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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton New Era, 1910-05-26, Page 8'May 26th 'ow 1 9 i f Some AlcoholQuestions is alcohol a tonic? No! Does it Make the blood pure? No! Doesit strengthen the nerves? No! Is Ayer's Sarsaparilla a tonic? Yes! Does it make the blood pure? Yes! Does It strengthen -the nerves? Yes! Is it the only Sarsaparilla entirely freefrom alcohol? Yes! • Ask your doctor, about this non -alcoholic -medicine. If he app ves, your confidence will be' complete, j, C.Ayer Co.,,J'4otvel . Dull boys!. D t Dull iris: Dull Lent Dull women! Heavy -headed! Downhearted: All very often due to constipation l Yet the care is so easiC—dyer's 1PiU5. Ask your doctor.. mmummass ,a,w," }KW . NC ,,,,, ,,.,,.,,uelcnoc �.• „•� „cwc"tcaa««t"2•$••«%•2• .I�IH'I-I-F-i•'i' . "1"1.4 :"l"i�I-2"I4I 1"1"":1' ,.'!.j ? 6. SWEET REVENGE C•ptzun P. A MITCHEL, •I -i Author of "ohattapooga," "Chickamauga," Etc. •" r•t'"i Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers, i.d,•1„i,•i• 2 ;'•ice" I•-i+•I^I••I^F-2-I•-I•d••I-1-I«i�•2"I"'r•2+•3.2-Svt�•2"I"i•-•d«A•I••2• I'-f«i••I•-i"i»I"I"I«i-H "IAF -2~ «' I'•F- DYieg Surrounded. tie:ten weut out tO meet the inquirer. "Do you wish to see Mr. 8rander- stane?'" she asked. "I do. " Helen must have suspected that I was in danger. There was a slight pause, in which. I fancied she was de- liberating what to do. "Ile is in a critical condition," she said.. "He was wounded recently, Is important," t„ your business with him important?"' "Veryim ortan !'Show' the gentleman In, if you, please, Miss Stanforth," I called. I knew there wasnothing to be gained by attempting to put the man off, I must appear unconcerned. She led the way to where I was. A young man in the uniform of a Confed- erate captain entered. Pie was a hand- some fellow, with an indolent, self in- dulgent air, and evidently a gentleman. He was extremely deferential to PIelen, carrying bis bat in his band and bearing himself as if it pained him to thehopsehold. . u ahold es thus trespass upon "Are you John Branderstane, sir Z" "At your service. And you?" "Captain Beaumont, -tli Geowgia cavalry, sir." "What can I do for you„captain?” "I must trouble you to get up and come with me." • "On what authority?" "My own, sir. It has been reported to me that a southern man working in the Yankee interest is here, and I bave come to take him." "Don't you think that an arbitrary way to treat a citizen of Tennessee, captain?" "Not when he has Yankee affilia- tions." "By what right do you accuse me of Yankee affiliations?" "You Were watched al1 thetime you were at Eluntsville,'sir. There was no. evidence against you, and you were al- lowed to leave the city, but after you had got away a man came forward who claimed to have seen you in one of the Yankee camps at Nashville." "Indeed? bid he explain his own presence there?"' This was 'a homethrust. The cap- tain hesitated.'•. "It seems to me, captain," I added, following up my advantage, "that you are hasty in acting on such informa- tion:z (Continued from last week-) .rhes was a cut at me whim 1 ata net --Never Minn that. Stick to the It.. care to notice. "Have you ever seen," son I'm teaching you. You must say, I asked, "men forced at the point of the 'Black as night.' Then he'll say bayouet to enter the Confederate army? 'What's the word?' and you can hand IIave you ever seen families trying to him this note. Now, suppose I'm the Wave the south to join those with man with the pointed beard and you whom they affiliated shot down in go through the dialogue with me." • their tracks 1" 1 put him through bis lesson till he "You are a Union man, or you would had learned it perfectly. Then sent never taik that wa y. . she interrupted. him away with the injunction that. in "I was born and bred in Tennessee." case anything should go wrong with "Yes. in east Tennessee," him, rather than part with the paper he "May I not have seen great wrong was to swallow IL I rolled it into a done and yet given my heart and soul ball and put it into the lining of his to the southern cause?" hat. Giving his little band a squeeze, "You may, but bave not" I bade him go, and he marched out as She was getting too near the truth. I proudly as if he had been appointed must throw her off the trail. military governor of Alabama. 1 bad "1 will impart one more piece of in - no doubt be would execute his missibn formation with regard to myself. You to the best of his ability, but he was have promised to ask no more ques- yery young, aad I feared he would .tions and have kept your promise.. make some blunder. ,r • You deserve a reward." "Wbat a fool I amt" I exclaimed as I took from my pocket a letter and soon as he was gone. "I should have held it up to her.- It was ddressed to - failed to communicate rather than in- MAJOR JOHN BRAND RSTACavalry, trust so important a matter to a boy. Tennessee Tenn. However, I'lland, leave here tomorrow Her face lighted. She' did not know morning, IInd, iP my message mis- carries. by the time it's discovered I'll there were.. ennessee regiments in the be somewhere else." Union service. "1 knew you were a Helen came in soon after Buck's de- soldier, and• now I• know you are a parture and began to set the room to Confederate." .She put out her hand, rights. She attended to her work si- lently and did not even look at me. I watched her as she moved about, at:- ' r-' ranging a curtain here, moving a chair there or piling books on the table more neatly. She was a true type of a southern woman -tall, willowy, a head set on her shoulders In a way to make. au artist involuntarily reach for a brush. Her hair and eyes were as black as night, while on her cheeks was a bright color. There was something on her mind. I could see that plainly. I fancied if I gave her time it would come out. At last she dropped her work and stood looking out of the win- dow. "What are you thinking about!" I asked, going at the subject with brusque directness. "The man you came to Alabama to kill." "You would shield him?" She kept her eyes on the road, watch- I ing a wagon that lumbered by. "I don't know whether I would or not." "You want to know all about him?" "I do." . . • "In the first place you would like his name?" "It might be well to begin with that." "Then I can't begin, for I don't know his name." "Not knew his name?" „No." "What is be like?" "Tall, well built; square %boulders, which he throws back like an officer in the regular army of the United States." I paused. She waited for me to con- tinue. "You would also like to know wheth- er his death would bereave any one -rt father, mother, sister, some woman who hangs upon every word he says when he is with her and dreams of him constantly when he is away?" I spoke the words bitterly. I was thinking of my loss. "Yes, I wo':ld like to know that too." "I can't satisfy you. I have seen him only once and then at a distance." "Does he wish to kill you?" \. "No; I don't believe he is aware of my existence." "Singular," she murmured thought- fully. Then she turned and looked me in the face. "Ile has occasioned you some great sorrow -done you some mighty wrong?" "You promised to ask me no more questions." "True. I beg your pardon." Another woman would have pouted, coaxed, done everything but asked openly to have her curiosity gratified. Helen Stanforth was made of sterner stuff. She stood looking out of the window without another word. LWadt- ed till' l was satisfied that she was too proud to ask for favor, then started in again with the purpose of watching the development of some other mood. - "You are heart and soul a Confeder- ate?" "I am." "And you will not excuse those south- ern men and women who differ with you?" "Ven. If they do it onenly." but I.did not take it "No, no," I said, "I will not take an - unfair advantage . of you. ° That evi- dence is not conclusive. I have shown it tO you to prove that 1 may be what I will. I could offer as good proof that I am a Yankee." "I don't care who you are, you are an honorable man." "I see, no reason' for yon to assume that". ' "You have said it would be easy for you to prove to me that Sou are what I. wish you, to be?" "Granted." "But you will not. You have reason to remain. unknown; you.• have a great purrse; you bave been robbed of some one you love; you have suffered from some of those outrages in east . Ten=. nessee that papa has told us about. There has been a cowardly murder. You will be revenged. 1 know. it; I feel it". • She was splendid in her indignation, her sympathy. I protested against this burst of confidence, but to no purpose. Were I the veriest demon in Moloch's train no one conid convince her of it. -1 was not learned in -the ways of wom- en, but ;I had :gained an ..insight into this girl's'; nature.. Though it smol- , tiered, .it was emotional: - No light kin- dling could set it aflame. There must be some strong underlying impulse. The -purpose that I had revealed to her had taken hold of her imagination. ' But it troubled ber that I should withhold my secret from her. She gave me an appealing look. "Why do you not trust me?" • "1 do trust you. Am I not at your mercy? Should you inform the author-` hies that you bave an unaccounted for man under your roof I should be ar- rested at once." "I would never do that." "No, but will you aid mein remain- ing incognito?" She was silent. There was evident- ly a question which the was trying' to - • solve. "W ould that be helping you to kill your man?" she asked. "Suppose it would?" There was a dangerous glitter in her eye. Perhaps she exyerieliced a fasci- nation in being thus indirectly :a party to my work of vengeance. "You have not answered my ques- tion," I said. Still she was silent. The blood was coming and going auroraliko on her neck and cheek. Presently she drew her lips together tightly as if she were striking an enemy. "I will." ' CHAPTER V. ARREST. 1iVi'1 you a man by the name of Branderstane stopping with you?" 1 beard the words spoken at the front door in a pleasant voice, in which there was something languid. My heart began a vigorous thumping. Looking out Of the window, I saw a troop of Confederate cavalry at the gate and men darting in different directions. I knew that the house wart ITis SIMPIJ MRYELLOUS Helen spoke up: "My father Vas at Nashville soon after. the surrender. Would you arrest him?" "The information comes pretty straight. 1 reckon you'll • have to come along." "Hiswound is liable to open," said Helen, "and if it should there might'be a fatal result." She spoke with apparent indifference, but, she could not help betraying some interest. The officer looked up at her with a pair of soft brown eyes'inquir- ingly. 1 saw at once that he suspected a tender relationship between us, but he was too well bred to tread upon so delicate a matter. "He can remain where he is until be is better," he said, bowing to Helen, !'if you will give me your word-thevword of a southern .lady -that he shall not NOTHING TO COMPARE WITH " FRUIT-AMTVIS." After Physicians and Ordinary Remedies. Failed to Relieve. This Famous Fruit Medicine Promptly Cured. Thousands of people owe their good health to "Fruit-a-tive$." Thousands of others are rapidly being restored to health and strength through the Mar- r lna venous powers of .this ext cord ry medicine. Here is just one case in Lancaster, Ont: "For years, I was a martyr to Chro- nic Constipation. I tried pills, etc.,, and consulted physicians without relief. Then I began to take "Fruit-a-tives" and these wonderful'. fruit tablets en- tirely cured me." (Mrs,) ZENOPHILE BONNEVILLE. 50c a box, 5 for $2.50, or trial size 25c. At dealers or from Fruit -a -tines, Limited, Ottawa. •o 0 o - 00 n "1 i:'t thin* Pm pint to U pot yet," 1 *id, smiling encouragingly at the young girl whose interest I bad ex - kited. "I received a wound a few daylt ago and have bad very bad luck with it. Anything that hits me Hever fails to strike the tender spot." "`Why don't you lie down? Cynthia, go get pillows." Cynthia, the , ggadroai► girl, wail en, 'Sailed at that moment trying to drive away the children and aid not' at ons e obey. "Cynthia, go get pillows:" repeated Miss Jaqueline, stamping her foot. It 'occurred to me that this young girl possessed an uuhridled. disposition. C'yuthla, who was doubtless used to 'her mistress' way of speaking, went for the pillows, and when they arrived Miss Tack made me Ile down, whether I would or not,and covered me 'with a with shawl sprinkling me all the while w such a warm shower or devotion that, despite her irate order to her maid, she quite won my heart. door,I 1 the hall Logking, out tlit•ougli saw a fat man bestride a lean horse, with saddlebags, wiping the perspira- tion from his face and riding up to the gallery. Pie . dismounted and entered, pulping for breath, and proved to be a country doctor. Putting on a grave faee, he examined my wound critically and Made great ado at dressing and bandaging it, then delivered the usual admonition. tie departed, leaving mei lying on the Sofa. Miss Jack beside me, ministering to wants that were not wanted, devising schemes to meet re- quirements that' were not required, Suddenly the two guards attracted. her attention. They bad been in the hall ever since my arrival, but had not un- til this moment excited her antago- nism. n b "WhatTho are you doing here?"g her words were spoken sharply, her voice was soft and musical. "On guard," replied one of the men. "This isn't your house. Go away from -here." ' "Hasn't got no orders." "I give you orders."" Fire was be• ,ginning to dart from here only doing i' es. • interfered. "They their duty" trace, struck a road whlcn nent to tne east. "Captain," I said, '1 don t like the direction you are going. If your in - you not murderous, tentions were would take me to Huntsville and exam- ine into the charge against. me. It ap- pears that you are taking me into the country to dispose of me." "I am on my way to join my squad- ron near Brownsborougb, sir, where yo' will have an opportunity to fade yo'r accuser. If yo' are innocent, yo'll have no trouble. Yo' 'can enlist in my company." •• "Thank you. 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As a southern man, used to southern people, I felt a certain confi- dence, yet if it were known that I was a Union officer I would be put out of the way without benefit of clergy. Who was the man who had informed against me? What did he know? The more I thought about it the more in- tense became my anxiety. Suddenly I looked up and saw white -tents. I knew at once by the looks of the camp that it contaitied one or two companies • of cavalry. There was a railroad bridge • near by, crossing what 1 knew to be Flint river. •and'I jugged that the cav- alry was guarding this bridge. I had forgotten my unlucky wound and was- intent on the camp when, passing under overhanging branches, a stiff bough scraped my arm, and 1 felt at once tbat it had been injured. I told •the captain of"my fears, and we halted to make, an examination. Mk- . ing. off my coat, there, • as I expected, was a stain of fresh blood on my shirt sleeve. • "You needn't trouble yourself to mur- der me," I remarked. "That wound is a better enemy than all my others to- gether." - •• 'The captain cast -glances about him Sin a house.: He had no intention of murdering me or- being. a 'party indi- redly to my death. While be was soaking a survey, of the surrounding eountry I. was twisting my handker cl ief above the wound. "Can yon get to that plantation?" be asked. I looked up and saw a large manor house about half, a mile distant, with its flanking. rows of negro bets. "I can try it." • We mounted and rode on and in a few minutes passed into the gateway between imposing stone posts, proceed- ing by a winding way to the house. I was glad to dismount and get inside the spacious hail•,out of the sun. There € sat down on an old fashioned hair - sloth mahogany sofa. A number, of white and negro chil- dren, who were playing together as contentedly as if the pickaninnies were not the property of their fair 'skinned., playmates, stood gaping at me. A slim iman with a determined mouth, at the corners of • which were marks of ' to- hacco juice -tae turned out to be an overseer -an ‘equally thin elderly wo- man, whom .1 Abad heard addressed as :Bliss Pinkley, and a quadroon girl made up the group. I was sitting with lay head resting against the sofa back, • weak and despondent. Suddenly down the great winding staircase came a young girl with.a shapely petite figure, a pretty oval 'face and an olive coni- plexion, from which two almond shap- ed eyes flashed alt me and the group about me with the quintessence of as- tonishment. Bunning her words to- gether in a way peculiar to herself, she asked: "What's. the -matter?" • "The gentleman's bleeding from a wound in the artri, Miss Jack," said the quadroon girl. "Who is he? What is he? Is he go- ing to die?" She fired the words as if they were bullets. "Jaqueline," put in the elderly lady called Miss Pinkley, "don't ask se many questions at once." Then she went up stairs, remarking• that She would bring her smellinN,salts. "Arc you John 13rafderstanc, sir?". leave your house till we call for him." Helen cast an inquiring look at me to know if she should give the pledge. 1 saw tbat a glance.would enable me to remain where 1 was and, if I chose, after the, departure of the troop, leave the house, with Helen to bear the re- sponsibility of my going. "Nonsense, man!" 1 said; rising. "Do you suppose I'm -going to permit a wo- man to stand between you and me'! You, are a gentleman, if you are taking It upon yourself to arrest whom you please, and I'm enough of a gentie- man not to •avail: myself of your prof- fered avenue of escape. If I must ,go, I must. Where do you intend' to. take me, captain?" By this time several men who had "Never mind," she said to the guard. "Please don't leave ns. I wouldn't have you go for the world. You're quite Tollowed the officer pushed their way into the room.. I received. no reply. to my question,. 'batt 'e as ordered to get up and go with them. The members of the family,_ discovering that something had gone Wrong, flocked about, and it was easy to see that, though they did not understand why I was arrested, they were all in sympathy with me. Airs. Stanforth seemed greatly dis- tressed. Mr. Stanforth attempted to argue my case for me, of course to no purpose. The negroes were all indig- nant. While waiting for my horse 1 heard Lib delivering berself in the back hall: "Wha' fo' dat mis'able osifer wid he sleeves covered ail ober wid dem got' snakes goin t' 'rest a fine south's gem - len like dat? Dat wha' yo' call free- dom? Colored folks got mo' freedom den dat. I heah mas'r talkie 'bout stational libe'ty. Wha'S de ube o' stu-• tionai libe'ty when de oder man got be hand on yo' collar?'' 1 behrd no more, for I was conducted out to the gallery. Just as I started down the walk Ethel appeared, with curious eyes, and 1 paused to take her up and give her a parting kiss. I east a glance at Helen. There was' intense interest in her face, but net so many emotions l could net discover which predominated. I went with the soldiers down to the gate, where ]t found my horse, and, mounting, R cav- alryman av alryman on each side of me, rode away, with the troop. We proceeded up the pike fora ebort disttince, then. crossing the ra11road DYSPEPTIC Food Does You No Good s Half the time you're afraid to eat;' bad stoar mach ue is is bloated. If you rnouth ,,want to get well, stop using dyspepsia tab- lets, and go . to the source of the tro�tr- ble before it is too late. Strengthen your stomach, cast out the bile, regu- late the bowels—db this, and dyspeip- sia will be no more. For your condition the best pres�crip- tion is Dr'. Hamilton's P,ilis, which are • made specially for the . stomach, kid- neys and liver. No better remedy will be devised, for Da Hamilton's Pills are :perfect. DR. 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