Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-05-27
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COURAGEOUS


at first. She only knew that Washing
ton was coming.
One night Anne was awakened to an
unusual sight. out on the jasper col.
orcd !iver came n succession OF huge
barges. and from them, above the plash
Of oars and creak OF cordage, rose the
LurI G. n multitude. She leaned far
from TIE window to listen. How like
phantom shadows the blistling floats
sweft East! what can II beg she
cried
TITS the French. come in the feet
of De Grasse." said Mr.. Burwcll. at
must now be at anchor in Hampton
Roads. Thank God. Thank Cod"
There was thrill OF rejoicing in his
tone but Anne's heart beat painfully.
, Hope and help were come to her land
to Virginia the beautiful the tragic,
the tender. The first promise of this
help had come TO II when strong arm
called to counsel and counsel to strong
arm ard both feared to answer. And
he who bore that message? Denied by
, her lips that called to him, dishonored
by her hand that ached for touch OF
him. what thought now had his heart
for hei?
The dark shapes passed on to the
rntch Of jamestown island that night
and di, gorged an army. silently thew
filed up Archer's Hope creek and drew,
with i.alayette's troops, the fatal cor.
don about Yorktown.
The feet that brought them Law in
the river mouth below, and when the
Britisu ships which CORVALLIS had
been promised hove to that same day
with fourteen hundred guns. De Gras.
SEES watchful frigates battered them
away.
The would be rescurers sailed hack
and CORVALLIS woke to find himself
entrapped.
On the day washipgton's allied ar.
mics marched into Williamsburg. An.
ne stood with Colonel Tillotson ON the
steps OF the capitol to see them pass.
The Continentals were ragged, worn
with painful marches in heat and rain
with stained rags covering old wounds
! but with the uncomfortable resolve I'm
! their faces. Rochambeau's French
were uniformed In white. with rose.
colored facings. eager. debonair. car.
rying gold wrought standards that
caught the sun.
Anne watched through smartinp
eyes. Somewhere, waiting these
among those other troops lying pantIng
against the hills nearer Yorktown. was
/ the one face which meant the whole
war--the whole world-to her.
Steadily. under the enemy's fire. bat.
teries rose along the parallels. From
one to another of these rode Kpox
placing his gunners. his round. joyial
face creased in smiles, in his element
at last. And these gunners for five
days, from sunrise to sunset hurled
iron and flame upon the defenses.
The inner parallels crept toward the
river bank, tightening the line. Here
their advance was STAYED by a redoubt
-on the high bank, thirty feet above the
river. It had resisted all the force of
the gunners.
IF we take that redoubt," said
Washington to Knox on the afternoon
of the fifth day OF the bombardment.
"Cornwallis must surrender"
Colonel Armand, with a handful OF
his troopers, reconnoitered that after.
noon on the right, came near the river
and In advance Of the foremost Amer
lean battery. From the redoubts far
to the left came scattering whistle OF
grape and now and then the grinding
Deich OF a carronade. The air was full
o. the heaVy' pungent smell OF burned
powder and the reeking scent OF fresh
turned earth,
HIS gaze had sought the wide river
Tor moment and turned up the
stream with look that was fixed and
iar away
prisoner coming from the town.