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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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n the husbandsaid, Why dont you go to your fatherand tell him? Then he invented newtortures, applied them, and asked again.She always answered, He shall neverknow by my mouth, and taunted himwith his origin; said she was the lawfulslave of a scion of slaves, and must obey,and would—up to that point, but nofurther; he could kill her if he liked, buthe could not break her; it was not inthe Sedgemoor breed to do it. At theend of the three months he said, with adark significance in his manner, I havetried all things but one —and waited forher reply. Try that, she said, andcurled her lip in mockery. That night he rose at midnight andput on his clothes, then said to her, Get up and dress ! She obeyed — as always, without aword. He led her half a mile from thehouse, and proceeded to lash her to a treeby the side of the public road; and suc-ceeded, she screaming and struggling.He gagged her then, struck her acrossthe face with his cowhide, and set hisblood - hounds on her. They tore the
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HE PROCEEDED TO LASH HER TO A TREE Vol. CIV.-No. 620.-18 256 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. clothes off her, and she was naked. Hecalled the dogs off, and said: You will be found—by the passingpublic. They will be dropping alongabout three hours from now, and willspread the news—do you hear ? Good-by.You have seen the last of me. He went away then. She moaned toherself: I shall bear a child—to him! Godgrant it may be a boy! The farmers released her by-and-by—and spread the news, which was natural.They raised the country with lynching in-tentions, but the bird had flown. Theyoung wife shut herself up in her fathershouse; he shut himself up with her, andthenceforth would see no one. His pridewas broken, and his heart; so he wastedaway, day by day, and even his daughterrejoiced when death relieved him. Then she sold the estate and disap-peared. II In 188o a young woman was living ina modest house near a secluded New Eng-land village, with no company but a lit-tle boy about five years

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