Gold Hill news., December 13, 1928, Image 2

('.O L D H IL L N E W S . J A C K S O N C O E N T Y , O ltK E .O N
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T h e R ed R o a d
A Romance of Braddock’s Defeat
By HUGH P
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by
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A SECRET
Pondoxtor.
CHAPTER X— Continued
M A R Y GRAHAM
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Illu str a tio n s by I r w in M yors
W NU Bo: vico
Now that I had talked with young
Morgan I could not forgive my etu
pendous folly In oeglecting to seek
her on the hanks of the Potomac.
Yet I had reasoned logically enough
—she was never one to seek refuge
In Alexandria.
She was horn of the
frontier and border blood was In bet
velnw
She would feel as much out
of place In Alexandria as the fair
Josephine would feel on the lonely
shore of the Monongahela
I clucked to my horse and I rode
down the King's road, and the dust
scuffed up by my tired mount's fe«i
lazily drifted on to the meadow gras*
and settled and spoiled Its sheen; lust
as It had when I watched the gren
adler* march up the same road or
Braddock's fatal business.
The town had changed none. There
were the same slim and fat chimneys
the same qualm roofs of different
patterns, and the double row of Lorn
hardy poplars before the Carlisle
house.
There were the windows of
the blue-and white room, where Brad­
dock had drunk his wine and rightly
bad berated the colonies for their
lack of zeal. The new warehouse on
Point Lumley, at the foot of Duke
street, was complete and already
showing the mellow Influence of the
weather.
On the w harf were sev
“Santa Claus may be very busy,“
the tools In Santa's workshop told the
new toys, "hut he'll be sure Io finish
you and you'll go to the children on
Christmas eve.“
“ We're sure- lie'll flnlsh us," the toys
now suld, “ for not only have the tools
told us so, hut we can see from his
dear, Jolly smiling face that every­
thing Is going to he done.
“ He wouldn't be so smiling I f he
were worried over things not being
ttulshed—he Is simply very, very busy
and that Is why lie Is working so.”
For no m utter how hard Sants
Claus works beforehand then- are al-
ways so many things that have to be
left until the end.
Children then deride w hat they hope
they will get for Christmas and write
letters to Santa.
The letters have to be read, and
each child, every child, has to have
Ills or her own list mude out.
Oh yes. as you can think, there are
ever und ever so many things Simla
Claus simply has to do the last min­
ute. or rather the last few weeks be­
fore Christmas.
“How proud I w ill be,” whispered a
Teddy lteur, “If I ant put on a tree.
‘“They say that Sirtita Claus hangs
toys ou Christmas trees. Hut then I
would be Just as proud If I were pul
In a stocking.
“ How I would love to |>eep nty head
out from the top of a stocking, and
see the children ns they come down
stairs early Christinas morning!
“ In fact, I would tie proud, no mat
ter where Santa Claus pul me, or how
he gave me.
‘it 's a great big and wonderful pride
to be a toy made by Santa Claus
have been doing,
M r. Ile w ltt w ill
be back any time now.
H e rods to
Annapolis,”
I followed the roundabout Susque
So poor Busby's message would
hanna road and passed by the ruins
of many a cabin. It was not the moat
never be delivered. Relieved of that
direct route, but It pleased me to
sad errand, there was no call for
fool myself with the thought I would
me to tarry,
I mumbled something
never continue as far as Alexandria
alwnt being In a desperate burry, but
However. I did persevere, and an
she seemed to be possessed even to
the point of unwomanllness. Tor she
astounding thing happened to me and
fairly danced before me, her blue
expelled my apathy and left me qulv
wring with a new p^pose. The On
eyes sparkling w ith m ischief; and
she Insisted:
ondaga would have said It was m j
orenda working for m e A white man
“ You must come In, mister. You Just
mast.”
would have said It was luck.
It all
“Why do you speak like that?” I
happened at a hamlet on the Mary
land line where a dozen men were
whispered.
“ Why do you call me
mister*?”
listening to a rugged fellow's plea
for volunteers to serve as riflemen
And I grasped her hands and
gripped them tlP her grimace re­
In the expedition soon to be made
minded me 1 was not handling a re d
against
Canada.
Weary of war.
savage.
weary of myself, and ending solace
only In my strange dreams, I would
“N o ; I ’ll tell you nothing oot here
have passed ny with deaf ears had
In the road.” aha cried.
“A vestry­
not his rude eloquence compelled my
man will be rebuking ue. Besides. It's
attention while he cried o u t:
oot comely that yon should hold my
“Sick of It? Who ain't sick of It?
bands.
Come T*
But bow will It be stopped unless
I -released her, and followed her
your rifles help stop It J I tell you
under the grinning mask and through
we’ve got 'em running now. You've
the cool doorway. In the hall I halted
had a bellyful of fighting? Who ain't?
and cautiously seated myself In a
] thought I had a bellyful at Brad
spindle-legged chair, and demanded:
docks battle.
I've thought I had
“Now tell me.”
more'u enough during the last three
“Oh, Webster, It would be ao ro­
years.
But I've been la rn ln g all
mantic If you weren't so stupidly m at­
these years; I'arnlng that If we want
ter-of-fact. Why shouldn't I call you
'mister'?“
• Job well done we must do It our-
selves
Men, It’s the long rifle, and
“Josephine, the devil's In you. Have
?• t i n
not the Brown Bess what's going to
m u anything to say or not?"
pet a stop to the Injun d eviltries
I rose as I f to leave.
And If you'll go along w ith me I’ll
With s slgb at having ber gams
lead only as long as I can keep ahead.
cut short she prim ly began:
When any other feller can lead faster,
“I have a young w ard a refuges
be takes my place and I take his
from the Braddock rout. She came
o rd ers ”
here In a most scandnlous condition
I reined In and stared at the fellow
—dressed as a man 1 She gave your
closely. There was something reminis­
: name and said you would come to
cent In the strong young face.
He
| find her.
She gave me your name,
was quick to see me and my travel
bul she always speaks o f yon as
stained forest garb, and he called out
'mister.' How Is that for mighty re ­
spect ?"
over the beads of his audience:
“Welcome, friend.
You look like
“ And now? W te re Is she?” I mut­
tered.
as you was used to woods flghting."
“ I've had my share of It ; from Brad­
“Why, now she should be In the
dock down to Forbes and much In be­
garden, gathering posies for Ihe table.
tween."
You see Mr Hew itt bought this place
“But you’re not through yet? Y e w
three days after Braddock and poor
long rifle still shoots?’’
Busby marched away
He wag a con­
" It still shoots I am not throogh
firmed bachelor, lie lived here alone
until the Job Is finished.”
until out marriage a year ago this
- ‘*XT»rd
summer
Mistress Elsie from tr.e be­
Ue pointed me out as a wholesome
“Wa
Can
Be
Hugged
and
Loved.”
ginning would come here to walk in
example, and embarrassed me by ex
the garden bemuse It had been your
tolling my high s p irit Whereas I was
which Is given to a child on Christinas
sick of Indians, sick of hardships
IS»
home
II promised a rare «-nil tai.
day."
M r Hew itt appealed to me In great
1 had but one desire; to spread my
“ Yes." said the lamb, "It Is, and II
alarm
I had to marry t h e poor man
blanket back of the Carlisle house
Is also especially nice to be an animal
'Oh, M ls ttrl You've Corns Back!”
or else banish the wild thing S'ow i t s
and close to the sleepy lap-lap of the
— that is, a make-believe animal.
perfectly priqa-r for tier to w a lk In
Potomac and rest there one night, and
eral guns, brought over by Bruddock
“ We can lie hugged and loved und
the garden as ranch ns she « il l | vs
perchance dream of Busby and other
and left behind because of their cum­
we can have such a good time.”
lost my Interest In yon Wehsiei Yon
playmates I backed my horse away
bersome weight.
But no gay uni
"It's fine to he any sort of a to,
know the wav down the hull?'
and waited until the young man had
forms decorated the approach to the
made by Santa Claus," said a game
An Idiotic q u e s t io n T h e d o o r ■>, e n
finished his talk and had secured half I Royal George and Gadsby’s; no gun ids
Ing Into the garden was th e o n e i in one corner of Suntu's shop.
a dozen names or marks on bis mus­
awed the natives by their precise
“I t certainly Is wonderful to be a
had passed through thousands nl
ter-roll.
Then
I dismounted and
maneuvers In the market place.
Christmas toy, anyway," said a rock­
times
I
d
the
old
days
Joined him and drew him aside, and
ing horse in another corner.
1 dismounted to be less consplcu
“ You've been good to het, Joseph­
said:
ous, and with my long rifle under my
" I t ’s nice, too, to he the toys In the
ine. You must have been mighty good
“ You'll be Daniel Morgan, at one
city shops," suld a train o f cars.
arm led my patient animal to the
to her, or she would never hMve
time a wagoner In Braddock’s arm y.”
House ot the Open Hand. And here
“O f course, most. In fact I believe
stayed."
“ Dead center. But I don't know you
I received a sharp surprise.
The
“ Rubbish I
I couldn't have driven all, the toys in the shop are made by
from Adam, friend. Yon have mighty
garden beyond the gate was trim and
her away.
8he was always looking Santa Claus.
little meat on your bones”
orderly.
The fountain was cleaned
“ He makes them during the summer
for
•mister'
to
come. She would have
“1 threw you od to a horse at the
out, and the yellow-topped mustard
made a camp In the “ arden and lived months when lie Isn't so rushed, and
lower ford of the Monongahela on
then there ure a lot of us lie has to
was destroyed. The roof of the grape
like an Indian." Then with much sad­
Jnly ninth, three years ago.”
arbor bad been rep aired ; and the
ness she added: "I hate that word— take around with him—oh packs and
" H —11 I remember. The man fight­
grounds reflected the tidy content my
Indian.
You understand. Webster— packs of us he lias to take, so man,
ing beside the tall Injun I”
father had so dearly loved.
The
that I never couffl count them nil.”
I'm sorry.”
“There was a young person with
place was Inhabited.
“It's a pride and a Joy to he a tov
“
His
last
words,
Joe,”
1
blundered,
you— ”
1 turned away, feeling greatly de­
giving her Busby's message after ulL at Christmas time,” said another game,
“ A gal I d breeches Elsie Dlnwold
pressed. Now I knew I had come on
“Go
find
her,”
she
brokenly "especially if we drive right along
she gave her Dime. She ta d the grit
a fool’s errand.
The w itch-girl— a
whispered. And as I made down the with Santa Claus.
of any man I ever see.”
“O f course he stops and gets many
bit of thistledown before the w in d -
hall I saw her hand traveling op t h e
“Had?” I repeated, a deathly faint
bad drifted on.
I bad no heart to
balustrade, clinging to It tightly to of his own toys In the shops.”
ness stealing through my gaunt fram e
“Indeed,” said the lamb. "Then why
see the front of the house, and would
aid her weary fe e t
“And still has. I ’ll guarantee. If
does he put them there? I f lie has to
bave returned to the market-place to
But
sorrow
was
not
for
me
this
she's kept out of danger and didn’t
ball my mount and ride away had
day.
I was selfishly alive with the use them I should think It would cause
git sculped. Lord) But she did try
not a woman emerged from the dooi
Joy of anticipation.
I burst through him extra work."
desperate hard to git off that boss
“ Extra work, extra work,” laughed
to stare at me for a second. I was
the doorway as If pursued by Pontine
and gft back to the fighting 1”
for hurrying on, but she called me
himself. Next I came to a plunging the tools, “gracious, Santa Clous loves
“ Man, where la she?
Where did
by name and came running a fte r me
hall and found myself bowing awk- extra work better than anything in the
jou leave her?
Why don't you say
as fast as her (I mnees and petticoats
wardly
before a dainty creature In world at Christmas time.
something when you talk?” I cried
would p e rm it
“And besides, there- Is a secret about
flounces and lace.
And I placed my hands on his
” i knew you I 1 knew you, Webster
“I beg your pardon," I stammered. having so many toys In the city and
shoulders and shook him.
Bronc I
Your tall figure would be­
“I was looking for a young lady— " town shops.”
Ue grinned broadly and showed no
“ W hat’s the secret?” they all asked
tray you anywhere I” she cried, ex­
“Oh, mister I
You've come back I”
resentment at my manners
“ So that children can sec them and
tending both bands.
she sobbed.
And the arm ful o f
“Where she Is I cannot say.
But
"Josephine!” I mumbled.
flowers was dropped and a miracle can know what they want most for
■he went to Alexandria.
I gathered
“Mistress H ew itt, w ife of Carter
was worked; for I found the lovely Christinas.”
from her ta lk —and she talked mighty
H ew itt,” she corrected, and relin­
thing In my arms, her voice whimper-
little— that some one she used to
quished my hands to drop me a cour
Ing over and over: "Oh, mister I
B e d tim e in Japan .
know, and liked a heap, lived there
tesy. “ Yon must come In and tell me
You've come b ac k l”
once. But you’ll be signing up as a
When a little Japanese girl goes to
where
you
have
beeD
and
what
you
( T H E END.J
rifleman for northern work?"
bed at night she does not cllntb Into a
I mounted before bothering to
high bed; Instead, she sleeps on llie
answer him. Then I called back:
floor. It would seem that this would
“T hat must come later. I must fin
he a very hard bed, hut she has two
Ish a Journey first.”
Sleeping mats, a coverlet, and an extra
cover In the form of a padded coat.
And though It was dark and my
horse was weary I rode on.
H e r pillow Is round und made of wood,
It may seem a far cry from the drug
weglan drug store.
And O. Henry,
A skeleton of a man on a worn
and Is covered with a strip of paper.
store to literary fame, but throughout
probably the most famous o f modern
out horse. No leisurely riding now
When the Japanese girl sits down she
the ages there has been a puzzling re
druggist-authors, spent several of his
1 would not h a 'e eaten, nor slept. If Intlonshlp between the two. Many a
has two cushions placed on the
enrly years In ■ Greensboro (N . C.)
not for my m ount I. had but one de­ youth who has started life In a phnr
floor.
pharmacy.
sire— to strike Into the old postroad
macy has found, strangely enough,
and finish the distance at a smash­ that his real career lies In authorship,
S p id er W ith o u t A n y th in g .
M ale» a t Loud Speaker»
ing gallop. The poor brute was bad
says a w riter I d the American Drug­
Bobby, eight, mid Harold, live, both
Ask
a
man
for
Inform
ation,
says
■
ly used up when I did leave Shooter's gist Magazine
Aristotle was one nl
ran out of llie house to take notice of
woman critic In the American Maga­
hill behind me I reined In.
the earliest of these. The Greek
uti airplane passing.
zine,
and
no
m
atter
what
the
subject
Now that I had arrived and would
philosopher, son of a physician, fol
Boldly said, " It Is just like a big
nine out o f ten of them w ill have a
soon know all, 1 experienced a strange
lowed his father's footsteps as a youth
bird going through the sky with an en
beautiful
time
enlightening
you
on
IL
tim idity. Three years had passed. No In those days when doctor and drug
fin e .”
soldiers now enlivened A lexandria;
gist were one. Dante, Immortal poel
"T h a t’s nothin’,” replied little lia r
and I knew the drowsy calm of the
But
F
e
w
E»eape
was a member of the guild of spot he
old, " I saw a spider g o up without
town would never suit her. She had curies In his native Florence. John
Headache Is the one form o f suffer­
anythin'.”
gone away long before this; or— and
ing which makes all the world feel
Kents served as a pharmacist’s ap
this was a most disturbing thought
kin.—American Magazine.
prentice anti Inter graduated from
Tongue T w iite n .
— she had found gome one who ap
Apothecaries’
hall.
Henrik
Ibsen
“See Sam and Sid Sword-fish see
predated her, and had married. Be
found the Inspiration for Ills “Ghosts"
American typewriters shipped to oth-
Sawing sw iftly," said Sarah Smell
yond all doubt she had come to the
and "An Enetny of the People" while er countries last year were valued at
"Seems somewlial saucy, since sword
belief that I was dead.
serving for slz years In s little Nor
nearly »21,000,000,
fishes shouldn't show such silliness I’
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,
Writer» Turned From Drugs to Authorship
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