The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-02-01


to Washington, Colonel Haverill and
his wife were now travelling north
ward via Charleston, accompanied by
Iieutenants Ellingham and West. Ger
trude Ellingham had come on from the
family homestead in the Shenandoah
valley OF Virginia to meet her brother
Bob. Likewise Madeline West had
come to join her brother Kerchival and
incidentally to enjoy her first acquaint-
ance with the fascination southern city.
Nothing less than ball-one of the
famous Elli;lgham "ievees' fit
iingiy honor the occasion.
The Younger set, including the two
!iculenants. had practically no other
,ubject OF "serious" discussion. Seces-
.;on talk was rife, to be sure. and mil
jjary activities going on were such as
- lead to bGt one logical conclusion
Int war or something very like it was
imminent. But love Qutranked logic,
u that particular camp ut least.
At the very opening of the campaign
he casualties took in Kerchiyal West
ed his demure. dark eyed sister Made
iac;- also. rs mutual offsetting to this
,::ir, the gallant Bob Dillingham; and
Ms sister Gertrude. the latter Il spir-
ited girl with warm bronze hair be
lifting her emotional Temperament and
'ivid complexion 10 match.
The first cloud that appeared in this
roseate sky was Edward Thornton.
Thornton was rather handsome fel
low in his insOent way and "A few
years older than the two lieutenants-
that Is to say. he was close upon thirty
lie had rlore than the assurance Of
manner that such advantage might
perhaps be expected to give hin-eSpe
cialy with Mrs Hayerill. the colonel'S
wife.
The young people frankly did not like
Thornton. though none of them had
said SO, and probably any or all of
them would have denied the charge
had it been made.
Meanwhile DR.. Elliigham and the
colonel and Mrs. EIaveril and the
pinckneys (S0uth Carolina relatives of
the EliinghnnlO saw graver portents
than sentinentil ones on the near hori-
Ion. Their con, ersation turned upon
Questions of state sovereignty, the 'old
hag," and rights as to secession from
the Union.
IF the interests Of your manufactur
ing and shipping states of the north
| observed Or. Ellingham. land of oul
agricultural and cotton states of the
| south are not running in harmony, thai
| is no excuse for family quarrel"
+ II quite agree with you" said Colo
mel Haverill 1T is I'M awkward thing
| for soldier to take sides in such ,
dispute. Theoretically we don't hav,
to. The government settles all that fo
us, and we simply obey orders. | fee
confident they will find remedy 70
the present break as they have 70
other aud perhaps worse ones ilf TIL
past If it were not for the SLAYER.
question 4,
| "Ah," sighed the southern conserva
tive. IF owned the 4o00,0aa slave
would gladly give tliem all NJ for III
| pItScENotlttl Vi tht tSsttGii
"Well, your friend. Major Huihn re,
tainly has more decided opinions o
the subject than both Of us put togeti
err" laughed HnverilI. making the Gus
tomary effort to divert the converse
ton into lighter channels.
Ruiiin was striking character tyr
zeal of the time. They met him after
Moons at the Charleston hotel OF on.
sunny morning walking by the Bal
terry sea wall gazing out across til
harbor to where the Sumter fortres
reared its forty foot walls on an art
fetal island built on the shoals. Thi
! was one Of the important fortiiication
Of the seeding states whose status
relation to the federal government wa
in ominous dispute.
"Sir," Ruffin would say impressivel
If the status of these federal forts
the seeded states is not yet determll
ed. It Is high time 1t should be.
- an appeal to arms is necessary. and
q can see that 1t Is, sooner or later, l.
~ it come right here and now
but, IuaJor, Soiohei iiaNeihi "ou
- protest, II understood you We're VI
!. ginian? Virginia has not seeded"
q, mot yet, but she will-she must.
=. am. as you say. sir. a Virginian Dor
n But this hanging fire is so little to n
=. taste, sir, that have sold my Virgin
property and cast my allegiance wi
m South Carolina for the present. ha
. enlisted with the state troops here, al
!. await any minute General Beaui
80 CARDS call to the batteries he ID plaI
ba ing all around Sumter"