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A FITEHANNIVEI BY F AM (Copyright, 1892, by the A SYNOPSIS. Private Mark Malone, U. S. A., sent as a spy to Chattanooga by General Thomas, is aved from guerrillas Dyl Sorul Slack. Disguised as a countryman, Mark starts for Chattanooga with Jakey, Souri's brother. Mark is to send $ouri her red handkerchief if in peril. Mark and Jakey are given shelter by Laura Fain and her mother. Laura suspects Mark is a Union soldier in disguise. He confesses that he is. Laura Is a Confederate. She prevents her lover, Captain Cameron Fitz Hugh, C. S. A., from detaining Mark. Mark learns that a big Confederate army is massing at Chattanooga and .planning a northward dash. He at tempts to escape from Chattanooga. He carries Jakey in safety past the picket line and unexpectedly meets a band of Confederate deserters. He and Jakey are then taken prisoners. (Continkued.) CHAPTER VIT. 'EE ED sI.K HMDKEECHIEF. REATNESS underlying an un inviting exterior is often c,Ll ed out by circumstances. President Lincoln would not have been the "great emancipator" had not been born in the nick of time. Grant would not-have become minent as a soldier had the civil occurred before or after he was fit age to lead the Union armies, and akey Slack-well, Jakey would not ye developed his ability as a strat had it not been foi his friend, ark Malone, and the negro jail at Chattanooga. 'Jakey was as incompetent to sit down and think out a plan for his friend's . pe. as, he was to demonstrate a position of'Euclid. He coul4 neither dd columns o~f two figures nor spell rds of one syllable; indeed he could either re'ad, write nor ciph4r, the t of an ability -to read or write be a great disadvantage to him in present responsible position. But desire to help his friend out of a d fix having got into his brain, from nature of the case It simmeied and then boiled a little, and sim and boiled again. Like most ple of genius, Jakey was uncon AO O DEAGISBD ODsRKNT HIs SAvENT ? _ _uso hi Cw oes u hr uri AThe cameR the thought co s oui onwer n t there h at doY a heap." This led Jakey the problem how to get her .~The problem was too difficult his young brain to solve, so he got o further until circumstances came to his aid, or may he not have had the germs of reason within him to go fur ther without being definitely conscious of them? When he left Mark he went out into the jailyard and began to strolU about with his hands in his pockets. To a casual observer he was simply a boy with no playmates, who did not know what to do with himself. Occasionally he would wander near the fence, first casting a sly glance at the jail. There were cracks between the boards, and Jakey was looking out for a good wide crack to spy through. At last he found a place to suit him and hovered about it listening for a footstep, and occasionally getting a quick glance k through the opening by putting his eye to it. But Jakey knew well that if caught at this he would be called into the jail and forced to stay there. At last an old negi-o woman passed with a bake her arm, smoking a short SARY WA R STORY, [TCI-FAL. merican Press Association)~ Elay ipe. "Auntie!" called the boy. "Lo'd a massy! Is de angel ob de Lo'd speaken to his sarvent from de clouds?" said the old woman, startir' and dropping her basket. "Auntie, hyar at the crack!" "Who is yo' callen? Yo' inns' be a chile from ye' voice." "Put yer eye close up to de fence and y' can see me at the crack." The woman drew near and put her eye to the crack. Jakey stood off a little way, and she could see him plain ly. Meanwhile he pretended to have lost something on the ground. "Why bress my po' ole heart, honey, ef y' ain't nothen but a leetle boy in de jailyard. 'T'aught t' be nuff to keep dem po' misable po' white east Ten nesseeans dar what dey had in de cellar widout keepen a chile." "My brother's a prisoner, 'n so air I," said Jakey in a melancholy voice. "Climb ober 'de fence, honey, and run away." "The fence air too high, 'n I ain't a goen fur to leave my brother anyway. See hyar, auntie, air you niggers Union or secesh?" "Why, honey, do you t'ink we turn ag'in ou' own folks! Ain't de Yankee sojers comen down fur to gib us lib eration?" "Ef y' c'd save a Union sofer from hangen, w'd y' do it?" "Fo' de Lo'd I would!" "Then send this hanchikuff to Souri Slack." "Who Souri Slack?" "She's my sister. She lives at Farm er Slack's.". "Whar dat?" "On the Anderson road,- close onter the Sequatchie river." While this conversatiOn was going on Jakey continued his, efforts to find something at his feet. He picked up a stone, rolled it in the handkerchief and threw them ver the fence. "What good dat do?" asked the col ored woman, picking up the missile of war. "When Souri gits It she'll know." "Will dat sabe de Union sojer's neck?" "Mebbe 't mought, 'n mebbe 't moughtn't" "I cain't go myself-I'm too ole-but PIl start hit along. Beckon de dar kies'll tote It." She wacked up her basket and was moving away when Jakey called t her. "Auntie!" "Wbshat, honey?" "Yer mought git some n to tote bit ter an old nigger named Jefferson Ran dolph, ez lives up a creek 'bout five mile from hyar, near the pike runnen that a-way. mebbe he'll pass hit on." "Sho nuff." "Yo' boy, thar!" The jailer's wife was standing in an open window regarding Jakey severe rany. y. "Come away from that ar fence!" Jakey skipped along toward her, do ing a little waltzing as he went. "Ef that ar boy wasn't sich a chile, I'd think ne'd b'en up to sumep'n." "What war yer a-doen by that ar fence?" she asked when he came up. "Nuthen." "What war that y' throwed over?" "Oh, I war only throwen stones." "What yer throwen stones that a-way fur?" "Fur rfun." "Well, y' just keep away from th' fence er y' shan't play in th' yard at all. I'll shet y' up with thet big brother ' yourn." "Waal, I won't go thar' no more." And Jakey took a top out of his trou sers pocket and began plugging imagi nary tops on the ground. Mark hoped that the preparations the Confederates were making for the expected move would cause them to forget him. He was not destined to be so fortunate. The second day after his capture he was taken before a court martial held in a house occupied by the staff department, to be tried on the charge of being a spy. The court was assembled and ready to pr6e.eed with the case. An officer had been detailed to defend the pris oner, but he had not arrived and the court waited. Presently a clatter of horse's hoofs was heard outside. It stopped before the door of the house, and in another moment Mark's coun sel entered the room. Mark looked at him with astonish ment. In the tall, straight soldier, with black hair and eyes, mustac'he and goatee, bearing about him that some thing which ihidicates "to the manor born," he recognized the officer who had called at the Fains' on the morning he had left them-Captain Cameron Fitz Hugh. As soon as he entered he beckone'li the prisoner to follow him to a corrner of the room apart from the others for consultation. It was not a convenient place for such an important interview, but one charged with being a spy was not likely to get many favors, and the exigencies of the case did not admit of aught except the ;bare forms of jus "Wil yo give me yonr confidenc., my man, or shllTI-I proecd at ra omr "At random." "If you think it best to trust me, I give you the word of a Virginia gentle man that I will not betray you. and I will do all I can for you. I am a Fitz Hugh." He said this unconscious of how it would sound to a northerner. To him to be a Fitz Hugh was to be incapable of a dishonorable act. Mark under stood him perfectly; indeed his counsel inspired him with every confidence. "I would explain everything to you, captain, but my secret. is not all my own. I would be perfectly willing to trust my fate in your hands if I could honorably do so. You will doubtless fail in your defense, but I thank you for the effort you will make." The trial was of brief duration. The soldiers in whose company Mark was taken were called and testified to his having masqueraded as a staff officer. Knowing now that he was probably a Union spy, they would have shielded him, but they had already given up the secret. Mark was asked where he lived. He had entered his name at the -ho tel as comi 7 from Jasper, so he gave that place a .tis residence, but when asked what c. ,nty Jasper was in he could not tell. .'he maps he had stud led, being military maps, did not give the counties. Then some Tennessee soldiers were brought in-the town swarmed with them-who testified that they lived at Jasper and had never seen the prisoner there. The closing evidence against Mark was given by the recruiting officer with whom he had promised to enlist. Hearing that a spy htd been taken, and suspecting it might 1?x bis promised recruit, he went to the courtroom and there ree ognized the prisoner. H s testimony was sufficient. The court had made up its mind before the prisoner's counsel had said a word. Captain Fitz Hugh seemed distressed at not being able to bring forth any evidence in behalf of the prisoner. When he arose to speak in Mark's de fense the court listened to him with maried attention and respect-indeed they were as favorably impressed with the accused's counsel as they were un favorably disposed toward the accused. The captain was obliged to content himself with warning the court against convicting a man of being a spy be cause his identity was not satisfacto rily explained and on circumstantial evidence. He asked that the prisoner might have more time than had been given him in which to gather evidence in his behalf. The court denied this request and proceeded with a verdict. .In forty minutes after Mark entered- the court room he was found guilty of being a spy. "Have you anything to say why the sentence of the court should not be passed upon you?" "No, sir." Captain Fitz Hugh interposed once more for delay. "I would suggest," he said, "that in asmuch as some explanation may come to hand bearing on the case the court fix my client's, punishment to take place on a day not nearer than a week from today." "I had Intended to 1x It for tomorrow morning at sunrise." said the president, "but in deference to the prisoner's counsel I will compromise with him midway between a week, as he de sires, and tomorrow, or allowing three days. The sentence of the court is that the prisoner be hanged by the neck until he is dead on the twenty sventh day of August, eighteen hun dred and sixty-two, or three days from today." Before Mark was led out of the court room his counsel approached him. Con sidering the prejudice against the pris oner, another man would have suffered him to go without a word. Not so Cap tain Fltz Hugh. He strode up to Mark, the officers and soldiers present making a way for him, leaving him alone with the prisoner by withdrawing to another part of the room, and extended his hand. "One thing is plain to me," he said, "whoever you are, you are a gentle man, and I believe you have sacrificed your life to your sense of duty. I am sorry that you did not trust me with your secret. Then I .might have done something for you. As it is, I have done nothing." "It would have availed nothing," said Mark. "You have done all you could under any circumstances. Besides, had I told you who I am, you might have felt it your bounden duty to your cause to make known the facts." "Never," said Fitz Hugh proudly. "I owe more to myself, more to my sense of honor, more to my birth and breed ing, more even to my state than to the Confederacy." "Captain Fitz Hugh," said Mark with a voice in w'hich there was a slight tremble, "you are of too fine grain. You are too frank, too truthful. Do not feel a moment's regret at not hav ing been able to save me. Mine is but one of thousands of lives that must go out in this great struggle for human liberty. Mine is an ordinary nature. You are fitted for nobler work than war. I trust you will be spared to be come an honor to your state and a re united country. From the bottom of my heart I thank you." 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