The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-10
MORE ABOUT EASTWOOD-By Dr. w. E. Euans

no coward and would do what he pleased.
 The plan was to pretend to leave the
 neighborhood, but to hide in the woods till nightfall. q feared to alarm the
 family by giving this information" said | the Colonel, and determined to kill the
 negro should he come back. Therefore
 crept out of bed and with my revolver in I hand, l dragged myself to the side of the office, where, leaning against a tree, I waited. Unfortunately, the negro came around the west side of the house and had seized the young woman before I knew it. l then lmped toward him as best I could, fired with the best possible aim in the darkness, and saw the lady fall. l then feared that I had killed her. l felt my brain whirl; was falling, and,
 to steady myself, twisted my broken leg, and then all was darkness"
 Ellen Lambert was not hurt physically, and in two days was able to be up. But change had taken place in her. It was mental She was now indisposed to any activity about the house, but would sit
 for hours in rocking chair, rocking, rocking all day long, Now and then she would laugh hilarousy; then again.
 she would weep as if her heart were
 breaking, all the while talking to herself
 It was indescribably pathetic to see her. She was a comedy person. her features were regular, and her hair and eyes jet black. Her hair was almost uncontrolla- ply curly. A few days after her terrible fright she refused to have her hair ar ranged, and any suggestion on the sub ject she would fiercely resent Therefore. she would rock furiously all day, while the mass of black hair would toss to and fro like sable plume in the winds. She finally settled into deep melancholia,
 with now and then spells of devilish cum ming. Dr. Anderson warned us that she might have homicidal tendencies We were to be careful. The very next night grandmother awoke and found Ellen in her room, with a carving knife in her hand. The poor girl explained that some thing black had run into the room and she was trying to kill it. After that we were careful of ourselves. and of Ellen, lest she should inJure herself.
 Toward the latter part of March the weather became intensely cold. No one
 
 years. At night when Uncle Henry came in to lock the doors and windows the snow was rapidly falling.
 A DREADFUL DISCOVERY. In the morning when breakfast was ready, Aunt Mary went to call Ellen, but found to her amazement that the room was unoccupied The house was searched She could not be found. Uncle Henry said "Mistiss she mus a got outen de window ob de drawin' room, fo' I done fastened all de windows las night, and dis mo'nin one was open.' We then sought her in all the out-houses. but she could not be found. Here, Uncle Henry, look; these are prints of bare feet in the snow," I exclaimed. excited by my dis covery. ''So dey is, chile" said he. We followed the footprints. On and on beyond the stables, down slope towards the low-grounds; on and on, till we stood on the bank of the cold, forbid ding river. We looked along the river bank to the east and to the west. Alas, there were no footprints.
 She had walked nearly mile through the snow Two days afterwards we found her poor body about five miles down the river. It had lodged in an old tree that had been blown into the stream, about a quarter of a mile from Win stons mill She was buried by the side of her father.
 Colonel Drumgood was a long time re- covering. Uncle Henry made a pair of crutches that helped him greatly to go about the plantation. He used them for the first time on the day that Richmond fell, and by their aid he came to the steps of the house, to send his respects to grandmother, and as he said, his sin cere sympathy for while he was sure that the defeat of the Confederates would be best for the country, his heart deep ly felt for the brave people of the south Aunt Mary received his message and de- livered 1t; but I heard him say the gal