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HORSE-SHOE ROBINSON = A TALE OF THE TORY ASCENDENCY BY JOHN P. KENNEDY CHAPTER XV. Horse Shoe a "d Butler Resume Their Journev. Which is Delayed By a Savacift Incident. Morninp broke, and with the first day-streak Robinson turned out of his bed. leaving Bmler so thorough ly bo ind in the Rtx'll of sleep, that he was not even moved by the loud and heavy tramp of the sergeant, as that, weighty personage domed his clothes. Horse Shoes first habit in the morning was to look after Cap tain Peter and he accordingly direct-j an observation I have made; and creetur went with a bridle across his head, and a pair o’ legs astride his hack. And whoever held that bridle in his hand, did it for no good! Scampering here and scampering there, and scoring woods in the night too. when the country is as full of Tories as a begger's coat with . it's a dogmatical bad sign, take it which way you will. Them three horses had the majorty, and it is the nature of these beasts al ways to follow the majority, if that s in ed his steps which towards the rude shed served as a stable, at th 1 foot of the hill. Here, to his surprise, he discovered that *he fence-rails which, the nght before, had been set up as a hairier across the vacant doorway, had been let down, and that no horses were to be seen about the premises. , , “What hocus-pocus has been >, ere .7" said he to himself, as be gaz ed upon the deserted stable. “Have these rummaging and thieving Tories bften out maraudering in the night? or is it only one of Cptain Peter’s old-sodger tricks, letting down bars and leading the young geldings into mischief 0 That beast can snuff the scent of a corn field or a nastuio ground as far as a crow smells gun powder. He’d dislocate and comipti- fy anv innocent tsalde °f horses in Carolina!” In doubt to which of those causes this disappearance "f their cavalry, the sergeant ascended the hill hard- hv. and directed his eye over the neighboring fields, hoping to dis- cover the deserters in some of the) adjacent pastures. Hut h<-> could got. j - sight of them. He then returned to the stable and Ml to examining the ground about the door, in order to learn something of the departure of the animals by their tracks. Thetse wm-e sufficiently distinct, to convince him that Captain Peter, whose shoes had a peculiar mark well known to the sergeant, had eloped during ihe night in company with the major's gelding and two others, these being all. as Horse Shoe had observed, that were in the stahl' 1 at the time h'' 1 had retired to bed. He forthwith followed the foot prints which led him into the high road, and thence along it westward for about two hundred pact s, where a set of field bars, now thrown down, afforded entrance into the cornfield. At this point the sergeant traced the deviation of three of the horses inio the field, whilst t.he fourth, it w\s evident, had continued upon the read. The conclusion which Galbraith preir- from this phenomenon was ex- Tvpessed by a wise shake of the head and a profound fit of abstraction. Ho took h’ eat upon a. projecting rail at the angle of the fence, and began to sum up conjectures in the following phrase: “The horse that travelled along that road, never travelled of his own frr^ will; that’s as clear as preach ing. Well. h« wa’n't rode by Wat nor by Mike Lynch, or else they are arlier men than I take them to he; but still. I'll take a hook oath that. particular, if there’s a cornfield, or an oatpateh. or a piece of fresh pas ture to he got into every individual horse is unanimous on the subject. Whilst the sergeant was engross- c ’ with these reflections, “he was ware.” as the old ballads have it, of a man trudging past him along the road. This was no other than Wat. Adair, who wag striding forward with a long and rapid step, and with all the appearance of one intent upon some pressing business. “Halloo! who goes there? where awav so fast. Wat?” was Robinson’s challenge. “Horse Sho !” exclaimed Adair, in a key that bespoke surprise and even alarm’—“Ha. ha. ha!—By the old woman’s pine, you frightened me! I'll swear, • Galbraith Robinson, I h-ard you snoring as I passed bv your window three minutes ago.” “I'll swear that's not the truest j word you ever spoke in your life. Wat- though true enough for yofi, mayhap. Do you so-" 1 how cleverly yon light’ has broke across the whole sky? When 1 first turned out this morning it was a little ribbon of day; the burning of a block-house at night, ten miles off, would have made a broad r streak. It. was your own snoring you heard. Wat; you have only forgot under wlv>se win dow it was.” “What o'd witch has been pinch ing you. Horse Shoe, that you are up so ■ arly?'' asked Adair. “Get “Yes. you called him Major But ler?” “1 had some dream. I think, about him; or. didn’t you call him so your self, Horse Shoe?” “Most ondoubtedly, I did not.” re plied Robinson seriously. "Then I dreamt it. Horse Shoe; these dreams sometimes get into the head, lik e things we have been told But, Galbraith, tell me the plain up- and-down truth, what brings you and Mr. Butler into these parts? What are you after in Georgia? It do ° seem strange to find men that are wan* ’ below, straggling here in our woods at such a time as this.” "There are two sorts of men in this world. Wat,” said the sergeant, with a smile, “them that axes ques tions, and them that won’t answer questions. Now, which, do you think. [ belong <o? Why, to the last, you tinker! Where are our horses. Wat? Tel] me that. Who let them out of the stable?” “Perhaps they let rcpli. fi Adair, “thev ed." “You are either Wat. Como here, tracks of the.beast man up this road, who sot loose all the horses that were in that stable.” “Mike Lynch, perhaps,” said Adair, with an assumed expression of ig norance. "Where can that fellow have been so early? Oh. I remem ber. ho told nio last night, that he wac going this morning to the black smith’s. H«> ought to this time.’* “And you are here news from him?’’ said themselves out,” were not halter- knave or fool. There are the that carried the be back by to He lam tbo segcant. back to the house, with you presentlv; to look after. I'll so "Vou seem to ni on reasonably hurry, ing that you have you. But softly. I’ll man. I will he I have mv farm you presently ” to bo in a very Wat. consider- the day before walk with you, if vou have no “No. no. I'm going to look after my rather you’d go hack to unliking to it.’’ busy, Galbraith; traps: I’m I’d the house Go! You w i' '> briers and hum break-fast, would onlv get ed if you followed me.” “Ha. ha. ha! Wat! Briers, did you say? Look here. man. do you s-- them there l^gs? Ido they lork as if they couldn't laugh at yonrn in any sort of scrambling I had a mind to set them to? Tut. I’ll go with vou inst to larn you the march drill.” “Then T’ll not budge a foot after the traps.” “You are crusty, what’s the matter with “Is Major Butler up the woodman thoughtfully. “Who do you say? Major Butler.” “Major!” cried Adair, wijh affect ed surprise. Wat Adair; you?” yet?” asked eyeing Adair with a suspicious scru- nity. “You have just, hit it. Horse Shoe.” retured Wat. laughing. “1 did want to know if there were any more squads of troops foraging about this distiH-t': for these cursed follows whin in upon a man and out him no blade and ear. without, so much as thanks for their pillage, and so I told Mike to inquire of the black smith, for he is more like to know t han anvbodv else*, whet to r there was any more of these pestifarious scrummagers abroad.” “And vour lisps. Wat?” "That was only a lie, Galbraith 1 confess it. I was afraid to make von uneasv by telling you w’nat I wa s aft r. But still it wasn’t abroad, stark, daylight lie neither: it was only a civil fib. for I was going af ter mv wolf trap before 1 got my breakfast. Hut here comes Mike.” At. this juncture Lynch was se n emerging from the wood, mounted on a rough, untrimmed pony, which he was urging forward under re peated blows with his stick. Th ■ little animal was covered with foam: and, from his travel-worn plight, gave evidence of having been taxed to the utmost of his strength in a severe journey. At some hundred paces distant, the rider detected the presence of Adair and his companion, and came to a sudden halt. He ap peared to deliberate a s if with a pur pose to escape their notice: hut finding that he was already observ ed by them, he put his horse again in motion, advancing only at a slow- walk. Adair hastily quitted Robin son' and. walking forward until he met Lvnch. turned about and ac companied him along the road, con versing during this interval in a j k-ey too low to be heard by the ser- | gean i. j “Here’s Horse’ Shoe thrusting his I head into our affair. Conjure a lie i quickly about your being at the I ty-one Years /'C'ypf* TRADE MARK ’.I REGISTERED have been the standard because they are made •/ from honest materials. See that the trade mark is on every bag. None genuine without it. F. S. 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Be sure you get the genuine. blacksmith's; then* In h' ;ii' “Aye, aye! “You s;uw i “Yes. The post.” “Hush! Be have a joke- suspieious.” I tuld him you were the news.” 1 understand." High?” ;iiig will lie at ile-ir merry: Horse Sh laii::!i e is and very “You have rild en tho crop-ear like a stolen liors' ,” continued Adair. ii s soon as he found himself within the sergeant's hearing. “See what a flitrC you have put the dumb least in. If it had been your own nag. Mike Lynch. I warrant you would have been more tedious with him.” “The crop-ear is not worth the devil’s fetching. Wat. He is as lazy as a land-turtle, and too obsti nate for any good-tempered man’s patience. Ijook at that stick i have split it into a broom on Hie beast.” “You look more like a man at tin* end of the day than at th<* beginning of it.” said Robinson “How far had .you to ride. Michael?” “Only over here to the shop of Billv Watson, in the Bu/.ard’s nest.'' replied Lynch, “which isn't above three miles at the farthest. My saw wanted setting, so I thought I’d it, but this 1 have been an hour -inci* pm hTK3 ORIGINAL rf! (MS U: a 9 JlEf f V y.>| pwi HONEY and TAR Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, La Grippe, Asthma, Throat in t h e and Lung Troubles# Prevents Pneumonia and Consumption yellow packaob •r Sal* by CnarokM Drug Co. For Salo bv Chorokoo Drug Co. cor Sato by Charokaa Drug Co. make an early job beast is so curs d dul good three-quart* rs M I left the smith’s ” “What news do you brl quired Adair. “Oh, none worth telling again. That cross-grained, contrary, rough- and-tumble hear gouger, old Hide- and Seek, went down yesterday with tko Inst squad of Ferguson’s new draughts.” “Wild Tom Eskridge,” said Wat Adair. “You k-nowed him. Horse Shoe, a superfluous imp of Satan!” continued the woodman, laying a particular accent on the penultimate of this favorite adjective which he was accutsomed to use as expressive of strong reprobation. So ho is cleared out at last! Well, I’m glad on’t for he was the only fellow in these hills I was afeard would Rive you trouble, Galbraith.” “Superfluous or not,” replied the serizeant, prononuncing the word in the same manner as the woodman, and equally ignorant of its meaning, "it will ho a had day for Tom Esk- ridg *. the rank, obstropolous Tory, when he moots me, Wat Adair. I have reason to think that he tried to clan some of Tarleton’s dragoons on my back over here at the Waxhaws. There’s hemp growng for that scape grace at this very time.” "You heard of no red cots about the Tiger?” asked Adair. "Not one.” replied Lynch: “the nearest post is Cruger’s, in Ninety- Six.” , “Th * i your way. Mr. Robinson, is tolerable for today.” added Adair: “but war is war, and there is al ways some risk to be run when men n~<> parading with their rifles in I their hands. But see! it is hard up- ^on sunrise. Let us go and give some directions about breakfast. I will send out some of the boys to hunt un the horses: thev will he readv by the time we have had something to eat.” Without furthek delay, Adair strode rapidlv up the hill to the dwelling-house, the sergeant and Lynch following as soon as the lat ter had put his jaded beast in the stable. By the time these were as- s iTihled in the Porch the family be gan to show sign of life, and it was a little after sunrise when Butler came forth ready for the prosecution of his journey. A few words were exchanged in private between Lynch and the woodman, and after much idle talk and contrived delay, two lazy and loitering negro bovs were sent off in qu^st of the travellers’ horses. Not long after this the ani mals were seen coursing from one part of the distant field to another, defying all attempts to get them in to a corner, or to compel them to pass through the place that had been opened in order to drive them towards the stable. There was an air of concern and ■silent bewilderment visible upon But ler's features, and an occasional ex- pivssion of impatience escaped his r s as he watched from the porch He* ineffectual efforts of the negroes !• force the truant steeds towards the house. "All in good time,” said Adair, | answering the thought and looks of | Butler, rather than his words, “all ! in good time; the\ must, have their j nlav out. It. is a good sign. sir. to 1 se<> a traveller’s horse so capersome j of a morning. Wife, make haste j with vour preparations; Horse Shoe and his friend here musn’t be kept hack from th*ir day’s journey. Stir! yourself, Mary Musgrove!” “Will the gentlemen stay for breakfast?” inquired Mary, with a doubtful look at Butler. "Will they? To he sure they will! Would vou turn off friends from the door with empty stomachs, you mink, and especially with a whole day’s starvation ahead of them?” ex-: claimed the woodman. “I thought, they had far to ride," replied the girl, “and would choose, rather than wait, to take some cold, provision to eat upon the road.” “Tush! Go about >our business, ni The horses are not caught ' * f. and you may have ’our bacon Mend befor<> they are at the door.” "It shall he ready, then, in a mo- : "tit." n turned Mar* and she be took herself dlligentlv to her task of preparation During the interval that, followed, the maiden several times attempted to gain a moment's sneech with Butler hut the ^-esence of Adair or Lynch as frequently for bade even a whi nor: and the morn- inn' meal was at 1 ngth set smoking on the table without tho arrival of ♦he desired opportunity The repast was speedilv finished, and the horses having surrendered to the emissaries who had 1) *'n despatched to bring them in. were now in waiting for their masters. Horse Shoe tut into the woodman’s hand a small sum of noney in r euit- ’ for the r *rifertain mont afforded to his comrade and !ii:).sel r . ami having arranged their havgave upon the saddles, announc ed that they w- re readv to set for ward on ther journey. Whilst the travellers were passing the farewells custom ry* on such occasions. Mary Musgrove, whose manner during the whole morning gave many indications of a painful secret corner, now threw herself in Butler’s way, and as she modestly offered him her hand at parting, and heard the lit tle effusion of gallantry and compli- nv nt with which it was natural for a > well-bred man and a soldier to speak at such a moment, she took the opportunity to whisper—“The tContinued on page three.) NOTICE OF SALE. By virtue of a decree of partiti#u and sale of the Court of Coram»» Pleas of Cherokee countv in the case of Pearl Edna Powell, plaintiff vs. B. F. Camp, et al defendants, I will sell at Gaffney before the eoert house, door, during the legal hours for sale, on salesday, Monday April 1st, 1907, the following described property, to wit: All that lot or piece of land in Uie North Eastern portion of the town of Gaffney, said State and counts <m Logan street, and known as lots Nos. 15 and 16 on plat made by R. O. Sams, surveyor, October 18th. 18*4; Beginning at stake, corner of lot No. 14, and running thence N. (15 1-2 W. 100 feet to corner of lot No. 17; thence with said lot No. 17 N. 511-2 W. 200 feet to stake, another corner of lot No. 17; thence N. 351-2 R. 100 feet to corner of lot No. 14; thence S. 54 1-2 E. 200 feet to begin ning corner, containing twenty thous and (20,000) square feet, more ef less. TERMS OF SALE CASH. Pur » chaser to pay for papers. J. Eb Jefferies. Cl’k. C. C. P1V Pub, Mch. 15-22-29. NOTICE OF ELECTION. fn complianev to a recent act of the legislature aq election is henvby ordered to held on Tuesday. Ap* .1 9th. 1907 for the purpose of electiag a Board of Public Works for Ae town of Gaffney. S. C.. to serve for a period specified in saifi act. Polls open at 8 a. m. and close at 4 p. nil. Th * following citizens are ; ppoint- efi managers of said electior; Holt’s store—D. J. HoL, Andy Moore. M. C. Thompson. Gallagher’s store—J. J. Gallagher, S. M. Littlejohn. W. T. Thompson Carroll & Byers’ store—f. T. Hum phries. W. A. Peeler. J. Y. Metz. By order of the town council Gaffney. S. C.. this 8th t’.av of Maroh, 1907. J. Q. Little. Mayor. ! W H. Ross. Clerk. Mar, 15. 22. 29. April ~». AUDITOR’S CALL. The Township Board of Assessors I are hereby requested to be and ap pear at the Auditor’s office the 4th Tuesday ip March to organize, pass upon and equalize the property be tween the taxpayers of the respect ive townships. The boards are re quested to do the work at the court house whore they can examine the j old books and return*. W. D. Camp, Auditor. 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