Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-04-27

be so fierce with him when you yourself
have brought a rebel TO his house to
nurse alive.
She looked me fairly in the eye. You
should be the last to remind me of my
treason, Monsieur John"
Then you are free to call it treason,
are you, Margery?" ! said
She looked away from me again.
How can it Well be less than treason?"
Then suddenly she turned and clasped
her hands upon my knee. You must
not be too hard on me. Monsieur John
I've tried to do my duty as | saw it.
and have asked no questions. And
yet | know much more than you have
told me-.
What do lou know"
Il know your wound has been your
safety. If you should leave this room
and house today YOU would never wear
the buff and blue again. Captain Ire
ton"
You mean they would lang me for a
spy. Will you believe me, Margery, if
I say 1 have not yet worn the buff and
blue at all?
oh. The little exclamation was OF
pure delight. Then they We're all mis-
taken? You are no rebel after ALL
Was ever man so tempted since the
fall of Adam? AS have writ it down
for you in measured words, l was no
more than half Il patriot at this time.
And love has made more traitors than
its opposites of last or greed. In no
uncertain sense / was a man without a
country; and this fair maiden on the
hussocll at my feet was all the world
to me. | saw in orlefer time than amy
clock hands ever measured how much
Il yielding word might do for me; and
then thought of Richard Jennifer and
,Tas myself again.
II. IN O
been no mistake For their own pur-
poses my enemies have passed the
word that / am here as the Raron d..
lskalb's paid spy. That is no mistake.
IT'S "A lie cut out of whole cloth came
here straight from New Herne, and
back of that from London and the
continent and scarcely know the buff
! and blue by sight. But | ann Caroline
4 born dear lady land this King Georges
1 governor hanged my father. So, when
\ Tod gives me strength TO mount and
4 ride
Nov who is terce?" she cried. And
then, like lightning: will you raise q
band of rebels and come and take Your
own again"'
You know will not" | protested, so
I sr;lvely that she laughed again, though
now there We're tears, from what Well
! spring of emotion l knew not, in her
eyes.
i ''Oh, lnercN ms. lidNe YOU lieN CT
4 one little grain of imagination,
1 Monsieur John? You are too mon
strous literal for our poor jesting age.
Then she sobered quickly and added this:
''And yet fear that Ills is what my
father fears.
| did not tell her that he might have
feared it once with reason, or that now
the houseless dog she petted should have
lte OF me though mine enemy should
sick him on But | did say her father
had no present cause to dread me.
'tle thinks he has. And surely there
is cause enough she added
| smiled, and, loving her the more for
her fairness, must smile again.
Nay. you have changed all that, dear
lady. Truly did at first fly out at him
and all concerned for wha: has made me
Il poor pcnsioner in my fathers house
\ or rather in the house that was my ia
Tiers. l9ut that was while the hurt was
new. | have been Il soldier of fortune tou
long TO think oyermuch of the loss of APP
pleby Hundred. Twas my fathers, GER
taniy; but TWAS never nine"
And Yet and yet it should be yours
John lre6un. She said it bravely, with
ullfted face and eloquent eyes that one
who ram might read.
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