The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-20

OF forest without the least lueh OF MS
whereabo bouts. To make his situation still
more forlorn, it was night and a drizzling
rain was falling, wetting him thoroughly
and chilling him to the bone.
As soon as he thoroughly appreciated
the situation he set about TO find his com
rades This he soon discovered was no
easy task, and it was near morning when
he finally came out of the woods in the vi
entity of the house which had served Gen
eral Hooker as headquarters Imagine his
establishment and dsmay 10 find the 10
cality deserted by the Union army, for this
was the night of May 3, 1868, and Hooker
had already retreated beyond the Kappa
hammock
After a time, the truth dawned on
Blake. and he hurried TO the river, which
was reached in the gray light of morning.
Then his dismay was increased to discover
the rain had so swollen the river that he
could not cross at the fords. He set out
to find a pontoon bridge, if possible, but
the last Federal was supposed to have
reached the northern shore, and no bridges
were to be discovered.
Then it was that Blake saw escape was
impossible, and he considered capture GER
tain. In no way delighted at the thought
of spending weeks or months in Libby
devise some scheme of avoiding capture,
when he came to a spot where an engage
ment had taken place the previous day.
There were many dead soldiers lying on
the ground, and the features of Confed-
crate who lay stretched on his back attract
ed Blakes attention. To his profound
establishment, he saw the man was almost,
if not quite, the exact double of himself
1t gave him a shock at first, for it was as
If he had seen himself lying dead.
AS he looked at the corpse, bright
thought came to him, and he muttered:
"I'll do it, and take the chances | may
be able to fool them until can slip away
and rejoin my comrades"
Inn ediately he dragged the body into
a thiC get, and there exchanged clothes
with the dead man, or, rather, he appro-
PIRATE the outer garments of the other
and IL rev his own away. Then he dragged
the DO y TO the river and thrust it into
the sy ollen tide, which soon swept it
away.
Som hours later, falling in with n
squad Of southern skirmshers, he was
silrew, enough to feign he was somewhat
dLzed rom the effect of the wound on his
head. When he was questioned, he acted
as if slightly deranged, declaring himself
General Lee.
As a natural result, he was sent to the
hospital, where his wound received atten-
ton. In his pockets, or in the pockets OF
the dead Confederate's clothes, he found
several letters addressed to George Hatton.
Those letters were from Il sweetheart OF
Hatton's, and they revealed the fact that
the dead man had belonged to Hoke's bri-
gade.
In short time he seemed to recover
from the wound, and then he said he was
George Hatton, although protesting tC
have lost his memory to a great extent
The hospital doctor said that was a nat
ural result of such IA wound, but his mem
DRY would gradually return to him.
In the course Of short time, Blak,
found himself serving in Hoke's brigade
although he was constantly on the out
look for an opportunity 10 escape and re
turn TO the northern army. He received
two or three appealing letters from Mar,
st. Orme, Hatton's sweetheart, and the
were SO full of love, tenderness and solici
tude that he thought 1t cruel to ever lie
the girl know of her lovers death.
How was this TO be prevented? A
length, a wild scheme entered his head
He would write TO her in Hatton's stead
and she would never know the difference
He was aided in this by half FINISHED
letter in the dead soldiers handwriting
which he carefully Initiated.
His first letter was short, but he told he
how he had been wounded on the hea
and his memory had almost entirely faile
him so far as events before the battle wer
concerned. He said he could not men
Der II he had possessed "A picture hei
but If such were the case it was lost, an
he urged her to send him one.
h. 4 Il col,
miniature of her and he was immediate
ly impressed by the sweetness Of her fac
II was absolutely the face of his ideal, an
his heart beat in his bosom with quicl
ened measure as he gazed earnestly at I'll
little picture Suddenly, by an impul'
that seemed other than his own, he presse
his lips TO the miniature, and from tina
moment he was madly In love with tn
dead soldiers sweetheart, the girl he ha
never seen.
Somehow, Paul Blake's desire to escap
and rejoin the Federals waned rapidly, an
In his heart there actually grew sympa
thy for the south, the land that was
dearly loved by this sweet and beautifu
girl he now longed but feared to see. II
wondered II she would be deceived, or
she would read the truth in his face.
Months went by, and the correspondent
continued, while Blakes love increase
constantly until he literally adored Mar
st. Orme. Her letters gave him informs
ton concerning Hatton's former home an
the people the dead man had known unit
he finally believed he could return to tina
spot In Hatton's place and appear SO thol
oughly familiar with everything that n
one would suspect him. Hatton, lik
Blake, had been an orphan, which woul
-. IA III A l.
he ever venture TO visit the unfortunat
soldiers home.
So Paul Blake fought through the n
nainaer Of the war as southern soldisl
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