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By Irving Bachellcr Copyright ltlt. by Irvlnr BachclUr WNU Service CHAPTER XIII? Continued ? 17 ** Colin was warmly received by Gen eral Benedict Arnold? a born rebel "who had run away from. home when a Btripling in quest of adventure. In Miter life as a partner of Elijah Woodbridge ? Nancy's father ? he had prospered shipping horses and mules to the West Indies. Unlike the Com mander in Chief, lie had no patience with "the pot-bellied mouth fighters in congress." He was an arrogant, high handed man lacking in dignity and politeness. Still he hod "the uncon querable spirit." Ills courage and valor had been proved. Dark-skinned and black-bearded, his blue-gray eyes often glowed with anger. In his strong athletic body was the energy of wildcats, and the snarl of them Was often in his mouth. Stung by ingratitude, his was the Spirit of Protest now abroad In the land. Congress, for some reason, had promoted every brigadier save him self. He had suffered indescribable hardships going to Quebec, and was wounded there in a desperate assault. \Nith a fleet in Lake Champlaln, he had delayed the advance of the Brit ish for a year, yet the Sim Bottses in congress, under some hidden in fluence, had thus expressed their ap preciation. General Washington had mildly rebuked this sighting of an able officer. His sympathy had kept Arnold In the service, and hlsTsendln" the best Massachusetts regiment to be an arrow in the quiver of "the Black General signalized the special Inter est of the Chief in this member of his staff. Colin had not been a day In the Al bany camp, when lie received a note from Mrs. Bowlby. "I heard from a friend of General Arnold that you were to be here," she wrote. "As soon as possible after you arrive, come for a talk with me at 40 Pearl street." It was a brief and cheerless note, what did it mean? Night had fallen. He hastened to the address of Mrs. Bowlby. He passed a public house, with open doors. At Its bar a reveler was singing a mournful love ballad A moment he listened. It told what a man had done "for the love o' Bar bara Allen." '*es, I know, I know all about it " he whispered as He went on. Mrs. Bowlby met him with a sad They down together. She was silent. "Is it bad news?" he asked. "It Is not good news. ? Our love story Is now in the hands o' God I n't know what will happen. I'll tell f??hU V'n Wll?le 8t?ry- 1 Inot the Brit lsh at Crown point. Seeing the great y Of Burgoyne, our small force scattered. The filthy Indians were with the enemy. I pretended to be a loyalist. Told them I would help and that I wanted to see Miss Fnyer weather I met her. She was in a Party of grand ladles. Lady Harriet Ackland, a daughter of the earl of Ilchester, the young Baroness do Vn, ? MnJor IIl,rna?e and others. These fine-gowned, high-bred women two of whom had children with them, were going to ride com fortably through the wilderness In tumbrels? a kind of two-wheeled cart. Ihlnk of that. They were among the Indians. They were interested In the look and the chattering of 'the noble red men.' The mosquitoes and gnats and black files were as thick as ants on a puddle of molasses. Thev were biting through the veils and sleeves and stockings of tho women nnd get ting to their necks and wrists. They had expected a sylvan paradise. They had found purgatory. The children were crying with pain. It was an Itching, swollen, bloody, wretched group. I had a little talk with your sweetheart. Of course she didn't know me until I had given her tho truth as you and I know It. She clung to me then. Her horse had gone with others In the charge of scouts who knew the forest. We went on In the bAteaux as far as we could A tJ? f0r?? B0t ont to ]ny fllpKe Tl. I took to the woods wftli about twelve hundred women, some children, a lot of Indians, a force of pioneers and three regiments of Canadian mllltla. We were to move westward, clearing the ruined road and camping In the wilderness to wait for the main force. I was driving an ox team. I told them that only Jump m/'I? thr0UKh- but they made roe hitch to a wagon loaded with boe K?Re I warned Pat to stick to me. 6 did It and rode on one of my oxen. An old lady who was with her wont with Lady Ackland in a cart They were far behind us. All bridges had been destroyed. Soon the whole baggage train foundered in a swamp. Then whle-runnered Jumpers had to ke built. The tumbrels were wrecked the first day. The ladles' veils were Srllf/T ,n brUSh ftn'1 ,'rU>r* Their life became a battle with hard ?hAh?T ROt. thr0u?h the swamps on the backs of oxen. " fl,ck ?tf n fover. The poor mtLFZ J1? ',(J no at 6ur camp. I knuw that in June Doctor Parmly of Hudson? a loyalist --was always at his fishing camp on a lake not more than three mile* from where we were. I got permission to take her there on condition that I would return the next.day. I carried hut r?T?Ea<*~V!?w hnr(1 J?urn?y. I * L u re* Doctor Parmly took liiiL \rf wn*i d?wn with Pol hftd a,i iq ?cntated and w era good to us. Thej : ? f. v * ? put her to bed and sent down to the village at Fort William Henry for a nurse. I stayed until the nurse came. Pat was better when I left The doe* tor was to bring her to General Schuyler's hou^e- at Albany on his way down the Hudson. Since then I have heard nothing." "This alarms me," said Colin, as he arose. "I will go to Schuyler's house." "I was^ there not an hour ago. When she comes the general will do what he can for her. She le probably with the British. They are all over the upper country now. It Is not easy to come dokvn the river these days." Then and there Colin wrote a letter to his beloved Pat. When it was fin ished he said to Mrs. Bowlby, "Have you the courage to take It up the river tomorrow and try to make Family's camp? If so, I will give you ten pounds." "First come with me and we will take a look into the year ahead," said Mrs. Bowlby. - "What do you mean?" "I know a man who has a marvelous gift. He can see into t lie future." "I have no faith in that kind of thins, " Colin answered. "He foretold the week of my mar riage and the kind of mnn I would "You Have a Sweetheart Whost Life 1 8 in Peril." marry and my successful trip with your letter. I will not tnlce the risk of the Journey you ask me to make without his advice." So it happened that Colin went with Mrs. Bowlby to a crystal-gazer and a reader of the great stars ? a long haired polite tnun with large dark eyes, of the name of Knrapotos, who had a luxurious suite of rooms and who had done n thriving husihess in New York. Driven away by the war scare he had been working the big river towns in which many rich New Yorkers had sought refuge. He told Mrs. Bowlby that she would soon be going away on a perilous and important mission. It would be suc cessful. Colin was interested. lie gave the date and hour of his birth. Soon the fortune-teller made this confident and astonishing declaration : "You have a sweetheart whose life is in peril. I think that she is with the British army. I see darkness and lights, Hashing lights. They will give you good news. I see a battle. The Amer icans will win an easy victory. There will be a great scampering of the frightened enemy. I see another bat tle ? a long, hard, bloody battle. Again your army wins. I think It will be the defeat of Burgoyne. Some friend rather dear to you will be among the dead. I see a man riding a horse. I think it will be you going to meet your sweetheart in-some distant place long after the battle."' Colin paid a fee and left the man with a smile of incredulity. No doubt he had learned from Mrs. Bowl by of Pat in the British army and Nancy in New York. Anyone of good sense would know that Burgoyne was bound to be defeated and that Mrs. frowlby would succeed on any mis sion. If there should be a victory against the army of St. Leg or It would tend to strengthen his weak faith In the stars. He would see what was on the scroll of the near future as it un rolled. The little adventure in that chomber of mysteries had been worth oil it cost for it had won the needed help of Mrs. Bowlby. The good woman was now willing to undertake the mission. He left her and soon after daylight in the morning was on his way up the Mohawk valley with Arnold's army. St. I^eger, then besieging Fort Stan wlx, was depending mainly on a large force of Indians. The cunning Ar nold knew that they were as flckle as the April wind and easily alarmed. He had a force of only fifteen hun dred men. On the way lie caught two loyalist hnlf-hreod brothers of the name of Cuyler, They were related to old Thorny Tree of the Onondagas. Being part Indian, they hnd some in fluence with the red men. Ono of them was a lackwit. They were both led to beiievo that they would he hanged. Their panic having continued for some hours the lackwit was told that their lives would he spared on one condition. Ho must go on ahead to the fcrt and tell the Indians that a forco of ten thousand men wero coming, from whom he had narrowly escaped. Ills brother was to he held as a hostage. If when Arnold got there the Indians had not deserted, the brother would he promptly hanged by the neck. The lackwlt's coat was hung on a bush While Arnold tore It with bullets. Young Cuyler put it on and hurried away, hip brain filled with the need of panic. . A rich harvrat came of it. Many Indians broke away from St. Leger. Others in a riot turned their guns on the British. The camp was I quickly demoralized. When Arnold's I force appeared, guns and knapsacks were thrown away and the tracks of the white men were four feet apart on the. German flats as they ran to save themselves. It was a rout and many men, guns and stores were cap tured. The victory and the "scamper- J ing" set Colin to thinking of the star reader. Was it all coming true and were his troubles soon to end? That night a dispatch bearer reached their camp bringing orders to Arnold from the Commander In Chief and a letter to Colin from the Lady Wash lngton, then at Mount Vernon. She wrote : "My dear boy: I am almost 'took poorly' thinking of my husband's ene- I mles. Howe lias been stopped. He will not attempt the river passage to the north. Burgoyne will not be able either to get back or forward. He is certain to be defeated. Gates Is a good politician. 1 pray C.od that you may live through It. The General says little In his letters about the I war. One may pry and pry and never get an opinion. But I know a lot more than he thinks I do of what is going on In that head of his. When J Burgoyne surrenders the British can | have no hope of winning the war. They may keep on lighting and make a- lot of trouble but It can only end In their defeat. I get a thrill In my spine thinking that you and I'nt will soon be near each other. If you get together don't you dare get married without letting me see it done. Don't try to rob me of the privilege of see ing that It Is well done. I've suffered enough looking forward to your mar ringe to have a share In your happi ness. I reckon 1 ought to be the first one to kiss the bride and groom. When you meet go and find the Gen era] and tell him that you must have at least two months for your honey moon. If I am not with him you hire a maid for the girl If necessary and point for Mount Vernon. I will pay all the expenses going and coming and we can have a grand and glorious good time In this big house. As Amos used to say 'you hear to rue.' "Affectionately yours, "Martha Washington." With Burgoyne encompassed in a hopeless pocket and Howe held below the Highlands, in the south, by the strategy of Washington, General Gates arrived in Albany. The hnrvest was ripe and aided by his Influence In congress, Gates was to be the reaper. The blond, handsome, polite Schuyler, whom he had displaced, offered him what assistance he could render, but was not Invited to his council. Early in September Arnold's force began a silent, dogged march north war^ to join Gates' army on the up per Hudson. They passed through half-burned ruined villages with many houses partly torn down for firewood. Colin now enjoyed the confidence and friendship of Arnold. The dark skinned fighting man showed the young colonel a dispatch from Wash ington. In It were these words: ' If I can keep Howe below the Highlands I think their schemes will be entirely baffled." "We don't have to worry about Howe," said Arnold. "The old Mas ter has got him hog tied. We'll break the back of the British. With the Highlands, the rivers and Lake Cham plain in our possession Canada is shut off. The French will come to help us. I can see no hope for the British when Burgoyne is beaten." Colin saw clearly that the crisis of the war and of his own personal his tory was now In the near future. In his account of the Journey Colin speaks of a slim handsome youth who rode a magnificent bay stallion at Ar nold's side. "He has a slight red mustache and red hair clubbed and tied with ribbons. The general calls I him Joe Brown. He wears a coat of brown velvet, a buff waistcoat and white breeches. His hands are nl ways gloved. He Is a splendid horse man. He must be a person of Im portance, for he has an armed groom for his horse and a small tent of his own. Every night the groom sleeps on his blanket In front of the tent. The young man nover speaks. No one has heard his voice. I wondered at that until the general told me that he Is deaf nnd dumb? the son of a rich man who is paying Arnold's salary. " 'The hoy wishes to see what wnr Is like,' said the general. A serene faith has come to me that the battle ahead Is to end my trou bles," Colin wrote In a letter. "Does It come from the astrologer? No I think not. But from some source I I get confidence that the God of battles will cover my head and hers and bring us together." j They arrived at the big camp on FSemls heights ? a ridge of wooded hills ru;:' the western shore of the up per Hud-on fortified by Kosclus/.ko with intren' 'iments three-quarters of a mile long rnd redoubts and batteries commanding the open valley from the water's edge. Arnold's armv was mi the far left of the line which faced northward. ; The British encamped two miles n way, their left on tho river. On the nineteenth of September the British right, led by Burgoyne, began to ad vance In force. Klfes and drums sounded. Soon their Whole line was pushing forward. Tho fighting gen eral was eager to strike while they were still In tho open valley, knowing that they would try to fight their way around him. After long delay the word came to charge. The extreme British right was then In forest cover. Arnold, In danger of being outflanked, threw his force against them. Find ing the enemy too strong to be turned he sent to Gates for reinforcements. They were refused. lie hit the British line with tremendous vigor. It be gan to melt before him. With re inforcements he might have cut It wide open and the battle would have ended then and there. Reinforce ments came too late. For four hours It was a hand-to-hand struggle with sword, gun, bayonet and saber. Ar nold. with Colin close behind him, led the onset. In the midst of smoke and tlame and spurting blood he was yell ing encouragement to his men and slashing right and left like a demon. Heads were split, faces mangled, legs and arms shattered, breasts and bellies ripped in this deadly maniacal clash of maddened men. Some were skewered by the wounded lying on their hacks with the shadow of death upon them. Spurts of tlame and smoke were bursting out of treetops on the wooded hills from Yankee sharpshooters. Quite accurately they tallied the fall of British ofllcers. Darkness came upon these friends of Death and put an end to the bloody encounter. Through that night wolves attracted by the smell of blood were howling in the forest. CHAPTER XIV In the Valley of Death From Which Unfortunately a Valiant Figure Emerges and Another Disappears. Sprinkled with blood, sore with small wounds, their faces blackened, their garments -torn; "General Arnold and Colonel Cabot strode wearily into camp. The god of war had covered (hem in the day of battle. The val iant, the fearless and the masterful have a miraculous gift In passing through the dark valley. Death would seem to love best those who are afraid. '1 lie men began cheering. I'raise of Arnold's valor was running through the line. General Gates was Jealous, Arnold was growling with anger at the neglect which had prevented a complete victory. Eager to continue the tight at sunrise, he was forbidden to do so. There were high words be tween the two generals. Arnold was denied any further part in the battle and under ofllcers were commanded to disregard his orders. Arnold's con duct was undoubtedly high-handed and exasperating. He refused to give up his command and threatened any man who tried to take It Into action. Thus jealousy and bitter politics had begun to paralyze the army. Burgoyne's force was in a bad way. It had failed. Many of its best offi cers were dead or wounded. The fickle Indians decimated by Morgan's sharpshooters had found the white man's love too costly and too painful. They were deserting. The Canadian militia were stealing out of the camp and making tracks for home. The shpply of food was vanishing. The British machine was In need of oil and repairs. Why didn't Howe come on with his army? He was not even yet thundering to get through away down in the Highlands of the lower Hudson. Burgoyne retreated, wniting for the help that could not reach him. Gates followed and surrounded him. In this time of waiting, a messen ger brought n letter to Colin Cabot. It was from Rachel Bowlby. It said: "I am In Doctor Pnrmly's camp. For mor-j than a month I have been here trying to pull Pat out of the deep pit she Is In. She clings to me and If she were my own child I could not love her more. The smallpox passed and then she fell Into a burning fever. Out of her head most of the time and thinks you are here. The doctor gives me little hope. He says that in three days we shall know. As soon as pos sible I shall come down the river at night and try to get around the Brit ish. I shall have to take to the bush above them and hurry on down the east shore with my little birch-bnrk canoe on my back until I get to safe water. I am eager to return to my neglected children. Across the river from Beinis heights Is a wooded hill. I will time my trip to reach it about ten o'clock at night and probably on the ninth or tenth of October. If tho news Is good I will light two torches, If It Is bad only one. So If you will keep watch from half past nine to half past ten those two nights, you will know all that I can tell you and may God help us whatever happens." The tone of tho letter was discour aging. Was It to end for him In bitter loss and discouragement? Ho had little hope of good news when on tho night of October ninth he climbed a tree near Arnold's headquarters and sitting on a lofty limb looked east ward through the darkness. It was n clear, still, cold moonless night. Never had ho so felt the beauty and mystery of tho calm, peaceful, shin ing, infinite deep above him. Sudden ly a flicker of light far nway. Then two flaming torches glowed side by side In the darkness. Thank God. rvit was better. She was on tho way to good hoalth again. A long time he sat In sllonoo look ing up at the heavens and thinking. The lights! Here again was an aston ishing fulfillment. The mystery be gan to vanish as he thought of It Mrs. Bowlby had naturally sought to follow I ho letter of the prediction ? so she had used llght?-the only menns of swift, communication. Still there was an element In this matter n little beyond his reach. Suddenly he ceasod to think. His eyes were busy. The ancient wilderness had begun to cele brate the recovery of her he Ir ed. The season had boon dry. The forest floor was covered with dead leaves. The flro of tho torches had dripped Into them. It traveled from ledge to ledge as Hachet Bowlby ) ?Tied down to the river. It embraced the hilL (to nR continued.) IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool [Lesson (toy REV. P. B. FITZWATKB, D. D.. Mem ber of Faculty, Moody Bible Institute of ChlcuKo.) ?. 1933. Western Newtpaper Union. Lesson for May 21 JESUS ANSWERS HIS AD VERSAR I ES LESSON TEXT? Mark 12:13-44. GOLDEN TEXT? -The officers an swered, Never man upake like this man. John 7:46. PRIMARY TOPIC? Talking With Jesus. JUNIOR TOPIC ? Jesus Answering Hard Questions. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC ? The Way to Meet Opposition. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC ? How to Deal With Objectors. I. Jesus Silences His Enemies (vv. 13-34). 1. The Pharisees and Ilerodinns (vv. 13-17), In order to destroy him they sought to discredit him among the people. To this end they sent rep resentatives of both factions (v. 13). a. Their question (v. 14). The Pharisees contended that since God was the real king of Israel, It was not obligatory to pay taxes to r>. heath en king. The Ilerodinns were support ers of Ilerod. They came to him with flattery on their lips with this subtle question. For him to answer yes would have discredited him with the people, and to have said no would have made him liable to arrest by the Roman authorities. b. Jesus' reply (v?. 35-17) . He asked for a coin to be brought and In J quired whose Image and superscription I it bore, declaring that those who ac | cept the coin of Caesar should pay taxes to Caesar. In this renly Jesus escapes their trap and enunciates a principle which applies to all time and conditions as to the responsibility of Christians to civil government. Those who accept the protection and benefits of civil government should support that government. However, being a loyal citizen Is not enough. There is a duty to God. 2. The Sadducees (vv. 18-27). The Pharisees and ITerodians being si lenced, the Sadducees came with a question which involved not only Im mortality but the resurrection of the body. a. The case proposed (vv. 1D-23). The law of Moses made It not only le gal but morally binding in the case of a man dying without children for his brother to take his wife (Deut. 25:5). They proposed the case of a woman married successively to seven brothers. They asked whose wife she shall be in the resurrection. b. Jesus' reply (vv. 24-20). By a quotation from the Mosaic law (IOxod. 3:0), he proves the resurrection of the dead and their continued existence be yond death as human beings. He showed that marriage is for the pres ent life only. In this respect human beings will be as the angels In the resurrection life. He pointed out that their gross error was due to two things : (1) Ignorance of the Scriptures (v. 24). In the very Scriptures which they professed to believe was positive proof of the resurrection (Exod. 3:0). (2) Ignorance of the power of God (v. 24). God is able to provide a life where there will be no death, no births, or mamages. 3. The scribes (vv. 28-34). Per ceiving that Christ had effectively an Bwered the Sadducees, one of the scribes came with the question as to which wns the great commandment. Jesus summed up man's whole duty in one word, love? "love to God and love to man." II. Jesui' Question tvv. .'{5-37), He now turned upon his adversaries with a counter question. Its answer Involves the central problem of Chris tian philosophy, Indeed of all rational thinking. Christ's place in the scale of being is the foundation truth of all right thinking. "Is Jesus Christ man or God, Is ho God and man?"' David spoke of the coming Messiah as both his son and God. There is but one answer to this question ? the Incarna tion of God In Christ. III. Jesus Condemns the Scribes (vv, 38-40). The attitude of these people toward Jesus wns not determined by Insuper able intellectual difficulties, but by their moral nature. 1. They loved to go in long cloth ing (v. 38). This means they loved ostentation and display. 2. They loved to be saluted in pub lic places (v. 38). 3. They sought to occupy the chief seats In the synagogues, and the up permost rooms nt feasts (v. 30). 4. They devoured widows' houses (v. 40). They lined their pockets at the expense of helpless women. r>. 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