, 1888-06-30

only too glad 10 do you u favor"
But l wouldn't have it that way. !
bargained with him that he should re-
ceiye $40 for his trouble and that he
should call at the hotel the next evening.
Nothing was said about a pass, but j in
ended to see to that The next day
Marmaduke's captain helped me to secure
it. What l saw in Corinth satisfied me
there would be no fight. While the
Confederate were shortening their lines
and i~ntrenching, and while the great
mass of soldiers believed that Beauregard
was aching for an attack, the railroad
tracks told the story. l saw that he was
sending away guns and stores as fast as
possible, and was likewise bringing in
and side tracking all the cars available.
Several extra locomotives had come up,
and l believed l had good grounds for
suspecting a retreat from Corinth. This
belief was strengthened on the last day
of my stay by the confidence of a tele-
graph operator, who informed me that
supplies intended for Corinth had beer
stopped down the road.
When evening came l had seen all
that was necessary, and half an hour af-
ter supper l disappeared. The man who
o my place was an invalid. He was
very pale, weak in the legs, and spoke in
a hollow voice. l chalked my face a bit,
rubbed the black off my eyebrows, cut
off the corners of my mustache. put on
a different style of collar, and followed
in my cheeks by suction. In that way !
heightened my face and made the cheek
bones show very prominently. 1t was
dusk when the milkman drove up. When
he came in 1 stated that the professor,
my brother, had been called to Beaure-
CARDS headquarters, and that ! was all
ready to be moving.
"Been powerful sick, l take it7" he
said, as he looked me over.
Eyes, very sick"
Consumption"
Pm afraid So" l gasped between
coughing spells.
He offered to treat but / declined, and
after indulging in a horn by himself he
took up the bundle l had made up and
helped me to the buggy. My pass was
all right with the pickets. and the young
man had enough whisky in him to be
jolly. I intended to leave him about
where 1 found him at first, and in pur-
susnce of a plan ] had formed / pre-
tended TO be very and excited.
Every sound made me start, and the fur
Their we drove the more nervous | got.
Fortune came to my aid when we had
reached the right spot. We heard a
great CHATTER of hoofs ahead, and | yelled
out that the Yankees were upon us, and
jumped out and over a fence and into the
woods. He was badly scared for the
moment, and ran back about fifty feet
before seeking shelter. In a minute
or two three cavalry horses, saddled
and bridled, came tearing down the road,
and as a consequence the old horse in the
shafts wheeled about and went toward
Corinth with them. The last / heard of
the young man he was trying to call to
me and yell 'fWhoaI' in one breath. In
two hours 1 was inside the Union lines,
and before midnight Gen. Halleck had
my report. i was neither rewarded nor
believed. Indeed, l was very CURLY dis
missed after concluding my report. |
had my revenge, however, when the
general woke up morning to find
Corinth evacuated and the enemy beyond
his reach. Then he must nave been sat
isfied of the correctness of my theories,
but he was too sore and had too much
dignity to send for me and admit it. In
deed, my existence had probably escaped
his memory.-New York Sun.