The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1913-05-28

at nothing. As such men were outside
the pale of military brotherhood. 80
were they supposed to have a code of
their own. Well, his code did not per-
init him to send the dispatch when his
power to send 1t had been procured in
such a way. 1t was not 80 much love
for the woman as 1t was honor-her
honor. suddenly put into his keeping
that turned him from the key. When
both honor and love were thrown into
the scale. there was no possibility of
any other action. He could not see
any call of duty paramount to them.
He stood looking at Foray for q
while. and then. without a further CON-
mand to that intensely surprised
young man. or even a word of expla-
nation. he seized his hat and coat and
left the room. Foray was keen-wit-
ted officer. he reviewed the situation
dawned upon him. A certain admira-
ton for Thorne developed in his
breast. and as Allison opportunity
came back at this juncture. he turned
over the telegraph ONCE to his subor-
dinate. and in his turn went out on
what he believed to be an exceedingly
important srrand.
Thorne found the streets full Of peo-
pie. He had not marked the beginning
Of tho caunonading in the tumult of
the office. but the lights. the bells
pealing alarms from every church
steeple. the trampllng Of horses and
~ ~ 80 ~ a
apprised him of what was toward.
Trusting that Thorne had been able to
carry out his part. Grant was attack
ing the place indicated by -Plsn ." in
heavy force.
What was Thorne to do? Obviously
attempt to escape from Richmond. al
though 1t would be a matter of ex-
trsme difnculty on account of the
alarm WHICH now aroused every Sec
had seen his brother. He surmised
that he was dead. but he could not
know that: and he determined not to
attempt to leave without making as
surance double sure. 1t was duty he
owed to his brother. to his father in
the Union army. and to his superiors
In the federal secret service. II that
brother were alive. he must be at the
Varney house. He fancied that he
would run as little chance of being OBJ
served in the excitement going in that
direction as in any other. and he start.
cd to make his way there.
The fact that Edith was there infiu-
snced him also. Was the call of love
and the living as great. or greater
than the call Of duty and the dying or
the dead? Who shall say?
And the remote chance that he
might be observed on the way was ia
ken by his ever-vigilant enemy; for
Arrelsford. upon obtaining his free
dom, had sent the troops at the dis
posal of the secret service to hunt
him down. and one Of them caught
sight of him. The shout of the OBJ
server apprised him of his discovery.
He threw one glance behind him and
then ran for his life. He had no e.
pecial hope of escaping. but he might
get to the Varney house ahead of the
soldiers. and he might see his broth
Or, and he might see the woman he
loved for a moment before he was tn.
ken and killed.
II 1t had not been for the two he
would have stopped and given himself
up. Somehow he did not care for life,
His life was forfeit to the Federala
and the Confederates alike. When she
thought to save 1t. Edith Varney had
doomed him. Also he felt that she had
damned him. But he ran on and on
doubling and turning on his tracks
white-fsced. desperate. his breath com
ing fainter. his heart beating faster
~ he ran.