Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-11-06

after me and spoke together softly. But
| only saw 1t as in a dream. On went
through the rooms, looking for but one,
and not finding her.
Thus came to the banquet hall, and
to the little study beyond, where we
had breakfasted the day before. And
there l found her
She was standing just inside the big
hall with her back to me talking with
some two or three people, her arm rest
ing on that of young officer whom i
had not seen before. stopped mo-
ment. and then posing behind some
large screens, set there to hide serving
tables at the corner of the room, stood
q moment to catch my wind which
seemed to strangely fail me on the
moment, as if 1 had been running long
and hard.
A moment there and / stepped out
within yard of her, still with her back
to me. Again something in my face
must have shown, for lady who was
talking with her, and thus facing me,
looked up, and her face changed, so that
Mistress Philpse turned to learn this
cause.
She saw me- looked at her mo-
ment and then stepped forward to greet
her Heaven forgive her! On the in
slant she looked straight at me, straight
through me. and said in a cold, naughty
voice to her companions:
Captain, I feel sudden cold
draught Let us move on
And she turned her back on me and
walked slowly away.
put my hand to my eyes, and stood
SO a moment. Then the need of the
open air came to me, and / stepped
back behind the screen and leaned far
out of an open window, trying vainly
to loose the collar of my shirt. So
sitting or rather leaning from the win
dow, l stood, how long no one-least OF
oil I-could tell, neither thinking nor
conscious of pain till I heard strid-
ent voice back of me on the other side
of the screen saying in an evident at
tempt at q low tone:
Yes, t is just settled. Habberton is
to take his brigade with Barnard's and
board ship on Sunday. A battery will
go ahead on Saturday night, and they
should be In Huntington Sarbor by
Monday evening"
How many men, Sir Henry?"
Five thousand all told.'
And when will the attack begin?~
LAS soon as they can reach Newport
! harbor And you will take with you q
+, force sufficient to-"
/ And 1 heard NO more, for they had
( moved on.
4 Five thousand men-Huntington har-
\ bor-Newport! IT was the attack Anal
+ ly settled on. Sunday! t was Monday
] night now. Aye, Sir Henry, had by
i the greatest chance learned the one
4 thing l should have learned long ago,
/ and l cleared the sill at a bound and
went out of the garden to Cherry street.
j as / had done but yesterday morning.
Walking by the lower part Of the
! town and up through Beaver street. SO
/ came to our abode and told my friends
/ the great news. And then l went off to
a back window and sat by myself,
! looking out upon the night black with
heavy clouds to add to its blackness,
but as light as day compared with my
heart and thoughts. And SO they
found me when it came time for us to
leave, and went with them, longing
for something such as this desperate
attempt to cool my blood and clear my
mind.
How could she do it! Might she not
have had a better faith in me? Nay,
there was something wrong with the
world, if a woman who had looked into
my eyes and seen what she must have
seen there could lose her faith so Who'll
ly. How could she do it!
CONTINUED Next Week.)