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Show color of cloth we wear those outlaws are our comnmion enemies, be hunted down like wild beats. situation before us. My own knowledge of the environments of the Minor house helped me greatly to appreciate. the difficulties to be surmounted. He had succeeded in his escape by dodging among the negro cabins where the attacking line appeared weakest, but to l1 have seen specimens of their fiendish cruelty that make my blood run cold to remember. those THE LOVE STORY OF A GRAY JACKET dy Hat <_AUTHOR 4 OF “-WHEN WILDERNESS WAS KING”Bs, a :2.? ur Twi iMtiamnken Illustrations byArth CORT. - closed down about us it proved to be SYNOPSIS. an the The story opens in a Confederate tent at a critical stage of the Civil War. Gen. Lee imparts to-Capt. Wayne an important message to Longstreet. Accompanied by Sergt. Craig, an old army scout, Wayne starts on his mission. They get within the lines of the enemy and in the darkness Wayne is taken for a Federal officer and a young lady on horseback is given in his charge. She is a northern pir and attempts to escape. One of the orses succumbs and Craig goes through with oe dispatches, while Wayne and My Lady of the North are left alone. They seek shelter in a hut and entering it in the dark a huge mastiff attacks Wayne The girl shoots the brute just in time. The owner of the hut, Jed Bungay, and his wife appear and soon a party of horsemen approach. They are led by a man claiming to be Red Lowrie, but who proves to be Maj. Brennan, a ‘and later CHAPTER Edith to the south—a appears. “Who all important news to thorthat communi- cate, ' “Wal,” he explained slowly, “whin ye wint off, | sorter tuk a notion ter look “bout a bit. Used ter be an ol’ stompin’ ground o’ mine. So Dutchy an’ me clumb thet big hill back o’ whar we halted, and’ by gum, down thar in ther gully on t’ other side thar’s a durned big camp o’ fellers.” I reined up short, and with uplifted hand signalled the., men. tic ip balt. é “Why: didn’t you tell me this Bie fore?” I questioned sternly. “How many were there? and what did they look like?” .. He seratched the back of his head thoughtfully, and answered ful deliberation: ‘“Durn with it, I was we are I asked as himself. “Caton? What is wrong. Are were dies at wae but with the expressed live I am to marry trooper, a mere cover with sternly, the !a-. house saluted gravely, all and and [I turned to the dark, of you mis- expectant what out my the oe | stable which to oa suddenly: high is ablaze. venture “cust “hands, de and Caton, into NO,” that have its Said. is pickets certainly we penetrated those attained the house. reach their inner ‘through strategy, and risk being fired upon The “Tt come away to strike a blow. I was certainly in no mood to expose my small command merely to save the empty house from Séstruction. the Sergeant, who sat his horsé with ex‘pressionless face, “you were with the guide when he discovered this camp. How many do you think it Rent aied? and who were they?” . - “Vel, dere vos more as two gompanies, Captain, und dere vos some is no good,” here. every hobble your I shail want “Does foot?” surrounded as soon as it became noon, fi. oe but Excitedly. I had forgotten to mention : The little man ‘ sprang into and came down with a whoop. “The bloody citedly. “Ye devils!” bet he I'll go.” the. air cried ex- _- “Come, Sergeant, speak up; what do you Men say?” , “] Hke not to fight mit der Yankees,” he admitted ‘candidly, “but der ‘vomens, py Chiminy, ‘dot vos anoder ting. 1 vill go, Captain; mein ‘Gott, yaw.” “We're after with voice circle, and you, sir,” spoke voice gravely then around Sands ‘the dark “We'll the John- added: show them thar Yanks how ny Rebs kin fight, sir.” Ten minutes later Glen, bearing his two messages to the. Blue and Gray, was speedingly recklessly through the black night northward, while my little squad over was the moving road we had cautiously ‘back so lately trav- ersed. as ward from want ter see?” a feller how backache. I was not fitfor anything until I teok Lydia E.. Pinkham’s Vege- table was so gruff and a picket-fire Evers before protested we short, horses, | mendingitioallmy friends all but rest of the duestoned the der a ve- then mule; vay on Sergeant, anx- off, Captain; I am no good der dark, by Chiminy.” on foot in “You bad better manage tonight, ‘unless you are to keep up seeking» to commit suicide. Now, men, mark XXIX. A Mission for Beelzebub. — we picked our way slowly forthrough the gloom I gieaned Caton all he knew regarding the Thar My Ol’ Is Captain because of jwhat it has done for ne. ’’—Mrs. CHAS. BAUER, 5:3E. Marion St., Mishawasa, Ind. Alton {tation, Ky.-‘‘For months I suffered from trouble in consequence of my ase and thought I could not live. Lydia B. eee s Vegetable ound made me weil oom want other suffering woren to know about it. Mrs. EMMA BalILeY, Altom tee Station, Ky. Reg’ment.” ic man He’s me sume the stables. 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As we group at his back, and the | side. his at moved slowly.. down the hill | was stood stant a tall figure a single aware that Caton walked upon one recognized the newcomer at heart my side of me, while Bungay plodded glance, and for the moment along upon the other; but my mind fairly choked me—it was Craig. straight was so filled with the excitement of “Lowrie,” he said, pointing yere. our adventure and all that depended at me, “thar’s somethin’ wrong 0 Wayne, upon its. successful culmination, as Captain is That feller thar scarcely to realize anything other than my ‘ol’ reg’ment.” fortune the Liver CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS Wayne, plum mad, Red is, fer sartain.” He turned and strode off, without so much as giving us #@ hackwerd: glance,| “and, Avifh.a hearty congratulatory kick to-‘the Mis, band vay scompeny followed him. A hundred yards further in we passed through the fringe of trees and emerged into an open space from whence we could see plainly the great white house still illumined by the flames which continued to con- him.” der Feller diskiver him “bout ther ornerest jist now ever ye run up again. Take your knife and cut symbol of rank on my go which *bout ‘nough fer our business, but | do its duty. reckon as how Red will use ye someCures Cone stipation, In- 4 whar. Anyhow you uns kin come digestion, ‘ ‘long with me an’ find out, but ye’ll guard lines and We have got to line some way even then must by our own peo- he Compound roved worth its weight in. gold to me. ’’-Mrs.GAsfi TON BLoNnpDEAt, 1541 Polymnia St., New Orleans. * Mishawaka,ind-‘“ Women passing through the Change of Life can take © nothing better than Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable = Compound. 1 am recom- ye kim in lately, an’ I calcalate we got See, the part 1 must personally play. CHAPTER ye as weak and dizzy spells and I can’t nervous. Lydia. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound restored me to perfect health and [ would not. be without it.”’—Mrs. F. M. THORN, Deisem, No. Dak. ‘9’ Hill’s corps, tired of the war.’ » “Mein Gott!” muttered the German, disconsolately. “I hope it vos not long dark. Those devils supposed it. to be troopers named Earl. “As we rode up unguarded, and advanced without precautions. We fired and drove them the first hill after leaving the house back.. He had repulsed three attacks my horse picked up a stone, and | had to stop and get it out. I reckon | fell when I left.at eleven, but three of our: men were already hit.” behind a quarter of a mile or\ more, “You were after aid?” and just as I started I looked back, “I was striving to reach our adand a party of ten or twelve fellows vance pickets at McMillan. It seemed was just riding in through them’ big the only possible chance, and none of gates onto the front lawn. But them the men would volunteer to make the fellows was soldiers for sure; they rode regular like, and all of them ride. One was killed trying it. before 1 started. God knows how I hated to wore caps. It was so far off I couldn’t tell the color of their clothes, but leave them, but it had to be- done. How many have you?” them caps made me think they was “Only twenty; but if. we could once Feds.” get inside along ‘with. your fellows, I chose my course at once. This undoubtedly must have been Brennan’s' we might hold bhp house - until ‘reinforcements came.’ party. “Thank God! I knew you would!” “Thank you, my man; it would have been better if you had reported that he cried joyfully, grasping me again “You are not to ne at once,” I said: “However, | fervently by the hand. understand the situation much beiter one to hesitate over the color of a uniform at such a time as this. Only, now. Sergeant, we will go into camp Wayne,” and he hesitated an instant, here. Post pickets in both directions, “it is right 1 should tell you that’ Brenbut put your most careful men on nan is there, and in command.” that hill yonder. Let them report “I know it, but those women must promptly any signs of fire to the be saved nevertheless,” 1 answered southeast, or any sound of guns.” “This is no We completed all our cooking be- firmly, my mind settled. for personal quarreling. and fore dark, and when the night finally ; time an’ ’em, Nine times in ten when the liver is right the stomach and bowels are right. asked questions, we are deserters from was fight, use Make fously..-. “Certainly: and i coon you to re. member one important thing: let me do. the talking, but if any of you are Cried did sed answer “That C- On; there with mine beside the road; He who they ter kin after \'Do its Duty jacket; tear it off, any way you can.’ In another moment these necessary changes had been accomplished. “Now,” I ordered, “pile your sabers Is You?” ye : midst out. me a well woman suffering three years.” — Mrs. Magy Boast, Reedville, Oregon. New Orleans, La. — ‘When passin through the Change of Life1 was troubled with hot flashes, Deisem, No. Dak.— ‘‘I was passing through Change of Life and felt very bad. I could not sleep and was very ‘Tt vos for der tain come.” | hemently. “Ail right; hand it over to the Lieu-: tenant here. Caton, throw that uniform coat of yours into the ditch and don honest gray for once. Sands, This dandies how and the fellow hesitated so long in adding anything to it, I began to think it was all off. “Wal,” he consented to say at last, ungraciously, thar’s a blame pile 0’ plan of action—desperate it certainly was, yet nothing better occurred to me, and time was golden. “Ebers,” I said; “didn’t I see an extra jacket strapped back of your saddie?” Possibie eae of named Lowrie wus a runnin’ this yere gang, an’ if thet’s ther way o’ it, | reckon as how it’s Lowrie we're after. Be you Lowrie?” “Naw.” the ple before we get within cover.” Even as I was speaking I evolved oe “ ofc into | | See, yonder where the road dips. man of us would be shot down of horses, but dey vos dressed—vot you calis it?—all ober not ner same.” “Not in uniform?” “Dot vos it.” “Have any of the rest of. you seen | anything that looked suspicious?” I asked, glancing around into the different facés. ‘Maybe I did,” answered one of the asked a merciless tu degsme at my dilevima. “No,” I answered firmly, “there would be no possibility of success in such a course. Those fellows are old didn’t toward be “Wal, until 1 could formulate some definite plan of action, fully a dozen wild schemes thronged into my brain, only to be cast aside, one after another, as thoroughly impracticable. “We shell have to make a dash for, blame muel up Thar’s quite a aiviteg ye?” . fire leaped unwilling 4 heavy; besides, if Brennan came, and his party got away that same evening, as was planned for them to do, then it might not be necessary for us I said, “They reckon as ye?” “Maybe; light falls full upon the white side Thank Heaven, we are the house. not too late.” As I sat my horse there, gazing down upon that scene of black rapine, means. Will you go with me to their rescue?” No one seemed anxious to be first to speak. I could see them look aside uneasily at one another. “Bungay,” I said, “I feel sure you will go, for your wife is there:”’ “Mariar?” “Yes: Miss Minor told me this after- } men, scarcely knowing what decision it might be wise to make. Undoubtedly they would fight if occasion arose, but the odds were terribly “Ebers,” himself are Reedville; Ore.—‘‘I can traly recom: mend Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to all women who are passing’ through the Change of Life, as 1t made the newcomers, striding forward be tween us and the sentry.. “A right smart heap o’ a bunch; bin’ a pickin’. 0’ ’em up ever since we left Charlotte,” I returned evasively. that of care- o’ ther hills.” little handful proven many sky. we are too “Great God, Wayne! “Those devils late!” he cried widly. have fired the house.” With fiercely throbbing heart Igazed déwn at the flames far below in the. black valley. “No,” I said with eager relief. “It is smart bunch, but they had some pickets out, an’ ¥ cudn’t git close *nough ter tell zackly. Dutchy thought thar wus nigh onter two hundred o’ ’em, but I jist don’t know. They wusn’t dressed like sojers o’ either army, an’ 1 reckon they’re I glanced at “How Proves That Lydia E. ‘Pink. ham’s Vegetable Compound Is Reliable. the jine ye till after y’d started, an’ | reckon as how it took me all o’ tew mile ter git this yere ter whar I cud talk. | 4s ‘the light shone, excepting that he wore a high conse cap and bore a long rifle. ‘he called out “Stop. right thar!” “Who are hoarsely, upon hearing us. YOU Unga As he challenged, a dozen others sprang up from about the flame and, guns in hand, came toward us on @ run. “We uns are doggoned tired o’ soldierin’, an’ a gittin’ nuthin’ fer it,” I said in the slow Southern drawl, “an’ wanter jine yer gang, pervidin’ thar’s any shew fer it.” did they call him?” has of red no ordinary and I wish tonight who knows sides?” out but little of him “The front of the house; the main point of attack has been there.” We could distinguish the sound of firing by this time, and its continuous volume convinced me that Caton’s estimate of the number engaged was not greatly overdrawn. As we topped the summit of the hill a great burst en, three of them Virginians, are attacked at the house we have just left by a large party of bushwhacking guerillas, the offscourings of hell. one four fend?” I asked. does not volunteer for the service. Seven Federal soldiers and four wom- Every all make monster. You have no suggestion to offer as to how we had better attempt to get in?” He shook his head despondingly. “What station does Brennan de- chief gone from his face. “IT do, sir,” he said. “But I’d a darn sight rather stay here and fight.” “You will be back in plenty of time to take a hand, my lad. Now, men’— ring about me—‘“this is duty of your enlistment, no one to accompany me even 1 could “Lory, or Laurie, or something like that. They claimed to be deserters from Lee’s army, but two or three of them wore our uniforms.” |, “It’s Red Lowrie,” I said gravely, more impressed than ever with the seriousness of the situation. “I heard of him two years ago—he killed a man in the Sixth North Carolina, and took to the hills. Since then he has developed into quite a leader for such scum, both to the commandant of. the first military post you find. ‘Insist upon reaching him in person. It makes no difference which army the post belongs to, for this is a matter of humanity.. The Federal outpost at McMillan is the nearest to us; make for there. You understand?” \ boy thoroughly “What in the Federal army, and deliver them The that asked. f “To the best of my judgment, there must be fully two hundred and fifty in the gang, and apparently they operate under strict military discipline. It is a reveiation to me, Wayne, of the growing power of these desperate fellows. I knew they were becoming numerous and bold, but this surpasses anything I could imagine. More, they are being constantly recruited by new arrivals. A party of at least a dozen came in while I was hiding behind the stables. I heard them asking for the leader.” Celia boy, the conviction this slight gap would be securely closed long before we reached there. “Have they sufficient men, then, to fighting Il am going to intrust you with the The lives most important duty of all. of every one of us and of four helipless Women depend: entirely upon your riding. You take ‘two horses, kill both tf necessary, but stop for nothing until your duty is done. You are to carry a note from me, and another from this gentleman, who is an officer ‘What is it? you from the to start North nine many me you are the best rider in the troop. Minor house? Has it been attacned?” “Yes,” he answered, panting. yet from his exertion and excitement. “We both The shout, blows, a volley you?” How freckled face and great honest gray eyes, but wiry. and tough as steel, pushed his way through the group and faced. me. “Glen,” I said, “your Seseenet tells striving in vain to see something of him through the darkness. ‘Where were you riding?” I had scarcely spoken when our prisoner thrust Sands roughly aside and took one hasty step toward me.°“My God, Wayne! Is it possible this is you?” he cried excitedly. “Caton?” 1] exclaimed, as surprised be some fun back thar afore long ’less had mind of falling Minor,” said gravely... “I understand,” I “Ebers, who is your best rider?” “Tt vos dot funny leetle vellow Glen, Captain.” “Glen, come here.” of cursing; then silence. An instant later we were both running through the darkness toward the scene of trouble. 2 “What is it, Sands?” I questioned breathlessly, as I came suddenly unos the little group. “A fellar on hossback,” was the answer. “He come up on us like a streak out o’ thet blaclg hollor, an’ he’d a sure got away. ef Mason hedn’t clubbed him with his gun. I’ve got the cuss safe collared now.” ; “I say, Cap,” he said, jerking the words out to the mule’s hard trot, and grasping his saddle pommel desperately, “IT sorter reckon as how ther’! he gone, although Sleep was an constant turmoil. EKbers was lying next me upon the grass, solemnly puffing at his huge pipe, and I held my watch to the glow in its bowl in order to see the time. It was nearly midnight. “Those fellows ought to be at it before this,” I said to him, “if they intend to accomplish anything tonight.” “T dink so too,” he answered slowty. “I vill see dot der guard is all right, an’ den vill get some sleep, for I am pretty moch done op already.” He arose ponderously to his feet, and stretched out his short arms in a prodigious yawn. As he stood there, his pudgy figure outlined against the sky, there was borne to our ear the sound of a furious struggle on hilltop Federal at him, now the thought black clear. for me, as my times. thought exposed enough to craze be preferable a men have you?” “Seven fit for duty.” “Will you ride forward, or go back | with us?” “We must send word’—and the gallant fellow’s voice shook—‘“but God knows, Wayne, I want to go back. [f in XXVIII.—Continued. signs fail.” “Why?” I stared oughly aroused to exceedingly skies were impossibility officer whom the Union girl recognizes, He orders the arrest of Wayne as a spy and he is brought before Sher@lan, who threatens him with death unless he reveals the secret message. Wayne believes Edith Brennan to be the wife of Maj. Brennan. He is rescued by Jed Bungay, who starts to reach Gen. Lee, while Wayne in disguise penetrates to the ballroom. beneath which he had been imrisoned. He is introduced to a. Miss inor and barely escapes being unmasked. Edith Brennan, recognizing Wayne, says she will save him. Securing a pass through the lines, they are confronted by Brennan, who is knocked senseless. Then, bidding Edith adieu, Wayne makes a dash for liberty. He SU ORNIE REIS Bungay; they reach the Lee camp and are sent with reinforcements to join Marly, In the battle of Shenandoah the regiment is overwhelmed, and Wayne, while in the hyspital, is visited by Edith Brennan. 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