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._- - I IHE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES. VOL. XIV. ADRIAN. -rtXT OTHO BEA-luU, CHAPTER I. The sun had set and the evening gky was all aglow’ with myriads of golden rays. Sweet Philomel, to trill her vesper song had perched upon a towering oak whose darkening shadows fell upon the moss covered granite boulders which lay along the brooklet. The sparkling waters of the little rill reflected, here and there, between the shadows, the golden sky. Ellen Estes, a black eyed beauty, the daughter of an eminent and learned professor of literature, and Adrian Stealing, a struggling and talented young lawyer, liad sought this (print retreat to commune together in the dreamy twilight hour. They had watched the western sky assume its golden .robe while the eastern horizon put on the shroud of night. Ellen and Adrian had known each other but a short while. But at the first meeting they evinced a liking for each other, and the mutual friendliness of their first acquaintance developed quickly in to a more tender passion. Since lovers’ talks are not interesting to others .than themselves it would be of kittle interest to narrate in their own words what they spoke of upon the evening of the opening of this chapter. Seated upon one of the moss •omered rocks, they had discussed, for some time, the merits of a re cent p9em of Paul Ilayne, when Ellen arose languidly from her scut by Adrian and proprosed to return to the village. As she stood in the soft light reflected from the now pul pie sky, her bewitching eyes looking dreamingly out into the forest, her smooth dark hair a fit .setting for the rosy cheeks a Tl d alabaster brow, the impulse which so much loveliness irresistably brought over Him was to declare his love to her and hear what must be to him the index to future happi ness or of future ill-content. Taking her pretty little band in /his own he spoke softly, telling her jof how those dark eyes spoke love iji every glance; how he yearned to Xell her of his deep devotion; and of the first time that look pierced his heart; that he would struggle to make her happy; and all those natural sentiments that lovers gen erally feel he poured into her liken ing </ar. Once she interrupted him with some trivial remark, being unable to hinder a little ripple of affected coquetry, but he, undaunt ed, as was hi* true spirit, went on, be ,r(Z injr her to tell him quickly if her heart did not aiswer to his Jove. Site lifted, more lo\ ingly than over, her large dark eyes to his, and as a warm thrill passed through her hand into the stiong grasp that held it, she whispered sweetly, as if fearing the birds should be taleboareis, ‘‘les, my Adrian 1 love you. les.” Could lips ever be mow tempting than when bearers of such sweet voids? Would Adrian have acted manful ly if he had not imprinted the kiss ,he did upon them? Jrom lip ,to heart the affection seemed to thrill, aud each of them thought that a most happy moment. The most striking reverses are sometimes sequel* to the most promising begin nings, and it is not every breeze that blings perfume. We shall see if these young people, so happy in each other’s kve will remain so, and, if, after their omtual assuran ces of trust and constancy they remain unchangable in their affen tion. They are for a time most happy, and Adnan, to show his determi nation to succeed in business for the sake of his sweetheart, and to build up for himself reputation and fortune, devoted ail of hik time to his pursuit of the law, never bcino’ seen idle and never in company with the rowdies whose busine s it was to “tare up the town” B ,. ;n j. occasionally. Instead of these repasts of inter change fun he took recourse for pleasure at evenings to Ellen’s home, where he ever found in the professor a most interesting talker upon every topic and a mind pos sessed of a great store of iuforma tion besides a ready flow of genial wit. Such a companion, the more appreciated on account of his daughter, Ellen, was just what Adrian wanted, and he knew him self fortunate. For hours on some gloomy evening Adrian would sit in the study of the old gentleman, and there they would discuss poetry, fiction, philosophy, and oth er branches of literature and the arts; or upon a bright moonlight evening, Adraiu would call and he and Ellen would sit out on the balcony, talking love and gazing at the WTjjling moon. One evooiug Adrian took his leave of Ellen with a k-is£ # fig Bn* gered on the threshold of the door a moment as if wishing to mention something new. Ellen looked in quiriugjy into his honest face, and asked him whai the matter might be. “Ah, my dear, nothing, only I go away to-morrow with the mail. 1 am going for a trip to the west, on busincss for Jones £ Carpen ter, and —well, to rest up for a few weeks.” Saying thia he leant forward for anotl&r kies, but Ellen, being so surprised only rei/e’ygd the caress without returning it, and Adrian could feel a tremor pass through her hand as she said: “ Where, my Adrain, where can you be }Vould you leave me for a whole two wufrkw sow. please don’t go.” Lie hesitated. But, knowing that hi# hijyincss was pressing, and thinking his absent would be only a short one, he replied soothingly; “Why, Ellen, love, I will be back to you in two or three weeks. 1 hr; to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to se<* >,Tule ceive our part of my grai»dfufl^r’ 4 legacy, and while there I will at tend to some little business, for Carpenter, of a legal kind: BonT afraid for me, my dear.” As he said this he felt a chill pass through the hand he held and the feeling pervaded his whole body gllcn spoke, with tears trickling down lw “Adrian listen to me. I feei just as though I will /never, never 3i?pyou again if you leave for the west. L kfiQW J ehall never see you again. Don't got'* She was ‘really overcome with fear lest something should befall him in her absence, lie could not repress $ tear of joy at seeing her love demonstrate.*/ Sjwh away, and he went on, in a few words, and with a shower of kisses to re assure her. lie was to go away the following morning, leaving a loved face and a !° wish him God speed on his journey. CHAPTER H. A TRIP TO THE Wsp. A RIDS THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS. A NK\V FRIEND. “Block” Snyrfey and Jim Pitts, the first a blacksmith's apprentice uyd the latter a printer’s devil,were lounging urpund the brick corner in rho village of i|o<jfciyjj early ups on the morning when Adrian Stejr> ling was to leave that place for the far west. •‘Block remarked to his friend Jim, who was always ready with his clattering tongue, 4 »Jlm H'bjjr do you rekkin’ that ar Mr. J 11 whilikiii flint cd <il‘iwypj’ is agwine ill’s bright and early mornin, hey?” , , ‘•f)h,” says Jim ludicrously, “‘ukew do J rekkin?’ is that what youi’e a bittin at. } done, being as 1 haven t asked him, do you?” “Don’t git sassy now. See that? CARROLLTON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1885. (holding out a rutty fist.) I j cs t thought maybe you’d know, as you is the reporter.” The last flattering speech had its visible effect upon the young type sticker, and his face brightened up a degree as he answered, suavely: ‘‘We'll see if we cant find out where he’s a goin’. Here Steve!” speaking to a ragged negro boy who was’poking along to the pub* lie well with a battered tin pail swung on his arm. “Here. Go up to the hack yonder, an’ ask Mr.— Mi. Sterlin’ where lie s set his trump fui to-day. Mr. Rob’son’ll want to know.” The little nig, glad to get any pretense for leaving duty threw his water-bucket to the ground, and springing spvay like a monkey he was soon up on flip wfiepl of tfiq back asking for the desired infor mation. Mr. Sterling told him that lie expected to visit the West, and asked him in a quizzing wav, if he would not like to go with him. lhe boy said “no!” very loudly and ran back to tell the gentlemen of the hammer and stick what he heard.. “Goin’ West?” said tfifthk, “wpll whot’s that he got at Jones Car penter’s then, I guess that’s sump en er other.” “I spose; I should reckin, 1 should twitter to ejaculate that it is somethin'', and its money, and may by it aint,” said Jim the devil, walking off with his hands in hU pockets and his head thrown back to get the smell of breakfast frying in his parental domicil, up the street. A gentleman of medium height apparently about middle age, seeing Adrian in tiro mail haftk, aqd supposing that he was going to the railroad, stepped up and saying “Good morning Adrian, how are you?” came near and took his hand. Adrian the salute. The * l ll *< i < i ~ reverend gentleman, (for he was a minister) placed his left hand to his ear, and asked where his good be going. Adrian told him whither lie was bound.— Mr. Wade, the clergyman, got into the hack as it moved off, and said he would ride to the summit of the hill above town, mentioning that he Lad as the capital and was almost of a mind to go along then so as to have company. Adrian begged him cordially to go, and he decided to do to. had been a friend ana counsellor to Adrian since they had met some months before, and a mutual friendship and esteem had sprung up between tiiyu-i, t-hp ipjnieter seeing in the young man, a talent for the jaw and a tact for business, and the young man recognizing in the preacher a man of accomplishments with a heart ot wyith. They enjoyed their ride together very much and parted in the city with cordial shakes of the hand and good wishes from the heart. At/rlaif <pqnt the eve ning in the city, leaving at midnight for the West. When he had seated himself com fortably, or rather uncomfortably upon u cat t»eac witq ins sept upon another, he lit a cigar and gave way to thoughts fanciful and retrospective. The cigar coming to a premature grave by being dropped iptq :: spittoon, Adrian discovered tha£ the ridp had fatigued him and that he was sleepy. He fell asleep, and was only awaj<ei|pd opce when the con ductor called him tq punch his ticket. He was the sole occupant of the par f and the night being storm) and dark so tha£ objects outside were invisible and every thing lonely, the whole had a dis mal effect upon his brain and caus ed him to be stupid, and he slept a restless sleep. Wfitn he awoke day was just dawning. Epon hk left, as the train sped northward he saw rising hills, while upon his right were green fields and level plains. He rubbed his eves and opening a window looked out to get a full enjoyment of the panorama of scenes replacing one the other as the lumbering carriages wheeled i along the rails. As the hills, capp ed with tall pines, and the valleys, marked with streams of inviting crystal, brightened at the slow ap ; proach of the golden morning sun, i the train neared a city. Our trav- I eler knew he was approaching fa , mous ground. The»’e, twenty years before his, father fell upon that mountain side; upon that green plain to his right his mother’s young darling brother breathed away the life that had fought to uphold the principles of his country; further on, now sparkling in the si) ver sun light,the river, whffch shot and shell had sizzed as it boiled tumult uously, was calmly and peacefully flowing along. As he contemplated the scenes before him and remembered the story of the famous fight, he forgot the houses growing up to his view forgot the immediate distinctness of the voices on every side—forgot the whistles, the gong, and the mills above and below, —lost in reverie. The mountains towering all around him and the town held his eyes in awe. But the cars drew up at last into a long shed, and he alighted to the ground, feeling chiljy and bad. The ugliness of the buildings and the muddiness of the streets could not fail to attract his atten-1 tion as he passed along the street, after he had left the carshcd. ‘■if the clpmces for procuring a good meal in thi§ city are ag bad as the streets for beauty and the buildings for architectural elegance, I fear I shall either fast, or feast upon something as highly’ discom forting to the stomach as the , ,and —, cars are to the head;” and after lyttepipg this eloquent speech, he went up a flight of steps into a large hotel. After getting breakfast he took-a room and fell asleep to await the afternoon wes tern bound train upon which hg would take his departure. Hie dreams were more pleasant than those of the previous night. They were of home and Ellen. T'ii a porter cauie hounding in upon his repose at one o’clock and shaking him sever d times, in spite of his protesting that he was awake, told him it would be “zact ly 5 minits twell train time lest I'D •• . i cizely” and that ho Had ”bettah git up and dust er likely you's gwine ’er git to pay ’nuther day’s bill at dis house.’ ” “The powers forbid,” thought Sterling, as he grasped 'his gravel ling bag and followed the limber darkey down. This latter person age was evidently the head waiter in this accommodating establish. * - . •. • mqnt. His kinky brownish black hair was curled and banged and oiled to the highest degree of the tonsorial art, and wfiatotiy cojorcif Weller lacked in the requirements of orthography and rhetoric he made up in jlooks and attention.— He held out his hand to Adrian as he turned to take his leave of the house, and as our tqqrist is very genial and good-hearted he placed a quarter in the mulatto’s hand, much to his delight, this being demonstrated by sundry writhes in body and in countenance, to be interpreted as smiles of grati tude and bows of thanks. Leaving the filthy hotel, the muddy streets,the smoky buildings, and the famous ground, our travel er ridps into scenes of grandeur and beauty that beggar description, Great cliffs perpendicular bluffs op the sides of towering mountains which keep along |n a continuous - range, broken only now and then to afford passage into the five), of which glimpses could be seen occasionally, or rivulets and creeks which wended their way through the valleys. Just as Adrian had stepped up on the car, a paper, lhe Roc|<lyn Gazette had dropped out of his pocket, but as he hud. read it, and cared noth in <; for it he did not remember having it at all. A tall spare man in a brown suit and straw hat, wearing goggles, picked it up as he entered the smoking car and took his seat. . 1 In a short while after the train - had left the city of C Adrian i commenced to be weary of gazing » at tiie scenery and went to the ' smoking car to enjoy.Jwith the views ’ of the country, a few whiffs from • 1 one of his favorite cigars. Seating •; himself near the front he saw just before him the man who had, with out his knowledge, take) up the paper. As the morning wore on, these being the only passengers left on the train, they gradually commenced to talk to each other, until the stranger mentioned a name familiar to Adrian, which ex- ‘ cited his interest. He asked the stranger where he had heard it. I “O, Brown, Wm. Brown,? I’ve | known him for twelve years or more. I met him at the prpss sociation jn ’7O and we have been iniimato friends since; is he an ac* quaintance of yours?” “Yes, and if I am not too bold, may I ask your name?’ “Certainly, sir, no offence; Wil berh,sir, Wilberly. Yours?” “Sterling, Adrian Sterling, at your service; and you know William Brown the artist?” “Ah, yes, and a jolly cqss he ig. I remember a jiard of his, Tom Sweet, a reporter on the Herald at N .” L “Ah, there is another of my in timate acquaintances. Were you broght tip in that State?” “Oh yes,” and here Mr. Wilbe+Jy went or, to name over Ud familiar names that brought to Adrian many fond recollections, and the upshot of it was that the two fellow travellers were not long m establishing friendship with each other. They talked on fo.r some time, Adrian telling ’the stranger about his trip, his charge of a pack age of valuable deeds for western lands, and of his Ellen at home, Wilberly promised to him at on fiis return and ac companying him back to Rocklyn, as he wished to “see the old you know,) anq talk oyer old Here he drew out from a case on the rack, a flute and commenced to blow a low, melodious tune, the loneliness making Adrian sleepy.— As night was falling it was very natural for fijm Oy sleepy, and as the soft notes of the flute rose haimoniously above the lum bering of the train he dozed away to slumber. CHAPTER 111- RELATES INCIDENTS OF IMPORTANCE CONCERNING THE SUDDEN CHANGES IN THE COURSE OF EVENTS WITH ADRIAN STERIJNq. At the season of the year in which our story is laid, when the weather was so cbangalfic mid no cqrtajnty oould be placed in the freaks of nature’s electric currents, and catastrophes of wind and storm, the most beautiful day bright in the warmth and glow of the laugh ing sun had often fqr ite ciosp the impending cloud of leaden darkness, and the evening with a bright moon presaged no certainty of a calm and peappfu.l night, Jqst ns Adnan fell asleep in the car, and as the world was over shadowed with the mantle of even ing a thick, dark cloud could be seen slowly rising in the south western sky, and now and then 3 vivid fyish qf electric fire tracked the way of an approving disturb ance in the elements. Rapidly the one cloud enlarged and others formed near and around it until the whole western sky was blackened, obliterating all the light of the half moon which had looked forth a few degrees above the horizon at sun set. 2k roaring as of coming armies burst upon the silent night upon the outside, all unheeded and un thought of by the passengers on board tfie moving palaces* Light br-ecaes began to blow, growing stronger and stronger, until fierce ness seemed to assert itself in their flight. With the south-westerly wind large drops of rain and now and then a hail stone beat against the windows,and al! appearances, to an observer of such indications, pointed to an approaching cyclone. Those who have witnessed tht sc devastating powers of the wind know how quickly they come and with what amazing rapidity they do their work of destruction.— The howling and roaring of the wind and the beating of the rain against the window panes of the car awoke Adrian at last from his slumbers, and lie saw at once that one of those dread storms was on hand. As he gathered his confused thoughts together ho could see by the vivid flashes of lightning a bending of trees in a distant forest to the northand west, and a thrill of horror passed through his frame as he divined what must be the result to every portion of country through which the winged demond passed. As ho was standing at a window, lis hand laid for support upon the janel, and his eyes endeavoring to discern some distant object in the cyclone’s track he heard the shrill whistle of the engine in front, an immediate grinding underneath him as of the plying of brakes to the wheels, and then he felt the motion 1 of a sway to the right of the car, a itiqgq to the left, and then came over him a dizziness which caused him to fall backward into a seat, and he knew no more. The train engineer seeing by the distinct light of the gleaming elec tricity what he supposed to be a heap of rubbish, applied the brakes gave the danger signal, and waited in an awful suspense the conse quence. Too late. The engine which was moving at full speed down a steep grade seemed to hoed neither the command of the shi iek ing wju-do nor the strong impulse of the pressing brakes, but sped on> on, on to the waiting poyU, A deep washout, caused by the rush ing from a mountain side opened its jaws as with the hideous expectancy of a demon *cudy for a rich meal. Dowd, down wont the £ngm<fc over fell car upon oar into the pit of the cries of the wb,i§»b mingling with the groans of wounded and dying men and women—passengers and train hands. In a very few moments tiie only sounds were the roaring and the rush ing torrent, the stifled groans of a few persons whose lives were not enti’-ely extinct, and the distant rumbling of the cyclop k> the northwd v the first sound of uiu whistle one man had sprung into the air from the rushing train, preferring the almost certainty of being clashed to pieee* against the ground tQ the uncertainty of com ing danger, fortunately however, he fell into a pool of loose mud, sustaining no further injury than the bespattering of his whole person with the slime. He saw the engine go into the washout, heard the cries of the people in their death agonies, understood that he was very likely the only living person who had a few moments before been riding comfortably, moving along hardly dreaming of fear. This man was Wilberly.— His first thought was to go at once for help, so starting out into the woods he ran on until he reached a country road, which he followed until he discerned a dim linht shining forth about quarter of a mile from him at a slight elevation from where he stood, and gathering fresh speed from hope he was soon in the yard of the house from which the light emanated. As he placed his foot upon the door step a movement in the yard to his left attracted his notice when look ing around, he discerned several forms by the light ot a lantern which a young boy in night dress held up before his terror-stricken face. There were two or three scared looking women and an old man behind the boy, some upon the ground and others just protrn* ding from a trap door which led into an under ground pit. Evi dently these people had taken ref uge in this pit from the cyclone which had passed just above them, and well they might, thought he as the memory of a few moments ago crossed his mind. (Continued on Fourth,/nigt.) : i g __ i ITWI w BEST TOMIC. ? This medicine, combining Iron with mm Vegetable tonics, quickly* and eotnpkSety < urea DTipepnin. IndigmUea, I ...purr H lood, Malarla.Ctetlleaad Ferm, and Neuri*l<in. It is an unfMUrw remedy for Dlsevn efthe Kinney* and 1.1 ver. It is invaluable for Disease* peenMtr t» Women, and all who lead sedentary live*. It does not injure the teeth, cause produce constipation—o Mer Jrvn medMiMvJt It enriches and pnrifiee the blood, stlmdatee the appetite, aids the assimilation food. »- lieves Heartburn and Belvhing, and strength ens the muscles and nerves. For Intermittent Fevers Lamitnde, !>eh of Energy. <k c ., it has no equal. J h L < r« nu,ne ho »t«de mark awd crossed red lines ou wrapper. Take no other '•cmlrbj IWOWJ CM SIICaL CO w B11?tBOBB. 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