The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-11-10
CHAPTER w.


collie, tell Jerry to come to me at
once, have a message of great inn
portanee for him"
The little Octoroon ran with great
speed to fulfill her mistress order and
soon returned with slave brother of
much darker color than herself, who
stood before Mrs. Granger in rapt
wonder and delight at the thought of
being the one of all others to receive
her most important orders.
s"Jerry, want you to put the best
saddle and bride on the swiftest
horse, mount it yourself, and go i'm
mediately to the confederate lines,
and inquire for your master. This
paper will pass you anywhere in the
Confederate army"
tIor, Missus, the roads are full of
them Union soldiers. l seed more'n
a hundred on 'em this very morn
in.i"
$50 long, you fool, and do as I bid
you, and don't you come back until
you have seen him, and can bring me
word how he is, and how your cause
is likely to succeed"
Goodness gracious, missus, the
soldiers just as thick as can be.
guess there's more'n a million; and
| Peter and Sam and Dinah all seed 'em
too, they'll get me ifI leave this
house a minute. Oh, lor, Misses,
please don't send this darkey-don'tp'
and as Jerry stood wringing his hands
| in agony, their house was filed by
"boys in blue" who from the hard
ening Influences of war, had become
alike Indifferent to the pleadings of
suffering humanity, or the wailing
despairing tones of agony, They de-
manded of Mrs. Granger her money
and Jewels. These she gladly yielded
up, hoping they would prove suffi-
cient to satisfy their thirst for gain.-
But ah, she had not yet learned the
character of the American soldiers
They established themselves in the
most comfortable manner, making
her Iuxuriant sofas and chairs subser-
Went to their ease, and ordered the
servants to prepare them a dinner
They spent the day by lounging and
confiscating till all the valuable
things the house contained were care
fully stored in their well filled KNAPP
sacks, and at night kindled their fire
with shavings cut from the pia-
no and other costly furniture. The
rendezvous proved so comfortable
that they occupied it. for several
weeks, until every comfort that the
entire neighborhOOd could afford had
been consumed, and they must seek
some section not thus desolated. Be
fore leaving, however, they set fire to
all the buildings save the negro huts,
all Nlan r1,n1fav- 1rff laa
distressed family.
While in this feeble condition, Mr..
Lazelle and his men chanced to pass
that way. The country had become
so changed that he could hardly rec
ognize a single place but he knew
I he must be somewhere in the vicinity
of the Granger family, and he would
/ look them up. 1t chanced that he in
quired at one of their own hUts, and
| in moment Mrs. Granger stood be-
fore him, so thin and pale and chang
ed, that for some moments he could
not satisfy himself of her identity.
When he knew the of her sufferings,
he did not know how he could possi-
bly, break TO her the still more terri
bic truth of the death of her husband,
which she evidently had not heard
He first offered her safe passport
through the lines and cordial well
come in his own picturesque home at
the North. This she refused to ac-
eept. NO-her husband was fighting
in the Confederate army. Their all
was at stake. She would remain and
cheer and comfort and encourage him
with her presence, her supplies, her
every available resources, till her la
test breath.
"Your husband will never need
your kindly offices more, for he has
fallen an early sacrifice in the un-
inst cause he so unfortunately espOus-
ed" s.E
Mrs. Granger had already suffered
so much from the hand of violence,
that she could have met any other
misfortune and borne it like the brave
woman she really was. But this, ah,
who can express the anguish of a
breaking heart? There were no
words, no tears, no demonstrations
of grief. The pallor of her face was
only a little increased, and she too
was numbered with the dead Al
Z though in time fWar but little atten-
| ton is paid to the dead or dying, yet
I this death was so striking and so pc
culiar, that the best professional shill
in the army and the country about,
was summoned for an investigation,
and it was ascertained upon an exam
ination of the body, that death was
oecasioned by an actual bursting Of
the heart.
Mr.. Lazelle ordered as respectful a
burial as was possible at that time
and in that place to give any one,
] and gave safe passport en- Mississip-