The Press., 1911-06-07

| rectiOn. The general of another part of the Confederate army had received | q telegram from General Gobble to head off a young farmers boy and girl and hold on to the boy. The l troopers took Eudie, whom they sup posed to be the boy, and let Johnny go where he liked
 "Eudie was confronted by the man who had recognized Johnny. Of course he said she wasn't the one he meant, but, having on Johnny's clothes, looked suspicious. Besides, as soon as they suspected Johnny was a 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.
 'So Eudie was brought before lot of officers and tried. They didn't get together to find out whether she was a spy or not, but to hang her, accord ing to army law, which, I fancy, is pretty poor law, but very effective with guilty persons. They fixed 1t so that they could hang her according to orders, and, since they didn't like to waste any time in carrying them out, she was to be hanged at 10 o'clock the next day"
 "Oh, my, grandpag' exclaimed Alice. ''Wasn't that awfulY'
 ''It seems so, but 1t really wasn't. Eudie could get oR by telling them she wasn't a boy at all, but she wouldn't do 1t till the last moment, because she wanted to give Johnny all the time she possibly could to get away. But she put of letting them know she was girl till she brought upon herself all the danger of being spy. She let them put the rope around her neck before she said a word about 1t. Then they wouldn't believe her.
 "'Don't hang me- she said. I'm no spy. Pm not even boy. Pm girl
 "The hanging was under the direc- ton of the provost marshal, who said: T know what you're after. You want to gain little time till we can ih- vestigater
 "'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 find out about the natter
 "The provost marshal gave in, and they sent Eudle under guard to the hospital tent. When they learned that she was really 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 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 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 girl lettering in the wood they might have suspected something.
 "Johnny didn't dare crawl ouI the log till it was dark. Then he oked up at the north star and walRed 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 thereP 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 fmpOr- 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 Hvep'
 'They came up here to JOhnny's home"
 "Are they alive now?"
 "Yes."
 "Are they any children's grandpa and grandma?
 Yes"
 'whosaP'
 Yours"
 "Oh, my goodnessv' cried Alice "You don't mean that grandma is Flu dieY
 "She is.'
 "And you are Johnny SpyT' asked Tommy with eyes wide open.
 'T am."
 'Well, I declarev' exclaimed all.
 ''Did all that really happen, grand l pa," asked Tommy. ''or did you make | it up?'
 ''It really happened. The civil war l was so full of such adventures that if l they were all written out million | books wouldn't contain them all | Many of our officers and men could | tell such stories or could have told | them," added, flor our ranks are as | thin as after the Wilderness and soon win cease to be entirely"
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