Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-24

know from him. You are my cousin,
but you are going beyond the rights
Of blood. I won't stand it, won't
stand it-from anybody"
II don't understand you, Barbara.
That last time 1t was Grey, you
and now"
lie paused and. in spite Of herself,
her eyes flashed toward the door,.
Erskine saw 1t, drew himself erect,
bowed and strobe straight out. Nor
did the irony of the situation 80
much as cross his mind-that he
should be turned from his own home
by the woman he loved and to whom
he had given that home. Nor did
he look back--else he might have
seen her sink, sobbing to the floor.
XXI
Up the James rode Erskine hiding
in the woods by day and slipping
night, circling about Tarleton's
camp fire. or dashing at full speed
past some careless sentinel.
On the third morning he came
upon a ragged sentinel-an Ameri-
can.Ten minutes later he got his
first glimpse of Lafayette, and then
he was hailed joyfully by none other
than Dave Yandell, Captain Dave
Yandell, shorn of his w~oodsmen's
dress and panoplied in the trappings
of war.
But late in August came the mes
sage that put Washington's great
soul in arms" Rochambeau had
landed six thousand soldiers In Con-
necticut. II now Count de Grasse
and a French fleet had sailed for the
Chesapeake.
General Washington at once re-
sorted to camoufiage. He laid out
camps ostentatiously opposite New
York and In plain sight Of the enc
my. He made a feigned attack on
their posts. Rochambeau moved
south and reached the Delaware be-
fore the British grasped the Yankee
trick.
Then it was too late. The windows
OF Philadelphia We're filed with la
0ies waving handkerchiefs and cry
ing bravoes when the tattered CONT
nentals. their clothes thick with dust
but hats plumed with sprigs Of green
marched through amid their torn
battle-f1ags and rumbling cannon.
Behind followed the French in
gay white uniforms faced with
green" and martial music throbbed
the air.
Down the Chesapeake they went
in transports and were concentrated
at Williamsburg before the close Of
September. CORVALLIS had erected
works for he knew nothing of WASH
ington and Count dc Grasse, nor
Mad Anthony and General Nelson,
who vert south of the James to pre-
vent escape into North Carolina.
Then came de Grasse who drove
off The British fleet and the mouth
of the net was closed.
CORVALLIS heard the cannon, and
sent Clinton to appeal for help, but
the answer was Washington himself
at the head of his army. And then
the joyous march,
At Williamsburg the allies gath
cred. and with Washington's army |
came Colonel Dale, now a general, |
and young Captain Harry Dale, who
had brought news from Philadelphia
that was of great interest to Erskine
Dale. In thpt town Dane Grey had
been a close intimate of Andre. and
that intimacy had been the cause of
much speculation since.
He had tclc Dave of his mother
and Early Morn, and Dave had told
him gravely that he must go get |
them after the campaign was over |
anG bring them to the fort in Ken
lucky If Fairly Morn still refused |
to come. then he must bring his
mother. an : hi reckoned grimly that
no mouth would open in a word that
could offend her.
In mi i-September Washington
came, and General Dale had but one
chance to visit Barbara. E~rskine's
plea that he was too busy to so with
them aroused Harry's suspicious,
and he went bluntly to the point:
You wouldn't go to Red Oaks and
Barbara did not seem surprised. Is
Dane Grey concerned?"
Eyes"
Harry looked ssarchingly at his
COUSIN:
"I pray to Coo that I may soon
meet him face to face"
And l." said Erskine quietly.
pray to God thas you do not--not
until after / have met him first"
And Harry, after a searching look
at his cousin, turned away.
They marched mex morning and |
at sunset OF the second day they
~bivouacked within two miles of
Yorktown end the siege began.
The allied line was a crescent, |
Lafayette commanding the Ameri-
cans on the right. the French on the
left under Rochambeau.
De Gresse. with his fleet, was In
the bay to cut of approach by wa
ter.