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Show dler who, at tbe risk of his own Rft) had anstched her from what threaten ed to be her funeral pyre. Pardon me, again, if I as y I dont fully believe that; but It does not mafe ter at all. I am curious to know bow you came to be fastened la that attln room, a place where, as s boy, I spent many an hour In play, and even one escaped doing penance up there by foN Affsas Ansae erm2JXSM7Gyj354&8mjSr lowing tbe same route over which oug line of reireat ran. How came that U0 comnarmp JosajrjBuzTGjazzr door locked? CHAPTER VIII. small She loked at him curiously. himself the door a found of at CHAPTER VI Continued. Concealment was useless, since be room. "What right have you to demand It dawned upon John's mind that his felt that his cousin had already guessan answer?" was closed. Through Flame and Smoke. It must hare been discovered, ed his identity. ape It was the fateful day of Atlanta's kett When he tried to open it he found "Tbs best right in the world that and the overseer sent out by Squire I desired to see my old home, and uil. The Federal forces had so en- himself baffled. "I have nothing to any," remarked of husband." arouse to believed any neighboring this place to be neutral John, calmly. Granger vironed the city that nothing was left "I refuse to acknowledge the relaThen he shook the door savagely. This other looked at him closely. to the Southern anuy but a farther recamp, that searching parties might ground," he replied boldly. sir. shouted. he tion, "Open open!" scour the neighborhood. The major laughed harshly, vindictreat. You are a tool, John Ridgeway. "I cannot I am locked in, a prisas you please. Then I have a Just man stretch the unPerhaps Never to be forgotten were the oner," came Indistinctly from beyond shrewdly suspect- tively, John thought, and he oould Well, have your own way, and the same question because ask to right ed that John would return to the scene derstand why, since it bad developed hemp," with which he turned upon his scenes that marked the departure of tbe door, for the fiamea were roaring my life was put in peril to save you." of hs capture, divining that he had that this man was a suitor for the heel and walked off. the bravo men who had battled against and crackling with the fury of demons. On that account I will answer you. some object in visiting the deserted hand of Mollle Granger, the Georgia Time passed on. t'hrew his weight against the It waa a atranga thing for me to da I superior numbers with a valor the John mansion of old Fletcher Ridgeway. girl, who only a few hours before had Once more the lights were flashing equal of which history has seldom door. had not been over here for a year or Men were soon scouring the gardens been made his wife through the decree about the windows of the old mansion, chronicled. It was not a cumbersome affair and more, though we keep the keya of the and passing among the trees. They of her father. Soon smoke arose in many for Crockett. Inspired with new seal quarters. when one who possessed such strength Ridgeway house. Perhaps the menentered into the spirit of the game "You are John Emmett Ridgeway, a after his interview with his cousin, Here the Confederates put as nature had given to John Ridgeway tion of your name last night stirred up with great seat. Joking and laughing cousin of Capt. Crockett here?" pur- bad again entered upon a search for the torch to retiring huge piles of cotton rath- beat upon it with desperate energy, some memories of pleasant rumblings as they thrust bayonet or sword into sued the Confederate. er than have it fall Into the nands of something was bound to give way. the missing packet. lu these grounds in years gone by. each and every clump of bushes in a "It would be useless to deny it. My More than once John glanced that the victorious Federals. In other Thus be entered a room filled with "At any rate 1 came, and having enreckless manner, not at all conducive presence here at my old home sets way, a little uneasy lest the other quarters houses could be seen ablase, amoke, entered it to find no one at the tered the bouse roamed ail over it, to the peace of mlud of the man for the seal of truth upon my assertion. might by a turn of fortune discover perthps fired by one of the numerous window, for the girl prisoner had A flood of memories swept over me as whom they were searching. I am no spy." bands of guerrillas that haunted the sunk down in a heap. the loose stone in the hearth.' I went from room to room. It was too late for John to retreat, "That remains for us to decide. 1 course of the rival armies. Thus he waited, having confidence Seeing that she was too exhausted "Suddenly I heard voices looking since his movements must be seen. am. given power for such an emergen- In the ability of the sergeant to acThrough copse and over hill a squad- to follow him, he immediately swept out of the window I saw unknown men He realized the desperation of his po- cy as this. You will have a chance for complish something, for the other was ron of Federal cavalry dashed, heading her form into hia arms and tamed to dismounting. I became alarmed. for the region where we have witnesssition, and the probable fate that your life, my dear colonel, but I would an old campaigner. retreat Escape was no longer a possibility, awaited him upon discovery. not want to discount your prospects The night was nearing its end, and ed these strange scenes on the preJust as he expected hla retreat was and I retreated to that amall room, There was a slender chance that he for living. It was a singular adven- presently in the east would come the vious night. At their head rode Colonel cut off, for the flames seemed to have hoping thejr would look for valuables might reach the house. A fringe of ture, this nights work of yours, but if blush of early morn. Already the John and near him the sergeant. followed him, and already the passage- and go away without discovering me. trees offered BUght encouragement in Basil Worden has any power In the mocking birds twitter could be heard The house is on fire, kurnel;" cried way was a roaring abyss. My hopes were without foundation this line, and he Immediately endeav- game, our pretty Mollle need not wor- among the trees heralding the coming the latter, as they rounded a bend In Having already made up his mind as for I was seen by a man who came to make most over the arose Incumbrance ored forced of the day, when Major Worden of the oppo- ry long the the wood. to what he should do John moved seeking some hidden wealth or valurtunity. Flames burst from many windows along to the short ladder that went to able upon her by the fortunes of war." N and called to one of his men. property. I have in these troub' In order to further the deception court conAt once the drum-hea- d "Fetch the rope, Bob. This is an un- and his ancestral home was doomed. the roof. times always gone armed, and lous three-fooutt John secured a splinter of vened. All was conducted with the Hera was a scuttle which he burst my father taught me as a girl how to pleasant duty, but soldiers must get Perhaps Crocket Ridgewsy, determinwood, and with this he made sundry most decorum governing such ghastly accustomed to such things. One the ed to ruin if he could not rule, had through and gained the open air hoot. savage thrusts into bushes, and tribunals, and yet it seemed a hollow less Yankee to enter Atlanta counts applied the match. with his burden. When he would have seized me 1 showed considerable enthusiasm in mockery. The end did not surprise for something anyhow. A headlong rush was made, Colonel Serves him The whole eust end of the building shoulder that aenl the hunt for the hiding Yankee. John he was sentenced to be hanged right for coming here. Now to rid myJohn threw himself from his horse, was already in the grasp of the fiery put a bullet in his the attio stairs. down him tumbling All seemed te be going well and he at the break of day. self of a rival and Mollle of a hus- determined to risk much in order to octopus and a west wind blowing was Then I slammed the door shut .It had almost reached the house undissave suffothe One papers. band." sweeping all that saved him from being caught in some way, for I could not CHAPTER VII. turbed when an accident occurred that glance he took, and then dashed into cated on the roof. Bob evidently knew where to And it again when I discovered the was not down on the bills, and upset As his only means of escape lay In open to the rope; for he soon appeared with it the hallway. houae be on fire.. That la the story , his plans. The Bird Flown. to a At this very moment a cry was the extreme west end of the house, in in his bacds. A limb belonging You have no concern air. brief, to Not seeing a trooper crawling under was not ofa monster lies-- oak close to the fire live! It Four hours heard a cry that might have been of It was In that direction John bore his other with particulars." some bushes, John made a Jab with very long time, but a man with an ac- fered a fine g and the distress and came In a womau'a voice, burden. opportunity, Ha knew there waa more to It, yet his pointed stick. There followed a tive mind may consider his whole life Reaching the end of the roof he would uot presume to ask questions m Bob proceeded to cast the rope, reaching Johns ears while be was batshout of rage, and a human cyclone in less than that looked down. tling with stifling smoke. over It, which feat was accomplished This haughty girl aroused hia inter! descended upon him, with arms flying John was placed under guard, and after a few Ineffectual tosses. There was no time for John RidgeThrough the eddying smoke that eat Just aa the hunter's keenest enfct soon as like flaJJs and a bellowing voice Just (need his expected "Let me make the loop, said the way to consider the matter, for he curled around the corners of the house thusiasm Is awakened by the gam ... cousin. The other was a man whose satisfaction. eager to have a hand in the found himself compelled to buffet bil- he could see that the ladder waa com- that gives him the most trouble, so major, as disgusted; seedgg discov- face could hardly be taken as an index ing, that it would speedily be placed in this man who all bis Ilfs had fought for somehow he had taken lows of smoke on his way to the execution, ery ir '..is Incident. He might still to his character, for it was that of a a audden hatred for this Federal soldining-roowhere the position. shy of the gentler sez had met hid have fled, but that was not according human sphinx. dier, whom deslny had thrown across fate in a way never known of men his path. forced to wed to save his life, hated Jealousy is a demon that reckons litby the girl who took his name in orded ( tle of consequences, when the flame to save the old plantation home,, ha has been once aroused, and this was now found hlmeclf actually swearing the true cause of Wordens hatred. under hla breath that hi due timed "Bring the prisoner, came the next sooner or later, he would bear front order. the lips of Mollle Granger the sweet Several ;men started forward to confession of love. obey. Then came a sudden shout. ry Thus. ifcy Major JWorden, guessing that sqm served to arouse ms aeterminarf only direcin the was wrong; sprang thing tkin. tion from whence the cry came. He Allow me saw his men gathered around a bound you home," and gagged figure, but to his amazefirmly. ment and chagrin, instead of recogShe opened her lipe to refuse. nizing the twin doomed to die at I shall go whether you say yea og ' dawn, he found himself looking upon j no, so please dont put youraelf to the the guard who had been left to watch nervea have received si trouble. Your the other. shock from this experience. Besides, Colonel John was gone! the smoke has served to disguise you, The guard being released was lmme o that the lady of Granger plantation diately overwhelmed with questions; might not be recognized. Just nom but could tell little about it all. He the safest place for you is at home. had received a sudden severe blow on; Your shrewd father has seen to It that the head, caught a glimpse of a gaunt a guard will be thrown around hia face bending over him, and felt roughj grounds. Come, let us go, Miss Molhands laid on his person when unooiw lle." aostar-mg-r fats jpaaanoxBKsr sclousness relieved him of his senses. He gave a few orders to hla men He crept down toward the gutter. who mounted and went around by tha Confusion ensued, but the search; great hearth and chlmnsyplaco were jagxaaBD sj&ffsrAcasmr If this failed him everything was main road. to his disposition. So he met his ad"My dear fellow, believe me, I am was fruitless. Having had plenty of to be found. Borne seen him but thank Heaven the old wood woman make to their which had enter, escapel lost, time in to Tha two made use of tha shorter face, and a furious sorry to find you in such a trap," reversary face d the fugitives were now far away, peH and in her weakness screamed that was still firm, and John swung loose path. In the dividing fence was marked Crockett struggle ensued. waa the conclusion ha reached, hla upon it. That strong arm sustained turnstile that had seen much service Attracted by the row others came "But you voted with the rest said haps within the Union lines. mind being bent upon securing tbe Ita double burden until he bad acquit in years gone by, but was decrepit Major Worden could only gnash b! hurrying up, and it was speedily dis- John, quickly. ed a certain momentum, when he from age now. covered that the troopers adversary, "It would have made no difference teeth with rage, and renew his oath precious papers. loose fire broke on found landed and ha lower wldo the Mollle a hearth the the of make to Hatching skill charming with man the who the the majority was against you fought (To be continued.) roof with some of the agility a cat In the room. a professional boxer, was an utter and" looking around cautiously I should the opportunity ever com would have ahown. Down on hia knees went the soldier, hid an object in making them believe within his reach again. stranger. LIKE MIRACLE. This done he made hla way to the E8CAPE SEEMED and for the second time hla eager e "Surround them both by my life we were (To be continued.) foes. hearth-stone under hands touched the edge. we've cornered the fox, shouted the on a Boiler That ExHis words and manner might have Those below had discovered him and Engineer Rods major, and John caught more than deceived some men, and aroused hopes MEMORY FOR ONCE AT FAULT; which he expected to find the realizaUnder Him. ploded loud shouts attested the admiration tion of hla hopes or else despair. ordinary satisfaction in his strident that would never be fulfilled; but will be a long time before TimIt for their dashing leader. Fortune waa kind. they felt tones. Colonel John remembered this cousin When James G. Blaine Disappointed othy Ardwheel will have another inch The ladder was reared aloft. When he had snatched the packet Thus he soon found himself again of old, remembered that he never actArdent Admirer. ride as he had not long ago, says the rare luck of it the from the rearbed By good hiding place yellow papers a prisoner and roughly handled. St. Paul Pioneer Press. ed without some deep motive back of Edward Standwood'a new biography In which it had lain for years, he hast edge of the roof, and John knew the "To the Are with him. I am curi- it. Hence, he maintained his He Is an engineer In the Benbow A of Jamea G. Blaine aaya: "Tbe tew cool hla coat over the prize. game was saved. ous to see this Yankee spy who has manner. Co. sawmill at Illdley Lake, lu La we get of him at this, the glimpses As he the rearbed and Then for escape. stagground In one night-ruacross my path and Sueur county, and was engaged ia Then you really take an interest in schoolboy, period of 'his life not only A kick sent tbe shivered glass fly- gered away with his burden, he was blackened my chancea for future hapsome repairs In the mill when future making welfare? It pleases me to know it. suggest the politician; they ing in every direction sad left an out- aurprlaed to feel the girl struggle lu piness," said the major, and John my the boiler blew up. He waa sitting oa show in something like maturity the let for escape. Crockett. arms. Ills could only dimly guess what it all We are of the same blood, traits for which he was afterward, How dare you hold ma so I am a box on top of the boiler, and had Through the window he made a flymeant, though hla mind at once reverton one of the school' lu knew He famous. should to every a have be boy sorry on to stand. Please put ms down, hold with both hands able the landed and Ridgeway safely ing leap ed to Mollle. of the explosion. thn time at acno was name. there pipes on and here old the by Perhaps barbarian." grounds of ground. Do you Identify him, Peters?" de- hung, The boiler, which is a large one, complishment which more endeared Tbe voice the maner gave him a He ran aroufew rne mrase, to where manded the officer, as the overseer all places in the world. of the flew out endways through the side ol to casual him is That Can acquaintances do reselland he encouraging. before you he had left ks men, and shock, mechanically dropped bent forward and pered Into the face house and curved up graceanything to prevent the little cere- first meeting. ing thes saw a light that caused an the strong arm that had carried her the engine of the prisoner. the air. Ardwheel was proInto F fully mony to burlife a him in from released this his to overwhelm deah "His respect sensation awful reputation "Positively it's the same critter, behind the eteani It is in my power to effect your es- sometimes led people to expect spectacle that no man could look upon den and stood there amazed, gazing at tected by being not major." so was and Injured when ha dome, account cape. to same his revealed continues.' the as fare she the unmoved. eyes for him. I'm afraid Thats bad of the engine side went the I that acis through "Ah, mass shook have generous. was related back of doomed the black that he of tbe window himself "He In an upper curly Mollle will be wife and widow in one house. Hanging on desperately, ho wronged you in my mind, my dear fel- costed at a town In Ohio, after one of Southern nianaion he saw a face u:id locks. comes Crockett. Here Well night continued to r'do tbe huge projectile j It was Mollle his girl wife! his meetings, in the traveling canvass waving arms. have his opinion in the matter, and low. In Us flight. Fifiy feet farther on it I confess Is a Wait there motive of 1884, by a man who referred to his It dawned upon him then that the then organize a drum-heacourt turned sidewise, and, bottom first, CHAPTER IX. These unpleasant features of war are in this. I know what brought you memory for faces, and asked if Mr., j screams he hid heard as he plunged and crashed entirely through a struck here of the search in him. house Into remembered j Blaine papers the best done as quickly as possible. Ani wheel coming warehouse. The deuce you do, returned the large must be u the Weavea have Fabric. Fate hearthstone the under John caught the name and no longer Mr. Blaine did tut not, Evidently still uninjured. the a with other wreckage as flashthe through truth almost he start, looked distress. Amazed, of cries stupefied, wondered at the lights in the house. before his tongue made the confession of the warehouse side ed On other the he and remembered him, upon that whom now? had the fate too late si Waa it Georgia girl Crockett Ridgeway was a cousin of already apparent on his face, the man John took in the whole situation thrown across hla path In such a re- is a deep lake, and Into this and to tho his. They had not met since boys to- lights had recently been moving from said, w.lth unconcealed disappoint- - ; Iron balroom to room In the house. bottom of It went Ardwheel markable way. ment: gether. but there had never been much Why, I waa in the crowd at ; with a comprehensive glance. Its unfortunate rider, followed I If I was saw by loon, rn.iph beg your pardon love lost between them. "Believing that this house might be the ataMon when you pasaed through Knowing the lay of the land, he He shut his teeth hard and waited burned when Atlanta falls into Sher-main'-s here In 187C, and stood right before there waa a single chanre of eachlog the case demanded action It was a A few seconds later Ardwheel rose to ashore, somethe room from whence the girl signal- question of life and death. he said at. the surface and bands, as it will for what new developments the case you you." ed so wildly. length, rerovering his usual gentle- what surprised and daxed, but not at would show. A short consultation en- have come here to secure certain paall harmed. Shouting an order to the sergeant manly manner. sued among the Confederate officers. pers that were secreted somewhere in That White Blacking. It had hcen anyof enrourarrment to would "I rather a motion ha made fs John, with his hands bound and a the old building years ago." believes Grout there Controller Tha Auto Guarantee. d body but you. sir, to whom T should girl above. John made no answer. guard on either side, appeared to take an English bull aa well aa an Irish' the and In rear be 1ndnbted for my llre, she said, a door burst My brother bought an automobile Then he "Your silence tells me I am on the bull. This summer while In the Isle little Interest in the proceedings until he was again brought forward to the right track. Now listen to my proposl of Wlpht he encountered a specimen: prang up the back atepa three at a coldly, but John only amlled in a grim here last wrek." said an angry man to the salesman who stepped up to way. Are, and found several pairs of keen tlon. Tell me where I can find that of the' former. One morning he rang1 time. 'There's no use trying to fight fate. greet Mm. and he rays you told him The room In which the girl was conpacket, which Is as valuable to me as for hla servant to aak why his whltx-eyes upon him. fined waa a portion of the attic, for I told you we would meet again and It if anything broke youd supply a new; "Your name is John Emmett?" was to you, and I swear on my honor as a buckskin jBhoea, which ho had put our most Bo,"th"nl has come true. Nor do I believe thl part." asked. gentleman and a Confederate officer side hie tioor the night before for a a high to bp the end." Certainly." said the clerk, what to manage your escape before morn- plpeatonr blanching, had not been the Wdfleway "That is true." i I I he want? doe remember said that hated "S'r. roof. as a colonel "A Federal ing." doing duty brought back. He vinnt two deltoid mscles, a Who ahe waa and hnw she came you." she hurst out with some show of Give me time to think It over." said boots,, spy?" Well, you aee, air, one elbow and "Just five minutes, no more. I shell "these shoes are white, and I had no, there these were questions that John temper that must have been assumed, couple of knee-pans- , I am an officer In the Union army, of said the a cuticle," no woman half about. about did could himself for maintain not yard bother living accusanot approach you again on the subject. blacking that would do for them wlth-- j but deny the last part of your If you refuse you know the penalty. out sending out for 1L" New York' Ascending '.he las flleht of ztalrs he j such a feellne towe-- d a dashing sol- - man, and he wants 'em right wwayl" tion." At any rate, I believe I can yet find Times. "Then why are you here" JU: (SflMHSfiff aa what I want without your assistance." Ho stood, holding his watch in his hand. It Already John had decided thatconany of think was folly to putting fidence In this man, whom ha knew of old. Besides, another thing helped him to decide. As his eyes ranged over the bushes he caught a fleeting glimpse of a head that was momentarily raised and then as speedily dropped out of sight, not before he bad recognized the homely features of Sergeant Shanks. "The time is up, cousin," said Croc- j tr'&AStXTm&ia&SJSr . -- half-faintin- T .1 hr 7sr jaar msay? hand-to-han- old-tim- , ! i ! i d t. J J i . -- I flame-imprisone- ! J j |