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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
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"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.
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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
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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. Rhett. of South Carolina, made a
ew commonplace remarks to Mrs. Fain
ind then begged to be excused, as he.1
iad been prospecting during the day
ind was very tired. He bowed low to
the ladies and then went up stairs.
(To be continued).
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