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VOLUME IX.
DUBLIN. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY APRIL. 13 1887.
NUMBER 38.
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It waB a flawless June day, full of
light and sunshine and the songs of
birds. But all the beauty and har
mony without seemed to Ida Gray
likeamookery of her deep-seated
sorrow.
She was a beautiful girl. No won
der that Ralph Ulottson loved her,
and whon I say that he was her
worthy mate in outward appearance
1 ean give him no higher praise for
comeliness. V
Ida was an orphan, and had made
her home with her married sister
Emma, (the wife of Herbert Illott-
son, Ralph’s elder brother,) since her
father, Captain Mark Gray, had been
lost at sea.
At the time our story opens he
was just entering upon his twenty-
first year.
From tho moment Ida had oome
into the family Ralph had been her
bound slave. The dimpled beauty
of her baby face had wou his boyish
heart at onoo.
Now, at the respective ages of six
teen and twenty the relation between
them had assumed an even nearer
and dearer form. They had exchang
ed their troth plight, and as soon as
Ralph had finished tho neat cottage
he was building, they wore to be
married and set up their liousohold
altar within it.
There was a great difference in
the brothers’ personal appearance,
and a still wider one in disposition.
Horbert was tall, slender, aud dark-
eyed, little given to conversation,
and apt to brood over anything which
troubled him; while Ralph was t
merry-eyed, fair complexioned, sUl
wart young fellow, just escaping six
feet in height.
The part of the country in which
they lived was usually a peaceable
one, but occasionally some disturb
ing element would appear, as must
happen when a community is com
posed of so many different nationa-
i!lilies, all flocking toward one point
of compass. Until lutely, however,
the Illottson brothers had mado no
enemies, , as they were essentially
honorable, peace-loving men, .who
attended scrupulously to their own
business. But a cause of dissension
had arisen between Herbert Illottson
aud a man named Fallin—as swar
thy, heavy-browed; evil-expressioned
a being as could be found in a day’s
journey. By some means a horse
had come into Falliu’s possession
which had been stolen some time
previous from Illottson. Ho had
identified it by cortain marks, and
Fallen had been obliged to givo the
animal back to his real owner.
Since tbei) an evil eye seemed to
have been cast upon lllottson’s flocks
and herds. Valuable cuttle died
suddenly; young horses roaming 4u
an apparently safe pasture would go
incurably lame; aud mvariable re
ports would reach the farm that Fal-
liu had been iu the vicinity about
the time those calamities had hap
pened. So naturally he was connect
ed in the brothers’ minds with their
ill fortune—whether justly or not
no one but Falliu himself knev^.
Among other poslossions, one that
was most valued upon the farm, was
apuro-bred shepherd dog, namod
Juno. She had been reared and
made much of through her days of
puppyhood by Idu and her favorite
niece, Elma. Then npon reaching
au age Whoa she could be trained to
care for tho sheep, she had develop
ed a sagacity jnd faithfulness which
had made her the talk of tho cont
inuity. But one day a tattered
little urohiu rushed to the farm
house with the intelligence that
Juno had been shot, aud that he had
seen Myron Fullin raise his gun and
aim it ut Juno with his own eyes.
The brothers were alone together as
the boy caine with his story of what
had happened.
Palo with anger, the usually quiet
Herbert IllutUoii rcaohod up to lake
J his rifle from its place, aud start out
iu quest of Fallin.
“Horbeit,” said Ralph,, “be care
ful what you do. Don’t take the
law into your own hands.”
* “That man deserves to be crushed
like tho reptile he resembles 1” re
turned Herbert', savagely. “I’m
bound I’ll put up with it no longer.”
“The quarrell should bo mine
Herbert, iustead of yours, for Juno
belonged to me. Lot mo see Fallin
in your place. A man of family
should hesitate to oxpose himself to
the danger of an altercation with
such an unscrupulous, passionate
man.”
“I arn'not hot-headed enough to
tako tho law into my own bauds,
Ralph; but I shall seo Fallin, and
givo him a piece of my mind—tho
scoundrel 1”
Ralph said no more, but soon af
ter his brothor had left tho house ho
took down his own gnu, examined
priming, aud went out in tho direc
tion taken by Herbert.
The next morning dawned bright
aud clear; but all too soon followed
the tempest which was to overwhelm
the hitherto happy, peacefvl furnily.
The sun had risen high in the
heavens, and the noontido hour of
rest aud refreshment came, bringing
with it Herbert and Ralph from the
fields. Thoy hud scurcoly seated
themselves at the table, when Ida
exclaimed : ,
“Uncle Illottson, do look out and
toll me whut so . many people are
coming this way for 1”
Herbert Illottson started to his
feet, and hustencod to tho door, fol
lowed by Ralph.
lie was confronted by the sheriff,
whose usually impulsive face looked
agitated aud ill at euso. Behind
him, at a little, distant, stood a num
ber of men; some friends of the Illott-
sons, and others were mere ncquaiu-
ces, attracted thither/by curiosity.
But one dominant feeling was visi
ble upou all of tbo watching faces—
horror, incredulity, aud a sort of
wondering pity, all were mingled to
gether in their expression.
“Is Ralph in ? Oh, yes, I see him.
I’m sorry to huvo to say it, Ralph,
but I have u charge to'make aguinst
you.- Will you come out of tho
.hearing of the womeu folks u min
ute ?” >
Tho sheriff wus an old friend to the
Illottsous, and his words sooincd ab
solutely forced from him uganst his
will, us his husky voice uud slow-
coming aceeut testified. Ralph ac-
compuuicd him unhesitatingly. Her
bert followed close upon his foot
steps. /
“Fulliu has been murderod, Ralph
and as somethieg belonging to you
bus been pioked up near tho body—I
-I-
“Suspect mo of having something
to do with it? Speak out, Kendall.
You neodu’t be afraid to do your
duty.”
“It’s tho hardest thing I’ve come
across since I've been in this line,
Ralph, but it’s true. That’s what
I’m here for.”
Ralph had turned very pale. Ho
looked at his brother with u sort of
keen inquiry and unxiety. Herbert
met his look with one equally ques
tioning aud keen.
“Gan I spoak to my brothor, Ken
dall ?” Ralph asked.
“Of comae vou can, Ralph. Yon
know I don’t believe vou’jo a chap
who’d shoot down a man in cold
blood, joat as if lie were a dog; and
I’ll givo yon any privilege it’s in my"
power to grant* Say all you want to
Herbert.”
Rulph drew his brother to one
side.
“For God’s sake, Jlerbort, keep
shut mouth ubout last night!
You’ve got a family and I -huven’t.
If either one of us takes tho brunt,
it must bo tho unniurried one.
Promise me.”
“Takos tho brunt of what, Rulph!
You don’t moan to say that this
nmttor will bo put upon eitlior of
us, do yon? It'll just bo a question
heart,,
strug
of time. You’ll bo as free as air
agaiu after your examination. Wo
Illottsous are not tv bloodthirsty
race. No one would boliovo that
you did it.on oool thought/
Rulph looked wondoringly at his
brother, but ho said no more. He
seemed absolutely struck dumb ut
his cool way of taking tho horrible
charge, and. that too, made against
the young brotho.1 to whom ho had
been as a futhor.
He turnod to tho sheriff.
“I am ready to go with you, Ken
dall. You noodn’t four that I will
givo you any trouble. I wouldn’t
care to bo seen among my nmtCB
again until I am piouounood froo
from suspioion.
“I am with the law, Ralph, und
the law says that a man is innooent
until he-is proven guilty. I’ll never
believe auything olso of you, unloss
you yourself say that this charge is
true.”
“I shall say nothing at all about
it, Kendall, The proof you say you
held against me must tell its own
story.”
“My God, Ralph, you don’t mean
to say that you won’t put ip any de
fence?” and Kendall’s free expressed
his astonishment.
“What I say is, if I am guilty,
provo it. I shall say noithor * you’
nor ‘nay.’ ”
Aiid Rulph kept his word. Had
his lips been made of marble thoy
could not have dosed more firmly
over whatovor secret it wus that his
silence wus intended to conceal.
Fallin had boon found with three
shot-wound—two had not been nec
essarily fatal, but had lodged iu his
body. ,Ouo had reached his
There was no evidence of a
gl<?.
At first suspicion had not rested
upon any one. But a careful oxam-
ination of tho ground had brought
to light a pipe of singular workman
ship; which oue of the investigating
party recoguizod at onoo as belong
ing to Ralph Illotttson.
It was a .present to him whon a
boy, from Ida t s father—Captain
Gray—who had brought it with him
among other curiosities authored to
gether by him upou ono of his voy
ages.
That disoovery sealod his futo.
Ho would give no explanation as to
how or when ho hud lost it, holding
to the resolution he had expressed to
Kendall ut the time of his unost.
Tho jury brought him in guilty, with
u recommendation to mercy on ac
count of hithorto blameless career.
Lie was sentenced to imprisbnmenb
for life, instead of hangiug.
When tho prison walls closed
about him, in all probability for tlio
whole of hjs remaining days, it can
bo imagined that there was deep
mourning within the family circle
at tho farm-house, of which ho lmd
been the light and ornament. Idu
—his betrothed bride —had ono se
cret bidden within hoi hoart which
kept her from siuking entirely under
the blow.
To her ulono hud Raph broken
his resolute silence ; but it was un
der a promise of secrecy, which she
would have died rather than brouk.
“I will ease my heart by telling it
to vou, Ida, because, out of ul! tho
world, you are the ono who has a
right to know the truth. I am as
inuocent of tho orirue as you aro,
but I ciioose to suffer in pluce of tho
real offendor; and if you uro tho loy
al little woman I think you to be,
you will ubide uquucBtionubly by my
decision.”
And Ida, raised by his confiding
belief and trust in her to the lofty
plane of self-abnegation upon wbicli
Ralph himself stood, mado no out
cry. ftho ucccptod the situation in
tho sums light us did Ralph, and if
nuy suspicion us to tho identify of
the real sinner over entered her
mind, it went no further.
Slio, with theromuiiidorof tho af
flicted family, wont on in tho round
ul duily duties quietly and uncom
plainingly.
Sheriff Kendall, howovor, was
puzzled and unsatisfied with tho is
sue of t?ho oaso. Ho thought and
rightly, t hat sorno mystery counoot-
od with it hud caused Ralph’s singu
lar roticonco.
“If, us I think, Ralph Illottson is
innooont, it will cotne out some
time,” ho thought. “Meanwhile, I
will keep my oyos open.”
At the time of the post-mortem
examination ho had possessed him-
solf of the bullet found in the body
of tho murdered man, und sooured a
bit of primed paper, tho missing
part of which might huvo beau used
us a wadding in loading, according
to his theory. Nothing to match it
had boon found; but ho laid it oare-
fully away.
Oue day something happonod
whih set tho community iu u flutter
of oxoitemont and interest. A bur
glary had bleu attempted at a quiet
farm-house, occupied by au old
couple who wore reported to bo ri<$.j : '
in hoardod gold. But tho fopblo old
man had not pruvod the oasy yiotim
tho robber had evidently expooted
him to bo. Ho had aimed a woll
directed shot at tho heart of the in
truding .miscreant, und lie dropped
down, breathing heavily, und in an
instant hud died.
Sheriff Kondull had boon sent for
and hud taken charge of tlio dead
robbor’s effects. Among other
things ho found u wallet full of dif
ferent coins, and ono of a poouiiur
kind—evidently from a foreign, mini
—had a pieoo of printed paper wrap
ped around it which corresponded in
shopo to thojErnginouts which Ken
dall hid' preserved'so dai'ofully. In
his pity for and intorost in the Illott-
sou’sallllio, that piece of paper had
burned itself upon Kendall’s 'mem
ory, as also hun tho printed words
upou it. In ono of tho dead man’s
pockets he also found an umber
mouth-pioco of a Turjsli pipe—a
purt wnioh had been missing from
the pipe whoso finding had oonvict-
eil Ralph. lie was white with ox-
oitemeut as he saw it, but ho said
nothing about his discovery until ho
could comparo the two pieces of pa
per together and see if tho amboi'
fitted to Ralph’s pipe (which ho lmd
scoured). I{o went oil with his nco-
cossary dutioFfaiihfully and tlior-
iighly untill they wore completed.
Then, howovor, his faithful mare,
Molly, wus tho sufferer. He drove
her homo at a puce unparalleled in
her equine oxperienco, until ut lust
lie drew rein at his own door, and
loft her to muse upon her mastor’s
disregard other comfort, while lie
rushed in to satisfy himself about
his discovery. Then Molly >vus
again put to the tost of hor endur
ance; for Kondull hud important
business upon his hand- tlio release
of an innocent man 1—the, dispers
ing of shadows, and the diffusing
tho sunshine’of happiness upon u
sorrowing family.
He had showod his.confidence in
Ralph all through by expressing be
lief in his innoconco. Now he had
tho proof of it, in his hand to lay
before tho proper authorities.
There was little delay in makiug
ont tho papers to sot Rulph free;
and thon Kondull went to him with
the good nows that tho real inurdor-
or hud been fodnd uud thut lie was
declared inuocent, aud was no longer
a prisoner,
Ralph listened to him in a dazed
sort of way at first, and then lie us;
tonished Kendall by exclaiming:
’‘TlioiiTIerbortdid not kill Fullin,
aftqr,4ll! llow I huvo misjudged him
I, iu my way, have been us unjust to
him as my fcllow-mcu Lave boon to
mo.”
'‘Then that was whore tho trouble
lay, was it ?” said Kendall. “You
sacrificed yourself for Ilorbort, did
you ? Woll, no ono need tell mo
tlioro is no brotherly affection in the
world, after this ! But come, wo
will go und curry our glad nows to
Herbert und to the rest.”
After tho first rejoicings at Ralph’s
roturu woroovor, ho turned to his
brothor.
“Herbert.” he said, “I muatmako
a confession before 1 rest contontod.
1 thought you gavo Falliu his death
blow. Will you forgive mo^ for mis
judging you so cruelly ?”
“You have as much to forgivo as
1 have, Ralph, for 1 thought you had
taken revenge upon.him for killing
Juno. And, instead, yon allowed,
yourself to bo stamped a criminal to
shiold tho brothor you thought guilty
Howoanl repay you Ralph ?”
“By cheering up aud trying to
look like yourself again. Ilorbort.
Yon have grown ton yours older since
I have been in prison,”
“1 shall grow young again now,
Ralph. For 1 fool so happy and light
hearted at seoiug you again thut it
takos mo bnok to my boyish days.”
“And, Ida come hero und listen to
mo. I want my faithful little girl to
promise mo ouo thing. Will alio P”
“What is it, Ralph ?'!,Uakjen Ida,
blushing. and trembling at the words
which shokuew by intuition wore to
follow.
“Lot us celebrate tho happy day of
niy release by aether event which is
of us great importance to my happi
ness. Let ns bo married at? .soon as
we can summon tho minjstpr. Lot
this bp our bridul day.” ;
“Bo it as you will,. Ralph,” said
Ida. —Mary E. Moffot in tfpw York
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