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lave Mann--A Civil War-fime Story By LoRoy Armstrong. 1 :,i ' (Continued from lost week) ' f .. . N trace of Lett IJvans had Leon, found TUo ftdfry or Ills mtlrdor 'was another ldfcond of Little Wabasli. ' Th6so men who word! r present at tho fatal charivari wiro favored above drdlilary mortals They told or that last cry which came hack to them from the margin where two lives mingled, and wero beginning already to troad the uninviting paths where ghosts are 'scon. Had they not searched the woods and tho swamps for his body? Had thoy not waited for tho river to give up its dead? ' Tho bride or an hour prosecuted that I search most ralthrully though quite with out tears. She abandoned It at last, with 1 somothlng like roller. The namo or ono man, the hearts or two, bad bcon given her; and It seems she must have known some mysteries wore better man light. Arter that came tho war. " JYo were so Tar Trom the groat news centres, so little disturbed by tho great convulsion that roctfed an ago In agony, that our small affairs wero never qulto dwarfed by tho giant events or tho nation. Dave Mann was still an outlaw, with a living price upon his head. Ho was still i our greatest figure good or bad. But as ! ono year two years three years added I themselves to tho seven or my lire when Dqvo Mann wont away, tho weekly record Ilnmy father's paper wore the awful story or battlo and suffering and death down Into my soul. Perhaps It was becauso I had more time to brood upon It, Tor sick 1 ncss was always present with me; but 1 thought or those soldiers In the south, 1 their glorious victories and their crushing dercats, as In some way related to tho ono great Book I had icad. Talking or it little, Tor it was a thing the Friends could not approve, but reading and dreaming of It a 1 groat deal, I drew curious pictures of the strirc. ' "The walls or Richmond" wore walls 1 Indood to mo. 1 fancied thorn massos or masonry, liko thoso about Jerusalem whon ' it Trontod tho East In powor; or liko Baby- j Ion that night when tho linger or God wroto doom on tho wall, or liko Jericho, and wished some Joshua might como with I trumpets and candles, moro potont than J guns, and shattor them down In ruin. Hor son had been gone two years whon Mrs. Mann died. Tho noighbors wore very kind to hor whon thoy hoard sho was 111; but thoy sortonod Httlo to tho out law. Thoy round hor heart qulto rull or him qulto unaccountably rull, It scomod to them. Sho could not have been proud er or moro anxious to spook or his steady love Tor his mother ir ho had boon tho most unoffending man in Little Watoasn. "You will all know him better somo day," 'she sold that final ortcrnoon; ond this wos her leave taking. "I ain't got no call to know him no bettor than I do now," muttorcd ono or tho com ror tors who had gono with mothor. Hut tho patient old woman novor know or tho thrust, ror Martha Hookor roldod hor 'arms about hor, and said In a tono that al most won a seraph's blosslng: "They'll all bo proud or him somo day." ""And then thoy closed hor waiting oyoe, "and sot hor house In order. Tho sllont whool was placed against tho wall, ror tho hands that hod turned It wero crossed on a bosojn that could not rise and rail to tho splndlo's humming. Tho noxt day they 'followed hor still corso to tho gravoyard from a homo scarcely loss lonoly. 'Tho autumn of 1804 was so flllod with thrilling hope ond chilling dread Tho warring In iho south soomotl so suroly opded In ono doy. so ondlossly prolonged 'fho noxt. Tho Farmor told us about Oonoral Sheridan at Codor Crook, pointing tho victory somewhat, It may bo, hut cheering us mightily with tho promise of approaching poaco. That was under tho usual head or "Nows rrom tho Front." which waa always rood bororo anything slso albolt with protestations. On an- other pagb, under headings that filled hair a column and 'discounted astonlsh menrwlih rfghtrul summary, was drf ac count or thV affair at St, Albans, VormSht, St. Albans Seemed very rieor at hand. COdor Creek was distant os Jorusalem. How it startled us with tho rush ond sweep or execution I How naked to our enemies It seemed to provo t oach unsuspecting homol And how, through it all wbij.'a touch of thought for tho loodor so lost to apprehension. Wo wondored, and wo dreaded him. Bozo Ponnington ond Conrad Zchnor came in that night, and talked it over with rather. Tho ovont was long passed, but this was tho nrst accohnt that reached our neighborhood. Sheridan's victory paled to nothingness In the blaze or this achieve ment on tho northern border. Thoro had boon victories bororc down yondor. This was tho first blow In tho quarter unde rended. "Rodo twenty miles In tho night, and swept tho town!" exclaimed tho miller. TJioy- Jiad canvassed- it. tilltha musings mood was on tiom. "I swear it reads liko Davo Mann led .,r ' ' ""! ' "I bet Davo Mann was thoro,"w cried ' ponnington It was an Inspiration both startling and welcome. Not a "mart 'who1 bolloved him guilty or Lot; Evans's mur der but rclt tho fitness or his graduation in 'sUch a class ror a moment they all Sat silent, each looking at tho others, and putting together mosaics or evidence ' that should povo his way to perfidy. Then Martha Hockbr surprised them. i "Dave Mann, was not there," sho said. Thoro was a trembling undercurrent In her tone. Sho seemed striving1 ogafnst oxcltbmcnt. "Moro likely ho was with Sheridan at Cedar Creek." "Ho, ho!" laughed huge Zehncr. ''Dave Mann In blue! That's a pretty story." The unreasonableness or It, tho scorn It evoked, wore all compressed In his ex clamation. Then ho added: "Davo Mann wouldn't dare " "Don't talk or daring," cried tho girl. Sho was aroused. Tho restraint was gono, consumed In tho namo or that man's contomptuousness. "Ho wos tho bravest man that cvor sot Toot In Little Wabash. You talk or daring! Why don't you fight? They need soldiers bad enough, heaven knows. No ablo-bodlcd man that hides at homo has a right to say a word" H "ftbOUt"'Dfl.VVMjHHl,t. i. ,. t , , .... .. H f Jhoy iklnpb SQsweii. her. cj.lt, was the' jH IflMt tlmel slftcMM iflotfflr'$ death tho fM rilgltlvo hSd roffndaVWotatO. i H yW&lL I. must bo going, yawned Pen-, iH nlngton presently "You and your woman H -como-ovcr-he-sntd-fls thoystrayed down tho walk. H '"Vfi1 wfft 'safiltW-Wthdut rising. M I,tfwaspca1ltscc'rolffJtty,., 'It was tho' only H dduiftcsy A3f Llftf(f Wdtfasln' Oood" night? M BazU oWigtfficdhrod1' Cdriio over jH again." In an, bpyrt gi,ey c(omo Ba,ck. Father H had Just fiorae'lh fJ,om' tli staples; ror tho H prudent arraeir Xopj cloS0 witch Of' his H goods Ht)jos6 '.ymesv' Th,o fest or tho'fam- H lly w(ajj" abed. 1 latf ttfeto brood awake, H and.tulnkffiggoln.rtltb raid 'at St. Al- M bans, WUeiLl.JieM WiJjte jyltlg op'tin1. fM Tiyo ntjfe? $)P? fe'eV'fef'Up.tho walk, H and. tho,', thhorus krt3ijkJBhipro starttlng M than a, rpuklier iutijnfon cTnira liavo boen. H called tfattwCpU. XW &A They talked H Fa, her JSOP' dlhiflf "fh0 Hbbr H hat 'and sqtiLAW "wcnV flaw5i,1wltli theni. 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