Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 121: what you’re looking at

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114 | BONNY JEAN. John Averill’s old place, and there he and his bride, with her mother, took up their abode, while John and his wife, with the old folks, who had nearly died of joy at finding their loved one still spared to them, all dwell at the Lee Place. The iron chest being opened, was found to contain a Eee sum of money in Spanish doubloons, and a casket of jewels, which were priceless. Very wealthy were Jean and her mother now, and they lavished their money in good and charitable actions, A large sum was expended in ridding the country of the terrible vigilantes. The band was broken up, the ringlead- ers punished, the old Red Tavern pulled down, and its timbers burned ; and the very name of vigilantes is no longer heard in the green and pleasant pine woods. Only to this day, some- times, an aged dame (whose grandfather, perchance, belonged to the same organization), will frighten her grandchildren with wonderful tales of wild exploits committed by the pine woods vigilantes, and the wildest tale does not exceed the truth. Some time in the untried future, when the strong arm of the law shall reach that lonely region, and ‘‘the wheat be divided from the tares,” there will be no more desirable dwelling-place for those who love quiet, green fields and ‘‘ pastures new,” than the fair southern pine woods. And there they live, those whose fortunes we have followed— happy, loving, and beloved, reaping the reward of good deeds and noble actions ; glad of the possession of the golden treasure, but conscious still that the love which has blessed their lives is of far more value than gold. [THE END. | =) Eomichooks.co