Putnam patriot., 1911-05-12

l'oSed to ur tue ooy. anu t1, .,,.,,,,,,, go where he liked Eudle was confronted bv tbs ma. Who had recogpized Johnny. Of course De said she wasn't the one he meant but, having on Iohnny's clothes. looked suspicIous Besides. as soon as They suspected Johnny was spv they searched the room in which ba haa slept and found the papers he had left 1uele' They contained information about the Confederate army.
 So Eudie was brought before a lot oI oneers and tried. They didn't get together 10 find out whether she was spy or not. but to hang her. accord Ing to army law. which. I fancy is pretty poor law. but very effective Wlth guilty persons. They fixed it so that they could hang her according 10 oruers. and, since they didn't like to waste hny time In carrying them out. She was tO be hanged at 10 o'clock the next day" "oh. my grandpa," exclaimed Alice. Wasn't that awful?"
 II seems so. but it really wasn't. budte could get of by telling them she wasn't a boy at all. hut she wouldn't do if till the last moment. because she wanted 10 give Johnny all the time she possibly could to get away. But she put off letting them know Ghn rrt-I ,sTI upon herself all the danger of being spy. She let them put the rope around her neck before she said word about it. Then they wouldn't believe her.
 Don't hang me- she said Pm no spy. I'm not even boy. I'm a girl
 The hanging was under the direc- tion of the provost marshal. who said I know what you're after. You want to gain little time till we can in vestigate?
 That won't do, major. interposed the officer of the day. who was pres ent. I've been suspicious of this case all along. think we'd better send her down to the hospital tent. where there are couple of women nurses, and find out about the natter
 '"The provost marshal gave in. and they sent Eudie under guard to the hospital tent When they learned that she was really a girl they asked her what she meant by masquerading as boy. but she wouldn't tell them, fearing that Johnny hadn't got beyond the Confederate lines and she might compromise him. So they let Eudie go home
 Johnny ran away in the wood and was awfully afraid that when the Confederates found out they had captured the wrong person and let the right one go they would hunt all over for him. He walked toward the Federal lines for awhile. then. hearing the sound of horses hoofs he crawled into hollow log company of southern cavalry were going through the wood. and some of them jumped their horses over the very log that Johnny was hidden in He was sure they were looking for him, but at that time 1t was not known that Eudie was not Johnny. and his fears caused him to be mistaken. How ever. they were just as dangerous to him as if they had been looking for him. because If they had found a girl loitering in the wood they might have suspected something.
 Johnny didn't dare crawl out of the log till it was dark. Then he looked up at the north star and walked to- ward it till he saw lights and knew that they marked the Federal camps. He must have gone through the Con federate pickets without knowing 1t. for suddenly he heard click and a voice. Who comes thereT He an swered: Friend Don't shoot. Take me to General Bee
 "The picket called a corporal. and Johnny was taken to the generals tent. The general was asleep. but Johnnys information was so impor- tant that an aid-de-camp walked him up. and Johnny told him what he had learned. And that's the end of the story ]"
 What became of Johnny. grandpaT ? asked little Billy.
 And what became of EudieT' asked Alice.
 After the war Johnny went down into Virginia and found Eudie. and they were married"
 "Where did they go to liver
 .They came up here to Johnny's home''
 Are they alive nowT
 "Yes'
 Are they any childreD's grandpa and grandma?"
 Yes"
 'Whose? ?''
 Yours"
 "Oh. my goodness" cried Alice. You don't mean that grandma is Flu die?'
 "She is"
 And you are Johnny Spy?" asked Tommy with eyes wide open.
 'I am"
 well. I declarer' exclaimed all.
 "Dld all that really happen, grand pa" asked Tommy. 'or did you make 1t up?'
 "It really happened The civil war vas so full of such adventures that if they were all written out million hooks wouldn't contain them all Many of our officers and men could tell such stories or coud have told tbem. added. for our ranks are as thin aS after the Wilderness and soon will cease 10 be entirely"
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