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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" ... ,
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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.
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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.
Burke in his letter on "Natural Society''
says that Sylln destroyed 300,000
men lu each of three battles, one being
at Cberonen. The Persians are said to
have lost 1230,000 men nt PlaUoa. II
Chronicles xlli, 17, records 500,000 slain
on one side, which, however, may not
have been in a single battle. I Kings
xx, 20. tells of 100,000 men being killed
on one side in a single day.
1 X
Filial Repartee.
Ilk-hard Itrlusley Sheridan, who was
always distressed for money, was one
day hacking Ills face with a dull razor
when he turned to Ids eldest son aud
said:
"Tom, if you open nny more oysters
with my razor I'll cut you off with a
shilling."
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where will you get the shilling?"
He Is the happiest who renders the
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"Is it true, Miss Gertie," he said,
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"No," she answered; "there is a third,
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After thinking the matter over a few
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Not Appreciated.
Rjenks?It certainly seems to mo that
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Bjones?No doubt. But he can't have
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Marriage by capture is a very old
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means averse to the mild violence.
a - *
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In the reigns of the Tudor princes
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A most interesting phenomenon is
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>y. The stubborn husband is as interesting
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I
Don't you complain too much, anil
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