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By Irving Bachcllcr Copyright HIS, by Irving B&chelUr WNU Bervlco CHAPTER^ XII? Continued ? 1 6 ? They were rudely awakened on Christmas night. Snow was falling In a bitter northwest wind. It wds no time for any sane person to be out-of doors. Colonel Hall. In command at Trenton, had had a merry dinner and with other officers and their ladles was ? dancing In the public hall. The fid dlers were playing, between dances they could hear the cold wind In the chimney-top and snow pelting the win dow-panes. What a night ! '1 hey shiv ered and gathered before the fireplace and tilled and drained their glasses again. It was a night for joy with nothing to fwlr. About midnight a uniformed lackey brought a letter to Colonel Hall who was In command. .Engaged In a pretty story, he put the lletter In his pocket. T^n In the whirl of gaiety he forgot It. Nine miles from Trenton, a loyalist woman had seen Washington with two thousand men crossing the Delaware In the darkness. She had ridden post haste through the storm with the warning, now hidden In the pocket of Colonel Rail. Who but an American would think of crossing a big river tilled with broken ice and marching nine miles with a storm raging In which iwo men were frozen to death? The Europeans were to learn that lighting for liberty and fighting for pay were a different kind of business. At eight o'clock In the morning, Washington fell on the city with two detachments. Hall's Hessians surren dered, while other enemy troops fled in panic. The whole British structure on the Delawarp was shatterpd by this stroke. General Donop's army re treated. General Cornwallls aban doned his plan of going to Europe and took command In New Jersey. Wash ington occupied Trenton. Soon Cornwallls and his men came on to give him battle. On the second of January, '77. the American com mander crossed Assanplnk creek and made a pretense of throwing up In irenchments. Cornwnllls tried to fol low and was repulsed by artillery. Night came and Cornwallls decided to wait until morning. Washington slipped away lfi the night leaving men to keep the campflres burning and to \ imitate the chorus of picks, shovels, axes and ox teams at work. At day light, Cornwallls began to .throw his cannon balls upon empty ground. He attacked nothing. The American camp was deserted. "The d ? d Yankees" were of course far on their way to Princeton. Before he could arrive there that link In the British chain would be broken and Washington on his way to safety. Cornwallls had made a shrewd guess. Four hundred men were taken at Princeton with guns and stores. The remainder of the British force scattered, having suffered a severe drubbing. This winter fighting with wounded men floundering In pools of blood, unabsorbed on frozen ground, was re volting. At Princeton the bleeding Tfras not severe, less than three hun dred on both sides having been killed or wounded but the men engaged saw more blood than they had seen since the war began. Our men were at flrst severely set upon and began to retreat but the Chief rallied them and they came through with a handsome victory. The enlistment period of two regi ments expired that day. The men hnd long been looking forward eager ly to the hour of their release. It came. Light-hearted they were going home. They applied for their dis charges. General Washington met them with a grave countenance. He reminded then) that It was a critical time. Their country and their homes were now In greater pejll than ever before. Success depended on tho dogged faithfulness of this body of men. He knew that the feet of ninny were bleeding, thnt all were weary but relief was nenr. The men got together for n confer ence and presently announced that they had decided to go home. They were sick of the hardships nnd tho Mood-letting. Again Washington appealed to them and now with very solemn words. A time had come when each nnd every man of them should know and foel that he held In his hands the fnte of America. Under those circumstances could they bear the shame of leaving him and going to their homes? Or (iwould they continue to be herpes and $et a needed example to the youth of our land? Why stop now when the weary march was nenr Its end? There were mnny who heard tho Chief. Among them was old Amos Earns worth who shouted : "They won't leave us. Lord God o* Israel ! A man that leaves oughter be hung sn' thar ain't no mistake." A thousand men began cheering. Those who sought discharges aban doned their design and soon fell In the march to Pluck emln on the way to Morrlstown. . It had taken Howe's powerful army ?lx months to drive General Washing ton across the Delaware, The "good lighting weather" was gone. Winter operations In a strange country were '^knnk meat" to the Kuropean. Wash* mgton knew it. ,8oon Heath and Put nam in the Highlands began to threaten New York, whereupon the British set out tor that safe retreat where they could find comfort and security and be done with unexpected winter dev Utrles In a treacherous cotint^rslde. So the American commander In chief had gained time for needed recupera tion. The spirit of army and people had Improved. The New Jersey folk had, been aroused to fever heat by out rages whtch are the Ineyltable result of occupation by the troops of an enemy. It was a favorable time for recruiting, but compared with the British army* Washington had a feeble force of men, billeted in Morrlstown. Soon a British spy was discovered In camp. His name was Luce. Should they hang him? "No," Washington said. "We will make a wise use of him." Officers were apparently impressed by the personality of Mr. Luce. They llattered him with friendly attentions, giving him much Information and no time to visit the billets. A plan was made under which the battalions marching out of cover and returning to it wore paraded three times before him. False returns on the number of troops billeted In that countryside were scattered carelessly on the desk j>f the adjutant when Mr. Luce caine to dine alone with him. In the midst of the dinner, the ad jutant was suddenly called away. The spy was now loaded and ready to de part. An easy way out was prepared for him. He vanished, taking to Brit ish , headquarters in New York a re port of the force in Morrlstown which Insured Its safety, \oung Alexander Hamilton was in great fuvor with the Chief. At a din ner of the staff Washington called on him for a speech. The young man acquitted himself with such wit and charm that the General arose and shook his hnnd. After that all the officers showed him great respect and the boy was often in their councils. Summer came. The last detach ment of the British had left Am boy for Stat en Island. Burgoyne was ex pected In northern New York with an army from Canada. The most difficult problem of the revolution now challenged the in genuity of the Commander In Chief. He must prevent the formidable army of Howe on York island from going up the Hudson to aid Burgoyne. The force in the Highlands was strength ened. Putnam had put a powerful chevaux-de-frise across the Hudson near Fort Montgomery to prevent ships from passing and to hold them under ruinous gunllre. It was an im mense Iron chain supported by log booms a few feet apart and securely anchored to both shores. Two forts on the river were well manned and must be reduced before ships could pass. Beacon lights on Butter hill at the northern entrance of the High lands would flash the news of an at tack to Beucon hill nnd on southward to Mullender's hill and Snake hill and the lower Hudson. Howe might win his way but it would be a slow-footed, perilous undertaking. Washington's problem was to detain Howe and en compass Burgoyne who, once landed at the head of Lake Champlaln. could never hope to return. Howe, having waited long for reinforcements from Europe, ethharked his army. He started southward, evidently heading for Philadelphia. Washington now said to his Jersey yeomen: "Go home and do your har vesting and return as soon as pos slble." In a camp almost deserted he sat down with members of ills staff to consider the great problem. Plans for the eneompassment of Burgoyne were complete when a messenger came from congress to announce that (Sates had been given full command in the north. Washington had ample evi dence of the ambition of Cates to sup. plant him and of his unwholesome po litical Influence. Schuyler, command ing in upper New York, was a gentle man to his liking and in the Chief's opinion quite equal to the task ahead of him. Still, as usual, he must bow to the will of congress. (Jutes was a cunning politician. Morgan's riflemen and Arnold's brigade were to he sent north to help him. CHAPTER XIII The Coming of Pat and the British From the North and the Battle. General Washington wanted reli able nnd *?arly Information as to the force of Burgoyne. Colonel Cabot, eager for news of his sweetheart, had applied for service In the north. An express messenger had Just arrived with a dispatch announcing that Bur goyne's army expected to embark from St. John's by the tenth of June. "There Is a dense wilderness on either side of the lake." Colin nrfld. "It would be easy for a man hidden In a treetop nlong the shore to esti mate the force. If you will trust me In the matter I will ?et correct Infor mation and arrange for relays to ride night nnd day until It comes to your hand." "I will commit to you this undertak ing, for there Is no man In whose prudence, energy nnd good Judgment I have grenter confidence," nnld the Chief. "You know the northern road and many peoplo who live on It. You may prepare your regiment to set out tomorrow for Bennington, where you will report to General Stark for duty." The regiment set out with horses following laden with bat haggage. There are Illuminating entries In Oolln'ft diary as to the northward journey through Danhury and New Mllford. "Bought some leather and many men resoled their boots by firelight and Amon put a new spoke In a wagon whe?1." MAt Danbury I cleaned Mr. Dun lany's watch." "At New Mllford I got a spoon mold and cast twenty spoons after wo halted for a night's rest." At Bennington the regiment became a part of the big camp of rugged .mountain men under Stark. Its march ended on a Sunday In early June. While It waited for the bag gage wagons, officers and men went to hear the sermon and Scripture read ing. Rev. John Allen of Plttsfleld, whom Colin had met at the Ited Cock tavern In Rhode Island that night of the bloodless duel, was preaching. He told the story of the quarrel with Conway and quoted what the aide of Washington hud said as to the sub lime patience of the Commander In Chief under discouragement. "When the leaders of humanity de cide to leave the old road and take a new direction, there l^ much halting and waiting," he said. "The new way must be cleared of ancient prejudice. But do not forget that the British have more trouble In their way than we have. Courage we need and then ? patience ? divine, far-seeing, super human patience. We need the courage ous undying patience of St. Paul, when the Light of the World was dickering. Our Washington has It." Allen was surprised and delighted when, after the service, Colin shook his hand and Introduced himself. "The fighting parson" became a firm friend of (lie young colonel, and Stark invited both of them to dinner. Allen's son was a missionary at a settlement neur the lake in the north. "He will help you," said the parson. "1 will give you a letter to him and a map of the road and trails. I think that the British are now embarked. The Six Nations have gathered neur the head" of the lake to wait for them. I think that you had better be on your way." Colin left his regiment in command of the capable Major Humphries and set out on his northern Journey that afternoon, stopping at a log inn, when darkness fell, to rest his mare for the night. As usual, he "hayed, oated and strawed her" with his own hand. After three days In the saddle he came to the rude hamlet In o deep valley near the lake where he found the young missionary. The British had not yet passed. Young Allen, dis qualified for military service by lame ness, was eager for any chance to help the great cause. The danger was that the big flotilla might pass any chosen point in the dnrkness of the night when a reckoning would be impossible. It was bound to be a long, slow-moving procession of sloops and bateaux. Studying a map of the lake, they chose 'two stations about ten miles apart. Allen would await the Invasion on a point near, his home, Colin on an Island some ten miles northward. That evening, with his destination In view, Colpnel Cabot set out for It in a small bout. It was a lonely l8laud covered thick with pine, spruce and hemlock. Its southern end dwin dled to a narrow stony point. Apart from the forest, where the land be gan to taper, stood the stub of a lone hemlock. Its upper part, shattered by lightning, hud fallen In the wind. It now lay splintered, decaying In the shallows. Ho concealed his boat In bushes and I07 down with his blanket on a carpet of pine-needles and had a restful sleep. At daylight he climbed some ten feet to the ragged top of the stub and found, as he expected, only a shell of sound timber that enclosed a mass of damp decay. He began to throw It out and soon discovered that It crum bled and packed under his weight un til he had a firm footing and comfort aide accommodation for his stature inside the shell. Opposite his eyes, with his knife, lie made two holes like those of a woodpecker, fronting both channels. This little timber tower, with Its diminutive windows, offered an ideal opportunity to view die passing of Burgoyne's army. For two days, from dark to dark, he sat many hours in a treetop ftke a bird, looking northward for signs of the coming caravan. Soon after sun rise on the third day he saw a new island with silvered edges and white towers in the distance. He watched It through his glass, thrilled by the thought that in the great procession moving toward him was a fragment of mortality which had filled his later life with inspiration. Vast beyond his expectation was that endless flo tilla streaming down out of the north on the smooth, wide, water alloy be tween high mountain ridges. Its length waved backward Into dim, misty reaches of the lower lake. When It had come within a mile or so of his Island, Colin went to his station In the hollow stub. Before the front of the long proces sion was ahreast he heard a hand playing merry music. The flotilla was led by painted Indians in canoes. Soon he saw the first rank of the im mense bateaux, each about forty reet In length and some s?ven feet wide, and each worked by four men? head and stem men and middle men. What a colorful, Impressive pageant was this moving down through the prlme vol wilderness with regimental flags flying! High-hatted British grenadiers In red coats and white breeches; (Jermans In blue helmets, topped with gleaming metal, ond in yellow breeches; women, hundreds of wom en, some In goy attire; blue veils, white veils, and many children; oxen, horses, wagons, tumbrels, cannon; happy voices like those of a crowded street In I/ondon town. The flontlng caravan was flanked by six ninety ton sloops. Through the long summer day Colin stood In Ids wooden tower counting and making noted. It was a trying day, with only a moment of anxiety when a soldier amused himself by shooting at the peek-hole In the tower. Fortunately, Colin Imd seen his pur pose and stooped In time, or that shell of hemlock would have been his tomb. Only a bit of dust fell on his head. He waited a few minutes before re suming his work. The suu was low when the last rank of bateaux In the vast caravan passed him. Its many voices grew dim In the distance as the light of that long day faded Into gloom. He had counted nearly eight hundred of them and had a fairly correct estimate of the fighting men eight thousand. He wondered at the number of women and children. There were some twelve hundred of them and more than a hundred musi cians. Night was falling. StlfT and sore he came out of his hiding place, hauled his hoat into water and put his strength on the oars. He thought of I'at and the ladles with her and of the unexpected perils and hardships ahead of them ? swamps, log-strewn forests, briers, black tiles, mosquitoes, savages, some of whom would surely be Infected with smallpox. He was opposite the center of the long flotilla when he reached Alleu's point at nine o'clock. In the missionary's house he wrote a report to General Washington and half an hour later was In his sad dle hurrying southward. In the morn ing he mounted a fresh horse at a furm, arranging for his own to be sent on to Bennington. That night he arrived at Stark's headquarters and within ten minutes a mounted courier was on the south road with Colln's. dispatch. After a few days' training with General Stark he received an order from the Commander in Chief to go to I-ort Tlconderoga and report as soon as possible on the plans of the Brit ish. On his Journey he spent a night at Skenesborough, where he found a force of Americans. lie learned that Burgoyne's army Was advancing to Invest the fort. There he met the scout Israel Sapp, who told him that Mrs. Bowl by had sent her children to a friend in Albany and was earning big wages driving an ox team for the enemy. Was it her interest In ro mance which had taken her to the British camp? ,The inn was closed and Sergeant Sapp had found accom modation In the house of a one-armed mill-hand of the name of King. Colin spent the night there. While he sat at the breakfast table next looming there came an abrupt change In the situation. "Has St. Clair fortified Sugar hill?'* he asked. "No," Sapp answered. "Not men enough there to do it." "Then Tlconderoga will fail. The hill commands the fort." "Congress has not provisioned it for a siege." Their talk was Interrupted by the roar of cannon. "It's the British gunboats," said King. "I don't know what we will do. My wife is near her time and sick In bed. I cannot move ontll she Is out of the straw." The cannonading Increased. King arose from the table to go out-of doors. Suddenly a cannon ball bound ed through a window and against the leg of Sergeant Sapp, breaking It and crashing through a door. "My G ? d I" said Sapp. "If it was a battle I wouldn't mind, but I hate to lose a leg eating breakfast." Colin helped King to set the bone and put splints on the leg of the wounded man. That done he mounted his mare and set out for the fort. Soon he came upon St. Clair's little army In retreat. Congress had failed to provision them. They would have been starving within a week. So they had to quit the fort. Colin set out for Stark's camp with a heavy heart. He wrote his dispatch when he halted to give his ninre an hour of rest that evening and rode on until he came to a log inn at mid night. He wns up and off nt day light.. Before he had put his horse to hay at Stark's camp an express rider was clattering down the road with his dispatch toward the first relay twenty miles beyond. So the disheartening news went on to Washington. Scon John Adams was snylng; "We shall never succeed until we hnng a few genernls " It was a hasiv remark. He would better have threatened the necks of n few politicians. A few days Inter an address to the troops came from General Washing ton. It wns posted at headquarter? and rend to ofllcers nnd men oh Sui* dny by Parson Allen. "Our situation before has been unpromising nnd has changed "tor the better." It said. "If new difficulties arise we must keep our courage nnd put forth new exer tions" "Thus the unconquerable spirit of our great Commander has come up to us through the hills and valleys." said Allen. "It has gone out to all his embattled hosts. Do ye not feel his God given patience? Get It In you. Hesolve to die for it if neces sary and the British will never pass us. We must all die soon or late. I shall be glad to die not of weakness, but of eournge when my hands nre strong nnd life Is denr to me, unde fented, proud that I have given it for a thing far better than I." The British did not pass. They made a thrust at Bennington and were turned back with heavy,., loss and the parson "fought like a wolverine." Colonel Cabpt and hts regiment had no part In the battle. I,ong before It was fought they were sent to Albany to report to Arnold for duty In hla campaign against St. Leger coming down from the northwest. So they moved southward to strengthen th? little army soon to engage In a hlg I undertaking. (TO ftW CONTlNiriCD.) IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY! | chool Lesson : (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D.. Mem ber of Faculty, Moody Blbla Institute of Chlcixico.) ?. 1933. Weat?m Newnoaper Union. Lesson for May 14 JESUS ASSERTS HIS KINGSHIP LESSON TEXT? Mark 11:1-33. GOLDEN TEXT ? Rejoice gr atly. O daughter of Zlon; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salva tion; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. Zech. 9:9. PRIMARY TOPIC ? Praising Jesus, JUNIOR TOPIC? King of All Kings. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC ? Acknowledging Christ as Kin*. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC ? The Lordship of Jesus. I. Jesus Officially Presented to the Nation 38 Their King (vv. It is hardly proper to designate this the 'triumphal entry" for It was only so to outward appearance. It was rath er the promised Messiah publicly of ferlng himself to the Jewish nation as the king. 1. The preparation (vv. 1-5). a. Two disciples sent to bring the colt (w. 1-3). Jesus told them Just where to And it and how to answer the owner's Inquiry. b. The obedience of the disciples (vv. 4-G). Without asking the reason I?*' th0^ vvent ?t Christ's bidding. The command may have seemed 1 strange and unreasonable, but thev rendered explicit obedience. 7-10)The ?T,try lnto ,Terilsnl?m (vv. ! a. The disciples put their garments rvh'(!0lt' nnd" Jes,,s snt "P?n >t (V. 7). 1 his action showed their rec aS th0lr Mess?n?>.the I^ing (II Kings 9 :13). b. The action of the multitude (vv ?. ??. Some spread their garments In the way. Others who had no garments ' to spare threw down branches. This entry was in fulfillment of a prophecy ottered some five hundred veurs be fore (Zech. 9:9). They uttered the f?mLC!7 Whl?h tl,e pr?l)het Predicted. Since the prediction of the first com ing was thus literally fulfilled, we can he assured that those concerning his 8e?"diacom,nS win ,lkewlse have lit 14ft3 n !imeDh ? he proi)hecy ot Zech. I 14.3-11 will be just as literally ful filled as was that of Zech. 9:9. c. The action of Jesus (y ii\ with <r"' mS) Ex,re,,ln? Klnjly Authority "" ,ree curm> " <"? 12-14) The fig tree Is typical of the Jewish nation. The fruit normally ap Pears on the a* tree lhca() J iesyes. The presence of the leaven i* assurance of fruit. This was an acted paroh e of Christ's jlKj(.,ncnt ?? tor pretension to being the chosen people without the fruits thereof. For A. te?P,e cleansed (vv. 15-19). For the various sacrifices many oxen sheep., and doves were needed. It was Impracticable for people from distant parts to bring their sacrlfices with them They brought money, therefore and bought the animals needed Th^ privilege was provided In the Jewish "T- "?*??>. ? 0 such cII'S exchange was necessary. However tunlt" V me" USCd U ns nn oPPor ! w im.,1!1?"* an 1. " f,0fllwl hls ,,0']?e. Jesus made ? scourge of cords and drcre the money changers (John 2-15) overthrowing their tables and pour ?ng out their money. Ry this act he declared himself to be the Lord of the temple, and one with God. The scribes fnc fh #Prl?8t8 Rraspe(1 moan in*, thereof, for they were aroused to him 008 l""? nn" 8m"!ht "? ?-?tror 27.33).Je8U8' Author,ty Challenged (vv. 1. liy whom (vv. 27 v ? ? ^m8t8'i lihe 8Cr,bos' nn(I the elders \ZTll ilmt 8h0W b* what au , fhorlty he accepted the honors of the Messiah and by whom h<j changers ^ ^ ?Ut the ??*"<*, 2. Jesus* answer (vv. l*9 -{Oi u? responded to their challenge bv ? question which placed them In a di lemma. Since John was his forerun ner the commission of John and Jesus had the same source, if tohn'o I mission wild fr?,? ),<?? v?n Vh {""n from ?k??Se i f they had accepted John's mossnire I .he, hn,e been r(.mly to <?????? ; , ' ,'"y ?"*"> powerless to dostrov John I, e, -nose n,o p0??l0 ? , J I heaven"" "?? '">m j nod r'""" ?' 'ore, of ,he d?12 I'^rC'thX" : Ad Gnn?a if'1' thPy r0n'essed that they i not know the source of Tohn'? I commission. These rulers had 'no if feetlon for Jesus so they rejected his ' message and sought to destroy him j Living Our R?li?f The Chinese, whose quaint confos- j slon of fnlth, was, "1 am reading the I Illble now and behaving It," had a bet- | ter conception of what Is involved In i being a Christian than many professed | believers of long standing. ? Outlook. | Cannot Roof Ua In ftatnn may build ? he<lge about us, *nd fence us In, and hinder our move mentfl, but he cannot roof us In, and prevent our looking up.? J. Hudson Taylor. BANKERS IN HISTORY We get tiie name "bank" f mm t h f? German "bank" (Frencli, banque; Italian, banca), a bench, u table for changing money. 1 suppose tho "money changers" you read about In tho Bible ran that kind of a Iruik. The encyclopedia says, "The mod ern banker Is a dealer In credit, while In ancient times the so-called banker was a mere custodian of the funds of others and a buyer and seller of foreign moneys." ? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 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