Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-01-30

S1glLouneSS, WHICH ID WuaG MT. B1lQngS
and I have called confidence" pro-
nounced that he was in rebel prison.
Then the next thing for her to do was
to go and find him. Her father would
not hear of it for, as I said, he wor-
shipped Janet. But, because people are
fain to obey those whom they worship,
he had to do as Janet babe him before
he knew it and in fewer days than it
has taken me to tell the story, as we say
when we write in the dime series, Janet
was in Washington, besieging 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 for
her of any kind or sort and they all
told her, with great tenderness, that she
would have done much better to stay at
home.
But Janet did not go home, for all
that. By this time they knew, and she
knew, that Tom Trevor was in Rich
mond, in hospital No. 81, where were
our wounded prisoners. Whether he
was there because he was sick, or be-
cause he was wounded, she did not
know, nor could anybody learn but he
was there. What Janet did was to go
up to Harper's Ferry. Then she turned
up at Staunton and Lexington, and, one
fine day, appeared in Lynchburg-quite
comfortably within rebel teTritory-very
seedy, and speaking very bad English
and very good French. She called on
all the ministers in Lynchburg; she
waited at Lynchburg till she could be
sure whether they would not want her
as teacher in the academy. Meanwhile
she knitted stockings like fury for the
wounded and in the hospital there was
, not volunteer nurse as ready and care,
full as Janet, nor so universal favorite
as she. And so it happened that when,
in the spring of "a, Butler struck in so
} suddenly at Bermuda Hundred, and
, fought the battle of the fog, and when
the wounded began to be sent to the
} rear from the Wilderness and Spott-
, sylvania, when Dr. MacGregor and Mr.
) Harris went down to Richmond with
fresh spring vegetables for the wounded,
3 Mile. Lacretelle, whom you and [ know
3 better as Janet, went with them, with
express charges to look after certain
5 wounded of the 29th Virginia Nobody
} could go in without DR.. MacGregor S
3 pass but he could take Mile. Lacretelle
5 anywhere.
5 That was the way it happened that
t Janet, after she had carried tc Adam
3 Clement the stockings his mother had
, sent, and to Jesse Burton the head-resi
t Mary sent, and the boxes of home-baked
l cake to 10 Stratton and Walt Victor,
1 and the letters to twenty others, whom
9 she found in one hospital and another,
9 appointed herself to duty one day al
L hospital No. 81, with a notc from DR..
j; MacGregor to our good friend DR.,
e Sample, who was in charge there. The
: note said that she was a perfect nurse
4 and could speak French and German
, well. Sample had little to do witt
d French or with German, but he had nc
e surplus of perfect nurses. And so il
I was, that, one morning when Tom Trevor
y was waiting for his breakfast of musl
e and molasses, it was brought to him, no.
S by the nice, red-turbaned black woman
It who brought it Monday, but by tiny
/ little white woman III the full dress Of
|, sister of charity. Tom hoped a foo
II off his bed when the sister of CHART,
d turned round on him but the sister o
= charity magnetized Tom also, SO that hi
: Janet p died unspoken. But from
J that moment, can tell you, Tom began
d to get well.
J So did John Wildair, who lay in tn,
d next bed and SO did all the Smiths ant
r the Joneses and the rest, with whom thi
o story has nothing to do. Never wa
there such a sunshiny place as was tina
r ward No. q, till they were all packed
y up and packed off, and sent back int
y the country.
And then ! Why, by that time, Mile
Lacretelle had her way as perfectly a
< any red-tapist of them all. Not DR.
= = Sample nor DIR. MacGregor could draw
u up acquisitions with more formality
insist on precedent more precisely, o
:, do as he chose more certainly than th
French nurse. She never asked for any
10 thing that was not right; and, when sh
J. asked for anything, she asked as if sh
u were certain it was to be granted. Ton
u Trevor was assigned to Lynchburg
IL Dear me! how John Wildair wished tina
he could be assigned to Lynchbtrg. Il
IL would have given his hand had he dare,
- ask her to assign him to Lynchbure
= And the only reason he did not dare wa
= his fear that she would find out, by hi
! asking, how it was matter of life an
d. death for him to go there. Queer huma
q, a nature! He hoped she knew she was a
l5 in all to him and yet that was the on
=, u thing he did not tell her, and was S
l5 afraid she would find out. Why was h
- afraid? Why? Oh ! it is the old, oil
- story. What if she did find out, an
~ then moved Tom into ward A, and lie
= Rebecca come into ward B in her plac
~ what would John Wildair do ther
+ poor thing? SO John Wildair did nc
y say one word; and SO he was assigne
NC to Lewisburg, when they were assigne
to Lynchburg.
! Die of broken heart? Not bit {
st it. He did not die at all he got vel
al He bribed black brother TO let him OF
q of window, and he stole horse an
". rode him thirty miles before daylight
so Then he slept all day in barn; the
" he stole another horse, and then another
no and SO he turned up at Harper's Ferr.
e9 and so he was in battery seven in fro1