lave Mann--A Civil War-fime Story
By LoRoy Armstrong.
1 :,i ' (Continued from lost week)
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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
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