The Irish standard., 1890-12-27
THE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY. DECEMBER ~.

note the marked passages. The set OF
chess are the same you and / so often
played with in the happy past.
land now as to brother. He was re-
prieved by Mr.. Lincoln for ninety days
and sent to Johnston's Island up near
Sandusky. have been to see him three
times, and each time he has seemed
thinner and more worn. He Is In the
hospital, and the doctors say he has con-
sumption, but he refuses to believe this
and says he would be himself in a week
if he were only back in the saddle.
81 have recently seen our mutual
friend, General Boyle, and he is hard at
work on a plan whereby you can be ex-
changed for Frank. General Holt is
interested in this matter, and as be has
much influence, it will not surprise me
to see you home any day.
Il wish you and Frank, once you are
free, would pair off, as they do in Con-
gress, and let others finish up the war.
am sure al Kentuckians would agree
to this plan, ii they only knew how the
hearts of mothers, wives, sisters and
sweet-hearts are breaking at home.
Our beautiful land seems changed into
the valley of the shadow Of death, for
there is mourning in every household,
one day for dead boy in gray, and an
other for dead boy in blue. But tho
bullets that Stay them do not stop ON
the battlefield, but wing their way over
hill and dale, nor rest till they find
IL So r rf
"With an ever-keen memory of your
goodness to me and mine, and praying
night and day for the dawn of peace
believe me Your Friend,
CARRIE BRENT"
read this letter over and over, read
it till knew it by heart read 1t till
it separated at the folds, and then,
sentimental youth that was, / placed
it over my heart and felt happier and
better for having it there.
The same mail brought Howard Scott
letter from Mollie Vernon, and he
showed that the love of love is stronger
than the love of liberty, by forgetting
all about the tunnel, while, with
moisture in his fine, brave eyes, he told
lQC Oh LAS COI1OIU lCLGC1 uciA DAoASA0
him. .... .
AT length the day came, or rather the
night, when there were two openings to
the tunnel, the new one being inside
the high board fence across the way.
The time had come when the pledge OF
secrecy could be removed from the
workers and they were free to tell their
friends that they had opened up way
that might lead to liberty.
BY ten o'clock of the night of the es-
cape, every prisoner in Libby knew of
the tunnel and was eager to go through
it.
Howard and decided to keep close to-
gether, so we held each others hands
that we might not be parted by the
crowd we found about the opening in
the hearth at ten o'clock. If these men
had moved with the order OF soldiers,
five hundred, instead of one hundred
and fifty, might have gone through; but,
as twas, they jostled about the open
ing, pulling men out who were half in,
and shouting and swearing like SO many
mad men.
IL IL WCE0 lANO AOI OuC NNlotO1hoAy AAcAoo
in the Upper Potomac room, the guards
must have noticed the hubbub near the
chimney. For fully two hours Howard
and waited, still holding each others
hands. At length shrewd tunneller
near us raised the cry: ''The guards!
the guards!' and on the instant, the
crowd about the opening surged away
and rushed up the stairs
The space about the hearth wascleared
and our chance had come. dropped
into the cellar first, closely followed by
the Lieutenant. We needed no guide
to lead us to the opening, and as soon as
found it we plunged in, again in the ad-
vance.
About the middle of the tunnel we had
run on a sharp bowlder that forced a
slight DETECTION northward; here, as l
CROPPED my way through, came upon
man stuck hard and fast. It proved to
be an Austrian Count, Lieutenant Won
Klodt, of the A7:ny of the Potomac and a
splendid officer. He had come over to
see the war, and he spoke but little En-
glish, and this little vanished in the