The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-01-02

"Be cautious, General, he will hear" /"
returned Clarke I'VE cannot be many
PAGES from him."
"Who goes there %
General Morgan and Col. Clarke. :"
"What o night ?'
~'Hope p ;
"Ho Land, thought Lyons was
posted on this station TO night p
$50 he was, your honor, but he has
been failing this day or two, and to.
night he was worse than usual. Beg
ging your pardon, / forced him to let
me supply his place, though he done it
reluctantly" as;.l -rm1 ,l
"You did right, Land. We will
hasten to the banks, and, when we re-
turn, inquire into the illness of Lyons" :"
"Hark! What was that?"
81 heard nothing"
"There it is again."
'It is the water; what do you think
it was p"
"It sounded like a half shrek, half
moan"
"That was fancy of yours, Gene
ral."
at may have been. We must be
careful here, as peradventure we shall
lind ourselves more unpleasantly situat-
ed than we anticipated. What a mir
acle The water has already risen
three feet, and before day breaks will
put two feet more to that. Hurrah for
the rain %
4
"Aye, for it has saved u.s."
Sand convinced me more than ever
that the God Of the oppressed is with
us. What deluge! The rain comes
thicker and faster. / am completely
soaked. Let us go back to the camp"
"We will take shorter route than
we came, General, through the shrub
berry. l observed an Indian trail, be-
fore dark, and l think we can find it
again by the aid of our lanterns"
'"rhat noise again p
what this means. No doubt it is some
one our men,"
'Lo! what have we here Lyons by
heavens! In the name of all the storm
gods combined, what are you doing
here p said Morgan, and turning his
light full on the PROSTATE form before
them, saw in reality Lyons, and yet
hardly himself. He was lying on a
mossy mound, on the bare ground, with
nothing to shield him from the tempest
which ragged about him. His hair was
matted over his forehead, rendering his
features almost hideous, he was so
ghastly pale, aid his eyes ever and
anon flashed with an unearthly wild
ness, while the incoherent words that
fell from his lips, accompanied by
shrieks and means, told to plainly that
reason was tottering on her throne
Morgan gently raised him from his
watery couch, and soon discovered that
he was laboring under severe attack
of brain fever and taking a handker-
chief, removed the masses of hair and
water from his face But what was
his surprise to find that with the damp
ness came a dark substance, leaving
the skin beneath it white as Parian
marble"
"In the name of Heaven, Clarke
What ?" tet
n"Great Heaven, it is Isabel!''
"What say you! Who is ?'
"Stand back, my General; it is Isa-
bel Peyton-my Isabel-a woman
This is night of events !"
GAS you value her life," said Clarke,
"let US hasten to the tent, for she will
die here. Poor Isabel! Little did /
think the brave and intrepid Dragon
was my own Isabel! %
"Clarke," said Morgan, "is it posi-
bic that you, knowing her, did not rec.
ognize her ?" s'15
"No; her disguise was complete
Though / often at the sound of her
voice started, l hardly knew at the
f time why" a'2
"You said the first you saw of hei
. was at Chalmers r' continued Morgan
eyes," returned Clarke. "Whils
eluding the search Of the tories who
were on my track, Isabel, who called
himself Walter Lyons, came to Chal
r mers, where was, one night, and We
! finding her good whig, persuaded hel
to join the army, and not one of us sur
: missed that she was aught than wha
she seemed. Further than this, knew
: nothing of, as the last time l saw he1
: she was safe beneath her fathers roof,
and, taking the helpless Isabel in hi
arms, he bore her to the tent, wher,
: they did for her everything the limited
means of camp allowed them to do.
r The long wished for morn at length
3 dawned, and, to the bitter modification
of CORVALLIS and boundless JOY o
Morgan, they found the Fords of tn,
: Catawba utterly impossible. Morgan
retired to place Of safety, whil
!, Clarke was deputed to take a guart
t and place Isabel in situation wher
: she would receive the attention an,
comforts her critical situation demand
Q cd. Accordingly he took her to
D plantation whose proprietor, Mr.. Far
s ley, had, by favoring the ''royal cause,
!, saved his property from destruction
s but whose kindly heart, prompted hin
y to give Isabel an asylum, with ever
S assurance that she should receive sul'
: able medical attendance, and, whe
f she had recovered sufficiently, sal
| eseort to har home fif