The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16

the bandmaster of union regiment
'camped near by. The bandmaster.
Captain Stanley falls i'm love with
Celia almost at first sight and after the
second meeting leaves her to go into
action. He is brought to the Westcote
home wounded and the surgeon is sent
for:
''The medical officer passed her. step
ping quickly to the bedside, stopped
short hesitated. and bending opened
the clotted shirt, placing steady hand
over the heart.
.sThe next moment he Strengthened
up, pulled the sheet over the bandmas-
ter's face, and turned on his heel, nod
ding CURLY to the girl as he passed
out.
when he had gone she walked
slowly to the bed and drew the sheet
from the bandmaster's face.
And as site stood there. dry eyed,
mute. from the tlusky garden came the
whispering cry of the widow bird call
ing, calling to the dead that answer
never more"
That is the end of the first episode
and for that, because the confederate
soldiers had taken the young band
master from her. she decided to be a
spy. She is seen in the next incident
when she has been running the con-
federate lines for about two months
and has gained much valuable informa-
ton for the union officers with head
quarters in Virginia.
Celia-is bloodthirsty young person.
but quite able to hold her own any
where In the first episode she has made
a tired young confederate offieer. one
Captain West, lie down on her bed.
when he falls asleep she starts to
steal out with the papers and Informal
tion she has gained.
suddenly he sat bolt upright In the
bed. and at the same instant she bent
and struck him a stunning blow with
the butt of her revolver
OF course, she couldn't anord 10 De
caught. but after he is knocked out she
gives him q good hug and kiss, for
She Is afraid she has killed him. That
kiss saves her own life later, when she
has an appointment In lonely cabin
with a union spy. This spy has been
captured and hanged and Captain West
has been sent to the cabin to arrest
Celia. When he sees her he Is crushed
with despair and grief. He tells her OF
his love, assists her to escape and then
returns to the cabin, breaks his saber
and shoots himself.
our heroine knew something of the
art of self-defense, but she paid little
attention to rules of any kind At one
time she is trapped into giving the
countersign to the wrong person, and
.she struck him full in the face with
clenched fist, sprang back. whipping her
revolver from her ragged bodice, dark
ewes ablaze." 1t never seems to occur
to this intrepid young woman that there
may be two ways of looking at her pro-
fession.
Sensitive readers will experience
shock at another adventure which falls
to Celia,s lot. She strikes a drawn re-
yoiver from young confederate's hand
and at the same time tears away his
saber and throws it into the stream by
which they are standing. Then follows
this description, which is vivid, to say
the least:
white faced. desperate. she chung to
him with the tenacity of q lynx. wind
ing her 1.-THE limbs around and under
his. tripping him TO his knees.
over and over they rolled, struggling
in the grass, twisting. straining, slip
ping down the westward slope.
ssYou--devilr he painted, as the dark
eyes flashed level with his. I've got
you--anyhow-
"Her upfiung elbow. fiexed like a
steel wedge. caught him in the throat:
they fell over the low ridge, writing in
each others embrace down the slope.
over and over, faster, faster-crackt -
his head struck a ledge and he straight