Evening journal., 1909-11-23
THE WHITE SPY.
BY NATHANIEL HUBBARD.
copyright. 1908. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l

A man stepped forth into the moon
light The sentinel uttered a cry.
threw down his musket and fell on his
face. The friend without the counter
sign passed him. entered the lines and
walked hurriedly In among the tents.
''Great heavens. is that ghost com
mgr exclaimed an officer to another.
both standing outside one Of the head
quarters tents.
''or one Of the men parading in his
nightclothesr
Meanwhile tho figure came up, and
as he did so the officer recoiled. He
was In uniform. but in the moonlight
his clothes appeared to be made of
white linen The face, hands. hair
indeed. every part Of the person was
white.
'W-h-o are you. and what the deuce
do you wantT stammered one OF the
officers.
"John Waters. and on my way to
see the general"
''Whatl In that makeup7"
Eyes. l have important information
that should be acted upon at once"
"Is that you. Johny' called the gen
erals voice from within the tent
''Yes. general"
"Come in here"
The figure 10 white entered the gen
erals tent aud was received with the
same astonishment as before. Ten
minutes later stan officers were flying
In every direction carrying orders TO
the subordinate commanders. and in
the early morning columns were march
ing by different roads 10 cut or the
enemy that the white figure had re-
| ported to be in full retreat. When
his information had been delivered and
the orders issued the general called
upon him for an account OF how be
had learned the facts and an explana-
tion Of his strange appearance. This
was his story;
Il was scouting when I came sud
denly upon body Of Spauiards. There
was nothing TO do but surrender, and
this did. was carried along In their
center right in among the main bodies
OF their troops, whom ! saw always
marching southwark. It suited my
purpose to appear not TO understand
Spanish. and after awhile they talked
freely among themselves In my hear
ing. They did not know what to do
with me, and finally their leader pro
,,o-od Al. Fotfowrfro, nIon. Thov would
stop at the next house and get some
thing to eat. while thus engaged they
would pretend to leave me 10 myself,
and II l attempted to get away they
would shoot me.
"Soon after they stopped at house
= next to a -four mill. Leaving me. they
e went into the house and were rathe
> more lax in their watch than they IN
+, tended. Still. the ground was open
and II I ran they would have fre,
, range at me. determined on a ruse
} ! hung my cloak on a bush, put my
, hat on Il and then rolled In among
: some -four sacks that were scattered
b about. crawling into one OF them
Presently one OF the Spaniards came
to the door OF the house. and l saw
him looking at my dummy. He called
to the others that I was about 10 run.
and several Of them, coming to the
door. fred at my cloak. Both hat and
cloak fell TO the ground. whereupon
: the men went back into the house.
. There was a horse standing by the
mill loaded with -four sacks. rolled
to this horse in my sack and managed
! to climb up and throw myself over
I his back among the sacks. After
r awhile the Spaniards came out One OF
I them went to my cloak. picked it uI
and, not finding my body, notified the
others. They. much surprised. mount
ing their horses and rode OF in a di
- rection they supposed had ned.
, 'Then a man came out Of the mil
{ and, mounting a horse, led the one
was on by a halter. When we wer
on the road raised myself up, puttinl
my head, white as 1t is now with -four
out OF the bag. The man let go tn
halter and galloped away as fast as h
could. Throwing on the -four bags,
I. rode northward with a view TO reach
ing our lines Fortunately for me
a was now getting dusk. passed tn
IS men who supposed they had shot M
r riding a few hundred yards to my lefi
s. / saw by their looks that they tool
me for my ghost, so l concluded :
n play the part and rode right on rigid
n ly. Their captain hailed me, but
" paid no attention to him and was sool
N lost to them in the darkness.
'T had no trouble in passing out
a !, posts, for they all took me for spec
ter. II any one was courageous enoug
to challenge me invariably rode righ
toward him, making him think that
-, was about to ride through him. He al
ways got out Of the way, and only on
:, man fred at me.
= "on approaching our lines dis
mounted and, letting my horse g
where he liked. walked. did not dar
take such riaks among the SPANS
rear guard. considering that / wa
, moving toward our lines. I skulke
through their picket line and whe
free from IT came on to ours.
| "And now. general. ask your pei
| mission to go and wash this four oi