The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-12-01


or the Revolution. and her younges
daughter In America, singed witt
powder, and with bloodstains on he
dainty feet danced to the music %
ner own imprevised gayety. BRACE saw
lne carpetbag governor driving through
the street. surrounded by an escort O
black and mulatto cavalry. From {
balcony came a gunshot, and an enor
nous negro in white gloves. sitting
beside his political master, tumblec
OUT upon the ground but the carriage
ala not halt in Its speed, and the hoofs
OF the cavalry beat upon the murdered
wretch. In a doorway an old man sat
nddiing Tor his grandchildren to dance
on the flagstones.
"Oh, you'll find drama enough here
that hasn't been rehearsed," said
Shottle as they turned toward the old
st. Charles.
'sThey appear to have set the stage
for u.s." BRACE answered him, wonder
Ing If ever again he should find the
girl with the torch of roses.
In connecting rooms and amidst the
luxury of old French furnishings they
were quartered.
Leaving Drace writinga letter, Shot
tie went out. but he soon returned with
more of light than usually beamed
from the sad stretch of his counte-
nance.
"Well. SIR" he cried with astonish-
Ing enthusiasm, II wan. 90 tell you
that life is not composed entirely of
down here 1 saw an old fellow about
to get into trouble with a Mexican
roustabout on the levee. / wasn't In
any particular hurry, so 1 stopped,
took up piece of scantling and
knocked the Mexican down. 1t was no
old man took 1t as favor and urged
me to eat dinner with him, which I
did, being broke at the time. Now
what does he dor met him out there.
and he gives me two tickets for the
French ball at the St. Louis tonight"
"All right; Wen take 1t In"
IT should say we will Why. there's
likely to be a half dozen duels ar
ranged for. We can see them burst
Ing into bloom. But you'll have to
liven up, you know. You are just
trifle stern, 1t strikes me. There is
TOO much of-of your mission showing
in your face. l don't know of any
thing better calculated to correct 1t
than an hour at the roulette wheel.
Suppose we go over and give it
whirl."
"Hope springs internal in the human
breast" brace paraphrased the poet.
"Just as well curb yourself, old fell
low. I'm not going to feed your pas
sion"
A tap at the door and Colonel Josh
announced himself from the outside.
Invited to enter he came in with a
sweeping bow, his beard and mustacbe
vaxed, his hair darkened with dye,
giving to 1t tinge of blue. He bore.
and with ceremonIous hesitancy, an
invitation from Miss Lucy. She was
at the delightful old home of rela-
tive where choice guests would as
semble that evening to hear Prof. l..
Bannock Pettigrew read paper on
the origin and character Of the an
Client Scythians.
'Im very sorry, Colonel" BRACE
lied, 'but we have another
The Colonel gleefully replied that J
he was put into a position of deep re-
rret. He knew that Captain Drace |
would so much enjoy the professor;
his paper would not take up more than
three hours of the evening. He would |
mpart to Miss Lucy that Captain /
Drace found it impossible to come. The I
Captain assured him that such was
he true situation and Frightening. the
Colonel gladdened himself out of the
room.
The ballroom which Drace entered
hat night was as fantastic as q gyp-
sy's vision. 1t seemed that all civilian
don had lifted the lids of Its worm
eaten chests to array in whimsic re-
hinder of its former self There was
,vident poverty making itself neat In
Nd linen. and war victims proud In
hread~are coats. In rags there is his
Dry, but no ancestry attached to cloth
resi- from the mill. No unfrlendly
we was supposed TO look upon this
no antagonistic politics per
nltted to view It. The walls were
raped in the cOlors of France, and
In a corner was a Confed-
rate banner, It's staff splintered, its
dds darkened with sacred blood.
AS Shottle no longer held the hope
raising speculative tablestake, he
mt himself to the less interesting life
the dance. But not without mis-
lpl The floor was smooth with wax
ON the ends of marriage-altar cam
es; and Liberty's feet, more accus-
med to the rough mating, and
gged carpets CT the gambling-room'
w from under him. Catching right
d left in his fall. he came down with
bit Of lace in one hand and a comb
the other, while women shrieked
the devastations he had wrought,
oupIng about the severest sufferer