Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-07

going to tell her just as FAST as l can"
She rose, laid aside her knitting took
up candle and left him standing dubi-
ously before the fire.
The light came back to Anne like the
spring sun. The great horror was gone,
and in spite Of the wars gloom Glad
den Hall grew more cheerful again.
She devoured the columns of the Ga
zettes and read eagerly letters which
came to Henry from abroad.
These told her how the Reprisal,
lodging the British sloops of war, had
landed Benjamin Franklin safely Mt
Nantes of his meeting there with Beau
marchais and of his reception in Paris
at the little hotel in the Rue VieiIle du
Temple, where mercantile sign of
"Roderique Hortalez & Co." hid pleas
ant conspiracy whose object was the
furnishing Of war supplies to the Amer
lean colonists, and whose silent part
ners were a prime minister and king.
Somewhere, she thought, there in his
own land perhaps Armand was safe,
not believing in her, but free and I'M
| condemned.
The sound OF war came nearer when
Howe's fleet sailed into the Chesapeake
and when Henry, summoned in haste
from Hanover, called out the militia.
| She watched them march through Will
liamsburg, sixty-four companies strong,
but the feet and the army it carried
sailed on to beat back Washington at
Brandywine. to enter Philadelphia and
turn the grave town into an orgy of
Tory rejoicing.
So the months passed in alternate
hope and despair. Spring unfurled,
summer dropped its blooms, autumn
singed glebe and copse. snow fell and
purified the earth stains. And at last
Virginia knew that Burgoyne had been
entrapped In the northern forests; that
Philadelphia had been evacuated; that
the cord which was to encircle the
throat of the rebellion had snapped;
that France had recognized independ-
ence and made treaty of alliance with
the United States.
There followed a closer campaign
when Lord Germaine, the kings war
minister, having failed to strangle the
monster, attacked Its extremities, when
the redcoats swept into the southern
harbors, when Savannah and Augusta
Tell, when Lincoln's army was caught
at Charlestown and Gates routed at
Camden, and these were the south's
darkest days.
It knew there was no hope from the
army in the north-meager, i'll clothed,
half starved, without magazines, ar
senals or credit. Washington lay
watching like hawk Clinton's 10000
men at New York, hoping for an eff
fective force from France, waiting with
the sublime patience which more than
all else made him great soldier.
Virginia bore her burdens uncom.
plainingly, giving Of her substance to
the struggle, while the slaves which
CORVALLIS sent scampering from burn
ed lower plantations trailed through
her borders, sowing instruction among
the faithful blacks.
"John the Baptist" demanded Anne
sternly one day after Groam had re
ported that scarce fifty slaves remained
in the quarters, ian the British come
here, are you going to run away too?
"NIis' Anne" he complained appeal.
ingly, dom yo' know no spectacle mig.
ger gwine ter list'n ter dem shif'less
trash whit go ramshacklin' erroun
widout no homes? Dee ain no count
Yo' couldn' swap 'em off TO- shucks
Yo' knows ain nuvver gwine leabe
de plantation whar wuz drug up. Dat
CORVALLIS! Huhl Dis niger smell de
birthstone whut's huntin' TO him."
When the sky looked blacklist came
General Nathaniel Greene into the
south, young, light hearted and eager
And what did he not accomplish? He
welded anew the scattered remnants
Of Gates army, famed North Carroll
MAN Whiggery into blaze, beat Tarle
ton, sent CORVALLIS back, breathing
hard, to the seacoast. 1t was the END
Of the second campaign.
"What will King George do now?'
Anne asked Henry jubilantly.
His face was very grave as he an
swered: "There is only one thing left
IT'S stroke at the heart of the rebel
Lion. And that heart is here in Yir
ginia." He guessed truly.
There were hasty preparations fol
flight throughout the lower peninsula
on that snow shod day when the traitor
Arnold's fifty ships came to anchor of
Jamestown island. The sky was cell
ing of translucent gray. The stubb,
cedars trailed sweeping boughs of crys
tailed beryl, and every shrub was caset
In argent armor. Fleet horsemen hat
ridden from Williamsburg In all direc
lions rousing the frozen countryside.
At noon Anne took her place In thu
chariot beside Mrs. Tillotson, bound fol
DR.. Walkers of Castle Hill, far enough
north to be beyond the reach Of the in
vaders. Her aunt was to fare ever
farther, to Berkeley.
They waved brave goodbys through
tears to the little group of house ne
groes whimpering on the porch. Rash
leigh was to go with the remaining
servants to Brandon, Nanny Evalin'
was left in charge Of the place, AM
John the Baptist her son, was to carr
for the horses and run them off on mp
proach of the British. The house linel
and silver Anne had buried with he
own hands, and the family portrait
had been hidden under the stables.
1t was Il sad journey, but one per
formed that day by more than on
household. ~ -
Colonel Tillotson rode part of tn
way beside the coach. "'Twill not b
for long," he insisted cheeringly. g
have assurance from Mr.. Henry tina
Washington will send troops befor