Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-06-01
the young man with an old suit of Capt

confederate cavalry officer rode up 10
this house and swung from his horse
with a shout. The negroes came grin
ming around him to relieve him of his
horse and TO appropriate his good hui
mored jests at their expense. From the
house Master Willie ran out with rush,
and Rowena and her mother came in q
more dignified fashion to the porch to
welcome him, the former blushing very
prettily. With the household in gen
eral sunny Dick Harville. lieutenant of
scouts in Melyille's rangers, was a de-
cided favorite; with Miss Rowena he was
much more than that
Robert Shively, watching her from the
rear, feared that it was all up with the
| hopes that had grown so rapidly in his
/ heart during the past week. This dash
ing young lieutenant of scouts had pre-
empted the claim he wanted to take up
! Harville recognized in the other a
more than possible rival, but he met
| him cordially, except for the swift chal-
| lenge of his eyes.
Glad to know you, Mr.. Shively. L see
by your limp you've got Through"
The confederate was referring to his
wound. May l ask what regiment you
belong"
Ninth Illinois infantry" replied
Shively, with prompt hostility.
Harville did not wink an eyelash at
this astonishing information "Oh. l
see. Got your furlough, l suppose, in
that little tussle we had with you down
by the Walker mill last week."
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for the hills when Miss Moseby's kind
ness captured me- he explained
Il reckon you're not pining any about
being prisoner, are you?" suggested the
confederate lieutenant
I'm trying to bear up under it."
agreed the other
We'll, there are worse prisons, and
you are likely to help fill one of them
if you tell every gray uniform you see
that you belong to the what-d'ye-call
-'em Illinois infantry" Harville told
him, carelessly.
That afternoon the four young peo-
pie went out after pecans. Since Har-
vile was to leave that evening the Yank
thought it only fair to draw Willie away
from them in order to give the lieutenant
a chance to see her alone. Willie and he
picked for an hour or more, then drifted
back toward where they had left the
others.
The young northerner was some yards
in advance, and as he picked his way
through the brush he saw something that
brought him to an abrupt halt. Harville
held Rowena in his arms and was kiss
ing her. The girls charming face was
upturned to his in rapture of love.
Shively turned and made pretense
of calling Willie, SO as to apprise them
of his approach.
When they broke out of the thicket
upon the lovers Rowena's long eyelashes
were cast shyly down over her happy
black eyes, but Lieut.. Harville smiled
boldly across at the union private in a
boyish triumph which had wiped out
his dislike. He left that evening, an ac-
copied lover and an hour later Shively
said his goOd-byes and slipped away into
the night.
His heart wound was not by any means
incurable, and some years later Shive-
ly married young woman from his own
town He moved to another state, and
made a reputation as an able and COM
petent lawyer that soon became more
than local. Political preferment came
to him. He was successfully congress
man, governor. United States senator
and member of the presidents cabinet.
His head grew gray with years and care,
and except for very rarely no thought
of ROwena MOSeby ever came to his
mind. He knew that she had married a
Col. Harville, and he had no doubt that
it was the lieutenant of that name whom
he had known.
Forty years after the war had closed
his memory was jolted into recollection.
In a newspaper he came across a state
ment that Mrs. ROwena Harvlle was an
applicant for the place of postmistress
of the town of Moseby, and that her ap-
plication was backed by nearly every
body in the town. The item went on to
say that her husband was now an in
valid and that, having lost their prop
erty. she was now his sole support.
, That afternoon Robert Shively called
on the president, and told as much OF
the story as he could. Mrs Harville
was democrat, but he asked for the ap-
pointment which she wanted That
day he had the pleasure of writing Mrs
Harville that her appointment as post
mistress of the town of Moseby had been
sent to the. senate for confirmation
There was rejoicing in the home of one
pair of old lovers in Arkansas that
afternoon. for they drifted from poverty
to comparative affluence by a good deed
Of one of them which after 40 roorc \ n
, come back with interest accrued.
DEATH PROPHECY FULFILLED
Aged Woman Declares Last Day Has
Come, Dons Burial Robe
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