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provost marshal, that a rebel soldier
was concealed In the Blakely residence.
Colonel Fish sent a guard to the place
and Miss Ruffin was re-arrested
and taken back to Fort McHenry. II
did not occur to the commanding
officers to search, the house, and con
s%eauently Hastings escaped recap
ture. He shortly afterward made his
way in citizens garb into Canada,
thence to Nassau, in the Bahamas,
and by a blockade runner back to the
South by way of Charleston. He re-
joined his old regiment, fought until
he was wounded at the battle OF
Hatcher's Run, in the closing DAYS of
the war, and returned to his Mary
land home at the downfall OF the
Confederacy.
Meanwhile, Miss Rufin had been
seized with sickness upon being
placed again in Fort McHenry, and
was taken to the post hospital where
her sex was discovered and her roman
tic story revealed. She was at once
released upon her convalescence and
became an inmate of the Blakeley
residence. But she was too proud and
self reliant to remain a dependent
upon friends, and soon secured an in
dependent support as a teacher in a
private school.
Three years after the conclusion of
the war Miss Rufiin was paying a
visit to Washington and was at the
National Theatre night. Seated
next her was a gentleman whose face
seemed strangely familiar to her, but
she could not identity him. That
was no wonder. for Hastings had
grown a beard and aged ten years in
his features since she had known him
in the Confederate service. She no
ticed that he frequently glanced Gu
riously at her and seemed on the
point of addressing her, but the pru-
dence of a well-bred man restrained
him. Presently a gentleman with
whom she was acquainted sat down
in front OF them and addressed Hast
ings by name.
That was sufficient to permit her to
identify her old comrade OF the prison
and mutual introductions followed.
The party of four went to a restau-
ram for supper, and at the table Hast
ings asked Miss Rufin:-
did you ever know a soldier
named Charles Evans of the Fourth
Regiment?n
WHY 0O YOU dshl size SdlQs
Because he answered, you are
wearing the ring gave him when we
were prisoners together in Fort Nc
Henry
Miss Ruffin was not yet ready to dis
close her secret and she told him that
it was probably a ring similar to the
he had parted with. Hastings
appeared to be satisfied with this ex-
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came more friendly she revealed her
story to him and informed him that
she was the young Confederate SOL
der who had gone under the name of
Charles Evans.
Their wedding took place at the
Blakeley residence, in Baltimore. on
Christmas Eve. 1869, and they went
to live on the Hastings estates, in Call
vert county. Mr.. Hastings died in
1874, leaving his wife childless, but In
the possession of a considerable prop
erty. She is now a woman of forty
six years, but looks ten years younger.
She has commanding features and a
fine figure, and as she told her life
story under the light OF the stars and
to the murmur of the waves on the
Atlantic City Cottage porch last Sun
day night, she produced the old ring,
now worn thin, that she had received
from her future husband while they
were prisoners. philadelphia Press.
For Girls who Ride
1t is said that the young ladies of
Clinton, Mo-, are trying to start the
Miller style of horseback riding. A
travelling man who was recently out
driving in the suburbs there saws that
he saw five young ladies on one poor
horse-all astride, and as they were
dressed in ordinary dresses, the sight
was very funny.
The introduction of the style of rid
ing on horseback side saddle is attrib-
uted to Anna of BoheIuia. consor of
Richard ii. She it was. according to
Stowe, who originally showed the
women of England how gracefully
and conveniently they might ride on
horseback sideways. Another his
torian, enumerating the new fashions
of Richard II.'s reign, Observes
Likewise noble ladies then used
high heads, and corsets and robes
with long trains, and seats on side
saddles on their horses, by the ex-
ample OF the respectable Queen Anna,
daughter of the king of Bohemia, who
first introduced the custom into the
kingdom; for before women of every
rank rode as men,
Stothard, in his beautiful illustra-
tive picture of Chaucer's '.Canter-
bury Pilgrims" appears, according to
the above quoted authorities, to have
committed al anachronism in placing
the most conspicuous female charac.
ter OF his fine composition sideways
on her steed. That the lady ought
to have been depicted riding the male
fashion might have been inferred,
without any historical research on the
subject, from the poets describing hei
as having on her feet "a pair Of
spurres sharpe" The Rider ana
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