The Detroit times., 1914-06-10
CHAPTER v.
A So. 49, 80 Hapae


Then Dave wrote. again, that he
must jpin the army down Thereon
come home--or at least get out OF
Virginia They were lynching Union
men whenever they were not other
wise busy, which thank heaven, was
not often All that saved him was
that they didn't know whether he was
Union or rebel-he didn't himself He
wanted 10 know that-strictly conf
Dental II he was Union, he'd sked-
addle II he wasn't he'd join some
thing down there There was no
school no more, anyhow. The presi-
dent OF the college was a colonel in
the Fairfax Cavalry, and the chaplain
was an independent guerrilla captain
He ended by asking who wrote our
letter at the beginning and who else
at the end, and who stopped water
on It, and why did II smell like the
flowers In the three-cornered pasture.
When | read that last saw Evelyn
catch her breath. and ! asked her
very kind this time. 10 write back q
large no That HIS place was taken
and his room was filled-with that
rerfume that he liked There wasn't
hole or corner for him. except may.
be. tho haymow. with Wasser, and so,
he got 20 stay down there and learn
and let 'em guess whether he was
Union or rebel
Evelyn didn't want 10 write that,
either, remembering my scolding,
maybe but cried little again. though
meek and humble now Nothing about
the murder OF her father and she
kissed me.
Daddy I'll go away and make
room for Dave" she said II ought
To, / am rebel | can't help It."
But kissed her and said that we
liked her as much as Dave, and that
she couldn't go That we loved her
loved her just for which was
good enough excuse for any one,--
and not because we wanted 10 keep
Dave down among the Johnny Rebs
He went there TO learn and he
must And she might be as much OF
rebel as she liked There was
plenty OF 'em about and nobody was
getting hurt yet-much
II was really so, that we loved her
and most as much as Dave Per
sonally, ! don't remember ever sSeing
prettier girl that Evelyn don't
think any one around here ever did
Our girls are different mostly TAT
and with taffy hair and blue eyes
But Evelyn had eyes like the shady
twin-springs in the Poison Woods
where you can see mysterious things
you don't Understandable big and
round-a good deal like a little COW
calf Unshuldich. the Germans cal
EN-. And her hair was black--actu
| ally black, with no shine TO it--and
never would lay straight, Just clung
close about her face, careless. like
| pictures I've seen, but never on a
real person And her face Il was
kind OF pale and glorious and high
born. with red spots on the cheeks
which spread all over her face, and
sometimes her neck and breast, when
she was surprised or happy And II
was serious. mostly, like she didn
understand a Joke. But when she did
smile and open her red lipe on heI
white teeth-well, that was about the
sweetest SOPHIE I've ever seen-liSe
the clouds had parted and the sun
was shining through.
Her sadness, Of course, was mostly
about her mother and her father-as
she always called Henry She had
an idea that the Unions at Sumter
had deliberately murdered him. and
when the shought OF that, all the love
illness seemed 10 90 out Of her. and
she became hard and could do IN
kind things | always knew when
she was thinking Of this. by the way
her eyes Elittered. and then there was
no red In her cheeks When she be
gan TO think OF her fathers Staying
as she called Il, ! always got out OF
the way. ! don't like trouble I'm al
ways for peace Anyhow. II she was
left alone she always repented and
was extra nice 70 US
But. mostly, she was kind and gen
tie. and--like her mother she said
Tall and easy Of motion She mad q
picture OF her mother and they was
lust about the same at her age. 80
didn't blame Henry so much, nc
more, for HIS NN
Itch liebe.
On liebst
Wiz lieben-"
and so on was old enough 20 have
sense. but use 20 think that such a
woman as Evelyn's mother looked
like could have made me DO some
thing foolish maybe.
We'll. she. soon mad as thai we'd
have fallen down and worshiped her
expect--when she was gentle--eyen
the cattle IN the barnyard But Jon
was the worst OF all, Righk from the
start ne was witchcrafted hands and
feet like q niger slave ] never saw
anything 80 quick Both Of. them were
rather solemn and didn't talk much.