The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-08-04
"Tboy are with Dick Ashby !"

walk down the field bit. leftenant
and fage your back this way, whispered
Wright. IN give her the wink to be
off Aud what harrum's doue?"
mo. am sorry, Dora, but I cannot
let You pass through the gap, 1t is
against orders"
Size did not make any noise, bu. drop
ped on the grass and buried her face in
her hands. "Oh, want mother!' she
sobbed. "Oh, want mother"
Ye see, child" explained Wright,
mo support or comfort kin be carried to
the inimy."
"She's not an enemy" cried Dora,
augrily. "She's-mother.
Come with me, Dora" said the lieu.
tenant. He lifted her on the donkey and
led her to the farm house, where the
wife of General H. had her quarters
She was gentle, motherly woman, and
he told her the story.
Il am going to the commanding Off
Ger to telegraph for permit for her to
pass the lines. You can discover wheth-
er she has anything coutrabnnd con.
cealed about her. Bat l would stake
my life on the honesty of the child"
"You will have a ride of twenty miles
in the hot sun, lieutenant" SAID Mrs. r.
'Do y IN know the cbild2"
mo; but cannot help thinking,
what If that poo- woman yonder were
my mother and this chill little Alice!'
Mrs. r. took the girl mp to a little
ctan Der which she told her should be
her own until the lieutenant returned;
kissed her and left. She felt impatient
with the dreadful turmoil, and sorrows
of the war. This poor mother dying
alone perhaps, and the child wandering
through The country! Why was there no
one who could set it all right?
In the meantime Dora had hidden her
basket. locked the door. and kneeled
down by the side Of the bel. She wa>
little heart to Go to help her. And OIL
the other side of the mountain, in soil.
tary house, her mother lay alone, Ler
hands covering ler pale. worn face,
while she too spake to the Friend, who
had been her Friend in whom she had
trusted all her life.
Down the valley galloped the lieu
tenant--a stranger to them both
prompted, he thought, by / u al Ike
ness of the child to his sister. Yet was
there not some One who heard their
arayers and made of this man the agent
to answer themf the One who could and
would in his own good time set all this
turmoil and all others right?
At the end OF the day Lieutenant Ora.
ham opened the gate of the farmhouse,
Mrs. r with Dora buried 20 meet him,
II know 10y your face you have sue
ceeded," she said.
yes; the General is the most inexor.
able Of foes as far as mon are concerned,
|
but he has wife and children of his
own. Here is permit and an order fol
a guard TO take the child through the
pass"
The officer himself rode with the guard
into the gap, 'Good'by, nv lttlt
prisoner. You will soon be with yonI
mother. and hope you will fad thn
she will not neei the medicine you n:t
carrying her. he said as they D ,rtrd.
"Dnra's eyes were full of tears. "Yor
have been So good to me. she said, dr. p
ping Spots reins and holding out boil
hands. Il wish could do something
for you"
Go, be good to tho first Yankee VIII
falls into your hands, you little rebel,
he replied, laughing.
There is s,qlel to our little story
r Mrs. Netiley with her daughter. removed
for safety to her brothers plantation il
the eastern part of the State, where the,
p remained during the war.
:. After skirmish which took place il
the neis b1rbood, Major Nettley's hous
3 beiug spacious, was taken rs a tempor
AIRY hospital to which the wounded @
both sides were carried. Dora and he
!, mother were busy among them, coiu
- what they could to alleviate their suifel
!, ings until the surgeons had ressed tLei
wounds.
= There was one young man of aboU
!, twenty who was wounded in the les
a Dora. as she raised his head TO give hil
drink Of water, met his eyes. The
had a strangely familiar look.
J. What is your manner" she said as 81
In took the cnp from his mouth.
- Felix Graham"
What regimenI?'
II "Eusign. Fourth Michigan"
Dora ran to her mother, fairly stan
mering in her excitement.
lie Is so like the lieutenant at Il
d. GAP, mama! And the same name! Al
promised! promised!
>" Mrs. Nettley in her turn grew inie
'" rested and excited. She went TO Il
commandant when the time came (
to sending the wounded Union Office
FL away.
W There is a Young man among them
she sad, Whose wonna will probab
prove fatal il he is moved owe de-
of gratitude. as believe, to one Of !
= fAmily--or al least to one Of his nan
Ier If you will leave him will nurse hi
re as faithfully aud as well as can"
Mrs. Nettley was woman whose
lie quests were usually granted. FL
be Graham remained in her house for u
en- months,
20 Four years after the war was over, o
i'S old friend Colonel Graham (formel