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A FIFTIETH ANNIVE BY F.A 1 (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 by Sorul Slack. Disguised as a countryman, Mark starts for Chattanooga with Jakey, Souri's brother. Mark is to send Souri 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 Camei'on Fitz Hugh, C. S. A., from detaining Mark. Mark learns that a big Confederate a2rmsy 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. (Continued.) CtAPTER VIII. DE CAUSE OB FREDUM. N the morning after Jakey's interview with the colored woman through the crack in the jailyard fence Souri Slack as washing dishes by an open win ow in the kitchen, an addition built f pine boards to one of the united uses which formed the Slack dwell The sun was shining brightly, an'd rning glory she had trained up to w about the window was fresh with dew. Souri's heart felt unusually light. The air was so fresh; the sun was so right; the morning glory flowers had h a companionable look in them t Souri was very happy. Suddenly there came to her a quick g away from the pleasurable sen tidon. A sense of danger rushed in to e its place. Surely something hor le was about to happen. In a moment she heard the clatter of orse's hoofs coming at a gallop. Look up the road, of which she had a ew from the window, she saw a orse covered with foam tearing to rd her, with a negro boy on his IE. bar bc.In oetth ie a be back seinor aoet the iderwash called: "Am dis Slack's place?" "W ar Souri Slack?" yar." 'ou?2" 'a bo~ held up a red handkerchief, then jumping off his horse threw e reins over a picket in the fence, which he vaulted, and running up to the window poked the handkerchief at her. Souri at once recognized the hand kerchief she had given Mark. Sewed on to a corner she noticed a piece of dirty cotton cloth on which some one had written with a pen: "Whar'd y' git this?" asked Souri, her face white as ashes. unnon TLeft wid de niggers at Mr. RSARY WAR STORY merican Press Association).. Torbut's plantation. I'ze Mr. Torbut's nigger." "Who tole y' ter tote hit hyar?" "Ole nigger what leabe hit." "What'd he say?." "Nuffen." And the boy %pointed to the corner as if that was sufficient ex planation for any one. Souri could not read what was writ ten there, but she knew Mark had been captured, aid it was fair to suppose that he was at or near Chattanooga. "Waal," she said, "y' niggers hev passed this ter me; reckon y' ken pass me back; I'll go 'th y'. Air y' hungry?" "I'ze rid since one o'clock dis mawn in." "Waal, take yer horse round ter the barn fur a 'feed, and then come in hyar." The darky showed his white teeth and did as he was bidden. When he came in Souri placed something to eat before him, and then went in to in form her mother of what had happen ed. - "Maw," she said, "Jakey's tuk." "La sakes!" exclaimed the mother with a scream. "Air they goen ter hang him?" "Don't know. The sojer's tuk, too. Reckon they'll hang hinr, sarten." "How'd y' know?" Souri told her about giving Mark the handkerchief and its return "in de cause ob fredum." "What shall we do?" moaned the mother, rocking in concert with her feelings. "Im goen ter Chattanoogy ter find out." "They'll hang y'. too." whined Mrs. Slack. "Reckon not. T mought find a way ter git Jakey outen jail." "'N th' sojer too?" . "Mebbe." "Air y' goen jest's y' air?' Souri thought awhile without reply ing. She would go with the colored boy of course. He could show her the way, and she might pass for some relative. But that would not dos She was white, and the boy was black. Why not darken her face? The Idea was a good one. "Maw," she said, "I'm a-goen out ter fnd some berries to make me a mer latter," and before her mother could reply she was off. When she returned the negro boy had finished his break fast. She told him that she would be ready to go back with him In half an hour. While' she was talking to hli he fell asleep. It was about four o'clock in the after noon when Souri awakened the boy. Seeing a mulatto girl standing by him in an old calico dress and a sunbonnet on her head he was astonished. "Who yo'?" he asked. "Don't y' know me?" "Sho nuff!" "What's yer name" "Julius." "What's yer t'other name?" "Ain't got none!". "I'm goen with y' t' where y' started from; then I reckon Ill have ter go on alone." "Ole man dar; he tote, y' furder." "Waal, come along. Eat a snack 'n then we'll go." When Julius had eaten his fill they mounted the horse, the girl sitting straddled behind him. Souri, in a com mon calico dress and a very large sun bonnet, looked for all the world like a negro girl. Julius took her over hills innumerable, and at midnight drew rein near a large plantation. There they both got down, and Julius, who had surreptitiously taken onegof his master's horses, returned it to the sta ble. Then he led the way to a row of negro cabins. Going to one of them he knocked on the door. It was opened by the negro with whom Mark and Jakey had staid on the creek between the Fains' and Chattanooga. "Dis de gal." said Julius. "Goen to Chattanoogy?" asked the old man. "Reckon." "I show yo' de way. Go righ' off?" "Hab t' foot hit. Ain't got no horse." "I can do hit." The negro was evidently ready and expecting them, for without going back into the cabin he led the way eastward. Souri tramped in his company the rest of the night, and at daybreak they were at his cabin on the creek. There she took a few hour- rest, and after the sun was up ate areakfast which the old man prepare for her. After this he set out to s *w her the way to Chattanooga. He asked r ques tions. All he knew was that his efforts were in "de cause oh fredum," and that was quite enough. The old wo man who had brought him the hand kerchief had told him where her cabin was in Chattanooga, and he seemed to understand that he was to guide Souri there. They crossed the river by the. regu lar ferry, having no trouble in .doing so, for citizens and negroes wer pass ng all the while. About ten clock in the morning they reached the cabin of the old negress who had started the handkrhief. P0' de L&'1" exclimed ihe woman. "How'd yo' git hyar so quick?" "Trabel all night." said the pilot. "Who dat taller galY' "I'm Souri Slack. Whar's th' jail?" The woman led Souri out to show her the way. and the man left the cab in on his way homeward. Souri was taken to a place where she could see the jail, ana the woman told her where to find the crack through which Jakey had conversed with her. Souri went to the place alone, and going to the fence hunted till she found the crack. She peeped in, hoping to see her brother, but Jakey was not there. She waited an hour or more, but he did not appear. "Reckon I'm wastin' time hyar," she said at last. "I'm goen right in ter git round th' ole woman, ef there is one.'-And she went to Pie gate and presented herself before the sentinel. "What d' y' want?" he asked. Souri didn't know whether the jailer had a wife or not. but she hazarded the reply: "De jailer's wife tole me to come In 'n tote de washen." The soldier looked at her doubtfully but suffered her to pass in. She had scarcely entered before she saw a party of soldiers conducting a man from the jail. They passed near her, and she recognized Mark. He was going to his trial. Jakey followed his friend and was going to pass out with him, but was stopped by the guard. Souri saw tears trickling down the boy's cheeks as he went back and strolled about in the yard. She longed to take him in her arms, but did not dare to even make herself known to him. She did not know where Mark was being taken, so going back to the guar 'he asked with apparent Idle uriosity: 5i S"Whi dey goen wid dat man?" "Reckon thar goen ter try him." Souri determined to attempt to get service with the jailer's wife. She went into the jail aud found a woman, whose hair was streaked with gray, sweltering over a cooking stove. "Y' ain't got no washen ner nuffin fur me, hab y'?" said Souri, suddenly appearing before her. "No! Git out o' hyar." "Any cooken?" "Cooken? Can yer cook? I don't I want no nigger to cook. fo' me, but there's niggers in the 'black hole' I wish I had some un ter cook fur." "11 cook fo' 'em." "Who owns y'?" "I'ze a free-nigger." "Waal, I ain't got no money ter pay fo' a cook, and I reckon I'll bev to sweat It out. Git 'long." "I don't want nufBn but mumnp'n ter dat. I can sleep at myaunt's, ober de hill." "Weal, take hold hyar fur a spell; IPm boiln." And she drew away from the stove and mopped her faee. Souri took hold and showed a pleas Ing aptitude at baking corn bread and boiling some 'coarse meat which sim mered in a pot on the stove. Presently the jailer came In, and tak ing some food lifted a trap door and lowered a meal to those below in the black bole. "Hyar's a gal," said his wife, "ez bankers ter do some cooken to' me." "Ain't got nothen ter pay with." "Don't want no pay," said Sourn. "I'ze starven. Want sump'n ter est." "Waal, y' won't git much byar," said the jailer, "but 1 reckon it's good nuff to' niggers." So Souri was allowed to help, but there was no understanding that her serices should extend beyond the pres ent moment. She was leaning over the stove when Mark was brought back. He had just been sentenced, and there was a hag gard, hopeless look on his face as he passed the girl without noticing her. In the afternoon Souri saw that she must -make work for herself or there would be no excuse for her to stay about the place. So, without saying a word, she took a pall of water and a srubbing brush and began to scrub the floor. Then she suggested to Mrs. Tiggs that she sweep her bedroom. The woman concluded that. as It bad not been swept for more than a month, Souri "mought's well" do it, especially as the girl seemed to be willing to do all this work for a little boiled meat and corn bread. "Ye' don't look right smart, Miss Tiggs," said Souri, after cooking the supper and eating her share, "'n 1 don' know whar I gwine t' git any break fast less I come 'n cook fur y'." Mrs. Triggs succeeded in getting her husband's consent to Souri coming back in the morning, and the man went out to the gate with her and Itold her if the guard did not pass her in to send for him. She was at the jail bright and early and got in on telling the sentinel that she was Mrs. Triggs' servant. She cooked the breakfast. and when she saw Trig-gs about to carry Mark's meat and corn bread into him she offered to do It, but Triggs paid no attention to the offer and carried it in himself. Then she asked Mrs. Triggs when Ishe did her washing, and as the old woman had no regular time and not many clothes Sourn offered to do what there was. When she went out to hang up the clothes to dry Jakey was in the yard. She called him to her and In a whisper made herself known. Jakey, who was wondering what had become of the message he 'had sent, was both overjoyed and astonished. He turned two or three somersaults on the ground and otherwise demonstrat ed his childishness to Mrs. Triggs. who at that moment appeared at a window, but not before Souri had told Jakey to inform Mark of her presence. Again at noon she offered to take in his dinner, but without success. She was at her wits' end for an excuse to stay about till supper time, but think ing that Mrs. Triggs' wardrobe might need medn h ferdt-netk / .pvn the :Ifternoon over the old woman's threadbare garments. All this while Souri was thinking of a plan for Mark's escape. She learned that he was to be hanged in a few days and knew there was little time. The most natural plan under the cir cumstances occurred to her-a plan by which more prisoners have made their escape than any other one method walking out before the guard in wo men's elothes. Souri determined. if she eould secure an entrance into! Mark's room at any time after dark, she would give him her dress and sun bonnet and leave him to make an at tempt. Then she began to think over a plan to gain an entrance at a specl fled time. In the evening her patience was re warded. Mark's supper was standing :a the sto've. ~~Triggs ias' not in the jail, and Mrs. Triggs went down the stairs outside to get something she wanted in the yard. Sourl caught up the supper and walk ed straight past the guard into Mark's room with it. Mark, who had been informed af her coming by Jakey, was expecting her. When he saw the mu latto girl he grasped her hand. "Souri! God bless youl" he said in a low tone. "I ain't got no time ter talk. rm watchin fur a chance ter give y' my clothes ter go out with." "But what would you and Jakey do?" be asked hurriedly. "Th' ain't goen ter hang a boy or a gal. Pertend ter be sick termorrer 'n ask fur some medicine. Mebbe they'll send me ter git it." With that she went out. When Mrs. Triggs came in she was bending over the stove. "Whar's the Yank's supper?" she asked. I -Oh: ftwar gitten cold, 'n I toted hit In ter him." Sourimiade herself so useful that she was permitted to stay about the jail the next day. She managed to keep an indifferent mien to all about her, but within there was a tempest. The next morning Mark was to swing, and prep arations were being made for the pur pose. "If there war only time," thought Souri, "I mought help him away, but tomorrerr' and no one being near to see her she wrung her hands. There seemed but little chance that,- having only one evening to effect her plans, she would succeed. It could only be by good luck. In the afternoon Mark began to moan./ Triggs went in to see him and asked what was the matter. Mark told him that he was ill. As the afternoon wore away the prisoner groaned and moaned till Triggs went back to him, and Mark told him that he thought he was going to die. MrsTriggs caiinh SUP per, but he refused to eat. "What y' got?" she asked. "Cholera, I reckon." "Good Lord!" "I want some medicine," said Mark. 'if you'll send the black girl for It I'll pay you and her well." "Y' ain't got no money." / "Yes, I have, but y' don't know whar It Is." Mrs. Triggs reported the matter to her husband, who, fearing that the prisoner would not be in condition for the -hanging which was to occur the next morning, consented. Mark was furnished with a scrap of paper and a pen, and wrote the name of a mix ture he remembered for cholera' mor bus. Souri was furnished with money extracted from Jakey's boot and hur ried to town.. When she came back it was quite dark. Only a faint line of light was left in the west. As she enteredYshe met Triggs going out of the gate. She went as quickly as she could go with out being beard to the prisoner's room. "Medicine" she said to the guard and passed in without waiting permission. leaving the door partly closed behind her. "Here, quick! A burnt cork. Rub 't on yer face." she whispered. Mark seized the cork and applied it. Souri stood in the corner with her back to him, and taking off her dress threw it to him. Mark took off his outer clothes and threw them to her. Each THEGURDWONDEBED wHT SOURI LOOKED sO GAR TAnL AND sTRAPPING. put on the other's garments. Mark in closing his head in the sunbonnet. Looking thd gratitude he did not dare to speak; pressing her band and carrying it to his lips, Mark passed out. TLhe guard wondered why Souri looked so tall and strapping. Aioing out. of the door and down the stairs. .ark weut to te gate anR walked by the sentinel posted there, as Souri had often done. The guard also noticed how tall she looked and called to her; but by this time Mark was well out of his reach and pretended not to bear. The senti nel, not thinking it worth while to fol low and leave his post unprotected, let him go and thought no more about the matter. 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