Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-07-16

/ M Daughter of the
60 Confederacy IL
C--lg..o,Mnon9M that Southern city.
t&l5lHEl. ~ ~, She has daughter
ENE. $N0Jy other own now, who
- Ns3s' 81 R should, of course,
ES-so o4( ,%E3 b be called h e
El4STS>, Dl.@lS Granddaughter of
Ssssas--s-> the Confederacy,
but probably isn't. That, however, is
anticipating.
Tho daughter of cause 80 long
aud beautiful. She must have been
the child OF Memory, that grows
more beautiful with each year, and
knows new youth with each succeed
ing generation.
She was very beautiful tho day that
Howard Pearce saw her. He sat on
the window ledge OF his second-story
ollice-he WAS young lawyer from
the North-and looked down on Com
pany X, - Tennessee National
Guards, lined up ut "pa-ade rest. d"
He knew their Captain, Saunders,
who also was u lawyer and whose Office
adioinad Pearce's. 1t was annual en-
campment time, and K Company was
about TO so to the grounds at the foot
of the Ridge.
"Order-Haims" commanded Cap
tain Saunders.
"Carry-Iarms!"
Harmsl Right for'ad,
fours rjght-Mch" !"
Company X moved up the street.
As the last four swung into the column,
| there came CHATTER of hoofs on the
| pavement, and girl rode past the
company and took her place at its
head, saluting the Captain grayely,
and with ceremony.
"What beautiful girl !' Pierce ex-
claimed.
She wore a gray riding habit, with
double row of small brass buttons
leading up to two black stars on the
collar. On her sunny locks small
gray slouch hat rested, tilted just the
least bit over one eye. She rode
well.
Pearce leaned so far from the win
dow to catch parting glimpse of the
girl in gray that he almost fell. The
crowd had dispersed and the young
lawyer returned TO mis- desk. tt was q
warm day toward the end of July, and
he was not sorry that he had no busi-
ness on hand that must be rushed.
| he rejected that as almost every one
had gone to the camp ground, there
was no reason for remaining iu the
Office, which the little breeze that
stirred out doors carefully avoided.
Evidently, the girl in gray had gone
to tho camp ground. And with
Saunders. But Saunders was married :;
happily married, Pearce hoped. Any
how, he was glad that Saunders was
married.
That evening he sat before Captain
Saunders's tent, with the Captain, his
wife and Miss Moore the girl in gray.
To the east OF the camp ground the
ridge rose in n gentle slope. To the
southwest, seemingly towering just
over them, was tho mountain.
Pearce's heart beat faster as the
thought came TO him that thirty years
before white tents haA marked the foot
of the ridge as they dIl that day. But
then they had stretched for miles north
and south.
"Captain," he said, turning to
Saunders, sit is easier to get up the
ridge than it was once. There are no
men in gray there tonight"
"No," the Captain replied; "but
the sons Of eome OF those men are
there, pointing to the company street,
in which blue-c!ad figures lounged
"Loyal? Without doubt. Listen l''
The bands, which had united for the
evening concert, had just struck up
'"Ihe Star Spangled Banner" When
the mir was recognized q cheer arose
from the tented wood.
"Hear that?" said the Captain.
"WNit, said the girl in gray.
"For whet?" Pearce asked.
"Ihoy will play Dixie after
awhile"
"What then?"
"Then they will YELL" she said,
looking at him with q bright smile
aud nodding Il confident "You'll sec
or hear.
And he. did. When the National
air was finished there was brief wait.
Then the quick, stirring notes OF
'Dixie' started the woods into life
with sharp echoes, which were drowned
by one long, loud yell.
Pearce looked at tho girl to receive
IN expected 'I told you so." But
she was not looking at him. Her
cheeks were dark with color, and her
eyes, Frightened by excitement, were
fixed upon the young men, tossing
their caps high above the tents and
shouting with oil their sturdy lung
power.
81 WONDER" ho mused, "if she
hates the North as she loves the South ?"
J When the tumult had ceased he
turned to Saunders.