The advocate., 1895-05-22
"The bravest are the tenderest,
The loving are the daring"

Gne man VINO Will lBnG ana 10 QeSplSe CnS man VINO
will run. This cannot be laid altogether to the
charge of the false notions encouraged by our savage
civilization; it is natural that lovely women shall
love manlnesS as strong men love Womanliness, and
to change this would produce a race so degener'
ate that heaven would not dignity the creatures by
either drowning them or burning them up, but would
simply shut out the sight of them and pronounce
the creation of man hOpelessly irretrieVsble mis-
take. Gertrude StilWell was thorough woman, and
very loVeabe woman, too; and she did but respond
natural promptings when at the sight of her hero
in ''the pomp and circumstance Of war, she fell
more desperately in love with him forthwith. He
glanced at the WindoW-he dared not do more lest
StilWelPs cold eye should see but Gertrude was GER
tain he had seen her, and her heart behaved as
healthy heart in young woman usually will be-
have under such circumstances.
The little army marched on out of town and dis
appeared An hour afterwards, hearing again the
sound of a drum and the tread of marching men,
Gertrude hastened to the window expecting to see
her rebel hero passing once more; but it was diff
ferent army this time, and much larger One the
Army of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with
fullfedged general at its head and with artillery
following in its rear. She shuddered at sight of the
parade of this machinery of homicide and hated the
general and all his followers as potential murderers
of the man she loved. 1t was Court day in Wor-
cester where since July there had been no Court;
and the Governors military force had come to sf
ford the judiciary protection and uphold the maj
esty of the law while it robbed hsplesS debtors of
their liberty and of their homes the majesty of the
law which could see to smite but could not hear to
redress.
AS in the rear of the latter-day circus parades or
of professions in Western cities in honor of some
distinguished guest, comes at last the wagon which
adVertises superior brand of soap or the vehicle
bearing that august person-the itinerant extractor
of pestiferous corns so in the rear of General Lin
coins army rode Dobbins RskestrsW batting his
eyes in keen enjoyment of anticipated revenge upon
"that fellow, Stone" 1t has been previously re
marked that Dobbins was not of heroic appearance.
Sydney Stone, the rebel cheftain, still occupied Ger
trudes imagination, which has ideaIized him, and
Dobbins came too not to suffer greatly by the
comparison he thus compelled. He, however, knew
nothing of this and having come to attend Court,
stopped at the StlWe mansion.
From faithful old James, who half suspected the
secret of his young Mistress eager were her ques
tionings, she learned that 'Mssss Cottle surmised
that the rebels had marched on to Springfield where
large force was assembling with the intention of
seizing the arsenal and that battle was likely on
the morrow; that, in Short Sydney had marched into
Worcester only to lead General Lincoln to expect re-
sstsnce to the sitting of the Courts that he would
stop there instead of pushing on to Springfield
Three days later, old James reported that the reb
els had been repulsed at the arsenal and that one
had been killed and number wounded by dis
charge of artillery AS James could not tell who
~ doo uho bo rudo
certain Sydney had been slain; and she became so
i'll that she was confined to her room and physician
called, who, however, could not prescribe for "a
mind diseased" and so, as was then the medical
custom, not knowing what else to do, bled his fair
patient.
Old James services were in constant demand by
his young mistress, and he paid frequent visits to