The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-03-08

two soldiers were required to hold him
while Thornton infinitely searched his
person.
Washington and New York
postmarks-and-ah. What have we
here? Pretty little sentimental keep
sake, eh? Where have l seen the lady's
face? Pardon me If read this lnscrip
ton on the back of the case"
What he had found was miniature
the portrait Of lady, carefully pro
tected in morocco case. The owner
resisted so desperately. the taking of
this treasure that he finally sank to the
floor, livid, painting, foaming and ours
ing, as Captain Thornton mockingly
read the lines inscribed on the back of
the picture:
The flashing light may liven thy form
In living lines of breathing grace,
May give each tint a tone as warm
AS that which melts DER thy dear face
But in my soul and on my heart
With deeper colors. truer aim,
A loftier power than meager art
Hath craven thy image and thy name.
HE is dead" said DR.. Ell;ngham. let,
ting the hand of poor Sam Pinckney.
which he had been holding, fall limp
and lifeless to the ground.
well, major, that relieves you from
duty here. I'll have an ambulance sent
around at once. AS for the Yankee
gentleman. l will take good care Of his
valuables while he is escorted to Rich
mond and put up at the Hotel de
Libby"
With these haunting words Captain
Thornton laughed diabolically, then III
u cigar and stood In the doorway OF
the cabin gazing reminiscently upon
the miniature which held the fair fea
lures of Mrs. Constance Haverill.
The old warehouse of the Libbys
down on Carey street. near the James
river, was the largest structure Of it,
kind in Richmond. 1t was vast. din
| gy, four storied red brick building will
nothing but naked walls. bare timber.
and low raftered drying rooms. who's,
small windows were not intended pr
marily to admit light. A few iron bar
on these windows and fiimsy part
ton here and there to divide the foo
space into rooms" had sufficed +
transform the pungent smelling oil
shell into capacious military priso
for Federal captives whose official ran
Mved them from the unsheltered pen
and stockndes of Belle Isle or Of Sails
bury and Andersonville farther south
Only officers were immured In Libb
prison, and most of the time ther
were from 1900 to 1000 motley, rag
ged, pale faced men pining there
cramped and squalid and liable to b
shot down relentlessly If they crosse
dead line" within two or three fee
Of the barred windows. Some Of thes
poor fellows listlessly carved crucifixe
and wooden toys with their jackknives
others played cards squatted on til
floor or checkers on boards marked o
In rude squares on these same rougl
unswept planks All hoped again.
hope and conversed endlessly on tw
topics-''exchange' and escape"
Letters from home were rare. gift
and provisions still rarer. Neverth
less some fortuitous combination ,
circumstances and outcropping Of ORD
nary human kindness did on certa
: memorable occasions permit a suit
clothes or box of sweets and 9th
] creature comforts to escape Confede
ate confiscation and get past the dra'
bridge Of the military bastile.
One of these occasions that broug
seasonable rejoicings to certain 10
of Libby occurred just before the da
Of national Thanksgiving, in the !att
: part Of November.
: The blood red rays of sunset we
= streaming through the one small, hig
: grated window that lighted ba
G room where some men We're detected