The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-08-22

"Aunt1e!' calleQ the OOy.
"Lo'd massy! Is de angel oh de
Lo'd speaker to his sarvent from de
clouds?" said the old woman, startlp~
and dropping her basket
"Auntie, hyar at the crack!'
"Who is yo' callen? Yo' mus be a
chile from yo' voice.
"Put yer eye ciose up to de fence
and y can see me a. the crack"
The woman drew near and put her
eye to the crack. Jakey stood off a
little way, and she could see him plain
ly. Meanwhile he pretended to have
lost something on the ground.
"Why bress my po' ole heart, honey,
eff y amt nothen but a leetle boy in
de jailyard. Taught t. be huff to keep
dem po' misable po' white east Ten
nesseeans dar what dey had in de
cellar widout keepen chile"
''My brothers a prisoner, n so air
T." said Jakey in a melancholy voice.
"Climb ober de fence, honey, and
run away"
"The fence air too high n amt
goen fur to leave my brother anyway.
See hyar, auntie, air you niggers Union
or secesh?''
"Why, honey, do you t'ink we turn
agin ou' own folks! Amt de Yankee
sojers comen down fur to glib US lib
eration?''
EFF y cd save a Union so5er from
hangen, w'd y do it?'
"Fo' de Lo'd would"
'Then send this hanchikuf to Souri,
Slack"
"Who Souri, Slack?'
"She's my sister. She lives at Farm
er Slack's."
"Whar dat?'
"On the Anderson road, close onter
the Sequatchie river"
While this conversation was going on
Jakey continued his efforts to fnd
something at his feet. He picked up
stone, rolled it In the handkerchief and
threw them over the fence.
"What good dat do?' asked the col
ored woman, picking up the missile Of
war.
"When Souri, gifts it she'll Know
"Will dat sabe de Union sojer's
neck?"
"Mebbe It mought, n mebbe It
moughtn't."
"I cain't go myselt-Tm too debut
I'll start hit along. Reckon de dar-
kies1l tote it."
She picked up her basket and was
moving away when Jakey called 10
her.
"Auntiev
"What. honey?"
Eyer mought git some un to tote hit
ter an old Niger named Jefferson Ran
dolph. ez lives up creek bout i've
mile from hyar, near the pike runnen
that away. Mebbe he'll pass bit on"
"Sho nuff."
"Yo' boy, thar!'
The jailer's wife was standing in an
open window regarding Jakey severe
II.
"Come away from that ar fence"
Jakey skipped along toward her, do
ing little waltzing as he went.
EFF that ar boy wasn't sich chile,
I'd think ned ben up to sumep'n."
what war yer a-doen by that ar
fence?" sic asked when he came up.
"Nuthen."
"What war that y throwed over"
"Oh, war only throwen stones"
"What yer throwen stones that
away fur?'
Eur fun"
s'Well, v just keep away from th'
fence er y shan't play in tn yard at
all. I'll shet y up with thet big brother
O. yourn.''
"Waal, I won't 60 thar no more"
And Jakey took top out Of his rou-
sers pocket and began plugging imagi-
nary tops on the ground.
Mark hoped that the preparations
the Confederates were making for the
expected move would cause them to
forget him. He was not destined to
be so fortunate. The second day after
his capture he was taken before court
martial held in q house occupied by the
staff department, to be tried on the
charge of being spy.
The court was assembled and ready
to proceed with the case. An officer
had been detailed to defend the pris-
oner, but be had not arrived and the
court waited. Presently a clatter of
horses hoofs was heard outside. 1t
stopped before the door Of the house,
and in another moment Marks coun-
sci entered the room.
Mark looked at him with astonish-
ment. In the tall, straight soldier, with
black hair and eyes, mustache and
goatee, bearing about him that some
thing which Indicates "to the manor
born" be recognized the officer who had
called at the FANS on the morning he
had left them-Captain Cameron Fitz
Hugh.
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