Show Offered l Lee Lev ec a U Home A few days ays after the surrender at Appomattox writes Captain Robert Hobert Roberta E. E Lee Le In his Recollections of his father tather General Lee was visited b by two Confederate soldiers in Vel very dilapidated ed clothing worn and amI emaciated In bod body The They said they had been selected se selected se- se from about sixty other othel fellows too tagged ragged to come themselves themselves- to offer offer of or- fer reI him hint a home In the mountains of or Virginia The home Wl was a goo good house and farm tarm and near b by was Wag a defile deCUe In some rugged hills from flom which they could deC defy the entire Federal arm army They Thoy made malIc this offer oCel of or a n home and thin protection because there was a report that he was to be bo Indicted for treason Meredith l Nicholson had never hearth heard o of this historical incident wh when u ho he wrote Tho The Port of oC Missing Men He thought that ho lie had Invented the episode episode episode epi epi- epi- epi sode which gives Its alluring title to the popular serial aerial now running in tho the Reader Magazine and which so closely closely close close- I ly parallels the romantic plan described de do- do scribed by Captain Lee It Is a curious Instance of or the Imn imagination finding confirmation In fact tact The Tho Bobbs- Bobbs company compan |