The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-12-20
CHAPTER XVIII.

There was no misunderstanding the
emphasis placed upon that personal pro-
noun by Liza, husky voiced as she was,
from the breath taking speed she had
made between the loomroom and the
big house.
The little colony of women were
grouped at one end of the long back
gallery, intent upon new experiment.
Mrs. Martin was quite sure a good sub
stitute for indigo could be evolved from
the wild coffeeweed that Haunted its
yellow blossoms i'll every fence corner
Her experiment was, so far, nothing
more available than a lot of dabby look-
ing messes on boards placed in the sun
shine to evaporate.
Without haste, but with a perturba-
ton that mado visible the tremulous-
ness of her delicate, blue veined hands,
old Mrs. Strong (that was what they
called her after Annabel came) rose to
her feet, letting the ball Of coarse plan
tation yarn fall unheeded from her lap.
At another time she would have depre'
Gated such heedlessness, but not now
She was white to tho very lips with the
terror of a great uncertainty.
She stood for a second, clasping anc
unclasping her thin hands i'll an agony
of iIresolution. The rest had gone away
and left her standing there all alone.
With the swift directress Of we!
drilled military squad the group OF Wo
men had dissolved at sound OF thos'
three ominous words hurled at them b.
Liza while still afar OFF, a.,
Since the fall Of Vicksburg had mao
the invasion Of Sans Souci nero ques
ton of time the role that each Womal
was to enact when the enemy was actu
ally in sight had been carefully assign
ed and conscientiously rehearsed.
Mrs Stronghold Annabel; no on
ever asked anything in the way OF &C
tive cooperation from her-was give
position over the two loosened planKs
the floor of the front gallery, beneat
which everything on the premi ses
shape of firearms was concealed. vi
Dolbear's joiner work was not apo'
criticism, and there was certain Tel
tale raggedness at the edges OF the n
placed planks which could be most G
fectively concealed by Mrs. Strong
long trained robes.
Mrs. Martin was to stand guard ov'
the smokehouse when "the plaques
Egypt swarmed," which was her rat
er prolix designation for the entire fe
eral army.
81 think, honey" she had said, a
dressing Liza as the accepted admin
traitor of affairs, 81 could sass 'esl re
comfortable if they dared to lay nan
on that little pile of meat, all we got
this wide world. l could jaw VINO
reg 'ment Of EN-"
The professors daughter was TO So
with Annabel and her boy, TO Pr
them safely through the vague terrt
of the coming ordeal. "Adminlstra'
Martin" assigned this post with ma
apologize expressions.
81 feel awfully shabby, dear, but
one else can keep Annabel quiet.
act upon her like an an@sthetic'
was hysterical enough before ~
Adrien's death. 1t will take Seth d
Uncle Dolbear both to get what III
stock there is left run into the WOO
Mamma must try to save our pitiiui !
of meat, and as for the madam she "
be too full of Adrien for another thoue
AS for myself, will skirmish rou
generally--a sort of free lance }
know"
Rover in croquet," said MAN
preferring comparisons that me
something within range OF her own
perience. -
And now the time for executing
these carefully prepared plans naa
rived. Liza, sitting at the clumsy II
hand loom in the deserted oversee
house, weaving plantation spun y
into dress material for the fastiui
mistress of Sans Souci, had seen q CT
Of dust rise suddenly above the
weeds that outlined the grass ~
wagon road across the fields.
There was no applicable cause