The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-26
Continued from Our Last Issue

Continued from Our Lax toooe I
He paused. and, in spite Of herself. |
her eyes Aashed toward the door. En-. !
skine saw Il, drew himself erect, bow
ed and strobe straight out. Nor did /,
the irony Of the situation 20 mnch as
cross his mind-that be 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 eau
tiously along the sandy road by night.
circling about TarletOn's camp fires.
or dashing at full speed past some
careless sentinel.
| On the third morning he came upon
q ragged sentinelEan American Ten
minutes later he got his first glimpse
of Lafayette, and then he was hailed
jOyfully by nome other than Dave Yam
Idell. Captain Dave Yandell, shoFn of
his woodsman's dress and pan0plied
in the trappings OF war
! But late in August came the mes
sage that put Washington great
soul in arms" Rochambeau had
Handed six thousand soldiers in Con-
lnecticut, and now Count de Grasse
land a French feet had sailed for the
Chesapeake
General Washington at once resort
ed to cam0unage. He laid out camps
lostentatiously opposite New York and
in plain sight of the enemy. He made
| a feigned attack on their posts. Roch
ambeau moved south and reached the
Delaware before the British grasped
1.-THE Yankee trick.
Then it was too late The windows
: of Philadelphia were filed with ladies
waving handkerchiefs and crying
braves when the tattered Continent
ais, their clothes thick with dust bu
hats plumed with sprigs Of green
2 marched through amid their torn bat
tie flags and rumbling cannon.
Behind followed the French in ga,
). white uniforms faced with green" an,
Q martial music throbbed the air.
i Down the Chesapeake they went il
q transports and were concentrated a
s Williamsburg before the close of Sep
itember. CORVALLIS had erecte,
r works, for he knew nothing of Wash
e ingtOn and Count de Grasse, nor MAJ
~ <1utuOuy anu NlC0Ot0k XVCtoOns ~
. were south 81 the James to proven
escape into North Carolina.
Z Then came de Grasse, who drov
s. of the British feet. and the mouth o
q the net was closed.
n CORVALLIS heard the cannon an
sent Clinton to appeal for help. bu
10 the answer was Washington himsel
:, at the head of his army. And the
the Joyous march
- At Williamsburg the allies gathel
= ed. and with Washington's army cam
Colonel Dale, now general. an
- young Captain Harry Dale. who ha
Fs brought news from Philadelphia tina
was of great interest to EIskine DALI
O. In that town Dane Grey had been
y close intimate of Andre, and that il
70 timacy had been the cause of muc
Is speculation since.
20 He had told Dave OF his mothe
and Early Morn. and Dave had tol
ig him gravely that he must go get thel
ne after the campaign was over an
ne bring them to the fort in kentuck
n II Early Morn still refused to com
ne then he must bring his mother, an
)k he reckoned grimly that no mout
y, would open in a word that could O
n, fend her.
80 IN miu september WdSIiukto
'e. came. and General Dale had but or
n chance to visit Barbara Erskine
plea that he was too busy to go wit
us them aroused Harrys suspicious. an
he went bluntly to the point:
it. You wouldn't 20 to Red Oaks ar
ed Barbara did not seem surprised.
he Dane Grey cOncerned?"
is Yes"
u. Harry looked searchingly at h
cousin. x
II pray to God that | may SOC
meet him face to face.
And l." said Erskine quietly. "pra
to God that you do not-not until aft,
n have 4met him first" And Harr
av after searching look at his cousi
On turned away.
On They marched next morning and
IN sunset of the second day they bi