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the malicious old postmaster, wbila done a few years ago. She 8a*^
he had in turn frustrated many of “No!” most decidedly to wouldbe
Hill,
the musical old moonshiner’s best- husbands ana borrowers alike un­
til a year after her return she met
laid plans for wickedness
BY ROBERT YULEE TOOMBS
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Ill-dressed and unshorn as he Colonel Gault.
From The Cosmopolitan
now appeared, leading the life of a ' The colonel was a handsome and
CHAPTER I I. (coniTi En.)
wild hog, with the appearance ot a ! brilliant middle-aged iuan with easy
The mail was carried on horse­ bear, no one could realize that in | pleasant manners and a clean re­
Rakestraw- had cord. She knew she could trust
back forty miles across the moun­ his youth Parson 1.
tains to the nearest railway station been a well reared well-favored him. There was much—of which
twice a week, It was not therefore young man bearing a good name > she could never speak, of which
on official business that great trun ; as a member of an excellent fami- she dared not too often think in
dling ox wagons lunriiered up to 11 Iv. In those days too, he and Mrs. her varied past which made her
Parson Rakestraw’s back door at Gault, then a v e r y roman- feel very kindly toward an honora­
midnight. The strongly hooped tic young girl, Lorena Sawyer, ble man who loved her truly, as
barrels with which these wagons had been far more than friends she waH sure Colonel Gault did.
It pained her deeplv that while
were loaded certainly contained no They never mentioned this to any
mail matter; nor were their muf­ one now, however, hut when chance she knew him to be true-hearted
fled drivers, ghostly and bulky of threw them together and no one and without reserve toward her. I
outline, wit limit human form and else was present he always pained she could never speak truly of her |
void of voice in the gloom, in the her by recalling those unforgotten recent past to him. Whether she
government service.
days.
Possibly he recalled them deceived him or allowed him to de-1
ceive himself in any material mat­
The singing parson evidently had too when he sung:
ter will affect the conclusion of this
other secrets in his old cracked “The story of the past, Lorena,
story.
cranium besides that yellow treas­ Alas! I car*- not to repeat.
They wer^ married after a very
ure back in the gloomy canon The hopes that could not last Lore­
brief courtship and she went at
among the hills. But he only gazed
na
blankly in the curious stranger's 1 They lived, but only lived to cheat.” once with her husband to his home
"away over the mountains” as her,
eyes and declare:
Mrs.
Gault
’
s
youth,
as
no
one
friends expressed it, and was again
‘Me are all honest people on this
hill an' all our business is fair an’ now knew except Parson Rake­ lost to her old associates to whom
straw, had been a very sad and un­ a journey across the mountains was
square.”
'Che old man’s good resolutions fortunate one. A handsome strang­ the event of a lifetime
In her new home, to her unutter­
fail to wear of course
On second er passing the summer months in
the
mountains
down
in
Tennessee
able
surprise and consternation, she
thought, believing himself now to
where
she
then
lived
with
her
par
had met under another name her
be immensely wealthy, he deter­
I
cute,
had
met
her
and
during
those
old
lover, the man who had so
mined to enjoy life and to conduct
his business to suit himself, and, long idle sweet summer days fit on­ cruelly betrayed, ruined and desert­
if need be, to defy the revenue men. ly for thornless flowers ami love ed her. She had believed him
He therefore for a season bloomed and hope and truth, had won her dead but now she found him alive
ami fruited in a worldly wav. His love—the first blind unrestrained and prosperous, a married man
genial good humor and open-hand­ love of impulsive girlhood hi which with a son and daughtor at his
ed generosity rendered him every self is sunk in passionate worship Knees.
He had never as the years passed j
day more popular with his Door of the loved object and it is sweeter
far
to
givo
than
to
receive.
betrayed
the unhappy woman’s se I
neighbors, who began after the true
Iler
parents
refused
to
sanction
eret
to
her
husband, but he would
American fashion to nominate him
her marriage with the young ad never tell her what disuositionj he
for their next congressman
venturer
and she trusting his sa had made of their child or h 8 pres-
But Fate's heavy hand was ¡al­
ready reaching forth out of the cred promise of immediate marriage •nt whereabouts. The bov was wt 11
shadowy future to grasp and crush had fled w'th him. Once complete­ and doing well she was assured —
ly in Ins power these promises were a tine handsome voting f How whom .
him.
disregarded and for years pretty it would make her heart proud to
('llAPTER III.
Lorena Saw ver was never seen nt i sec. At the end of a year a daugh
Colonel Gault lived on Toe River her tather’s home nor at Big Ivv ter was born io the Gaults and i lie
colonel was a very happy man and
about five miles from Bible Hill Church on Sunday.
I
Strange distorted stories floated proud of his wife and child.
postotlice. The colonel war the
‘‘Pin glad it s a gal Loreny.’’
county representative in the state through the mountains thatshehad
;
said
Parson Rakestraw one d iv to
legislature, which oflice he had married her lover, who had proved
held for years, and was the wealth a very rich in in, and was now liv­ Mrs. Gault while she shrank from
ieit and most prominent citizen in | ing as a “great fashionable quality tne tom a of his voice; ‘we must
all the Lost ( reek and i’oe River ladv away oft’yonder;” while oth make a match after 'while ’tween
era said that he had never married her ’n my John.”
section.
1 he words outlined vaguely a
He was quite an old man now — tier but at tin- eml of a year had
wicked
plot that was even then tak­
deserted
her
and
their
baby
bov
probably near eevet,ity. He had
ing
place
in the cruel wretch’s hea I
This
married late in life a prittv young
widow who had borne him but one story ami bv sensible people was but of which as vet Mrs. Gault
child, a daughter now about seven­ gener-illy accepted as the true one: could not »ven dream, it was so!
hen years old
This daughter but there were many romantic and malicious and heartless
I'he years passed on bringing
Mamie was a pretty, intelligent lov­ unworldly p-ople who had known
joy
and sorrow, tilling cradles and
able girl with shy timid wavs and and loved her who still believed in
graves, blessing some lives and
was loved and res|*ecte<i by all who Lon-na.
knew her—except Parson Rake
Five yeais after her flight Lorena blighting others; and all the while
straw s wife and daughter,
returned calling herself Mrs. Laur­ Lorena’s old lover was using Lite
• The sly little sunburnt sneak!” ence The years had dealt lenient- and time and circumstances as aids
cried the lag blown rose-hued Vina. | lv and kindly with her if the world to his heartless prosecution, >v hicb
"Some day I’ll get a i
‘
chance
to 1 ‘ had * not, and she was greatlv im- he called revenge on the po»>r girl
drabble her tine feathers in the dust proved 1
From a shv awkward whose early life he had blighted I e
and then 1 II make her sqiurm.
< country beauty she had developed cause she had spurned him on
I hose who kn.-w Miss Vina knew into a beautiful aelf-possessed world learning how low and I a<e he real­
she would keep her word too if she ly wise woman. She came richly ly was
( To RE CONTONVEU.)
could have an opport unit to injure dressed withevident signa of wealth
Miss Gault
Her husband had recently died.sin-
All-inv Democrat: The Prine
Mrs Rakestmw was also a ready said, leaving her all of Ins property
villw papers of last we-.k have Loth
speaker and her tongue bail more, which she had turned into money
arrived, but failed to narrate one of
than a local reputation for guile ami to the amount of five thousand dol­
the most interesting items of the
bile, while Miss Vina was second to lar». This sum was a handsome
week, that ot a tight between it. W
her mother as n queen of slander; foitune forthat country at the time
Aldridge, editor of the News, ami
and hate.
These women never and as her prosperity became
J A Houthit, editor of th-- Ucliico
let an opportunity to speak cruelly known her parents welcomed her
Review
It is said to have Iren
of Coionel Gault s family |»ass un-! back to their hearts again; her old-
fierce
but
short,
friends interle: ing
improved.
time friends thronged around her and stopping he contest
Bad
I he colonel and the parson were lovers were numerous and oilers of
blood exists is ’we*n them
al»a bad friends, as innocense ami marriage wen- daily events of her
guilt must inevitably l>e when life But she had grown very wise
tall ■■ Ä"*'riBTMa”|riwiii™w«nr
I 1 I I I I In »-f and « an iiifnllibi«'
brought in contact
The colonel This sudden (-opuiaritv
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