Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-01-22
soUTHERNER AND AMERICAN
All Rights publication Specially deserved By Mrs John Hood

ternoon. General Campbell told US no
10 stay cat late. and 10 be sure anC
did return and started 10 go out again
he told rs We had better remain ~
home that evening No one ever qaes
toned the Generals word. 50 We
quietly laid aside our hats and after
playing backgammon for while
went 70 bed The General followed
Us shortly himself. for We heard him
unaress aud 60 TO bed in the mex,
room before Ne dropped on 10 sleep
How long We had been asleep do
not know bui We think il mus have
been abou, midnight when We we're
awakened BY hearing old Nose Gen
eral Campbell.s body-s elsant who
had followed him al through the war.
knocking on his door and calling 10
! hint
Mars,er Marster"
/ Well. Nose. what is Il n the Gem
erals voice answered
/ DE ku-kluA's hser
i sAll right Nose they are not going
TO hurt you
Don ! dun TO dat, Sar?" replied
1 Moses voice, with as much scorn as
1 be couJi put into Il, when speaking 10
! tfle Gene~ei 'Taint NE Use taIkiu'
bout Hits jim Sykes boy. Sam, dun
run roun hyer. Sar. an SEE .Fim's
skeart de Kluxers gwinter do suppen
/ ter i'm; an axes Ct sou won tole 'em
he amt no low down trash. an ter
Lem lone.
Tell Sam to tell lis daddy to stay
at home and keep quiet. and nobody
/ will hurt him; and tell Sam he had
better set there pretty quick himself.
1 too, and stay there" answered the
General. And bo rolled over in his
bed and went to sleep again
Not So with Arnold and me how
ever, who were wide awake with ex-
eitenacnt We had heard the Ku Kiux
spoken Of several times, and had our
| negotiations frod: and We were not
going 70 lose this opportunity Of see
| Ing some real live ones, If We could
help ourselves So as soon as the
/ General had settled down again. we
| slipped softly out of bed. and stole
| downstairs and out of the front door
In orr bare feet, for fear Of being
heard and stopped
| just as we hid behind a clump OF
shrubs near the yard gaze. a troop Of
some twenty horsemen. white ROBBED
and masked, and with horses draped
and hoofs mufIied, 50 they scarcely
made sound. galloped swiftly by.
There was a half moon low in the
west and we could see them plainly.
| We wanted to see better, but did NOT
| dare 90 oni in the street. for fear Of
/ betrayiIg ourselves We looked down
I the street. aud could make out the
| dim outline of silent white sentry
al the end. facing countryward Fur
Their up the street, we saw several
such sentries standing guard around
! Mr. Snithcrs' house; and ! daresay
| there were similar sentrius over every
carp -baggor's house in town, and ON
/ every read leading to the country.
What struck us more than any
thing else was the almost absolute
silence that prevailed; and il gave US
i wierd. uncany feeling 10 watch he
silent. white robed white masked fig
ures gallop b. singly OF in groups,
1 hound on some quest we knew no,
what. Once ! suppose il must have
sheen about an hour after We had
taken orr post oI observation one
wild cry OF terror broke the stiffness
i from the direction OF the open square
b. The college then All was still
again.
We had watched for some hours
and it must have been about two
O'Clock in the morning IS nearly IS
/ could judge, when all the separate
groups began to collect. in one hody
/ on the street in front OF us not faT
from our post OF observation Three
of the largest groups that came IN
i had each. in its centre. a negro bound
and gagged on horseback; bat NJ
4 could not distinguish IN the naThaeSs
who they were. When the whole
party, except two scntries who sat or
their horse like statues. OF white
l ghosts in front OF aIr smitaers house
had collected we counted four hun
1 dred of them. they all moved oil in /;
silent cevalcale, with the three no
/ groes in the centre, and soon disap
/ pcared in the darkness. looking like ;
/. troop Of we'll drilled ghosts
How long the sentriss renainet
guarding Mr. Smither's house | neve
knew. for Arnold and ! slipped bacl
10 bed again as socn IS the main bod.
| had disappeared with its captiyes
hut they no doubt remained Ion
enough 10 prevent afr. Smithers iron
getting any communication through i
!, Captain welles and bis soldiers .
| Spart: syille woaid have found n
j black messenger to have Sent tina
night anywhere until the object G
| their leaders. whatever II may haS
/ been. was accomplished.