The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-06
A SOLDIERS
VISION
By NJ. QUAD
Copyright. 1911, by Associated Lit
erary Press

the front of our brigade Il picket had
been murdered on his post a. cry night
The front WAS Il mile long. with the
posts within ten rods of each other
and Il buShwackcr had crcpt UP on the
lone picket with all the craft of an
Apache ard stabbed him 10 death
The one assassin had killed twenty
two men before any great stir WIS
made about it All that WAS done
when the matter WAS finally taken hold
Of was to put two. three and four uicn
ON II post in place of one and to send
out small parties to look for Il needle
in hayStack, as it were.
That all these murders had been
committed by one single hand no one
doubted \ knife had been used IN
every instance.
On the night that the order was is
sued to double the men on the posts |
was iii in my tent with II sore throat
and fever. My tent mates were on
wAs light headed could not fall into
a sound sleep. but dozed ut intervals,
and the noises Of the camp were con
fused with queer dreams. or sud
den this confusion cleared away. and
! had what you call either II dream OF
vision. | saw Il man in the uniform
of Federal captain, mounted on a
dark bay horse. ride up to Il farm
house The face and form of rider and
horse were as plain to me as if | had
seen them I'm my normal state of health
at monday. The captain was IL man
of about thirty. blue eyed. with brown
hair brown muStache and front
tooth filed with gold. AT the corner
of the left eye was II small scar from
wound inflicted years before.
AS the officer descended from the
saddle and hitchcd his horse to the
fence | saw Il womai's face at the
window for II moment The same face
was seen again for Il moment as she
opened the door for the captain. She
was IL tall dark haired woman, and
the face bore Il smile
As suddenly as the vision came ii
was blottcd out. but it returned again
This time the captain was mounted
and 1t was night. 1t was the same
house, and his horse wanted to speed
too fast and was pulled in. could not
make out how | followed on, but fol
low did. and we had just descended
Il hill and were crossing creek by Il
plank bridge when there came a red
flash, followed by the report of fire
arm. and the captain threw up his
arms and lurchcd to the right and fell
out of the saddle. The horse spran:
to the left off the bridge. which had no
rail. landed in the creek and went off
among the undcrbrllsh. saw that the
officer was dragged along with his foot
in the Stirrnp ! also saw the man
who had fired the shot. lie was tall ana
galInt faced, with long black hair and
slittcring black eyes and dressed III
the rough clothes of Il farmer.
When one of my tent mates came In !
| at once related the dream or vision
to him. but neither of us attached any |
Importance to 1t One with a fever al
ways has queer dreams and fancies.
A week had gone by and | was all
right again when | read in Wash |
ington paper of the singular disappear |
ance of Il captain in our brigade. This |
officer, so il WAS stated. had left camp |
on a certain afternoon ON his horse and |
had not been heard of since. My VI |
sion came back to me 81 clearly ana |
WAS 50 sure that II furnished II clew |
that ! reported to my captain. lie
ridiculed the idea. but sent me To the
colonel My statements were received !
with II smile, Int | was given Il pass
and Il note to the brigadicr general.
He waS n grulf old dog, and he called
me II fool before | had spoken ten
words When | had given a close de
Scriptinn uf the missing officer he he
gan To listen. ana the result was that
! Went ont with Il squad to search
We passed for two miles over road
| had never set foot on before. We
came 1" Il farmhouse | had never seen
in my waking moments. We found the
black haired woman. and she corrobo
rated my story of the captains arrival
She WAS widow. living with he"
mother, and the captain had been call