Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, April 11, 1913, Image 6

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    = Bellefonte, Pa., April 11, 1913.
SHENANDOAH
HENRY TYRRELL
Founded on
BRONSON HOWARD'S
Great Play
A Stirring Story of
Military Adventure
and of a Strange
Wartime Wooing
Copyright. 1912, by G. P. Putnam's
Sons
SYNOPSIS
Beauregard is ready to fire on Fort Sum-
ter. Frank Haverill, General Haverill's
scapegrace son, is hiding in Charleston
Edward Thornton annoys Mrs. Haverill
Lieutenant Kerchival West protects her
and wounds Thornton in a duel. Fort
Bumter Is fired upon.
Haverill unjustly suspects West. He
sends Frank a miniature of Mrs. Haverill
to help reform him. Frank enlists in the
Union army
Captain Robert Ellingham, Confederate,
loves Madeline West. Lieutenant West,
Union soldier, loves Gertrude Ellingham.
The Union army is routed at Bull Run.
Ellingham is with “Stonewall” Jackson
in the valley of Virginia. Gertrude decides
to return to the Ellingham home at Belle
Bosquet, in the valley
She gets through the Union lines ac-
companied by Belle Boyd, a Confederate
spy. They meet Thornton, who is a pris-
oner,
[Continued from last week-]
CHAPTER VI.
Shenandoah’s Daughter,
RESENTLY an orderly came in
with a telegram from General
Fisher to General Kelly. Its
purport was that the ladies had
been sent south at their own request,
and no turther intervention would be
practicable.
“A pretty plight we're in!" exclaimed
Gertrude. more loudly than she was
aware. “We can't go south, we can't
return north, and we can't remain
here.”
“I'll tell you how you can get sent
on,” said one of the Federal guard.
“You jest holler for Jeff Davis, and
you'll get sent on quick enough.”
“Hurrah for the Confederate flag!"
cried Belle Royd in shrill, sheer bra-
vado.
Then, as nobody came in response,
she led the way back to General Kelly's
office.
“It was just as | feared, ladies,” suid
that officer gallantly. “Now. the only
thing I can suggest is that maybe you
would be willing to take the oath of
allegiance. That would simplify mat-
ters. What do you say?"
They said nothing. but followed the
general into an adjoining room, where
¥ couple of staff officers sat at a writ-
ing desk. Federal soldiers were loung-
ing all about, smoking and noise mak-
ing. A man at the desk started to read
the oath ulond. Before he had finished
the first sentence Belle Boyd cried out:
“Great saints: It's the ‘Ironclad! =
“We won't listen to it! declared tin
trude prompily.
With that the two turned and march-
ed out of the room. A loud roar of
laughter went up. in which Genera!
Kelly joined
“Just ax | expected.” said he.
thought you were game.”
“Now, what nest. general?
Belle Royd heerily.
“If we must be hung, please notity
us.” added Gertrude
“Another alternative presents (tselt *
the genern! went on. seriously enonuy:
Bow. “Strange to say, there appears to
be a Washington end to this affair, and
1 am expecting shortly to get word
from headquarters. In any event. you
will have to stop here over night. So if
you will make yourselves us comfort:
able as circumstances permit we will
tiope for the best and await develop-
ments.”
it was late in the evening when next
they saw General Kelly. He handed
them a telegram which be bad just
received from Washington, It read: |
Miss Page and Mrs. Smith are friends
of mine. See them through if you can. |
It not, wili send on an officer to Har-
pers Ferry tonight. Answer.
BUCKTHORN.
~ “It is from Major General Buck-
thorn.” explained General Kelly. “And
Pere is a copy of my answer to him:
Will see them through. You need not
send. KELLY.
i
asked
As soon as they were alone together
Belle Boyd asked Gertrude:
“Who on earth is Major General
Buckthorn? | have never heard of
him.”
“1 bave,” replied Gertrude, “and he
is ao influential Federal commander,
as you may well believe. But how he
ever knew of my being here in a
scrape at Harpers Ferry and why he
comes to my rescue as a friend in time
of need, seeing we have never met
personally, 1 can't for the life of me
onderstand—unless, unless— Oh, |
wonder? But, tel me—I am dying of
curiosity ahout that Confederate pris-
oner who spoke to us—Captain Thorn-
ton, was it not?"
“Yes. You know him?"
“The Edward Thornton whom |
knew in Charleston did not have that
horrid scar on his face.”
“It comes in very well as a dis
guise, then." laughed Belle Boyd. “for |
am going to help him. This meeting |
bas changed my plans. so you won't |
mind going on alone from Berryville,
will you, dear? I mean Miss Page.”
“No. except that T shall miss your
companionship and the confidence you
inspire in me—Mrs. Smith.”
Here General Kelly's orderly came
to announce that an ambulance would
be ready to take the ladies at day-
break, and would they mind sharing
their room for the night with a lady
and ber three children on their way
to Charleston?
The remainder of Gertrude's journey
was comparatively uneventful, though
it did seem odd at one point to bave
the Federal cavalrymen who escorted
the ambulance called into requisition
those who knew of his disgrace.
Union army of the Missouri.
With sinking heart Colonel! Haverill
thought of the unknown dead of the
j great battle of Shiloh, on the far Ten-,
nessee. And then. remembering that’
all evidences of his son's existence in
' so far as the anxious young wife and
mother in Washington were concerned.
had ceased some months back, he only
shook his head when Edith and Mrs.
Haverill asked him daily if be had
learned any tidings.
The colonel and his wife were none
the less fond of their southern wards,
Gertrude and Robert Ellingham, now
that of necessity they no longer stood
toward them in loco p.rentis.
Whatever stern military aloofness the
Federal military officer may have felt
; obligatory upon him was compensated
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Sick and Wounded Soldiers Who Filled |
the Wards. i
to protect her against southern strag- |
glers as they neared the lines. She
was still nominally a Federal prisoner.
Nearing Winchester. a sentry demand- |
ed the young lady's papers.
“1 have no papers and need none,”
she answered. “I am at home now. |
am Miss Ellingham. and 1 am going to
Belle Bosquet. My brother is in Gen-
eral Jackson's First brigade.”
The Federal captain who had escort-
ed her opened his eyes at this and said:
“l am sorry to release you, Miss
What's-your-name. You might have
more chance for enjoyment if you were
to remain north. | mean,” he added.
catching a dangerous gleam in Ger
trude’s eye. “that you must find it dull
in the south. with no beaux nor noth
ing.”
“Our beaux are in the field, where
they belong, sir’ retorted the giri
bhaughtily.
The captaiu bowed gallantly and
made his adieu. Then Gertrude asked
the gray garbed sentry where General
Jackson's army was located at the wo-
ment.
“Lawd bless you. miss, nobody
knows. He mought be in Richmond by
now or he mought be in Washington
They do say as how a letter come along
once address to ‘Gineral Jackson, Some.
where,’ and he got it at Woodstock
But that was ‘way back two weeks
ago.” .
Mrs. Haverill, the colonel’s wife, had
an anxious and busy time of it in
Washington. Seeing little of her hux-
band and that little at moments when
he was overworked and morose. she
found congenial distraction in the com.
panionship of Edith Haverill, Frank's
wife, for what the fugitive had told
Kerchival West at Charleston was con-
firmed when the elder Mrs. Haverill
went to New York and found the un-
fortunate young woman suffering in
silence, full of loyalty. courage and
gratitude, but in reality knowing nu
more about Frank's whereahonts than
any one else did.
At the warm insistence of the Haver-
fils. Rdith came on to Washington and
took up her home with them. Here ner
baby boy was born and they chris-
tened him after his father, so that the
name of Frank Haverill should still be
familiarly spoken in the houschold.
Then the two women, like so many
others both of gentle birth and of
lowly station, but above all sisters in
affliction, engaged in the work of min-
istering to the sick and wounded sol-
diers who filled the wards of the im-
provised hospitals in the patent office
building and elsewhere,
At irregular intervals during the year
Edith had received sums of money
from an anonymous source, carefully
concealed, but somewhere in the army.
She knew it was from her husband.
but the only time any word ac-
companied the envoy was shortly after
the birth of her baby. when a brief
loving message filed the young
fuother’s heart with joy and gratitude.
This communication afforded no tan-
gible clue as to the writer's where-
abouts, but it was the means of set-
ting on foot a systematic search on
the part of Colonel Haverill, who be-
neath the mask of Spartan indiffer-
ence had in reality rejoiced at hearing
of his son’s resolution to make atone-
ment by enlisting as a soldier, as re-
ported by Kerchival West after the
farewell secret interview at Charles-
ton a year ago.
Knowing that Columbia college, New
York city, had furnished a large num-
ber of recurits to the local volunteer
regiments at the first call of President
Lincoln, Colonel Haverill directed his
inquiries among such of Frank's
former classmates as he could locate
in the army. He was sucessful to the
extent of ascertaining that his son had
taken special pains. in enlisting, to
avoid any possible comradeship with
by a new tenderness on the part of
Mrs. Haverill, particularly toward Ger-
trude, whom she regarded as the inno-
cent victim of a most unfortunate po-
litical misunderstanding. This feeling
i Gertrude reciprocated and equally with.
, out a suspicion of resentment.
Mrs. Haverill and Gertrude. as has
been intimated. maintained a practical
ly continuous correspondence. Ger-
~ trude wrote regularly to her Confeder
' ate brother. Robert Ellingham.
Made-
lire West, on the other side of the
. Mason and Dixon line. also wrote to
Robert, her “rebel” sweetheart, in a
nonpartisan way. which also was quite
different from sisterly Of course. Bob
' wrote to both the girls. and it would
have been highly embarrassing if he
had ever got the epistlex mixed Made:
line answered the copious letters and
inquiries of her brother. Kerchival
West. as best she could
Jenny Buckthorn wax heard to re
mark that Captain Heartsease's pen
; was mightier than bix sword. =o there
' must have heen some epistolary inter:
| change between these two also when
the captain was away from Washing
| ton. As for General Buckthorn. still at
home slowly recovering from his
wound, and Colonel Haverill, preoceu
pled with active military responsibili-
ties, these two old soldiers stuck dog
gedly to their respective duties and
kept their own counsel. i
Such was the complicated. unorgan
ized system of “grapevine telegraph.”
which in civil war time practically did
the service of what in latter days would
be called the wireless.
Gertrude had been home in the val
ley perhaps a fortnight when she re
ceived the following illuminative epis
tle from her brother:
Charlottesville, June 15
Dearest Sister—We have left the valley
I suppose to join in the defense of Rich-
mond. You know what that means under
Jackson. This is the first moment | have
found to write to you since you decided to
quit for home. 1 know what you have
passed through, but do you know how It
came about that you got through as luck-
fly as you did? Probably not. Now, | will
tell you. It was all very well for the
Richmond department to send you in ver:
tain company by way of Baltimore, but
when it came to the pinch at Harper's
Ferry influence at Washington had to be
brought to bear. Whose Influence? Gen:
eral Buckthorn's. General Buckthorn
must have acted at the prompting of som:
other Federal officer, presumably Colone!
H. And how did our dear colonel happen
to be so alert in behalf of a couple of
southern women traveling at their own
risk?
Gertrude Kerchival W. is, or was. in
Washington either on sick leave or on
some confidential mission. He must have
moved heaven and earth and even strain
ed a point or two of discipline for your
sake. | don't know the exact circum-
stances. but | do know old Kerchiva!
God bless him! He can't help it if he is
Yank.
Now you know what he did for you un
perhaps you will understand the ug!:
look it must have taken for him at Wash
ington when | tell you that your danger
ous traveling companion took advantag.
of the situation to wheedle the Feder:
guard at Berryville intc making an ex.
change of prisoners with our guard and
thus rescued a certain secret service offi '
cer whom you and | know only ton we!|
and who is now back again in the Confed-
erate service. What is to come of it ull |
don’t know, but, sis, be careful. Keep thi-
closely to yourself and never forget it.
When you wiil next hear from me and
what you will hear no mortal can predict
—except that | shall be found In the lin.
of duty. May heaven bless and keep ur
all is the constant prayer of your errant
brother.
2 — a,
CHAPTER VII.
“He's a Yankee Spy!”
HILE Gertrude Ellingham read
and reread and pondered and
cried over this letter and
kissed it furtively, as if in
concealment from her very self, the
tdve army corps of McClellan, having
encountered the defensive Confederate
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McClellan Opened His Assault Near
Mechanicsville,
forces now under direct command of
General Robert BE. Lee, had fought the
indecisive battle of Fair Oaks, other-
wise called Seven Pines, and were
lined up along the Chickahominy
stream, almost within gunshot of Rich-
mond,
They thought Lee had detached a
corps and sent it westward to re-en-
force Jackson in the valley. Instead,
Jackson was sweeping eastward to join
Lee, who more than a year after the
commencement of the war was at last
to take active command of a large
army in the field.
are steadier than I am.”
Lee's lines of defense at Beaver dam,
near Mechanicsville. on the Chicka-
hominy. It was the first of the Seven
Days’ battles, soon to go into history.
There was fierce fighting every day
that week—at Gaines’ Mill, Savage Sta-
tion, Glendale, all through the dark
and desolate White Oak swamp and
along the sluggish, noisome Chicka-
hominy. Jackson, in his old time fight-
ing form again. in the field with Lee.
Stuart and Longstreet, strove to make
up for lost time and did his full share
in forcing the enemy steadily back
from Richmond. But that enemy was
McClellan, a foe of different caliber |
from any the Virginians hitherto bad |
i
McClellan was indeed doggedly fall- |
ing back toward the James river, but |
as soon as he got into communication |
with the Federal gunboats on that
stream he concentrated his artillery on
Malvern hill and make a stand which |
ted that his so called
“change of base” from the York to the |
James river. whatever necessity may |
have dictated it, was a military move
ment executed in masterly fashion. |
Amid the horrors of that retreat—
in which were included thousands of |
sick and wounded who could not have |
stirred but for the dread of the to-
bacco warehouses in which the south-
erners penned their prisoners of war—
a young lieutenant clad in the rem-
nants of a blue uniform which at first
opportunit® he exchanged with a dead
soldier for a suit of dingy gray, crept
off into the thickets of the Willis
Church road along the slope of the
hill,
Parched with fever and crippled
with a wounded foot. he lay there all
night in the feverish damps., then
pressed on at daybreak in what he
thought to be the direction in which
the Federal troops had moved off the
night before. >
As he drew near what looked like a
deserted cabin in a lonely gulch. &n
old. dilapidated looking negro ran out.
and. glancing at the fugitive's ani-
form. implored him to “jest send a
'spatch to Charleston that old marster
General McClellan on the threshold
Captain Thornton is in the secret serv- | Under an assumed name he had in all ©f bis grand opportunity at the gates of
fce. He is a comrade of mine. and | ' probability gone south and joined the Richmond opened his assault upon
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He Drew Near What Looked Like a
Deserted Cabin.
was sick and los” in de wilderness, an’
den wmebbe somebody would send or
come to git him.”
The young wayfarer would bave
been glad to get off a dispatch some:
where eise in his own behalf, but that
signitied nothing. He followed the
gaunt old negro into the cabin.
There. on a bed of juniper boughs.
lay gasping and choking a Confederate
soldier with a ghastly bullet hole in
his forehead. and the stamp of denth
on his livid face. An elderly, gray
kaired man. evidently n surgeon. knelt
on the ground and made feeble efforts
to minister, to the comfort of the dying
one, while his own teeth chattered and
his hands shook with ague.
' “Dat's Dr. Ellingham,” the negro
whispered, “and he’s one of de richest
men in Charleston, when he's home.
But we ain't got no money now, and
here's poor Sam Pinckney shot—I reck-
on de Yanks have done for him, sho’.
De doctor's a little bit cut of his haid,
too, on ‘count of de fever, but he
reckoned he'd stick to Sam, an’ of
cou'se I sticks to de doctor.”
“Pete,” sald Dr. Ellingham in his
dazed way, “you might ask the gentle-
man If be has anything besides water
in his canteen.”
The young man drew a small wicker
flask from his pocket and handed it
over. The surgeon reached out a shak-
ing hand, then said:
“You had better give him a little; you
Here the wounded man made a
sound as if choking.
“Mebbe it's phlegm in his throat,”
said the faithful old slave. He poked
a black finger into the poor fellow's
mouth and pulled out a quid of
bacco that must have been there ever
“Ah, here they are!" shouted the cap-
tain. “Major Ellingham, I’ve been
been searching for you everywhere.
You shouldn't have left the ambulance
in your condition. Pete, you black
scoundrel, is that the way you take
care of your master?"
“lI am glad you have come. Captain
Thornton,” said Dr. Ellingham, feebly.
“Here is 8am Pinckney, in very bad
shape.”
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