The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-04-25

; forward, and as he moved toward the
adjacent Weldon railway station his eve
met hers, and the effect was mutually
electric. THAT is natures disclosure, "
she said mentally. "4na5 man is my
kinsman.
In a few minutes the train rolled
away. "He has gone, but something
tells me that destiny will yet bring us
I together
On her return to Richmond she caused
numberless inquiries to be instituted
her family had great and wide influence
concerning Captain Barbour, whose
Christian name proved to be Sydney.
The many charges against him were be-
lleved in the south, and he had narrow
ly escaped hanging. But she was SO
firmly convinced of their falsity that by
a vigorous search into his antecedents it
was rendered wholly probable, especial
) ly as he was known to be Of excellent
family. that be had been made respon-
sible fer the sins, much exaggerated, of
a Captain Barber of "a Pennsylvania cav
airy regiment, who had been killed sew
eral months before in an engagem 2nt on
the Chickahominy.
AS soon as so much was ascertained
Captain Barbour was allowed, through
her importantly, the benefit of the
| doubt, and orders were sent to the COM
mandant at Salisbury, n. g. to mitigate
the hardship of his captivity. But when
the orders arrived he had escaped, no one
knew how. He had not been missed I'M
til the evening roll call. Every one Of
his prison acquaintance was delighted at
the news, for he was known there to be
a gallant, noble fellow, and the severe
treatment he had received had brought
him much sympathy. Grave apprehen-
sion was felt for his life, as there was
small chancs Of his getting over the
mountains during the harsh winter, and
his intimates felt sure that he had suf-
fered too much to allow himself to be
retaken.
The captain had slipped by the guard
at night in disguise he had somehow
secured and had started on his solitary
march for Strawberry Plains, where a
Federal garrison was protecting the
bridge over the Holston river. He got
beyond Statesville, some 40 miles from
the prison, procuring food from the ne
groes and hiding in barns and hayricks
by day. But he had grown SO weak from
months of confinement, bad air and
scanty, wretched provisions that he
could travel no farther. He was we'll
nigh exhausted. At this juncture, as he
was, about dawn, creeping for shelter in
to deserted cabin ear the rough coun-
try road, he saw saddle horse tied to a
sapling, thus presenting unexpected
means of farther fight. AS it was no
time to consider the rights of property,
he jumped on and rode off at brisk
pace toward the west.
Within two hours he was conscious of
pursuit. He could hear hoofs in the rear,
and the faint cries of men, who APP
peared to be we'll mounted, while his
own animal was inferior and jaded.
They gained on him rapidly. They
called to him to halt. He was unwill-
ing to be captured again, wildly re-
membering he penalties of capture, and
feverish, half delirious, he pushed on,
wildly thinking he might yet elude his
pursuers They fired on him. The bull
let's whistled by his ears. He urged his
poor beast to the utmost, and the next
moment he fell from his seat uncon-
scious, though not before the words
"We've killed the id Yankee
thiefP' reached his fainting sense.
Then and there Sydney Barbour vir-
tualIy died. He afterward spoke of the
events of that day as the close Of one
life and Of the beginning of another,
which he die not realize for two months.
When fully restored to himself, he
was lying III comfortable bed in we'll
furnished room, the breath Of the early
spring coming into the slightly lifted
window. A trim, neatly attired colored
woman sat at his side, and a little
farther off very attractive young wom-
an reading, who appeared to be her
mistress. Everything was strange to
him. Where was he? The surroundings
were so delightfully."- different from the
scenes of camp, battle, prison, in which
he had passed nearly four years, that he
imagined he had been transferred to a
new world. He essayed to speak, but
could scarcely command voice. Then
the young woman arose, and approach
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