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Show s LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHL UTAH CHAPTER XV In Which the Broken Thread of Love Is Curiously Reunited. The Master Chaos bylrvlnd Bacheller Copj-rieh- int. by lrvlci t Baxtmller WNU Sarvica CHAPTER XIV i Continued 18 Majestic pine and sprucca turned Into towers of flame. Above them all great dead pine that seemed to touch the stars glowed like an obelisk of gold. The conflagration reflected on the smooth surface of the river below, made picture so memorable officer has dea distinguished pthat scribed tt tn his memoirs. The glow-lowater was cut with hluck shadows the spars and rigging of a ship at anchor, the foliage of near trees. It was a vast spread of rippling lace work lashed with flames on a golden background. Long be sat in the tree top surveying the picture. He came down at last and went to his rest with a fervent prayer of thanksgiving. Suffering for food, Rurgojne's army had to break through or surrender. It renewed the fight. When the firing began, the forbidden. Impetuous Arnold spurred his horse Into the midst of the battle. The soldiers welcomed With Learned's brigade he him. charged the Hessians In the enemy's center and broke them. The enemy retreated and had scarcely entered their camp, when Arnold stormed It in the face of grape shot and small arms. Turned at the point of the bayonet he attacked the right flank. They retreated, but not until they had killed his horse and wounded him and Colonel Cabot. Arnold was borne off the field, but the victory was com Ilete. Meanwhile Amos Farnsworth tree top was dropping British in a officers with his deadly rifle aim. As he saw them fall he made grlra remarks. "Thar'a a pass Into hell." Take that ye hired Dutchman." I knocked his hat off. "By G lie's down." In a moment he swung his cap In the air and yelled, "They're licked. Hy the God o Moses ! We got 'em on the run." In his excitement Amos had slipped from grace as he was wont to put It. Was It his punishment that came so awlftly? The bullet of a British sharpshooter swished through the leaves and hit Amos in the shoulder. Ills gun dropped to the ground. A second he wavered on bis perch trying to support himself. He fell Into a crotch beneath him where he hung caught In the middle with head, arms and legs drooping. Some men of the near battery took him down with ladders and bore him away on a stretcher. Darkness had fallen. Silence had succeeded the rage and tumult of contending armies. The battle was won. Colonel The British had retired. Cabot lay wounded on the field. A saber blow had cut the side of his face below the ear and stunned him. had fallen from his horse and was weak from the loss of blood. A trembling, frightened voice was calling hlro. It was a woman's voice and there was distress In It, He answered, lie struggled to his feet and felt his way to the side of a wounded man. "Did you call me?" he asked. The answer came feebly. "Yes, I knew you were neur. I snw you fall. They ran me through. I I am Nancy. Now you know" Her voice stopped. She tried to touch his face. On Its way her hand fell back. He raised It to his Hps. It was cold. He bent and kissed her cheek. Again he spoke. She did not move or answer. The great change had come, and he knew more Indeed than he had ever known, of that thing we call the love of women. The litter men gathered them In. The surgeons were busy in the hospital a long, improvised structure which was a howling den of horrors. In the midst of It, after his wounds wore treated, the exhausted young colonel fell Into a deep, merciful sleep. A vision came in his dreams of the things that Simeon Botts and his selfish, harebrained cohorts were to He saw the starving, accomplish. half-clashivering, faithful men soon to be In the camp at Valley Forge. Some time was consumed In finish Ing the conquest of the famished, helpless army of Ilurgoyne In organising its march and In breaking camp October seventeenth. The sick and wounded remained. Among them were General Arnold and Colonel Cabot. Captain Farnsworth would go with hta regiment. Still weak and In much pain, with brave pretenses he made light of It and mounted his horse. Another captain who rode at his side has written that Farnsworth was the only man he ever knew who could go sound asleep In the saddle for hours as If It were a feather bed. Slighted In Gates orders, the de mon fighter left the hospital as soon at he could ride In a chaise. It Is a pity the v death Arnold courted had not taken hlm ' Wronged and embittered he was thereafter In a dark and downward way. Some have the o endure and to overcome In v gratitude and some have not. 1 le d, Ifor the second battle. ''in had received an order from Uftieral Wash injrton written at the fifteenth mile eivtie on the Skippack road la I Von ttylvania, directing him, at the end of the Saratoga campaign to get a dis charge from General Gates awl pro eeed with his regiment by a route known to Sergeant Sapp, the hearer, to general headquarters. C'lia, still in bed, ordered his men to prepare for the Journey and to set out the neit day. He Immediately sent a letter by post to Itachei Bowlby telling her of the order and mapping the route and destination. This to make sure that I'at would know where to find him. He expected to be able to follow and overtake the regiment in a day or two but the young man was detained In the hospital more than two weeks after his men had gone. A lingering weakness from the loss of blood kepi him In bed. The day of his discharge he headed for Albany In the saddle. Arriving there he found Mrs. Bowlby. He learned that I'at and the ladj Ack land with their horses and an escort of four men had set out on a south bound ship a few days before. They were to leave the ship about sixty miles below Albany and start westward In the saddle to Intercept Colln's regiment on Its way to Washington's Her ladyship had a headquarters. permit from Gates to go south with the troops and Join friends in I'hiia delpbia. Colln's mare had been wounded In a foreleg in the last battle and was unfit for a long Journey. Moreover, he had not enough money to buy a good horse. Mrs. Bowlby was a poor woman with children depending on her. He could not accept her help even If she were able to offer It ; the masterful woman, always prepared for emergencies, took command of the situation. "You know that Washington is with In twenty miles of I'hilailelphla," she said. "lie Is on the Skippack road. The map you sent me shows the road. A neighbor of mine here Is a cousin of John i'ennebecker who runs a mill on Perkiomen creek not ten miles from there. So your best route Is the Delaware river. Take the ship this At afternoon down the Hudson. Klnderhook hire a man to take you across country to the Delaware. Buy a good canoe, a small tent and sail and some provisions. Keep moving. You can make fifty miles a day with the current and more In a fair wind. It's as much as a horse could do. In some places you'll get a ride on the flatboats. If the British are In Philadelphia, you'll know It long before you get there. Leave the river somewhere near Bordentown and go due west. Keep north of the Frankford creek until you cross the Old York road. Then cross the Frankford and you'll come to the Wissahlckon. The Skippack road will be near you. Remember there's to be some delay before you meet Pat. When you do meet her you'll know whut to do, I guess. For the Lord's sake, don't let her get away from you. I'm almost worn out trying to bring you together. There have been times when I wondered whether the war was for liberty or Pat." Colin laughed: "I've learned better than to disobey your orders." "Well, there's some comfort In the thought that you couldn't get away from her If you tried," she answered with a smile. "Mother Enslow is happy with me and can stay until Pat has a home. I'll look after the mare." The young man set out and obeyed her orders almost to the letter. In good weather, with favoring winds, he flung the miles behind him and fin tshed his river Journey In four days. Near the end of It he came upon the giant Elienezer Snoacb with a fleet of bateaux loaded with provisions for Washington's army. He was near a landing where teams were to meet him. Colin boarded one of the bateaux and had a brief talk with the old sea god. "No, the war ain't over not yet," said Snoach. "They'll wrar.tle with the winds an the waves an' the wil derness an rotten meat an' scurvy an smallpox a while longer maybe an' Ye can't shoot them eneperhaps. mies er bribe em off. The British is like a big fish that's grabbed the hook an' reeled off a lot o' line. Ye bring hlra In close an' away he goes ag'In. Ye got to tire him out an' drownd him an' lift him into the boat an' wallop him over the head. How long it'll tuke nobody can tell, but If he's hooked solid an' the line holds ye know he's got to come soon er late." Snotich's landing was near. There Colin hired a horse and In the saddle, with a farmer to guide him. he set out on the westward They Journey. reached the Old York road where he began to get news. The British were in Philadelphia and Gernmntown. Some miles north of the latter place he came upon the light dragoons of Washington. They told him that he would find Amos at Percy's tavern not There he met the re n mile away. doubtable trooper. His right shoulder was still In supports and giving him Excused from duty, he had pain. come to an Inn for the solnes to be found In drink, Colin put the usual question: "How are you J" "Shamed o' myself," Amos an "Been real poorly since swered. Satan fetched me a cuff which ye know 1 deserved It If ever a man did. Guess 1 must 'a done some purty tal ta"In thar In that tree an I ain't none too good now. If It wasn't fer the love o' God In me I'd git dnink an' stay drunk the rest o' my days 1 swesr I I'm that wore out would with the aeti'nV You should have stayed In the bo pital. You're so bound up in the old regiment you cannot let it get away from you." "Which the fact is. an" Gods my witsess. I love It an" our great father We've been through bell with him an stuck together.. Where It goes I go an' where he goes I go. If I'm bare footed an' thar's snow vo the ground an' I know my grave U not a mile abad. I'm a goin' Amos was like a faithful dog who suffers much and bravely dies for bis master. It wa the spirit of the regiment. In their talk its men often called the t'hief "father" as a way of indicating their affection. "Have you got over being anxious for that charming widow?" Colin asked. Not never," Amos an"No, sir. swered. "I think o' her frequent I do. 'un't help It but the Ay es. Iird p'ims out the way fer me an' 1 stb-to the 'father.'" To Colln's astonishment he learned that the regiment on Its march had not met Miss Fayerweather and her friend. He discharged his guide, who turned hack with the two horses. ft? J$r' fflsm 'mom Knew You Were Near. I Saw You Fall. They Ran Me Through I I Am Nancy." "Yes, I Colin went on with Amos to the camp at At headquarters Whitemarsh. General Washington received him as always. Gentle dignity In his manner, a look of fatherly fondness in his face and eyes It was all familiar and very grateful to the young man. "My boy, I congratulate you. I am glad to see you here and more than I ca tell, you I regret that you have had to lose blood and bring back this scar on your good face." "It Is a small matter," said Colin. "It might have been much worse. We were following Arnold and that Is not a task for men." A shadow came over the face of the Chief. It was followed by a frown. "I have heard of his brave fighting, but not," he paused a second and then added, "officially." "And yet it was he who won the battle," said Colin. "He would have won It in the first onset with timely help from General Gates." The Chief rose and paced up and down the room with a frown but saying not a word. How erect he stood! He was majestic when offended. Colin spoke of Pat and the Lady Ackiand and their plan to Intercept the troops and march Into camp with them. "Oh, the young lady!" the General exclaimed. "I am forgetting my orders. When happily you meet, and let us hope it may be soon, you are to have a leave of absence for all necessary attention to your personal affairs. You are to set out with Miss Payer weather and her maid for our home in Mount Vernon where my wife wil) welcome you and where I hope you may find needed rest and the happiness to which you have looked forward so long and with a most becoming patience." "Needed rest." Colin thought, as he sat in silence almost overcome by his sudden recognition of a melancholy truth. Here was a man who long had needed the rest he could not take. There was respite for all others-ho- me, rest, a season of happiness-h- ut his portion was ever the fiery fur mice of anxiety and peril the linen. Has struggle against chaos and in gratitude. There was a moment of silence. The General arose saying: "It does cheer me and it gives me a solemn sense of my responsibilities. America is now awake and stirring. We shall have reverses but they can only delay the issue. Captain Farnsworth has done his share. Soon I shall send him home to get married and to live In peace." The next day passed and still an other with no news of Pat and the Colin was alarmed Lady Ackiand. He thought thai he would mount a horse and set out on the route of the regiment to find them a dubious en terprise, for it was likely that Pat's party had missed the trail of the Massachusetts men. possibly they had turned south before they came to It. Had they fallen in with the Brit Isht Amos and Major Humphries dls suaded him on the ground that it would be a chase. Colin spoke of his need of a horse. "(So down to the corral and pick one out," said Amos. "The fenced field Is full of them." Small detachments had been a bus ing an order of the General by raiding the countrysides far In the north and bringing In a great number of horses und cattle., Colin went to the corral soft-hearte- d wild-goos- e and there, to bU amazement discovered the blazefaced. white stockinged mare that belonged to Pat She She cam to In good flesh and spirit. He biui when be tailed her name. took her to the stable, where she was carefully groomed. He gave his plan to the Chief and was allowed an leave. He bad the mare sad died and bridled. In his beat boots and uniform, which had come down be mounted the with the bag-ag- e. mare and let her go as she would, mell aware that she would find her w CUT OFF FROM HL'Mv Adjust as The branch cut from jti . by such means separate.! f, entire tree. In the same way t who breaks with another uias arates himself from the ( i humanity. Only the branch off by a stranger's hand, wall in cutting himself off fc;g J bor. out of despite, doe nt re..' that he is himself making the? aratioa Marcos Aureiius. ' uj Smiky way. (iuided by her own unerring comanpass she turned from one road to other and again. Nearly two hours a they had traveled when Colin saw horseman approaching with a gun In his hand. The young man drew rein The horseman to get information. seized the bit of the mare, saying: "Where did you get her? She is a stole horse. For a week I have been tryin' to find her." Colin told of her unauthorized capture by American troops and of his reason for being on her back. I was on my way to the rebel other. "So you are said the camp." the man them ladies are lookin for. I've heard of ye, colonel." "Where are the ladies?" "At the house of Sir Roger Bogert about a mile ahead. He's my master, sir a loyalist man the king's collector, sir, an' If ye find a better man ye got to go to some other planet." "Do you know what delayed the ladies?" "One horse broke his leg In bad going, sir, and they had to double up. The older lady was sick when tbey got here. The other had her horse I'll rush on ahead an' tell 'em stole. Ye don't want to kill comin'. you're 'em with surprise." The stranger turned his horse and spurred him to a swift gallop. The mare was eager to race along with The him but Colin restrained her. fulfillment of his dearest hope was near. lie thought of the wonder of it The muse of history had brushed aside the armed hosts of a great empire to let her pass. He thought of the two years lengthened by heartache, deadly weariness, hunger, nights of shivering In hitter winds, days of storm and blood and deviltry In the black shadow of death. Thank God they were behind him and before hlra now was the greatest joy the human heart can know the broken thread of love In his hand to be reunited. The big white mansion of Sir Roger on a plateau, overlooking two valleys, stood a little beyond him level with the road. There were great trees In its ample park. He came to the gates. Beyond them was a broad vista looking toward the western sky now aglow with color blue and red and gold the sun being far down. Against this background he saw Pat running toward him. Me dismounted and they embraced each other. The mare crowded her nose between them. "This is the end of a long story," he said. "No, the great test of your courage Is coming," she answered. "Let us We are still at the dinner go In. table." They went to the house and entered the great dining hall where they were greeted with cheers by Sir Roger and some twenty guests. A little later the young man was sitting at the table between Pat and the Lady Ackiand, a slender woman of remarkable beauty. After a toast to the "two beloved rebels," he told of the Invitation to Mount Vernon. "I want to be your maid," said her ladyship. "It would spoil us with pride," Colin answered. The Sir Roger, a wise and jolly man of sixty, arose and raised his glass. "Here's health and long life to the motherland," he said. "In spite of her errors and failures she has a great work to do In this world of ours. God give her strength to do It Llon-likin her power and dignity, she will struggle on against baffling, cosmic hostilities more formidable than the growing armies of Washington. But, although I am loyal to the king. I can no longer hide my fear that he Is doomed to fail. It seems to me that the decisive blow has fallen. Well, if there Is to be a new nation may It have the wisdom and the love of human rights which, whatever we may say of the recent past, have mainthe conduct of old ly characterized F.neland. And now I propose the health of General Washington, a man of great vision and patience, who Is bringing order out of confusion. Politicians have tried and may still try to starve his ragged host, but they cannot break his spirit. I think that he will conquer chaos and be one of the great men of history." The candles were lighted. Pat and Colin went "It is cool here," she whispered. "But a lover like you knows how to warm the weather." "See the lamps of heaven," he said. "Their tight has an approving look. They seem to say: 'We go in our appointed 'paths and we are glad that you have found yours.'" "It leads to the library." said Pat. "Lady Bogert will give us seclusion there. We can raise the golden barge and lift the perfumed sails and set the flutes playing while we tell our stories. By and by we will return tn this world of realities and will give you my plan for a lovely, practical home." "And at last," he said, -- we will thank God for this day and go to our happy dreams and set out for Mount Vernon and Its dear lady tomorrow." "Tomorrow," she answered. ,. f THE ikNDi white-bearde- 1 SEEING AHEAD - c . 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