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By this time tiie sun had fallen to the level of the summits of the Blue Ridge, Butler and Robinson bad -ro grossed so far in their journey as to find themselves in the vicinity of the Bocbflsh river—a rapid mountain stream that traverses the southern confine of Albemarle, and which at that period separated that county from Amherst. Their path had led them by a short circuit out of the ravine of Cove creek, along upon th* ridges of the neighboring hills; and they were now descending from this elevation into the valley of the Rock flsh near to the point whsre the Cov* creek forms its Junction with this river. The hill was covered with a stately forest, and a broad, winding road had been cut down the steep side in such a manner as to present a high bank on one hand and an ab rupt sheer descent on the other. From this might be seen, at Intervals glim mering through the screen o f thja un derwood. the waters of the small river below; whilst at the same time the circuitous course of the descending track left but few paces of its length visible from any point except where now and then It came boldly ’ forth to the verge of some wild crag, from which glimpses were to be obtained of its frequent traverses towards the de i) and romantic dell that received the mingled tribute of the two streams. Here, as our travellers journeyed downward, their attention was awak ened by the cry of hounds in pursuit of game. These sounds came from the wood on the crest of the bill above them, and the clamourous ear nestness with which they assailed the ear and roused the far echo of the highlands '-bowed the object of chase great animation, “how glad I am you have come! And how fortunate it is that 1 should meet you! Get down from your horse. I have something to t 11 you. Here, Stephen Foster, take this gentleman’s horse." “You are a fine fellow, Harry,” said Butler, dismounting. “That smiling face of yours is full of oleas ant news; it assures me that all are well at the Dove Cote.” Then, hav ing given his horse in charge to Rob inson, and walked a few paces apart with his young friend, he enquired, In a low and anxious tone. “Mildred, my dear Henry, what of your sister Mildred? Has she received mr let ter? Does she expect me? Is your father—” “Now, captain,” interrupted the other—“but, heigh! don’t the news papers say you are brevetted? I am a pretty fellow to forget that! Well, then, Major, let me answer one ques tion at a time. In the first place, sis ter Mildred is as well as any girl can be, that has a whole bushel of cross es to keep her out of spirits. Poor thing, she frets so about you and my father. In the second place, she re ceived your letter a week ago and has had me patrolling this ridge ever since, just to keep a look-out for you; and. for the sake of company, I have had Stephen Foster hunting here all the time—more for an excuse than anything else, because on this side of the river the drives are not the best for deei^-a man might be here a fort night and not get a shot. Sister Mil dred wanted me, if I should see you first, just whisper to you that it is Impossible to do anything with my father, especially at this time, for ke hat- one of these English officers stay ing at the Dove Cote now, who, I am afraid, and so is sister Mildred, has come to do some mischief. Mildred who labors in the cause! What He lias .struggle have I to encounter between my duty to my country and my re gard for those tender relations that -till more or r i s my affections, nor less earnestly ' M al to my manhood for defence! the common quar- Host Anything And a little of everything is now being shown in my line: All the new conceptions aud fads . : : ..In The Jewelry Line.. I From the cheapest worth having to the very finest specimens and grades. Re pairing done by an Ex 'ert. Thos. h. Westrope, Next to Shuford & LeMaster. landy Kitchen Now is the time to make Candy Al also the time to sell it, I can ive you any kind you want in any tape. Also finest Fruit for less «|py. Come and see me or ’phone 7 and you will find what you want. to have bee.) suddenly surprised and 8a 7® * must make some appointment hotiv followe i The outcry wa* heard , ^ ^ ^ r ° u ^°,, see T ^ er Privately. I for some mom nts pursuing a direct-1 H lou .f^ ^? rs ' ^ moc ^’ s > but this ion towards the river, when suddenly 1 * 8 ^ man a servant staying from the midst oi the forest the sharp ^ ver taere ' an ^ ^ wouldn’t twang of a ride shot showed that ”• °°* ma Jor, you will have to ride some hunter was on the watch to! the big chestnut, on the bank profit by the discovery of the dogs. ! of 1116 r 1 i , ver - Just under the rock that Robinson, as soon as he heard the ! , we cal * the Fawn’s Tower—you report, urged his horse forward with speed, to the first turn of the road below; dismounted, and throwing his rifle into the palm of his left hand, stood ready to give his fire wherever he might And occasion. Butler fol- and reined up close beside his companion. “There is game afoot,” said Gall- braith, “and if that shot has not done know where that is? It isn’^ more than two miles from here." “I know it well, Henry; I will wait there patiently,” replied Butler, as he now returned to his horse. “Haven’t we been In luck,” said Henry, “to get so fine a buck at last? This fellow has eight branches. It is Stephen’s rifle that has done it.’’ The woodman during this brief con its business it may be my turn to try I versatlon had taken possession of his spoils, and was now busily engaged with his knife in cutting open and preparing the animal for transporta tion, according to the usages of wood- a hand.” These words were hardly spoken, when a wounded buck rushed to the brink of the bank, some twelve or Aug. 31 Fri. tf. IS OFFERED TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLE earnestly request all yiuujr persons.no Uer how limited their means or education. ) desire a thorough business training and d p sitton. to writ- at once for our groat i rate offar. Success, independence and Pabh-fortune guaranteed. Don’t delay-— >ta today. Nov 5 ot a.-Ala. Bus. 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So effectually had the work of death been done upon the poor animal that he seemed to have expired in the con vulsion of this last leap, before he reached the ground; his antlers were driven into the ground, his eyes were fixed, and not a struggle followed. “It was a home shot that brought this poor fugitive to the earth,” said Butler, as he stood gazing at the pit eous spectacle before him, “and sped by a practised hand.” “I don’t count him a good man. ma jor.” said Gallbnaith, with profession al indifference, “who would mangle his meat by random firing. Now. this buck was taken sideways as he leap ed above the tops of the bushes, which is the tickdishest of all ways rf shooting a deer. The mao that plucked this fellow. I’ll warrant, can plant his ball just where he likes; right under the arm is the place for certainty, and the thing couldn’t have been prettier done if the man had had a rest and a standing shot.” During this short interval the hounds had arrived on the spot where the buck lay bleeding, and these af ter a few minutes. w r ere followed by two hunters of very dissimilar ap pearance. who came on foot, slowly leading their horses up the hill. The first was a tall, gaunt wood man. of a sallow complexion, jet black eyes and round head (if smooth black hair. His dress was simply a coarse linen shirt and trowsers, the heat of the day being such as to al low him to dispense with coat and waistcoat. He carried in one hand a battered straw bat, and in the other trailed a long rifle. His feet were covered brow ing equipments were suspended about lii'- person. The second was a youth apparently ] about sixteen, dressed in a suit of green summer cloth, neatly and fan j cifullv adapted to his figure, which was graceful and boyish. The jack et was short and gathered into a small skirt behind; and both this and the pantaloons were garnished with a profusion of black cord and small black buttons. A highly polished leather belt was buckled around his waist; a cap of green cloth rested, somewhat conceitedly, amongst the I rich locks of a head of light hair that 1 fell, with girlish beauty, over a fair j brow, ami gave softness to a counte- | nance of pure white and red; and a neat foot shov'd to advantage in a | laced boot. The whole appearance of tlie youth was of one of an ami- | able and docile bearing, and the small rifle or carbine which he bore in his hand, as well as the dainty accoutrements that belonged to it, amongst which was a diminutive bu gle. looked more like the toys of a namnered hoy than any apparatus of service. No sooner had these two approach ed near enough to Butler and his at tendaut for recognition, than the youth, quitting hold of his horse, sprang forward with a joyous alac rity and seized Butler by the hand. "Captain Butler,” he cried with was at last thrown by Stephen across his horse, Henry gave him orders to ride forward. “You will carw our game to your own house, Stephen; and don’t for get tomorrow to let us have the sad dle at the Dove Cote. And. Stephen, you need not say that we have found any acquaintances upon the road, vou understand!” The man bowed his head in token of obedience, and getting .upon his long-backed steed, behind the buck, was soon lost to view in the windings of the hill. “Sister Mildred is sometimes down right melancholy,” said the young hunter, after he had remounted and now rode beside Butler. “She is troubled about you, and is always telling me of some unpleasant dream. I almost think she is over-fanciful; and then she reads everything about the army, and talks almost like a man about soldiering. Do you know she is making a soldier of me? I am constantly reading military books, and practising drill, and laying out fortifications, just as if I was going into camp. My father doesn’t know a word of it; his time is taj^en up with these English officers, writing to them, and every now and then there are some of them at our house. Mildred knows them—a famous spy she would make! Isn’t she an excel lent girl, Major Butler?” “You and I should guard her, Hen ry. with more care than we guard our lives,” replied Butler, with a se rious emphasis. “I hope,” returned Henry, “she will be in better spirits after she sees you.” “I would to heaven.” said Butler, with a pair of moccasins of ‘■hat we all had more reason to be leather, and the ordinary hunt' ! of K»od cheer than we are likely to have. It is as cloudy a day, Henry, I as you may ever behold again, should j you live, as I pray you may, to the ripest old age.” Henry looked up towards the west. “There are clouds upon the sky,” he said, “and the sun has drop- ^d below them; but there is a stroak of yellow light near to the line of the mountain that our wise people say is a sign that the sup will rise in beau ty tomorrow.” “There is a light beyond the moun tain.” replied Butler, half speaking to himself, “and it Is the best, the only sign I see of a clear tomorrow. I wish, Henry, it were a brighter beam.” “Don’t you know Gates has passed South?” said Henry, “and has some pretty fellows with him, they say. And aren’t we all mustering here— every man of us? Ask Stephen Fos ter what I am?” “And what will he tell me?” “That I am his deputy corporal In the mounted riflemen; Stephen is the lieutenant." “Oh, I crave your favor, brother officer, good master deputy corporal, Henry Lindsay! And does your fa ther allow you to ride in the ranks of the friends of liberty?” “Sister Mildred persuaded him that as I am a mere lad, as he says—look at me, major; a pretty well grown lad, I take it,—there is no harm in my p’aying soldier. So I ride always with Stephen Foster, and Mildred got me this rifle-carbine. Now, major, I fancy 1 am pretty nearly as good a marksman as rides in the corns. Who Is this with you?’’ asked Henry, looking back at Robinson, who loiter- r * some distance in the rear pur posely to avoid what might be deem ed an intrusion upon the private con ference of the two friends. “That is a famous soldier. Henry; he was at the seii?e of Charleston, and last year at Savannah, had some hard blows and can tell you more of war than you have ever read in all your studies.” “He wears a curious uniform,” said Henry, “for a regular soldier. What is his name?” “Gailbraith Robinson—or Horse Shoe Robinson—to give him his most •'onular distinction. But it would be well to keep his name secret.’ ’ “I have heard of Horse Shoe,” said Henry, with an expression of great interest. “So this is the man him self? From all reports he is as brav® as”— “As who?” asked Butler, smiling at the tone of wonder with which Henry spoke. “As Caius Marcius Coriolanus. who, I make no doubt, was about the brav est man in the books." Butler laughed and applauded th« young martialist for his discrimina tion. The road from the foot of the hill pursued the left, or northern bank of the Rockflsh, which shot along with a rapid flood over the rocks that lay scattered in its bed; and the gush of whose flight fell upon the ear like the loud tones of the wind. From either margin it was shaded by huge sycamores, whose tops at this twi light hour were marked broad lines upon the fading sky, and whose wide spreading boughs met from side to side over the middle of the waters. The valley was closely bound by high precipitous hills, whose steep crags and narrow passes seemed to echo and prolong the gush of the stream, that was now mingled with the oc casional lowing of cattle, the shriek of the owl. and the frequent hoarse scream of the whip-poor-will. When our party had advanced about a mile along this road, Henry Lind say took his bugle and blew a blast which seemed to dance in its rever- brations from one side of hte river to the other. “Mildred knows my signai,” said he; “that is the scout’s warning: cal vary approaches; dress your line; prepare to receive a general officer.” “Henry, drop your miltary phrase and tell me what this means?” said Butler. “Ride on till you arrive beneath the Fawn’s Tower. Wait for me there. I will give you a signal when I approach; and trust me for a faith ful messenger. The river Is deep at th~ rock, but you will find a boat fastened to this bank. When you hear ray signal, come across. Mr. Dimock’s is only another mile; and I’ll warrant the old lady will make you comfortable. Love, they say. ma jor,’ ’added Henry, sportively, “Is meat and drink, and a blanket to boot; but for all that, Mrs. Dimock’s will not be amiss—especially for Horse Shoe, who. I take it, will have the roughest time of the party. If love is a blanket. Mr. Robinson,” Henry continued, addressing himself to that worthy, “it doesn’t cover two, vou know.” “To my thinking, young sir,” replied Horse Shoe, with a laugh, “it wouldn’t fr 1 -” so cleverly in a knapsack.” “Now, that 1 have given my or ders,” said Henry, “and done my du ty, I must leave you, for my road lies across the ford here. Where are my hounds? Hylas, Bell, Blanche, you nuppies, where are you?” Here Henry blew another note, which was immediately responded to bv the hounds; and, plunging Into the rapid and narrow stream, follow ed by the dogs, who swam close be hind him. he was seen the next mo ment through the twilight galloping up the opposite hill, as he called out his "good night” to his friends. As soon as Henry had disappeared the other two pricked their steeds forward at a faster pace. The rapid flow of the river as they advanced alone its banks began to change into a more quiet current, as if some ob struction below had damned up the water, rendering it deep and still. Upon this tranquil mirror the Dale crescent of the moon and the faintly peeping stars were reflected; and the flight of the fire-fly was traced by i Orderlv on the Waccamaw picquet. his own light and its redoubled Image ; p 0 r Gill, in the first place, couldn’t upon the surface. ; write, and, in the next place if he The .high toppling cliff of the j COU ] ( i a that he never lamt to , Fawn’s Tower, that jutted forth like | read, so you may suppose what a a parapet above the road, soon ar ! beautiful puzzleifieation he had of it j rested the attention of Butler; and j t 0 keen the guard roster straight.” I at its base the great chestnut flung! "Sergeant, look if yonder boat is | abroad ,his “vast magnificence of loose; I shall want it presently.” said j leaves.’ ’almost in emulation of the Mutler. still giving no ear to his com- ! aspiring crag. j rade’s gossip “We have cerns me deeply that, this meeting should be secret.” “Major. I will have neither eyes nor ears, if it concerns you to keep anything that mought chance to come to my knowledge, private." “It Is not for myself, sergeant, ! bespeak this caution; I have nothing to conceal from you; but there Is a lady who is much interested in our nation’s happiness, and on the other; circumspection. I have given you a to the prostration of the Individual long and solitary ride on her account. and may hereafter ask other service from you. You shall not find it more irksome, Galbraith, to stand by a comrade in love, than you have ever found it In war. and that, I know, you think not much.” “The war comes naturally enough rei I have already staked my life and to my hand.” replied Galbraith, “but fortune, and find myself wrapt up in t as for the love part, major, cxcept- its most perilous obligations. That I ing so far as carrying a message, or cause has enough in it to em iloy and in case of a runaway, keeping off a nerplex the strongest mind, and to j gang of pestifarious intermeddlers, invoke the full devotion of a head and heart that are e e-npt from all other solicitude; yet am 1 embarrassed with personal cares that are woven into the very web of my existence; that have planted themselves beside the fountain of my affections, and which if they be rudely torn from me would leave behind—but a miserable and hopeless wreck. My own Mildred! to what sad trials have 1 brought your affection; and how nobly hast tho” met them! “Maa lives in the contentious crowd; he struggles for the P«lm that thousands may award, and far-speed ing renown may rend the air with the loud huzza of praise. His ip the strife of the theatre, where the world pro spectators; and multitudes shall glorify his success, or lament his fall, or cheer him in the pangs of death. But woman, gentle, silent, sequest ered—thy triumphs are only for the heart that loves thee—thy deepest griefs have no comforter but the se cret communion of thine own pillow!” Whilst Butler, who had now re turned beneath the cliff of the Fawn’s Tower, was absorbed in this silent musing, his comrade was no less oc cupied with his own cares. The ser geant had acquired much of that fore cast in regard to small comforts, which becomes in some degree an in stinct in those whose profession ex poses them to the assaults of wind and weather. Tobacco, in his reckon ing. was one of the most indispensi- ble muniments of war; and he was, accordingly, seldom without a good stock of this commodity. A corn cob at any time furnished him the means of carving the bowl of a pipe; whilst in his pocket he carried a slender tube of reed, which, being united to the bowl, formed a smoking apparatus still familiar to the people of this country, and which, to use the sergeant’s own phrase, “couldn’t be touched for sweetness by the best pipe the very queen of the Dutch herself ever smoked; and that”—he was in the habit of adding—“must be, as I take It. about the tenderest thing for a whiff that the Dutchman knowed how to make.” A flint and steel—part also of his gear—now served to ignite his to bacco, and he had been for some time past sedately scanning the length breadth of his own fancies, which were doubtless rendered the more sublime bv the mistiness which a rich volume of smoke had shed across his vision and Infused into the atmos- ph'-* around his brain. “Twelve shillings and nine pence,” were the first words which became audible to Butler in the depth of his reverie. “That, major,” said the ser geant, who had been rummaging his pocket, and counting over a handful or watching, for a night or so, under a tree, or any thing, indeed, in the riding and running, or watching, or scrimmaging line—I say, excepting these, my sarvice moughtn’t turn to much account. I can’t even play a fiddel at a wedding, and I’ve not the best tongue for making headway amongst the women Howsomdever, major, you may set me down for a volunteer on the first forlorn hope you may have occasion for.” “Mr. Lindsay lives on the hill across the river. There are reasons why I cannot go to his house; and his daughter. Galbraith, is an especial friend to us and our cause.” “I begin to see into it,” interrupt ed the sergeant, laughing, “you have a notion of showing the old gentle man the same trick you played off upon Lord Howe’s provost marshal, when you was lieutenant at Valley Forge, touching your stealing away his prisoner. Captain Roberts. That was a night affair, too. Well, the best wife a man can have, major, is the woman that takes to him through fire and water. There was Colonel Gardiner, that stole his wife just in that way, against all opposition of both father and mother, and a better woman never stitched up a seam, to mv knowledge and belief.” “I have no thought of such an en terprise, sergeant,” said Butler; “our purpose, for the present, must be confined to a short visit. We are houseless adventurers, Galbraith, and have little to offer to sweetheart or wife that might please a woman's fancy." “When a woman loves a man, es pecially a sodger,’’ replied the serge ant, “she sets as little store by house and home as the best of us. Still, it creatures vou get Hark, eps on Mister t.)(. 1 Ve is a wise thing to give the chance of peac’ to tangling them » I hear someiimig t’other side 01 me Henry must be on ins march.” After an interval, a anv whistle is sued from the opnosne bank, and, in a moment. Bin. - . • n ne skiff, pushing his way imougu me spark ling waters. As the small boat in which he stood upright, slioi 1.0.11 >c bright moonlight into the shade 0: »ho op posite side, he cone; ous.,uie.y dis cern Mildred Lmusa.. -.uiuig ou her brother’s arm, as they both stood under the thick foliage 01 a targe beech. And scarcely nau the bow struck upon the pebblv margin, be fore he bounded uoiu it up tlie bank, and was, in the next instant. locked in the embrace ol one wiioso aiiection he valued above all eariuo posses sions. When that short-interval had pass ed away, in which neither Mildred of coin, “is exactly the amount I have nor Arthur could utter speech; during snent since this time last night. I which the ladv leant iier bead upon paid it to the old lady of the Swan at her iovei s uosom, in mat fond famili- Charlottesville, taking a sixpence for aritv which plighted faith is allowed mending your bridle rem. Since you to justnv in the most modest maid- must make me paymaster for our on. soouiug me while in the intensity march I am obliged to square ac- ( ot her emotions, she then at last, as counts every night. My noddle won’t she slowly regained her self-posses- hold two days reckoning. It gets sion, said, in a soft and melancholy scrimped and flustered with so many numberings, that I lose the count clean out.” “It is of little consequence, Gail braith,” replied Butler, seeking to avoid his companion’s interruption. ‘Squaring up, and smoothing off, and bringing out this and that shil voice, in which there was neverthe less a tone of playfulness: (CONTINUED NEXT FRIDAY.) The Modesty of Women ling straight to a penny, don’t come . Naturally makes them shrink from the natural to me,” continued Robinson, * n< ^^' cate questions, the obnoxious ex- too intent upon his reckoning to ob-; amiaation - s » ami unpleasant Icx-a rea- serve the disinclination of Butler to ments, which some physicians consider a parley; “money matters are not in mv line. I take to them as disunder- standinglv as Gill Bentley did to the company’s books when they made him essential in the treatment of diseases of women. Yet, if help can be had, it is better to submit to this ordeal than let the disease grow and spread. The trouble is that so often the woman undergoes all the annoyance and shame for nothing. Thousands of women who have been cured by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Proscrip tion write in appreciation of the cure which dispenses with the examinations and local treatments. There is no other medicine so sure and safe for delicate women as "Favorite Prescription." It cures debilitating drains, irregularity and female weakness. It always helps. It - . , almost always cures. It is strictly non- reached our appointed ; j s tied by an easy knot to the | alcoholic, non - secret, all its ingredients around,” said Butler; “1 shall want roo t of the tree,” said Robinson, us j being printed on its bottle-wrapper; con- my cloak, Gailbraith; the dew begins | i u , returned from the examination. I tains no deleterious or habit-forming "Thank you,” added Butler with drugs, and every native medicinal root to chill my limbs.” They dismounted and Butler threw | more than usual abstractedness. I his cloak around his shoulders. Then, "Something, major, seems to press I in a thoughful, musing state of mind, u))()n y 0ur s pi r jt s tonight,” said the 1 he strobed slowly along the bank 0 I 8ergean t, | n the kindest tones of in- the river, till he was temporarily los quiry. “If I could lend a hand to put to view in the thick shades and som bre scenery around him. Robinson, anything, that mought happen to have got crooked, into its right place having secured the horses, sat himself agaln you know Major Bll tie r . I down at the foot of the chestnut, un willing to interrupt by conversation the anxious state of feeling which he had the shrewdness to perceive pre dominated in Butler’s mind. CHAPTER IV A Meetinq of Lovers—Some Insight Into the Future. The twilight had subsided and glv- c- 1 place to a beautiful night The moon had risen above the tree tops, and now threw her level rays upon the broad face of the massive pile of rocks forming the Fawn’s Tower, and lit up with a silvery splendor the fol wouldn’t be s!ow to do it, when you sav the word.” “I would trust my life to you, Gal braith, sooner than to any man liv ing.” replied the other, with an af entering into its composition lias the full endorsement of those most eminent in the several schools of medical practice. Some of t hese numerous and strongest of pro fessional endorsements of its ingredients, will be found in a pamphlet wrapped around the bottle, also in a l»ooklet mailed free on request, by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y. These professional en dorsements should have far more weight than any amount of the ordinary lay, or non-professional testimonials. The most intelligent women now-a-days Insist on knowing what they take as med- fectionate emphasis:—“But you mis- (cine instead of opening their mouths like tak-e me, I am not heavy at heart, a lot of young birds and gulping down iage that clothed the steep cliff and interrupted Galbraith though a little anxious, sergeant, at what has brought me here, comrade,” he added as he approached the serge ant. upon whose broad shoulder he familiarly laid his hand, with a smile; “you will keep a fellow sold- rinaning OJ| , ^ ier s counsel? 7 ! B uffalo, N. 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