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A FIFTIETH ANNIVE BYPI& F A 10 (Copyright, 1892, by the A (Continued.) I% SYNOPSIS Private Mark Malone. U. S. A.. sent as i, spy to Chattanooga by General Thomas. is saved from guerrillas by Souri Slack. Disguised as a countryman, Mark starts for Chattanooga with Jakey. Souri's broth er. Mark is to send Souri her red band kerchief if in periL. Mark and Jakey are given shelter by Laura Fain and ber mother. Laura sus zww Mark is a lnicasoLdier.tn disgpise. CIAPTiER IV. GLOBoUsU PERFIDY. W HEN Mark went down stairs the next morning, followed by Jakey, they were invited into the breakfast room. Laura Fain was there, but her mother was not. Mark looked at Lauia. but she avoided his gaze. He asked after :.er mother. "Mamma scarcely ever gets up to breafast," she said as she poured out a substitute for coffee. Durtpg the meal she said but little, and that was only on commonplace subjects. She seemed to have more on her mind than the soldier who was taking his life in hip hands, and stu diously avoided looking at him at all. After breakfast-Mark ,followed his hostess through a door opening into a sitting room on the opposite side of the hall from the parlor. "Miss Fain." he said. "I know too wk well the station of your family and southern customs not to accept as a gift the hospitality you have afforded. I can only express my indebtedness. and the hope that some day the war may be over and I can come down here and show my gratitude for some thing of far more moment to me than a night's lodging." He paused, and then added: "May I ask a 'question? Are you a Union or a Confederate girl?" "Confederate." Mark looked at her uneasily, "I inferred froin what you said last night that you will not betray me." "I willi4not." "But you think you ought to." "I do." Mark stood gazing at her. She was ,looking out of the window with a trou bled expression. "Miss, Fain." he said. "you may be -doing wrong; you may be doing right. At any rate you are acting the part of ia woman, and this act makes you in my eyes the loveliest woman tiht lives." The words were~ scarcely spoken when the muscles of Lue girl's face contract ed into an expression of horrd'. Mark could not understand why his speech bad so affected her. The natural un certainty of his position impelled him to look about him for the cause. Glancing out of the front window he saw an officer in gray uniform on horseback in the act of reaching down to open the gate. "Come quick!" she said, seizing his arm. "No. no!' Mamma! She.doesn't know. Oh. what shall we do?" Mark took her by the band and spoke to her coolly. bur quickly. -CaU Jakey for me, and we will both go down stairs and /from there to the barn. We can thien go out without! meeting this officer, for he is doubt less coming in Th,ere is no especial -danger. We shall meet plenty of sol <4iers before we return.'" ,She flew out of' the room to find ,Takey. While she was gone Mark watched the approaching horseman. He was a fine specimen of a southern man-tall and slender, with long black hair. mustaebe and goatee and a fine "cozqwklsHE SAID, sEIZNG HIs ABM. black eye. He looked, as he came rid Jng up the roadway, the impersona tlon of the southern gentleman. Before he had dismounted Mark and 'akey were on their way to the barn. Laura Fain opened the front door just as the officer was coming up the steps. Ywhyo. r Cmern. *she_ exclaimed, ~15ARY WR STORY rTTCW merican Press Association). "how_did 'yo get aw~ 1 thought you told me you were to be officer of the guard today." "I persuaded my friend the adjutant to detail ano er man." "Was therr special reason?" "ertainly. I positively couldn't, stand it another day not to see you. Besides we are momentarily expecting orders to cross to this side of the river." "But you will be nearer to us then, won't you?" "I am afraid not. Once on this side we'll not stop nearer than Dallas or Poe's. We may join Colonel Forrest near Sparta. or wherever he may be, doubtless somewhere in the enemy's rear. He seldom troubles the Yankees In front. But you are not listening. my darling, and you are pale. You are not ill?' "Certainly not." "You are sorry that I came?" "Why, Cameron, what do you mean? You know I always want you to come." She led the way into the sitting room. from which Mark had disappeared but a minute before-a minute is a long while soibetimes. Mrs. Fain entered and received the guest most graciously. daptain Cameron Fitz Hugh was a young Virginian, a graduate of the University of Virginia law school, the son of wealthy parents. wLose acres and negroes were numbered by thou sands. He had known the Fains be fore the war, Mrs. Fain having been born and reared in the Old Dominion. During a visit of Laura to; his people. shortly before the breaking out of hos tilities. he bad fallen in lovp with her. had proposed and was aceepted. Both families being agreeable. the two were engaged to be married. "This is an unexpected pleasure. cap tain," said Mrs. Fain. "1 did not suppose I could get, away today." "Everything is unexpected In these times. We never know who is coming to us. Last night I slept uneasily for fear that we harbored a guerrilla in the house."-' "How is that?" asked Captain Fitz Hugh. I "Where are the strangers. Laura?" "I think they are gone, mamma-" "A countryman and his little broth er," said Mrs. Fain to the captain. "Laura thought him quite a gentleman for one so poorly dressed." - "But 1 changed my mind, mamma," said Laura quickly. "And what was the occasion of so sudden a bouleversement?' asked the captain. "Why-why, when we were sitting on the vhranda after you went In, mamma" "Sitting on the veranda with a coun tryman!" exclaimed the lover. , "Well, yes; mamma said to Invite, hm up. But.l was going to say" Laura's inventive powers had gained time to act by the interrnption-"i found .that he was only an Ignorant farmer after all, for I asked him how far the moon was, and ~he said he reckoned It was a hundred million miles." "That doesn't prove anything," Fits Hugh remarked. "I don't believe there's an officer in my regiment knows that. But it becomes us to be very careful. The commanding general has made It known unofficially through his staff officers that he Is especially desirops of concealing his intentions. One spy penetrating for even a day at Chattanooga might frustrate all his plans. If the enemy knew that we are concentrating there, and how weak we are there at present, he woul& or at least he should come down with a large force and drive us south." A troubled expression crossed Laura's face. "Indeed!" said Mrs. Fain. "I was not aware of that Suppose the young man was a spy." "Cameron," said Laura. "I wish you wouldn't talk so to mamma. She will be suspicious of every poor beggar that asks a crust. The man's name was Slack. There are plenty of Slacks among .the poor whites about here. I have a'sick family of that name on my hands now not a mile up the road." "Has the fellow gone?" asked Fitz Hugh. "I think I would better see him." "Gonev- Of course he's gone." salii Laura, with a heaving bosom-. "Where did he say he was going?" "To Chattanooga," said Mrs. Fain. "I'll mount and follow him. 1 can easily overtake hiun on horseback." "Nonsense," said Laura, with a pout; "you have kept away from me for a week, and now you are going as soon as you've come." "But, my darling, would you have "I would have you stay where you are, and" Mrs. Fain, seeing that some cooing was coming, wisely withdrew. "And what, sweetheart?" "Tell me what I love to hear," she said softly. "I've told you that so often you. should certainly be tired of it by this time." Fitz Eunoh loonla. innnil'Ingiy into her face as-he smouthed Uack Eer hair. He was used to these requests to re peat his assurances of affection. but there was a nervous something about his fiancee this morning that puzzled him. His back was toward the window. while she was facing it. ~Suddenly she clasped her arms tightly around him. "Now go if you can!" she said, af fecting a playful tone. "Why, Laura, what does this mean?" he asked, astonished. "You don't love me." she whined. "Love you, pet! You know 1 do." "Then why do you act so?" "Act how?" "You never come any more but you want to go right away." "But, sweetheart"-a half dozen kisses for exclamation points-"I only intend being gone a little while." "If you once start out to follow some body you don't know anything about you'll be gone all day, and then you'll be ordered away. and maybe I'll never see you any more." Never was a lover more charmed at such evidence of woman's affection. and never had this lover less cause to be charmed at the evidence of his hold upon Laura Fain. Had Captain Fitz Hugh seen what Laura Fain saw from the moment she jiut her arms around him and held his back to the window Mark and Jakey going down the walk to the gate-he would have exclaimed: "Oh. woman, thy name is perfidy!" "Oh, woman," the departing soldier would have responded, "thy name is indeed perfidy, but how glorious thy perfidy!" "Jakey," said Mark as - they passed behind trees that hid them from the house, "I don't like that officer coring to the Fain plantation just at this time. There'll surely be some mention of us, and it Is possible he may want to have a look at us. You know, Jakey, we're only poor, modest people, and- don't want to be stared at." "We ain't got our store clothes on, and don't want ter make no acquaint ances," Jakey observed solemnly. Mark had'hoticed Laura Fain's agita tion when she caught sight of the offi cer ht the gate, and knew, there was good reason for it. He did not fear that she would betray him intention ally, but that she might be led to do so from her very anxiety to keep his secret. "The first chance we get, Jakey, we'll take to the woods. We told them -we wei-e going to Chattanooga, and if this officer takes It into his aristc cratic head to escort us with true southern politeness a part of the way he'll expect to find us' on the Chatta nooga pike." "N' twouldn't be perlite fo' ter git in his way.". They had gone but a trifling distance when they came to a creek flowing-as a wayfarer they met told them through -Mo.ccasin gap. The road crossed it by something between a hedge and a culvert. Mark let the way from the road up. the creek and began to climb the hills, on which there was sufficient growth of timber to afford concealment. At last they came to a hut occupied by an old negro. "Good morning, uncle!" said Mark "Mornen, sah." "Hey y' seen anything of a colored boy 'bout eighteen years old go by hyar this mornen?" "No, sah." "He's my boy Sam, and I'm a-hunten him. He run away last night. He'll ~git a hundred ef I ketch him." "I ain't saw him, sahT 'n -I tell yo' what, marst'r, ef I had saw him I ouldn't inform yo' ob de. fac." "Thet's the way with you niggers. since the Yankees turned your heads. But it won't last long. Our boys'l1 drive 'em so fur no'th pretty soon that your darkies'll hey to stop runnen away." "Now don' yo' believe dat so sarten." "Do you really believe the Yanks can whip us?" "De Lo'd hes sent 'em to tote his col ored people out o' bondage." Mark was satisfied with this prelimi nary examinsition that he could trust the old man. "Uncle, I'm no secesh. I'm a Union man. I want to stay with you today and travel tonight. Keep me all da.-, and I'll go away as soon as it is dark." "Fo' de LQ'd. I knowed,yo' wa'n't no south'n man all de time." "How ?" "Yo' ain't got de south'n man's way ' talken. Yo' did hit well enough, but y' can't fool me." "Well, will you keep us?" "Reckon I will." "What's your name?" "Randolph's my name, sah. Jeff'son Randolph. My marst'r said he gib me a nilghty big name, but hit didn't do no good. Dey always call me notten but Jeff." "You're as well off as the president of the Confederacy in that respect," said Mark. "I guess we'll go inside." "Yes, go in dar. Keep dark." Mark and Jakey waited for the day to pass, and as they had no means of amusing themselves ,it passed very slowly. Jakey played about the creek for awhile, but both were glad when the darkness came and they could get away. Before setting out on his expedition Mark had carefully studied a map' of the region, preferring to fix it in his mind than to carry it about his person. Upon leaving Jefferson Randolph's hut he made direct for the Tennessee river. Once there, he knew from his remem brance of the map that he was not far from Chattanooga, and that between him and that place was Moccasin point, formed by a bend, or rather loop, in the river, the point putting out south ward for more than two miles,.with a distance of nearly a mile across its neck. But he knew the ground was high on the east shore of the peninsula, and he_did not know the nroper talace -/. . . to strike inand and cut off the us tanee around the river's margin. There was no one near to inform him, so,he kept on by the river. It was late at night when they reach ed a point where the river took a slight turn to the east, and about a mile from the quick bend around Moc casin point. Mark was anxious to en ter Chattanooga either late at night or soon after daylight, hoping to meet few people, that his entrance might not be noticed. He cast his eye about for some means of crossing the river. Noticing a skiff moored just below a hut, he surmised that the skiff belong ed to some one living in the hut. Go ing to the door he knocked. "Who's thar?" "Do you uns own the skiff on the river below hyar?" "Waal. supposen I does?" "I want to cross." "What d' y' want ter do thet far at this time o' night?" "Father dyen. Just got word a spell ago." "What'll Y' give ter get over?' "Five dollars." "What kind o' shinplasters?" "Greenbacks." "Whar d' y' git 'em?' "From some people ez got 'em traden with the Yankee sojers at Battle Creek." "All right, stranger, but it's a sight o' bad times ter be called ter a man's door at night. You uns go down ter the river 'n I'll cover y' with my gun tel I know yer all right." "I won't mind a small thing like That ef you'll put me 'n my leetle brother across." Mark and his companion went down to the river. Pretty soon a wild look ing man, with a beard growing straight out from his face like the spokes of a cart wheel, came cautiously down, cov ering them with a shotgun. "Got a pass, stranger?" "No." "Reckon they won't let y' land when y' get over thar." "These army fellers are like -a rat trap," said Mark; "they ain't so par ticular. as to goen in; it's the goen out 'V "WBO GOES TEAB?" the-don't like,. But y' better try to srike a point on the river whar ther alnt no guard." "Fur how much?" "An extra flver." "Greenback?' "You ain't very patriotie.. Won't y' take Confederate bills?" "Not when I can get green uns.'' "Y' ain't a Union man, are y'?" "No. But I know a valyble thing when I sees it." They could see campfires of guards on the other shore. Once, getting too near a river picket, they were seen and challenged. "Who goes thar?" "Oh, none o' your business!" said Mrk jokingly. "Pull in hyar or I'll make It some 0' my business." "Oh, now, see hyar! We can't stop every five minutes to please a guard. How do you know but we're on army business?" "Well, pull in hyar and show your papers." Meanwhile the ferryman was keep ing the oars moving gently, and the boat turned at an angle with the cur rent, which was taking the boat to ward the east shore. "Now pull away hearty," whispered Mark, and the boat shot out of sight of the picket in a twinkling. A bullet whistled over their heads, but wide of the mark.. "Golly!" exclaimed Jakey. "What a purty tune it sings!" They were now off Moccasin point, and Mark began to look for a landing place. Just above he noticed a camp fire, and above this was a place where Fthe bank was low, with overhanging trees. Mark directed the ferryman to pull for these trees. He slipped a handkerchief in one of the rowlocks the only one used in turning the boat into shore-so as to muffle the oar. The coast seemed to be clear for a landing, but as they drew near they Iproceeded cautiously and~ listened for Ithe slightest sound. The boat's nose touched without noise., Mark handed the wild whiskered fer ryman the crisP ten dollar note, which he clinched eagerly. "Yer purty well ter do, stranger, con sideren yer close." "Didn't y' hyar what I said to the guard 'bout business for the army?" "Waai, don't say nothin' 'lout it. Th' Cr',e:atco service pays ez it_goes." The ferryman eareTTittTe wTiomne pulled if he could make ten dollars In one night. and dipping his oars in the water rowod nway from the shore. Mark turrorl to look about him. His first moro was to .et inder the trees. From thert he proceeded inland for a short distance. looking for something. "Ah. here it is'" he said presently. "Now I know where I am." ie had struck .he Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, which runs close to the river bank for about a mile near where he -landed. He knew he was about two miles from the town. "Now, Jakey." he said, "we'll biv ouac right here. As soon as it is light we must set out. Are you sleepy?" "Am I? Reckon I am!" (To be continued). -NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned, as executor of the last will and testament of Epsy Stewart, de ceased, will make a final settlement of the estate of said deceased in the Pro bate Court of Newberry County, South Carolina, on the 28th day of August, 1911, at 11 o'clock, forenoon, and will immediately thereafter apply fAr let ters dismissory. All persons indebted to, said estate will make settlement forthwith, and all persons holding claims against said estate will file the same with the undersigned, or his attorney, Eugene S. Blease, Newberry, S. C. W. G. Peterson, Executor. 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