The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-12-26

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offered them no aid in their search.
Sally was wildly indignant. all tho
more that she recognized among them
Bobby Greene. very youthful ofiicer
who had been one OF the guard set
over Capt Cof.lng and his family dur
ing their imprisonment and who had
been devoted admirer OF the saucy
little tory maiden. and in spite OF her
usual scorn had often won grateful
smile by smuggled gifts OF fruit or
flowers and over oil tiny. lovely
kitten that was dear still In her heart
You here cried Sally. as the men
filed In after their lieutenant and went
up the winding stair.
''Didn my mother tell you the dear
governor was not here. DO you dnre
to think Madam Coffing liesP'
Hush. Sallyr' interposed her moth
or. These matters are not for your
meddling." While the lieutenant's
fair boyish face turned red to the cap.
He made a military salute to the
lady and said respectfully:
Il regret this unpleasant duty.
madam. but a soldier must obey or
ders."
So they proceeded to ransack the
building from top to bottom. but found
no trace Of the loyalist governor; at
last they came 10 the cellar door,
which opened on guilt of darkness.
for oaucy Sally had piled mats and
rugs against the grated windows on
the outside till not ray OF light could
enter.
II think. madam. must trouble
you for lights said Lieut. Greene,
lifting his cap.
IN fetch candle. nanny! I'll
hold i'll" whispered Sally in her moth
er's ear.
Mrs. Coffing was astonished at this
sudden change in Sallys manner. but
thinking that perhaps the child wanted
to atone for her previous incivility she
nodded assent and Sally. holding a
blazing tallow candle stationed her
self on the stairs the soldiers one by
one filing past her. Very. carefully
she threw the beams OF her light about
the cellar till they came to a part
where the ceiling was not only much
lower but crossed and recrossed with
great beams in order to support plat
form above on which heavy guns were
mounted. As they CROPPED toward this
region. suddenly a quick blast from
Sally's rosy lips put out the candle and
left the party in utter darkness. Then
began trouble! Heads were knocked
with sharp force, feet stumbled over
certain obstacles and their own
ers fell PROSTATE on the hard
floor. becoming In turn traps 10 trip
up their bewildered comrades. Loud
and deep and long were the objurga-
tions the enraged rebels uttered; loud
er and harder grew the knocks on the
head received by those who still kept
their footing. and Sally on the stairs
shrieking with laughter, derided them
with hooking inquiries as to whether
they had the governor, and why they
knocked him down so often! But she
heard Ter mothers step coming. and
skipped out OF sight quickly. mount
ing to the highest parapet from
which she waved her little British flag
over the heads OF the demoralized SOL
diers as they struggled out aud called
to the battered young lieutenant.
whose bloody face and swollen nose
testified to his disagreeablc experience:
':Ha! ha. Bobby Greenel How
dye like hunting governors when ]
hold the candlep
Time has its own revenges; long
after the war OF the revolution was
over and the colonies became states,
1t is recorded somewhere that Mistress
Sarah Gofiing, daughter Of the late Ad-
miral Coffing X N, was welded to
the gallant Captain Robert Greene
U. S. A.
wonder IL she ever held candle
for him again. or ceased to be Saucy
Sally!-Detroit Sunday News