The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-13

This dynamlring bridge in front Of a tr0bp train was, of course, simply an act of war This was only the carrying out of one of the many score of such plans as he had read in the secret or ders to the regents agents in the house of the spies-those orders whi ch Marion Marlatt had been helping to prepare. But the horror, the barbarity of those orders had not been able to reach him in full till now. This-these rows of dead, those lines of dying and mangled men, destroyed not in fair bat tie, but by stealth or treachery while they were asleep-this was what one of those orders meant.
 Could Marion Mariatt have realized it, Jim challenged himself almost con tinually as he worked Could she that lovely little woman whom he had left on that white bed-could she have had any part at all in, this? She had lain like a, child in his arms. And now she fared at him and broughtsthe blood hot to his cheeks when she denied that she was spy! Oh, was 1t possible that she knew nothing of this? Might it be that his accusation of her had driven her to leap from the train that moment when ~he turned away, and that she had no knowledge that the bridge there was about to, be destroyed? Jim was steadier and stronger while he was convincing himself of that.
 Now everything had been done which might be done for the injured. Jim turned away from the wreck and wan dered back toward the house where he had left Marion Marlatt. He went in through the open door. The house had become tiny hospital, and in the spare room where Marion Mnrlatt had been recruit now lay with country doc tor working over him. Where is she-the, girl I brought here?' Jim demanded of the woman. "Oh. we brought her about right quick" the woman boasted. "She wasn't hurts much-the lovely little lady. She was only a bit faint and dizzy
 t'Where did she go?"
 The woman didn't know. She sup posed the girl went down toward the wreck. Anyway, she went out by her self and quite all right, the woman thought, though in queer clothes. The notes of bugle call echoed over the field. Jim did not recognize the call, but it's meaning was obvious. The scattered infantrymen and cavalrymen were being recalled. Jim returned to l the track. Two more trains from the west had come up and stopped behind | the troop train which had brought the | cavalry. The headlight of a west bound train glared at the wreck from the other side of the river Other trains stood in long line behind it. Some of | the passengers from those trains from | the east crossed the river and mingled with the soldiers. These passengers were refugees. too, of the sort which Jim had seen in the station at Chicago. Jim heard first from one of these refrl- | gees-a woman-that soldiers under the direction of officers were stripping cer. tain of the dead so that live soldiers could wear their uniforms.
 An hotr after sunrise the train at last got away. By noon, running through Ohio, it began to pass trains full of refugees who had fled from the coast after it was known that the American fleet was destroyed Com. pany r ate once during the day It was at Cleveland about 8 o'clock in the afternoon. The train stopped there to change engines. There were no ar.
 engagements made to supply the, sol
 diers. 2 The company officers learned that the train would stay there for at Il least half an hour, and every one was
 told to go out and forage for himself i lro Be Cantnued)