Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-12-10

".Whcre Is CcN N>ybcrt?'
"'lle has gone TO Wilmington. said
the engineer.
Gone to Wilmington" echoed
Cap'n Gushing Well, IL We cant
ind the principal We will have to
take one OF his accessories. What is
your name. SIT
"'Capt Reilly at your service.
; avery well. captain. Get up,
you please. and dress. for you must
so with us
, just here thrrc was ruth W
some one down The stairs uulsii" III"
door. There was !. dash at the viii
dow and Gui,'' scuillr began and
general sct-to. and then | saw some
one jump or the end Of the V"randa
and run ont into the garden. Thought
II might be the :,r0rral. and SpranS
out after the freeing figure but
looked in vain could Sc" Ii" one.
the night was 50 dark. | heard only
4 rus,liHg anon" tn" trees and SHRUBS
and then the I"rSon dashed away
into the woods near the house.
thought of pursuing him. but | now
heard the rest If my rarty passing
through the gH!d"n and ont OF III"
gate, and, thinhug that anything els"
that could do would only annoy and
u,.iaN en-, and that tn" person wh"
had dashed ont Of tn" window had
gone 10 give tn" alarm and turn ont
the whole Thousand soldiers nN"n us.
4 a n f,,l.,,r tho ,,ll ana
the officers.
found out a;trrward that III" per.
son who had run away was III" adJn-
tant general, and he WAS so iiahh"T-
gastcI at bcinS walked ny with IN"
noise that he really took to the woods
and forgot to ~" the alarm.
"But. now. Just think of young
Gtcr like Cap'n Gushing starting on an
EXPEDITION with only two boats ami
20 mon, rowing in past tn" forts.
iandi ing. capturing prisoners and go,
ing into the stronghold OF the en-
emv with the purpose of capturing the
general commanding. thought of II
as | walked down to the boats and
could hardly brli"v" that had been
the cause of on" rXp"di'inn w" went
hack to the boats and got silently in.
The prisoner Wa.;. YOU may be sure.
we'll guarded. with a pistol at his
head. Had ne cried ont it might have
been bad for us. but wors" for him,
COR he would have dropped dead in
his tracks before we took TO our
boats.
"Nhcn 1t comes TO deliberately sac
riNcing your life for your country
where nothing much is to be gained,
a man heSitatcs, The prisoner hes
iratrd and was saved. The sentry
on the wharf WAS not 50 Yards away
from lis. and We were about so yards
from the Smithyiil" folt. They v"r"
brave men, of course. No one ever
belittled our enemy of the cohfed"-
rate army. and it was only that II
never occurred to them what dar-
Ing ard dash Gushing possessed That
shc rrace was moi better guarded. We
-,t silently into our boats and float
cd down the river.
Tie men all pulled quietly and
steadily. Not a word was spoken.
but suddenly light Mashed ont from
Fort Caswcll A signal light All.
then they had discovered us? They
had az least discovered that strange
boats were in the ha:hor, and their
shots RAM out. but wide OF the mark.
We heard en- splashing in III" dis
tanCp, but not one came near Us.
heard the capn say that III" papers
he cartured were not important. Int
he had the engineer Officer II s0Ge
keeping enough. and he sent lin on
the frs; opportunity I" Acting Rear
Admiral Lee. at Hampton Roads. VIZ
giria
Now. /; happened tina: short
time after this some prisoners were
to be exchanged. was on deck.
sroorin round as usual. as the boat
pushed off | didn't ask to go in
that boat ExchanSin' prisoners was
dull work for you are protected by
a flag of truce all the way TO the
! shore and all the way back again.
I noticed few volunteers there were.
and lust those men were sent whom
the first lieutenant picked ont and
ordered to 90. As enc OF the officers
vas going over the side with the last
instructions Cap'n Cushing called
out:
"'Oh. by the way. Will you he
| Kind enough TO hand Gen. Herbert my
card The officer seemed surprised.
bit of course he turned round. sa-
Iuted. and said: Yes. sir" waiting
| while the old man fumbicd in his
: ;.ocket fo- a card At last he found
it. Then he felt for 4 pencil. and
had tic bad Planners to cast my eye
over his shoulder as he wrote. The