Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-20
A REAL DAUGHTER OF THE. REVOLUTION
Copyright, 19os by ]. B. Lippinoots Company.
By CAROLINE GEBE1ARDr.

obliged to you for the assistance you have rendered me and my party this morning, but I hope that this will be the last occasion upon which we shall meet. Never again do wish to look upon the face of one who could lend himself to trick so base. Absalom, mount E1a1n, who does not seem so much the worse for his ex- perience, and ride back home as fast. as you can for more horses. Iris useless to think of proceeding to my aunt's to-day. If we can but get back home in safety, we may consider our selves most fortunate in these brutal times. Meanwhile, will walk to Squire Henry's. 'Tis but a nile." F She started off, Aunt Rachel and her black nanny following, and Godfrey let her go without a word of explanation or, defense. He told himself that if Jane could find it in her heart to accuse him of a deed at once so dastardly and so childish, naught that he could say would have weight with her. The loyal girl friend of his childhood and boyhood was dead; the Jane who would once have flown to his defense had others accused him of what she had herself laid at his door was no more,
 She could fly into a passion, over a ! deed which she imputed to him, but he had heard no word of condemna- ] tion from her lips of Bessemer's barbarous treachery in firing upon an enemy during flag of truce and of slaughtering opponents who; begged for quarter. Nay, had she not received the monster into her house with friendiest hospitality immediately after his outrageous ! action?
 When he had done all he could for the exhausted horse, Worthing | ton mounted his own and rode away, but not through the forest this time. He took the road that lay along the creek, sandy and barren and deso- late, better suited to his mood than the close, sweet intimacy of the | woods.
 l Turning suddenly to the right, he entered ravine along whose rocky bottom ran swift-flowing stream. Following this for tedious distance, while his horse snorted and shook his head in frequent protest over the roughness of the way, he finally came within sight of a curl of blue smoke, and it was not long before he was able to see that the smoke arose from a campfire.
 Scattered along the rocky base and edges of the ravine. at con- venient proximity to the fire, were some 25 or 30 men, their horses tethered near. They were a sturdy looking set, some of them with fierce expressions, some wearing a devil may-care air. but most of them with phlegmatic conferences that defied the observer, however keen, to read their, thoughts. Az a rule, they were unshaven and roughly dressed, most of them in doeskin trousers and home spun shirts. Their rifles were by their sides or slung across their
 backs. These were the men whom Godfrey had gathered together to help revenge Buford.
 His was the only continental uni form among them. and he the only trained soldier. but every man in that company was a dead shot, an expert horseman, and an intrepid spirit. In fact, he had gathered one of those bands of mounted rifemen that were to make Sumter's fame and do so much for the preservation of South Carolina's liberty.
 i In the ashes of the fire were bak- ink sweet potatoes and hoe-cakes, and Warrington was just in time to partake of the monday meal.
 The next two months were nHnot- onous ones for Jane, despite tho Rs- turn of her father and mother from Charleston and the weeks visit which her brother made them. Ar irving from England with his com mission as lieutenant in Lord Corn wallis army, he was assigned by that l general to Bessemer's command, and the latter graciously obtained for him ten-6oys' frrlough that he might visit his home, sending by him numerous messages to Jane.
 The morning of the seventeenth o5
 August, 17S0, was hot and sultry
 Jane's father had been carried ouf by Gabriel and Absalom. and placed