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" Right. • When will they be here ?"
" To -morrow Tony %Lys."
" Well, if we are ruched tui close,
we will fig,ht. The wax i overehat1
Am ready to begio again."
So are the beye—su are rho boys,
terptain."
" Well, give them the orders ; they
anew the plaee. Every Mall arnica,"
Tii01 passed beyond heariers, into
the elradow of some pities silvered by
the light of the moue, which heel jest
Hater. Norcross came back from the
window end went to bed, where he
found abate.) beeeler than ever. What
did all tide 1110all, and who Were to
edam armed, to do what ? He knit hie
bow; profoundly puzzled. 's.t last t lio
wrinkire grow emouth Rua his eyes doe.
ed. The day'e tramp- conquered his
curioeity, and he fell aalsep.
About three weeks after this wit
Norcross wrote the following letter to
v. Ititoid iu New York :
" tame Tone—What you predicted
woidd happen one dity or ntuer has
hepponed--4 am done for. The friend
of your bosom is iu the tails, or totals.
thiug like it. Her name is Couny Neal,
atel sho is the daughter of a splerelid
fellow, who has only 0110 drawbaelt—he
is an ex -rebel soldier, and an enrage'
oue, 1 assure you. As a good Republi-
can, believing ia the depravity of all
who differ with me, this, of course, is
stalicieut to ruin him in my estimation.
But, after all, he is a noble follow, and,
above tdl, his daughter is a paragon.
Imagine a girl brought up iu a poor
house in the mountable who is a lady,
teehnieally speaking, even to her finger -
smile. I met her by the merest accident
while out fishing one day, and looked
upoo her at first as only It rustic beauty
without culture. Never Wag man more
mistaken. She is better read than I
am, aud a person of the utmost refine-
ment, aiyh all the graoo of nature ; aud
such eyes, Tom'
"1 have given you thane whole page
deseribiug her mind and person, and
naive to the rosin point —I atn ceptured.
1 have not the hetet idea of how it will
all end, and hives really resolved on
teething. To speak serioasly, 1 don't
well see how I rein get along withont
her in future, and foresee I shall have
to tell her so. Brit then 2 Say she ac-
cepts me—which I assure yon is by no
means cortaiu—not by any means. I
shall be a hawk in a cage, and my pant -
in -law will be a rebel hunter of the
Virginian mountains ? Decidedly 1
can't think of it—that is, I think of it
all the time.
" There is something even wore —
soma mystery or other at least that
dou't like. I am lodging with an old
fellow named Daddy Miller, and people
are constautly coining and troing on
eorne mysterious business. What 4088
it mean ? 1 can't divine, aud, what is
worse, can't discover. Sileuee seals
every lip, and I ani conscious that eyes
are cunstautly upon me. It is the
same at her fether's house-, where
naysterions figures come and go at all
hears of the night in the strangest
tuanuer. This is odd, and not agree-
able-. What does it mean, I say ? As
you are not able prouably to answer
that question, I will euiiwtvor to send
yen a reply to it in it few days.
o I see Harry lute given up chasing
iudians iu Idaho to come East and get
married in October. Give my love to
him and my little sister to be, and tell
them I'll certainly bo present at the
Wei:4411g.
"Your friend,
Join Noncaoss."
Tide letter defines clearly enough the
situation *of affitirs when it was written.
'ho Norcross hail fallen iu love with
Coney Neal, and the affair wee serious.
It was aetually his first passion, and
men enter upon their maiden campaign
iu love, as iu war, with very different
feelings from those of old bettered
soldiers tried in numerous encounters.
As he knew the girl better and 'better,
she quite charmed him. She had great
force of cliarectee, a temperament its
open as his own, and a warmth of lie trt
nutter her cram 'exterior which quite
fascinated him. Sha was not at all
"sly," aud entirely without finesse,
that belie of female character ; she con-
cealed nothing—net even her growing
foettrusee for Noteross. It is probable:
she did uot realize thief or no doubt she
would have schooled her face and voice
when he crone. She sehooled neither,
and was all the more eharmingto him
as else wane to meet him with a faint
color ie hor cheeks, and eyes which
caressed lihn as ho approached.
This wee imprudent in Oonny, per-
haps, but then it was netural, and she
followed nature. Norcross was the first
person she heal ever met who could
talk to uer • bout bock.; and the great
world. Her fether was by 110 means
are one tweeted person, but he edam
interest end curiosity were satisfied,
oer heart hegira to mix itself with the
athur. Norcrose was 14 llaittlEotro young
fellow, fell of ardor .and the zest of life.
She was a women,andrena hie foudnest
iu every &tee of the black eyes. Theu
what always or neerly tilways follows
folluwed. Tito eita ;mom began for
Couto' Neal, and Norcruss's letter
Showed that it had boom for him also.
September had one, and the
niountains were ale* assuming the
t magical colon; of autumn. In Alig ti t
1 tho slopes tied been clothed iu deep
!green, over whieh the sloe:Iowa or Heat-
ing clouds moved. slowly, or swept on
at a gallop before the frotili while Now
the greet) had dieeppeered. The maple
and dogwood were as read as blood„
1 31ill the hickories were like molten gold.
These shedel off into orange and russet
as the dive edvaueed ; and over this
- wonderful spectacle, over rnountaiu and
valley and river, dropped a dreamy
haze, rounding every otitline, and mak-
ing the landscape 11 fairy -land to the
delighted Noreross. He need to go off
to the river sometimes with Coney
Neal, and set at her side on armee gren.
ito shoulder jutting out from the side
of the moeutaita and they would talk
for hours --About what 2 About every
thiu g or uothiug. It was the same.
They wore near each other. which was
the great thiug, looking at each other,
and lieteniug to each other's voices.
On oue subject they never touched
—the mysterious coming and goiug at
Daddy eliller's and Neal's. This arose
Ilium delicacy in Norcross. Ile belt that
he had sarprised hie host's secret—for
secret there evidently was—on the first
uight at his house, and was a little
asharned of haviug listeued ab his
whlow. Eavesdroppiug and covert 1
action of every description were the I
palms URIC'S abomination, so he said
uothing, defendiug bin:wolf in his own
opinion by saying to himself that he
had nut meant to listen. Could he de -
feud himself as successfully with Couny*?
Possibly, bntnot certtunly. So he
:raked uo questions, not alluding, even,
to a mystery which was necessarily no
mystery to her. That she knew all
about it he was perfectly well satisfied
if she ehose to speak, sho would do se. k
'With Daddy Miller it ma differeut. '
Norcross was not a gnest there, ouly a
lodger, and one day lee said, " Who
conies to see you.often at late hours of
the night ?. Do you. know one thing,
Daddy Miller 2—if you lived ea the sea-
shore I sheuld set you dos'im for a
smuggler."
"Smugglers ?" said Daddy, scratch-
ing his head gently, alai smiling in a
guileless way. " Oh yes, rya heard
about sich. Bet we're a lung ways off
from the sea, I'm tool."
" Well, that is t [10 difficulty. You
and your friends are not smugglers.
Whet are you ?"
•` Bless your soul, we're honest peo-
ple," said the guileless Daddy -Miller,
with his sweetest smile—"plaiu wintry
people a -visiting each other at odd Ilene
after work."
"Ono of yoer friends is named Tony;
who is Tony ?"
" Torre, ?—you know Tony ? Oh yes,
Tonv Tummies is a neighbor of oars."
" What is his business 2"
" Bueiness? He's a poor man, and
puts in his little crap and shoots game
for his family."
Norcross mused, not satisfied with
the reply.
Look here, Daddy Miller," bo said,
" you're not trakiug to an outsider or
an enemy. I am uot a Virginian, bat
I like your 'people, if I mu a Northerner.
Somethiug is goiug oe that will get you
into trouble. What is it ? Ale you
Ku-Xi:luxes? That's a bad busiuess,
but none of my huskiest:, and I won't
report you to Blaine or Coukliug. But
what are you about? I know more
than you thiuk. Make a cleau breast
of it—you can trust me.".
Here a worthy, middleage, in a scare-
crow suit of clothes and heavy boots,
ramie iu. Au old brown slouched hat
a as perched on his shock of hair, his
eyes were pierciug, eaud his thiu lips
smiled homically. A stubble of beard
surrounded them, sod tobacco juke
decorated the depressed corners.
"Why, Toby," said Daddy Miller,
shakiug hands, " we were juet talking
of you. My young friend here thirties
something's going ou hereabouts."
" Something a-goiug on ?" said
Tony Tumbles, with an inuoceut air,
full of mild inquiry, and duckieg his
head in a friendly way to Norcross.
"He Mulls it's the Ku -Klux, what-
ever that might ue," said Daddy Miller.
At ads the new -comer laughed.
"Oh no ! we're peaceful people.
No trouble about here, though I'm
told there is below yonder. Oh uo !
But I jut dropoed iu, Daddy Miller,
to burry your eorew-wrench. My
ploughshare, the dratted thing, is broke
agi n."
'Whereupon thy discoursed on coun-
try matters, -atid repeal* to A shed to
read any thing ; arid thee it !reopened hunt up the screw- wrenela
that Norcross broil:slit with him the Thereafter Norcruee felt that he was
iirst breath of the outer world, and they watt:lied. This feast wee plain to him
talked of a thousand thiugs. His visits in many ways. At Daddy Miller's
had been elm saint ; he hail become the 0101.1100 visitors, or what seemed to be
friar' 1 of the family ; aud When Conny'e s such, looked sidewise tit him, and be
caught their eyrie. The mysterious
eight vises eeeterd, and the voting and
plug fell ofl perceptibly, Eyes beam-
ed te follow hitn every wrens e and
even Aunty Miller, the veneruhle meal -
hag, would lower her speotacles uut.il
they rested ou her ancient nose, and
gaze at Norcross OM them as ehe tree
!witting a stocking in her wadded arna
duds iu a:eorner. He was evidently
the mitre of geueral iutorest, and
especially \Otte' he weot hunting or
fishing. Accidentelly some one seem-
ed always+ in his vicinity. Sometimbe
it was a mountain urchin, with a dina-
iuntive male and a chickenuoop, of a
ear, hacking dry wood for the home
Ititcheu. Sonsolimes it was a giri with
taugled hair gathering 61111140, or a
huuter, gen on shoulder, who met him
iu orit-of-the-wity places, and looked
keenly at him, These encounters had
not taken place during the early part
of his sojourn iu the mountains. That
they marred so fregeently 11 0 W left no
doubt that they were intentional. To
repeat, Ma. John Norcross felt that all
eyes were upon him, aud his eutiesity
deepened to ascertain what it all meant.
lie was 1000U ter discover.
One arauru afternoon John Nercrose
and Coney Neal came at hurt to under-
stand each other. They had walked
out from the small house ou the elope
of the mouutaiu to the river, and were
wandering aloug the bank, talking only
now and then, and rather vaguely.
Tho suu was uear the summit of a
fringe or woods =wrung the western
usouutitin, and the gold of the hewed
shaded off into the green -orange of the
sky. The river brawled over its reeks,
erupted with moss and ferns of a
/tenured varieties. Here aud there e,
bugle piuo or poplar, with a cavern
washed away under the wended roots,
bent over the cement, hipping its tas-
sels or tulip -like buds into the foam.
They Sat down, and tne old story,
which has been told over and over
agaau for the 184 eix thousand years,
was told in the autumn evening. Nor-
cross poured out the whole burden of
his thoughts in hie frank, ardent yoke.
aud Overly only animated iii a mar -
mar. As she ttirued her head slowly
over her shoulder, howeven aud fixed
her eyes upon his own in one loug
glance, shy, coufnsed, but confiding,
Norcross knew that there was no long-
er any doubt, aud putting his arm
aroand her neck, he drew her to him
anti kissed her.
" Now, Conny," he said, his face
glowing, " we will go hum° mid ask
your father."
Tlaey went back hand in band, and
Norcross did not drop the hand as he
walked up to the porch where Captain
Neal was Sitting. Coney went up
stairs, taxa Nurerues sat down mad told
his host everythiug.
Neal listeuel without a word. Ile
seemed to bo musing, aud his face was
itupeuetrable. When Norcross had
finished, he said, So you wish me to
give you the ouly human Whig that
ruakee life worth enythiog to me 2"
" Yes," said Noteross; " I love her.
and. she loves me."
Neat said nothing. It was easy to
see, molar his soldierly endues:a that
a storm was raging in his breast. His
brows contracted, and he drew to lune
breath, his eyes fixed upon the grontl.
.ti length he raised his head, aud Nor-
cross was struck with something uoble
and importing in his firm look.
" The time has come for no to speak
piaiuly, my young friend," he said. iu
Itis stroug, vibrating voice. " First,
do you knew who and what I ant ?
aur an ex•Confederate soldier, and feel
as 1 felt when I fought with Lae. The
South is crushed, and all that is over,
but the men of the South are not
crushed, or ready to eourt her old eue-
miss."
" So be it," said Norcross ; "tlo not
do so. The North does not expect it.
You were a good Coufederatei and
went with your people : remain such
still."
" I am more—or worse, if you eh oose
—thau ex-Coufederate ; I am an
illicit distiller of spirits iu this moue-
"igr'Cross turned. his head quickly,
and looked at his host.
" Mi ? that explains every thing,"'
he said----" all the cowing and going
and mystery yowler and here. You
are moonehiuere,' as the cant phrase
is."
" Yes," said Neal.
Norcrose keit his brows. All was
perfectly Isiah' to him now—the looks
of Tuny Tummies, the watchiug, every
truces.
"Itis a pith a great pity," he said,
involautatily, "ii a man like you."
" I tun uo better than your ueigh-
boss," said Neal, (loony ; a little better
edneated, perhaps, brit they were
Southern soldiers like myself, and
fought as well, perhaps better. We
are houeet men, and not ashetned of
any thing we do."
" Bub tide 'intuit business, Ceptaiu
Neal—you are acting in open &fleece
°I.'11YCVtif, otfederal law ; the State re -
wives ito tax. Tho Federtd law is air
oppressiou, and we disregard it. We
make whitrkey and dispose of it in (hie
region witaout paying a tax to the
geueral government. We 41'8 poor
people, and harm nobody. The/ have
only to let us alone."
" Bot how eat) that be 2 The law
must bo enforeed."
" Tao reveutie collectors eau edema
" Then it is the duty of the govern-
ment to sand troops tu 800 atilt 010 laws
are obeyed."
" Let them send them."
" You will resist 2 "
With arios ? "
" Assuredly. I mean that we will
said Neal, coolly.
Norcross drew a long deep breath.
It was easy to eee that he was troubled.
It was impossible to look upon Neal as
a vulgar law,breaker engaged in illicit
pursnits from mere greed of money.
light or wrong, he was acting as he
believed he had the right to do, look -
big at the matter from Inc owu point of
view. Bat then to marry the ditughter
of au illieit distiller 1 Ti take his
bride, the mother of bis children, from
'Inch surroundings 1 Ho was not mach
of en aristocrat, but the idea grated,
and his feeliugs were perhaps reflected
iu his face.
" I have been frank, you see friend,"
Neal said, iu a few inotnente. "Leet
this end every thing. You can Lot
marry my daughter. I AID a law-
breaker, and may bo thrown into jail
tomorrow as a common criminal, or
elicit if I resist the revenue officers."
Noroross keit his brows again, mak-
ing ito reply.
"
You see all that must be forgot-
ten," said Neal. " You will go back
and lose sight of every thing here, and
We will remain good friends. You are
a fine fellow, and I liked you from the
first. Let us pat in peace. You will
soon forget Oormy—"
"1 tau net forget her I eau not
give her tut 1 " the young man
" eau nut live without her!"
"And you expect me to do so." said
Neal, catnip, but with the sense deep
feeling evident ander his coulnese
" you allied me to give np all I care for
on °meth ! What will my lite be to me
without her 9 1 ani alone iu this
world if she leaves me. She is my only
tthild. I loved her mother more than
rnau ever loved woman, I honestly be-
lieve, in tide world, aud when she left
me I wished to die too. 1 was iu des-
pair—it is au extreme word, but a trne
one. I broke nay heart longing for my
wife, the only woman I ever loved, and
all that made my life endurable was
t110 love of my little girl. She has
gro vn up at last from a roey-cheeked
child to a -woman- She is my com-
panion, my sole thought, all I value ou
east you come aud say to 1110
Give me Canny, because I love her,
Do I not love her too 9 'What am
to do here in this ]ouely house without
her ?
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