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YFTI ANNIVE BY F A 1 (Copyright, 1892, by the SYNOPSIS. Private Mark Malone, U. S. A., se:t a -a spy to Chattanooga by General Thomas, is saved from guerillas by Souri Slack. Disguised as a countryman, Mark starts for Chatta:.oga with Jakey, .Souri's brother. Mark is to send Souri her Ted 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 Camiron 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. Mark is imprisoned as a spy. Jakey sends Souri's handkerchief to her by a negro. Mark, defended by Fitz Hugh, is sentenced to death. Souri receivec her handkerchief and .,*sguised as a colored girl, goes to Mar's rescue. She becomes a ser vant in the jail. Souri and Mark exchange clothing, and' with a blackened face Mark pass es the guard. Bloodhounds follow him. He takes to the river. Reaching the ain house, Laura con Ceals him and gives him food and new elotbing. She upbraids him for seek ing her protection. I (Continued.) CH APTER XI. A6 sOUTH CAROLINtA GEoLOGIsT. HEN the trap door of the at tic had closed over Laura Fain afte' her interview with Mar-k he stood for a few min utes pondering on her strange treat ment of him. Then he turned to the breakfast He had eaten nothing since the evening before and the sight of the greater part of a fried chicken (it had been killed by Laura's orders for him only that morning) was especially; Sgrateful. Soon after he had finished his break -fast a hand was extended through the trap, a pitcher of water and toilet arti <les were left and the dishes taken. At noon a z1a was handed in by the same fair hand. ~~bug~h but two meals had been thus left. Laura began to perceive that she could not tins feed her charge without soon being discovered. When she took Mark's dinner to him she entered the .attic and had him close the trap after her. "It will not do for you to stay here anuch longer." she saidk "My mother h~as already become suspicious that I have something on my mind, and I fear being detected carrying these meals. I dare not tell her all, and I dare not risk her discovering that you are here." "I will go tonight." "It will be sure capture for you to go. The negroes tell me that,.the coun try people are all out looking for the --the spy." "I can't stay here and compromise Syou." "I have a plan. This evening 1 will watch for an opportunity for you to go down stairs. You can introduce your self as a guest, and though you will be every minute in danger you will be safer than here." "And, in case I am discovered, will not be caught like a rati in a trap." S"You can appear as a traveler. You anust have a hat. I will bting you one. At the first opportunity after dark i'll come to the trap and knock. Follow mue down stairs. I don't think any one will recognize you in these clothes. They have been packed away since my brother went to Virginia a year ago Mamma only saw you, when you were here before, after dark on the veranda, and-well, I think there will be a very apood chance for you to play guest with -out detection." "The servants?" "They would never betray a Yankee. They think you are all coming down to free them. and they'll have nothing to <do but lie in the sun." "Not an unpleasant occupation on a pleasant day." said Mark irrelevantly. "Should any.thing happen. I only fear mamma. And, after all, she is a wo man." she added significantly. "Which you pretend not to be." "If all goes well you will be assigned a room-the guest chamber perhaps and it it is not safe for you to be down stairs. you may feign to be ill and keep r apartment" ark was better pleased with the than remaining where he was. He not expect to remain in the house er than till the next night, when oped those who were seeking for wou1l heome tiredof tehpunt SRY WAR STORY merican Presa Association). af r~'imd~chance for hi~~P: e "I'll do all you suggest," he said to Laura, "and whether you wish it or not I am very grateful." She lowered her eyes under his look of gratitude and then went below. As soon as it grew dark Mark lis tened for the signal. It came a few minutes before nine o'clock. Mrs. Fain had remained in the parlor up to that moment, when she went up stairs to get some article necessary to a piece of work she was doing. Laura follow ed her, turning out the lights by the way and keeping on up to the attic. /Within a few seconds after her knock Mark was descending the stairs and in a twinkling was in the parlor. Not half a minute elapsed between the signal and his arrival there. It was not long before Mrs. Fain was heard groping about up stairs in the dark, wanting to know who had turned out the lights and calling on a servant to relight them. When she entered the parlor she was surprised to see her daughter in company with a stranger, who was standing, hat in hand, as though he had just come in from with out. "Mamma," said Laura, with her heart in her throat, but with the most assured of innocent tones, "this Is a gentleman who-Mr." "Rhett," supplied Mark, "Mr. 'Rhett, of" "South Carolina." Any old Virginia or South Carolina name was quite enough to insure a welcome from Mrs. Fain. - Without waiting to bear what be might say further or an aceount of how he came to be there so suddenly. sbe said: "I'm pleased to see you, sir; are you related to the ithetts, of South Caro lina?" "We all came of the same main stem, madam," said Mark, assuming the tone of a southern gentleman. "Mr. Rhett is traveling, mamma. He says that-that" "I am looking for mines, madam. You may not know It, but you are in the center of a rich mineral region." It is pleasant to hear that fortune may come soon, and Mrs. Fain was evidently much pleased at the informa tion. "Indeed!" she said calmly. "Yes, madam, I have been looking for ore. I presume I need not say whether in government interest or not; we must have cannons, you know." "Government officers are not bound to disclose their identity or their ob jects, sir." "I have been prospecting, madam, and am separated from my party ow ing to the stupidity of the driver of the vehicle which contains my crucd bles and chemicals. I appeared at your door and your daughter was kind enough to ask me in-not surprising, considering your far famed Tennessee hospitality." "You are quite welcome, sir." Mark bowed low, with his hand on his heart, like a South Carolina gen tleman of the old school. "Have you supped?" asked Mrs. Fain. "Yes, madam; I succeeded in getting a meal by the way. A poor one, indeed a very poor one, with burned beans for coffee. But since the abolition Lincoln government has violated all rules of civilized warfare by this cruel blockade -intending to starve us into subjection -I suppose we must take what we can get. I repeat it, 'we must take what we can get, madam." Mark's eyes flashed with well feign ed indignation. "It is our duty to bear our depriva tions cheerfully," said Mrs. Fain. "We shall gain our independence at last. and that should be an incentive." *"It should, madam, an'i let me tell you we are about to sc.e stirring times and great successes. This region has become of especial military importance. Our forces will be in front of Nash ville, perhaps Louisville, very soon, while General Lee can't fail with such noble men as he has in his army-the very flower of the south-the flower of the south, madam-he can't fail, I say, to drive the Yankees out of Vir ginia!" "You are very hopeful." While Mark was thus performing, Laura stood with downcast eyes, and If her mother had not been so inter ested In the hopeful words of the gar rulous South Carolinian she would have noticed a slow heaving' of her daughter's bosom, with here and there a slight spasmodic action. "And now, madam," said Mark, "may I beg for a night's lodging? I fear It is too late to find my party." "Certainly, sir. Call Miranda. my dear." Miranda was summoned and directed to show the gentleman to the guest chamber on the second floor in the front of the house. Mark went with the servant and re mained in his room long enough to have made a toilet and then sauntered down 'stairs. At the door of the par lor In which Mrs. Fain and her daugh Iter were sitting, he paused, as If wait ig for an invitation to enter. This was given him, but he did not stay ong. or a hot_blooded Sonnth Caro ifnian, he seemed not to beaRFte Teat well, and manifested a desire to get out on to the veranda. Indeed he had a wholesome dread of the light. Be sides he desired to be where he could converse with Laura. "If I may beg you to excuse me, ladies," he said, "I will go out for a little fresh air." He strolled out into the night and walked back and forth on the veranda. "Laura," said Mrs. Fain, "go out and entertain Mr. Rhett. I'm afraid of the night air myself." "Do you think it essential, mamma?" "Certainly I do. South Carolinians are especially particular about the en tertainment of their guests. and I wouldn't have it go back to Charles ton that we had been remiss for the world." Laura obeyed her mother and joined the guest on the veranda. "You are safe for the present," she said, her eyes glistening in the moon light and a bright spot on each cheek. "Thanks to your courage and ingenu "Oh, no; no! That's absurd. For you to speak of my courage! Do you know that the recklessness with which you put your neck into a halter is as unintelligible to me as mathematics would be to one of our servants." "For the cause," said Mark, -"one ought to' "Nonsense! The cause! You love these dangers." "There is a fascination in them, I admit So lobg as there is one chance for me, no matter how many there are against me-so long as I have an arm or a weapon to fight with I am a man. When cornered and taken I am the veriest coward in the world. JVhile in prison in Chattanooga I moaned and whined like a frightened child. The truth Is that danger is fascinating only either before It is encountered or after it has passed. .When .1 am in it I want to get out of it; when I am out of it I want to get in it again." "I don't believe you know the mean ing of the word fear? "Indeed you are mistaken. If I did not feel fear there would be no fasci nation in danger." "Then you have a way witi you of making people do what you like. When yon were here before you fascinated. aU the servants. You completely cap tivated Uncle Daniel, who has talked of no one else since." "Daniel is a good man. He'll be of use to me yet." "Yes, of use to you. You use every one either openly or by deception. I almost fancied you were professor somebody, just now, when you were deceiving poor mamma. You reminded. me of Mephistopheles for all the world." I"You flatter," said Mark in irony. 5"You are Mephistopheles. You come here and compel me to harbor you. 'on are seeking to injure the cause I favor, and I give you my brother's clothes, when that brother Is fighting for that cause. Why do I not send for some one to come and take you?" "On account of your native lovell ness." "You are a very devil." "I never regarded myself a saint." "And the worst of it is," she w, nt on, her eyes sparkling all the while, and talking rapidly, "that such devil- I try is especially fascinating to me. I would love to be a man. I would do what you do. I would belong to the cavalry. I would be a scout I would be a" "Spy?" "Anything I had the courage to be. I would delight in battles, in charges, In-heavens!" The exclamation was occasioned by a horseman who hod approached while they were talking. "Don't be frightened," said~ Mark bending over her and whispering in her ear. "It is only a private soldier. He is not after me, and if he is he can't have me." Mark left her and advanced to the rail of the veranda. "IM CInB ENCRTNDs PATCHEs "an.o elm o yr'i e "T'm a COUIe. I be'n CARRYEN dis-t pathe; utI id'tgot hiEs. wy. ChWttln,oyu justkeep the oadan owli es; threeugh fal realy."Aynw f raghth 'ong? th"oa? "Do'mtaknowrinr. I be'n carry drom atnonery two dayrs.". "Well, you haven'T far to go." "Good night, sir." "Good night." Mark went back to Laura. She had iot recovered from her fright, and he vas obliged to wait a few moments be 'ore he could get a word from her. "I suppose you think me a dreadful !oward," she said at last. "After all, ['m only a woman." "Not cowardly for yourself; for a )oor devil whose neck is in a halter." "Yes. I'm only a girl, but I own the life of a brave man, a soldier, a reck ess monster, a fiend, a spy." "Anything else?" "There are no more words to express: what I mean." "Laura," called Mrs. Fain. "if you ire going to stay out any later you'd better get a shawl." "I'm going in, mamma." They walked into the house together. ir. 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