The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1916-11-04
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there in Irregular spots. AS Jim crept
close he could hear babies crying and
women grooming to them anxiously and
trying to quiet them.
"Oh, baby. baby. I've got nothing for
you! couldn't get anything to cat to.
n1ght!' walled one poor mother.
The regents soldiers, Jim had heard.
gave little concern to such camps OK
cept to take out all men of military
age. Half an hour later Jim returned
to the raft.
Were still well within the regents
lines" he reported to Beatrice Logan
"There's big refugee camp just above
with the regents infantry bllctcd be
You'd. found Il kid, regular boy
scout, who was sleeping on the ground.
He says he knows where every watch
Is stationed. and he made a man for
me to show how we can get through
here and where we can hide during
the day. The kid wanted to come with
me, but If he was caught guiding me
1 suppose they'd shoot him. SO
wouldn't let him follow"
North Of the ruins of New York the
regents army appeared merely to he
maintaining the positions 1t had taken
during the siege Their Immediate oh
1ectives We're IN other quarters. Jim
learned from refugees that an army
was moving against New England
During the siege Of Manhattan a col
unn had taken Bridgeport and cap
turcd the cartridge works and manu-
factories Of rapid fire guns and the
rifle and cartridge factories of New
Haven. Another column. moving into
New Jersey, had taken the powdc,
works and arScnals about Dover The
regent S armies were marching f;lrtlr!
now In both directions. One was ad
Vancing upon Hart ford and Sprin.
field. The other. cutting across Now
Jersey and capturing the powder plant
ut Parlin aud compton lakes. W.,
moving toward the great gun wovt
at Bethlehem. Tho third army. !andr.!
upon the Delaware coast from trans
ports, was cooperating with this 90!
umn. 1t had taken the munition plants
at Carncy'S Point ana was muvin.
upon Washington
but boys been lnovin' west every.
thing movable in way OF machinery"
Sloatcd an old refugee. "Thc Spring.
hcld rifle machinrrA's at Rock Island,
ILL.,, now, and the revolver company
that was ut Sprin%ticd's at Omaha.
they say. The nu Pont people We got
their plants going again at Kansas
City and Dcs Moinrs: l.cthlcheu's
mostly at st. Louis and Gary and chi
cago now. And the governments at
Cleveland"
Flour already Mas gone; milk was
gone. til" cattle all killed AIrrady the
old men and women ana children were
beginning I" die hy he dozens of want
and exposure. and the winter w:ls only
on the way.
Jim could take no food from these
people. Rratrirr would take none. linn
kept her close To him us he worked hi,
way north.
Though the countryside continued to
be n great miserable camp of refugees
there W"r" fewer and fewer Of the
enclny's soldiers. Now there were only
outpoStS and patrols of the invaders
but durin, the third day of hiding
Beatrirr 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
or any one had come and taken her
There was nothing. She had just dis
appeared. He searched fruntically
recklcssly 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
Wretclledncss. drove him on more rcso
lntcly to the army.
The American army! Every ono
spoke OF It now. He was ncnrnr II
The army for which New York and
To be continued.