Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-03
CHAPTER NJ.

VNeT u your uuu phob6u, anu tue CIOuO
OF battle lay dark and sullen over the
pine, woods near Richmond. Un the pre-
vious day. the 31st Of May, 1862, q bat.
Gle had been fought. The Louisiana bat.
TALON had shared the fight, which had
ended In temporary retreat Of the Union
forces.
Col. Adams and Walter Glaydes, now
Q major, were In camp, while Helene was
In Richmond. only few miles away.
Toward morning Walter was walking a
little way behind the Outposts. when he
came across Henry Sainton, who had
actually sneaked into the Union camp
across the ditch and brought back with
him some coffee. which was already q
rare luxury In the Confederate army. He
was soundly reprimanded by his superior
ofhcer, who told him he would report him
70 Col. Adams.
In return Henri informed Walter that
ths enemy were getting ready to march
on them and take them By surprise.
Major Glaydes Immediately conveyed
this startling Information to Col. Adams,
who at once called his men into action.
Il was not q moment too soon. With q
rush and roar the Union troops swept
down upon them.
All along the line OF the Louisianians
The musketry ratified. and the powder
smoke wrapped the battalion In It's stone.
gray shroud. Every eye was fixed on
the front, where the enemy's rides fash
cd and cracked. Henri was but three or
four PAGES behind Adams, and q little
to the latter's left.
"FYre into the bushes! Fire into those
BUSIEST cried the oficers.
Henri had just reloaded his musket,
and 40 he raised It a Hsndish thought
flashed into his mind. Adams was stand
Ing with his back to him. waving his
sword, and pointing out to a sergeant
Q spot In the enemy's line where the
firing seemed to be fercest.
Henri gripped his weapon and looked
about him frenziedly. He placed the
musket to his shoulder and fired, and Ad-
ans threw up his arms and fell to the
ground.
"Zat for Toulon," Kissed Henri be-
tween his teeth. "Zat for penal servi-
tude. Monsieur Quayls will be pleased. !"
In a little garden In the western out.
skirts Of Richmond, behind q screen of
sunaowers, and In the shade OF five or
six huge and venerable elms, Helene
was seated opposite a buxom, middle
aged negro woman, In whose ebony black
face the white teeth cleaned as brightly
as the white eyes.
The little wnite hand was opened and
outstretched, and the negro woman held
the rosy tips with her black fingers as II
she were handling the most delicate, the
most precious, and the most fragile thing
In the world. She was telling the girls
fortune.
As Helene looked up for second, she
could see the rails Of the fence between
the stems of the sunHowers. and between
the stems Of the sunfowers face fash
ID upon her, a mans face, which she
kucw-Capt. Demons.
On the first impulse of recognition
she was about to rise and ask him aloud
to step indoors, but with the self-sams
heartbeat, she remembered that he wal
q United States officer, and her pulse
nearly stood still as 1t flashed upon hel
that, at that time. he could be In Rich
mond only as spy or prisoner. A bal
seemed to stick In her throat, and shs
rose slowly and said to the astouishsd
negro woman:
II have heard all I want from you
, Cue. and ! am 90 much Obliged. YOv
can 30 hack to your work. III call yoy
again when want you"