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Show E RSKINE Confirmed From Oiir Iost I.nio. He paused and. In spite of herself, her-self, her e; es flxshed toward the door. Rrsklne saw It, drew himself erect, bowed and strode Straight out. Nor did the ironv of the situation no mueh as CfOSS his mind that he should le turned fiom hl own home by the woman he loved and to whom he had given that home Nor did he InoK ; hack cine he might have seen loi sink, sobbing, to the floor. xxr. L'p the Jnme rode Kr;kine hiding in the woods by day nnd Slipping rautlouxly along the sandy road by nifrhL Circling about Tarleton's rump' fires, or dashing at full speed pa.st j omo careless sentinel. On the third morning he oetne upon ragged sentinel an Amerl-1 can. Ten nilnuloM Inter he got his first glimpse of Lafayette, and then he was hailed Joyfully b none other, than Dave Vand'dl Captain Dave Tandell shorn of his woodsman's ( dress and panoplied In the trappings of war. Rut late m August eame the message mes-sage that put Washington's greit ' soul in arms.'' Rochamheau had landed r.ix thousand soldiers In ('on-neetlcut. ('on-neetlcut. and now Count de Orasse and a Fiench fleet had sailed for the i ' hesapaake, General Washington at once resorted resort-ed to dafttouflage. He laid out ramps ostentatiously opposite New York nnd In plain sight of the enemy Ho made a feigned attack on their posts Rochambeat moved lOUth and reached reach-ed the Delaware before the IJritish grasped the Yankee trick. Then it w.ih too late, The windows of Philadelphia wro filled with tidies ti-dies waving h.indkerehlefs nnd crying cry-ing bruVOS when the tattered oonti-OSntalSi oonti-OSntalSi their clothes thick with dust i but hats plumed with sprigs Of green. , marched through amid thru torn baltlr-flags and rumbling ennnon. i Behind followed the French in i "pay white uniforms fneerl With smrn," and martial MUSIC throbbed the air. Down the Chesapeake they went i in transports and were eOncpntrated tit Williamsburg before the . lose i September. Cornwallls had erected w orks, for he knew nothing of Wash- ! Ington nnd Count de Orasse, nor Mnd Anthony and General Nelson, who Were south of th Jame- to prevent escape into North Carolina Then came de Orasse. who drove off the BMtlSh fleet, and the mouMi of th net was elosed Cornwallls heard the cannon and I sent Clinton to appeal for help b:ir the answer Was Washington himself j lit the head of ihe army And then the Joyous inarch. At Williamsburg ttie allies gathered, gather-ed, and with Washington's army came Colonel DSlS, now a general, and onng. Captain Harry Dale who had brought new from Philadelphia that was of great interest to ffirSkinS Dale. In that town Done Orey had been i close lntlm.it- Of Andre, uid that Intimacy In-timacy had been the cause of muoh speculation since. He had lold Dave of his mother and EfiaflJ Morn, and Dave had told him gravely that he must go get t hem after the campaign was over I and bring them to the fort In Ken- tuckv. If Barly Morn still refused ! to come, then he must bring his mother nnd he reckoned grimly that no mouth would open In n word that COUld offend her. In mid-September Washington eiimo. nnd CJeneral Dale had but one chance to visit R.nhara. ESrsklm plea that he was ton busy to go with them OTOUBed Harry's suspicions, and he went bluntly to the point ' YOU wouldn't go to Red Oaks and Barbara did not ser,,, surprised Is Dane Orey concerned?" "Yes." Harry looked searchlnglv at his cousin : I pray to God that I may soon meet him face to face " "And I : said Erskine quietly, pr to cjod that you do not not until after I have met him first " And Harry, after a searching look tit his cousin, turned away. They marched next morning anil at sunset of the second day they bivouacked within two miles of York-town York-town and the sle;e began. The allied line was a crescent with each tip resting on the water Lafayette La-fayette commanding the Americans on the right, the French "n the left under Rochambeuu Do Orasse with his fleet, was in the bay to cut off approach by Water Washington himself put the match to the first gun. and the mutual cannonade can-nonade of three or four days began. The scene was "sublimu and stupen- I dous " Bombshells were seon "crossing eat h other's path In the air. and were visible in the form of a black ball by day, but In the night they ap-peared ap-peared like n fiery meteor With S biasing tall most beautifully brilliant bril-liant " It was nearly the middle of October that the two redoubts project ing beyond be-yond the British lines and enfilading the American Intrenohmenta were taken by storm. One redoubt was left to Lafayette and his Americans. the other to Ftaron d Vlomenll who claimed thit his grenadiers were the men for the matter In hand. Isifayette stoutly argued ihe superiority of hll Al -Pans, who, led by Hamilton, carried their redoubt first with the bayonet, and sent the Frenchman an offer of help The answer WBS "I will be In mine In five minute- ' And he was, Washington watching the attack nnviiomlv "The work Is done and well done " And then the surrender: The day was the lOrti of October The victors were drawn up In two 1 lines a nillo long on the right and left Of a road that rnn through tho autumn fields south of YorktOWn. I Wnhlngton stood nt tho head of his arm) on the right, Rochambeau at thS head of the French on the left. Behind on both .sids was a great crowd of people to watch the ceremony. cere-mony. Slowly out of Yorktown marchced the British color? cased drums beating a significant BngliSh air. The World turned topsy-turvy " Lord Cornwallls was sick. OeneiTl O'HarS bore my lord's sword As he approached, Washington saluted and pointed to Qenaral Lincoln, who had been treated with Indignity nt Charleston O'Hara handed the sword to Lincoln. Lincoln at once handed II back and the surrender was over. Between the lines the British marched on and stacked STma In n i nearby field. Some of them threw I their muskets on the ground, and n British colonel bit the hlh of his SWord from rage. As Tarle tOn'S legion went by, thrA" pairs of eyes watched eagerly for one face, but neither Harry nor Captain Dave Yandell saw Dan" Ore nor did Erskine Dale. XXII. To Harry and Dave. Dane Grey's absence was merely a mystery to Bfskine it brought foreboding and sickening fear. lie Started for Bed Oaks ami Witll every mile suspicion nod fear grew. The distance to Williamsburg wis soon covered, and skirting the town, he went swiftly foi Red Oaks. "Stopl" he r rled suddenly, as a fte- "Make no DOlSS and don I inOVe." gro came thundering blindly on. firefly swerved aside, and Fphralm shot by, pulling in with both hands and shouting "MareS BrSklne! Thank Gnv.d you'se come." When he Wheeled ho came hack at n gallop nor did he stop "Come on. Mnrse Krsklne!" he cried "Come on, suh'" With u few leups Firefly was abreast, and neck and neok I hey ran. while the darky's words confirmed the Instinct that had brought Erskine. Ers-kine. "Yaesuh, Miss Barbary gwine run away w Id dnt mean white man. YSfi-suh, YSfi-suh, dis very night ' ' 1-- he alone J" "No. suh. he got an oi fleer an' four sojers wld him." Does he know that Cornwallls has surrendered 7" "Oh. ynssuh, he toP Miss Barbary dat- Dat's why he says he got to git away right now an' she got to go wld him right now.'' "Dis arternoon," the negro went on, "he got his American uniform. He gwlne to tell folks on de way dat dc udders is his prisoners an' he takin dem to Richmond. Den dey gwlne to sep'rate an' he an' Mis Barbary gwlne to git married some- whur on de way an" dey goln' on an' J sail fer England." "You jest wait in dat thicket next to de corner o' de big gyOrden," paid Ephralm. "Dey won't know I been gone 1 II come to de thicket an' toll I you de whole loy o' de land " Erskine nodded. More qUlC&ly than he expected, h" saw Ephraifti'a figure slipping! through the -hudows toward him. "Dey e Juh through supper." he reported "Miss Barbary up In her room. De sojers down dar by he whnrf playln' cards an' drlnkin' Dat ' udder m m be-on drtnkln" hard." "Ephralm." said Erskine eiulckly. "go tell Mr Orey that one of his-men his-men wants to see him right away nt i the sun-dial. When he starts yon run around the hedsc nnd be on h ind in the bushes." " Yassuh." Soon Erskine saW Qrey'S tall fig-j ure emerge from the hall door. Ore enme swiftly down the great path. As Orey neared the dial Erskine. moved toward him. keeping In a dark shadow, but Orey saw him "Well, what is It"" Erskine stepped step-ped out Into the moonlight With his rocked pistol at Grey's breast. This. " ho said quietly. "Make DO nolse--and don't move." Grey wan, startled, but he caught his control Instantly In-stantly and without fear "You are my prisoner. Mr. Orey " said Erskine "I could lend you tO your proper place at the end of a j rone but I have In mind another1 fate for joii I tried onee to stab you I knew no better. You once trle.i to murder me in a duel and you llil know better. Twice yon hav' featfl that you would flKht mo v ,i anything, any-thing, any time, .my place " Orey bowed slightly "1 Hholl ask you to make those words good and I shall accordingly choose the weapons ' Orey bowed again Kphralm!" sold rCrsklne. "silip Into the hull and brlnar me the tWO BjapierS on the wall." (Continued IU Our Nei lvsne) |