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 rnn narxssit 121 after, the `stranger had departed by the way he came'; and it was not till he had reached the thick swamp around, that the fearful laugh of the maniac Frampton, for it was he, announced the success of` his new effort at revenge. The laugh reached Porgy and the dragoon —they heard the groan also, but that was natural enough. Nothing short of absolute necessity could have moved either of them at that moment--the former being busied _ with a rasher of bacon and a hoe·cake hot from the {ire, and the latter indulging in an extra swig of brandy from a canteen which Porgy, with characteristic provi- dence, had brought well filled along with him. * “ Now, this were sorry wisdom, to rsuade @'!i$5Si3°r“3‘.K°¤‘{.lY.? .R*`§¤.§ 'é‘r‘Lif£“" A spare mine enemy '!" ¢‘ Tim OAxs," the dwelling-place of Colonel Wal- ton, was one of those old-time residences of the Caro- lina planters to which, at this day, there attaches a sort of human interest. A thousand local traditions hang around them——a thousand stories of the olden time, and of its associations of peril and adventure. The estate formed one of the frontier-plantations upon the Ashley, and was the site of a colonial barony. It had stood sieges of the Indians in the wars of the Edistoes and Yemassees; and, from a block-house station at first, it had grown to be an elegant mansion, improved in European style, remarkable for the length and deep shade of its avenues of solemn oak, its general grace of arrangement, and the lofty and considerate hospitality of its proprietors. Such, from its iirst foundation to the period of which we speak, had been its reputation; and in no respect did the present owner depart from Von. I.—L A-
 * ~ CHAPTER X.