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AFIFTIT ANNIVEJ BY F Am1 (Continued.) CHAPTER IL. A CHANGE OF UNIFORM. HE soldier followed her, leading his horse, till they came upon her own pony tied to a sap ling. Mark offered to help her mount, but she was not used to such civility, and leading her horse to the trunk of a fallen tree mounted by her self. Crossing the road. the two entered a wood on the oth,er side. The girl kept a straight course till she came to a creek, which she forded below and ear a log that had been felled across t to be used for a footbridge. On the er side she struck an old road. bandoned, at least for wheels. Mark rode up alongside of her. She was a Wild looking tning. with hardly a trace of civilization about her except her co dress and cowhide shoes. ere are you taking me to2" asid Mark. "Hem.L" "Where's home?" "Tother side o th' Sequatchie river." "How far is It to the river?" "'Bout a mile from the creek we Jest crossed." "And how far from the river to your home?" - "'Bout another mile. We live on a road ez runs from the Chattanoogy pike to Anderson." "That's well. I want to reach the pike." ' "Waa, y'll only hev ter go a couple o' mile from our house t' git thar." "You seem to know all about this country." "Reckon I do. I was born yar. I done a heap o' hunten In these hyar woods. I toted a gun all over 'em." "Tell me something about yourself What's your name?" . "Souri." "Sour what?" *Slack." "Oh, yes! You're one of the Slacks, you told me. Isn't Bouri a singular name for a girl?' "Waal, dad, he kern from Missouri. So thet's what he named me." "Have you a mother?' "Yas." "Brothers and sisters?' "Henery and Jakey." "How old are they?" "Henery, he's 'bout twenty-two. He's In Jim- Brown's company o' east Ten nessee cavalry." "What? Union cavalry?. "Yas." "You mean regiment, not company. I know Brown well. How oldis your o'her brother?" "Jakey, he's thirteen." "At home" "las." "What are you going to do with me when you get me to your home?' "Take y' to the barn. I reckon." A'Why not to the house.: Aren't your folkes all right? I thought you said they were Union." "Oh, they're all Union,~ But mebbe they mought suspect at the tavern (seein' i'm gone 'thout sayen goodby and knowen rm Union) thet I've put y* up to somep'n or tuk y' hum." "SourL," said Mark meditatively, "do you know that since I met you I have been thinking that you're nobody's fooL" The girl laughed, or rather chuckled. She enj3oyed the compliment and was too unsophisticated to pretend that she did not They soon struck a dirt road leading directly south, which they followed till they came to the Sequatchie river. striking a ford at the same time. Souri led the way into the ford, Mark fol lowing. Her pony was used to such crossings, this one in particular, while Mark's horse preferred to feel his way slowly; consequent.ly Souri reached the opposite bank before Mark had got half way over. It was now night, but It ,was clear, and a half moon cast its faint light upon the land and the river. Mark suddenly looked up from the water and saw Souri on the bank watching him. Had he been near enough he would have seen anxiety depicted on every feature of her face. "Keep up the stream!" she called. *pointing at the same time. He turned his horse's head as she directed. but soon lowering his eyes to the water began to go down stream again. "Look at me," she called: "don't look at the water. Its runnen makes it seem sif y' war goen straight when yer goen crooked. Thiar's a ledge o' rocks below thar and deep water beyond." Mark fixed his eyes on his guide, and turning his horse's head toward her urged her forward. She picked her way slowly, as if conscious of danger, and at last coming to the brink stepped quickly out of the water and shook herself. "What makes you tremble so?" he asked of Souri. "I ain't," she said, coloring. .4% .A .. .. . . ZSARY WAR STORY "Is that a dangerous ford?" "Ef y'd a-tumbled offen the ledge y'd 'a' drownded." "I've done some scouting before this, but I see now that I haven't learned to cross a current till today. Next time I'll look out for something on shore to steer by." Another ten minutes brought them home. Souri led the way to a. rickety barn, where both horses were stabled. She left Mark in the barn while she went into the house to inform the in mates of his presence. Presently she came out. "Dad 'lows y' mought come In fur a spell 'thout much resk. They won't know o' y': bein hyar yet awhile. Leastaways thar's no hurry. But dad reckons y' mought sleep in the barn with one eye open." "I shall Pit sleep anywhere tonight. I must go on. But I'll go in with you for awhile." A man met them at the door with white, shocky hair and a stubble beard. He looked sixty, though he was ten or fifteen years younger. He walked as if he were following the plow. His trou sers were drawn nearly up to his arm pits, a double breasted waistcoat served In lieu of a coat. "Them blue clothes looks kinder ,Aart to we uns down hyar ez ain't seen nothen but gray." said the man. "I 'lowed when you uns went up ter Chattanoogy tast June and fired them big guns at the town y' was goen to hold onto these hyar parts." "Perhaps It was a mistake." said Mark. "but I never cricise the acts of my superiors." "Come inter th' house." The dwelling was composed of two square log houses. some ten feet apart. nder one roof. with a floor between the two. The man led Mark Into one of these parts or houses. The articles In It that struck the soldier's eye were a very high bedstead, heightened fur ther by a feather bed-, a chest of drawers, and a clock on the mantle that ticked loud enough to be heard out in the barn. There were some pieces of'rag carpet on the floor, two, or three, hard seated chairs and a rocker. "What y' got fur supper?" the old man asked as his wife entered. "I don't want any supper," said the soldier. "1 only ate an hour or two ago." The woman, who was bent down through some nervous disease, went to the chest of drawers, took therefrom a cob pipe and some tobacco and began to smoke. aguch shaken among the sojers, stranger?" she asked. "At the beginning of a fight there's a good deal," replied~ Mark, "but after they're once In they get on without much trouble." "Don't man that kind of shaken ager." "Oh, ague. ZNo, I don't think there's much ague." "Fever?" "There's always more or less camp fever. It seems as If every man who campaigns in this chantry must have a dose of typhoid to get acclimated." "Thar's a powerful lot o' fevers 'bout hyar. Thar's the typhoid, the broken bone, the intermitten and the remit ten and onct en awhile we git yaller jack when It oomes uip the Mississippi from Orleans." "That's a good dear~ of fever," re led Mark; "but, to come down to business, I want to say a few words to you people. You're sure you're Union?" "Sarten," said the old man. "Got a - young un in Jim Brown's company of east Tennesseeans," said the old woman. "I hearn th' all had the measles In th' spring. Henery hed it." "Yes, that regiment was nearlyIll down at one time. Now, I'm going on a very dan.gerous mission. May I rely on-who are you?" A boy about thirteen years of age had come into the room, and squaring himself before Mark began to stare at "Jake," replied the Intruder, "I have something of Importance to say to your father and mother." Then to the parents, "Won't you please send him out?" "Jest's y' like, stranger," answered the father. "but mebbe Jake mought show y' the way or ssomep'n. He's purty peart." Jake's appearance did not bear wit ness to the encomluml. "Well, let him stay. I would like to rely on this house as a place of refuge in case I have to get back here rap Idly. I want you to take care of my horse, and if I never come you can keep her. If I do come I'll pay you more liberally for horse fodder than you ever were paid before." "Y' talk purty rich fer a common sojer." "Don't fear for that. I have money," and M1ark showed a roll of bills that astonished his host. "Sarten, i:iut mfe mcey don't make no differ. I'm a Union man to the backbone." "Have you any citizen's clothes?' "Thar's Henery's store clothes ez he. left when he went to jine th' army." "Will they fit me?" "Reckon so. Henry's 'bout your size." Slack took the soldier into the twin log cabin and there gave him a suit of clothes which were intended for best wear, but they had evidently been so intended for years. with frequent de viations frem the intention. Mark took off his uniform, which, with his rifle and'pistol and other accouterments, he put under the bed- Then be drew off his boots (so loose that he could easily remove them without unbuckling his spurs) and put on a pair of shoes. A felt hat completed his attire. "La sakes." said Souri, raising her hands as she met him passing between the cabins, thus arrayed for secret iervice. As Mark entered the room where he had left Mrs. Slack and Jakey their eyes stood out wonderingly. Mr. Slack followed Mark into the room. "Now how about the roadT" asked Mark. "Whar?" "To Chattanooga.* "Waal, y' mought go right up the road in front 'n the house fur 'bout a mile. Then y'll come ter a road leaden sort o' southeast like. Ef y' go down this ar road it'll take y' ter th' Chat I tanoogy pike. - Jakey, you mought go along%'n show 'm th' way." "Do you know the road your father speaks of. leading to the Chattanooga pike?" asked Mark of the~boy. "Does I know, Souri?" "None 0' them sideaways talken, Jake. Answer straight," said Mr. Slack severely. "Reckon I doe. I knows all th' roads 'bout hyar." Mark looked at the poy and thought a few moments without speaking. He was a stupid looking child, but Mark thought that if he could get him to go with him it might avert suspicion. "Jakey," he asked. "how would you like to go with me on-a trip?" "How would I like to shoot squir rels?" "You. Jake! Didn't I tell y' i* an swer straight?" from the father.. "Yas, I'd like to go." "I've a mind to take you, If your father will let you go," said Mark meditatively. "Many fevers. 'bout Chattanoogy?" asked the mother, taking the pipe out of her mouth and casting an anioaS glance at her son. "What y' goea ter do with him?" asked Slack. "I only want him for a comnpanlion to divert suspicion-andG--Well. I can't tell exactly what-for an emergency, perhaps." "What's a 'mergency" asked Jakey. "Well, if I should learn something of Importance I might want to send you back with the news, or if I should be caught In a-in a" "Tree, like a coon, with a gun or a dorg below." supplied Jakey. "That's it exactly. I might want to send word about that." "I'm afeard be's too little ter be of any use that a-way," said his father. "Oh, Jakey can't go. He's got ter stay right hyar 'ni do hoen," chimed his mother. "What do you say, Jakey? Do you want to go?" asked Mark. "Would I" "You, Jake!" again shouted his father. "Course I want ter go* "I'll tell you what I'll do. If you will let him go I'll bring him or send him back safely and leave a twenty dollar greenback here with you fot him-en his return. "Souri! Souri!" called Slack. Souri came in so quickly as to argue that she had not been out of hearing of all that had passed. "Snack fur these two uns," said her father. Sourn departed, and presently re turned with a bundle containing cold etables. "Now, Jakey," said his fathet as they all stood at= the front gate before the departure of the two travelers, "re member yer a UYnioner 'n treat the stranger f'ar." "Oh, I ain' no slouch, 't I am Uittle," replied the boy, with a shrug and a sowl. indicating that he regarded the injunction entirely uncalled for. "'N. Jakey," called his mother. "don't yer go 'n sleep out nights 'n git th' ager." "Never yer mind, maw. I ain't goen te git no ager." They passed out of the clearing, and were about entering the wood into which thie roaTd Took lhein ~when ~they heard a step behind them. Turning. there was Souri. "How long d' y' 'low y' mought be gone down than?" she asked. Mark looked into her face, and she lowered her eyes. "Why do you want to know, Sonri?" "Waal, maw. she'll worrit 'bout Jakey." "I can't tell you." "How fur y' goen?" "To Chattanooga. Perhaps farther, but not lgely." "What'll th' do 1' y' ef they ketch y'7?" "They'll probably lift me off my feet with a hemp cord." "They won't, will they? Don't talk that a-way." She looked at him with her black eyes and shivered. "I guess I can get through all right," said Mark reassuringly. "I've done it before." The girl stood for a few moments ir resolute. Then she drew a red silk ! - 7, handed 1it 0t MriE Tt wisTe onTy bit of finery she possessed. "What is that for, Souri?" asked Mark, affected in ppite of hinpself. "Waal, ef I don't see y' no moze, y' mought keep et ter-ter- Mebby ef y' git inter trouble y' mought find a chance ter send it ter me-Jakey mought tote It-'n Il go down '-'n" She turned away. It was evident she could not clearly express her mean ing, and her voice was getting husky.. "Goodby, my little girl," said Mark, going up to.her and taking her hand. I have a notion that if It Is necessary to the Union cause for my life to be saved again you will be on hand to save It." Then the girl went back to the house, and the travelers went on their way. "Jakey," asked Mark, "can your sis ter read writing?" "Reckon not." "Can you?" "Can I sing like a bird?" "Do you mean that you can or you can't?" "I can't." "Well, your sister Is a good girl, and a smart girl, and a courageous girl. She has saved me once, and if I get into trouble I would rather have her near by than a sergeant and ten men." "Reckon she giv' y' th' hanshicuf ter send instead o' writen." Mark looked down into the stupid face of the boy beside him. He began to think that the child's stupidity was ot flattering to himself, inasmuch as Jakey had penetrated further than he had into Souri's design, and her difD-~ ence as to confessing her Ignorance. "I hope therell be no neegity for that, Jpkey. But we must arrange what we shall pass for in Dixie. -Now o you know wrhat you are?" "I'm y'r little brother." "Exactly.' And what are we going to Dhattanooga for? What shall we tell "Goen ter buy caliker fur maw n' Souri, 'n galluses fur paw, 'n terbacker fr -you uns, 'n a squirrel gun fur me." When he came to the squirrel gun is little eyes glistened under the rim of his hat. "By George!" exclaimed Mark, laughing. "You ought to be 'Old Pap's' hief scout Instead of me." "'S thet whatry air?" "I am just now." "Gollyl" (To be continued). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CHURCH DIRECTORY. * * * * * * * * * * *. Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, e. Edw.- Fulenwider, pastor Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. mn. Sunday school at 4 p. m. 3. B. Hunter, superintendent. St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Rev. . E. Cornish, rector-Preaching 'av ery 1st and 3rd Sunday afternoon at o'clock and every 5th Sunday morn ing and afternoon. J. F. J. Caldwell, lay reader-Lay reading every . 2nd and 4th Sunday at 11 a. mn. Sunday schook at 10 o'clock. 3. F. 3. Cald well superintendent. Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Rev. J. W. Carson, pastor Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. mn. Sunday school at 9.45 a. mn. E. C. Jones, superintendent. ) Mayer Memorial Evangelical Luth eran church-Preaching second and fourth Sundays at 11 o'clock a. mn., first and third Sundays at 8 o'clock p. m. J. D. Shealy, pastor. Sunday school avery Sunday at 10 o'clock a. in. J. D. Kinard, superintendent. Summer Memorial Evangelical Luth eran church--Preaching first and third Sundays at 11 o'clock a. m., the second and fourth Sunday nights at 8 o'clock. 3. D. Shealy, pastor. Sunday school every Sunday at 9.45 o'clock a. mn. Jno. C. Goggans, superintendent. Every body invited. Eirst Baptist Church of Newberry, Rev. G. A. Wright, pastor-Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. Sunday school at 4 p. mn. W. H. Hunt, super intendent. West End Baptist church, Rev. L. B. White, pastor-Preaching every Sun day night at 8 o'clock * and every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Sun day school every Sunday at 10 a. m. J. Y. Jones, superintendent. 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