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The Southerners. [Continued From 3rd Page.) or color to her pale chock. "1 know," she murmured. "I know. I have your letter." From over her heart she held It forth In 11 trembling hand. "Your letter written befuie the battle. 1 think I should have died when you were brought here had it not been for this." "Mary Annan," he said presently, "I nui a United States otttcer. 1 am the enemy of your?of your government. I have done my best against your cause. I have given myself to the Union with all my heart. I stood with Admiral Farragtg on the Hartford ready to lead the lieet into Mobile bay if I . should be asked or needed. This is the uniform in whleli I was driven away. In this I have come back to you. I>o you love me? Will you take me? Will you go with me In spite of all these things?*' There was a long silence in the room. The girl lying there covered her face with her hand. As for I'eyton, his heart almost stopped its beating. Would she rise to this test? Was her love great enough for this sacrifice? She had repudiated him because of these things. Would she give herself to him In spite of them now? lie leaned forward under the impulse of his emotion and then slowly rose to his feet and stood holding the arms of the chair tremblingly, looking down at her. "Speak to me," he whispered. "For Cod's sake, answer!" "I am yours, Itoyd," she murmured, taking away her hand at last. "There I.. .... ......#1. * ?' i.-rr IIMI PUlllll IH'i IHH Wl'M, now tlint .von arc licro and alive. Love is all to luo. There are none of us left now l?ut Tempo and myself. I have only you. If you will forjrlve me?and take tue back. You kissed me onee," she said, "on the porch that night. Will you"? "Thank God! Thank God!" he whispered. When they found him, ho was kneeling by the bedside, his bowed head resting upon her outstretched hand, and there was sueli a look of peace and rest upon the girl's face that they knew she had Indeed passed from death into life. ?. CHATTER XLIV. THE MESSAGE IflSOM THE DEAD. h, it was springtime once more, and morning. They sat on ESSE the porch at Annandale toget her. lloyd Teyton had not been exchanged, lie had been so ill so long that the war had ended leaving him still a prisoner. It was the 1'Jth of April, lNtjo. Richmond had fallen, I.eehail surrendered, the iutrcncluucnts of the Spanish fort ut lllakely had been stormed. General Maury had retreated, and the Federal troops were entering the city. The end had come. The Confederacy was no more. God had decided that the Union could not and should not be broken. Soldiers in strange blue uniforms were tilling the streets. A regiment of bronzed vet oralis marched up Government street, fluttering above them the stars and stripes. Their band was playing?hateful tune in the people's ears?"John Brown's Body." It had been a long time since that flag had been seen in Mobile, and as Boyd I'eyton had been the last to salute it then he will the flrst to salute it now. As the regiment marched by, heading for the Shell road, where it was expected some further resistance might be made by the Confederates, a general otlicer, surrounded by a dusty and weather beaten staff of hard campaigners, drew rein before Amiandale House. A question to a surly passerby elicited that this was the home of Miss Mary Annan. The general sprang from his horse, threw the reins to an orderly and came clanking up the walk toward the house. Boyd Peyton descended the steps to meet him. "I am General Carpenter of the Union army," said the otlicer, removing his hat and staring at the other's uni form in great surprise. * ,7And I am Boyd Peyton, lieutenant in the United States navy." "What!" cried the young otlicer. "Not Peyton of the llartfordV" y "Yes, sir." "Not the officer who took the Metaconiet's boat to tlie rescue of the Tecumseli's men?" , "Yes, sir." "Man, I congratulate you! The country inng witli your exploit, sir! By gad, sir, it was one of the bravest deeds of the war!" "Thank you, sir. IIow is Admiral .P..*'/" "What! Haven't you heard? Where liave you been?" "I have been desperately ill and a prisoner for over nine months." "Of course, of course, and we thought you dead. Well, the admiral is well, lie is a vice admiral now and will be a full admiral before congress gets through with him." "Good!" said Peyton. "lie deserves It." "And you? Haven't you heard about yourself?" "I have heard nothing, General Carpenter." "Well, it gives me great pleasure to tell you the news, sir. You have been promoted to n full captaincy In the navy on the admiral's urgent recommendation, and a medal of honor has been awarded you. Gad, tip? country thought you dead; they said in congress it was giving honors to a dead man, but they'll rejoice to timl you nlive to claim your reward. The war Is over. Itieliinond has fallen. General Grant has I,cc corralled. Thank God, we'll all get home in a short time now. r.ut I am looking for a Miss Mary Annan, and I ain told she lives here," _ *1 am Mary Annan, sir." said tUa Costs Only 25 cents n" Hail 25 casta to C. < DR. C. J. MOFFF.TT-Dear Dor tor: Mowders) to our little grand child ?rft were almost magical, and eertatnlg m we ever used. Yours rergtm jAow Rishop Southern Methodist Vhu gifl, coining to tlic railing of the porch and looking ilotvn upon J he two. She had heard everything. The feeling in her heart now was of mingled joy that her lover's valor and courage had been so splendidly rewarded, and of sorrow for the tinal downfall of the south she still loved next to him. And v?<* ?n?? was strangely relieved tbat it was all over at last. While Boyd Peyton was by no means restored to his former health, Mary Annan was her old self once more?a little of the youth gone, some of the gayety vanished, but with the softening touches that trouble gives and with the joy that love adds, to take the place of what had disappeared. She stood quiet and composed, her hands resting upon the railing, her cheeks tilled with color, her eyes ashiue, looking down at the two men. "By Jove!" exclaimed the ofllcer, staring at her in bewilderment at her loveliness. "Forgive me, madam," he added with the blunt frankness of a soldier, "but I have not seen anything so beautiful since I left home three years since. I have something for you, ma'am." "This is Miss Mary Annan, Geuernl Carpenter," said Peyton. "Miss Annau. General Carpenter of the Union army." "Something for me, sir?" she said. "What can it be? What is it, pray?" "A letter, ma'am," said the olllcer, fumbling in his breast pocket. "From whom, sir?" "Madam, 'tis your own," he said, , producing a crumpled envelope with , %,M>j Idler!" she crtcct, starting buck. dark brown eta ins over one corner of it, where a round hole marked the passage of a bullet. "My letter!" she cried, starting back. "I took it from the hand of a dying officer," said Carpenter softly, "at the battle of Chlckauiauga. lie led the last assault on our troops at Snodgrass hill. They were driven back, but it was not until he was shot down. I ran out of our line toward him. He was lying on his face, lie had this letter in his hand. He was saying something." "What was it?" gasped the girl. "I only caught a word or two." "They were"? " 'Tell .Mary,' aud then he said 'free,' and that was all." "Poor fellow!" said Mary Annan softly, clasping 1 lie letter and forgetting the others for a moment, "poor fellow, lie loved inc indeed!" "What became of the body, sir?" asked Peyton, who had heard from his sister of Harrow's last charge, although lie had known nothing of Mary Annan's letter. "I buried him there on the field and marked the spot so that I could identify it." "Ho shall be brought back to Mobile when the war is over if you will tell me where he lies." "I will. You may command me at j any time," returned the soldier. "I | kept tin* letter. I only examined the J date am! signature in order that I i might find where it was to be deliv- J ered, and 1 am glad to have Riven It back to its writer." Von are very Rood." cm id the girl I faintly, "anil 1 thank you for your trouble." "So trouble at all. ma'am," said the j general. "Captain Peyton, you will I be wanting to go north douotless. t There will be a transport railing for New York "tomorrow noon. I can arrange to take jou." "Thank you. general. I shall go on her. of course." "Is there anything more I can do for you ?" "No. sir; noli,In;*. fJcodhv." "Ooodhy", sir; good by, madam." *??*?** "Mary Annan." said Peyton sternly, turning toward the girl where sho stood with bowed head, the letter crushed between her hands, tears streaming down her cheeks, "what WttS in ti it letterV" ... , BTrojpHCms Clolara-Infantum, PHMViII Diarrhoea,Dysentery, and the Bowel Troubles of A Children of Any Age. "" JW^JAIds Digestion, Regulates OWDKRVMM the Bowels, Strengthens , _* the Child and Makes t at Druggists, teething easy. J. MOFFETT, M. D.. ST. LOUIS. MO. Cetumhum, fin.. Aug, 84, 1812, , We gave your TKKTHIKA ? Teething Us the happiemt results. The effecf* ore aatimfactory than front a nut hi no ulu, JOSF.PtT 8. KKY, rcn.) Jsatar of Bt, I\xul Churvh, Ho could not kwp from bis voice l,,. 1~ ?? Ul- ? A ? - mi- jvuiwuoj in uih uvan. no uiu not doubt the girl's lovo. He could not. llut what bad she written to this man who also had loved her? There was agony in the suspense. "Boyd," said the girl, "you have no right to question me in this way. You know that all uiy heart is yours; that my love, my life, is given to you; that I aiu about to abandon home, friends, country?everything?for you. Yet .1 enn deny you nothing. Here is the letter. Take It and read it for yourself." "No," sakl Peyton, touehed by her words; "1 will not read It. Let It be your secret and his. I trust you all in j all." ! "Nay," she cried, "now you must read it. You shall or I shall tell you of it. It was the letter In which I told j him I could not marry him and In | which I begged him to release met and 1 gave him the reason." "That was"? "Because 1 knew that I loved you, and only you; that's all." ' CHAPTER XLV. "WIIITlIEll T1IOIT COEST I WILE GO." ' HERE was a quiet little wed1 ding in the juirlor at Annandale t,lc next morning. Old j->r Bampney read the service, with Willis and Pleasants, who had been taken prisoners and Were permit*.-<1 4.. 1... ? - ? iv wiut ifj ucuirui vurpcnicr, nnd Watson from the. blockading fleet and the general himself for witnesses, and with Pink Peyton and Tempo to attend Mary Annan. There the words were said which made them man and wife. Pink would marry Pleasants when he was released, which would be only a question of a few days. Boyd Peyton could not stay in Mobile. There was no welcome for him there, and there would not lie for many n day. Mary Annan would not be parted from him again. As she had said, they were i all gone whom she loved but Boyd f Peyton, and he would fain take her I with him as his wife. Leaving many ' messages for his mother with Willis 1 and a plea for his father's forgiveness. which some day baby hands would win, the two and little Tempo went j quietly away. ( That night they stood on the deck of i the transport fast approaching the ( mouth of the bay, bound to that north which appeared so cold and so unfriendly to poor Mary Annan. She had given up everything to follow liiin. Down below in one of the cabins Tempo was asleep. They had taken her with them to make a new home and begin a new life in what was to botli of them a new land. The nlglit had fallen when they passed by the ruined nnd shattered walls of Port Morgan. There Mary Annan had watched her little brother die. There the ships had engaged in a mighty death grapple in that last Homeric contest. There her lover had Kim-hen uowii wane she line! watched the eoullict from the grassy ramparts. The red tlag with its blue. St. Andrew's cross and its white stars hail been hauled down from that fort, never to wave over it again. No longer was that tlag lifted upon a staff anywhere in the land. No longer did men rally to its deft use, sternly resolved to die rather than let it fall to the dust, rutin r than disgrace should touch it. 4 It was the tlag of a cause that was ' lost, hut for generations its defenders ! and tlie'.r children's children would hold it i:i precious and tender memory. ^ consecrated by love, hallowed by valor, t made sacred by death, endeared by de- l fiat. . I It was night as the vessel dipped * past the fort and headed for the open 4 sea. Hand in hand the young husband [ and wife leaned over Hie taffrail aft . and gazed back at Fort Morgan. The . war was over. There was peace In the ^ land. As they looked then? came across i the dark waters the notes of a bugle C playing the sweetest call and tlie saddest that talis upon a soldier's car: "Taps. Lights out. tlood night. Farewell." ^ THE END. I Too Much For the Ointance. Lacing men tell n story concerning an overar,.:ions Iiorso o\\*ner and a par- , tie.:! :;rl.\ conscientious rider. Ttie horse owner liad issued fall orders as to the way a horse wa:s to bo ridden in a com- . lug race to a small negro boy, the only rider be could secure. The original ord TS then were added to. with provl- ' sions for all sorts of emergencies, until , the jockey became bewildered. "Look yore, boss," the boy broke In ! at iast. "Dis yore race is only oue mile. , 1 kain't do all you done tokl me in just one mile," . Ills Full. ' "Speaking of bad falls," remarked Joggers, "T fell out of a window once, and the sensation was terrible. During my transit through the air I really j believe I thought of every mean net I ever committed in my life." "Il'm!" growled Jiggers. "You must have fallen an awful distance!"?St Louis Star. n Make* Her Dumb. Nodd ? What! You are out every 1 night until 3! Isn't midnight late " enough? g Todd? I find that when 1 get home c at midnight my wife can talk to me, a but when I got home at 3 words fell 8 her.?Life. ? - - Id tircntcrtt PnUIm of History. 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