Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-03-19
SUE MUNDY.
BY LYDIA N. JACKSON.

BY LYDIA NJ. JACKSON.
To the war of the Rebellion
Some v here in rlver valley.
Som, where near q range OF MOUNTAINS,
Was ercamped a Sou.hern army.
Just beyond a neighboring mountain
Stood an old plantation maLslon
in the sbao ow of II ii cbektnuIs.
Dusty were its rooms, and hOsry
Mere its walls Of stone and mortar;
Signs OF Ge-olatlon were apparent;
Dus had gathered in the corners,
Cobvels llned.the walls snd ceilings.
Still within it lived the planter
And q remnant CT his hous, hold;
Wife, an1 Iaught r and two servants.
All his sls yes bul t o had left him.
but tnese people W. re as silent
Almost ss The arpsrit ons
That at midnight walk the Railways
OF the old Words ruined Castles.
In one norton of this mansion
Lived the painter, wife. and servants
Who hsd long been their attendant
And VINO served with touching Kindness.
in q far removed apartment,
Was q Dung, all only daughter,
Who was just as SAD anO silent
AS her parents were Her eervant,
An Old uegres-, linz cred near her,
And had been her sole companion
During two Years OF g. ciusion.
II had b. en- ny the transgression
of this daughter at the ruin
OF this home had been eff cted,
AND rV rs shame that had concealed her
From the wurlI ana f,Om tue household.
For two years no one mad seen her
But thai ia thful, old. black servant:
For TWO ears her footsteps never
Echoed in those dusky Railways.
Bers had been blissful childhood,
u was / Ike a oudiess morning,
Like nom of early May time
Into which there creeps no shadow,
Aud like lsmbkins on u hillside,
she and her Twin brother, Cecil,
Prayed upon the SUN foothills.
BU the Deauty of those children
Still is talked OF in that region,
And The ond, rfui rsemDlance
OF the brother 10 the sister.
And as years went by, the beauty
Or Sue Mundy irought admirers
From Ill he surrou ndlDg country.
But, alas, IL proved her ruin.
Tn, began reign Of sorrow;
In that household, Came darkness
] hat was as night eternal,
For its shadows ne'er were lifted.
Cecil then the home deserted,
u # il as The shadows entered.
With him all its light departed,
There WAS nothing lett bu; darkness,
There " as Looming lett but nsulkh.
After that his voice forsook il,
There was never heard IN echo
That had aught OF glainess in II.
In the army he enlisted
An0 he was IN that division
That at his time waseucamping
BY the river, near the mountain;
He han proved q " oTinlt IS soldier,
And NOR, over had committed
What the martial law considers
Crime, and doomed 30 suffer
Death was be, this coming morning.
News Of This had reached the homestead
From The brOk en-h, arte0 parents
4 H. r. wenl up one cry IF anguish
That was heard cen by the daughter.
And her heart Iesponed 100 IL.
Love AMI pity for her parents,
He INDY Ing love ior Ceci,
Woke thai self-denying spirit
Thai il her Oft prov, d q weakness.
Quickly were her tresses loosened
And tie servant at her bidding,
Cut away those shining tresses,
Cut her hair a. near like Cecps
As her lack of sklil p rmitred
Then in SOLDIER sarb. she dressed her,
In a -ult left there by Cecil
hen OLce he return, d on n furlough.
This Was cover with garment
OF her own ana her own mantle.
Then attended by her servant.
Rode sue Mundy Der The mountain,
Following rug ed railway
That TO her once was familiar.
1t was in the early morning
That she enrere CeClls presence;
And as had b. en- hes lut MIN,
Had o. lvatS Jnrersatlou
v 18th hun, Cunng which her mantle
AMI Ter robe, she put ugon him,
And, say they. who tell this stOty
Twas u wonderOuS rinSiurmatiOn,
He was Ne, and she Was G. Gil.
For Twas still a. was i'll childhood,
Like were III, y ia form and feature.
At her bidding he departed
v it'll the ntgr, S. from the guard house.
Passed the sentiies unmoiested.
And he gained his home IN safety,
And tn II for the north departed.
As q refugee. he wandered hither. thither,
always haunted. always followed.
By Il thought that Was hat painful,
In IL Sue YVES ever present.
But iva strange, that he had never
Guessed her purpose, that he never
Once had thought what the INTENDED,
But had always, always wondered
What had been the tiusl issue
o. what she began SO strangely.
Truth oftimes evades the searcher
Till he weaIies Of the seeking,
Then IT'S quits it, place of hiding
Aud presents itself unbidden.
So as by an inspiration
Cecil saw the whole intention
of his sister, Saw i plainly.
Ev'ry wo d aud ev'ry gesture
Had o him distinct meaning.
Go home" said she, you W. place there.
He had not those words forgotten.
But till now SAW not their meaning.
In his par, NJ hears the place was
That III briefly desis mated,
And besides, u further meaning:
I hat H. she wa BOT Their net ded,
That as she was but al Oh cast,
That b, r death would be rs nothing;
In his stead that she would perish.
Cecil turned his steps homeward
Went ba K 10 the old plantation,
Went back but to hear the story
That he knew too well already,
Went To have the wound made deeper
In hls heart, remolse inflicted.
And twas told him that the bullets
From the r ties II his comrades
Pierced b, heart, and not I'LL after
She had peIlshed was discovered
Z hat twas sue instead OF cecil,
Aud twas ADDED that her lover,
Who WAS slso IN that army,
And who he Id high posllion,
And whose name ls one distinguished,
That he Who brought her ruin
Came and kissed her i'll hec coffin.
And The people of that region
Say they zee n ghost al nigbtfall
G. ing up ana down the valley;
And they hear cry of anguish
Like that IRON a heart hats breaking,
An th.y think il is the pirit
Cf Sue Mundy hist is cIylng:
That the on cast still is re,ched,
Ano bewaIls her lost condition,
Knowing hat tha CAT OF mercy
Are forever closed against her.
attempting the Histrioni
BY STANLEY HUNTLEY.
any DEAR" said Mrs. Spoopendyl
herself in the glass "a Sl