Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-05


but, having on Johnny's clothes. looked
suspicious Besides, as soon as they
suspected Johnny was q spy they
searched the room in which he had
slept and found the papers he had left
there They contained information
about the Confederate army.
$50 Eudie was brought before a lot
of officers and tried. They didn't get
together to md out whether she was
q spy or not. but to hang her. accord
ing 20 army law. which I fancy. is
pretty poor law. but very effective
with guilty persons. They fixed It so
that they could hang her according TO
orders. and. since they didn't ike TO
waste any time in carrying them out,
she was to be hanged at 10 O'Clock
the next day"
"Oh. my. grandpaF' exclaimed Alice.
wasn't that awfulT'
at seems SO, but It really wasn't
Eudie could get OF by telling them
she wasn't q boy at all. but she
wouldn't do It till the last moment.
because she wanted to give Johnny
all the time she possibly could to get
away. But she put or letting them
know she was a girl TIL she brought
upon herself all the danger of being
a spy. She let them put the rope
around her neck before she said a
word about It. Then they wouldn't
believe her.
Don't hang me- she said. TIM no
spy. I'm not even a boy. I'm girl
The hanging was under the direc-
ton Of the provost marshal, who said:
Z know what you're after. You want
to gain a little time till we can In
vestigateT
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 a couple of women nurses,
and ind out about the matter
"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 a boy. but she wouldn't tell them,
fearing that Johnny hadn't got beyond
the Confederate lines and she might
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 a hollow log. A 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 it 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 girl
lettering 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 1t 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 a click and a
voice, Who comes there? 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
Johnny's 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, grandpa"
asked little Billy.
and what became of Eudie?" 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''
care they alive now?"
"Yes."
"Are they any chudren's grandpa
and grandma?"
Eyes"
"Whose?"
yours"
ooh. my goodnessr' cried Alice.
"You don't mean that grandma Is Eu-
dieY'
"She is"
"And you are Johnny spy" asked
Tommy with eyes wide open.
"I am"
well, I declarer' exclaimed all.
did all that really happen. grand
pa" asked Tommy. ''or did you make
it upY'
at really happened The civil war
was so full OF such adventures that II
they were all written out a million
books wouldn't contain them all.
Many of our officers and men could
tell such stories or could have told
them ! added. ''for our ranks are a.
thin as after the wilderness and soon
win cease to be entirely"