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Heve they represented a class better 
educated and with more culture than 
one is likely to discover in such out of 
the way counties as those through 
which we were now passing. 
By degrees the few passengers who 
had taken this train got off, and to- 
ward the end of the journey there was 
no one in the coach but a venerable 
looking old gentleman and myself. He 
wore a long frock coat and an old 
fashioned silk hat. He represented a 
type I had begun to know and recog- 
nize. He seemed well known along 
the road. It was “Howdy, Colonel 
Turpin?” at every station now, and 
some one always asked, “How’s El- 
len?” His clean shaven face would 
wreath itself in a smile as invariably 
he would make answer: 
“Bllen’s well, but between the cook- 
ing and the music she has little time 
left to frolic with you young people.” 
“Ti’s her own fault,’ said some one 
at one of the stations, “for all she has 
got to do is to choose which farm she 
prefers, that of Squire Hawkins or Jim 
Wadley’s Hollyhurst.” At this there 
was a burst of merriment from the 
young people in the wagons. 
“Don’t be putting such notions in 
my Ellen’s head just now,” he would 
laugh back, “Ellen and Bud have their 
old father and mother to look after for 
awhile yet, to say nothing of the 
Pines.” 
“Bud can do that by himself,” called 
out one youth. Then he suddenly turn- 
ed red and hung his head as he saw 
the girls casting their eyes from one 
to the other and laughing. 
“T dare say there are others of us 
who have used that argument to Hllen 
before this and many a time,” added 
another boy scarce out of his teens, 
“so you need not bother to repeat it, 
colonel.” 
By the time our train had started 
again I had determined to introduce 
myself to the colonel, for I saw mate- 
rial in him for a letter. By way of 
opening operations I asked him the dis- 
tance to Oglethorpe station, where I 
had expected to leave the train. 
“About five miles, sir,’’ he said, and, 
with a courteous, old fashioned bow 
across the aisle, he added, ‘‘May I ask 
{f you are bound there?’ 
I told him that was my destination. 
He then continued: 
“Tf it be not too impertinent, may I 
ask you what takes you to such an 
out of the way place? You are not a 
lawyer from Atlanta, are you, sir?” 
There seemed to me to be a note of 
alarm in the question, and he appear- 
ed greatly relieved and his face bright- 
ened visibly when I told him that I 
was not a lawyer and was visiting 
Georgia for the first time. I soon learn- 
ed the cause of his anxiety as to the 
matter of my profession, for in a con- 
fidential whisper, which could have 
been heard throughout the car had 
there been others im it, he said: 
“When smart looking young men like 
you come up this road they bring trou- 
ble with them usually and as often 
leave more behind, sir.” 
“How is that?’ determined to bur- 
row as deep as possible in this ante- 
bellum soil, which I believed to be rich 
from the wild and uncultivated growth 
of experience. “Don’t smart looking 
men often come up this road?” 
“Hardly ever but to foreclose some 
poor devil’s mortgage.” Here he be- 
gan to laugh immoderately, and when 
his risibles had subsided sufficiently 
to explain, for I was somewhat sur- 
prised at his sudden burst of merri- 
ment, he said: 
“T’ll bet you a pine knot all sawed 
up against a bushel of potatoes that at 
a half dozen stations bets are being 
made right now that you have come up 
wo foreclose the mortgage on the Pines. 
That’s my place, you know. I'll have 
a good laugh at their expense when | 
go down the road again.” 
(TO BE CONTINUED.] 
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