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fN THE LIFE OF AMELIA BliTTEPWOwH
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AUTHOR OF'THCLEWCMWORTH CAJT*.
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CHAPTER IIL
1 SUCCUMB.
That ni^ht the tempter had his own
way with me. Without much difficulty
ho persuaded me that my neglect of Al
thea Burroughs’ children was without
any excuse; that what had been my
duty toward them when I knew them
to be left motherless and alone had be
come an imperative demand upon me
now that the town in which they lived
had become overshadowed by a mystery
which could not but affect the comfort
and happiness of all its inhabitants. I
could not wait a day. 1 recalled all that
I had heard of poor Althea's short and
none too happy marriage and immedi
ately felt such a burning desire to see if
her delicate and espiegle beauty—how
well I remembered it—had been repeated
in her daughters that 1 found myself
packing my trunk before 1 knew it.
1 had not been from home for a long
time—all the better reason why 1 should
have a change now—and when I called
together Mrs. Randolph and the servants
and told them of my intention of leav
iug on the early morning train it creat-
cd quite a sensation in the house and no
little surmise.
But 1 had the best of explanations to
give. 1 bad been thinking of my dead
friend, and conscience would not let me
neglect her dear and possibly unhappy
progeny any longer. 1 had purposed
many times to visit them, and now 1
was going to do it. When I came to a
decision, it was usually suddenly, and
I never rested after having once made
up my mind.
My sentiment went so far that 1 got
down an old album and began hunting
up the pictures 1 had brought away
with me from boarding school. Hers
were among them, and I really did ex
perience more or less compunction when
I saw' again the delicate yet daring fea
tures which had once had a very great
influence over my mind What a teas
ing sprite she was, yet what a will she
had, and how strange it was that, hav
ing been so intimate as girls, we never
knew anything of each other as women!
Had it been her fault or my fault? Was
her marriage to blame for it or my spin-
Hterhood? Difficult to tell then, impos
sible to tell now 1 would not even
think of it again, save as a warning.
Nothing must stand between me and
her children now that my attention has
been called to them again.
1 did not mean to take them hy sur
prise—that is, not entirely The invita
tion which they had sent me years ago
was still in force, making it simply nec
essary for me to telegraph them that 1
had decided to make them a visit and
that they might expect me hy the noon
train. If in times gone by they had
been properly instructed hy their moth
er as to the character of her old friend,
this need not put them out 1 am not a
woman of unbounded expectations. Ido
not look for the comforts abroad 1 am
accustomed to at home, and if, as I have
reason to believe, their means are not of
the greatest 1 should only he provoked
at any extra effort to make me feel at
home in the humble cottage suited to ’
their fortunes.
Ho the telegram was sent and my
preparations completed for an early de
parture.
But, resolved as 1 was to make this
visit, my determination came near re- ;
reiving a check. Just as 1 was leaving
the bouse, at the very moment, in fact, i
when the hackmau was carrying out my
trunk. I saw a man approaching me !
with every evidence of haste. He had a
letter in his hand, which he held out to
me as soon as he came within reach.
“For Miss Butterworth, ” he said |
"Private and immediate. “
“Ah," thought 1, “a communication
from Mr (irvee, ” and hesitated for a
moment whether to open it theu and
(here or thrust it in my pocket and read
it at my leisure on the ears. The latter
course would be far the easiest, for my
hands were cumbered with the various
small articles 1 consider iudisp usable
to the comfortable enjoyment <>f the
shortest journey, and the glasses with
out which 1 cannot read a word were * 1
in the very bottom of my pocket under
some other equally necessary articles of
smaller size.
Bat something in the man’s expect
ant look warned me that he would nev
er leave me till I had read the note, so
with a sigh I called Lela to my aid, and
after several vain attempts to reach my
glasses succeeded in pulling them out at
last and by their help reading the fol
lowing hurried lines:
Dcaii Madam—I send you this bv n swifter
iDtflMfDKer than uiywlf. Do not b-t anythin);
flint 1 may have said laat nisht influents* you
to leave your comfortable home. The adven
ture offers too many dangera tor a woman
Read the incloaed. O.
The inclosed was a telegram from
Obadiah Trohm, stmt during the night,
and evidently just received at head
quarters. Its contents were certainly
not reassuring:
Anoth >r person mlssim;. Seen to have en
lered J»st Man’s lane. Never seen to have
«-.oine out of it. A harmless lad known as Killy
Uufu* What’a to be done t Wire orders. K.
“Mr. Grye© bade me say that be
would be up here nome time before
noon, "said the man, seeing me look
with some blankness at these words.
Nothing more was needed to pull me
together Folding up the letter, 1 put
it in my hag.
"Hay to Mr. Gryee from mo that my
intended visit oauuot be postponed,"!
remarked. "1 have telegraphed to my
friends to expect me, and only a great
emergency would >ad me to disappoint
them. I will be glad to receive Mr.
Gryoe on my return." And without
further parley I took my bandies back
from Lela and proceeded at once to the
carriage. Why should 1 show any fail
ure of courage at an event that was but
a repetition of the very ones which
made my visit necessary? Was I a like
ly one to fall victim to a mystery to
which my eyes have been opened? Had
1 not been sufficiently warned of the
dangers of Lost Man’s-laue to keep my
self at a respectable distance from the
place of peril? I was going to visit the
children of my once devoted friend. If
there were perils of no ordinary nature
to be encountered there, was I not all the
more called upon to go if only as a moral
support to these young people, who per
haps themselves were paralyzed by fear?
Yes, Mr. Gryee, and nothing now
should hold mo back. 1 even felt an in
creased desire to reach the scene of these
mysteries and chafed some at the length
of the journey, which was of a more te
dious character than 1 expected. A poor
beginning for events requiring patience
as well as great moral courage, but 1
little knew what was before me and
only considered that every moment
spent on this hot and dusty train kept
me thus much longer from the embraces
of Althea’s children
l recovered my equanimity, however,
as we approached. The scenery was
really beautiful, and the consciousness
that i should soon alight at the moun
tain station which had played a more
or less serious part in Mr Gryce’s nar
rative awakened in me a pleasurable
excitement which should have been a
sufficient warning to me that the spirit
which had led me through that affair
next door had seized me again in a way
that meant equal absorption if not equal
success.
The number of small packages I car
ried gave me enough to think of at the
moment of alighting, hut as soon as 1
was safely again on terra firma I threw
a hasty glance around to see if any of
Althea’s children were there to meet
mo.
I felt that I would know them at
once She had been so characteristically
pretty they could not fail to show some
likeness which would lead to an instant
recognition while they could not fail
to know mo. But while there were two
or three country maidens to be seen
standing in and around the little pavil
ion known here as the mountain station
I saw no one who by any stretch of im
agination could be regarded as of Al
thea Burrough’s blood or breeding.
Somewhat disappointed, for 1 had ex
pected different results from my tele
gram, 1 stepped up to the station mas
ter and asked him whether I would
have any difficulty in procuring a car
nage to take me to Miss Knollys’ house.
He stared, it seemed to me unnecessari
ly long, before replying.
“Waal,"’ said he, “Simmons is usu
ally here, but—I don’t see him round
today Perhaps one of these farmer lads
will take it. ’’
But they all drew back with a sort of
scared look, and I was beginning to tuck
up my skirts preparatory to walking
when a little old man of very meek ap
pearance drove up in a very old fash
ioned coach, and with a hesitating air,
springing entirely from bashfulness,
managed to ask if 1 was Miss Butter-
worth I hastened to assure him that 1
was, whereupon he stammered out some
words about Miss Knollys and how sor
ry she was that she could not come for
me herself. Theu he pointed to his
coach and made me understand that I
was to step into it and go with him.
It was not an altogether encouraging
outlook, especially as 1 saw the beads
of the various onlookers draw together
and many curious looks directed at us
both and the conveyance that was to
carry us. But I was in no mood to be
daunted now, and accepting the old cod
ger’s apologies with what grace 1 could
1 stepped into the wagon and prepared
myself for a ride into town.
But it seems I was not to be allowed
to enter upon this adventure without
another warning. While the old man
was engaged in bringing my trunk, the
station master approached me with
great civility, and with a touch of his
hat asked if it was my intention to
spend a few days with the Misses Knol
lys. 1 told him that it was, and, thinking
it best to estabtf sh my position at once in
the eyes of the whole town, added with
a politeness equal to his own that I was
an old friend of the family and bad been
coming to visit them for years, but had
never found it convenient till now ar 1
that 1 hoped they w’ere all well and
would la* glad to see me.
He made some sort of reply, showing
considerable embarrassment, then pluck
ing up his courage said with marked
constraint:
“Perhaps you have not heard that
this village just now is under a cloud."
“I have heard," I said innocently,
"that one or two men have disappeared
from here somewhat mysteriously. Is
that what you mean?”
"Yes,” he answered. “Oneperson, a
boy, disappeared only two days ago."
“That’s bad," 1 said, “hut what has
that to do with me?” I asked smilingly,
for 1 saw he was not at the end of his
talk.
"Oh, nothing," he cried eagerly,
"only 1 didn’t know hut you might he
timid"—
"Oh, I’m not at all timid!" I has
tened to say “If I w* re, 1 should not
have come hero at all. Such matters
don’t affect me.” And I spread out my
skirts and arranged myself for my ride
as if the horrors he had mentioned had
made no more impression upon me than
if his chat had been of the weather.
Perhaps 1 overdid it, for he looked at
me for another moment in a curious,
lingering way; then he walked off, and
I saw him enter the circle of gossips on
the platform, where he stood shaking
his head as long as we were within
sight.
Before taking his seat my driver es
cort gave me a furtive glauce as he
stooped to tear from one of the spokes a
bit of rag that seemed to have been
caught there. He was evidently prepar
ing to make a good impression and to
do me suitable honor.
My companion, who was the shiest
man 1 ever saw, did not speak a word
while descending the hill. I talked and
endeavored to make him, too, but his re
plies were mere grunts or half syllables
which conveyed no information what
ever. As we cleared the thicket, how
ever, he allowed himself an ejaculation
or two as he pointed out the beauties of
the landscape. And indeed it was well
worth his admiration and mine bad my
mind been free to enjoy it. But the
houses which now began to appear on
either side of the way drew my atten
tion from the mountains. We were still
somewhat remote from the town, were
rapidly approaching the head of that
lane of evil fame with whose terrible
history my thoughts were at this time
full. I was so anxious not to pass it
without one look into its grewsome re
cesses that I kept my head persistently
turned that way till I felt Iwas attract
ing the attention of my companion. As
this was not desirable I put on a non
chalant look and began chatting about
what I saw. But he had lapsed into his
early silence, and only answered by a
snap of bis whip at the horse whose jog
trot needed a little urging.
did I fail to find it fixed again upon me
as wi* rode by the little hut occupied by
the old woman considered so harmless
hy Mr. Gryee.
Perhaps he had a reason for this, as I
was very much interested in this hut
aud its occupant, about which I felt free
to cherish my own secret doubts—so in
terested that I cast it a very sharp glance
and was glad when I caught a glimpse
through the doorway of the old crone’s
bent form and toothless jaws mumbling
over a piece of bread she w r as engaged
in eating as we passed ber.
“Mother Jane,’’explained my com
panion, breaking the silence of many
minutes. “And yonder is Miss Knollys,"
he added, lifting his whip and pointing
toward the half concealed facade of a
large aud pretentious dwelling a few
rods farther on down the road "She
will be powerful glad to see you, miss
and my heart expand, as if even now
before I bad so much as set eyes on the
faces of these young people I recognized
the fact that they were the victims of a
web of circumstances so tragic and in
comprehensible that only a woman like
myself would be able to clear them
away and restore these girls to the con
fidence of the people around them.
I forgot that these girls had a brother
and that— But not a word to forestall
the truth. I wish this story to grow up
on you just as it did upon me, aud with
just as little preparation.
The farmer who drove me, and whom
1 afterward learned was called Sims
bury, showed a certain dogged interest
in my behavior that would have amused
me or at least have awakened my dis
dain under circumstances of a less
thrilling nature. I saw his eye roll in a
sort of wonder over my person which
may have been held a little more stiffly
than was necessary aud settle finally on
my face with a look I might have
thought complimentary had 1 had any
thought to bestow on such matters. Not
till we had passed the path branching
up through the woods toward the moun
tain did he see fit to withdraw it. nor
Suddenly I myself grew still. The
houses were growing fewer on the left
hand side of the way, and I saw beyond
the dark boughs of a pine thicket. We
were nearing Lost Man’s lane, we wore
abreast of it, we were—turning into it.
I could not repress the exclamation
that escaped me.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"To Miss Knollys’ house,’’he found
words to say, smiting his horse again,
but with a sidelong glance at me this
time full of uneasy inquiry.
"Do they live on this road?” said I,
remembering with a certain shock Mr.
Gryce’s suspicious description of tho
two young ladies who with their broth
er inhabited the dilapidated mansion
marked in the map he had shown me.
"Certain," was the laconic answer,
aud. obliged to he satisfied with this, I
drew myself up with just one longing
look behind me at the cheerful highway
we were so rapidly leaving. A cottage,
with an open window, in which a
child’s head could he seen nodding
eagerly toward me, met my eyes aud
filled me with quite an odd sense of dis
comfort as I realized that I had caught
the attention of one of the little crip
ples who, according to Mr. Gryee, al
ways kept watch over this entrance in
to Lost Man’s lane. Another moment
and the pine branches had shut the vi
sion out, but I did not soon forget that
eager, childish face aud isiiutiug hand
marking me out as an intruder if not a
possible victim to the horrors of this ill
reputed lane. But I was aware of no
secret flinching from the adventure in
to which I was plunging. On the con
trary, I felt a strange and fierce delight
in thus being thrust into the very lu-art
of this mystery which 1 hod only ex
pected to approach by degree*. The
warning message sent me by Mr. Gryee
had acquired under it a deeper and
more HignitlcHiit meaning, as did the
looks which hud been cast mo by the
station master and his gossips on tho
hillside, hut in my present mood theso
very tokens of the serious nature of my
undertaking only gave an added spur
to my courage. 1 felt nij’ brain clear
Company is scarce in these parts.”
Astonished at this sudden launch into
conversation hy one whose reserve even
I had found it impossible to penetrate, I
gave him the affable answer he evident
ly expected aud then looked eagerly to
ward the house. It was as Mr. Gryee
had intimated, eminently forbidding
even at that distance, and as we ap
proached nearer aud I was given a full
j view of its worn and discolored front I
I felt myself forced to acknowledge that
never in my life had my eyes fallen
upon a habitation more given over to
neglect or less promising in its hospital
ity.
Had it not been for the thin circle of
smoke eddying up from one of its bro
ken chimneys I should have looked up
on the place as one which had not
known the care or presence of man for
years. There was a riot of shrubbery in
the yard, a lack of the commonest at
tention to order in the way the vines
drooped in tangled masses over the very
face of the desolate porch, that gave to
the broken pilasters and decayed win
dow frames of this dreariest of facades
that look of abandonment which only
becomes picturesque when nature has
usurjx'd the prerogative of man and
taken entirely to herself the empty
walls aud fulling casements of what
was once a human dwelling. That any
one should be living in it now aud that
I, who have never been able to see a
chair standing crooked or a curtain
awry without a sensation of the keenest
discomfort, should he on the point of
deliberately entering its doors as an in
mate tilled mu at the moment with
such a sense of unreality that 1 descend
ed from the carriage in u sort of a
dream and was making my way through
one of the gups in the high antique
fence that separated the yard from the
gateway when Mr. Simsbury stopped
me aud i>omt«d out the gate.
1 di<l not think it worth while to
aj>ol<jgize, for the broken palings cer
tainly offered as good an entrance us
the gate, which hail slipped from its
hinges and hung hut a few inches opm.
But 1 took the course he indicated, hold
ing up my skirts as well as my pack
ages would allow and treading gingerly
for fear of the snails and toads that in
cumbered such portions of the path as
the weeds had left visible. As I went
on something in the silence of the spot
struck me. Was 1 becoming oversensi
tive to impressions or was there some
thing really uncanny in the absolute
lack of 8oun& or movement in a dwell
ing of such dimensions? But I should
not have said movement, for at that in
stant I saw a flash in one of the upper
windows as of a curtain being stealth
ily drawn and as stealthily let fall
again, and though it gave me the prom
ise of some sort of greeting there was a
furtiveness in the action that was so in
keeping with the suspicions of Mr.
Gryee that 1 felt my nerves braced at
once to mount the half dozen uninvit
ing looking steps that led to the front
door. *
But no sooner had I done this with
what I am fain to thing was my best
air than I suddenly collapsed with what
must have been a movement of sudden
and to me quite comprehensible fear,
for, while I do tot quail before men
and have a reasonable fortitude In the
presence of most dangers corporeal aud
moral, I am not quite myself in face of
a rampant and barking dog. It is my
one weakness. I can divulge that much
now, and while I usually can, aud un
der most circumstances do, succeed in
biding any outward manifestation of
my inner trepidation I always feel that
it would be a happy day for me when
dogs would be banished from the affec
tions and homes of men. Then I think
I would begin to live in good earnest
and perhaps enjoy trips into the country
which now, for all my apparent bravery,
I regard more in the light of a penance
than a pleasiye.
Imagine, then, how bard I found it
to retain my self possession or even any
appearance of dignity when at the mo
ment 1 was stretching forth my hand
toward the knocker of this inhospitable
mansion I heard rising from somewhere
1 never rightly knew where the howl o #
a dog so keen, piercing aud prolonged
that it frightened the very birds oyer
my head aud sent them flying from the
vines in clouds.
It was the unhappiest kind of ml
come for me. I did not know whether it
came from within or without, aud when
after a moment of indecision I saw the
door open I am not sure whether the
smile I called up to grace the occasion
had any of the real Amelia Butterworth
in it, so much was my mind divided be
tween a desire to produce a favorable
impression aud a very decided and not
to be bidden fear of the dog who had
greeted my arrival with such an omi
nous howl.
“Call off the dog!” I cried almost
before I saw what sort of person I wa»
addressing.
Mr. Gryee, when I told him of tint
later, said 1 could not have made a mur<
significant introduction of myself to the
Knollys mansion.
This story will be continued in
next Friday’s issue of The Ledger.1
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carefully to see if it is made by Perry Davis,
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CROP BULLETIN.,
Condltiou of Carolina Crop* As Report*,!-.
•»} Oepartineut of Axrleulture.
Columbia, July 8—-The average
temoerature for the week ending
Monday, July 7th, was 88 degrees
which is about 8 degrees above nor
mal. It was the warmest week oP
the seasoo. Maximum temperatures-
of 100 degrees, or above, were general
over the State from the 4th to the
7th, with au extreme maximum of
100 degrees at Florence on the 4th.
fbe minimum of the we»k wasC'ihs*
grees at Spartanburg on the ifod.
There was very little cloudiness,
and the sky was practically cloudless
except for short periods each after
noon. Fresh to brisk parching winds
prevailed that were injurious to vege
tation The relative humidity was
much below normal, causing cropg-
to wilt and shrivel. The nights were
practically dewiess.
Only six out of over two hundred
points represented by correspondents
reported any appreciable- amount op
rain, with the largest- amount in
Oconee and Lexington counties, mak
ing this the driest as well as the hot-
teet week of the season. The drought
has become serious over the eastern
half of the State, where coco has suf
fered material injury, while over the
western half all crops have so far
stood the trying conditions remark
ably well, but are badly in need of'
rain.
The earliest corn was too far ad
vanced to be greatly hurt, but later
plantings suffered from tbe extreme
heat, dryness and parching. winds,
and some fields were irretrievably
damaged over the eastern counties.
Bottom land corn, and over the
western counties generally it has not
yet been seriously injured, but soon
will be with a continuation of the
r>ro*°nt weather conditions. Corn is
tiring in Orangeburg and Barnwell;,
chinch bugs are damaging it in Ches
ter, Lancaster and York..
Cotton withstood the unfavorable
weather fairly well, except that in
places it is turning yellow and shed
ding its lower leaves aod has stopped
growing. Lice are still prevalent in
a few localities. It is blooming, pro
fusely in places and the plants are
full of squares. The dry, parching
winds had a deteriorating effect, but
in places the crop continues to be
unusually promising.
Tobacco was hurt somewhat by the
hot sun, and curing, that is now gen
eral, was hastened by the unfavorable
weather that threatened further in
jury. In places the crop is very line.
Wheat threshing is practically fin
ished, and late reports confirm pre
vious ones as to the poorness of the
crop, and the uniform fine quality of
the grain. Rice is doing very well,
but, like all other crops needs rain
badly. Melons are being marketed,
but the dry weather is detrimental,
i'eas have good stands. Pastures are
poor. Apples are plentiful in York.
Gardens are failing.
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STONEWALL JACKSON.
I have taken the agency In Cherokee
county to sell the Sto-y of Stonewall Jack-
sou a narrative of Ids career from written
and verbal accounts of hi« life. It is ap
proved by his widow. Mary Anna Jackson,
and dedicated to Julia Jackson and Thomas
Jackson 'Christian, grandchildren and sole
surviving desceudan s of lieneral Jackson,
who are lM-neiiciuries In the publication of
lids book, written by William c. Chase. The
hook has 5011 pages witb-over ISO illustrations.
Tills is a work of tiig Confederate veterans
and sons and daugliteisof Confederate vet
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appreciation of the high Christian character
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Here Is wnat Uen’l. C. |. Walker, comman
der of the F.C veterans army of Northern
Virginia, says:
COKKMNL-KY. S. C . June 4th, liKE.
To my Comrades: -
This will introduce Comrade J. L. Strain,
who isengoged in the patriotic work of pre
senting to our people “The Story of Stone
wall Jackson," whicli sets forth with won
derful clearness the noble life, high charac
ter and maguittci-nt services of our great
Christian hero. The grandchildren of (Jen‘1.
Jackson arc directly interested in the sale
of the book and will lie beneiitte-d thereby.
I have consented to take ( hinge of this
work in South Carolina. Any fayor or eour
tesy you may extend him will la? to my per
sonal ad vantage and I will appreciate most
highly any assistance you may give him.
Yours very truly,
C. Iuvink Wai.kek.
Aside from what Ceuerals Wade Hampton,
Fit/.hugh Lee, W. I,. Cahls-ll aud others say
of it tiic book is its own exborter. The life
character of this great man Isa benediction
upon the world of mankind, and should be
read and studied by every boy and girl not
only In Cherokee county hut throughout.
Christendom.
I expect, as soon as pohslbie, to make a
canvass of Cherokee county with the Ixiok.
hut in tin- meantime would hcglau to till any
orders I may receive for it and will deliver (t
at the earliest convenient moment.
The price of tin- hook Is; On tine
grey cloth and silver cinlmsalug, - #..’.75
On plain morocco and gold emboss
!«**. #:».75
Address
J. L STRAIN.
Etta Jane, s.kk