The Ames Enterprise. (Ames, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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BEING TIIE HAPPENINGS OFA MGIIT
RICHMOND IN THE SPRING OF 1865
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an effort lo aiiura Hlrlmiontf Kdllh
varnay secure fro m I'rraidanl Pavla a
mmmlaalon for t'apl Tliorue who la Jual
recovering from wound aa rhlaf f lha
lelegrh at HUhmorol ('apt Thorn
1 talla Kdllh ha haa trn ordered awa
Fha declare ha tnuat not ao and tal
Mm of lha mmmlaolon from lha prel
dent Mr Arrrlaford of lha Confederal
ecret aarvh-a a rejected aulior
Kdllh' detect Jonaa M ra Varnay
hullr rarrylna a nnia from a prisoner
In IJhfcv prlaon Arrrlaford auapacla If
la Intended fo Thorn Tha noia rrada
"Attack lonlahl plan 1 t'aa Tela-
fraph Arrrlaford declare Thorn
rail Pumont of lha Krdral arrrrl
ervlre and lhal hla brother Hrnrfd
friaonrr In llhhv Kdllh refuse lo ha
leve and suxccsl that Thorn ho con
frnntod with tho prlaoner aa a I rat An
nrdrr romra from General Varney for
Wilfred to report to lh front at once
Kdllh la forced lo carry out her part In
tha teat of Thorne The prlaoner la throat
Into tha room alone with Thorn who
reenmlzra Mn aa hla elder brother Hen
ry Dumont They put up a fake flrht
and Henry accidentally kill hlmaelf
Carotin Milford Wilfred sweetheart
poea to the war department telegraph
office to aend a meatmen lo Wilfred Ar
relafnrd auapecta a double meaning
refttaea to let It go through He and
Edith aecrete themaelvea to watch Thorne
whoa arrival Arrelaford expert Thorne
takea charge nf the telegraph office
Arrelaford and Kdlth ae Thorne alter
dlapatch from the eeoretary of war
Thorne la ahot In th wrlat by Arrelaford
when he attempt lo aend It Arrelaford
calla The guard and when they appear
Thorne turna the tablea by ordering the
arrat of Arrelaford The removal of Ar
relaford I atopped hv the arrival of Gen-
eral Randolph Thorne again begin
pending the dlapatch Arrelaford proteats
declaring Thorn la pending a forge
order to weaken the linen of defenae
Thorne Is saved by Mlaa Varney who
produces hla commlnalon a chief of
telegraph She having seen enough to
convince her he Is a spy begs him not
to send the forged order After ah
leaves he tears It up Thorne plans to
escape from Richmond Arrelaford calls
at the Varney home and demands to see
Edith Mrs Varney refuse A sergeant
appears with an order to search the
house for Thorne Wilfred Varney re-
turns from the front wounded
CHAPTER XVIII
Captain Thorne Justifies Hlmaelf
After the two women had left him
Wilfred stood motionless for a mo-
ment and then sat wearily down to
rest Scarcely had he done so when
he heard shouts far outside in the
street the heavy trampling of feet
cries directions orders He rose and
walked over to the window Tire cries
were growing louder and the footsteps
more distinct -Men were Approaching
the house rapidly he could tell that
they were running What could they
be? What was toward? A suspicion
flashed Into his mind It had hardly
found lodgment there when Thorne
sprang upon the porch leaped across
it and burst through the other front
window Into the long room A pedes-
tal with a bust of Washington on it
"Sergeant of the Guard Captain
Thorn Is Here
was standing between the windows
As Thorne sprang back from the win-
dow he knocked against it It fell to
the floor with a tremendous crash
He stood staring a moment Upward
the window listening while the noise
of the running fept died away in the
distance It seemed that he had dis-
tanced his pursuers or eluded them
for the time being It could only be
for a moment however he had other
things to think of Well that moment
would be enough it was all he re-
quired He turned to go down the
room only to find himself confronted
by the boy
It U hard to say which wss the more
surprised of the two— Thorne at see-
ing Wilfred or Wilfred st Thorne's ap-
pearance The latter's face was pale
bis breslb was coming rapidly be was
bareheaded Ills brow was covered
with sweat and be bad (be bunted
desperate look of a man at the very
end of hla resources Neither at first
said anything to tbe other It was
Thorne who first recovered himself
lie sought to pass by tbe boy but VI!
(red seised him
"Halt!" be cried "you are coder
arrest” " ' '
"Walt a moment!" gasped out
Thorne "and I will go with you
As be spoke be shook himself loose
from tbe weak grasp of tbe wounded
young man and started down tbe
room
"Halt I say!" cried Wilfred "You
are my prisoner"
"All right all right" said Thorne
quietly "your prisoner anything you
like Here—" he drew his revolver
from his pocket and pushed It Into the
boy's hand "take this shoot the life
out of me If you wish but give me
chance to see my brother first"
"Your brother?"
"Yes He was shot here tonight I
want one look at his face that's all'
"Where is h?"
"Maybe they put him in the room
across the hall yonder"'
Wbat would he be doing there?"
asked Wilfred not yet 'apprehending
the situation from Thorne's remarks
Nothing" eaid the other bitterly
"I guess he is dead"
Walt" said -Wilfred He stepped
across the hall keeping Thorne cov-
ered with bis revolver "Don't move
I will see" He threw open the door
glanced in and then came back "It's
a lie!” he said
"What I” exclaimed Thorne-
"There is no one in there It Is Just
one of your tricks Call tbe guard!
He shouted toward the hall and then
toward the window "Sergeant of the
guard! Captain Thorne is here in
this house"
He stepped out on the porch— and
shouted again with astonishing power
for one so painfully wounded as he
Then the boy felt a faintness come
over him He sank down on a seat on
the porch and leaned his head against
the house and sought to recover bis
strength fighting a desperate battle
fearful lest Tborne should escape
while he was thus helpless
It was Edith Varney who first re-
plied to his frantic summons by hurry
ing into the room She was as much
surprised to see Thorne as he was to
see her Her heart leaped in her bosom
at the eight of him and she stared at
him as at a wraith or a vision (
You wouldn’t tell me an untruth
would you?" said Thorne coming
closer to her "He was shot in this
room an hour ago my brother Henry
I'd like to take one look at hla dead
face before they send me the same
way Where Is he? Can't you tell me
that much Miss Varney? Is he in the
house 1Z '
Edith looked at his face shook her
head a little and moved away from
him toward the table Thorne threw
up bis hands In a gesture of despair
and turned toward the window As he
did so Wilfred having recovered from
his faintness a little called out again :
“The guard! The escaped prisoner
Captain Thorne!”
This time his frantic outcry was an-
swered At last they were closing in
upon the wretched man He turned
from the window and faced the girl
scarcely less wretched than he and
laughed shortly -“They
are on the soent you see” he
said "they'll get me In a minute
and when they do it won't take them
long to flnlBh me off And as that’ll
be the last of me Miss Varney maybe
you'll listen to one thing' We can't
all die a soldier’s death in the roar
and glory of battle our friends about
us pnder the flag we love No not all!
Some of us have orders for another
kind of work dare-devil desperate
work the hazardous schemes of the
secret service We fight our battles
alone no comrades to cheer us on ten
thousand to one against us death at
every turn If we win we escape with
our lives if we lose we are dragged
out and butchered like dogs No sol-
dier's grave not even a trench wlth
tbe rest of the boys — alone despised
forgotten! These were my orders
Miss Varney this Is the death I die
tonight and I don't want you to think
- "
tor one moment that I in iikin4 of
It no not for one moment”
The sound of heavy feet drew near-
er Wilfred called Sfsln while the
two lo ih room confronted each ©th
r Ih mao erect and the woman too
A strange pain wsa ia her heart At
least her was a mao hut before ah
coulJ any a word in answer to his im
paaaioned Mp the room filled with
oldlera
"There's your man sergeant” salt
Wilfred "I band him over to you
"You are my prlaoner” as Id lb sergeant-
ilia command was reinforced by
number of others Including Corporal
Matson and hla squad and some of the
men of lha ITovoat Guard who had
teen chasing Thorne through th
atreets At this Juncture Arrelaford
panftng and breathless also Joined
the company la the drawingroom II
cam In rapidly thrusting aside those
In hla way
"Where la her he cried "Ah!" b
exclaimed triumphantly aa hla eye fell
upon Thorne standing quietly sur
rounded by tbo soldiers "We've got
him have war
‘Young Mr Varney here took him
air" said tho sergeant
'So” returned Arrelaford to hla pris-
oner "ron down at last Now you will
find out what it costs to play your lit
tie game with our government tele-
graph line”
Hut Thcrne did not turn hla bead al-
though Arrelaford spoke almost In bis
car II looked straight nt Edith Var
ney and she returned his glance
'Don't waste any time sergeant"
said Arrelaford furiously "Take him
down the street and shoot him full of
lead Out with him"
"Very well air” said the sergeant
Dut Wilfred interposed He came
forward Thorne's revolver still In hla
hand
No" he said decisively "whatever
he Is whatever he has -done be has
tbe right to a trial”
“The head of the secret service de-
partment said to me If I found him to
shoot him at sight" snarled Arrets-
ford I ' don't care wbat General Tarle-
ton said 1 captured this man he's in
this house and be is not going out un-
less he is treated fairly”
The sergeant looked uncertainly
from Wilfred to Arrelsford Mrs Var-
ney who had entered with tbe rest of
them and who now stood by her
daughter’s side looked her approval
at her son The mettle of his distin-
guished father was surely in his veins
Well done’’ said the woman softly
but not so softly that those about her
did not hear "your father would have
spoken so”
Arrelsford came to a sudden de-
cision ’ -
"Well let him have a trial Well
give him a drumhead court-martial
but it will be tbe quickest ever held
on earth Stack your muskets here
and organize a court” be said
Fall in here” cried the Bergeant at
which the men quickly took their
places "Attention! Stack arms! Two
of you take the prisoner Where shall
weflnd a vacant room ma'am?”
Across the hall” said Mrs Var-
ney “where th6 ladies were sewing
this evening”
"Very good” said the sergeant
“Left face! Forward march!”
Arrelsford and Wilfred followed the-
soldiers ”1 am the chief witness” said the
former
"I will see that' he gets fair play
remarked the latter as they marched
out 1
I must go to Howard” said Mrs
Varney "this excitement is- killing
him I am afraid he will hardly sur-
vive the night Caroline is with him
now"
1 “Very well mother” said Edith go-
ing slowly up the now deserted room
and standing In the window looking
out Into the night "thinking her
strange appalling thoughts They
would convict him shoot him there
was no hope What had he'said? He
was not ashamed of his work It was
the highest duty and 'involved the
highest and noblest sacrifice because
it made the greatest demand and
they would shoot him like a mad dog”
Oh God!” she whispered “if some
bullet' would only find my heart as
well”
CHAPTER XIX
- ‘
The Drumhead Court-Martial
It 60 happened that the soldiers
who - had - thrust old - Jonas back in
his closet whence they had taken
him a short tipi® before in their
haste had failed to lock the door upon
him The negro who had listened
for the click of the key In the lock
had at once known of their careless-
ness So soon as they had with-
drawn from the room and their search
took them to other parts of the
house he had opened tbe door cau-
tiously and had made his way toward
the hall by the drawing-room which
he felt Instinctively was the place
where the exciting events of the night
would soon culminate
Thorne's entry and the circum-
stances of his apprehension had been
so engrossing that no one bad given
S thought to Jonas or to any other
part of the house for that matter
and be had btea atte la ace every
ihieg through ih hsnatpga- l( eaa
a qtiirk-wturd old ngro and he knew
of (ours lhal Ihero eotild he but oao
verdict glvva by such a court martial
aa had assembled Now tho ma
ho composed th court would of am
cvasliy be detailed u carry out their
owa sentence The long room vii
filled Kb eucks of guns Every eol
dUr even those under Ih comment
of Corporal Matson In Arrelaford’ de-
partment had gone to the court-martial
There nothing else of In-
terest to attract them In tha house
Every gun was there in that room un-
guarded A recent capture of a battalion of
Ftdernl riflemen had put tbs Con fed
erates Into possession of a few bun
dred breech loading weapons not of
the latest and most approved pattern
f tb cartridges In tbea guns were
In cardboard shells but still better
than any tb south possessed Tbea
rifles t4 been distributed to some of
the companies In garrison at Rich
mond and It no happened that th
men of the secret service squad and
the provost guard had received moat
of them Every gun In the stacks waa
of this pattern
In hla earlier days Jonaa bad been
bis young maater'a personal attend-
ant bis body servant and as such he
bad often gone hunting with him
During the war he bad frequently vis-
ited him In camp charged with mes-
sages of one sort or another aod be
knew nil about weapon:
As he stared into tbe long room
after the departing soldiers be did
not know Edith Varney was still
there nor could he see her at all for
she was on tbe other side of tbe cur
When He Finished He Had the Bullet
In His Mouth
tain looking out of the window and
it seemed to him that the room was
empty
Jonas was a very intelligent negro
and while under any ordinary circum-
stances bis devotion to his master and
mistress would have been absolutely
sure ybt he had become tinged with
the Ideas of freedom and liberty In
the air He had assisted many and
many a Union prisoner - Captain
Thorne by his pleasant ways and nice
address had won his heart And he
himself was deeply concerned person-
ally that the young man should not be
punished for his attempt to bring
about the success of the Union cause
which Jonas felt to be his own cause
Therefore he had a double motive to
secure the freedom of his principal
if It were in any way possible
As he stared at the pyramids of
guns listening to the hum of conver-
sation from the room across the hall
— the door’ had been fortunately
closed — a thought came to him He
pushed aside the portieres with which
be had concealed himself and en-
tered the room by the back door
He moved with cat-like swiftness in
the direction of tbe first stack of
rifles He knelt doignby it seized the
nearest gun which lay across the oth-
er three swiftly opened the breech-plug-
drew out the cartridge looked
at It a moment put the end of it lu
his mouth and crunched his strong
white teeth down upon It When he
finished he had a leaden bullet in his
mouth and the cardboard shell In his
hand He replaced this latter lu tbe
chamber and closed the breech-plug
A smile of triumph Irradiated his sa-
ble features The gun could ' be
fired but whatever or whoever stood
In front of It would be unharmed
He bad not been quite sure that
he could do this but the result of his
experiment convinced him All the
other guns were of the sane charac-
ter and given the time he could ren-
der them all harmless ( He did not
waste time in reflection but Btarted
in with the same process on the oth-
ers He worked with furious baste
until every bullet had been bitten off
every cartridge
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