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son and an
reluctantly
the
Mrs. mfederate
general,
dying from
her consent
foin the
federals
n an effort
Varney, wife
has lost one ther
wounds
for Wi
army if his father
are making their
to « Capture Riel
CHAPTER
gives
Youngest
consents
Sha
ifred,
The
iakt wssault
rmond.,
A Commission From the President.
The «
opened
rotund and
oor
was unceremoniously the
privileged Martha
ame at &n opportune time, relieving
he tension between the mother
son. Wilfred not insensible
his mother's feelings, but he was
termined to go the front. He
glad of the interruption and rather
shamefacedly took ntage of it
room
Martha,
Varn -
nosure
by
was to
de
to
adva
leaving the
“Well
Mrs
0m
Te
asked
regain her
“Devs
iple hegh,
“Another
Ah ‘cla ydness,
rl a-comin
il we
f; de sheets an’
an’ eben de
, dey all hab to go.”
have 1
sent all
have,” said
cain't
sx Bl «1 $
Wa DIC 10
napkins young
' petticoats
And we
we
ban
ho
i
Mrs. V
just
arney
Dey
“nc
some mo’
an’ two
crowded
mos’
some in
them half
think what
enough
of
vhat you we
have left to
ie man?
Yes,
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send him
There was a
Marth
Come in,” sald
and there ent
ered and dilapie
young humanity
My poor man!
‘Sit down.”
ifter awe
the stress of
ered to. her a bat
ouse
lated specimen
Thank you, m
Martha,” #h alls to t
voman, who paused at
can't
y to the stal
i drink
1
ae
floor on
old
her
the
fe
way you get some
for this gentle
of milk-
ent se
[ a giass
I ha
iree ve
en
rs, ma'am answered the
i
nan, smiling: “it would taste like ne
for in the
You
you
come from,
are
waitin
by
you
Winder, ma'am.”
And is it full?”
They gre laying them on
1 the floor. You can hardly
vounded men.”
| suppose you need
Everything, but especi
ages.”
Have been over to St
church? The ladies are working
tonight.”
‘Yes, ma'am, I've been over there,
but they're not working for the hos
pital; they're making sand-bags for
fortifications.”
‘And where are you from?”
Tm a Louisiana Tiger, ma'am.”
swered the man proudly
“You don't look much like it now.”
said the woman, smiling.
“No, I guess the lamb is more like
ne now, but just wait until I get well
mough to go to the front again,” ad
nitted the soldier cheerfully.
At this moment one of the ladies
#ho had been working in the other
‘oom came in carrying a small packet
of bandages done up im a coarse
yrown paper,
“Oh, Miss Kittridge,” sald Mrs. Var
blankets
step for
everything?”
ally band
Paul's
there
you
an
———— ————
TOOK HIS LE BY REQUEST
Girl Then Considered ‘Annoying Suitor
Dead and Wanted No Corpse
in House.
He was a theatrical lover, and she
iidn’t like his style in the least. for he
was constant in his devotion, which
made matters worse. She had tried
gentle means to get rid of him, but he
had disregarded them with painful per
sistency.
“Dear one,” he exclaimed, hurling
| ney, “here is the gentleman who
Miss Kittridge was a very business
{ like person.
“This is every scrap we have,”
handing ‘the soldier the
| with a little bow. “If you will come |
| back in an hour or two, perhaps we
shall have more for you.”
“Thank you, ladies, and God bless |
you. [ don't know what our poor fel- |
in®* the hospitals would do If {it
for you.”
“Don't forget your milk in
ing room,” said Mrs. Varney.
“I'm not likely to, ma'am,” returned
| the soldier in spite of his wound
led arm, he bowed gracefully to
| women
In the hall Martha's voice could be
heard exclaiming
right dis
gee what
she
| said,
lows
the din
, as,
the |
Come
chile,
in de
WAY,
Ah's got fo’
you po’
you
room
You
Mrs. Varney
t
the white
must be tired death.”
to Miss Kittridge,
f the other
said
looking
to
0
woman
fe
Lace
had
but the
killed a Ww
had scarce
coffin be
work
been
brother
before, clods
1 r Ee] : f »
ipon his Ore
7 op +
reget at
1
n's brot
ically again
he sald bravely; “
8 nothing
weariness of our
tonight,
0 stay late
t us There's
it
vou will le
more wounded come
“ty
We
that will
t
in wo
stop now have found
make
, and-—-""
woman
“Edith Dear, How Late You Are.”
Mrs. Varney,” said Miss Kittridge |
quickly. “There's that man going back
to the hospital, he's in the dining |
room yet. [I'll call him and send word
that"
She startet impulsively toward the |
door, but Mrs. Varney caught her by
{ the arm.
“No,”
you."
Not for your own son?”
“l am thinking of the sons of other
mothers. The surgeon has done all |
i that he can for him. And think hew
many other sons would have to be neg. |
lected if he visited mine twice. He |
will come again tomorrow.” :
The second woman stood looking at
her in mingled sympathy and amaze |
ment, and there was a touch of pride |
in her glance, too. She was proud of '
she said firmly; “I can't let
Bimselt tragieally at her feet, “I love ,
you! My life is yours! Will you take |
in
She did not look like a murderess.
but she responded, with calm deter
mination:
“1 will”
He gazed at her rapturously.
“Don’t do that,” she begged, draw.
ing back from him as if In horror. "1
have taken your life, as you requested
me to do, and you are henceforth to
all intents and purposes dead.”
He seemed dazed,
and she
Richmond
Bex,
in
had a rigit
that spring,
aver,
“1
at last. “I suppose you are right.”
They stared at each other, white
faced, a moment, when there entered
to them youth and beauty incarnate
There was enough resemblance be
tween the pale, white-haired mother
and the girlish figure in the
to proclaim their relationship. The
and some of its roundness.
too much that was appalling and fear-
ful in and about Richmond then not
Its mark even upon the
and the most buoyant, yet
they did to those older. She
pleture, especially in the
radiance of the candles. She car
ried her hat in her hand. The flowers
it were assuredly those of yes
it would not have
as the mode an
in besieged Richmond;
although it fitted her
worn
and
and her dress,
perfectly,
and faded and had been
patched and altered until it
change, yet
wore it as airily as if it had been
sue of silver or cloth of gold.
The mother's face brightened
Edith, dear,” she exclaimed,
late you are! It is after eight o'clock
You must be out.’
WAS
she
tis
“how
tired
answered the
been at the
this my day
am not tired at all”
girl cheerily. “I have not
is
off How ig Howard?
“I wish I could say
but he seems a little
The girl's face wen
She stepped over to her mother,
her hand and patted it softly
« “Is there nothing
“My de
we
just the same,
worse
ly grave
took
t sudden
You can
her
God's hands.”
do
ar,” sald mother
ard are all in
She drew a long
r head bravely
“Mi
‘& 1, mi 'd
a8 Kittrides
very importan
emiled back
right
Kittridie«
am going AWAY,
lots of
There Is Work
and
Mamma
y you thin
i think
: Hix
Mrs, Varney,
And
fent
“] asked h
"t
Morn ¢
resid for
$ r
}
'
Orne
My
War
dear
Aer
iepart
yr Captain 1
for the
mother
telegraph service. And he
a special commission He
’
gave
to me for f
Thorne's met
likes him-—and for my own ™
ther's sake and for
3¥ sake-he has
and i
of an appointment ™
president
fi feindd
! >» 5
iegrag
ney
them
1
Latte
wy
!
., and
all fixed
the commission * sent over
bs in fow minutes af
dere Noa ew nant us
be made
Al EOInE
a8 8O00ND
and when
give it to him
Can it
omen |
myself.”
Mrs. Varney moved over toward the
table and lifted a plece
dently a note.
“He is coming th
said. §
‘How
daughter
“Well, for one thing,” sald her moth
er, “1 can remember very few
nings when he hasn't been here since
he was to walk out of the hos
of paper, évl
is evening.” she
do you know”
able
‘Mamma!”
‘And for another thing, this note
ee
“Iz it for me
‘For me, my
have opened it
you like" =
“Has it been here all this time?”
claimed Edith jealously.
“All this time. You
This will be
he has his orders to leave.
“Why, it's too ridiculous!” said
girl;
dear, else | shouldn't
You can read it, if |
ex-
will see what
his last call;
"
the
“I do not,” she continued, turning
aside, "desire to have a dead person
in the house, and if you do not go
away at once | shall send for an un
dertaker and have you removed to the
nearest cemetery.”
Then the dreadful situation in which
his own precipitate folly had placed
him was revealed, and he removed
himself with promptness and dispatch
Water Burface of Globe.
The portion of the earth's surface
that Is covered by water, when the
wouldn't supersede
It puts him at the
He will
He
the
everything
nt
clue,
preside
be
BAYH
in command of the department
it is a good-bye call, does he?”
looked at the note again and
“All the better, it wili be that
more of a urprise, Now
word
him mysell”
am sorry to
don’t all ap
the president
geem quite the
to inter
bre
to tell
dear-—|
but |
don’ athe a
it, |
“But, Edith
ticise you
prove of your going
this. It doesn’t
thing for a
herself so far
“But
spoke
yOu
want
at
to
about
proper
oul
young lady
’”
as she
went of Miss
mother's grave and
“1 couldn't
lepartment people. Mr.
in one of the of
[=I refused him,
has treated me! If
anything there, it
refused at , and
got them to order Cap
right off. 1 know
is where his or
mamma,” and
out
listen
the light
somewhat reproving aspect,
war d
Arrels there
since
ford
and ever
is
how he
applied
have
for
would heen once
would have
tain Thorne away
he would-—why, that
i
|
i
|
i
|
“But, my dear
“That is where they
Isn't it lucky I got that commission to
There's the bell; | wonder
came from
day who
iPS sar
Deliver
“The President Directed Me to
This Into Your Hands
whispered
who he
from th
commission
nt old
ng room a
iandsome
Jonas
very das
in face
and dressed ina show)
orm,
worn habil
whic?
ning, ma'am Have
jdressing Miss Va
Varney, sir
$3
reve
ke
come
looks
Biss hd 1
and he desires me
alle
ai
lang!
nant Maxwell
great
profoundly be
large brown
, handed it
he
to
Heutenant, ¥ im
bowed fore her
tak
his belt
ing a envelop:
n to her
“Misa Varney, gaid, "the
dent directed me deliver
your hands, with his compliments
to be able his, he says
only at your request, but because
your father and for the merits of
the gentleman in question.”
“Oh, thank you,” eriea the
ing the envelope
“Won't you be seated, Lieutenant
said Mrs. Varney.
urged the girl, holding
pressed very tightly to
pres
this into
He
to do t
not
girl, ¢
“Yea, Jo.”
her side
“Nothing would please me so much,
jadies,” answered the lieutenant, “but
I must go back to the president's house
right away. [I'm on duty this evening
| Would you mind writing me off a line
or two, Miss Varney, just to say you
:
“Why, certainly, you want a receipt
it won't
a moment. And could I put in
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lakes and inland seas are included,
is three times as great as the dry
land
oceans is 127,000,000 square miles--an
area more than 40 times as large as
the United States. The ocean waters
teem with life Though thousands of
water creatures are known and clas
sified, scientists are continually dis
covering new life forms in the ocean
depths. Heretofore dragneta have
been mainly depended upon, but there
are doubtless many sea animals that
elude these trawls,
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Freight Car Robbers Fight and
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rouble
Grandson Dies Preparing Burial,
York
Rochester,
Years ago
grandmother
for burial
digestion as he
make arrangements
He died a half-hour
old,
few
his
Wn,
Brown 354
wiio came
George
Pa.
bringing the
Mra. Els
stricken
years
here a
body of
anor Bre
with acute
downtown
the
in-
10
funeral.
Was
started
for
later
Plea for Sinclair's Parole.
Allentown. At State
Pardons, at Harrisburg, the appeal
of Samuel Sinclair, former State
Highway Inspector, for a parole was
presented Sinclair has served two
months of a six months’ sentence, im.
posed on him for kidnapping Miss
Steckel, heiress
the Board of
Riches Come.
= After lingering five
days Adolph, elder son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gearhart C, Aschbach, thirty-two
years old, died at the Allentosa Hos |
auto |
Dies Before
Allentown
from the Lehigh Country Club whes, |
at & sharp turn in the road, the auto |
mobile went through the fence and |
somersaulted. Mickley sustained a
broken collarbone and Aschbach de
veloped serious Internal injuries |
which ended in perftonitia
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