The sun., 1897-05-16
NIP AND TUCK FOR THE SPY.
a STRANGELY COMPLICATED INCL
DENT OF THE REBELLION.

Of age, and the man for whom he was working
was probably ten years older. II was just at tho
noon hour, and tho carpenter with his dinner
bucket In his hand was walking with his em.
ployer toward the street, where a carriage was
waiting. Tho social position and wealth OF the
two men were notlceably different, but as they
walked coward the rich mans carriage II was
apparent that they were equals in friendship.
was sitting on q bundle OF shingles In tho
shade as tho carpenter. after the carriage drove
away, Joined me and opened his bucket.
at isn't any Of my business" said, but X
it's all the same to you I've been noticing all
along how friendly you and the old gentleman
were, and I'd like to know what's behind It."
Nothing much." smiled the carpenter in re-
ply, Except that we are under obligations TO
each other In a little matter that happened
thirty five years ago"
Anything private"
mot exactly. We saved each others lives;
that's nll."
"Huh," grunted THAT ought to make men
feel friendly toward each other, but how did you
doitT
"Well, take your muddy feet of those shin
giles and sit over there on that rough stuff and
III tell you"
As changed my location the carpenter fished
an appetizing hunk Of bread and cold roast beef
out of his bucket and stuck his teeth into II with
satisfaction many man does not experience
when he bites into hunk of terrapin and drives
"Jn1s., cont,nnod th, cornonter at urn,
roo5,, os ,,oro ,,ost ~ Tho yo,pc mon ~ NV oro
to dron tho dro,yLnifo ond hon,n,or and toIo IN
Tho mustet and tho crnct NJ tho frst gun at
Eort cr,,tor hod hord,,. ,,od o,,ov before , lot
OF us had applied for places and were duly ao-
cepted soldiers in case the turned out to
be serious matter As you may be aware, It
turned ont that wov and ma we CANA back IN.
Ivard washington from Rpl, Rpn. n seemed n
, ,ood NAN, of -. IN ho ohort Tho r,oet e.r,on.
matter wa ever undertook. However, we cot
over that 7rst ottocl IN tbs course of time and
a yoor Iater tbose ~ ne who ,yoro atm rvirg and
.b,e were doing verv we'll Mt tho business
"Ibod ,ot to bo +. sny NJ cors,dorob,o ,nnor.
t,rco ,hon,h ,yhon on,;s,.d 7 didn,t kno,y ,hot
Tbod any narticular ability In that d,rection
and was intrnst.d With III. ,royest aecrota NV
commond,ng Officers NJ all GRADES Rv 1as.
was nrobablv tho leading man In INV nrofession
In tho Army of tho potomac and 7 had hecom.
,o ,vo,l known bv renutation anong tho on.mv
that NV naefu,ness wos yettinr narrowed down
to a r,sk that wos onrth;n. I'm, n,oosont Nv
aa,.., - att, -. I. g, .,, a., -. -,
me tbrouob tho lines near,v 90 often os hefore
and then opv IN the most ,mnortant ventrres
Tmav vsov hore TINT all ~ n anv,s eorric. % No,
,nent omong IN. ronks ~ Tho orno.inr on,
and made many trims tn W. sb;ngton m .ocro,
rervice for there were foes within os vol os
,v,th,ut In thoso aorl aoy,
EN- Noyomhar ot 1894 q ho,oro r.,..,or,,
for mo tn on over to tho en.ny ord soo ,yhat -.
,vas GOING to do IN tho event ~ tho ITn;o ,o,oa.
coming somevbot rooror to piohmona ga
,v,th com. 5ouh, IN nv, ,,ina no - th. at,on,.
NJ tbc trin either in tho matter ~ NV ,,orsonaI
comfort or tbo value of a. IN orr arr,v sI,rnad
nut nm. dark n;rbt and AZ davIioht wos ap as.
raned Confederate soldier IooLir. for NV rooJ-
- IT. -. 80 ~. ny t.e
ment' which knew was down in the neiEhbor-
and beino a red.bot sontherner io,ned ths frst
.n,,,n nu U's 80 ,..s !oin'u 'se his'
wasn't a company in the entire Confederate
army at that time that d,dn,t want mo and a
hundred thousand like me. got along very
nicely for about a week without finding out
much of Importance, but hoping to do SO. when
Oil OF a sudden was pounced upon without the
slightest warning and charged with being the
notorious spy JACK Norton. mad no witnesses
to swear to the contrary, nor could take refuge
Tho snr ard ,xaa h.,d IN -, p i,,aat,,t,s mas
,,,, uay eps, anu was neiu I'LL ah ih'esl'sa1ioh
my arrest took place one evening about a
o'clock and bv tho next afternoon two men had
been found who identified me beyond all ques-
ton. My trial was set for next morning, and
the chances were that by dark of that day my
darkness would be perpetual, for spies were
atyen short shrift Stil INV life 1vas worth
f,gbting for and that ni,ht y. rs,dn'a,t s @U.'a
80 -ot' anu 'na' iisn' "' iiiuiiish. UT
little before made break and got a start of
fifteen minutes. young fellow scarcely more
Than child vas INV e,,,ord anS ha ,,as ao ,'or,,
tnah emu was my guard ana ne was SO worn
and tired out that he could not keep his eyes
open, but would now and then fall into little cat
mans In one Of these caught him md verv nu;et'
ly, tied his hands and feet. and putting gag in
his mouth covered him with n blanket and
walked away with his gun headed for The
river. calculating. on foating % and swimming m Ing
waiting for night again to finish the trip. anu
sin fifteen minutes or less after had made
my start heard the long roll heating and bc
fore had time scarcely to think the enemy was
as ii they actually rose out OF the ground TO
head me Off / hadn't nm idca there we're so
many rebels in the whole Southern ConfeSeracy' ~
and made up INV mind If not out live T would
call the attention of the commandnn Generoi to
the fact that our side was making n miscount
somewhere GUNS began banging and blazing
was not to be as easy as had hoped. made IL.