and burnini
and that the outlaw Of the Pocket wa
dead. They could not hear Mich
bewildered mumbling in the car. O
WILEY Curran, as he shifted nj
child's body from the widening pool
of blood on the cushions, whispering
calling to you, boy, just kept on go
ing-calling that she loved you!'
The car was in the Van Hart yard
Harlan dragged his burden from
them, silent, fierce with possession
He laid her on a bed on the lowe
floor before his mother knew OF thei
entrance. In the hall Janet Vanc
was trying to comfort Michigan VIII
babbled on about his little girl-th
little girl he had done brought up
river. They were trying to take ne
away from him-they would not lie
him touch her. The Yankees ha
killed her, some way or other.
The Judges wife touched Harlan
shoulder as he knelt: Telephon
for the DOCTOR" he said-"for Brow
and Lenberg both. And nurse
Col"
He stopped the question on he
lips, a young Caesar grasping powe
as her Roman matron's pride In hln
would have had. She turned an
went out without word to the tele
phone. In the hall she found Mich
igan, a shaggy animal tortured be
yond further outcry, swaying nj
head and whispering: Done com
done come. Lord"
When she went back the two me
were by Aurelie's side. They ma
been muttering to each other. Cur
ran was staring at the younger.
you knew-last night? Ho'
could you know"
Father told me. And Tanner
We choked it out of him. And n
ona alse knows Wiley. Ladeau