Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-11-16

%as d barrier. .Tacli?-.when we were
WI Dug WITH Death IN the Indian fires
~ 20 ! dream it?'
". not dream it. But you were
teii.lsg mo what she said"
oh, yes; twas little enough. She cut
me OF at the first word as il my speaking
were a mortal sin. And when would
nave tried again, she gave me a look to
make me vince and broke out crying as
if her hart would burst"
stoaaied myself as / could by the sad
die horn and waited till he was up and we
We're moving on. Then / would say:
Truly, there is barrier. Richard; IL
promise you that am going to Charlotte
to remove IT once for all, win you trust
me and go about your affair with General
Gates"
Trust you. Jack? Who am / that I
should do aushi else? When i am cool
and sane. m none so cursed selfish: L
could even give her over to you with a
free hama, could i but hear her say she
loves You as ] would nave her love me.
i''ie "heh ! am mad All. God only
knows the black blood there is in the
heart ut such times"
We rode on together in silence after
mat and were come to the bank of the
river before we spoke again But here
DICK went back to my warning, saying.
whilst we LEI the horses drink: "'Tis pa
y
1t was when l passed it a few DAYS
agone."
Then ] will turn back and cross at
Bcattie's Twill make you risk you
need not take-to have me with YOU"
But | thought now that the upper ford
night be guarded as we'll; and il there
must he cutting of a road through the
enemy's outpost line for Dick, two could
do it better and one. So l said:
No; we are here now, and If need be L
can lend you the weight of second
blade to see YOU safe through"
And you with your head humming like
a basket of bees, as l make no eoubt 1t
will"
laughed. II should be but a sorry
soldier and sor,ier friend IL should let
II love-'ap with the Nat of a blade make
me fail you at the PINCH
He reached across the little gap that
parted us and grasped my hand
by God" he swore. most feelinsly.
you are as true as the steel YOU carry.
Jack Ireton"
Nay said I, in honest shame; III do
confess was thinking less of my friend
than of the Importance of the errand he
rides on
But If there should be a fight, YOU will
spoil your chance OF coming peaceably to
Charlotte and my lords headquarters.
IF am recognized But the night
is dark, and o. brush with the outpost
need mot bctray me-.
Al this he consented grudgingly and we
pushed on TO tho crossing Now since this
forcing place of Master Macgowan's has
marched INTO our history, you will like
to know what the historians do not tell
YOU: namely. how 1t was but make
shift wadins place. armpit deep over a
muddy bottom from the western bank 10
the bar above an island ~ mid stream
and DETECTING thence through rocky
shadows to a point Oh the eastern bank
some distance below the island. Twas
here That Lord CORVALLIS got entangled
some months later-but ! must not am
ticipate.
We made the crossing of the main cur
rent in safety and were a-splash i'm tine
rocky shadows beyond the island when
we siGhte;ld the camp fires of the outpost
To ride straight upon the patrol wa, to
invite disaster, and though Jcnnifer was
for a charging dash, "A hurry -burly with
the steel and so Oh to freedom beyond.
he listened when | pointed out that our
beasts Were too nearly outworn to charge
and that the noise we must make would
rouse the camp and draw the fire of every
piece in it long before we could reach the
bank and come to blade work
What for it, them" he asked. tmpa-
tiently. My courage is freezing whilst
VIC wait"
There is nothing for it but to hold
Straight on across" ] said.