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I suppose they'd shoot him, so I
wouldn't let him follow ~
North Of the ruins Of New York the
regents army appeared merely to Go
maintaining the positions 1t had taken
during the siege. Their Immediate OBJ
jectives wore In sthen quarters. Jim
learned from refugees that an army
was moving against New England.
During the siege Of Manhattan col
unn had taken bridgeport and cap
tursd the cartridge works and manu-
factories Of rapid IRE guns and the
ride and cartridge factories OF New
Haven. Another column, moving into
New Jersey, had taken the powder
works and arsenals about Dover. The
regents armies were marching farther
now In both directions. One was ad-
vancing upon Hartford and Spring
field. The other, cutting across New
Jersey and capturing the powder plants
ct Parlin and Pompton lakes, was
moving toward the great gun works
at Bethlehem. The third army, landed
upon the Delaware coast from trans
ports, was cooperating with this col
umn. Il had taken the munition plants
at Carneys Point ana was moving
upon Washington.
But boys been movin' west every
thing movable in way Of machinery"
gloated an old refugee. 1.-THE Spring
deld rife machinery's at Rock Island,
H., now, and the revolver company
that was at Springfeld's at Omaha,
they say. The Du Pont people We got
their plants going again at Kansas
City and Des Moines; Bethlehem's
mostly at st. Louis and Gary and Chi
cago now. And the governments at
Cleveland"
Flour already was gone; milk was
gone, the cattle all killed. Already the
old men and women and children were
beginning to die by the dozens Of want
and exposure, and the winter was only
on the way.
Jim could take no food from these
people. Beatrice would take none Jim
kept her close to him as he worked his
way north.
Though the countryside continued to
be a great miserable camp of refugees,
there were fewer and fewer of the
enemy's soldiers. Now there were only
outposts and patrols Of the invaders.
But during the third day of hiding
Beatrice disappeared. Jim had left
her hiding in an old, abandoned boat
shed by the river while he went to
find wood. When he returned she was
gone.
There were no marks to show wheth-
er any one had come and taken her.
There was nothing. She had just dis.
appeared. He searched frantically,
recklessly for her all the rest Of the
day, but found no trace Of the girl and
encountered nothing different from the
common woe Of the homeless, hope
less people. The sight Of them, the
sound Of their voices, the odors Of their
wretchednsM, drove him on more reso-
lutely to tho army.
The American army! Every one
spoke Of It now. he was nearing It.
The army for which New York and
the rest of the seaccast had been sac.
rifced, for which the men who had
fought and died in Manhattan had civ
en- themselves with the city. The army.
Helm Ashby, with the others-had
won for it two months to train and
drill and make itself ready; the army
of the American millions. It must soon
be ready to redeem what had been lost.
who goes there?''
Friend"
Advance, friend, and give the coun.
tersign."
II don't know It; but I'm an Amer
lean soldier. I was with the Twenti-
eth Illinois infantry in the fighting at
New York"
"Say, you were7" u
"Yes.''
How'd you get here?"
by the river at first and then by
land at nights mostly"
you look like you'd had an awful
time, friend. Say, corporal! Corporal
OF the guardv' The sentry blew a
whistle. Here's one Of our boys was
at New York, he says. He was in the
fighting at New York.
(To Be Continued)