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The Story of a Younj
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CHAPTER IX.
S H was
#quaintance with
Helen Knowlton
he had written
special articles,
for which he was paid so much a column,
but now he was' taken regularly upon the
staff of the paper, on a salary or $30 a
week. He was in no special department,
but acted in the capacity of "general
utility man," which gave him just the
experience that he most needed. Ho
worked in the city department, edited
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teiegrapn "copy, <uiu wiww w-wwiumu
editorials, so that his nights were pretty
well occupied, and he could not have renewed
his evenings at Helen's had he
been so inclined. He was trying to drive
her out of his mind; but he found that
simply impossible.
To refrain from calling at her house
was much easier; yet he did not accomplish
even that sacrifice very successfully.
When he left the office of The
Dawn at half pcct 1 or 2 o'clock in the
morning, he walked up to Twentieth
street and passed with lingering footsteps
under her window; but lie had not
called upon her 6ince the night his pride
had been so wounded by what he took to
be her desire to rid herself of his company.
He had called at the Archers', j
however. It came naturally in his way j
to do so. Sometimes ho dropped in of
an afternoon with Archie, and sometimes
by special invitation of Bessie, who
liked to talk over with him the things
she was just then interested in. Buddhism
was at this timo attracting her attention,
and, as Rush was much inoro
liberal minded than Archie, slio enjoyed
discussing this Oriental religion with
him.
Rush really cared little more for it
than did Archie, but it was something
to divert his mind. Had he dreamt for
" a moment what a hold it was getting
upon Bessie, he would have politely but
firmly declined to discuss the subject
He supposed that she took it up as he
did, as an intellectual amusement; but
with her it was a more serious matter.
To the intense disgust of Archie she renewed
her acquaintance with Mme.
Parapoff, and continued to attend to her
seances. She did not ask Archie to accompany
her any more, for sho knew
that he would try to arguo lier out or going,
and as she had made up her'mind
to go the argument could only have
ended unpleasantly. She got hold of a
young married woman with a taste for
the unnatural, and the two visited the
very remote and dingy apartments of the
High Priestess of Buddha and listened,
to her twaddle with credulous ears.
As Archie was really in love with Bes-,
sie, I should explain that 6ho was not his
cousin nor any blood relation to him;
had she been I should have taken no interest
in his sentiment for her. She was
Mrs. Archer's daughter, but she had
been adopted, when she was 5 years old,
by Mr. Archer, when he married her
widowed mother. Archie had been
brought up to regard her as his own
cousin, but his feeling towards her had
been of a warmer than cousinly nature
for a good many years. She liked him
more in the cousinly way, and always
turned the conversation with a skillful
stroke when she thought he was going
to express other than tho sentiments of
a cousin towards her. Since her devo
tion to Buddha there had been a little coolness
between them. He could not tolerate
any such nonsense, and the thought
of the class of people to whom Bess to
was turtiing for esoteric information almost
maddened him. Buddhism was
only another name for spiritualism, he
argued. The latter was a burned out
volcano from which its devotees were
trying to throw out imitation lava to deceive
the credulous. That Bessie Archer
should be one of the deceived ho considered
a degrading thing. "Let the vicious
and the vulgar run after such absurdities,
if they will, but heaven forbid that
a refined young lady should find any attractions
in this tomfoolery 1" was his reflection.
"My dear Bessie," he saia to her, "if
this Parapoff was what you say, she
would be sitting in a golden temple, dealing
out her words of wisdom at a thousand
dollars a word. There is nothing
that men would better like to know than
what the future has in store for them. If
they believed that they could be informfmifK
tKor tFAitlil no tr nnr
tu ? IV" V4UM1, MiVJ " VW.W wy
amount of money; for it would save
them countless sums. People are credulous
enough, in all conscience, and if
they had the slightest encouragement to
believe in these soothsayers they would
patronize them to an extent that would
make theirs the most profitable profession
in the world rather than the most
ill paid. They would be living in palaces
instead of in dirty rooms on back streets,
and their patrons would be the rich and
great rather than poor deluded servant
girls."
"But they are not all 'poor deluded
servant girls' who consult Mine. Parapoff.
Some very intelligent men and
women visit her rooms, among them
your cousin Bessie Archer, who does not
put herself in the class you mention."
"With the deluded, dear child, but
not with the servant girla You can't
show me an intelligent man or woman
who seriously consults Mine. Parapoff.
The very fact that one consults her disproves
his intelligence."
"You are bo prejudiced, Archie Till
innrhocf tKof if Xfmn Porow\ff
tUf^UUOV) H??*w a*. All HIV. * UlU^A/U ^/I^UIVVVU
something to you and it came true, you
would say it was all chance," exclaimed
Bessie, indignantly.
"I am quite sure 1 should, Bessie, and
I am equally sure that it would be," replied
Archie.
"You are a very unsympathetic and
narrow minded young man," said Bessie,
rising to leave ithe room, "and I shall
never again speak to you on this subject
I find Mr. Hurlstone much more liberal."
"I am sorry to hear that; I had thought %
better of Hurlstone." And Archie opened
the door for his cousin to pass out of the
room. Ho was genuinely distressed; and
well he might be?for when a crotchet
of this sort takes possession of an idle
person's brain it is hard to uproot it He
felt sure that Bessie would become thoroughly
disgusted in time, but when? He
^ wondered if it could be possible that
** Rush was encouraging her in this nonsense.
No, he could not believe that;
but it began to dawn upon his mind that
Rush might have taken his advice about
the prima donna (he hadn't seen him
with her of late) and been devoting himself
to Bessie. He turned pale at the
thought, for it was plain that Bessie liked
him. Why hadn't he let his friend go on
dancing attendance upon the singer?
Why should he have interfered? It was
just like him?always standing in his
own light
The drawing room door opened, and
he heard Rush's voice saying to the butler,
"Tell Miss Archer that I am here,
James; she is expecting me." Then,
upon seeing Archie, "Ah, you here,
Archie? glad to see you. I've called to
take Miss Archer to see some pictures at
Goupil's; won't you go along?"
"No, thanks," replied Archie, somewhat
coolly; "I've an engagement down
town, and .must say good-by;" which he
did without loss of time. As Rush stood i
looking out of the window, he noticed '
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I that Archie turned up, instead of down
town, but he thought nothing of it, except
that his friend had probably changed
his mind. That he should have regarded
him as a rival in the affections of Bessie
Archer never occurred to him. In the
first place, he did not suspect the state
of Archie's feelings towards Bessie; and
in the second, he supposed that Archie
was thorougldy aware of his devotion to
Helen Knowlton.
Rash was not altogether happy this
afternoon. It was a whole fortnight
since he had spoken a word to Helen.
He had seen her in the meantime in an
old curiosity shop in Broadway, accompanied
by her aunt and West Hastings
and she seemed to be buying furniture.
What did this mean? Were they actually-engaged
and making preparations
for housekeeping? No, they were not; it
wasnotliing so serious as that. West
Hastings was refurnishing the dining
room in his bachelor quarters. The craze
for old'furniture was just then at its beginning,
and he had asked Helen and
her aunt to accompany him to this shop
to look at an old French sideboard' he
thought of buying. Helen had excellent
taste, and she sealed the fate of the
sideboard by pronouncing it a beauty.
This episode, as Rush interpreted it.
was depressing enough of itself; but
added to this he had received a long and
desponding letter from his mother, telling
him of the Mutual Dividend Mining
company, of CoL Mortimer's connection
with it, and of the offer ho had made to
John. "Do see John as often as you
can, Rush dear, and keep him under
your eye. You know how I dread the
influence of Col Mortimer. He is a bad,
unprincipled man, and dear John is 60
easy going that he doesn't believe there
is any harm in him."
John must have been in town for a
week at least and he had not yet made
himself known to Rush. Bv chance, I
however, the brothers met Rush was
sent to report a masked bail at the
Academy of Music?a tiling lie felt utterly
unfit to do. "J was never at a
masked ball in my life," he told the city
editor
"So much the better," replied the editor.
'You will give us fresh views of a
, hackneyed subject I quite envy you
your new sensations. Get your copy in
as early as possible, and good luck to
I you."
Rush was about the first person to arrive
at the ball, and the Academy looked
gloomy enouglL He had been told that
the festivities did not begin until late, so
he arrived at 9 o'clock, thinking that
that would be about the fashionable
hour. There waa not a woman in the
place, and the only men on hand were
the floor managers. He had plenty of
time for reflection before the bail opened,
and for the sake of the associations he
wandered about behind the scenes. The
stage and parquet were boarded over,
but the prima donna's room was undisturbed.
He. looked in and sighed. A
perfume of violets lingered on the air,
and lie sighed again as he recognized it,
and then wandered to the front, where a
room had been reserved for the press.
A large table stood in the center, furnished
with paper, pens and infc. There
were a great many bottles on the table,
but they did not all contain ink, or anything
that looked like it.
He sat down and took a pen, and
thought to improve the time by writing
to his mother; but, as he could say nothing
about John, he concluded not to.
Instead, he wrote "Helen Knowlton"
over three or four sheets of foolscap, in
every variety of penmanship, and then
tore the paper into fine bits. But, still
fearful that the name might be discovered,
he made a little pile of the scraps
and burned them, watching their destruction
with an expression of countenance
not at all in keeping with the
spirit of a masked ball. He shook his
head sadly. "A man's hopes may be as
easily destroyed as that paper," he said
to himself, as he blew the ashes from the
table. Then he sauntered out into the
lobby.
There he found a very different scene
from the one he had left Men and women
were crowding into the place as fast as
tho man at the wicket could take their
tickets. Most of the men were in evening
dress, but all the women wore dominoes
and masks. There were a few who
appeared in fancy dress, but they were
tho German members of the society.
Rush was too young and too enthusiastic
not to find excitement in the scene,
and when the dancing began he thought
he had never witnessed anything so
brilliant and intoxicating as the movement
of these many colored dominoes to
the music of the band. As time wore
on, tho place became more crowded, and
Rush recognized among the men many
faces that had become familiar to him at
the opera and elsewhere. There was
Uncle Lightfoot Myers renewing his
youth, with a pink domino on his arm;
and there was West Hastings lounging
against one of the pillars of the balcony
and chaffing a Columbine. Rush wondered
what Helen Knowlton would think
if she saw her friend thus engaged. His
thoughts were broken in upon by a voico
at his elbow:
"My handsome young friend," said a
blue domino, taking his arm, "why do
you poso in this melancholy attitude on
so festive an occasion? This is Romeo's,
not Hamlet's, night. Let us walk about
among the giddy revelers. I want to 6eo
a more cheerful expression on your
young face."
As they walked out into the lobby,
Rush racked his brain to recognize the
voice or figure of the mask. His expression
showed that he was puzzled.
"Ah, you do not recognize me," 6he
said. "How sad that makes mo feel! A
little disguise and one's identity is gone.
I should liavo known you through twenty
disguises." And she turned her mask
up at hitn in the most bewitching manner.
"Certainly I have never had the pleasure
of hearing that voice before?no man
could forget so sweet a thing," said Rush,
entering readily into the spirit of the
ball. And so they thrust and parried,
until his mask spied a spry old man with
gray side whiskers and a bald head,
when she dropped Rush's arm as suddenly
as sho had taken it, and took the
other by the hand.
" Dear general, I am so glad to seo you!
I have been looking for you all tho evening,
and feared you were not coming."
The ger.pral looked pleased, though
puzzled; but this was not his first masked
ball, and in a few moments Rush saw
him moving off in the direction of tho
supper room, tho blue domino hanging
affectionately upon his arm.
Before the night was over, Rush
learned much of the ways of masked
balls, and camo to tho conclusion that
the blue domino was an entirely new
acquaintance of his and of the general's.
As he started for the press room, ho met
his city editor with a Swiss peasant girl
on his arm. "Hello, Hurlstone," 6aid
he. And, stopping a moment, ho whispered,
"Get your copy down early, and
then have your fun. You can writo it
out hero and send it down." And he,
too, passed on in the direction of the
supper room.
Rush hardly recognized tho press
room when ho returned to it In tho
first place, lie could hardly 6eo across it
for the smoke; and in the second, it was
so noisy that ho did not see how it would
bo possiblo to writo there. " Hellodiere's
Hurlstone!" shouted a reporter of a
morning paper whom Rush had seen at
different places, but had never had occa
sion to speak to. "Come, fill up your H
glass and take a cigar," added tho re- rs
porter, suiting tho action to tho word; vi
only he took a handful of cigars; ono he v<
lighted, tho others he put in his pocket. le
There were a dozen men sitting around si
the table, some writing, and all smok< hi
ing. Rush declined both the proffered rc
cigars and the champagne, though he
lighted a cigar of his own in self do- d<
fense and sat down in a corner to write. to
He used his note book for copy paper
and his knee for a desk, and in tho or
course of an hour he had a crick in bis th
back and a very good story written out tl;
for The Dawn. This he dispatched. ar
Then he went out into the ball room cc
to look around for a few minutes, after to
which ho intended to go homo to hit at
lodgings. He had not passed half way cc
through the lobby when he 6aw Archie fe
Tillingha8t standing at the foot of the w
staircase, WlUl Mis lmusk iu ilia uuuu, ok
gazing earnestly at the hundreds of dominoes
who lounged past him or hurried hi
by on mischief bent. tli
"Why, Archie, what are you doing "I
here? You look as though you were ex- st
pecting some one. Who is she? Come, m
old fellow!" said Rush, shaking his hand n<
and smiling knowingly. di
"I'm looking for my cousin Bessie." w
replied Archie. to
"What!" exclaimed Rush, starting
back, "Miss Archer here?" y(
"Yes; why not? They all come; though H
they will deny it to-morrow. She is with lo
her father, however, and Helen Knowl- h;
ton and her aunt. They didn't come as ai
regular participants in the ball, you I
know; they never do, only to see what ki
sort of a place it is. To do them justice, di
they are not enjoying themselves very m
much. There is a sort of excitement
about it, however; but when I saw them rc
a while ago they were just recovering c<
from a fright. A half tipsy fellow had si
addressed some coarse compliments to si
Miss Knowlton, and she was very much di
alarmed?more, I fancy, at the idea of hi
being discovered than anything else, for
he said, 'I know you, my beauty.' Of sa
course he didn't know her. That's what h<
they all say. She wanted to go home at
once, but Bessie didn't The girl evident- tl
ly has some miscliief in her mind. I n<
tried to find the man, to slap lxis face, io
but they couldn't point him out"
"How did you know them, Archie?" oi
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Helen in her disguise, for he thought he ki
would get n mask and say 6ome things m
to her from its concealment that he bl
wouldn't liko to say in open court. ki
"How did I know them? In the first w
place, I brought them here, and in the V\
second, they are dressed alike?black rc
satin dominoes, with a bunch of violets "]
pinned on the left shoulder." hi
Rush could hardly talk with Archie, b(
he was so impatient to break away and hi
look for Helen in the crowd. At last,
after a few commonplaces, he started in sa
quest. Ho had not searched long before st
he was rewarded. There, sitting on one hi
of the seats in the dress circle, ho saw pi
the object of his search. There was no ^
mistaking the poise of that head, even d<
had ho not recognized the black satin y<
domino and the bunch of violets on the at
shoulder. She was sitting alone; that tu
was 6trange. Where were the rest of R
the party, and why should its most pre- fr
cious treasure be left unguarded? Hastily
adjusting the mask he had borrowed m
from Archie, Rush sat down in a vacant ar
seat next to the domino. hi
"The beautiful Cinderella sitting alone
at the ball," he whispered in her ear.
She turned with a start; the eyes of the
mask glared up at him. (Why do all
eyes look so wicked behind a mask?) In
a disguised voice, with just the least di
tremor of a laugh behind it, she replied, t0
"Cinderella is waiting for her princo and
?ho has come."
The boyish heart in the breast: of the
young man beat high. Did she recognize
him? She called him "her princo."
How he wished the pumpkin coach were
waiting at the door that ho might drive
off with her in triumph 1 They had a
pleasant chat, only ho felt that ho was
being chaffed pretty hard at times, and
he thought that some of tho expressions
used by tho lady were hardly such as ho
would expect to hear from Helen's lips. "
"However," ho argued, "ono feels freer ^
behind a mask. If she only suspected ~
ine, how differently sho would speak 1"
In the midst of their lively sallies (she "
would not allow him to bo sentimental), \
ho heard an unmistakable voice behind
him say, "Don't you think wo liavo had
enough of this, aunty?" And, looking tQ
around, ho saw the fac-similo of the jj
mask by his side, and near her Mr. Ar- BQ
cher and another black domino, which
ho knew was Bessie.
Ho felt a sinking feeling; ho wanted -pj
the floor to open and let him through; tr
but it didn't. The resemblance between ^
Aunt Rebecca and Helen was very m
strong, and, except that the former was jj,
a triflo heavier, their figures wero much
alike. Rush had often remarked the ur
likeness, but ho never expected to bo ^
caught in this way. Well, there was g.
nothing for it. Sho evidently did not
recognize him; at least so ho thought. ai
When Helen spoko about going, ho rose m
to his feet. w
"Nay, beautiful mask, why tear your- at
self away from this festive scene? Take jic
my arm and let us walk about among tli
tho gay revelers and amuse ourselves." W;
Ho offered his arm, but Helen drew pi
back affrighted. Aunt Rebecca gave her jn
an assuring nod over Rush's shoulder. w
Sho took tho proffered arm and they CI
strolled into tiio loooy. uut au ms gnuness
of speech had deserted him. lie in
was going to say so much, and could say th
nothing. th
Helen broke the silence by saying, in pr
disguised tones, "You are not a very te
entertaining cavalier. Why don't you gi
mako yourself more agreeable, Mr.? th
Who shall I say?" gl
"I am speechless with happiness, fair
mask," ho replied. "To have so much or
loveliness so near me dazzles my eyes fc
and paralyzes my tongue. If you only Ri
knew 'ono half my heart would say,' to pi
quoto from an old song, you might think H
better of me." ta
"I have no doubt you could bo very si
eloquent on any themo you chose; but I tr
riu afraid you aro a young man of words. fu
You could be just as eloquent to the next in
mask that came along." th
"On the contrary," answered Rush, so
somewhat loftily, "I would have nothing w
at all to say to another; my heart is not sp
large enough for two masks." cc
"I have heard men protest in this way in
before, but they have forgotten what bi
they said ere the last word left their lips. cr
There was ono young man in whom I be- si!
lieved, but even ho turned out like all the a
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rust, JLIU uio ^icatcab menu- iv
fillip for me, visited mo at my house, and
wo passed many pleasant evenings to- th
gether; but suddenly his visits ceased. it
Without a word of warning ho stopped pi
coming to see me. Our pleasant even- tb
ings came to an end. Do you know why? I,
1 fe lind formed a pleasanter friendshiD b]
with another young lady, and I was forgotten."
oi
"You are cruel; I formed no pleasant- ti:
er friendship; I have never entertained tl:
but the one feeling for you since the first lr)
timo I 'saw you," said Rush beforo he j
knew what ho was doing. d<
"What do you mean?" asked Helen in ta
tho most innocent manner, knowing per- 6c
fectly well all tho while. "You formed ji
no pleasanter acquaintance! you have tl
entertained feelings for me! This is very y<
mysterious. One expects mysteries at a
masked balls, but I am moro than sur- b,
prised at being spoken to in this way by 0|
an unknown mask." m
"Then you don't recognize me," 6aid fc
Rush, taking some comfort to himself in ni
tho thought that ho had not betrayed his C(
identity after all. By this timo they fa
had reached the end of tho 60Uth lobby, J,
and were just about to retrace their
steps, when Rush felt Helen's hand p,
tighten its grasp on his arm. ci
"There is that awful man," she gasped, b;
as a man, walking very unsteadily, came si
out of tho directors' room, and, seeing tl
elen, started forward as if he would
iise her mask. "Ah. here's my sweet
olet," lie said, in a thick, uncertain
rice; but, before the words had fairly
ft his tongue, Rush gave him a quick,
larp blow between the eyes and sent
im crashing up against the door of the
>om ho had just quitted.
"Oh, Mr. Hurlstone, what have you
me?" exclaimed Helen, in trembling
>nes; "quick, take mo to my aunt."
Rush thought her advice good, and at
ice acted upon it. He was only sorry
lat he had not taken her to her aunt in
ie first place, and then come back alone
id knocked the insolent fellow into a
>cked hat Fortunately there happened
> be no one at that end of the lobby just
that moment, but ho heard people
>ming, and was dreadfully worried for
ar of the annoyanco to Helen if she
ere discovered under such circumances.
"Come this way," said she, leading
m through the little passage way at
ie back of tlio lower tier of boxes:
there is a door hero that opens on the
age.sind we can go around and get to
y aunt and Mr. Archer without being
riiced. Oh, why did I como to tliia
eadful place? Aunt Rebecca didn't
ant me to. Oh! if I had only listened
her!"
Rush felt extremely mortified. "I beg
)ur pardon, Miss Knowlton," said lie.
e had taken off his mask, and they no
nger played at mystery. "I should not
ivo struck that fellow with you on my
-m, but I am not used to masked balls,
don't know their etiquette. I only
new that you were insulted, and my ingnation
got the better of my judg;ent."
"I forgive you, Mr. Hurlstone," she
iplied; "but I don't forgivo myself for
iraing to such a place. It is a lesson I
iall never forget. Here are my friends,"
10 added. And Rush saw the two laies
and Mr. Archer and Archie Tillingist.
"Aren't you ready to go home yet?"
iid Bessie. "I think it pretty dull
ire."
They all agreed to go, and Rush bade
tern good night at tho door. Helen said
nthing about tho little episode of the
bby, and he was grateful to her.
After ho had seen their carriage drive
f, Rush returned to tho lobby to 6ce
hat had bccomo of the man ho had
nocked down. On the way ho saw
iany curious scenes?among them the
ue domino who had first spoken to him
issing tho bald pate of tho general. He
as glad enough that Helen had gone,
fhen ho got around by tho directors'
>om ho heard a loud voice proclaiming,
I'd know the damned rascal if I saw
im; ho took mo right between tho eyes,
jforo I had tiino to defend myself, damn
im!"
Rush pressed through the crowd. He
,w the man ho had knocked down
anding with his back against the wall,
s hair ruiupled and his shirt front
etty well demoralized. A younger
an hud him by the arm, and was evi;ntly
urging him to go home. The
)ung man's back was turned to Rush,
id liis figure swayed slightly as he
igged at the arm of his companion,
ush stepped up to him. "Is your
iend much hurt?" ho inquired.
"The colonel's not as hurt as ho is
ad," answered the young man, turning
ound slowly, "though he got a pretty
ird blow. Sorved him right; he wa3
o fresh, making up to another man's
ask." And the young man steadied
mself by tho wall as he turned. Rush
ought he detected something familiar
the voice, though it was thick with
ink; but when the fellow turned around
the light he saw who it was.
"John!"
"Rush!"
And thus the brothers met for the
st time in New York.
CHAPTER X.
his last.
^ John gave him
his address. He
had a trorereous
.^it, 6uito of rooms
uptown, whoro
"" lie lodged and
ok his breakfast. Ho and the colonel
ned at "The Club;" but it was not the
rt of club men boast of belonging to.
iey called it the "Club" because they
d not want to call it by its right name.
10 cooking was excellent, for its paons
were all judges of good eating, and
e proprietor knew that to keep them he
ust cater to their palates as well as to
ieir love of high plav.
John Hurlstone was a born epicure,
id the kitchen of "The Club" was quite
i much of a temptation to him as itaa
lining tables, though ho was pretty
cky at cards, for he had a cool head
id a quick eye. Col. Mortimer won
uch moij money, however. That he
as a card sharper John did not suspect
this time, but he knew very well that
i was a professional gambler, and that
o Mutual Dividend Mining company
as one of the biggest games he ever
ayed. The offices of this company were
- -i - T1 * .1 i.1
rine Brreec, near uroauway, anu wiey
ere fitted up as luxuriously as "The
ub." In the latter establishment CoL
ortimer was a sileni partner. The ming
company's offices were furnished in
o heaviest black walnut (that wood was
ie fashion then), and the furniture and
irtitions were made of the 6amo marial
and pattern. The company's monoram
was carved in the chairs and over
ie mantel piece, it was ground in the
ass and worked in the door mat.
There was a whole suite of offices?
ie outside for the clerks, a private one
ir Col. Mortimer, with "President's
oom" engraved on the nickel door
ate, another for the "Secretary," John
urlstone and a large room, with a long
bio down the middle flanked by masve
chairs, for the "Directors." A porait
of Col. Mortimer hung over the
replace, and a map of Colorado, showg
the situation of the mine, took up a
tird of the opposite wall In a hand
? ? -1 ? I ' ? "'1 f A
IL1U VU1VUI 11I1UU L-ai/uiui/ ovicn tu %,\j uiv
all between the front windows reposed
>ecimens of the ore sent east by the
>mpany's engineer. What rich speciens
they were, tool The silver fairly
ilged out of them. Ono shelf of this
Lbinet was devoted to bricks of solid
Iver. When Col. Mortimer got hold of
doubtful investor he took him in this
om and showed him the cabinet.
"There's the stuff, my good sir, and
iero"?pointing to the map?"is where
comes from. You seo that district
eked out in blue?well, that belongs to
ie Mutual Dividend Mining company,
am not going to press you to invest;
T Jove, I'm not sure we want to sell.
rith a inino throwing out tons of 6uch
o every day, it's rank nonsense to sell
10 stock. But I'm a bit of a philaniropist
myself, and when I'm making
oney I want others to make it, too.
don't think, however, I'll offer another
allar's worth of that stock. Wo won't
ilk mines any longer, but we'll tasto
>me fine old brandy I keep hero for
ist 6uch judges as you. You'll admit
lat this is as good a glass of cognac as
au ever tasted. There! how's that?
nd here are some choico cigars. (Don't
2tray me, they're smuggled. A friend
! mine, a sea captain, brings them to
te from Havana.) Let us sit here be>ro
this genial fire?what is prettier,
aw, than a soft coal lire!?and discuss
ignao and cigars. They aro much more
iteresting subjects than mining shares; :
an't you think so?"
In this way Col. Mortimer drew tho
aor flies into his net. They would disass
the cognac and the cigars, and end
y begging tho colonel, for the old friendlip
ho bore them, to let them put a few
lousands into the Mutual dividend.
This they always succeeded in getting
him to do, though with great reluctance.
I need not say that the colonel confined
himself to the cigars rather than to the
brandy. He did not object to drinking out
of business hours, but when he was playing
for such high stakes he had to keep
his wits about him.
Just how much John Hurlstone knew
of what was going on I should not liko
to say. He knewCol. Mortimer pretty
well, and preferred not to ask too many
questions. Mortimer paid him a large
salary because he.was invaluable to him.
John was well educated, and wrote a
good letter. Mortimer was badly educated,
and it was said could just sign his
name and nothing more. Indeed, it was
further said that he only learned to sign
his name by copying it as written out by
John Hurlstone in their army days.
Certainly his signature was very much
like John's writing, and, when signed to
a letter that John had written, was in
perfect harmony with the rest of tho
autograph. Not only did Mortimer pay
the company's secretary a handsome salary,
but ho gave him good lump sums of
mnnoTT hn?irlpR which ho Raid were the
dividends on the slrv lie held in John's
name. Mortimer could not have got
along without John, in this raining company
scheme, and ho knew it; and he
paid him well both to keep him in his
servico and to prevent his asking questions.
With all this money at hand you would
have supposed that John would have sent
some home to his mother and sisters. Not
he. Had they asked him at a time when
ho had a roll of bills in his pocket he would
have handed it out to them, but they
asked for nothing and they got nothing.
John was a spendthrift, and, like most
spendthrifts, he Bpent his money on himself.
If he spent it upon other people it
was in the way of his own pleasure. He
did send handsome presents to Amy Bayliss?useless
things that represented a lot
of money but little taste. A tradesman
could always sell him an unsalable article
by representing it to be something
unique and adding tliat few men would
have the taste to appreciate its beauties
and pay the price. The consequence was
that Amy Bayliss had a collection of
costly odds and ends that she could only
praise for their costliness and because
"dear John" had taken tho trouble' to
send them to her. mere were paper cullers
of frosted silver, and jewel boxes
much too fine for her modest dressing
table, and mother-of-pearl card cases
which had long since gone out of fashion;
and every Saturday regularly came a box
of cut flowers. These delighted Amy
more than anything else.
"Dear John never forgets to send me
flowers every Saturday. No matter how
busy he may be, ho is not too busy to
send these lovely roses to me."
Poor Amy I The regularity in the coming
of the flowers was duo to the florist
John gave him an order witli instructions
to send them "till forbid." In his
extravagant way he had paid for six
months in advance. Paying in advance
was not the usual habit of John Hurlstone.
He was generally a long way
behind with his bills. No matter how
much money ho had, he spent it quickly,
and found himself in debt. He gave as
an excuso that he miscalculated?that
ho had thought one hundred dollars
would do the work of two; but it would
not, and at the end of his first year in
New York iie was hopelessly in debt.
His income was live thousand dollars,
and he lived at the rate of twenty.
A day or two after the ball, he dropped
in at the office of The Dawn on his waj
up town to take Rush out to dinner witb
him. He was dressed in the latest
fashion, and he appeared to advantage
in his fine clothes. Rush, to whom
John was always an object of interest,
noticed that he had all the manners of a
man-about-town, that he wore curiout
rings and dressed in the English style.
He seemed very glad to see Rush again,
and was interested in his work. He
asked to be introduced to two or thref
men in the room, and it was all Rush
could do to keep him from inviting tTiena
out to dinner. As they were men Rush
scarcely knew, he winked at John not
to ask them when ho saw that he wa#
preparing to do so; but he could not prevent
his taking them over to the Astor
house to have something to drink.
After parting affectionately with them
? ~ A ofano Tnlin rnlloH a
UU lillU ilOlUi 1IUUOU U VtMl wvv. v
cab that had been waiting for him, and
they drove to "The Club," where he had
ordered a dinner especially prepared and
served in a private room. Rush asked
what the place was and was told that il
was "Our Club." As CoL Mortimer en
tered the room at this moment, he supposed
John meant his and the colonel's,
and took it for granted that it was a questionable
place or the latter would not
have anything to do with it Hush despised
CoL Mortimer, and was never
more pleased than when he found it was
he whom ho had knocked down at tha
masked balL He wanted to confess the
deed at once, but John, in whom ho confided,
begged him not to. saying it would
bo fatal to his interests. Rush did not
tell John who tho lady was whom Mortimer
had annoyed, and his brother asked
no questions.
It was very annoying to Rush that
Col. Mortimer was a guest at this little
dinner, but there was nothing for it and
ho had to be polite on his brother's account.
Mortimer could bo very agreeabio
when ho tried, and this was ono ol
tho occasions on which ho had laid himself
out to please. Ho told amusing anecdotes
of tho war and of tho world, and
Rush was entertained inspitoof himself.
"He's not half a bad fellow," said John,
when Mortimer left the room for a moment
"You will liko kira better when
you know him better."
It was 0 o'clock when this little dinner
came to an end. Fortunately it was
Rush's night off at tho office, for he did
not feel very much liko working for three
or four lioure over a desk in a stuffy
room. John proposed that they should
walk around Madison square, and the
three sauntered out. On their way they
stopped at a florist's, where John ordered
a basket of pink and white roses.
"For the same party, sir?" asked the
florist
"Yes; and send them at once, please,"
answered John. And, taking a card
from his card case, ho inclosed it in a
small envelope and addressed it. Tha
three walked on again. When they
reached Union square, John said, at
though seized by a sudden inspiration,
"Let's go to the opera. It is 'Faust* tonight;
and there is a good ballet, you
know. I'm more than fond of a good
ballet."
Rush was at first ready to embraco his
brother for tho suggestion; but he could
not bear the idea of going to see Helen
Knowlton, particularly in such a role 09
Marguerite, in company with Col. Mortimer;
so he answered:
"We're not dressed for tho opera, John;
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If we were, 1 snuuiu uo uengnieu 10 gu.
"Hang dress!" answered John. "We'll
buy admission tickets, and stroll in the
lobby till the ballet comes on. Here's
Fourteenth street. Left wheel, march!"
They wero soon inside the lobby, and,
to John's delight, the corps do ballet was
just coming down the stage. They
stepped inside the glass doors and formed
part of tho crowd of men who fringed
tho wall.
Was there ever more delightful walta
music written that that of "Faust?"
Rush thought not; and I think so, too.
Tho dancing was encored, and Leoni,
tho premiere, came tripping down to the
footlights to bow her acknowledgments
of tho applause. An usher jostled against
Rush as he hurried down the aisle, bearing
aloft a basket of pink and whit?
roses. Leoni bowed low over the flowers,
kissed them, and backed with th?
awkward steps of a ballet dancer to th?
wings.
"Leoni gets a basket like that every
night," whispered a confiding usher in
Rush's ear. "Some feller's dead gone on
her, no mistake."
"Who i3 tho man?".asked Rush, know
ing very well who had sent the flowers.
"I don't know; but they say he's powerful
rich, and would marry Leoni if
she'd have him. She won't have anything
else, he can bet his life on that."
And the usher stopped talking to join in
the applause as Helen Knowlton came
clown the stage.
I need hardly say that Rush was interested
in the usher's information. Ho
< <11 Id not help smiling at the idea of
John marrying the ballet dancer with
his engagement to Ajny Bayliss on hii
hands. He didn't even believe that lis
knew her, but merely thought it wasona
of his fancies to bo known as a patron
of the ballet to the extent of sending
flowers to a premiere danseuse. Tha
dancing was hardly over, when John
proposed going, and, as Rush was his
guest, ho had to go too, though he did so
with great reluctance. John suggested
that they should return to "The Club;"
and to "The Club" they accordingly returned.
"There is some interesting playing
here of an evening," said John, as they
entered the gilded saloon; "you will bo
amused to watch it. These fellows play
| lngh Borne nights?en, coionei:
The colonel smiled, and they sauntered
up to the table and watched the
game in progress. As it grew exciting,
John said .that he would throw $5 on
the red, "just for the fun of the thing,"
and the red won. Ho left his money
there, and still won.
"Why don't you tako your money
while the luck is with you?" -aid Rush.
"It will do better than thac. I'll leavo
it there and show you." But the luck
did not last very long, and before the
evening was over John had lost $500.
"I'll have my revenge to-morrow
night," said he, good naturedly, "and
win it all back and more, too."
Rush looked at his watch. It was 2
o'clock, and he felt ashamed of himself
for having come from the presence of
Helen Knowlton to spend the evening in
such a place. He knew that she dotested
anything like fastness in a man,
and that she would be thoroughly disgusted
if she knew that he was spending
an evening in the company of gamblers,
for he realized now that "The Club" was
nothing more nor less than a gaming
house. He noticed with pain John's
familiarity with the place, and put it all
down to the corrupting influence of CoL
Mortimer, so loath was lie to think that
John could go unled among such men.
Rush had no maudlin sentiment on the
subject; it was not from any religious
scruples that he disliked gambling, but
because of what he knew of its hurtfulness.
The victims he looked upon with
pity and the victimizers with disgust.
John was in a fair way of being ruined,
but Rush knew thero was no use in
speaking to him on the subject He
would not get angry and fly into a passion,
but he would laugh good uaturedly
and tell Rush that losing a few dollars
at cards was not going to hurt him, and
that he didn't propose to follow gambling
as a profession, but only as an occasional
pastime. It would have been easier to
argue with a more violent man, for
John only laughed off words of warning
and advice.
Seeing Leoni at the Academy reminded
Rush that he had not been very attentive
to her of late, and, as she had been a
friend in the hour of need, he upbraided
himself for not having called upon her,
and vowed that he would do so at the
earliest opportunity. Fearful lest John
should go back to the gaming table, he
proposed walking home with him, and
the brothers left "The Club" together.
John had rooms in Twenty-ninth street,
and when they arrived at the door he insisted
upon Rush going in with him, notwithstanding
the lateness of the hour.
"In for a penny, in for a pound," said
John, gayly. Rush %vas astonished at
the splendor of the rooms. Everything
that a luxurious tasto could suggest for
a bachelor's comfort was to bo found
there, from a well stocked buffet to a
well trained valet.
"Why, John, you live like prince," said
Rush, looking around in admiration.
"Say rather like a stockholder in the
Mutual Dividend Mining company; that
beats the princes, Rush." Then, taking
a dainty decanter from the buffet, he
poured out a small glass of old brandy.
"There, there's something to warm the
cockles of your heartl Drink that, and
tell me if it isn't good!"
ItUSll losseu It UOWll UIIU umaicu tiiat
ho had never tasted better.
"And you never will, unless you taste
it here. Mortimer has a corner on that
brandy," said he, filling his glass, "and
no one else can get it."
Rush's eyes roamed about the apartment,
seeing new beauties every moment,
until they rested on a large colored
photograph of Leoni standing on
an easeL "Hello!" said ho, "there's a
portrait of Leoni! Do you know her,
John?"
"Why should I know her?" said John,
rather shortly. "Must a man know every
ballet dancer whose picturo he happens
to have?"
"Of course not; but this portrait is so
conspicuous a feature of your room I
thought it quite likely you knew the
original."
"Your reasoning is childish, Rush,"
answered John, restored to his usual good
humor. "Leoni is the popular dancer of
the hour; sho is a very pretty woman,
and I adore pretty women. What more
natural, then, than that I should have her
picture, particularly as any ono can enjoy
the same privilege by paying its
price? It's early yet," continued John,
as the clock on the mantel chimed the
hour of 3; "what do you say to a cigar
and somo more brandy?' He filled both
glasses, tossed off liis own, and pushed
the other towards Rush, who declined.
"No, thank you, John. This won't do
for me. I don't want to wake up with a
headache to 6poil tho memory of our
pleasant evening. Good night, old boy;
sleep well. Let us see more of each other,
John, now that we are together. Good
night."
"Good night, Rush; you shall see more
than you want of me. Pleasant dreams."
And they shook hands and parted.
As Rush walked homo in the cool
morning air ho thought over tho events
of tho evening. Ho was not at all satisfied
about thoLeoni matter. lie felt that
John had not told him all lie knew of the
dancer, and his heart was stirred to pity
for tho girl, for ho knew that John
fascinations for women were irresistible.
Ho never for a moment thought but that
Amy Bayliss still held sway over his
brother's heart, and his pity was all for
Leoni.
TO HE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Jl^-Some travelers from Socorro,
New Mexico, tell us of a wonderful
parrot there. It sings to the accompaniment
of a piano. A party of
friends were recently gathered at the
residence of the young lady who owns
the parrot. The bird, as soon as it
was brought into the room, commenced
to whistle a popular tune. After
whistling this tune three times over,
one of the company suggested that
the tune be changed, whereupon the
parrot stopped quickly, and turning
to the young man, cried, "Chestnuts
!" The young lady then bepan
to play on the piano; and the bird,
after listening a while, ruffled up the
feathers on his head and sang "The
Last Hose of Summer" and "Home,
Sweet Home." The voice was rather
too shrill to sound pleasant, but the
words could be distinctly heard.
"How do you like the squash
nie, Alfred?" asked a young wife of
ner husband a few days alter marriage.
"Well, it is pretty good, but,
but?" "But what ? I suppose you
started to say that it isn't as good as
that which your mother makes."
"Well, yes, I did intend to say that,
but?" "Well, Alfred, your mother
made that very pie and sent it to me."
ihc (Coufdcvatc^ar.
COMPANY B, TWELFTHS. C.V.
IN
Bivouac and Battles.
BY MAJ. WM. H. DUNLOP,
Formerly Captain of the Company.
Written for the Yorkvillc Enquirer.
The forces under Banks, Fremont
and McDowell had been united in
the neighborhood of Culpeper court
house, and formed into an army of
50,000 men, under command of MajorGeneral
John Pope, around which,
as a nucleus, the second grand expedition
was to be organized against
Richmond.
In order to delay and cripple this
movement, General Jackson determJnn/1
l\irn mnnmiuri*n nr\nr\ si a ]
iiuuuu) uj a iiuuiu u v xu vi/w^y uu
to attack Pope in his position, alarm 1
the Federal authorities for the safety 1
of their capital, so as to place beyond ]
peradventure the withdrawal of Me- 1
Clellan's forces from the Peninsula, ?
and thus secure our own capital from '
further immediate danger. Accord- 1
ingly, with his little force of 20,000 1
men, Gen. Jackson, on the 9th of August,
suddenly fell upon and defeated
the Federal left wing at Cedar moun- I
tain ; held possession of the field un- 1
til he had secured his spoils and
buried his dead, and retired to his
position near Orange court house, on )
the night of the 11th. Gregg's brig- ]
ade held a cross road in rear of Jackson's
line during the fight, to guard (
against a cavalry movement from '
that direction, and was not engaged. 1
An amusing incident occurred just 1
here. When the troops began to re- 1
tire from the battle field, soon after ]
ciarK, ana 10 pass ine posmon occupied
by Gregg's brigade, we dismissed
from our minds all thought of danger
and disposed ourselves for a good
night's rest, some going so far as to
gull off their shoes and outer clothing,
oon all were sound asleep on our
little pallets in the woods, hard by
the roadside along which the troops
were passing. Shortly after midnight,
when the infantry had all gone
by and the silence was only broken
now and then, by a passing straggler,
suddenly was heard the cry, "Yankee
calvary! The Yankee cavalry is upon
us!" Up sprang the whole sleeping
bivouac, blear-eyed and half-conscious,
and began to rush hither and
thither in the wildest confusion.
Officers shouted to the men to rally
and form, while the men, each for
himself, determined the degree of
their personal responsibility for the
consequences of this indecent intrusion,
as well as the best method of protection
and defense against impending
disaster. Each pursued his own
plan without regard to the welfare of
the whole. Some, heeding the appeals
of their officers, threw themselves
promptly into an attitude of
defense; others took to the woods as
fast as their heels could carry them ;
while others looked to the treeS for
protection, and in holy terror crouched
behind them. One poor fellow
was reported to have taken reiuge
up a tree, which proving too weak to
bear up his weight, bent over and let
him clown within two feet of the
ground; while another, under a similar
impulse, sprang up another tree
and continued to climb until he had
reached a point some thirty or forty
feet above ground, as he supposed,
but when discovered he was sitting
flat on the ground with arms and legs
both tightly clasped around the trunk
of the tree, but both resting in quiet
consciousness of supposed safety, high
above the slightest danger. It was
soon discovered, however, that there
was no Yankee cavalry near us, but
only a herd of beef-cattle, which had
been collected by our cavalry during
the fight and were being driven by.
The men soon returned to their places
in line, the brigade formed, and covered
tne retiring column back to the
south side of the Rapidan.
The success achieved by Gen. Jackson
at Cedar mountain had the desired
effect upon the minds of the
Federal authorities, and McClellan
was ordered to withdraw his forces ,
from before Richmond. Gen. Lee at
once dispatched Longstreet's division
to the support of Gen. Jackson, and
when the forces under Burnside, in
North Carolina, were ordered to join
Pope, the Confederate commander
knew that the base of operations
against the Southern capital had been
changed from the James to the Potomac
river, and he, with the remaining
available forces, withdrew from
their position before Richmond and
joined Jackson and Longstreet.
On his arrival, Gen. Lee found
Jackson occupying the line of the
Itapidan, while Longstreet was encamped
in the neighborhood of Gordonsville.
He at once determined to
assume the offensive, and accordingly,
on the 16th of August, the Confederate
forces, now about 65,(XX) strong,
began to move. Gen. Pope fell back
to the north bank of the Rappahannock,
where Gen. Lee, pursuing, confronted
him. Several days were
spent here, in which our skirmishers,
here and there, engaged those of the
enemy, with now and then an outburst
of artillery. Divisions were
shifted from place to place, as if the
position and order of battle were not
satisfactory to the Southern leader.
Early's brigade was at one time
thrown across the river, and but for a
most daring and dexterous piece of
strategy, would have been destroyed.
He, however, succeeded in recrossing
the river without harm. This con
stant shifting of position on the military
chess-board was continued until
the pseudo-Napoleonic Pope, in his
arrogance, believed that by his superior
tact he had selected a position
from which he could not be driven,
and settled back upon his haunches in
defiant repose.
Gen. Lee ordered Jackson to turn
the Federal position, while Longstreet
kept up the ruse. Accordingly,
on the 24th, Gen. Jackson withdrew
from the lines and Longstreet
covered his front.
Late in the afternoon of the 24th,
we moved out to the left, marched
through Jeffersonton and bivouacked
just beyond. On the next morning
early, we unslung knapsacks and resumed
the march. Crossing the
Rappahanock at Hinson's mill, we
entered and marched across the beautiful
valley of Salem to Cobler's
mountain, a distance of about twenty-five
miles, and went into bivouac
for the night. At early dawn we resumed
the march, passing through
Thoroughfare gap in the Bull Run
mountains, the town of Salem, and
bivouacked near Bristoe station, on
the Orange and Alexandria railroad.
That night the head of the
column was pushed forward to the
railroad and succeeded in capturing
two long trains of cars returning
from Pope's army; and still
later, Stewart's cavalry, assisted by
Trimble's brigade, captured Mannassas
Junction, two batteries of light
artillery with their horses, and 300
prisoners falling into our hands.
Early oil the morning of the 27th,
Gregg's brigade was marched to the
Junction, and the men turned loose
upon the immense depot of army
stores, there collected for Pope's army.
Every fellow helped himself
to whatever struck his fancy, and ,
after storing away everything that
he could eat, he was allowed to take
whatever he could conveniently carry.
I filled my haversack with sugar,
and nothing hut sugar, so that for a
day or two I had to call on my
friends for "hard tack" to eat with it.
This was a feast and jubilee to the
half famished soldiers, for we had eaten
nothing for several days hut roasting
ears foraged from the cornfields
through which we had marched.
About this time Pope discovered,
for the first time, that Jackson was in 1
lis rear, and he began to crowd Early i
it Bristoe station. That gallant offi?er
planted his brigade square across 1
:he pathway of the Federals and de- <
ayed them as much as possible, while i
lackson disposed of the immense army-stores
captured at the junction. 1
we remained at Manassas junction 5
jntil about 3 o'clock on the morning ]
if the 28th, when we were moved on ]
toward Centreville, after setting fire {
to the depot. We continued the <
march until the head of the column 1
reached Centreville, where we were ]
tialted and allowed a few hours of rest.
From this point we turned back and .
moved up the Warrenton turnpike,
crossed Bull Run near the old stone
bridge, filed off to the right and went
into position along the line of the
Manassas Gap railroad and nearly 1
parallel with the turnpike. In a 1
short time Ewell's division, which
was now on our right, became en- .
?aged, but night intervened and the i
firing ceased. Gregg's brigade was
moved up to the support of Ewell, 1
was formed in column of regiments, 1
md in this form bivouacked for the
night. Strict silence was perempto- i
rily enjoined. Pope haa pursued
lackson, on the same road, toward
Centreville, until the head of his j
column, now his right flank, had
reached a point beyond our left. Division
after division moved up and
formed on the Federal right, until an
irmy of 90,000 men confronted the <
little force of 25,000 under Jackson.
Believing that Jackson was now at i
their mercy, and would certainly be
gobbled up in the morning before i
Longstreet could possibly come to
his relief, the Federals raised a shout .
of exultation, which broke upon the
stillness of the night like the fiendish
shrieks of ten thousand demons
ready to pounce upon and devour
their helpless victims. Three times i
three these throat splitting bellowings 1
burst forth from the entire Federal
lines, and went echoing from hill to 1
hill and through field and forest,
until the whole section was aroused i
by the hideous reverberations. The
little giant knit his brow, braced his
nerves and heaved a deep sigh for the
victims appointed unto the morning's
sacrifice. Then committing
his cause and the gallant men who
followed him, to the tender mercies
of the God of battles, Gen. Jackson
threw himself upon his oil cloth and
was soon wrapped in the profoundest
sleep.
The 29th of August dawned.
Gregg's brigade was moved back to
the westward some four hundred
yards, to the crest of the ridge, and
then turned due south. We had
scarcely more than gotten on the
new direction when Gen. Jackson
came at a sweeping gallop, hat in
hand, ordering each regiment, as
he nassed. to halt and about face;
and when he reached the last regiment
and faced it about, he gave
the command, "double quick." We
then went back up the same ridge at a
full run for some six hundred yards,
halted, faced to the front and moved
down to the railroad, near the spot
where we had bivouacked the night
before. Col. McCready was ordered
to move the First regiment forward,
and feel the enemy. He
had but little more than cleared
the railroad cut when his regiment
was met by a galling Are from a
solid line of battle, not more than
seventy-five or a hundred yards in
his front, which was followed by a
charge from a long line of Federal infantry
2 that threatened to annihilate
the little command. McCready
dropped back to the cut, where he
was joined by the Twelfth regiment,
under the gallant Col. Barnes, which
had been sent to his support. The
two regiments now charged and broke
the Federal lines, and having relieved
their front, the First regiment
turned to the right, and assisted by
Col. Edwards, of the Thirteenth, sent
the enemy flying through the woods,
in every direction, while Col. Barnes
with the Twelfth, single handed and
alone, charged the enemy hanging
upon his left flank and swept them
from the field. The three regiments
now dropped back to the railroad
cut and re-formed, for it will be remembered
that we were to hold our
position, and if possible not to project
a general engagement until
Longstreet should arrive.
Orr's Rifle regiment, the Eleventh,
under Col. Marshall, and the Fourteenth,
under Col. McGowan, were
brought into line upon the right and
left of the regiments mentioned. The
lino VniH eoiiroolv hof>n thus re-formed
and strengthened, when a second assault
was made and repelled, and the
field swept by a counter-charge in the
same gallant style as before.
These attacks against Gregg's position
were made again and again at
intervals, but with increased numbers
and determination at each successive
assault, the live long day,
and were as gallantly met and repelled.
Caldwell writes that "About
three o'clock the enemy gathered up
their whole strength for a final spring.
The woods swarmed with them.
They closed in upon us from front and
flank:, pressing up with an energy
never oefore witnessed by us, and
certainly never surpassed since. * * *
Standing, kneeling, lying, we fought
them so close that men picked out
their marks, and on some occasions
saved their own lives by anticipating
the fire of some one on the other
side." The position was held, even
after our ammunition was exhausted,
until relief came. The reply of the
lamented Gregg to a message sent
him by Gen. Hill shows the spirit
which animated that accomplished
officer and his confidence in the valor
of his men: "Tell General Hill my
ammunition is exhausted, but my
men still have their bayonets; the
position xhall be held."
Other troops of the line did their
duty nobly and well, and the entire
position was gallantly defended
and held against Pope's most savage
onslaught, until Longstreet arrived.
The issues of the desperate
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neradventure, as the sequel shows.
Night, however, interposed a hiatus
in the bloody record, and Jackson's
men slept upon the gory field.
Gen. Lee, upon his arrival on the
field, had placed Longstreet's corps
upon Jackson's right, and assumed
command of the whole.
About 8 o'clock 011 the morning of
the 30th, the Federal artillery opened
on the Confederate centre, as if Pope
intended to make his attack at that
point, but Gen. Lee awaited the full
development of his designs. Ten
o'clock; noon came, but no attack. A
little later, however, say one o'clock,
the enemy's batteries opened furiously
upon Jackson's lines, answered by
the guns of Stephen D. Lee and Mm.
Shoemaker. ''The thunder of artillery
shook the hills, while shot and
shell, shrieking and hissing, filled the
air, and the sulphurous smoke, settling
in black clouds along the intervening
valley, hung like a pall over
the heavy columns of infantry as
they rushed forward into the jaws of
death." Line after line of Federal
infantry was hurled against Jackson's
front, only to meet disaster and
death at the hands of the Confederate.
Kaeh moment the conflict be
came closer and mort deadly. The
Federal right wing, which extended
beyond Jackson's left, now began to
swing around so as to strike our line
squarely in flank. At this critical
juncture Col. Lee, with his artillery,
dashed into a position to the left and
rear of our lines, trained his guns accurately
upon the wheeling columns
of the enemy, and hurled upon them
such a storm of shot and shell as to
completely paralyze the movement,
and to cause them to swing backward
to their former position. Meanwhile
Longstreet led his invincible battalions
against the Federal left, driving
everything before them. The animating
shouts of the Confederate battle-cry,
which came sweeping up from
the right, fell upon the ears of the
surging columns in Jackson's front,
like the knell of doom, and caused
them to relax. The troops of Ewell
caught up the sound, and sent it echoing
along the lines of Taliaferro and
Hill. Then the whole corps sprang
forward across the railroad cut, struck
md crushed the pivot upon which
liung the discomntted wings of the
Federal army, and the whole line
;*ave way and fled the field before the
exultant Confederates, who swept
forward in solid phalanx until nignt
put a stop to their bloody work.
Company B lost in killed, Lieut.
J. II. Bighorn, privates Jas. Kincaid,
W. Ferguson, W. W. Mulleneaux,
W A. Lanier, George Ware and
Pinckney Dover, and in wounded
Lieut. W. S. Dunlop, commanding
the company, Lieut. M. V. Darwin,
Sergt. Jas. R. McKnight, John
B. McKnight, W. C. Childers, S. M.
Johnson and many others whose
names I cannot now recall.
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and wounded 145 men, the brigade
513, and the division 1,507.
After the killing and wounding of
all the company officers, Sergt. McKnight
led the company until he fell,
pierced with nine balls, and for his
gallantry on this field was, on my
recommendation, promoted to a
lieutenancy in the company. He
recovered from his numerous wounds
after a long absence, and returned to
duty some time in the following winter.
Lieut. Bigham was a gallant
soldier, a skillful officer and a Christian
gentleman, and his death was
a great loss to the company. Fortunately,
Capt Miller reached the field
Just at the close of the battle and took
command of the company.
The Army of Northern Virginia
slept upon the hard-earned field, and
awoke early to continue the pursuit
of Pope and his stricken legions.
This was on the 31st of August, and
the "holy Sabbath of restbut the
dark passions of men had thrust aside
the crown right of the Divine Lawgiver,
and in pursuit of vengeance
now disregarded the sacred command
to rest and commemorate. Pursuing
our vanquished enemy, we crossed
Bull Run at Sudley Ford and bivouacked
in Pleasant Valley, and early
on the morning of September 1st, the
march was resumed. Sumner and
Franklin had joined Pope at Centreville
with 25,000 fresh troops, and
McClellan and Burnside were hurrying
forward to the rescue. But Gen.
Lee determined to strike his adversary
another blow, if possible, before
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and so ordered Jackson to turn Centreville,
and bring Pope to bay. We
passed to the westward of Centreville
and late in the afternoon struck
the enemy at Ox HilL The Light division
was at once thrown into position,
with the other divisions of Jackson's
corps forming on its left, and
under a drenching rain Hill moved
to the attack. "A brief but sanguinary
combat ensued, whose dramatic
effect was greatly heightened by the
furious thunder storm which burst
upon the combatants almost simultaneously
with the clash of arms."
The darkness of a stormy night intervened.
but Hill's division occupied
the field. Under cover of night Pope
made good his escape to the defences
of Washington.
The Twelfth regiment lost 11 men
killed and wounded in this encounter,
but the casualties in Company B
were either not reported or lost.
Gen. Lee now determined to carry
the war into the enemy's country,
and 011 the 3d put his columns
in motion. Jackson's corps passed
through Dranesville aiid Leesburg,
and on the 5th crossed the Potomac
at White's ford. The exultant Confederates
plunged into the river waist
deep, ana lustily sang, "My Maryland,"
as they crossed over Jordan
into the Promised Land. The commanding
general pushed forward his
forces, now about 45,000 strong, to
Frederick City, where we arrived on
the6th, and went into position behind
the Monocacy. The Baltimore and
Ohio railroaa, as also the principal
highways leading into Baltimore,
Washington, Harper's Ferry and the
upper Potomac, were seized and closely
guarded for several days. Meanwhile
Gen. Lee issued his famous
{iroclamation to the people of Maryand,
calling upon them to throw off
the yoke of Federal domination and
rally to the standards of their neighbors
of the South. The appeal was
coldly received, and finally rejected
by the good people of that sovereign
State with an ominous shaking of the
head. Their chains were riveted
upon them.
It was expected that, as a matter
of course, tne garrison at Harper's
Ferry would evacuate the place upon
the passage of the Confederates into
Maryland, but such was not the case.
A strong force still held that position.
Hence Gen. Jackson was directed
to proceed .at once to the reduction
of the place. Accordingly,
on the morning of the 10th, we took
up the Hue of march in the direction
of Boonsboroj recrossed the Potomac
at Williamsport on the 11th,
passed through Martinsburg on the
morning of the 12th, hurried on in
the direction of Harper's Ferry, and
on the morning of the 13th discovered
in the distance the white lines
of the enemy's tents on Bolivar
heights. The troops of A. P. Hill,
with Jones's division, were now disposed
so as to cover the interval between
the Potomac and the Shenandoah
rivers, while McLaws, with his
own and Anderson's division, was to
sieze Maryland heights, and Gen.
Walker the Loudon heights. These
movements were made with amazing
celerity and promptness; for
as soon as Hill and Jones had
thrown their troops into position,
McLaws and Walker were discovered
to be already in their places,
ready for action.
Early on the morning of the loth,
the Confederate batteries opened on
the enemy from threesides. and after
a furious shelling for perhaps an hour,
and when Pender and Gregg were
about to lead their brigades to the
charge, the Federal commander discovered
that he had suffered himself
to be completely surrounded in his
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city on the boraer, and hence caused
the white flag to be hoisted, and surrendered
the whole garrison, consisting
of something over 11,000 prisoners,
70 pieces of artillery with horses
and harness complete, 13,000 stand of
arms, and a vast amount of valuable
army stores. Gregg's brigade did not
lose a man.
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Elected by the Negko Vote.?
The Indianapolis(Ind.) Sentinel says:
"There are about 13,000 negro votes
in Indiana. Ben Harrison's plurality
in this State was only 2,592. There
were 22,000 negro voters in New
York, and Harrison only carried that
State by 13,674. There are 25,000 negro
voters in Ohio, and Harrison's
plurality there was only 19,599. Illinois
contains 40,000 negro voters,
and gave Harrison a plurality of only
32,104. Without these States Harrison
would have been defeated; yet
when it comes to a distribution of the
offices the colored voters are almost
entirely ignored. They are kicking
at the neglect."
Igy If we were perfectly honest with
ourselves, most of us would have to
confess that we do not do our very
best in many of the things to whicn
we put our hands. There are few
things which with more pains we
couia noi ao Dener. 1411s is especially
true of things wedo every day? and
of the secondary duties of our callings.
W8r Have a tender regard to sudden
and unpremeditated impressions. In
the pure heart they art? often God's
whispers to the soul. 1
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