Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, October 31, 1912, Page PAGE SIX, Image 8
8YN0PSI*. |
"cen? ?t the openln*
n f, Btory la laid in the library of an
old worn-out southern plantation, known
Sdhtf.3%r?ny- 1b to 'be .old"
end Its history and that of the owners
the Qulntards, Is the subject of discusSi
? ^onat,ian Crenshaw, a business
ia^h*vl^ran*er-known u Bladen, and
^ fanner, when Hannibal
^Byne Hasard, a mysterious child of
XiL?i?L80u4 "* makes his apJh^boy^
y ^ow ho adopted
It?Nathaniel Ferris buys
knovlsdny'nfu* thoQulntards deny any
2,f ** boy- Taney to keep
th!^ ?,Sap n Murrell. a friend of
Qulntards. appears and asks ques.
tions about the Barony. q
~TP0Ubi? Bt Scratch Hill,
.fancy s home, when Hannibal Is kldnep?4
by Dave Blount. Captain Murrell's
SfBHf* 4 Taney overtakes Blount, elves
mm a thrashing and secures boy.
rv ?Taney Is served with a
nuruii ror unultlnc Blount. Tancr
appears before Squire Balaam, and la
discharged with costs for the plaintiff.
CHAPTER V.
The Encounter.
Batty Malroy had ridden into the
quire's yard during the progress of
the trial and when Taney and Hanblbal
earns from the hotusa aha beckoned
the Scratch Miliar to her.
i *Toa are not going to lose your
nephew, are you. Mr. YancyT" she
naked eagerly, whan Taney stood at
her aide.
1 "No, ma'am." But his sense of. elation
was plainly tempered.
1 *T aa rery glad. I rode out to the
jiHU to say good-by to Hannibal and
to you. bat they said yon were hero
End that the trial waa today."
Captain Marred, with Crenshaw and
Mm squire, came from the house, and
l?. tbimtfs mtrtli* * ?? "" -* -,-k*
-? ? ?* "? ?
" ' 1 Oto tM- Taney woma-MT* yieldfM
hie plaoe, hut Betty detained him.
* ^ . "Are you going away, ma'am?" he
' asked with concern.
"Yew?to my home la west Tennessee,"
and a cloud crossed her smooth .
brow.
"But ain't you erer coming bach.
Miss Betty?" ashed Hannibal rather
fearfully.
"Oh, If hope so, dear." She turned
to Yancy. "I wonder you don't leave
the Hill, Mr. Yancy. You could so
easily go where Mr. Bladen would
never find you. Havent you thought
of this?"
"That are a p'lnt," agreed Yancy
slowly. "Might I ask you what parts
you'd specially recommend?" lifting
his grave eyes to hers.
"It would really be the sensible
thinr (n Hn!" ooH "T .....
,?.?0 vw ??W. 01MU A U1U DU1U
you would like west Tennessee?they
ay you are a great hunter." Taney
smiled almost guiltily.
"Mr. Taney, if you should crgss the
mountains, remember I live * near
Memphis. Belle Plain is the name or
the plantation?It's not hard to find;
Just don't forget?Belle Plain."
"I wont forget, and mebby you will
aee us there one of these days. 8ho',
I've seen mighty little of the world?
about as far as a dog can trot In a
couple of hoursl" y
Betty glanced toward the squire
and Mr. Crenshaw. They were standIng
near the bars that gave entrance
to the lane. Murrell had left them
and was walking briskly down the
road toward Crenshaw's store, where
> his horse was tied. She bent down
and gave Taney her slim white hand.
> "Qood-by, Mr. Taney?lift Hannibal
so that I can kiss him!" Taney swung
the child aloft "I think you are such
a JLlittle boy, Hannibal?you
mustn't forget me!" And touching her
jjorse ugnuy with in? wnip she rod*
way at a gallop.
"8h? aho'ly la a lady!" said Yancy.
taring after her. "And we masn't
forget Memphis or Belle Plain, Nevrj."
When Betty Malroy rode away from
Sqtdre Balaam's Murrell galloped after
her. Presently she heard the beat or
his horse's hoofs as he oame poundtng
along the sandy road, and glanoed
baok oyer her shoulder. With an ex*
olamatlon of displeasure she reined in
her horse. Murrell quickly gained a
plaoe at her side.
'1 suppose Ferris Is at the Barony T"
he said, drawing his horse down to n
walk.
' "I believe he is." said Batty with a
owl Utile air. /
UMg-gUfc-gwr ft# I?T?
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>ODIGAL
JUDGE
AXughawKESTEI^
Uzi/sTjymoffs BvAMeimt I
rpj/. Trfc &oe?3 *e*+Ht Co>>m*rrr .
1 Don* Know but What I Should Pull
You Out of That Saddla and Twist
Your Nook."
a swift glanoeT She no-ddod lndlffsrootly
and would have urgsd bar
horaa Into a gallop again, but ba mads
a l?hili of ?rv?n?? m *
hall think you are still running away
from mo," ho said with a short laugh.
"Were you at the trial?" ah# a^ed.
1 am glad they didn't get Hannibal
away from Taney."
-"Oh, Yancy will hare his hands full
with that later?so will Bladen," be
added, significantly. He studied her
out of those deeply sunken eyes of hie
Va Which no ihas&w or youth llif"4
gered, for men such as he reached
their prime early, and It was a swift*
ly passing splendor. "Ferris tells me
you are going to west Tennessee?" 1
he said at length.
"Yea."
"I know your half-brother, Tom
Ware 1 know him Tory well."
"So you know Tom?" she observed,
and frowned slightly. Tom was her
guardian, and her memories of him
were not satisfactory. A burly, unshaven
man with a queer streak of
meanness through his character.
"You're spent much of your time
up north?" suggested Murrain
"Four years. I've been at school,
you know. Thafs where I met Judith
Ferris."
"I hope youll like west Tennessee.
It's still a bit raw compared with
WIUIL jruu TO DUOU BCOWWimU id m
the north. You haven't been back tn
all thoee tour y?ar?f Betty shook
her head. "Nor seen Tom?nor any
one from out yonderT" For some reason
a little tinge of color had crept
Into Betty's cheeks. "Will you let me
renew our acquaintance at Belle
Plain? I shall be In west Tennessee
before the summer is over; probably
I shall leave here within a week," he
said, bending toward her. ills glance
dwelt on her face and on the pliant
lines of her figure, and his senses
swam.
"X imagine you will be welcome at
Belle Plain. You are Tom's friend."
Murrell bit his lip, and then laughed
as his mind conjured up a picture of
the cherished Tom. Suddenly he
reached out and rested his hand on
hers.
"Betty?If I might think?" he began,
but his tongue stumbled. His
love-making was usually of a savage
sort, but some quality in the girl held
him In check. Betty drew away from
him, an angry oolor on her cheeks
ard an angry light In her eyes. "Forgive
me, Betty!" murmured Murrell,
but his heart beat against his ribs,
and passion sent Its surges through
him. "Don't you know what I'm trying
to tell you?" he whispered. Betty
gathered up her reins. "Not yet?"
he cried, and again he rested a heavy
hand on hers.
"Let me go?let me go I" cried Betty
indignantly.
"No?not yet!" He urged hie horse
still nearer and gathered her close.
"You've got to hear me. I've loved
you since the first moment I rested
my eyes on you?and, by God, you
shall love me in return!" He felt her
struggle to free herself from his
grasp with a sense of savage triumph.
. Bruce Carrlngton. on his way bach
?
to FayetterlUe from the Forks' came
about a turn In the road. Betty aaw
a tall, haadaome fellow In the first,
flush of manhood; Carrlngton, an'
r angry girl struggling in a man's
grasp.
t sight of the new-oomer, Murrell,
with an oath, released Betty, who,
striking her horse with the whip, gal.
loped down the road toward the
Barony. As she fled past Carrlngton
she bent low In her saddle.
"Don't let him follow me!" she
gasped, and Carrlngton, striding forward,
caught Jfurrell's horse by the
bit
"Let go!" roared Murrell, and a
murderous light shot from his eyes.
"I don't know but I should pull you
out of that saddle and twist your
neck!" said Carrlngton hotly. Murrell's
face underwent a swift change.
"You're a bold fellow to force your
way Into a lover's Quarrel," he said
quietly. Carrlngton's arm dropped at
his side. Perhaps, after all. It wag
that.
CHAPTER VI.
Betty 8ets Out for Tenneseas.
Bruce's first memories had to do
frith long nights when he perched beside
his father on the cabin roof of
their keel-boat and watched the stars
or the blurred line of the shore where
It lay against the sky, or the lights on
other barges and rafts drifting as
they were drifting, with their wheat
and corn and whisky, to that common
market at the river's mouth.
Bruce Carrlngton had seen the day
of barge and raft reach its senith,
had heard the first steam packet's
shrieking whistle, which sounded the
death-knell "of the ancient order,
though the shifting of the trade was a
slow matter and the glory of the old
did not pass over to the new at once,
but lingered still in mighty fleets of
rafts and keel-boats and In the Homeric
carousals of some ten thousand
of the half-horse, half-alligator breed
that nightly gathered In New Orleans.
After the reading of the warrant
that morning, Charley Balsam had
shown Carrlngton the road to the
Forks, assuring him when they separated
that with a little care and
decent use of Mf/eyes It would be
possible to fetdBtp there and not
pass plumb thnMjyfti the settlement
without knowing. !fehere he was.
"c ww w irayettevtue,
where he taUiMKjlg|pend the night,
and perhaps ? tvo In looking
around, ^ Wlth Bett^
when thft Sght'at
Cleggrttl T*^ Sy<ater, in the bu,
he engaged hishdjjffo Idle gonslp. He
had met a gwtUhMA and a ladj on
the road th&ptr.^i wondered, as
he toyed wttV ht? J|M*, If it conld
have been Mounted T
Yea. mounted, 4 Ifhfe It wea FerrU
and hla wife??* ^unlght have been
Captain M arreU aid Mlsa Malroy.
Mlaa Malroy did hot live In that nnrt
of the country; ?h? waa a friend of I
Mrs. Ferrie', belonged In Kentucky or
Tennessee, or somewhere out yonder
?at any rate she was bringing her
visit to an end, fbr Ferris had Instructed
him to reserve a place for
her In the northbound stage on the '
morrow.
Oarrlngton suddenly remembered
that he had thoufjtg of starting north
In the morning Maseeh.
The stage left at six, and as Oarrlngton
climbed to- his seat the next
morning Mr. Clagfeett was advising
the driver to look sharp when he
came to the Barony road, as he waa
to pick up a party there. It was Oarrlngton
who looked: sharp, and almost
at the spot wtufretoe had seen Miss
Malroy the day before he saw her
again, with Ferris and Judith and a
pile of luggage beftowed by the wayside.
Betty did net observe him as
the coach stopped, for she was intent
on her farewelk with her friends.
There were hasty words of advice
rrom rwrti, prolonged good-tars to
Judith, tears?kls???while a place
was being made Or taer many boxes
and trunks. Oarriflgton gathered that ,
she was going noiih to Washington; k
that her final donation was some
point either OQr tm Ohio or Mlsale- :
sippi, and that h* name was Betty.
Thou Uw door shaped and the stage
waa In motion agin.
All through the ttDrning they sarong
forward In the igai and dost and
glare, and at middgr rattled Into the <
shaded main atre4*f a sleepy Tillage (
and drew op befote the tavern where .
dinner it as w<ligthem.
Betty saw C&ififegton when she 1
took her seat, ajd gave a scarcely ,
ywrcvyuuie ?ru*r?. n (UTprlN. TtlflO .
her face wu flooLd with a rich col- '
or. This was thiamn who aaw her \
with Captain Ingfrell yesterday! j
There waa a brid Moment of lrreso- .
lutlon and then i* bowed coldly.
It was fonr daylto Richmond. FY>ur I
days of hot, dnstjtraTel. four nights <
of uncomfortableBoss-roed stations, i
irhere Betty sufried sleepless nlfffatc
and the fang? ^ eariy \
rtatafi* JBfi occp jpy?'<y found her- j
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