The Adair County news., 1922-08-22

Maidens Moved DaintiIy Along in Silk
and Lace, Hlah-HeeIed Shoes and
Clicked Stockings.
old Raleigh tavern in the Apollo room
of which Mr.. jefferson had rapturous-
ly danced with his Belinda, and which
was to become. the Faneuil hall of
Virginia. Both coaches were quickly
surrounded by bowling gentlemen,
young gallants,\ and frOlicsome stu
dents. Dave, the young Kentuckian,
and Harry would be put up at the
tavern, and, for his own reasons,
Hugh elected to stay with them. With
an an revoir of white hands from the
coaches, the rest went on to the house
of relatives and friends.
Inside the tavern Hugh was soon
surrounded by fellow students and
boon companions. He pressed Dave
and the boy to drink witR them, but
Dave laughingly declined and took the
had up to their room. Below they
could hear Hugh's. merriment going
on, and when he came upstairs a
while later his face was flushed, he
was in great spirits, and was full of
enthusiasm over a horse race and
cock-fght that he had arranged for
the afternoon. With him came
youth of his own age with daredevil
eyes and a suave manner, one Dane
Grey, to whom Harry gave scant
greeting. One patronizing look from
the stranger toward the Kentucky
boy and within the latter a fire of
antagonism was instantly kindled.
With a word after the two went out,
Harry snorted his explanation:
"TOry!"
4 In the early afternoon coach and
horsemen moved out to an "Old field"
Hugh was missing from the Dale
party, and General Willoughby
frowned when he noted his sons alb,
sence.
Then "a crowd of boys gathered to
run one hundred and twelve yards
for hat worth twelve shillings, and
Dave nudged his young friend. A
moment later Harry cried to Bar
bara:
Look therer'
There was their young Indian lin
ing up with the runners, his face
| calm, but an eager light in his eyes.
At the word he started off almost
leisurely, until the whole crowd was
nearly ten yards ahead of him, and
then a yell of astonishment rose from
the crowd. The boy was skimming
the ground on wings. Past one after
another he few, and laughing and
hardly out of breath he bounded over
the finish, with the first of the rest
laboring with bursting lungs ten
| yards behind. Hugh and Dane Grey
had appeared arm in arm and were
moving through the crowd with great
gayety and some boisterousness, and
when the boy appeared with his hat
Grey shouted:
"Good for the little savage ~
Erskine wheeled furiOusly but Dave
caught him by the arm and led him
In jingling harness. Harry on a
chestnut sorrel and the young Ken
tuckian on housekeeping gray fol
lowed the second coach-Hugh on
Firefiy champed the length of the
column. Colonel Dale and Dave
brought up the rear. The road was
of sand and there was little sound of
hoof or wheel-only the hum of
voices, occasional sallies when a
neighbor joined them, and laughter
| from the second coach as happy and
care-free as the singing of birds from
trees by the roadside.
The capital had been moved from
| jamestown to the spot where Bacon
had taken the oath against England
then called Middle-Plantation, and
new Williamsburg. The cavalcade
wheeled into Gloucester street, and
Colonel Dale pointed out to Dave the
old capitol at one end and William
and Mary college at the other. Mr..
Henry had thundered in the old cap
itol, the Burgesses had their council
chamber there, and in the hall there
would be a ball that night. Near the
street was a great building which the
colonel pointed out as the governors
palace, surrounded by pleasure
grounds of full three hundred acres
and planted thick with linden trees.
Ny Lord Dunmore lived there.
At this season the planters came with
their families to the capital, and the
street was as brilliant as fancy
dress parade would be to US now. It
! was filed with coaches and fours,