Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-11-22
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being drained Of blood, for that vii.
lains point found me-" In fact, be.
tween my late strain and the flow
from the wound I was beginning to
feel faint.
In a moment Champe had me down
on the sand and my wound exposed.
The blood was sight, but the injury
itself really superficial, La Classe's 8
blade having made clean cut
through and through the upper flesh
of my shoulder. Ny new ally dressed
it roughly, tearing my shirt into strips
and talking rapidly the while.
81 almost bad Arnold" he said.
Had found you when you first
came we might have been successful.
When l deserted at Lees request /
was nearly shot by my own friends.
but got through both lines and Join.
ed Arnold's regiment of Loyal Ameri.
cans here in New York. ] saw con.
siderable of Arnold, often being made
his orderly. He trusted me. l learned
his habits.
II was supposed to be guarding him
to-ul6hls ~ az LILO uouul SuSloh "
sit alone in his garden every fine eve-
ming, probably chewing on his black
thoughts, and saw the possibility of
kidnapping him there. / needed help,
and in my desperation I was forced
to put faith in man l really knew
little about. Together we one day re-
moved the nails from couple Of
boards in the fence bounding the
north of Arnolds Garden. Once, as
arranged, Lee sent a boat by night
and communicated with me, and /
gave instructions for 1t to be at the
garden landing at ten o'clock on the
night of the twenty.first. All was
prepared; my man proved true; and
we were ready to enter the garden,
seize Arnold, and rush him TO the
boat"
"And why"
"Damnation! At noon on that very
day he moved his quarters to Queen
Street, and the thing was impossible! !!
/ suppose the boat came, but / was
then at his new house. The boat has
not appeared since. I have some i'm
Dortant papers relating to Arnold S
coming campaign which l would like
to get to Washington or Lee"
"Then why don't you take them?" l
asked.
"How?"
"In the note for which l fought is
pass. Use it. The matter is impor-
tant, and l will be laid up for"
May; your wound is as clean as a
hounds tooth. You will be on your
feet in three or four days. And your
work is done. Take the papers your
self; you are in great danger here and
l am not l shall go South with Ar
mold"
did not combat the brave fellow.
was feeling too weak and sick.
Get into your cassock and let me
take you home," said Champe. "It
would be dangerous to be found here!
You know the law against dueling!
Comet"
what of him?" l asked, pointing
to the body of La Classe; and the ad-
vancing water seemed reaching for
him.
LET the tide bury him. Listen! /
hear voices on the bluff! Lean on me
and hurry"
obeyed him, and was dimly con-
scious that he took me north and
through the slum of Canvastown; but
it was an awful walk before we
reached Cherry Hill. / took Champe
into the silent house and to my room.
and there gave him the lace with a
note to be delivered early the next
morning. Agnes would be In terror
the while. And all that the note con.
tanned was the one sentence:
"Wounded-and at home"
AS for Champe, God bless him! !
did not see him but once again (when
he gave me certain papers he had
stolen from Arnold) until two years
after the war was ended. He went to
Virginia with Arnold, and while there
deserted again, reached Lee, and was
at once honorably discharged from
the army. as he would have been
promptly hanged by the British had he
ever been taken prisoner. All the re-
ward he got was a tract of land in the
Western Rescrvation-that and me.
dal granted by Congress.
The note brought Agnes, as l well
knew 1t would. and she nursed me
like the angel she was-and is; and
J loved her as l fancied no man had
ever loved woman before. And II
was then. when had conquered my
fever, when my wound was well knit.
ted and was fairly convalescent, that
there came thing like tumble of
distant thunder presaging storm,
though did not recognize it as
such.
II was five days after my duel.
Agnes had told me that the chariot
had been loaned to her for the whole
day and evening. and that in the after
noon she would come for me and take
me for drive. and l was sitting in
my room impatiently waiting for the