Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-05-31
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lieve. Oh, how sad IL all this dreadful
work Of murder among fellow country
men who should be brethreni All for
q question Of states rightsl I'm sure
the rights Of the wives and children are
. great deal higher"
Don't let us get into q discussion on
that now, Gear Edith. Many q good and
true man in the south thinks as you do
and yet feels that honor and duty com.
pei him to give his life to resist the in.
vasion Of his state. The man is not wor-
thy Of living who does not in his heart
wish it were all we'll over. I anu very
sorry for your cousin"
Poor motherless girl-tender, loving
and helpless! The death of her father
leaves her altogether alone in the
worId. 'sne Will always nave a home
with US, Of course, while we have one,
as she has had for three years past, since
her father Joined the army and sent her
here. But her heart is broken"
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Lieutenant Townly occupied the best
guest chamber that night and saw moth
ing more of the unhappy orphan, nor
indeed did he even think of her while
III company with his betrothed, but
when he was going to bed she REQUIRED
to his remembrance, and he accorded
her a sigh of sympathy. At daybreak,
having to join his comrades early, he
arose and began dressing with soldier
like haste, but suddenly stopped short
In his toilet and stood as if paralyzed,
listening.
A girls voice, fresh, strong and sweet,
carOled and Tilted, not in the set meas
ures Of any song, but in such an exu.
berant Outburst of roulades, trills and
fourishes of melody as seemed the up
bubbling and outgushing Of a purely
happy heart, free from care and sorrow.
My God" he exclaimed to himself,
with a look that was almost fright, that
is Clara singing! Fam sure of it! know
her voicel' He sat upon the edge of the
bed, listened and gasped: Great heav-
ems, what an utterly heartless creature
Or else grief has turned her brain"
Miss Farwell appeared at the break
fast table and demonstrated the posses
sion of more spirits than all the rest of
the family added together. The ~lieuten-
ant looked upon her with icy disap-
prevail, but she did not seem to be aware
of it. Finally he said in his most solemn
manner, Il learned last evening with
sincere regret of your recent bereave-
ment, Miss Farwell."
About papa, you mean?'' she replied
l~aughingly. "Oh, guess it was not true.
There are 80 many stories flying about
now one never knows what to believe"
And with that she seemed to dismiss
the subject.
He had no appetite. Her callous in
difference sickened him. Never before
could he have believed her capable of it,
and the hideous question forced itself
upon him, Are other girls like her, or
Is she an exceptional monster" Soon he
got up from the table and CHANGED to
glance out of a window into the back
yard. There upon the wood pile, with
a piece of corn bread in one hand and
his medicine tea" pot in the other, sat
the old vagrant darky. He was eating
his frugal breakfast and looking at the
groom bringing the lieutenant's horse
from the stable.
The young officer pondered gloomily
as he rode and had gone full five miles
Of the way back from Winchester to
General Fitzhugh Lees camp before a
certain suspicion occurred to him. At
that point two widely dissimilar things
suddenly presented themselves in juxta-
position before his mental vision. One
the ~heartbroken girl merrily sing
ing; the other the old darby Oh the wood
pile. And 1t came to him as an inspira-
ton that the presence of the latter in
some way-if he could only see how
explained the astonishing change in the
former. 1t was by no means impossible
that the negro should have brought news
to Clara. Monroe was doubtless right III
looking upon all of that race as, poten-
TALLY at least, Yankee spies. Should he
confde his suspicious to the captain, he
would get himself laughed at if he was
wrong and if right terrify and grieve the
family by what might very well happen
were the negro luckless enough to be
caught. After much cogitation he ION.
cluded to keep his mouth shut, which
under most circumstances is about the
wisest thing a man can do.
General T. w. Rosser's cavalry came
from Richmond a fortnight later and
joined General Early with the avowed
intention of sweeping the invaders
out of the valley" Lieutenant Townly,
deeming that "a contamination devou,-
ly to be wished, - since Winchester and
Edith were in the debatable ground, OBJ
tanned permission to serve with them as
q volunteer aid on General Rosser's
staff. When General Sheridan gave up
the project of a winter campaign in the
mountains and fell back on Winchester,
the Confederate cavalry harassed his
rea~ so daringly that he determined to
turn and give them a lesson on the dan
ger of getting too close to him. The en-
suing trouble at Toms Brook Crossing
eventuated in an entire reversal of Gen
eral Rosser's programme. The sweeping
was done, but his cavalry were the
They We're scattered in a-mad
rout, some by way Of Columbia Furnace