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to ! ' lipiW TV lift N llnA I yVg -" - ''"tyW ' 1 f i ' B . - s L: i ., I t' t .t A ' 4 f s c lyji ( V '. 1 f it y N; IK r? IN DIXIE'S LAND BEFORE THE WAR. BY J.A.S. FITT8. fio nc coxtinced. CHAPTER V. THK TAMING OF A UXD SITJMtK. I had no definite plan as to how I was to accomplish iny darling wish of jPoinB1 to Mr. Hostock. The landlord was a clever sort of man who thoroughly disliked the deacon, and, ns ho had been quite friendly with my it occurred to me that I could claim his hospitality for n little while, till I could pet the means to pay him. I found him alone, and briefly described whnjt had happened. I thought he would go into convulsions. His fat bides shook with laughter. "Well, now, that's glorious! The ,bcst tiling' I've heard for a year. Tried !to lick you, did ho Mould you really hare knocked him down with the stool r "Indeed I should, If he'd come within reach of it." "Hut did you really and truly cnll ' him a ennting old hypocrite?" "Yea." "Well, I'm poor enough; but I'd have giren live uoiiars to near it. llic man heard the truth about himself for once. You're welcome to stay here till you can do better. Did the deacon say anything- about settling with you?" "Settling? I don't understand." "Don't you suppose he owes you money?" "Wlint for?" "Why he's your guardian; or was. Hasn't he ever said anything to you about the state of j'our account, or given you any money?" "Jferer What do you mean?" "The old shark! He's trying to swindle you, as lie has some other orphans." As soon as the landlord's indignation had cooled, ho gave me an explanation that surprised me. He snid that the mortgage on which my father's fnrm was sold was small in amount, and that tho farm sold well. There was a surplus, which had been paid into the hands of Deacon Halleck, as my guardian. "Tom Brough, the lawyer's clerk, -was here last night, talking about it. lie says that, with a liberal allowance for your board and for guardian's fees, the deacon ought to have five hundred dollars for you." "Five hundred dollars!" I faltered. "How am I to get it?" "Ah there is the (roublel I suppose Tom Brough has no business to blob the secrets of tho ofllce; but when he has a glass in, he'll tell me anything. lie says that Deacon Uulleck has made a great deal of money out of estates, and defrauded many widows and orphans, by large bills, delays and all kinds of law-obstacles. He says that is just what will happen tQ you. No matter, Dorr; I'll stand by you. I'll get some lawyer or other to take your case, and you can stay with me till it' decided." I sat pondering on this revelation. "It'll take time," I said. "Yes of course." "And perhaps the deacon might make it appear that he don't owe mo anything." "He's capable of swearing to anything; and you'll have to takt your chances with him, of course. Hut I'd follow him up." "He's ricli and has position and influence; I'm nobody;" I said, continuing to pile up the obstacles. "You have friends, I tell you! Just take my advice!" "Thank you, .Mart, I believe I'll try another way first." "What way?" A sudden inspiration had seir.ed me. "I can't tell you; it's between the deacon and me; I'm going right back to see him." It was not more than an hour from the time that I left the home of my late guardian when I entered it , again. 1 here was a little den on the dining-room where dcucon kept a desk, the pigeon-holes of which were tilled with his notes, leases and mortgages. I knew his habits, and relied upon finding him here at that hour. He looked up from some accounts that he was poring over, and scowled us he saw me. "What brings you back here?" he demanded. "I was in too great a hurry to leave, just now. I've come back to have a settlement with you." He turned sharply, and faced me. "What do you ineun?" "I want you to account to mo as my late guardian. It's my belief that there's as much as five hundred dollars coming to me." A contemptuous smile curled his thin lips. "You're getting along fnmou&ly, indeed! What other gossip have you heard over at the tavern?" "Will you settle with me?" "Look here .you impertinent Then is nothing to settle. The "Look up and not do wu," if you're a Buffering woman. Every one of the bodily troubles that come to women only has a guaranteed cure in Dr. Price's Favorite prescription. That will bring yon sale and certain help. It's a powerful general, as well as uterine, tonic and nervine and it builds up and invigorates the entire female system. It regulates and promotes all the proper functions, improves digestion, enriches the blood, briuits refreshing sleep and restores health and strength. For ulceration, displacements, bearing down sensations, periodical pains and all "female complaints," "Favorite Prescription" is the only guaranteed remedy. If it over fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. Saxiiv's QuKimv to Incikrsoll. This beautiful song (words and music regular sheet music size) will be mailed to anyone encloinv Co in stamps to D. G. Edwards, General Passenger Agent, C. II. & D. It. K., Cincinnati, Ohio. very small amount of money that came to me for yon after tho salo of the farm has been moro than consumed by my charges for board, washing and care. You owe me money yousrelf." "I shall put my claim in tho hands of a lawyer." "Go ahead," ho said, defiantly. "Well, Deacon Halleck that's tho end of that business, for tho present. You'll hear from my lnwyer in due time. There's something elm I want to talk about." He turned his back upon me, and busied himself again at his desk. "Your barn was burned last December." He wheeled his chair sharply about. "What of that?" "I know who set it afire." "Tou do?" "Yes." His defiant manner was gone; the wrinkles ot his face quivered and ht had hard work to return my steady look. "Well " and then came a pause. "Who did it?" "You did it." ne jumped up, strode to and fro, shook his list at me and poured out a torrent of words. "You rascally young liar! What do you mean, coming here and insulting mo with such a ridiculous story? Do you suppose you can blackmail taenu in tli is way? I'll have vou arrested 111" His wrath, and his fears, too, a his face plainly showed, choked his words I quietly took vU.iir. "I'd advise you to take it cool, fairl You'll remember we've done talking about my claim; we aro on another subject now. I merely say to you that I have tho evidenoo that you burned your own property to realize a large insurance on it. I shall go from here fiW IT wpsfSeS OH, DOItH, nOX'T I1ETRAT MKt" to a magistrate and make complaint. If you know of nny reason-why I should not you had better state it." He sat down and stared hard at me. He tried hard to conceal his thoughts; but I saw plainly that his mind was halting between fear and bluster. "Preposterous!" he muttered. I said nothing. "Who do you expect to believe this silly story?" "I refuse to discuss that. It will be time to tulk about that when my proofs are presented." "What are your proofs?" "You'll know in due time." He hesitated, then said, with an effort: "You haven't any proof. I'll talk witli you no more about it." 1 thought the game was lost, but I resolved to play it to the end. "Very well," I said. "You defy me to make a criminal complaint against you. I will do it at once." I turned and walked out of the house. A window was raided, und I hcaid the deacon's voice calling .rat! back. I hud triumphed! When I was again alone with him he locked the door. "This is all very absurd and foolish," he kaid. "Of course I never set fire to my barn, and if you know anything about it you know that I did not. But I don't court trouble. I haven't been over my accounts with you; possibly I do owe you something. Suppose I pay you the five hundred dollars 3-011 claim, will you tell me what evidence you have that 1 burned the barn?" "Yes." "What will there be then to prevent you from milking your foolish com plaint?" "There will bo nothing, Deacon Halleck. Understand inc. I know what compounding a felony is. and I'm doing nothing of the kind. I make no bargains. But you'll probably agree that my evidence against you in a criminal case would not be worth much if it was shown that I had, just been making an amicable settlement with you, nnd that I had received from you the full amount claimed against you as guardian." "You're a keen one," he said. "Do you mean to stay here?" "No. I am going south very soon. I may never return here." He turned to his desk and wrote oft a receipt for live hundred dollars, in full of all claims agaiiust him as guardian. I signed it. From a drawer of his desk ho took a package of bills, and counted out the amount. He watched mo till I had counted it and put it away. "What was your proof?" he demanded. "Your own guilty conscience, Mr. Halleck! I have heard it whispered twenty times, since that night, that you burned your property tuget a high rnte of insurance. I have suspected you, as well us others; but I kneic no more than tlley, which was just nothing. But as soon as I charged you with it, conscious guilt looked out of your face. You were made to be a small rascal, deacou; you can't conceal a crime. I predict that you'll betray yourself after I have gone." The anger with which he heard the beginning of my declaration changed' to abject terror as I went on. Ho wept, wrung his hands,, almost at my feet. "O Dorr.don't betray me!" he whined. "Think of my family, think of ray I good name, think of my position in so ciety nnd the ohnrchl" I assured him that I would not mention the accusation, and left him in his terror and misery. Tho next morninff the village was horrified to hear that Deacon Halleck had committed suicide. He was found hanging by the neck to the rafters in the garret. Fear, I think, not conscience, had destroyed him. OIIAPTmt VL A HWArrOI.VrXKXT AKD A WELCOME. Of courso, there had to be a coroner' inquiry, nd I wna called a n witness. So long wa this investigation that Hay had com before I waa released. The first week of Jun found me steaming down the Misiwippl m one ot the groat river palaces of that day. Everything was new and wonderful to me, and I thoroiifhly enjoyed the journey. The river eruft, of all ie, shapes and means of locomotion; the width and majesty of the downward sweep of tho vast flood, draining half a eontinent; the verdure and luxuriance of the southern spriup, itito summer; the army of passenger, the people, white and blaek, eo different from thorn to whom I had been accustomed; the sights and noundfl of the river by day and by night, ami, a we entered tho cotton belt, the spectacle of immense tract of rich blaek loam on tho bottoms pr the uplands, bursting into the "mhnicsnowof the cotton field;" tlieso were the things that kept my mind in n kind of rapture all tho way. To the speedy meeting with my benefactor I looked forward impatiently. Never, I believe, did man cast his former life behind him more entirety than I hud done. I was nshore nt Ylcksburg before he steamer wi, fairly moored. It was not the picturesque little city of today, but a scattered town of barely four thousand inhabitants, straggling along the river bottom and to climb the heights. I arranged with one of the dozens of loafing negroes to carry my trunk, nnd, escaping from the crowd of passengers, cotton-buyers, and "roustabout," that the dozen steamers lying with tlveir tall smoke- pipes along the river front had brought here, I climbed well up the bluffs and engaged quarters at a quiet place kept by a one-eyed Frenchman, who would talk without the slightest excuse or provocation. After supper, ns we eat out in front and watched the twinkling lights on the river, nnd heard the hoarse shouts of the steamboat men to the negro roustabouts, as-they unloaded cargo or "wooded up," I asked my host if he knew anything of M?!Pierce llostock, a wealthy planter of the vicinity. "Bossj'took, sair? I nevair hear ze name." "I believe he does not live right here; it is a few miles below." "I cannot tell; I know him not" A small shadow fell upon my exuberant spirits. I had taken it for granted that everybody in Vicksburg knew of the great and rich Mr. Hostock. As we sat there, my host inquired of several loungers, one after another, if they knew the object of my aeurch. Not one had ever heard of him. "I do not zay zere is not such man," .said the Frenchman. "Hut I have been here four year, and I hare not hear ze name." "Who was it?" a man asked, coining in for a drink. "A plunter named Pierce llostock." He gulped down his brandy, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and begun to meditate. "JiostocKf I declare I have heard the name. I'm up and down the river all the time, and things gits away from my head in a week; but if I uin't clear outen the channel a man with some such name was mixed up in a fight some time ago. Wasn't it so, Frenchy?" "I tell you I know not ze name." Rather dejected, I was about to retire, resolved to sturt out in the morning und make a systematic search for information, when a communicative old negro approached me. lie had heard my inquiries and told me that "'bout seben year ngo,' or mchbc longer," he was "one of Marse boys." He remembered the place well; he could tell me just where to find it. I slipped n half dollar into his hand and encouraged him to go on. "Oh, yo' can't miss em, young Great big house, 'bout three mile linM frnm ill, r!lil,rr lA'ltli trrtmt v?"i,. der all round." "But how fur and what road?" "It's a right smart ways. I as much us five or sevenTeen miles. Yo'go up to de bluff road, an' yo' follow him down right smart; deii yo' branches off at do Muddy Corners; after awhile yo' turns to de right, an' den yo' axe de ycay! 0, yo'll Hud him." Not much encouraged by this rather cloudy direction, but glad to find somebody who hud some faith in the existence of the object of my search, I took a night's rest The morning found me early astir. I succeeded in hiring a mule, being assured that there was no other mode of carriage practicable, und nftfjr breakfast I mounted ami pushed out on my quest The reader who has ever tried to make his way over the roads of the south of thirty years ago, to say nothing of a later day, and to gain information as ho progressed about distances and localities, will not be surprised to learn that 1 consumed the whole of that long June day in finding the plantation of my search. Doubts, ignorance, und very little positive information, were surprisingly mingled. Had not the patience of my mule been matched by my own, I thiuk I should Jiavo turned back in dfcspair before meridian. Whether white or black were inquired of, the general uncertainty was the same. Some had heard of Mr. llostock; some had not Of those who had heard of him, some thought he had been killed some way; they could not tell how. Others thought he had moved away somewhere, they knew not where. Still others there were who wero sure that Mr. Bostock still lived on tho big plantation, but whether it was five miles away or fifty, they had not least idea. I can only guess how far I traveled that day, advancing, retreating and prospecting I should prcsumo About forty miles. And I should nay "that tho "great big house, about three miles back from the river, with a veranda all round," whero I halted at minuet, was about half that distance from Vicksburg. A negro oamn running down the lauo to me. "Maussa say yo' como right up," was his salutation. I dismounted and he took my mule. 1 walked up tho lawn. A middle-aged planter, portly and pleasant, rose from a group of ladies aitting on tho veranda, and advanced with extended hand. "Good evening, ulr good evening. Come right in. Have you como far?" "From Vicksburg." "Well, well; you're tired and hungry. Hiranda, my dear, go tell Cassy to make some corn-pone and fry ome chicken for tho gentleman. Sit down here, sir; or you'd like to freshen up after your hot ride. 'Handy, tell ioma of the) women to fix up a chamber for the gentleman. What news, lr? and where are yo from?" Tho eauy cordiality of the man, mlnglud with decided was bomething that had to bo known to bu understood. As ho escorted me up the broad steps I wt numerous house servants, of varying shadess peering around corners and '! s$fr h XSrl. 1 UJ.SMA SAY TO CO UK II I OUT IMV out of windows. Past a corner of the house I observed a great field of cotton all ablown. "My wife ami daughter, sir." The ladles bowed, and I returned the salutation. "I am ufraid I have made n mistake," I said. "I am looking for the place of .Mr. Pierce Hostock." "He did live here. Two years ago he removed to Louisiana. I bought him out." I took the chair that was offered me. and said, with the keenest disappointment: ".My journey out here is to no purpose. I had better go back." "Xot to-night," said the planter. "High time to-morrow for that. Travelers don't getaway from Alfred Dorion as eay as that." "I beg your pardon; that reminds me that I have not introduced myself. My name Is Dorr Jewett. I havo come from tho north from Xew Hamp shire." ".lewett? Dorr Jewett?" the planter exclaimed. "From New Hampshire?" "Yes, sir." "And you know Mr. Hotock?" "Ves; lie was a friend of 1:13- father in boyhood. lie caUed at our home ten years ago." "And you wrote him a letter? let's see something more than Ave years ago?" "I did; and he answered it. I wrote another last year, which was not answered." "That one probably followed him to Louisiana. I am not surprised thnt his did not answer it, if he received It. Hut here's Ca.ssy, telling us your supper is (5o in and eat hearty: I shall havo something to tell you ufterward." My curiosity ami interest were thoroughly aroused: but hunger makes everythingyiehl. I did full justice to the substantial meal set before me by tho old negro "Mammy," with great rings in her ears und 11 turban about her head. I was exhausted with the day's ride, and still anxious to hear what Mr. Dorion had to tell me about Hostock. Hut for awhile I hud to sit with the ladies in the parlor. Thrv sang and played for me, and I told them much about the north which was new and strange to them. It was about nine o'clock before I found myself alone on the veranda with the planter. "The man you came here to find," he said, "wuh one of my dearest friemr. He has been estranged from me, from everybody, for moro than five years. I gather, from whatyoii say, that it is as long as that since you have heard from him." "Rather longer." "I recall incidents about him which none but a friend would remember. Among other things, I remember distinctly his showing mo your letter, telling me about your fatherand yourself, and saying that you were a line fellow; thut he should have you down here some day and mnko a planter of you. Hut I fancy that you might ns well end all your dreams of his favor right here." I saw by the moonlight that his fine face was thoughtful. Sorely disappointed as I jvas by these tidings, I was burning to hear more. Ho presently went on to explain himself. All that is contained in chapter first of this narrative I thus heard for the first time. It was told me, of course, in different language, but all the details wero given. . I listened with breathless interest. When tho planter had finished that account, he paused, and seemed for tho moment reluctant to proceed. "Hut what," I eagerly asked, "was the quarrel about? What was Mr. offetlse?" IHs answer filled me with surprise. "It Is all a mystery. I knew vcrj little about it, then. I know no more now. 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It may act at ctecutor, adminiatrator, trutlec, Ac, at fully at in individual To thoie who entrutud their bultlneit to ui while mnagini; the Lincoln National liana ot Stanfoid, we we here tenderour many lhanka and trutt they will continue to traniact their buunnai with ut, oflering at a guarantee for prompt alien lion to tame, our twenty yeart' eaperuoce li banking and at liberal accommodation! at are coo. intent with tound banking. tllRICTOKt: JJ. Williamt.Mt. Vermis; J. M. Hail, Minfoid; J, S. Owtley, Stiiifcrd; S.J, Kmbry, Stanford; J K Lynn, Stanlord; J. F. Catb, Stanford; WlllUm Gooch, Stanford; A. W. Carpenter, Mlllcdgeville, Ky S It. Shanlt, I'retldent, Dr. J l. Owtley, Cathier, W. M llilght, Teller FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STANFORD, KY. Capital Stock 9200,000 Surplus - 21,300 Attention of the public is invited to the fie thit thitit the only Natiotul Ilink in Stanford Under the provitiont of the Nilioml Ilink Act depositors are secured not only by the capital ttock, but by the ttocLhotdcra liability lor an amount equal to the ttock, ao that depotitors ol thit Inttitution are secured, by a fuad of $400,000. Five sworn tutementt of thecondition of the bank are made each ycarto the United Statet government and itsatsett ate examined at stated times by government agents, thus securing addititona snf perfect safety to depotitors. This institution, oritrinally ettablithed as the Depoiit lltnk of Stanford in i!j8, then re-organ lied at the National Hank ol Stanford in iS6j and again at the Kirit National Hank ol Stanlord in ibdj, hat had practically an uninterrupted existence of 11 years. Ills letter supplied now with lacilitiet fortraniactlngbuimrit prompt ly and liberally than ever before in itt long and honorable career Accounta of corporation!, fiduciaries, firms and Individuals respectfully The Directory ol this Hank is composed ol Korettus Keid, Lincoln county ; S. T. Harris, Unroln; G, A. Lackey, Lincoln; J.W. Hayden, Stanlord; S.H naughman,'Lincoln; J. S. Hocker. Stanford;! t U A. Trlbblr, Stanford; M. D. Klinore, Stanford; T. P. Hill, Stanford. K, L. Tanner, McKinney; M. J. Miller, Mt. Vernon, J S. Docker, President; John J. McKoleila, Cashier; A. A. Mc Kinney, Assistant Cashier. OUWTM 6 , .. VruuiH HNiveua V uiiiLittil QiiMnusiXi. AMATttAae. Drop VSTtVlOT KIHT USA tfunrAosntfota LINE r3?V wt ticrrvt ifittTUBM fUUIMOStUTKyi RUACMnfr L.M1UW tnt Knur runinoRttogrc )ri avuTM "mt nOKTAWBT lumitiH gJasCPond 4amiN Vaunoa m Chicago. 1L. 0rtT,oa. Tift AST. HVw, WrXWlMarTOhtf 01ICMO 0