Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-19

~ am The guest Of that young lady
The next morning Mark hearing q
tap at the door got out of bed and
opened it cautiously AS was natural
under the circumstances. he saw danger
in everything that occurred He half
expected to see through the slight open
ing he at first made the muzzle of a re-
yolver pointing directly at him, Hesaw
very different sight. 1t was a large
tumbler, with a straw in it, on silver
tray in the hands of negro.
Mrs. Fain's compliments. sab, and
be handed Mark mint julep.
Abr exclaimed Mark. with intense
satisfaction.
Present my compliments to your
mistress, and tell her ! perceive with
pleasure that this noble Virginia Gus
tom has found its way into Tennessee,
as i, has long ago into South Carolina.
Eyes. sah!'
There are alleviating circumstances
even in the life of a spy" said Mark,
contemplating the beverage. uncertain
as that life is. Why viii man not al
ways be philosopher? Here am in
beautifully furnished room; have been
sleeping between the whitest linen, ON
the softest of beds. | arise and behold
this delicate attention on the part of my
hostess, who, if she should know who /
am. would bring a dozen bayonets to
hedge me in. and should be waving in
the soft summer breeze ut the end of
hemp cord in twelve hours. But she
does not know who | am, and. consid-
cred philosophically, am Mr.. Rhett, of
South Carolina. and in clover. Here's to
Private Mark Malone, poor DEVIL"
However. Mark desired to keep his
head cool. considering the circumstances,
and contented himself with few swal-
lows of the julep, and after completing
his toilet joined the ladies at the break
fast table. lie praised Mrs. Fain's fried
chicken and light biscuit and corn
bread. and was about 10 give the coffee
a few words of encomium when, tast-
ing it beforehand. he discovered the pre-
yailing chicorv. So he entered upon a
TRADE against the blockade, and ended
by hoping that Abe Lincoln would at
last be hanged higher than Haman, q
reference that gave him a disagreeable
sensation about the neck and caused
Laura bosom TO heave unanimously.
The comforts surrounding Mark, the
kindness of his hostess, and above all
the presence of a girl whose bosom
feeined to contain such volcanic forces
rs would best harmonic with one
whose chief object in life seemed to be |
10 get himself hanged, conspired to make
him feel safety that he should not have
felt under the circumstances. He had |
been campaigning for year. during |
which period he had experienced no |
greater comfort than a Mcclellan sad
die. and the women of the country |
through which he had passed had not |
received him with any marked evidences
IF pleasure. Is it to be wondered that \
ne felt approximate content-if one can
EEL content whose neck is in a halter
N the Fain manor house?
But Mark had something else on his
mind which lie knew was of more inn
lortance than his own safety. though
is value. if lac shonld possess it, wonld
DO dependent on that safety. He wanted
,ome Indication of where the enemy
would striSe He was not 50 fooihardy
is 10 think of going back To Chattanooga
himself. but he resolved TO send mes
enger IL lac could find some one to 60 !