Show 0 ilk ERIA R I 1 A L STORY S TOR Y E LITTLE IOWN 0 N JUG air 1 l ily 1 NICHOL ON illustrations by taj cju the clubb marri copany SYNOPSIS ni r N w frk i it kr state in north t irita nia in liberi li of a r v v u arpi at tit him nil ilk their 1 D ta a li it oil cr er t two 0 ilay days I 1 p t platform ito mete it 11 rry trofem professor sor I 1 tj of rhinia on un his hi way APTER I 1 continued I 1 endow endo all the chairs in the y louve auve not only got to t ou oure re going to be there hey they arrive i ardmore of 0 new york and struck his ills heavy stick be he f r hemy stick smartly ciu m r platform in the stress ling cling lie ile was nas much shorter wold to whom lie was deep d for whom he had indeed adval admiration ration ot of a small boy g brother he lie sometimes how fully griswold entered projects of adventure which Is s supreme idleness planned ased but he lie himself hid had en quite reidy ready to mount out sail and what had said about indecision r bis big latart luart lie ile was sorry he had told of this mw nw en 0 a which ho he had pledged him he gre v lenient toward gris cris ck of sympathy a ai I 1 he re hat at the quest of 0 a winking rather rattler beneath benc ieli the dignity leinan eman gilded not merely to bait but to the austere teaching b as its well in his heart he lie T briswold but he wai mas all the hived ived to address stub it ills pursuit of the city of I 1 tie lexandra xandra for only by finding hi ht establish himself in girls 11 es a as 88 a man of action k it carrying through a scheme cleverness and tact I 1 c was as almost painfully rich I 1 ual diversions of the wealthy peal to hiro him and having ex reign travel he spent much s estate in the north caro 1 1 where he could cowd ride all II 11 its s own land and where he it in a huge library sad ad assembled with special to works marks on piracy a sub I 1 iad ad attracted him from early f this hobby that had sealed alp with Gils wold who had it the tile practice of law after start in hig native city of to accept the associate pro of admiralty in tho the law de tie of the university of vir helne rane law low hd a particular for griswold from its es romantic character ae As a nt it he had read all the de tie admiralty that the libraries nd though faithfully erv he hlll still occasional id it retainers in admiralty usual importance ula ills lee constantly attended by obber ants of the tile f for theer sheer pleasure in cris 4 and exposi lit 11 laws touching tho the libeling r ra and the recovery of cargos henry maine 0 a as tall slender and dark 1 11 ered ae as he put it on the brink of p stroked hi his thin brown ritually bitu ally as though to hide that hat played about hi his hu uth a smile mile that lay oven even ely rely in hia his fine brown eyes aith allce to the academic bradl 10 with ith metropolitan br being his allIng lne note 9 ventured upon bold 0 if es that interested hi his stu tu III as Is much ni as his lecture lectures t fact of ills lifland life and on one A th none was as his expert ile ere rae flom his undergrad e had written occasionally quite for hi his own plen pleas lying and to i 1 little sheaf is in manuscript 10 he lie still inich now and then rry artly he was saying I 1 id d ai all aboard wi was 11 dot doi it be ciciless cic kless when wh ugh looking for the win I 1 me e up to charlottesville 10 arian ian th true I 1 life ife of 0 that li IS sonie 00 camou day col going jou ou later 10 replied A ard 0 to his friend friends hand a ve arth train began boroo ned out lit ot of the vetle vestibule it farewell tewell to ardic ardmore 10 oi 9 lery ery kind and gentle see nhon ithone in the 1 law II 11 lie ent into the 0 car he called I 1 nil nd he his wa wius a buted Ill fied by his hiah were alwy always ard more mores list last in their partings and follow followed ed usually b telegram telegrams about the must preposterous things thIng ii or for romantic adien lures ture or borne some new hypothesis touch ing capt kidd and his tile burled buried tread lire tire never wrote utters iw ito always 41 graphed and ho lie en joad filing long mysterious and ex pensive messages with telegraph oper acors in obscure s m where here a scrupulous ten words was the frugal limit Gri grismond lighted a tibar ligar and opened the tile afternoon atlanta capra in the smoking compartment ills eye was caught at once by imperative head elnis it la to not loo much to say may that ilie the eve of the contani nt waa was arrested that evening by the amazing disclose ure tire now tardily reaching the public that bonu thing unusual had occurred at the annual int fueting eting of the cotton planters Plan tirs association at nea orleans on the previous day lvery very copy rader and editor every on every cery newspaper in the tile land had and reached for a fresh pencil as a preliminary bulletin announced the kaising of harsh words worda bettein the governor of at north carolina and the governor Ro vernor of south carolina it may inny as well be acknowledged here hero that just what really happen happened Ld at the cotton planters convention will III be known for this tills particular meeting was held behind closed doors and as the two to governors were chonon d guests of the association no member has hag ever eer breathed a word touching an incident that all most sincerely deplored indeed no hint of it would ever have reacted the pub lie had it not ben that both gentlemen hurriedly left the convention hall refused to keep their appointments to speak at the ban banquet that followed the business and were reported to have taken the first trains for their respect respective lie capitals it was whispered by a few persons that the goer governor nor of south carolina had taken a fling at tho the authenticity of tho the Aleck mecklenburg lenburg declaration of inde pen dence it was rumored in other quarters that the governor of north carolina was the aggressor he having it was sald sold declared that a people meaning the fre freemen emilin of the common wealth of carolina who were not intelligent enough to raise their own hay and who mo moreover remer bought that article in ohio were mere not worth the ground necessary for their decent interment it IF ie not the purd e of this tills chronicle either to seek the truth of what passed between the two to gov conors at ne new orleans or 01 to discuss the points of hestor and agriculture raised in the statements just andl carld As every one knows the of may alay or was it the tile 1775 Is solemnly observed in north carolina Caroll ni as the day on which tho the patriots of mecklenburg county severed tho the re lations theretofore thereto foie existing between them and his majesty king george the third equally well mell known Is the tte fact that in south carolina it Is an tin article of ro legious faith that on that 1 f R 1 c 4 r 1 1 4 lighted a cigar ond nd opened the after noon atlanta paper twentieth day of alay 1775 the catl zens of mecklenburg leck lenburg county north carolina cheered the flag and adopted resolutions ong reaffirming their ancient allegiance to the british crown this controversy and the in adequacy of the south carolina hay bay crop must be passed on to the camph It with ith such other vexed ques aiom as andrew jackson a birth place pla cemore inore debited debated than Ilor homer ners e and not to be car lessly conceded to the itt strutting sons of waxhaw Gri griswold sold read of the new orleans incident with a smile while leeral several fellow pase passengers engers discussed d it in a tone of banter ono of them a gen tieman from mississippi presently produced a hash flask which ho be offered to tho the others remarking As the go gov arnor of north carolina said to tho the governor of south carolina which was to bo be sure pertinent to the hour and the discussion and bristling with mith fresh significance they were both in atlanta this morning said the man with the tile flask and hey they would mould have been traveling together on this train it if they hathie hadn t met in the ticket dofice and nearly exploded with mith rage the speaker was suddenly oi overcome with mith his own humor and slapped his knee and laughed thin ti they all laughed including ono one ought to have taken the lower lovier berth and one the upper to make mako it perfect observed an alabama man I 1 wonder when they 11 get home they 11 probably both walk A alk to bo be sure they dont don t take the same train suggested a commercial traveler from cincinnati who ho had just come from new orleans their friends are doing their beet best to keep keel them apart they both have a reputation for being quick on the trigger bashi exclaimed grinwald Grin wold 1 I 1 dare say it its a all a newspaper story theres no knife and pistol nonsense in the south any more they 11 both go homo home and attend to their business w aria that u will III bo be the last of at it rhe people of at north carolina ought to t lie be proud of iange field boa box out of 0 the beet they ever hail had and osborne la Is a first class man too one of the old palmetto families the discussion bad had begun to bore hore griswold Grin wold and he lie went ent back to hie his own having it in mind to revise reise ise a lecture ho lie was as arf paring nn on tho the right of bearch on hleb 9 1 sias atas it had grom grown n dark and t the he car was am brilliantly lighted there were ere not more than half a dozen other persons in lila ills sleeper and th se wery were widely scattered having taken an inventory of his belongings to be sure they were pre all at hind hand hn he be came conscious of the he presence of at a oung lady in the opposite section in lit the scat seat behind her sat nn an old colored women omen in snowy cap and apron who he was evidently the oung I 1 ladye idy a sem servant ant or GO wold waa mas aware that this dusky duenna bristled and frowned and pursed puli her alps 11 in the way of her tier aque kind as he glanced at her as though his pres elice were ere an intrusion upon her tier rols mis tress who aho at mith withdrawn drawn to tho tile six x corner of her section geeki seeking aig its fullest seclusion with her tier head against a pillow and tho the tips of her sued shoes shaming how ing under tinder her gray traveling skirt on the further halt of tho the bertlon she twirled idly in her fingers a half opened rosebud a fact unimportant in itself but dee des lined tined to linger long in cris Gris griswoldd wolde old 9 mP memory tilory the pillow afforded the happiest possible background for her brown bron head her tier cheek bright with mith color and a clear cut and just impression due perhaps to thu the blight slight quiver of her nostril nostrils and the compression of her lips seemingly disdainful of the world orld the bided black woman oman rose and mini minis to her mistress muttering in kind monotone consolatory phrases from front which aich chile and find honey occa aces nally reached griswold a s ear ears tho the old mammy produced from a bag sev eral toilet tollet bottles a fresh chandker hand ker chief a hand mirror and a brush which aich she arranged in the empt scat sent thank you aunt phoebe I 1 m feeling much atter just let me alone now please the girl put aside the white rose for a moment and breathed deeply of the vinal vinaigrette grette whose keen pungent odor state across the aisle to gris wold she bent forward took up tip the hand mirror and brushed the hair away aay from front her tier forehead with mith halt half a dozen light strokes she touched her tier handkerchief to tho the cologne disk flask passed it across her tier ees and own took up tip the rose ngien and back with li little sigh of in her new upright position her gaze rested upon Gris grinolds olds nes newspapers papers vi which aich he had hung flung don down in on the empty half halt of bla his section one of them bud bad fallen open and lay with mith its outer page staring with ith tho the bold grin of display type TWO GOVERNORS AT INARI what did the governor of north carolina say to the governor govermor of south Caroll carolina tia the color deepened in the girl a face a alfrit gathered in her tier smooth forehead then she callad the colored woman and a brief colloquy Y followed between them in a moment griswald was wag addressed in a tone and manner at once condescending and deferential if yo please sun suh would mould 0 a o all low my V t look at yo certain Certai nl take them along Gri griswold sold noted with nith surprise the girl girls s immediate absorption in the telegrams from new orleans relating to the difficulty between the tw two a governors aa As she read she lost he thought something eom ething of her tier splendid color and at one point in her tier reading her fare went white for a moment and gl gills wold old saw sam the paper wrinkle under tinder ahe tightening grasp of hir handa hands I 1 he tidings from train new orleans had un tin aroused her tier oil on site seemed to lose account of her surroundings and times gris girls wold was mas inloe sure that ho lie I 1 eard ier anit if exclaim preposterous arfa moul when ehe she had finished the sew ew or lenns leans grams ehe she cast the ins ing news lapOra from her then recall ing frig herself summoned the black woman and returned turned rc them to iris wold all the dusky agen agent expressing pressing the elaborate thinks ol 01 her tier race for his courtesy tho tile hirl had grismond GrI and she ile now pulled down the curtain at her ebow with mth a s lap and turned hor face away aay from him TO nf u |