New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-03-27

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sDarl5n," he said. -,
panion had strengthened certain doubts
which had at times come up to trouble
her as to the ultimate success, the real
motives which underlay her cause, and
with her intense, devoted nature had
led her to feel that all this vast effort
put forth by her people might in the end
avail nothing or would only, if success
full, perpetuate wrong. Her lover saw
her troubled expression. He did not at
tempt to comfort her by recalling what
he had said. He pushed on further
''Darlin," he said, ''ye're right when
ye say i'm needed in Oireland Go with
me-. darlin. Be me wife. Let all this
intense effort, this sacrifice ye're put
tin into a cause, which. Oh foresee is
doomed, be given to me tenants. The
estate is large one and there are hun
dreds of people for ye to befriend. There
ye can work to purpose. There yer eff
forts in behalf Of a really downtrodden
people will be for good.
| "And leave my brothers in the midst
Of this horrid struggle? 7 will stay here
till the last gun is. fired, till the last
| blow of the hammer has riveted our
| chains -
Born and bred in the south, Miss Fitz
Hugh had never seen except with south
ern eyes. Here was man who was CIV
| ing her views never before open to her,
She had a mind capable of grasping
them and saw the strength, the solid
sense, beneath them when properly pre-
sented.
''Darlin," said the young baronet,
'the world moves on quickly. If yer
people succeed in this war, in less than
quarter of a century yell either free
yer slaves or be blot on the face of the
earth
ooh, Rats she exclaimed, "why
did ever meet you? You've Slapped the
strength I possessed for my work. I can
never again do my duty as I have done
it thus far
"Darlin, he said, drawing her nearer
| to him, "Oi'll replace what Olive taken.
Oi'l give ye other duties, the duties
that belong to the mistress of fine es-
tate, the duties Of a woman of high de-
gree in a country where birth is re-
spected far more than here. With your
vigor, your strong impulses"-
'Guided by your more steady light. -
eye may become one of the most in
fuential women in the three kingdoms. -
In her eyes came that humorous
twinkle he had once seen before when
she stood in her buggy in the road up
in Tennessee and tantalized him for his
stupidity in having been duped by her.
1T would be nice to be''-
''To be what, darlin?''
LADY Rats" and she hid her bushes
in the pillow on which his head rested.
4 T.
The sun setting over Lookout noun
tain shone directly in the faces of May
nard and his party as returning from
Ringold they rode into Chattanooga. It
was glorious October evening, and the
heights towering them, covered by un-
seen Confederates, reposed about the
town like huge lions watching a wound
ed animal, confident that at last it must
fall into their power. - -
Dismounting before his tent, Maynard
entered it, and there found a letter
from his wife. She begged him to- come
to her it it were possible, and If not to
| Write to her. He read and reread the
letter again and again, and then made
an attempt at reply. After writing
half a dozen, all of which he tore up,
| he abandoned the task in despair. Els
| position was too uncertain. The SEN
tence Of the court martial hung over
| him like sullen cloud. What could he
| say to her to comfort her? He well
| knew that the only comforting she
| needed was to know that he was not
! miserable, and of that he could not as
| sure her. -. 1T. ;. r +:
And so matters hung for a week.
Having no duties to perform, the time
passed all the more slowly. The Con-
federates were sending occasional shells
from Lookout mountain, and as they
were harmless the reports were some
thing Of relief to Maynard, breaking
the monotony of the silence. He spent
much Of the time thinking of what he
would do in case the sentence of the
court were approved and carried into
effect. He formed many plans, which
were all abandoned. At last he settled
down to the resolve that he would go to
the army in the east, enlist under an
assumed name and await the coming OF
some missile to end his career, as he
had intended at Chickamauga.
One morning an orderly rode up to
him and handed him an order to report
in person at General Thomas head
quarters. Calling for his horse and for
his own orderly, Jakey, to follow. be
mounted, and in q feverish mood darted