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SSOUTHf IpgP Bjk Cyrtt-i Aether ef "Www WUh ft Cwrl+UJjO*, hy (>i CHAPTER XXX. , WJ2J WARDROOM OB *rtlE ttARTTORD. | pFllOHT bells had struck on. the i I Mm* I flagship. In the wardroom .. DHBl. ,9t the . Hartford the officers ! ?f thn aliln hnf nn w???h were congregated around n long table running the full length of the room. At the head of the table sat Klntberly? the executive officer. Near him was Wntson, Farrngut's gallant flag Ifehtenant, while Peyton ant about midway down. Pens, ink and paper were strewn over the table, and every tr.nn was busy writing?every one but Peyton, that Is. It was remarkably still In the wardroom. Scarcely a sound was heard above tho deep breathing of the men but the steady scratching of the pens, punctuated by nn infrequent and suppressed sigh at intervals. They were writing to"'thelr" wTves,"*TTielr "children, their mothers, their sweethearts, their friends. Once in awhile a suspicious | sniff might be heard or one of those violent blast's of the nose with which men shamefacedly sock to disguise their liner emotions. Sometimes the back of n hand or the tip of n linger went furtively to the corner of ah eye. To use a handkerchief would have txren a betrayal. Everybody saw or divined these motions, bnt nobody paid any attention. Tlicy could enter Into each other's feelings, and there was much syrnpa* thy in the silence. There would be time on tbe morrow to think of little but the battle. They were giving their ! thoughts to home now. They wore .wrlttnir those last nreclous words which, whether they lived or died, would Gtnnd for so much to those for Whom they were destined; for they would be expressions of .the heart in fhe face of possible or impending death, when all that is true in a man speaks forth to thoBC lie loves. They were ail writing, I have anhl, but Peyton. To whom should he write? be thought bitterly, as he held the pen idly in his fingers and stared nt the White paper, from which the nobletand beautiful face of Mnry Annan, embodied in the flesh almost, such was the reality of his vision, seemed-to mile up at him. They were, separated as widely as the east Is from the west; nay, why use the ancient simile?why not write, as far as the north wagjrn'n,^ of war and carnage. The blood of lain armies, the cries of women and children, the ahtagoulsms of four blasting years of terrible conflict interyened. Yes, something more. He had deceived her, had broken faith with her, gained her ftffeitloh?ah, had he sained It, after all??under false pre .tenses. i, It had coma to big) in a roundabout Tray, while he had been on the block,rdo during the prist year, that slio had engaged herself to his rival and forfuer friend. Dob Harrow. He had heard nothing of the fate of the latter He knew little of what had happened fit Mobile during those four years. No1 <l direct word had ever cotne to bin from any one who had loved hint. Sin Plight be dead, she might l>c wedded for auglit he knew. Oh, rather the for mer tbilil the latter, be thought fierce |j! If not |n bis arms, then in n 'other's, ffcr bo loved her still with passion that surpassed her own. JJc did not believe that aba was dent Boms word; some warning of It, wou! have been dragged from the tinknow !t>y the compelling character of h feelings. He could not believe thi she was married either. She was i . much his own In bis mind that t! ; thought of marriage to another was i ! most like profanation. She must lo iblnl The war must end some time, fie survived It and she still lived. | EVER WRTCHFIH - ? ?? O...A t I 1A Little Care win cw? 1 I Reader Future Trouble L | Watch the kidney secretions, See that they have the amber hu j health, I The dlschdtges not excessive 01 I frequent. { Contain no brick-dust-like sedinr L I>oan'? Kidney Pills will do thi you. B ; They watch the kidneys and (them when they're sick. Mr. John Zolleis, City Auditoi BB ! siding at 731 Robert street, New '(Ky., says: "A man who has nevei B - backache or kidney complaint in a a^B : its many forms can scarcely gaug ! rotserv a sufferer endures who i , noyod day and night by thisii JgUt - prevalent trouble. To all such oi vice is procure Doan's Kidney Pill 9H ; take a ooarse of the treatment. result of the use of three boxeap B > to me that the remedy is up to rap . jtatiemattd. deserves my unqualit] k > dorsement." ^^^B } ! For sale by all dealers. Fries 60 WBBr ! Foster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo* N. \ agenis'tor the United Slates. B Pt Remember the name?Doan'i take ao other. > ?> 9$: X'1~${& A n?< * '?(i. :u,:\5-;?v,.->! :i-i,J5?sC"^| vnscnd 'Brady r} 15kjr: j*****8*""*.- ^:%&i ki< zr~ : hi TbviwendC Smdv Z-.'.&i;--!:*i-'&'.'Sf n n; might And her again, persuade licr to love hlin. They might bo together onee cr more and for life! cll Bhe had rejected lilin, of course. She gj. had heaped scorn and contempt upon him. Well, from her point of view he . had deserved it. She had looked at . him on the porch ns if she could have ^ killed him. llad her eyes been arrows m he might have been slain, so hate envenomed had been their glance. Yet ^ ha remembered that when Dnn^ Inspired by her mordant had ^ moved forward to strike hlbaMknreslst- , lngly she had blindly Interfered. Why ,1 that? ' lie sat there still with, his pen idle In his hand while his shipmates wrote. Should he writo to her? Would she care? Would she read what he had written? If-he were alive, no; if he were dead, yes, perhaps. Well, If he survived the action matters would be ns they had been before, and if he fell she mlcrht some ilnr mm fnr * 1 <> ?? from his bund. lie would write to her oftcr all. He drew a sheet of paper before him, lifted the pen again and found himself facing another question. What should by say to her? Should be explain, should he appeal, Bliould be Justify himself? Nny, to attempt these things would be useless. Thinking deeply, he resolved what he would da "Take," he wrote, "whatever may be your future, dear, the memory of an affection such as comes to few women. It can neither hurt nor harm you now. And remember"?he could not avoid this one sentence of exculpation?"that If I had not been true to my duty. If I hnd not followed the path where honor led, the affection which I ask j-ou not to forget would have been an Insult, not an honor, to nny honest woman. I And I beg you again to forgive that one kiss on the porch. I have not for, gotten It. It seemed to me at that mo| mcut that you almost loved me. The touch of your lips has abided with mo. I shall take it out Into eternity. The mocking bird lins never sung in my ( car without bringing your picture, your cheek with the color coming, the rise . and fall of your bosom, your eyes ( nshlno In the darkness and looking love Into mine. The song reminds me of you, Mary Annan. Ah, well Is It ^ named .the'Mocking Bird!* This Is all. I would not tiro you. This Ig_oulv.tn~ 1 05& O^br^ornt Is nevertheless thnt , on the eve of a great battle, with death looking me in the face, 1 have told you the truth only, but not all of It. No words can frame, no paper hold, that which is In my heart. Good night, goodby, and God bless you! It was a brief letter, but the most InAittnmnt woman could not have read It unmoved. It breathed n passion that would live, and the most heedless memory could not forget It. There wns something else to be done. There were others to whom his mind turned. His mother, bis sweet faced, soft voiced young mother! Ills heart j had many a time quivered at the recolt lection that she had pleaded for him ^ on the porch. And so be wrote to her e too." Tliere were words for Pink and I, Willis, appeals that they would think >. of him kludly and try to understand y his position. Indeed lie had never foro gotten Willis for the Impulsive yet n generous action which l?n?l prevented him from leaving home without a slnI, gle friendly word. He loved the boy, j 9 man now ajid supporting his flag on i) the wlg))ty Tennessee. There was his ls father too. What did the stern, Irait placable old man think of him now? M War Is a great dispcller of anlmosltie* of one kind. Or It may have been il. peculiar to this particular war that It r6 beat down hatreds and men saw things If more clearly In the mist and smoke of tattle than In the sunlight of peace. m. II? wondered If, from the ramparts ol Fort Morgan, his father had watched the ships with a thought of him ai pften as he had looked at the fort fron a fha dppfc Qt the Hartford. When h had rowed cautiously jip the rhanne to reconnoiter the torpedo line a fe\ nights since, he had almost felt lir he pelled to turn his t>ont Into the wliai ))?ck of the fort In the bay and run t jbbs #!d nml beg, if not for forgln i. ftcss, for a klpd|y j*ofd pf gj-pptlng, ite finished the letters, jncloslr Mary Annan's In the one address?^ i hid mother, lagging her |to fead at deliver It, gip) tbfj) he abandoned hli ie of eeif ^bh} thoughts. Most wf thp pth men In the wurdrpom had finished tb? r in* letters by this time*" as welL Tho . who had completed the task sat slle r for 'or awhile, itarlng at the table, loa to speak. Finally Klmbfjty hroke t care silence. "Here, fellows," he said, "this r, re- never do! We'll go Into action In porfj blue funk If we don't brace up. Sor r h*o body start up n song. Now, dash It i ny of BfiiMint." he continued, as a yonng the """""" *n- lffn Btl,rted 'IIqwc, 8tv it too Home,' not that, not tonight auyfv iy ad* us hare The Bay of Biscay/ la and Give ha a regular old timer. Th The right !" he cried na the ensign's c! roved rolce rose In the room. "Now men, of yon, roma In In the chorus," beat ?d tn* t|m# ?p?aya away! T|>nf'? ft}" ^ Tliej were glad of the reflcf affpi - hy tho song, which seemed to slia j , , J tjie quiet and gloom which hung < I?and them. One song started another. I cutty soma t>ne told a story, and a d capped It wltli another. The room is tilled with laughter and merri?nt for an hour. Presently the black >ward of the wardroom came In with pitcher of water and a rare piece of 'No whisky or liquor tonight, lads," Id Klmberly gayly. ""We'll drink e sweetest toast In the purest liquid. Is getting late. We have had our iir of sadness and our hour of fun. t wam M toast ?1.A UnlnmUw I Kl I r J VU U IUIIOI IUU UIIIUIUMJ ght toast. Come, everybody. take a hhs. What, Peyton, ore you going?" "Yo*, Kim," answered Peyton, "I?I I think I'll go up on deck and rewe Yates. He has a wife, you low. and he can drink the toast. 1?I t don't need to." "We'll drink It for you, old man!" led Ileywood, the marine officer, tipping htm affectionately on the loulder. "And, my lad," said Klraberly, graspg his hand, "we know the clrcurunpces, of course. We feel for you. 'e wish somebody else was In comnnd of that fort." "I don't," said Peyton sternly. "My ' itlier will put up a light that will : ake your hair turn gray, and that's 1 hat you want. And I reckon my rothcr will keep up his end on the = ennessee too." e "Ilcfore we drink the toast, fellows," t ild Watson, v "let's give three cheers 3 >r the Peytons?the old man In the I step sounded on the deck beside Mm, brcaktmj his reverie. ort, the hoy oo the Tennessee and onr >wn messmate on the Hartford. lh.Miik God, there Is good fighting blood in nil of them." The little room rang with clieors ns Peyton sprang up the companion ladder with n heart so full that he could scarcely contain himself., km Vnt,sown neiow, Peyton, leaning over the hatchway, heard Kimbcrly give the immortal toast of the navy, "Sweethearts and wives?may the former soon be the latter and the latter always be the former." Boyd Peyton stood on the poop deck leaning against the Parrott rifle, still taring at the fort. A step sounded on the deck beside him, breaking his reverie. lie turned to meet the admiral. The old man walked with as Jaunty a step ns if lie had been a boy. | "Asleep or dreaming, Mr. Peyton?" he asked, smiling. "Neither, sir; Just watching Fort Morgan." "How peaceful It looks! And you were thinking pf'? "Of my father and brother, sir; of home and mother, nnd Mary Annan up the bay." The night, the silence, the loneliness, made the young man more communicative. The ndmjral Inspired confidence and welcomed It. ye had known Peyton ever since the latter graduated from the academy, and the younger man loved him with unusual affection, which the admiral reciprocated in full. "Ah, that's her name. Is it?" said th< old sailor, gently aud kindly. "Well pray God that we may come tlirougl safely, and that there will be no mon heartaches in homes than is absolutely necessary." JKe laid his firm, wel . shaped hand upon the young officer' j shoulder In a kindly, sympatui-u j touch. "Keep n bright lookout, Pej ^ ton," he snld nt lost, "and don't lies c tate to call me If anything suspicion ,| occurs. It would not surprise me ! Y Buchanan came out witty flie ram 1 ^ attack us at any moment. It woul ,f disappoint me dreadfully If he dl 0 though. I want to cntch him Insld e. now that we ore ready, and finish i the whole Job at one blow. When _ tljp enslgq of the watch?" Ip "Forward. fir" |d "When 1 was on the Essex, I reran n_ ber, os a midshipman, just turn er eleven years of age, I went to sic ?lr P't ft pmr!nftp l1) ft mldwal ae one night. The watch officer saw r ut and Instead of waking me up he nctu tb covered me over with his Jacket n be let me sleep on," said the admiral r< Inlscently. "I ought to have been co fin martmad in ir( I>IH J*TP , ft grateful to him, and I've never fori ne_ ten his reprimand either." ? 11 ?' ?I1 "No one on wbicu wm imry ?? < en' Admiral." eel "No, I suppose not. There jr. WMgM# grl?? enough to keep tl O!' awake now. How's the wind?" nt's "Little enough, sir; but what thei lear ! from the southwest." , all "That Is where we want It L ting black over there too." "Vps, sip; J tJiInK we ?baU get (led othep SQuall oI rain." iter "Well, rain or shine, we go In aver I the flood In the morning. I thl 'res- I shall turn in now, and as soon as sec- I watch is over Qo try to get a Half-Sick I ^ ** I first used Aycr's Sarsaparilla in the fall of 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring as a blood-purifying and nerve-strengthening medicine." ? S. T. Jones. Wichita, Kans. If you feel run down, are easily tired, if your | nerves are weak and your I blood is thin, then begin I to take the good old stand- B ard family medicine?I Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's I a nerve lifter, a blood I builder. SI.MaMite. AIUroaW?- D Aak yonr doctor what ho think* of this B grand old family medicine. Follow his I ad Y toe and wo wfll be satUtlcd. J ^ To hasten recovery, keep the I liver active and the bowels regular I with Ayer's Pills. All vegetable. I J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. | deep. Kemoniher tlint 1, tlmt we, that he country, needs the best there la in rou tomorrow." CHAPTER XXXI. "OCTTEll IX THE MORXIXO." a FEW dnys before the battle the Ivanhoc, a blockade runner, bad been chased ashore 1 "Under the Runs of Fort Mor- ' itnn, where she had been destroyed by ?oinc or tue ngut drart gunboats Gf the fleet. While with a party of men From the fort, endeavoring to save some of her cargo, Beverly Annan had been struck in the abdomen by a piece of a shell. The wound was necessarily fatal. Mary Annan had been at once summoned from Mobile by telegraph and had come down to the fort on a tugboat, with Dr. Bampncy and Hamilton Pleasants, now a colonel onjUenerol Maury's staff. Tempo was not allowed to eoine, but had remained at Annandale under the care of Mrs. Peyton and Pink. Oh, the cruel, cruel war! It had robbed her of father and of the man who loved her; It had parted her from the man she loved, and now its ensanguined hands were reached out to take from her the last who could transmit her honored name. And he was only a hoy, a child. She might have been spared this, surely. Her eyes blurred so with tears that she could not see, yet there was a thought In all her anguish?she hated herself for Its lodgment In her mind?that with every passing hour she was drawing nenrer to Peyton! As (they swept past the three ConfederdVj t ~*1 Fonclifd '?ennSssee them, yA10 gently tossing wnt?,.^_^ ?l. ..~1 I- -^..1- D|.,lo BUU1C uum.y.m. ivivumv two, oirni, oiuioter, menacing, Impregnable. Tlio light smoke/that curled around the top of the tsjh stack Indicated that she had steam )np, and the absence of the usual deck jf,ear would have told a practiced eye that she was stripped for action. They passed close to her, so close thpt Willis Peyton on the superstructure recognised Mary Annan and her escorts and lifted and waved bis cap, wondering the while what had t?*?*??ht them down there. They were very near the fort now. Presently they drew up at the landing, and a few minutes' toilsome walking over the shifting sandy shore brought them to the cavernous mouth of tlic sally port. Challenge*! thppo, they waited until the othcor of the guard appeared and, recognizing them, conducted them into the fort and thence into the brick citadel proper. There General Peyton himself met them, lie looked much as he had before the war ?a little older, a little whiter, a little grimmer; that was all. There was nothing but kindness In his face now, however. He had alwayi loved Mary Annan. She had been al most like a daughter to him. Now tha her own father had gone he felt like i father to her. Indeed he had hope* * that he might be In that position t her some day before his boy turne his back npon the south and broke hi j father's heart. Ah, many a day hn the old man mounted the rampart an 8 stared at the ships, thinking of that la c who had gone away! General Peytc wm Hovrriv Annan, too. for h I ?- ? father's and sister's sake as well i !* for liis own, and It ha# grieve# hi sorely thflt Wghf faced. P?*oi , hearted rotang lad should be strlek< ? down. ' "IIow Is he?" cried the girl as so as she saw the general. lP The old man shook bis head moui i 8 fully. "Is tlieta no chance, ho hope?" "My dear,** he snld, taking her ha ^ In both his hands, "you are a so\die sweet heart" ?she wince# pt tMl ch "and you pre p soldlef'g slatef. ^ ne must bear Hi Tbo poor l>oy! IIo ia|[ giving bis all for the south and tl n(j dag," he added, lifting his hat as ?m- h*01"*1 UP the tall staff with 1 urt white starred blue St. Andrew's cr p^n stretched over Its red rloulinu folds. CONTINUED ON 6TH PAGE. IOX, Dr. R. M. Dorse; Specialist ??k* on diseases of the EYE and I an- ?and? OPTICIAN. with Successor to H. R. Goodell nk 1 Alexander's Mnlie Hall, Spa Utile S?r?? 8- 41 [he Outing Sea; Frmlnlne I.ojclc. 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Cairy Glanton, Miu* err a Armstrong, Mamie Hardy, Theodore Hardy, Sonny Washington, aid William ilenry Hardy, Louise Washington, Henryade Washington, Bernard Washington and Mabel Washingion. infants, and Mrs. E. K Dun* bar. Defendant*. Tn tlm T\of<it.<binto? V"-? i*-?**? * w ???v tM.iviuiuiiiot a uu mc iitrcoj uuiiro ted ai.d required to answer the omplamt in this action. a copy of which j heieby eerved upon you, ai.d to mre copy < f your answer to 1 lie Paid comtlaint upon the sulx-criber at his ? ffloe, innilxr?, Washington street, Columbia, South Carolina, within twenty days iltcr the service, hereof, exclusive of the lay c f euch service. If you fail toanwer the cotnplaiut within the time VMftrfUMiAS: d in the complaint James S. Veiinku, r.aintifl'd Attorney, March 20, 1903. I Fuank Peake, Clerk of Court U. C. 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