As a natural result there followed the appearance in the mountains of North Carolina during a charming autumn outing of a gay young spark by the name of Tucker Tanner, and the bestowal on him by the beautiful Nannie Fleming--as she was then called--of her temporary affections.

Kind friends were quick to report what Fleming himself did not see, and Fleming, roue that he was, encountering young Mr.Tanner on a high mountain road one evening, said to him, "You get out of this party by night, or I will let daylight through you in the morning." Tucker Tanner, realizing that however senseless and unfair the exaggerated chivalry of the South might be, the end would be bullets just the same, departed.

Mrs.Fleming, disturbed but unrepentant, considered herself greatly abused.

There was much scandal.

Then came quarrels, drinking on both sides, finally a divorce.