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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1907-04-04, Page 70 •ter I »;»I»h.•,»;»,,..;.. », :..I»'III»1 I»I»•»;fie L.• »; + I , ,.,I»I »l. -•:":••:••:•• i �»I»I•'i»I»I-•t •:»:• I i . 12 , . , I i . t I" .-i••i»I•�i� i-i»�•. 3-I•$»I�i _ ,• n it .0 . y�y Captaiq P. A,. MITCHE:L, Author of "Chattanooga," +'Chickamauga," Eta EET a.1V< E p•Il• • •.P Copyright, 1697, by harper & Brothers. .i»•� ..ar»l .•»+. I.'„q..I..� .;j«l,.l..l..l»e,•-I : -I• f»H .'�•-•I 3 I.3 I•-Hsi»'�lI•+ll•.l•�•.3.�•ll«Y•�: t IC,u4:i,.'rfl�il*:�1d1'+w%r'4► reei �tiMiatis3IIes� age, "you've had a close call, sir. Per- haps you'll pay some attention here- after to what I tell you, sir.” "Next time, doctor," I said feebly, "let me go. My life is of little moment to me." As I spoke Helen, who had gone out of the room for something, returned. "All, Miss Stanfortb," said the doc- tor, "I will leave the patient in your care. You seem to be always on hand when be needs you and to know exact ly what to do. Let the others keep l • away." "I will relieve you, doctor," she said quietly. The doctor gathered up his belong- ings elongings and left the room, leaving Helen . standing looking at me with a certain • curious earnestness that I could not , interpret. As she had been the Indirect 1 cause of my mishap, I naturally ex- pected xpected she would refer to it, perhaps i express some regret. She was think lug of an entirely different matter. 'Why is your life of little moment to you?" she asked. iiii "You overheard?" eyes.. "You have a right to require me to . disclose my affiliations in the great struggle in which we are involved, but my private griefs"- � "I ask your pardon." There was no . regret expressed. It was simply a well ' bred way of noticing that she had fail- ; - •ed to elicit the information she desired. ; "I should have got on well enough," 1 I continued, "if that confounded stand I had not been way. in the vay . I believe I could go now just as well as not." I paused. I was very weak. "May I ask you to hand me that glass?" I add- ed, looking at a tumbler containing brandy. Without noticing the proof of my in- . ability to do as I aseerted she handed me the glass and when I had taken a • swallow put it back on the table. Her coolness was beginning to irritate me. "I have a mind to get up and go on," I said. "I don't believe there is any danger." "What did the doctor say?' "IIe told me to keep quiet as I val- ued my life." "You don't value your life; therefore you will get up and go on -in other words, commit suicide." "You know very well that it galls me to be obliged -to impose upon a family that has loaded me with kindness with- out declaring my identity." "Thenwhynot declare It?" T "Because it doesn't suit my plans to • do so." I was acting ungraciously, recklessly, .and I knew it, but I was in no condi- tion to fence with this cool creature. "Shall I leave you?" she asked, with- out appearing at all offended. "I don't need your attention." "You need some one's attention. I • will have Jackson sit in the ball, where be can hear you if you ring." And she • walked out of the room. CHAPTER III. A DEFINITE OnJECT. ILL this unlucky wound never heal? Time files, and I, who should be up and doing, am caged like a tiger walking back and forth within the limits of its inclosure." This was my complaint as I paced my room one morning shortly after the accidental reopening of my wound. My impatience was not without cause. I had gone south, as I have said, with two objects -to find my enemy and to gather information. I had failed in 1®s Yitur Digest Wdll? When tho food is imperfectly digested the full benefit is not derived from it by the body and the purpose of eating is de- feated ; no matter how good the food or how carefully adapted to tho wants of the body it may bo. Thus the dyspeptic often becomes thin, weak and debilitated, energy is lacking, brightness, snap and vim aro lost, and in their place come dullness, lost appetite, depression and langour. It takes no groat knowledge to know when ono has indigestion, some of the following symp- toms generally exist, viz.: constipation, eouratomaoh, variable appetite, headache, heartburn, gas in tho stomach, eto. The great point is to euro it, to get back bounding health and vigor. BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS is constantly effecting cures of dyspepsia because it acts in a natural yet effective way upon all the organs involved in the process of digestion, removing all clogging impurities and making •easy the work of digestion and assimilation. Mr. R. G. Harvey, Ameliasburg, Ont,, *rites: "I have been troubled with dys- pepsia for (several years and after using three bottles of Burdock Blood Bittern I wet completely cured. I cannot praise R.B.B. enough for what it has done fop • tee. I have not had a sign of dyspepsia - time." Do not accept a eubatituto for ..B,BI, Thera IS nothing 'quilt as good. finding my enemy, but had gained a complete knowledge of the points es- sential to the capture of north Ala. barna and was carrying it to the gen- eral on the day I was shot. It had oc- curred to me before setting out that, after finishing my military mission, I might still wish to continue my search. for my enemy. Besides, there were other contingencies, such as arrest or illness, which needed to be provided for. I bad therefore arranged that the general's favorite scout should be at Iluntsville on the morning of the 1st of April to receive any communication I might find it necessary to transmit. If I were prevented from meeting him, I was to send a messenger and had de- vise(' a code of signals by which he 0 might be recoanizecl. The appointed day was drawing near, I was not able to keep my appointment, and there was no one at band to whom I could in- trust the message. I chafed till I had exhausted my small store of strength, then threw myself on my couch. Little Ethel came in and, like a soft ray of sunlight break- ing through stormelouds, turned my thoughts into gentler channels. She held in her hand a bouquet of flowers which, it was ensy to see, she intended for me, but needed encouragement to offer• I finally induced her to do so and to admit that she had been out a long while looking for them for me es- pecially. I tried to unloosen her tongue, to induce her to confide in me, but in spite of all I could do she re- mained shy, and there was ever present that awe she bad shown before of one who had taken a life. "Why do you look at me in that way?" I asked. Slip made no reply, casting down her eyes at 103, brown hand, which held her dimpled fingers. "You mustn't dread me because I am obliged to fight," I continued. "These are wartimes. There are a great many soldiers In the land who think nothing of killing one another" "Don't they?" She raised heir eyes, wide open with surprise. "Of course war is cruel, but -but it• calls out much that is noble." "When they kill each other?" 'What puzzling questions to come from such untutored lips! I was cast- ing about for some explanatory reply when a sudden interruption relieved my embarrassment. A negro boy dash- ed into the room, through it and out of another door. He was followed by the white boyI bad no Iced onthe day t of my arrival, who was screaming: "Doggone yo', Zac; I'll break every bone in yo'consarned black body!" " The words were scarcely out when . he shot through the door by which the had'a Little fugitive z vanished, a Ethel looked after him with frightened eyes, evidently dreading a catastrophe. "Who's that?" I asked. "Buck." "Your brother?" ayes." "Don't be alarmed. That's only a boy's passion. It won't amount to any- thing." "IIe says such dreadful words." "That's habit. Ile doesn't mean any- thing by it. But it's a habit that should be broken." I soon got her quieted, and she prat- tled about her dolls, her playhouses, some pet rabbits and a nook in the gar- den where she kept them. How singu- lar that war, which absorbed all about her, should have no place in her mind. Amid all the turmoil, the r.dmbling of cannon, the tramp of men and horses, bushwhacking, skirmishing, battles, this innocent little maid was strangely out of place. Her mother came in pres- ently and took her away, fearing that she would annoy me. I was loath to part with her. No healing balm had been applied to my wound no soothing, so grateful, as was her prattle to my fevered brain and chilled heart. They had scarcely left me when Buck stalked into the room, his boyish face as free from passion as if he had never been ruffled. IIe had made sev- eral attempts to visit me, notwithstand- ing that he had been forbidden the room. Seeing the coast clear, he slip- ped in unannounced and began a fire of questions. "Does It hurt?" "My arm? Yes, it hurts some." "I'in glad yo' plunked him." "Why do you sympathize with me in- stead of the other? You have only seen me a few times." This was too much for him to ex- plain. I could see that he had conceiv- ed an admiration for me, but he could not tell why. "What did he try to kill yo' fo'?" he asked. "Well, perhaps it was because my ex- istence annoyed him." "What did yo' want to kill him fo'?" "I found it inconvenient to have him Shooting at me." "I'd like to shoot a man. I shot a rabbit once, but that's purty small game. Pop, he won't let me have a gun yet. ' Ile says I may have one when I'm 16." "Buck!" called a voiee from the hall. The boy dropped behind a sofa. An old negro woman entered and looked around. "Yo', Buck! Yo' hidin semewhar! To' nitt'iv'll Spank yo' she' of she cutch yo' hyar troublln the gemmten. Como out o' dart I knows whar yo' air!" , r F WINGRAM TIMES APRIL 4, 191)7 I was about to interfere, but a nate= ral distaste at giving away a fellow creature caused me to desist. "I thought I hearn dat chile talltin." The woman stood still a moment, but, hearing no sound, lumbered out of the room. The boy popped up from his hiding place as soon as she bad gone, "I like yo'," were the first words he uttered. "Yo' wouldn't tell on a feller, would yo'?" "Iiow could I when you are glad I 'plunked' my enemy? Is that your mammy?" "Yes; that's Lib." "Nursed you from a baby?" "Yes, an she reckons she's goin to nurse me all my life." "Is your name Buckingham?" "Buckingham! No; I ain't got any, suet' doggone name as that! My name's' Buckeye." "flow did you happen to get that name?" "'Cause I was horned thar." "Where?" a: te, "In Buckeye." a„ "In Ohio?" s`tt1' "Reckon 'tis the same." I contemplated Buck for awhile with- out hearing any of the questions he contiuued to Ore at me. Why not in- trust him with the message? There was every reason why I should not do so except that be was devoted to me and I had no one else to send. While I was deliberating Lib came in, sur- prised him, dragged him out of the room and shut the door. I heard footsteps on the veranda, then in the hall, then ascending the staircase, as of people carrying a bur- den. The door bad evidently been shut to prevent my seeing what was being done. Per awhile there was a hurrying to and fro, and I knew that something unusual had occurred. After all had been quieted Buck, who had mean- while escaped from his dusky captor, slipped back to forbidden ground. It occurred to me that I could draw from Buck the solution of the recent commotion, but what passed under the roof of my friends was no concern of mine, and I scorned to get it from a mere boy. But I wished to test Buck's S ''0:',) .9 1 "Fo', Budd Yo' hidin sometrharl" said the old negro woman. power of reticence. Ten to one be had been instructed not to talk to me about the mysterious occurrence. "Buck," I asked, "who came to the house awhile ago?" "Wasn't anybody came to the house awhile ago." "A sick man, wasn't it?" "No, he wasn't sick." "I thought you said no one came?" "No one did." "Of course no one came; he was car- ried." "If yo' know so much about it, Mr. Brandystone, what's the use o' askin me?" "You admit that whoever he was he wasn't sick?" "Of course he wasn't sick. How could he be sick if he wasn't any- body?" There was a sudden rustling in the hall, and Helen swept into the room, her eyes flashing fire. • "Buck, leave the room!" she. coin- ' You have heard of biscuits—and read of biscuits—and eaten biscuits - 1 but you don't know biscuits—until you try Mooney's Perfection Cream Sodas. They are everything that 1 the ideal biscuits should be. 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"You have been listening," I said curtly. • "I have not. I was coming through the hall and heard your last remark." "And you infer that 1 wits trying to get a secret which does not at all con- cern me?" "I most assuredly do." "You are mistaken. I care no more for what occurs in this house than for the color of the dross you happen to wear. I had another object in ques- tioning your brother." "I date say you hod" "I wished to discover if he could keep a secret." "I dare say you did." "I have intended nothing dishonor- able." "Fudge!" She snapped her fingers and her eyes at the sante time. "You don't believe me. Very well, I don't believe that you were not eaves- dropping." "I was not eavesdropping!" she cried hotly. "You have the word of a south- ern lady." "And I was not trying lei get your secret. You have the word of a"- 1 stopped short. I had run against a snag. She gave me a glance of con- tempt and triumph. IIer ]lead was up, a little to one side, her nostrils dilated, her•breath slow- and measured. "Miss Stanforth," I said -I was near betraying what demanded secrecy -"I will prove to you before night -no. not before night but soon -that I had an- other object. I will no longer remain in a house the inmates of which"- I made a step toward the door. "Mr. Branderstane!" "Miss Stanforth!" "In addition to sailing under false colors you are now going to endanger your lIfe by"- "Fudge! What is my life to you?" I snapped my fingers. "A good deal just now. It is un- pleasant to have a person die on one's bands." I was in no condition for this en- cottuter. A buzzing was going on in my cars, a tingling sensation in my limbs. My genet's were giving way, null I was obliged to sit clown on the sofa. I looked longingly at a bottle of brandy that stood on the table, but was too proud to ask for it. In a moment Iielen had poured some of the liquor into a tumbler and held it to my lips. I drank a reviving draft. She put her hands On illy shoulders._ and gently forced me to Ile down. "'Phis must not (ewer again," she said. "you have no strength to go, and I have no right to excite you wi:!lo in your present condition. I believe what yon told me" She put out her hand. "Pardon," I said humbly. "When calla, I would ns soon think of nccusiug you of eavesdropping as I would accuse Diana of unehast!ty. I have been un- gall:uht rude -Inde to a woman." "Forget it. Lie still. and you will soon be yourself again." She sat down by a table and took up a book. "I will sit here and read while you recover your strength." She read for perhaps half an hour. I supposed she was interested in the book, for she turned one page after an- other and seethed to have forgotten me. At last she put clown the volume, and by her first words convinced me that instead of being interested in it she lead been thinking of my puzzling iden- tity. "I want to ask you one question?' "Ask it" "Where did yen come from the day the shooting occurred?" "Huntsville." She had asked the one question and had received. herr reply. X knew' by her expression that site wanted to ask an- other. sother. "I suppose you were there long enough to become acquainted with the city. It's a beautiful place." "I was there a week." The limit of one question having been overstepped in this indirect fashion, It was easier for her to proceed. "What were you doing there? "Looking for some one," "A man?" "Yes." "What for?" I did not reply at once. I was think- ing of some plan by which to put an end to her catechising. "If 1 tell you," I said presently, "will you promise to ask me no more ques- tions?" "If you prefer that I should not." "You wish to know why 1 was seek- ing my man at Huutsville?" "I do." "You will keep what I tell you a se- cret?" • "To kill him." CIIAPTER IP. WON OVER. ITTLE BUCK 110 stood my test as to his reticence so well and r,• I was at such desperate straits for a messenger that I resolved to use hila. After breakfast I waited fora awhile, hoping wh , op g that he would come to my room, but as he did not I feared be was deterred by the autocratic Lib. I called Jackson and told him to tell the boy I wished to see flim. I took a Confederate bill from my pocket and handed it to the darky, but be went oft grumbling that he didn't "want no Yankee money, and mas'r wouldn't gab no nigger o' his'n takin money from a stranger nohow." He sent Buck to me, who came in looking somewhat astonished that 1 should take sufficient interest in him to call for him. "Buck," I said, "I have something important to say to you" "What is it, Mr. Braudystone?" "Branderstane. Please don't make that mistake again." "I won't, shot" "Buck, I'm thinking of sending you on an errand, but it's a great secret," The boy's eyes grew as big as saucers. I cooked at him for a few moments to observe the effect of my anu'ounce- ment and then went on: "If you should tell any one, It might cost me my life. You wouldn't tell, would y'OU?" "Tell! Why, sooner 'n tell I'd-I'd- ruther be a -a -a -dead rat out in the bade yard." "I believe I'll trust you. Do you know the road to IIuutsville?" "I reekon so. I've been over it more'n a hundred times." "Got a pony?" "Yes: Pete. Ilel'n, she drives him in the buggy. She calls him kern, but he isn't. IIe's mine. I got a big dog too." "Never mind the clog. Could you get out your pony and rifle into Huntsville ;' 11 • `1 • el • 'tc r�- J "What are you thinking about?” I asked. without any one suspecting you were going o11 nay account?" -Weil, now, why don't yo' give me someien hard?" "•(3o and get 1110 a newspaper or an 11111111 tine." IIe was out of the room and back in a moment with a Iluntsville paper of that mor'ning's issue. I scanned its Co:limns before looking at the dote and noticed this item: 9'he main body of the Yankees are marching final \:ot:vi'k to Columbia en route, it is sup - to Pittsburg Landing, where they will doubtless juin the Federal General Grant. Looking at the heading, I saw' that the date was the 1st of April. "Now, Buck," I said, "get out your pony; then come to me for instruc- tions." "Look a-hyar, Mr. Brandy-Brandy- stone"- "Branderstanc." "Well, Mr. Brandinstane, if yo' got any'structions I reckon yo' better give 'em to me now. Melte if I come back hyar that doggone ole Lib'Il come in an yank me out." "You're right. !leach me that Sheet of note paper and a book to write on - that thio one; now a pencil. All right. Don't say a word till I have. finished." I wrote a message in as infinitesimal characters as I was able on a third of a sheet of paper: Machine shops at ituntsville in good order. Fif- teen to 110 locomotives. Nearly a hundred cars. No force in the town. 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Bought Bears the Signature of Iln Use ForOver Thr Years XACT COPY OF WRAP', an. 1 tine is nanny to cut. To the west partyto cut the road must pass round the city on the north. Enemy gathering all possible forces at Pittsburg Landing, but several thousand men. at Chatta- nooga. I put neither address nor signature to it, as none was necessary, and they would bo conclusive evidence against me if the message should fall into the I wrong hands. "Buck," I said, "mount your pony and ride to Huntsville. A few min- utes before 12 o'clock go into the Hunts - vibe hotel; you know -the big bride house on the square. Go up stairs and out on the front gallery. At 12 o'clock a man with black eyes, long hair and a pointed beard will walk out on the gallery. Don't say anything to him. Wait, and after awhile he'll say some- thing to you." "Will he?" asked the boy, his eyes full of wonder. "What'll he say?" "He'll say, 'It's a fine day.' " "What, 1f it's rainiin?" «• les, rain or shine, if he's the man you want, he'll say, 'It's a fine day.' Then you must say, 'Reckon you're weather wise, stranger.'To that t he IL reply by asking you what kind of weather it:was the day of the massa- cre." "What massacre? What's a massa- cre?" "Never mind that. Stick to the les- son I'm teaching you. You must say `Black as night.' Then he'll say `What's the word?' and you can hand him this note. Now, suppose I'm the man with the pointed beard and you go b a through h the dialogue with me." I put him through his lesson till be had learned it perfectly. Then I sent him away with the injunction that, in case anything should go wrong with him. rather than part with the paper he was to swallow it. I rolled it into a ball and put it into the lining of his bat. Giving his little band a squeeze, I bade hits go, and be marched out as proudly es if he bad been appointed military governor of Alabama. I had 00 doubt tie would execute his mission to the best of his ability. but he was very young, and I feared he would THE CENTAUR COMPANY; NE1,1YORK Clr•Y. .4,.112,:x.:. Y make some blunder. '1 "What a fool I am!" I exclaimed as soon as be was gone. "I should have failed to communicate rather than in- • trust so important a matter to a boy. However, I'll leave here tomorrow morning, and, if my message mis- carries, by the time it's discovered I'IL be somewhere else." Helen came in soon after Buck's de- parture and began to set the room to rights. She attended to her work si- lently and did not even look at me_ I watched her as she moved about, ar- 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, willowyt a 49 34 „ k (To be continued.) 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