CoPYRIONTY SYNOPSIS. Mrs. Varney, wife of a Confederate eneral, has lost one son and another is re from wounds. She reluctantly gives her consent for Wilfred, the youngest, to join the army if his father consents. The federals are making thelr last assault in an effort to capture Richmond. Edith Varney secures from President Davis a commission for Capt. Thorne, who is just recovering from wounds, as chief of the telegraph at Richmond Capt tells Edith he has beeh ordered Bhe declares he must not go and hm of the commission from the presi. dent He ir strangely agitated and de- clares he cannot accept. Thorne decides TO ese Ape while Edith leaves the the con imniasion, but is prev arrival of Caroline Mitford Mr Arrelsford of the Con wret service, a rejected detects Jonas, Mrs VV carrying a note from a Libby pris intended ‘Attack away tells ented by Wiifred's Arney’'s priws relsford susps The note re ads: prisoner CHAPTER VIil.—Continued. The elder woman nodded and Kittridge turned decisively away stepped toward the door second thought, there was she could do, reflected Mrs she rose, stesped to the and criled her back “Perhaps it she said, “if to go to let You ean open hall. and briskly th SOM ing Varney i door ana so in turn, «ould be just well” any of the la them out the other way the door back We're expecting’some one here important want into the on business, you know, and We—" “1 understand.” * sald Miss tridge “And “Certainly; trust “Thank you.” vou will see to this ma'am,’ displaying white teeth, kitchen fo’ a “In the “Yas'm Ah didn't want to be And “She's kitchen took eed by what 1e doing ther bes n mostly gBewin “I Am Not Running Away From Her.” habin’ mighty strange about sumfin a gret deal ob de time. Bhe's a-snifflin’ an’ a-wepin’, but Ah belleb she's git tin’ ready to gwine home now.” “Very well,” said Mrs. Varney, “will you please ask her to come in here a moment before she goes ™ “Yas'm, ‘deed Ah will,” said old Martha, turning and going out of the door through which, presently, Caro line herself appeared. She looked very qemu and the air of innocence, partly natural but large- ly assumed, well became her although it did not deceive Mrs, Varney for a moment, or would her if she had had any special inter est in Caroline's actions or emotions “Caroline, dear,” she began immedi ately, “are you in a great hurry to go home?” “No, particularly, esape- anything for you not do ma'am, can here," surprised. “It happens that you can,” sald Mrs. ‘If you can stay here a few I go upstairs to Howard will be a great help to me.” “You that it?" mystified. Why asked the girl, somewhat on wait in a vacant room which Caroline could but Mrs. Varney's to explain it merely to fact, 1 don't on ¢ Was understand, sought “1 don’t want well, in tO RO Out garden, from you wait but want the ¥¢ the anybody into the house, under randa, or front ances.’ of tl any circumst Caroline's eyes opened did ne what it explained Edith’ amazement She understand Mrs. Varney “You see “Oh, yes," there langle d tl as she want them i enever Ursa how that some-—that it, she ended rather lame fusion nat it a nothing. nothing pe ered eas trees in the moonii Thorne were they w ght, that and iow nor Captain were not thin ear She turned to the other window the what hat she had made determined to see if Ske She : before the window plunge was going drew the couch and knelt the could dowry on 1 and parting but with y - Is 18 before in this enrt the same resg up out, questionable posi tion she Wilfred Varney He dressed in the and trousers which paired. She had not job of her talloring but it The suit was worn, ill-fitting, ind 80 but it was whole was could be said of nine of the was unfortunately caught by WAS jacket had re a skilfu would ETAY the she made serve whole led; more than uniforms com about Richmond Wilfred y-nine monly seen Measured by sumptuously, even dressed, and the pride his port and bearing as it was naive, softly up the long per cent round these, WHS expressed in was as complete He walked room, in but boy way forward, and the young turned about quickly and confronted him with an exclamation. Wilfred flerce whisper. “Mother isn’t she?” “No.” anywhere said Caroline In | the same few minutes, she said.” “Well,” returned Wilfred, his chest out impressively, running away from me with these on funny.” “1 don't think,” quickly, “that she funny.” “Well, yo know throwing she might would feel very what 1 mean,” said Wilfred, “flushing a ttle. how it is with a fellow’s mother.” Caroline nodded gravely. “Yes, | have learned how it is with mothers,” she sald, thinking of the mothers she had known since the war began, young though she was “Other people don't care,” sald Wil fred, “but mothers are different.” “Some other people don't care.” swered Caroline softly, fighting to keep back a rush of tears In spite of herself her eyes would focus themselves upon that little round blood-stained hole In the left breast of the jacket. She had not real ized before how straight that bullet had gone to the heart of the other wearer, There was something terribly ominous about it. But Wilfred blun- dered blindly on, unconscious of this He drew from He sat down at the table, beckoning Caro line as he did so. The girl came closer and looked over his shoulder as he unfolded the paper “1 have written that letter,” “to the general, my father, Here it is. 1 have got him in some way. It is all written but the last words and | am not sure about them. I'm not going to say ‘your lov ing son’ or anything of that kind is a man's letter, a soldier's letter I love him, of course, but this is not the to put that telling him up as he spoke BUrpriss from an- hard he sald, that is thing In I have been He happened to glance and his turned discovered to had was no longer the matter?” he ex great Caroline AWAY him and looking at him Why, what's “Nothing, ing nothing,” answered girl, for« herself to fa more “1 thought you wanted Oh, “Well I do can't help y 5 Wilfred { do me ‘Com writ ¥y ART plied There REA has g % il i § og nieg Varney of North "10 A gen line decisively ou say?™ Sir’ of COUreas businesslike and soldiers so awfully abrupt.” “You right,” said the boy, be ginning again, General Ransom Var ney, commanding div Army Northern Virginia, Sir’ sounds fine, doesn't It7" Splendid,” sald the girl, “go on.” “ “This is to notify you that 1 want you to let me join the army right now If you don’t, I will enlist anyway, that's all. The seventeen much are always more are inion, that Do you think 1 a damned teen. am Wilfred paused and looked Caroline, who with eves sparkling brightly. “That's fine,” she sald. “I thought it sounded like a soldier.” “It does: you ought to have heard appre. nodded " sald Wilfred, who did not quite that experience; but he went pause, “Tom Kitt he was killed yester. day at Cold Harbor. Billie Fisher has gone and #0 has Cousin Stephen. He in not sixteen, he lied about his age, but I don’t want to do that unless you Oh, relish on after a little ‘make me. 1 will, “thouga, ar yon do Answer this right now or not at all’ “] think that is the finest letter | have ever heard,” said Caroline proud ly, as Wilfred stopped, laid the paper down, and stared at her. “Do you really think so?" “It is the best letter [—" “I! am glad you are pleased Now the next thing is how “Why, just end it” “But how?" “Sign your name, “Nothing else?” “What else is there?” “Just Wilfred?” “No, Wilired Varney.” “That's the thing.” He took up a pen from the table and scrawled his name at the bottom of this interesting and historical document. “And you think the rest of it will do?” “1 should think it would,” sented heartily. “1 wish had it now.” “80 do 1.” sald Wilf “Maybe it will take two or three days to get it to him and | can’t wait that long.” Caroline to her feet suddenly under the stimulus of a bright idea that came into her mind “1 tell what we “What?” "We claimed "(Good idea.” cried and more impressed wonderful resourcef quieting witha {it to end ir." of course, she as- red. Just rose you can do.” can telegraph him,” she ex. Wilfred, with more Caroline's but a dis struck ulness, thought immediately CORI sever! the big word, observed ear Caroline ne AE A “But it doesn’t sound got that?” note What turn comes after the leave it in Caroline In and read If you that's all.’ ’ You might sald Wilfred “No, don't leave that important It doesn’t but it is. It shows-—well ft shows that that's all there is That one thing might con took up don’t, Il anyhow, come leave out ‘that's all, It's very be 80 out geen to “Yes. hut we've got to leave out something.” “Not that, though. Perhaps there is something else. ‘The seventeen call is out'-—thas's got to stay.” “Yea” sald Wilfred “ “The sixteen comes next’ just got to stay.’ “Of course. Now, what follows? “I'm not going to wait for fit,” read Caroline. “We can’t cut that out,” said Wil fred: “we don’t seem to be making much progress, do we?” “Well, we will find something in a moment. ‘Do you think I am'—" she hesitated a moment, “ ‘a damned cow- ard,” she read with a delicious thrill at her rash, iearious wickedness, {TO BE CONTINUED.) That's French Bookworm Traveled 360 Miles in Gown and Slippers to Buy Prized Volume. None of the deeper human passions fa more absorbing (han the blameless one that a boolk-lover feels for the inanimate object of hia affection. A French paper illustrates this fact in psychology by the following story: A bookworm living at Bordeaux, while glapeing through the catalogue a book that he had greatly desired for 50 years. He looked at the clock and found that there was just time to catch a train for Paris. He seized some money from his cash box, rush ed off to the station, and arrived at the bookshop In time to secure the prize. 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