The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-07-14
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to him from her, came not back. And the
check Of the prisoned girl had grown as
colorless as the snow, and her eyes grew
luminous in great rings of shadow that
care and sleeplessness had traced upon her
face. Meanwhile, the troops Of CORVALLIS
were spreading misery and devastation in
their path, and Green's army had turned
southwark again. No wonder that the
weary, prisoned girl cried out in her grief
go, when will the end Gomez"
The end was nearer and more terrible
than the weary girl thought, for it came
one fair, summer night, in flames and ter
ror, in the shouts and curses of a ribald
soldiery, in the shrieks of the frightened
servants, and the bootless rage of help
less old man. But Annie Fairfax, no long
er under watch, was by the old mans side,
and as she stood by him, like guardian
angel, the rudest soldier dared not lay
hand on her or him. But when the robbers,
gorged with booty and ruin, had passed on,
Annie Fairfax found herself looking upon
the bare walls, which were all that remain
ed to her of home of luxury, while, on a
rude couch in negro's cabin, whittier
they had gone for shelter, lay her father,
now quite wrecked in body and mind by a
palsy stroke which the terror had caused.
The days that followed this terrible night
were far less irksome to Annie Fairfax, in
spite of her poverty, than those of her fore
ed imprisonment She procured a modest
house near hear her old home, whittier she
took her father, by whose bedside she was
occupied night and day. Ia.s olI
Busted thus one August morn, her old
nurse entered the room, and informing her
in significant whisper that ga gemman
wanted to see her in the odder ROOM"
took her place by the bed. Annie went out
in maze of mingled terror and hope, and
almost on the threshold without, she was
clasped in the strong arms of Edward Pey-
ton .4.l.,YfHf-
When the girl awoke from the glad swoon
into which the unlocked for arrival of her
lover had thrown her. she saw the black
face and cleaning white teeth Of the boy
Jake at the open door, and eagerly asked
about the message she had sent, and the
delay which the messenger had made in re-
turning. 4,t
1t was a short tale as Jake told it, though
clever writer might have made three
volume story Of it. The second day after
the negro left his home he was captured by
some of the British scouts, and his horse
taken from him, and he was beaten SO cru
ely that he was left for dead upon the
ground. But recovering from his uncon-
scious condition he hid himself in the
woods, and the next night found his way to
the shelter of cabin where good friend
of his own race took care Of him until his
bruises were healed. Then he set out again
upon his journey afoot but was again cap
tured, suspected of bearing communiea-
tions to the Federal troops. He was search
ed, but fortunately had concealed the note,
wrapped in black tow, in his mat of curly
wool. He was kept prisoner, however,
for in many, many weeks but at last escap-
ing, he passed through numberless dangers,
and safely reached the Federal army in
South Carolina. H 9. bod acuad2
Capt. Peyton being high in favor with
the authorities, easily procured leave of
absence, and returned to Virginia with the
faithful servant. Their way was full of
peril, but their fortunate stars protected
them, and they came to their journeys end
in safety. d. M XIII seg5r ,iiig 7l (
Edward Peyton only daring to linger in
the presence of his beloved girl for few
days, then returned to the scene of war in
the Carolinas. But the probation of the
devoted lovers was soon to come to an end,
for in the autumn days came the surrender
of the British troops at Yorktown, and with
the falling SHOWS, Sir Thomas Fairfax,
last of his name, fell into the grave And
when the daisy blooined again in the
spring, Edward Peyton claimed his bride,
and when the old home of her childhood
was rebuilt and called by the name Of its
owner, it became the abode Of less elegance
and luxury than before, perhaps, but of