Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-12-31


was sitting on the deck, at Bath, watch
ing as the passengers came Oh board.
And two men brought MI old lady, in a
chair, down the wharf and upon the
deck and Janet came with her, and
wrapped heI up warm, and coddled he:,
and made her feel quite at homo. Then
the old lady wished she had some of the
oranges which German woman was
selling on the wharf; and Janet ran
ashore TO buy them. While the woman
iddlcd about the change. the boat cast
of, the captains bell struck, and they had
iavly pulled the .angway in, whom Janet
came running back with her fruit.
/ Did she stop9 Not she!
please run it on again. she said and
tho wharf.handg obeyed her.-just as
Dan oboycd her in the pasture. And the
/ little bird rs called her before. ran
right over the board, tho .boat moving
the end along steadily as she did so,-and
sprang upon the deck. as perfectly un-
conscious rs if she had been walking the
/ floor. Years after John Wildair tried TO
make her remember it but she did not re.
member il ut all; said, indeed, there
was nothing 10 remember. . She said
there WAS no danger. and consequently
no courage; that the plank would re-
main on tho boat fully five seconds, and
the slowest woman in Christendom could
have crossed In two. Still John Wildair
wondered when he saw her DO il; and, rs
| believe, admired her then and there,
bat she did not spend ten seconds first in
inquiries OF tho whar(-mcn whether OF
no il would be saio to cross the gang.
way.
/ But John was destined TO see her again
| iar, lar away.
Tom Trevor went TO the war in the
Twenty. seventh Maine Rifles. Tom was
tho wild cat, black.haired brother that
dared everything, and went everywhere.
Aud after that hotrd carnage at Bells
Ford, when the lists OF the Twenty.
seventh were printed. Toms name was
among the missing. Dead perhaps
Janet said, mo. not dead" She was
sure he WAS not dead II he had been
shot, some man would have seen him
fall, and would have told of it; for they
ali liked Tom No: Janet, with alI her
own clear sightcdncss, which is what Mr.,
Billings md call Confidence, pro-
nouuced lha, he was in rcbol prison.
Then the next thing for her 10 do was to
20 and find him. Her father would no,
hear of II; Tor, as | said, lie worshipped
Janet But, because people are fain to
obey those whom they worship, he had
10 do as Janet badc him before he knew
it; and in fewer days than 1t has taken
ne 10 tell this story, "a we say when we
write In the Dime Series. Janet was in
Washington, besicging Knapp at the
Sanitary, and Stanton in his den, and
Gen. Townsend in his, for some sort of
pass that would carry her across the
lines. Little good did she get OF that
Of course there was no pass Tor her OF
any kind or sort; and they all told her,
with great tenderness, that she would
have done much better TO stay ut home.
But Janet did not 20 home, for all
that: BY this time they knew, and she
knew, that Tom Trevor was in Richmond,
in Hospital No. u. where werc our
wounded prisoners. Whether he was
there because he was sick, or because he
WAS wounded, she did not know. nor
could any body learn; but he was there.
What Janet did was to 20 up to lIarper's
Ferry Then she turned up at Stanton
aud Lexington, aud, one fine day, ap.
pearcd in Lynchburg,-qui comiora.
bly, within rebel territory,-very seedy,
and speaking very bad English and very
good French She called on all the min
listers in Lynchburg: she waited at
Lynchburg till she could be sure whether
they would not want her as teacher in
the academy. Meanwhile she knit
stockings like Jury for the wounded; and
in the hospital there was not volunteer
nurse as ready and careful as Janet, nor
So universal iavoiite as she. And so it
happened that when, in the spring of GA,
Butler struck in SO suddenly at Bermuda
Hundred, and fought the battle OF the
leg ana when tho wounded begun to he
sent 10 the rear from the Wilderness and
SpoIlsylvania when DR.. MacGregor and
MIR. Harris went down to Richmond with
fresh vegetables for the wounded, Mile.
Lacretellc, whom you and know better
As Janet, went with them, with express
charges to look after certain wounded of
the Twsnty-ninth Virginia. Nobody
could go in without DR.. MacGregol's
pass; but he would take Mile. Lacretelle
anywhere.
That was the way it happened that
Janet, after she had carried TO Adam
Clement the stockings his mother had
sent, and to Jesse Burton The head-rest
Mary sent, and the boxes OF home.baked
cake to 10. Stratton and Walt. Victor, and
the letters to twenty others, whom she
found in one hospital and another. and
appointed herself TO duty. one day at hos.
piIal No. u, with note from DIR. Mac
Gregor to our good friend DR.. Sample,
who was in charge there. The note said
IL. Il.