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CnAPTER I.
T1IE I1RKAMEH.
RTTjlXTEIt In the south, aiul the
I Vv I morning of a day.
Three years had elapsed
KftAanl since Boyd Peyton had been
in Alabama In the month of December.
The young breeze, carrying with
it the fragrance of lingering fall as it
swept across Ills face, filled him with
surprise, for the season had been unusually
pleasant and mild. The air i
.was almost balmy despite its touch of i
- _ early morning coolness, untempered j
by the new risen sun, yet there was a j
freshness in it which reminded him of i
springtime in New England.
The train on which he "had been a j
passenger had been delayed yesterday,
and he had reached homo after night- I
fall?too late to see anything outside,
nt any rate. Then, in the excitement j
?*
v.i_ uis ljunuy onco more after
n long period of separation, he bad
given no thought to climatic conditions
or to anything external to them. Stop! i
The statement is hardly accurate, for ,
In not one single moment in all the
joyousness of greeting, in all the ex- I
ubcrant affection given and received
tn his welcome home, had he lost mental
sight of Mary Annan. This morning,
as he stared down at the garden
of roses in winter, his heart was full
of her. So conscious of her had he
been, in fact, so possessed of a sense
of her nearness to him at last, that he
had scarcely slept during the night.
In his restless anxiety to see her he
had risen before any of the family,
who slept later this morning than usuu.L
possibly because they had remained
up longer the night before. As soon
as l;e was dressed he came out on the
gallery, where he stood gazing alter- I
nfitely upon the roses or staring down
through the long avenue of live oaks
toward the St. Francis road, which
led into the town where she dwelt.
1'resent! y lie turned from the railing
and began to pace the gallery.
The young man was a sailor, an ollicer
in the United States navy, a passed
midshipman awaiting his commission
us ensign, just returned from a three
years' cruise in European and north
African waters, subsequent to his
graduation after four years of study
In the United States Naval academy at
.Annnp< lis, Mtl. IIo had l>eon :ii*|?ointed
yonrs before and was now just turned
twenty-two. No one could look more
unlike ti e typical Muff sailor than lie.
lie was tall, slender and brown eyed,
and the native darkness of his complexion.
v.-'iicli his seafaring had deepened.
w! h his thick brown hair, worn
rather low. as was the fashion of the
time, ar 1 * lightly curling at the ends,
would have betrayed him as a southern
1 an : i.v where. Ills : j at a ranee
was g'-u'V. his asj ret dreamy. One
would li -ve pronounced hit i a |t. an
art I si. a musician ?anything ratio r
than a i. :i of act ion. Without being
gloomy tliere was a touch ?<f gentle
inci'ancht !y in liis annearatiee.
Tiiti-- ? nitre " timidity?which
did not spring from fear?in his address,
a deferential modesty, especially
when in the presence ci women or
older men. that was charming, if somewhat
lacking in decision. Vet lie carried
himself well. I lis movements
wore easy and graceful. lie held his
head high and had about him that air
of inborn authority peculiar to the
southern slave owner and gentleman,
which his naval rank and position had
served to emphasize.
What he might become in times of
stress and danger was yet to be do
Luruiuii-u; vvii.'u no was ai lliai moment
was quito evident?a dreamer! Like
inost of Hie drcuns < f yev.th, the object
of ills imagination was a woman.
Just a year since, bis ship, returning
from the Mediterranean, had wintered
at Boston. When lie had arrived there
he had rejoiced to learn in letters from
home that Mary Annan was attending
school in Cambridge. Miss Annan was
n young Alabama girl whom he had
known from childhood.
lie had welcomed with an eagerness
only possible to a southerner and a
young man the opportunity of renewing
his deepening acquaintance with
his childhood fl it nd and fair compatriot,
and he had striven to make the
most of it. Every moment he could
take from his ship duties or which she
could steal from her not too engrossing
studies during the winter the two
had spent together in the quaint old
Massachusetts town.
The school was described in the catalogue
as a "llnishing school," a very
popular s; rt cf Institution in those
days and not unknown to history even
now. So far us Mary Annan was con<
erned, lt.? eilcrts were fruitless. She
did Indeed graduate from It in June
with all the honors of the school, hut
? lie wax very far from being finished,
and lie would be a very liun'y prophet
who could predict what the bright.
f>on111if111 and charming southern girl
would be ill the end. There was latent
force In her-plenty of character, oner
gy. solf will and greater possibilities
hut only the larger school of life could
develop her.
A great besom of war and privation
and anguish was then preparing for
this country. A period of conflict was
to ensue in which the t!nlnhIng touches
tii.it only suffering could add iImvU
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wnscrid 'Brady
Ihc Ship," "Hohei\xollcrn." V'/; : '{'/? *
a Touch," Etc. y;.v ?
inis Tmcntcnd Brady (j
be put upon the characters of men and
women all over the land. I'or the day
on which lJoyd l'eyton returned to the
home of his ancestors and the focal
point of his heart's love was l?ec. 11),
1SG0, six weeks after the election of
Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of
the United States.
As a sailor, an officer in the navy, on
active service in foreign waters, Peyton
had hardly realized the well nigh
inevitable consequences to the country
of that overwhelming declaration of?
popular opinion by the north.
In the early spring of the year, after
the winter in Boston, his ship had gone
on a cruise to the north African coast,
whence it had just returned and been
put out of commission the week before.
Peyton had escaped the great
debate and discussion of the spring
and summer, the breaking up of the
old Democratic party into two or three
new ones, the forcing of sternly repressed
and long avoided issues to the
front, the strife and bitterness, the
threat and the counter threat. What
little Peyton knew of the situation had
tillered to him through incomplete
sources. Being removed from personal i
contact, he had not realized the situa- |
tion at all. The matter had only been
touched upon last night at his welcoming.
and he was yet to learn the feeling
of his father, his friends, his people,
his love, upon the subject. ,
On this morning Peyton had given
no thoinrht tn llin IreMon !
qucnccs. At that moment, if he rebooted
upon it at all, he cared neither
what the north might do nor what the
south might do. He thought nothing as
[ to what might I>e aeninm\et\ of Uhu, or
what his course of action should be
1 in any possible contingency?unless it
I concerned Mary Annan and his love
for her.
Will, the world about him might do
what it would, it mattered nothing to
him in that bright morning of hope.
In an hour or two at must he would ,
see her. lie could look upon her in her j
proper person and see her as he had
imagined lior in his dreams through
the long night watches of the cruise.
In Ids letters to his sister lie had
taken care that news of his homecoming
on a two months' leave of absence
should reach Mary, lie had so contrived
tfvtft Mrtrrrwrn YniniPirtidwn ro Tub', indeed,
had it not been that the train had
been so delayed last night he would
have gone to see her in the evening,
hut i' was too late, and he had been
forced to content himself with anticipating
this meeting in the morning.
No avowal of affection had yet passed
between the young people. That
certain timidity, that unwillingness to
take the initiative, which was constitutional
with him and which he had not
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certain chivalry which made him loath
to take advantage of their frank comradeship
in that stiyinge Yankee land
where; a nrenilum might have becu put
?rrrwrrr' mm, P.c reiMcdT merely because
ho happened to be a fellow southerner,
an Alabamian, kept him from declaring
in outspoken words his heart. Nevertheless,
lie was thoroughly sure that
Mary Annan knew he loved her.
llis assurance all ended there, however.
With airy mockery, with youthful
audacity, with deliberate yet delightful
eluslveness, she had met bis
advances. The most presumptuous
wish couul not delude him into the belief
that she loved him. IIow could
she? he had often thought in dejection.
There was a strange mingling, therefore.
of foreboding and hope, anxiety
and assurance, in bis meditations oh
this morning.
There was no wavering in his desire
and determination, however, lie was
resolved to win her. He would count
no-sacrifice too great for that end. As
the resolution took shape in his fertile
brain a keen observer?a woman who
loved him, for instance?might have
noticed a tightening of his lips, which
now, under the influence of some compelling
internal force, seemed to lose
something of their sensitiveness. His
gracefully rounded chin protruded
slightly. There was an unnoticed
I lmtt in i* nfl<*a mI! iipi'Ii.'itiq rIMin
softness in liis eyes pive place to a
harder expression. The brows straightened
and drew together in lines. Ilis
faeo grew suddenly strong. Ilis whole
appearance was that of resolution.
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CHAPTER II.
j A HA?1> SITUATION lOU A MODEST MAN.
"f^TT WILL. I will!" he murmuri
5. ed, staring down at the road
K'JlA<x,"' through the li\e oaks.
,\s Ho spoke there was a
stop 0:1 the porch behind him, and a
deep voice broke his reverie. The youth
turned to meet his father.
"Dreaming again, I'oyd!" said the
elder reprovingly.
, In appearance lie was nearly the
counterpart of his son. but with resolution
added, decision acquired and
I dreams lo.-.g lost in tempering ex!
pcrieiico. liis bushy hair was snow
; while, although l ot from age, for ho
| was just turned fifty. Ilis thick drooping
mustache and tufted Imperial were
also white. As he looked at Ids son
| lie presented a stern, weather beaten,
j war worn face. Colonel Peyton had
I been a soldier. He had fought with
distinction In the Mexican war fourteen
years before. Old soldiers usually
develop Into the fat and red or the
thin and lean kind of men. Colonel
Peyton was one of the latter class, although
his temper was as quick and
tierce as that of the most choleric and
gouty old veteran. Ills voice was full
and rich, and in pronunciation and accent
betray* *1 his southern characteristics
beyond question. Boyd's voice
was different. It was still southern,
but not markedly so. lie had lived so
loin: in the north and on the sen, and
lie had tried so hard to mold it in
sterotyped form, that it had lost most
?ji us uiKiinguisiuug cuaruciorisiics,
ami except when he was excited it
was cosmopolitan and therefore monotonous.
"Dronuiing again, Boyd! It's not
pood for an oftiecr. I had hoped that
your Naval academy training, your experience
as an otlleer, might get you
out of that bad habit. But hero you
are at it again. I see."
The old man frowned and shook his
head hopelessly toward "Ills son.
"No, father," said the young man
quickly, "not dreaming when you
spoke, but"?
"But what, sir?" Only he pronounced
it "suh."
"ltesolviug."
"Ila, that's better! And resolving
upon what, pray?"
"Resolving to take a wife, sir. If 1
can get her, that is. sir."
"A wifeL A wife!" in sudden suspicion.
"A wife, sir," answered his sou
firmly.
"How old are you now, sir?" asked
his father, having partially digested
the unexpected announcement.
"J list twenty-two, sir."
"You are young to speak of marriage,
lad."
"Yes, sir, I am." answered Boyd
promptly. "But it is a habit of our
family, sir. as I have heard. Mother
was sixteen, I think, when she married
you. and you were uo older than 1
am yourself then, sir."
"Well, or?yes, of course," said the
colonel, rather taken nbaclc by this
strikingly direct, if smiling, charge.
"I?or?who is the lady? I hope, Boyd,
that you have not fallen in love with
some foreigner in Europe or"?
"No, sir."
"Or with any Yankee girl. A man
should marry among his own people,
especially now. I"?
"Well, air," said Boyd hesitatingly in
a spirit of fun, "I met her In New
England, at Boston, last winter, and
1"?
"Boyd Peyton, don't tell me that you
are going to marry outside of your own
class," thundered his father; "that
yon are going to ally yourself with one
i of those northern tradespeople?with
one of Lincoln's"?
No one eonld have exceeded the blti
tor contempt with which lie spoke.
"father," cried the young man hns,
till*? uWian J
| ner of liir, father, "it is Mary Annan."
"Why, tied bless me!" returned the
i old man, greatly relieved, grasping his
! son by tbe shoulders and giving 1dm a
little shake. "Why didn't you say so?
i Why, that girl is tlie pride of my lib',
the prettiest girl in Mobile, the belle
! of Alabama. Yon vmint' Wlint
do you moan by trying to fool your fa
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lie binned the plump v He Jin vers with
(hurminj old Jtinhimcu 'jmcc.
, tli. r in this way? My h -art's been set
j up n it. It's the best thing that could
| have happened. 1 could not"?
"Ilold on, father! It hasn't happened
! .vet."
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An eminent authority say*
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Concerning Mistletoe.
In "Wild Fruits of tlio Countryside"
the author gives sonio interesting information
about mistletoe. As a parasite
it possesses many curious peculiarities.
among others the fact that it is
! the only plant whoso roots refuse to
shoot in the ground. Another point
about mistletoe is that it is supposed
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Cut Out.
Girl ?Who was that distinguished
looking foreigner that was announced
Just now? I didn't quite catch the title.
.
Other Girl?You won't cither. I.il Bullion
has made a catch of that.?Chicago
Tribune.
For one man who can stand prosperity
there are a hundred that will stand
adversity.--Carly le.
A Weak Stomach.
Causes a weak body and invites disease.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cnro cures and
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Not In Society.
Of a pretentious but not well read
dame of the Victorian period Bndy Bulwer
used to relate this Incident:
The conversation turned on literature
one day, and this lady, who aimed nt
forming a salon, got rather out of her
dcptl).
"Who is this Dean Swift they nro
talking about?" she whispered nt last
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"Dear me! What was that?"
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A Forcible Indictment.
Little Nell?I don't like uiy papa one
bit. lie's awful selflsh.
Mamma?lie is?
Little Neil?Yes'm. lie nearly sat
down on my dolly, an' then, 'stead of
tnkln' (mother chair, he took her chair
right away from her an' left her on th'
liurd floor.
Definite Description.
"Johnny, it isn't tobacco sauce, it is
tabasco. Now, don't let me hear you
calling it wrong again."
"No, lnaiuina."
Two hours later at dinner?"Mamma,
I want some of that?that?that redheaded
sauce that makes you mad."?
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Citation to Kindred and Creditors.
State of Sooth Carolina, )
County of Union. J
By Jason M. Greer, Esq., Probate Judge.
Whereas, I. Frank IVake, Clerk of
Court, Union county, have made suit
to we to grant him letters of Admiuisttation
on the estate aud of
Marion M.. Sumner, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all and singular the kindred aud
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deceased, that they be and appear before
me, in the Court of Probate, to be held
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20th day of March, next, after publication
hereof, at II o'clock in t^e forenoon,
to show cause, if any they have,
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Gtli day of Feb. Anno Domini, 1903.
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Published on the Olh day of "Feb.
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lees aVraaK?. Truo"
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