| Show th ot P 1 ba bli abri iiii R I 1 C h d CHAPTER XIV continued 14 their mission it finished that evening jack and solomon culled called tit at Cen Oel crul leral wits h oils headquarters general Generi il doctor l told old to turn over tile the bosses and wagons s to you salil said So solomon lonion lie ile tell us what to do with cause tin nu lit lie knew it ve nye want to elf enlist list tor for what term terill till the Dri british tish tire are licked 11 you nrc are the kind of men I 1 need washington 1 if I put yot w on oil scout duty air irons will UH go into mv illy regiment of with the rank of you lune hilve told III mo of ili his training in 11 so 90 tile alie two friends were enlisted and began service lit in tile the aminy or washington A letter from jack to tits ills mother dated july 25 1775 Is full of tile the camp color Geri gerneral eral charles loo lee Is in command of my regiment nent lie be writes lie ile la Is a rough slovenly old dog to of a niall ann who is eellis to bark tit lit us its on oil the training ground ho lifts two or three hunting dogs blint live with him in III ins ills tent alad a also ISO a rare girt gift of profanity which Is with him every everywhere v lie resa re sa save ve at aad awad quarters today I 1 saw caw these notices posted in camp punctual attendance on divine service Is required of all not on actual duty so no burning of the pope allowed fifteen stripes for denying duty auty ton ten for getting drunk thirty nine for stealing and de sert lun 1 rogues Rogue sare are put in terror lazy men are energized the quarters tire are kept clean the food Is well cooked and in plentiful supply but the british over in town are said to be getting hungry early in august a london letter was forwarded to jack from philadelphia ile iio was filled with new hope as lie read these lines dearest jack I 1 am stilling balling for boston on oil one of the next neit troop ships to join my father so when the war enols ends god cod grant it may be soon you will not have far to go to find me perhaps hy by christmas time we may be together let us both pray for that meanwhile Blean while I 1 shall be happier for being nearer you and for doing what I 1 can to heal the wounds made by tills this wretched war I 1 urn am going to be a nurse in a hospital you see the truth Is ie that since 1 I met you I 1 like till all men better arid and I 1 shall love to be trying to relieve their sufferings it was a long letter but above Is as much of it as can claim admission to these pages iano but she could write such a letter jock asked himself and thin he held it to his lips a moment it thrilled bilm to think that even shtil she ehe was waa probably in doston boston in ili the tent where lie he and solomon lived when they were both in camp lie he found the scout the night before solomon had slept out now he had built a small alre clr e la in front of the tent and lain down on a blanket having delivered his report at 31 margaret argaret Is in boston said jack as soon as lie he entered and then standing in the firelight read the letter to tits his friend la Is a real gen generine genew ewIne lne likely gal said the scout 1 I wish there were vere some way of getting gettling to her tile the young man remarked might alight as well think ol 01 0 goin to 11 h 1 in an back agin sald said solomon since bunker the british are like it a lot 0 hornets I 1 run onto one of em cm today ile ho fired at me an lilt a thing t the olefin air an run like a scared rabbit could jj killed him easy but I 1 kind 0 enjoyed heeln him run ile he we were re like chain on oil a greased pole you hear to rite me if the gen ertil will let et me im going to try spy duty and see it if I 1 can get into town and out again lie proposed you keep out 0 that business said solomon theys too ninny many that know ye oer in town the two charkes clarkes Cl arices tin an their friends an colonel hare tin tint his big friends lenda fr tin an cop cap I 1 preston an a hull the they y know till all bout ye if you got snapped th yd stan ye agin h a wall an put ye out ol 01 0 tile the ay quick it would be pie for fol the clarkes charkes Cl arkes an the ol of man hare spill no tears over it clip cap preston save ye bartl n no sir I 1 wont low ilow it theys plenty 0 old cusses f fer e r such work for a time jack abandoned the lie idea birta baiter later aben solomon failed tn rei re i arom a scouting codr tour and a re P por tench cd camp tahe art he was captured inured the young nina ann be began gan to ti think 0 of f ehg rather romantic plan again ile he hia had grown a full fu heard beard his skin was tanned his clothes we were re worn and torn and faded ills his father iwho who had visited the camp calli a supply 0 f clothes for his sart biad it failed pit at jay 4 him 1 had al arrived rived the gen general eral W was as his hl first great trial in keeping nn an arm army y about him terms of enlistment ware expiring cold weather had come the caulp camp was waa un comfortable computable regiments of the homesick lads of ne new iv 1 england were leaving to leave jack and a or pre preparing parIn g number of young youn g ministers in the scry lee ice organized a tamPa campaign Ign of persua son slon and ninny many were pr prevailed evallea upon hundreds dreda of boy jo to re enlist but hun were hurrying homen ard on be frozen toads one lay jack wall sent M haj H and by IRVING BACHELLER copyright by irving bacheller I 1 ills I 1 Is con limby had captured a number of men in it ii sid skirmish captain aln oil have tone done well wo 11 11 suld tit lie general 1 I want to a scout of you oil jn ili our present circumstances cl mi instances its rubout the most important dangerous and tin work thero there la Is to bo be done here especially the work which Solo solomon illon bilious undertook to do there Is no lit other oilier lit in whom I 1 should have so much confidence major kunrt knows the part of the una line which colonel traversed lit ile will be going out that way tomorrow I 1 should like ilia you sir to go with jilin illin after orie one trip arili I 1 shall be greatly pleased if on oil art capable of doing tile lie work vork alone orders were delivered and jack re ported to till nn mid dle agid aged bariner who had been on scout duty since july they left batup together next in morning orning tin nn hour before reveille they had nn an uneventful day mostly in wooded flatts and ridges and from the latter looking across with it spyglass spy glass into brutchins Brut chind ns as they culled tile the country held beld by tile the british and seeing only now and then nn all enemy picket or distant camps about they ant down in a thicket to ether for a bite to lo ent cat and nn a whispered conference binkus nin kus ns its you ou know had find ills his own way of scouting said the major ile he was nn an indian lighter fighter lie ile liked like d to got get inside tit alie enemy lines and lie close nn an watch em an knebbe hear what they were talking I 1 about now nn fin then the I 1 lio lie would surprise a british sentinel and oll disarm sarin tint tin nn bring him into camp jack wondered that ills friend had never spoken of tile the capture of prisoners lie was a modest mian sad the young scout lie ile want the british to know where Sol solomon union bankus was wag at work and iguess I 1 guess he was wise said the be major 1 I advise against taking the chances that ho he took it aint necessary you would be caught much sooner booner than he was that day bartlett took jack over solomons trail and gave him tile the lay of the land and much good advice A young man of jacks spirit however Is apt to have a degree of enterprise and self confidence not easily controlled by advice ile he hild had been traveling YOUR CAUTION JACK I 1 ANSWERED 7 alone for three days when he felt the need of more exciting a action atlon that night lie he crossed the charles river on the tee ice in a snowstorm and captured a sentinel and brought him ailin back t to 0 camp soon after that the daring spirit of the youth led him into il great adaven i ture it was on the night of january fifth that ancl penetrated the irie Urith li lines in n snowstorm and got close to I 1 an outpost in a strip of forest there n camp fire was burning lie he dime close Ws garments had peen been whitened by the storm the air was thick with snow his feet were muffled in a foot of it lie he at by a stump scarcely twenty feet front from the fire seeing those in its light but quite invisible there thera he could distinctly hear bear the the file BrItIs hrs it related to a 1 proposed evacuation of tile the city by flowe 1 tan im wenry weary of starving to death deat in 1 t 4 s od forsaken place said one of ayou ton rant cant keep nn an army without 0 ut najat or vegetables ive enten estil till til im gelt irig scales on me ine 11 colonel says mat the army will lenvol favi here heie within a furt f v rt night another anothy observed 0 it was important atlon which bcd ome come to the ear artlie young scout the talk was that ot of well bred le eli lish nien who were probably we ought not to speak of thos these matters aloud one of them thein reint irked S some dd d d may be bc listening its ening like atie tai v one we captured he aoa old scout said ile he swore it a blue him film into jail W i ie we shoved shored dont dont like to be treated rented like r bals they want lantto to be prisoners or of naki A young 0 ung man crime came along with ills fits ratip on la 18 his shoulder hello dill billi I 1 sald said one of tha mn n going out on post 11 1 1 I 1 tint am god help me ine tile the youth tin nn 1 1 l its what id call a h ha 1 of a 11 night th pawed close by jack on 1 his dav it ills his the latter crept away and followed gril closing in upon fits quarry when they were well ell away aay from the fire dry jack cunio cattle cluse close and culled call tho the sentinel stopped arid and faced abt youve forgotten something said bald jack in it genial tone what lint Is it I 1 your caution lon jack answered with ills pistol against the breast of his enemy 1 I shall line have to kill 1111 you if you cull call or full fall to obey rite nie give rite nie th rille and go on when I 1 say ROB goo go to the lie right linw haw to tile lie left I 1 so tho the co liture wits was made imide and on ahm way out up tit the sentinel who stood vitiating viti ting to bo be relieved and took both mell inin into catill front from documents on the person of 0 conr lie of these young voting Britis liers it appeared o that len ertil clarke was in command of a brigade behind the lie thiel which jack had been watching arid and robbing when jack delivered ills his report tile the chief culled called film it brave lad and said jt it Is valuable YOU sou hay have brought to tile me do not of it let tile inc biru you captain that front from now on they will try to trap you even you ou may look for daring enter arises on that tant part of their line tho the general was wag right the young scout run ran into a most during daring and successful british enterprise on the twentieth twe n of january the snow had been swept away awny in a warm train rain and tho the ground had frozen bare or it would not liao been possible jacla had got to a 0 strip of woods in n lonely bit of country near tile the british lines and was wag climbing a tall tree to take observations when lie he saw a n movement on the alio ground beneath him ue he stopped and quickly discovered that the tree was surrounded by british soldiers sold lera one of them who stood with a raised rifle called to him irons I 1 will trouble you to drou drop your pistols and come down nt at once jack saw sav that he had run into an ambush lie he dropped his pistols and came down he ile had disregarded ther the warning of the general ile he should have been looking out for aw u ambush A squad of live five men stood about him with rifles in hand among them wax was lionel clarke his right sleeve empty weve got you at lost last you d d rebell rebel I 1 said clarke 1 I suppose fou you need some one to swear at jack answered and to shoot tit at clarke suggested 1 I thought that you would oot not care car for another match with me the young scout scoot remarked as they began to move abt away L Y hereafter you will be treated ilk like a rebel and not like a gentleman clarke answered what do you mean 1 I menn mean that you will be standing blindfolded against a wall that kind of a threat scare acara me jack answered we have too many of your men in our hands bands CHAPTER XV in n boston MI hafl jack jacb was marched mar clied under guard into the streets of boston church bells were ringing it was sunday morning young clarke came with the guard be beyond yond the city limits they had seemed to be very careless in the control of their prisoner they gave him every chance to make hakea a break for liberty jack was not tooled fooled 1 I see that you want to get rid of me t said jack to tile young of officer fleer to have me run a race with your bullets that la Is base ingratitude I 1 was ct careful ireful of you when we met and you do not seem to know it 1 I know how will well you ann cnn nn shoot clarke answered but you do not 60 t know how well I 1 can shoot of and Andi when I 1 learn leam I 1 want t to 0 lieve a fair cliance chance for my life beyond tile the city limits young clarke who was then a captain it left ft them and jack proceeded with the others tile tho streets were quiet lii indeed aeed almost deserted there were no children playing on in the common A crowd was coining out of f one of the churches in th midst of it the prisoner saw preston rind lad lady hare they werf were si BO near that lie he could have touched them with ith his hend as an he passed they did not see he fi noted the name af of the church and its ta mini minister s t lr I 1 in a few minutes he was delivered delv dell cred vered tit at the JA jail 11 a noisome lu III badly ventilated place tile the yard was an opening walled ta in i ty hy the main structure arid and its two wings and a wooden fence defice some if teen feet jeet high there wit was 3 a ragged diria rabble nibble of rebel prisoner pris 1 among on was solomon binkus bankus all ui nn airing the ne old scout haq had lost fles flesh und arid color ite 11 held jack stood for a moment without speaking TO DID BE CONTINUED |
