Show i 4 4 the iffie I 1 J contla ts al I 1 N washington 0 1 is i square V cj J I 1 ty janet A 1 R fairbank A Q by TU uw U k SYNOPSIS L to her homo home in ft 41 JIM mall 11 town hulton center from a visit to new now fork tork the widowed mother ra of ten year old ann byrne announce announces her addine to gudeon cortlandt socially and politically aromi nent her husband has ba not been bon told about ann and the new now rife wife fears he will be dL CHAPTER IL with ann mrs cortlandt beturne to new now tork to the houie house of ot hendricks cortlandt her hue bus bands brother with wham the latter to living hudson practically to have anything to do with ann and the child Is I 1 badir ladir adopted by ain dricks cortlandt aling with h hie ld wife to hi position as united sta t ea In ain inister leter to switzerland th pair are loaf la in the tb wreck wreak of the th rel vessel CHAPTER 1 ann all a CAP in Cortlandt 6 lonely heart and their affection becomes mutual mut lial CHAPTER avat sixteen rears of are ann ie Is confronted with the tho begin ing of the civil wr war As hendrick leke acknowledged heiress she he Is naturally preel nent socially oo lally and the actuation is relented resented by vre ra renne leelyer elyer later sistar atos eon Ilea dricks has baan looked upon ae as the natural helf of the cortlandt the civil war break out the fall of port fort busier cau lair conater catlon in new yolk and th north a sen rally ren V ra VA A tentative ment between Rennei Renne lyer slyer and ann in understood the youth in 14 a new now tork york regiment on the first call of the north worth to the color CITA MElt VL HI brief term ot of en list ment expired Tr andricks nonne slyer return returns io new now tork york ann in instrumental in causing him to re eullet war hospitals am re in new now york tork and aud ann anti is 1 eager to help holp in the work but beete with opposition tr from om her guardian ro ardlan and hi his st latera 1 VII VM ann aan haa ban her way and wid in pite spite of mra mrs Renne Iyer open oven opposition and her euard ardlan lanc lo little concealed aversion to the idea take up the work of the unfortunate wounded who have been lent sent back from the front vm with ner her guardian ru ardlan ann visits hendricka in his hi encampment on the outskirts of wash ington he lie atron stron gly gIr disapproves of her work in the hospital bat but she he re fugee to give vivo it up there in a rift in heir their affection affections CHAPTER IX libby prison deneley denslay howard forgotten boyhood comrade of ann to brought to the new tork york hospital the girl has ha her hare haze in caring for him beyond possibility of recovery ann haa has him removed from the hospital to hia his home where he pores passes his hl lakat few day darn in comfort CHAPTER X from the front announce th the death of or elyer ann bad written to him off their engagement but had in no one and her bar guardian iru ardlan and relative naturally believe her heartbroken hendricks cortlandt to sent by the Proul president dent on an diplomatic finston to europe As ai abel burliew tho the streets she tried to fix her mind on an the person bat but la in vain she knew enough of condition near tho the front to realize that it required intense personal interest to accomplish anything there it tras not nn an errand which one could in trust to a clerk father was wn aie had bad had a bronchial couch cough all ali tho the lato late winter and and finally allowed aire mm Renne slyer to take him over to washington for a cure in that more balmy air with the result that he was ml miserably laid up there in the hotel botel all the oung men bhe the knew were off on tight ing it was a it pity that she was wait it carl she considered for a putting the matter before mrs cortlandt and andar urging ging her to take the trip but at once she know that lady would only echo the doctors sane judgment that all they could do 1 ns as to wail ann felt that it would be more than th eho she could endure if she was forced to hear bear that unanswerable statement again her tired nerves shrank miserably ralser ably from the prolonged emot motional lonal crisis into which her ber newa news would plunge tha th women of ber family 1 it U esly ehe might go to her elf to look the matter up I 1 she halt half paused breathless with desire at the idea once nt lt the front too it would be strange if it sha could not inake some connection with a e there I 1 aho hao no cons conse doux loum pinn plan yet time seemed curiously precious prec loue ond and when tile he reached washington square she broke into a run at tho the door joeeph joseph told her that mr mrs cortlandt and fanny had responded to a call from tho sanitary comro conini leelon lasion ladles and had gone there to work amiee fanny title any ay to tell you to come too 1 ann they a supper prepared by de ladles and ehe she say ay dey need yoa you the girls first sensation was relief at postponing the tile telling of lier her new news it would eho tile thought rive give tier liar tha that much more time to ind some momo one to go TO to virginia VIrgin la thero there was uns a train at nine every one away like feilso his I 1 it was wab providential 1 I cant go to joaeph she he amazed herself by saying III 1 I am leading to night for philadelphia philadelphia minx 1 anar perhaps mr Fl endricks lent dead joseph I 1 have to go to iland out there wae was a great hurry lurry of exclusa alon and excitement while ann ate her upper supper and packed a anitila travel ing alti ting ling old joseph on nc ac companying her to the ferry and in the carriage can luge he began to have a it change of heart it dont seem right to me miss ann you going off orr all by youself dla il any a ny tie lie ed from time to time thile and at the lie last moment when he hod had carried her bog beg on board the ferry ferryboat bont ho lie refused in n leave her item 1 getting too lark miss ann anti honey fr rr you to be on de water unter by youself you Belf ill pee see you yott op on to do train ann won ton touched elied in spite of herself and won flad to lieve him with her loo as the water woe very black anny an ay from froin the dock dok and almost all the passengers were nere men nion who stared at her persistently she would not have admitted that she wan nervous but she was ras grateful to the old negro he found a seat for her in the crowded car and stood atom beside her hex bareheaded as ions long ns as he could fencing off any one who might have wished to share her sent and talking of fl endricks when he lie was a little boy people looked curiously at the elegant young woman attended by her deferential old sonant ackt but neither joseph nor bis his mistress noticed them good luck miss ann be lie said as the conductor shouted all aboard de lord be with you an mr ir hen elen dricks all night long there were delays and anif rumor rumors of trouble twice they were sidetracked side tracked for a train of cavalry cars tilled filled with shouting men and stamping horses and once for a load lond of lowing beef cattle en route for the tile army of the potomac ann could not sleep after her fellow passengers had settled themselves into strange gro of repose while the tile candles in tho the spring dockets guttered dimly she eat ant looking at the full canals of new nw jersey placid and unreal in the alt alir light of a waning moon ann knew that she had ln involved volle herself in a flue mess mesa running off in this way ony if it her bad had been at nt home hame of course it haic been necess necessary arr surely once If iren drics endricks was found she could man age to get into a neld field hospital if it only for a few days he ile must be nilve slie was sure of it now overjoyed her guar guardian dinn would be and Il endrIcks mother who could lay illy aside the tile binck which hleb made her look so pathetically old she wondered if lind had her note yet yel she smiled reluctantly at the ridiculous figure she would cut in her weeds should he actually face her with it she was Y wide ide nanie e when the down dawn came for a long time the blank sky was faintly streaked with mauve then all at once the whole cost enst burst dra dm into rose color the sun soad up with a rush tt of light ond and movement ond and the trees in the fields beside the track long block black shadows after the escaping coping es train ann watched the tile transformation eagerly she was not sleepy und she wondered if it hendricks were miraculously awak enan to welcome this new day philadelphia la wax a vastly different piece from the staid town she had known before when visiting there will voth her ber guardian people thronged the streets si us an though it were a boll bolt day and blinds IDI playing nying martial music promenaded through the crowd followed by huge canvas signs on which were printed the names of the various regiments which men raen might join it was an enormous advertising campaign in to the interest of enlistment the coal manx regiment and the union league brigade were especially active it seemed to ann that their bunners bung from every house that aery every boerding detailed tho the ath tales they offered the recruiting otince at twelfth lel fth und and garard streets there wak such a dense of men eager to enlist that he found noeme dif difficulty in on her way to the sanitary room rooms the building was placarded ardeil with kigns signs the washington orgy woodwards light battery fall tell in men meui and nn an appelt to citizen citizens mn men of color come forward it iv bajt like the varly lay flays of the war in new york only here there was an added nalty of the nearness of the enemy all the while over tho the hoarse tumult of the crowd the abrill voices of newsboys clotild be heard calling confederate erato cavalry approaches liar roxburg 1 I 1 and in ill answer ann saw the men press pre sullenly forward at tho tile commission rooms the ilia girl interviewed the tile tody lady man nue rexa hut but she he conid could learn nothing definite ilyene yes oh mr hendricks aca niece I 1 wont you wit donai ann did lit so reluctantly 1 I hate to toko take the tile time to she he admitted smiling ingratiatingly at her interlocutor you see I 1 want to go to the front do you know where the anny army of tile ast 1st in no knows that exactly some in southern pennsylvania of course 1 I heard newsboy boys calling oat out hat that leo line has crossed the potomac Poto mael VM yen there will be another terrible battle soon you can ace see bow biry busy wo we are here the most sensible 1 thine thing you could do would be to settle down and help us III 1 I cant wait unit ann eald said lin hastily atily 1 I must get in touch with the army before the bottle battle bilut my child the front la in no place for a young lady surely yo you u realize that nut I 1 can nur sol ann cried III 1 have baen working in the hospitals in baw york ever since they were 0 opened V 1 nuree nurse so young extraordinary in philadelphia 1 however that Is to neither hero here nor there if you can nurse I 1 dare say any we might find you n pinco ploce on our hospital train it ill start us soon as we get orders ann shook her head 1 I cant wait site he enid said stubbornly you would not be allowed to to go beyond 0 nd Il ultimore without a paea pass from the governor Ko vernor how ilow can I 1 acet a pass 7 you would have to go to harria farris If burg for it and and it ie to a great question if aou ou succeed in reaching reach the you know ewell in 1 rs ling lu in that wo we fear that ut any inocent he way cut off the city 1 well ann murmured regardless of highbred high bred philadelphia eyebrows lifted at her expense harrisburg Hanla burg she was rather cast down at the delay and eho she was moreover afraid chat tant mrs cortlandt Cort londt might succeed in reaching and stopping her she looked about her ber for possible aid and her eyes foll on the only man la in the room be re mas a young chaplain gaunt of figure and exalted of face he ile was 1 I suppose not ann drooped again hopelessly Hope lely looking at her tier when she noticed him his eyes were the sort in ulger pit pity lies iles in ambush he was a ri young man born to bo be gulled ann went over to him at once 61 6 1 I 1 you rou would hell held me she said trustingly as a little child anything I 1 crin dor do I 1 stammer edthe young man inan arc are you in troubled lcy yes great trouble she sighed deeply 1 I must got get to the front eho she said and I 1 hear I 1 have t to 0 have a pass to go beyond baltimore they are hard things to get these thele days he lie murmured sympathetically and only fancy I 1 have one here that needed you have a pass 1 lie ile pulled g folded paper froni 1113 hilj pocket and eure sure enough it was a pass it bore the sove luor sua signature and it ans ninde inde ow out jo a mrs baard Jal aril blake when ehe she looked up at him the young man marl observed that the girls girlos gray eyes seemed suddenly black 4 arly lant isn t BOL sho thir mr ulalio her ifer son died before she could start oh olt the poor woman I 1 dont tont ton t you think it seems a pity to waste icv it ue ile looked bewildered nt at this direct attack so sho she added smoothly of course I 1 know that alie governor would give me ine one onelie lie is a great friend of my uncles you see but I 1 cant bear beara to delay theres going to be this battle I 1 want to get there before ite its fought I 1 trant tn to fand mina one if I 1 1 r navo have tilt this pam rit t do you uny rny good it mode made out ont to you would anyone know it would not bo right the young clergyman sold firmly but a wave of color swept from ills his inordinately low collar to his blond hair 1 I suppose not ann drooped again hopelessly bop elesely li 1 I with I 1 could give it to you your she turned pleadingly to him and she he laid one beseeching hand upon hie his arm ob oh do give it to me snot I 1 if you will I 1 can tart start for baltimore nt at once please let roe me have it please pleos ol I 1 aiters ire looked at tho the lender white aln cere irresolutely somehow bali ans I 1 not an arm upon which beautiful tut ayoung young women often leaned and he be burned to be worthy of this appeal I 1 ann swept her gray eyes up to hie you will wont you I 1 bhe she said confidently coni fi Rde rilly she head out her other hand I 1 trustfully her evident dependence woe was too much for him lie put the fol folded pd paper in her outstretched fin finberg gerg and tingled with delightful feeling of wickedness adof of c course ourse ho he enid said virtuously 1 I let lot you have it if it were not a case of life and death deuth I 1 no of course not r can never thank you but ill never forget youl you I 1 como with me and help me find my cab eab As she took her seat in the train ann observed that there were fewer women traveling that day the car was filled for the most moat part with sol jol diera them they were interested in her tier that was quite evident for she never looked up without meeting a pair of a smiling boyish eyes but bhe she was die dia posed to be discreetly shy with them and she struck up a protective no ne with a grizzled major who was returning to 0 o his regiment ment with one empty sleeve she consulted him about her probable destination where do you think the army of the potomac Is tar 7 she do banded 1 I am ordered to frederick city as the nearest railroad point I 1 should try to go there if I 1 were you its your best chance for information you might even run into the fifty fifth no one knows have to spend the night in baltimore 0 the rhe night I 1 ann echoed with a s sinking inking heart nighia on trains were all very well but nights in strange cities were more than filie she had bar gained for 1 11 I dont know anyone tri fitere ere sho she faltered childishly the major frowned III 1 I do he enid said at length 1 I think the woman who runs the eutaw house would |