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rad a portion ive S aloud d od Who hi is it I v IC h t ha 14 een en looking lo king af tf S s t S asked aske Hob Bob on oni 11 i 1 iI I S you u suppose it nul null ul ulI it l I so you get a tL ivo to ivon tol tc t n l ouli YOU II need i it 11 any tit titS S ii etc ana anu start Juick as you cars can canI ci I v the advice ant and the ther r cd upon him hi and aol a ai t 1 i it ung captain c to toi I II i Ilal I I ii at t t t I headquarters 1 I y i eh e I uh of Us hia bI tale tal tahi tah i n i to tn B g t to Cincinnati d r S tI it SS s and md to de dt deS det t 1 S tim lt mill the tile th 1 Lff ff I tJ him keenly S 0 l hIS nis ls rund the several i 0 S t fl i i id of this I new newS i S had l no T et t tried i on nn his hisS S nail mati ket left Ifft early eary and 1 Crowded though r n H 5 Pr lr rv i fl t I t t he it a in a av aUas aI I S v S T to be had and andis andi i k S i is I t t luggage Nor Nr Norand ir e riat at a 1 hie in j Lh ht cabin abin ri fl I h it ho hott i tt I t n s ri tt t L Lt 0 t ISIt ier and Sn S Xie he h fet felt grate 1 55 f i ut or lk 55 were S a ns to o and anti fr ft I i 1 S Th n iak ak k and not n t a aStaff Staff and and were era of f ho 5 s y ns l ti r t ers ii 1 iv 3 t anti and or tr h hit near h ht been sc here he their hir th t r aol auie e or suffering j 5 alps n i and an nd n politicians I I t an an and nd in An the tile then 11 Uti a fl n of 4 provost 1 ID aU an that I I Norman cooM I rather gather the s o tad S eason to believe beve that some se sea maw W cn a 11 fad succeeded in m getting aboard without e necessary per papers am l I every one the th service vice W 8 gain again c upon to show Its Is s pus pass pa while others of the guard ran raft ransacked sacked and rummaged from stem to stern in search of the suspected ted Writing was Walt impossible tor toe the mo moment moment ment meat and aad Norman himself curt curi curiously watching the work of these dIe mar martial martial policemen 1 1 here bere were two officers three sergeants ta and a dosen soldiers sol all at fully tolly armed and equipped busily oc occupied occupied in the after cabin Men Jen had I be M stationed at each door thaw nd gang gangway gangway way to t prevent egress or ingress dur due during duru dueing ing u tile the examination Others were opening o the staterooms and requiring ta to come out into the cabin Norman Nn had bad hi his papers in readiness Wh Ute the captain ot 01 the guard pard accosted html hin d nd ni looked them bem t briefly over wh while a sergeant entered the name rank raak And certain other information in ina 1 a notebook Presently the captain glanced ced up as he refolded the tile papers Bat you tire are not in uniform sir dr said be the j I Vm r only just commissioned replied I Holt with something akin to a blush Uniform finished All kh A yes was the answer Lieu Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant I tenant Holt Norman Holt th Ui Ken Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky tucky Mr Holt Hoit we Wf may have to invoke your aid presently YoW Your name is on I my list as one who could recognize recognise a I deserter ti ho J has dodged lila Ills way from front the front was seen in town yesterday y and is b thought to be aboard one Lane company C th Ohio Obio j I What Theodore brother Aboard that boat in jl a mad effort to escape and reach his home Norman felt feU the blood flying to l his hie ie I heart What bat new complication night might i not this portend Suppose Suppo e Tt Th ore I should pj be concealed somewhere up tip tipI j I I pose he should appeal for aid as ng ag agI j i i for s sake to be shielded Ud Udden den until the searching party left the boa boat Desertion meant death and he be I Iwho who so recently had faced the firing I I party without a Ii hope of rescue knew j i what terror it would bring to that i weakling what misery to those who I despite his frailties loved him what i miseries It would bring to her The I mothers letter Jetter had made no mention of the wayward thoughtless brainless boy Possibly P the thu news that he was a deserter had not yet reached the family though bad news travels fast Heaven forbid it should fall to Normans lot Jot lotto Joto to o have to tell teU the th tidings to be j I case ClUte any anyway anyway anyway way As a private soldier he possibly might not have been called upon to arrest or even to report the deserter As a commissioned officer it would be his bounden boundeR duty God forbid that the reckless wretched lad should cross his path Nowhere within the limits of the United States would he h be ba safe from arrest and aad ad trial conviction and sen son sentence sentence tence must surely follow folio The sudden pallor panor the deep concern In Normans I fine tiDe young you g fae face caught instantly the I eye of the captain of the guard You know him I see Did you know he was a deserter was the quick I i sudden question i We were weve in the same company and his h captain pi t since ince was the nw e eI 1 Have lm I y I II I have not notI r 1 I Across the th crowded cabin a sergeant I I and a private soldier stood at a stateroom door dor Front From within wit Wn a i I weak voice oice was wait as uttering quer j i protest and the sergeant after a heist brief glance clance within came over to there t I A sick siek mans in Jn there captain He res I i i In ta his i to berth h and his bis Hospital ho attend I ant ants s ashore to get Set some medicine medIci e that was as forgotten Hes an officer II No Major Payne wounded I in cavalry fight tight Cumberland Forge orge answered the th captain caI tain the list banded him a few w minutes previous Pr I II I by b the steamers clerk d rk En route to toi i j Cincinnati private Maurice X urie I Turpin company i n B th Ohio conval conal i escen from general hospital Louis Louls 1 I vile t all right Dont Disturb the maJor r but hurry hUrT up the attendant I Boat leaves in ten minutes minute i I FIve minutes six ix x seven passed paa with ith i 1 at out the sign L of the attendant t The guard guardi i gangplank reported that no such I man had bad come since 6 0 I at Which hour Major Payne had bell been In by four foul men on a stretcher Doctor Wren came down w with theta them em an and helped to get the major to bed Three of the mist went beak ek to hospital one ws wag to go the t bajor to On He might have ve ipso ashore They enD oalY ex ed J a aSe Se trIes posted aJo declared dIred d ared no ita w n Au or ot off t te e est steamer st mer e HO W tHeata plank the main malO entrance Well WelI have I to search h that room said Id the officer aMour and again pin No 29 23 was invaded With anxious heart Nor Norman Norman Norman man saw the door opened o saw the cap tain enter enters baring maging Ita his hs Mad head and uttering apology apolo y In a It moment he was out again 10 Nobody N there theT except the major and he says say be JIe dont care a damn if j the attendant come No good anyhow All An he be wants is to be let al alne ne the captain ca tain and Norman breathed freer The big IdS bell belt was boom booming ing lag on the hurricane deck The huge hose Iad e wheels wheela were slowly churning the muddy waters as the ha haers were be ing cast Off oft The provost guard KUrd scram bled ashore and collided with a young soldier who created a commotion by declaring be was Major Paynes Payne s nurse with Major aJor Paynes bundles and he be left behind A relentless officer demanded his hia pass and the soldier jerked his head J over his left shoulder Hes got sot em said he and strove to push ahead it a 5 alt all lieutenant called calI d the sergeant Here you heres yer or 01 dens ders Shove ahead now DOW The soldier took the paper in lb I his teeth both arms being full and aided aide hand han b pushed across the be e plank JQ Just trem t tr m bUng bling on the rim rille 4 a war through the crowd on the lower deck the tle brassbound stairs to the ha brightly lighted cabin bin and still bur her with the big official envelope still atilt held in his teeth teath bored a passage age through the throng until he came to the th th door of No o 29 There he glanced about him as though to ask some one to aid him by opening the door His eyes felt fell fellon felton on Norman Hoit Holt who was at that mo moment moment moment ment unfolding and spreading a news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper Down went the bundles with witha a sudden crash erash Down dove the soldier after them and never straightening up or looking back hack he thrust open the thedoor thedoor thedoor door shoved the packages ahead of 0 him over the sill darted into nto the dimly lighted stateroom and kicked shut the thedoor door behind lind b him j I I was early morn when the steamer tied up at the foot of the long lon sloping levee at Cincinnati Early as 8 it was Norman was awake and dressed ed eager to get ge ashore The air ail was crisp and keen the sun just peering over the i eastward hula hills and glinting on the bay bayonets onetta ont S of ot the soldiers at the landing Even there the provost guard was in evidence An officer and certain men were aboard before the wheels had fairly ceased revolving an darted up the stairway without a glance at the tall rail young man in civilian garb who with valise vaUse in hand was brushed biu bed aside In their rapid rush A break breakfast breakfast breakfast fast at the tile Burnet house a visit to a abis abig abig big bis tailoring establishment and by 10 feeling that his outer man was wasI I decently clothed again though not in inthe Inthe inthe I the uniform he so impatiently awaited awaked N Holt with brisk elastic stride I was wan swiftly nearing the house he had sought so often with beating heart and I faltering feet In days of doubt that t pre preceded I ceded the war Now virtually exon exonerated exonerated a commissioned officer in spite of secret and hostile Influence a gen gentleman by b birth and lineage linge matured and broadened by the stirring export experience experience I ence i of his eighteen months of cam die fe dared to hope hove to see Bee the girl gr rl he loved he meant to ask ante for her herno no 9 matter who might answer the bell I for he be believed from Mrs Lanes brief letter Jetter that she herself rarely rare left the bedside of her slowly convalescing has hus husband band barid As he be reached the little bend in inthe Inthe inthe the familiar old street and the bay window came rame into view bs he was wa star startled startled tIed to see ee a number of idlers gathered in 10 front staring curiously at the en entrance entrance entrance trance where stood an officer with two armed soldiers The bayonets of half halfa a dozen more amed earned above the heads beads of the little ong Street urchins came carne running runni from east and west and Nor ivans rr ans heart beast sank ank within him What could it mean but that they were in search of the Itoe deserter that the reck Je s witless boy had bad dared to make I his way to the old home had been becu 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