Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-20

81 know by your face you have sue,
ceeded, she said.
eyes: the General is the most inexora.
BILE of foes as far as men are concerned, but
he has wife and children OF his own.
Here is a permit and an order for a guard
to take the child through the pass.
The officer himself rode with the guard
into the gap. "Good-by, my little pris-
oner. You will soon be with your mother,
and I hope you will find that she will not
need the medicine you are carrying her,
he said, as they parted.
Dora's eyes were full Of tears. GU
have been SO good to me, she said, drop
ping Spots reins and holding out both
hands. 81 wish I could do something for
you"
eOh, be good to the first Yankee who
falls into your hands. you little rebel, he
replied, laughing.
There is sequel to our little story.
Mrs. Nettley, with her daughter, removed
for safety to her brothers plantation in the
eastern part of the State, where they re-
manned during the war.
After skirrnish which took place in the
neishborhood, Major Nettley's house, be-
ing spacious, was taken as temporary
hospital. 10 whiah the wounded Of both
sides were carried. Dora and her mother
were busy among them, doing what they
could to alleviate their sutfer1ngs until the
surgeons had dressed their wounds.
There was ons young man OF about
twenty who vas wounded in the leg. Dora,
as she raised his head to give him brink
of water, met his eyes. They had q
-o,,,1,a- lonty
"What is your name?" she said, as she
took the cup from his mouth.
"Felix Graham"
"What regiment ?"
"Easien. Fourth Michigan"
DJra ran to her mother, fairly stammer-
ing in her excitement.
"He is SO like the Lieutenant at the gap.
mamma And the same name. And l
promised promised p
Mrs. Nettley in her turn grew interested
and excited. She went TO the commandant
when the time came for sending the wound
ed Union off oers away.
"There is a young man among them,
she said, "whose wound will probably
prove fatal if he is removed. lowe debt
Of gratitude, as I believe, to one of his
femily-or at least to enc of his name. II
you will leave him will nurse him as faith
fully ard well as can"
Mrs. Nettley was woman whose re-
quests were usually granted. Felix Gra'
ham remained in her house tor two months.
Four years after the war was over, our
old friend, Colonel Graham formerly Lieu
tenant, came home to Michigan from San
Francisco, where he had engageN in busl.
ness after his discharge from the army.
It was his first coming-home, and there
was great rejoicing aud gathering of all the
Graham clan, big and little.
"But where is my rev sister" he said
to Alice, 81 wish l could have got back in
time for the wedding. To think Felix
went to Virginia for wife after all !"
'Here they come, said Alice, as steps
we're heard on the porch without, and the
boys rushed out to meet Felix and the
bride with "He's come he's come !"
The door opened and Felix, bearded and
sunburned, came in /; shy, chubby young
girl following him. Her eyes were brown
and oddly honest and frank. Colonel Gra-
ham. his hand out, stopped perplexed.
"Who Dora = he said. Dora !"
eyes, Dora" she answered. "I kept
my promise" laughing mischievously.
"You told me to be good to the first Yam
kee who fell into my hands. Here he is ;
thought the best thing could do for him
was to marry him"
Dora's mother and unoles followed her to
Michigan. Since then there have been
many gatherings, where the Nsttleys and
Grahams-once such bitter foes-recall the
events of the war, seeking only to remem-
Der how much that was human, and tender,
and brotherly, was mingled with the
terror and misery of that far-of time.
Youths Companion.