Tlli: WMKKLV II KHALI): PLATTSMOl'TH, N LIJUASKA, FK l.Kl'AUY i ISM. CCfffliCMT. 1632, r MftiCN " if; out it that suRlce. You would n-Krrt it if I bIioiiM cunt'.de anything more to yon. Yet from tins brif inter iew I have learned to trust yon ufll eii iilly to 1. ice my lift in your keep-iiif,'-" She thought a moiiuMit. A faint had dT p;i-eii over tier. "I don't want to know your eecret." "Will yon tell your mother what you hare dutcovered?" aked Mark auxiouuly. "Not for worlds." "Yon HUHuwt" He paused and looked at her inquiringly. " Ye, yen. Don't say any more. Don't breathe another word. Only go away from here an noon an possible." "1 shall go tomorrow morning. 1 hall always hold you iu grateful re membrance. You are a splendid a lovely woman. I owe you" "Y'es, yes; go go curly." She rose and went into the house. In a few minutes a colored boy came out aud told Mark that he would show him to hU room. As Mark had been there before, lie know this meant that he was txpected to retire for the night As he went by the parlor he glanced In. The mother sat by a lamp on a "center table" reading. Miss Fain'a lacn was abio bent over a book. It was bite as the margin of the page she pre tuuded to read. CHAPTER V. QliORlOUS TEBFIDT. When Mark went dowu stairs the next tioruing, followed by Jakey, they were Invited into the breakfast room. Laura Pain was there, but her mother was not. Mark looked at Laura, but she avoided lis gaze. He asked after her mother. "Mamma scarcely ever get up to breakfast," she said as she poured out l substitute for coffee. During the meal she said but little, tnd that was only on commonplace sub jects, tihe seemed to have more on bet bind than the soldier who was taking bin life in his hands, aud atudiousl avoided looking at him at alL Jakey ate heartily. Mark noticed him tatiug with his knife and otherwise dis playing his humble origin, while he was himself eating like a gentleman. He thought that it was lucky Mrs. Fain was not at the table. After breakfast Mark followed his Bodtetw throngb a door opening into a sitting room on the opposite aide of the hall from the parlor. "Miss Fain," he said, "I know too well the station of your family and southern ustoms not to accept as a gift the hos pitality you have afforded. I can only i press my indebtedness, and the hope that some day the war may be over and 1 can come down here and show my gratitude for something of far mora moment to me than a night's lodging." He paused, and then added: "May 1 ink a question? Are you a Vuiou or a Confederate girl?" "Confederate." Mark looked at her uueasily. 'I inferred from what you said last night that you will not betray me." "I will not." "But you think you onght to." "I do." I'jirk stood gazing at her. She was lo king out of the window with a trou Utd expression. Miss Fain," he said, "you may be doing wrong; you may be doing right. At any rate yon are acting the part of a woman, and this act makes you in my eyes the lovelieat woman that lives." The words were scarcely spoken when the muscles of the girl's face contracted faito an expression of horror. Mark could not understand why his speech had so affected her. The natural uncertainty of kid iiositiou impelled him to look abont him for the cause. Glancing out of the front window he saw an officer in gray uniform on horseback in the act of reach ing down to open the gate. "Now go if you can" shit tald. "Come, quick!" she said, Beizing his arm. "No, no! Mamma! She doesn't know. Oh, what shall we do?" Mark took her by the hand and spoke to her coolly, but quickly. "Call Jakey for me, and we will both go down stairs and from there to the barn. We can then go out without meeting this officer, for he is dm.biless coming in. There is no especial danger. We shall meet plenty of soldinrs Wore we return.'" She flew out of the room to find Jakey. Whiie Khe was gone Mark watched the approaching horseman. Jle was a fiuo sueeimeu of a southern man tall and Pftt53 A&Sfe. sienavr, wuu long oiuck nair. iiuimhciiu and goatee uud a tine black eye. He looked, as he came riding up tiie road ! way. the impersonation of the southern ! gentleman. Before he had dismounted Mark and ! Jukey wer on their way to the barn, j Laura Fain opened the front door just j as luu olucttr was coming up the steps. "Why, Cameron!" she excluimed, "how did you get away? 1 thought you told me you were to m offictr of the guard today." "1 persuaded my f.ieud the adjutant to detail another man." "Was there a special reason?" "Certainly. I positively nmldn'tRtand it another day not to see you. Besides we are momentarily expecting orders to cross to this side of the river." ' "But yon will be uearer to us then, won t you?" "1 am alruid not. Once on this side we'll not stop uearer than Dallas or Foe's. We may join Colonel Forrest near Sparta, or wherever he may be, doubtless somewhere in the enemy's rear. He seldom troubles the Yankees in front. But you are not listening, my darling, and you are pale. You are not ill?" "Certainly not" "You are sorry that I earner "Why, Cameron, what do you mean? You know 1 always want you to come." She led the way into the sitting room, from which Mark had disappeared but a minute before a minute is a long while sometimes. Mrs. Fain entered and received the guest most graciously. Captain Cameron Fiti Hugh was a young Virginian, a graduate of the Uni versity of Virginia law school, the sou of wealthy parents, whose acres and ne groes were numbered by thousands. He had known the Fains before the war, Mrs. Fain having been born and reared in the Old Dominion. During a visit of Laura to his jieople, shortly before the breaking out of hostilities, he had fallen in love with her, had proposed and was accepted. Both families being agree able, the two were engaged to be mar ried. "This is an unexpected pleasure, cap tain," said Mrs. Fain. "1 did not suppose 1 could get away today. "Everything is unexpected in these times. We never know who is coming tons. Last night I slept uneasily for fear that we harbored a guerrilla iu the house." "How is thatr asked Captain Fitz Hugh. "Where are the strangers, Laura?" , "I think they are gone, mamma." "A countryman and his little brother," (aid Mrs. Fain to the captain. "Laura thought him quite a gentleman for one so poorly dressed." "But I changed my mind, mamma.'' said Laura quickly. "And what was the occasion of so sudden a bouleverseuient?" asked the captain. "Why why, when we were sitting on the veranda after you went in, mam ma" "Sitting on the veranda with a coun try mau!" exclaimed the lover. "Well, yes; mamma said to invite him up. But 1 was going to say" Laura's Inventive powers had gained time to act by the interruption "I found that he was only an iguorani farmer after all, for 1 asked him how far the moon r as, and he said he reck oned it was a hundred million miles." "That doesn't prove anything," Fitz Hugh remarked. "I don't believe there's an officer in my regiment knows that But it becomes us to be very careful. The commanding general has made it known unofficially through his staff offi cers that he is especially desirous of con cealing his intentions. One spy pene trating for even a day at Chattanooga might frustrate all his plans. If the enemy knew that we are concentrating there, and how weak we are there at present, he would or at least he should come down with a large force and drive us south." A troubled expression crossed Laura's face. "Indeed!" said Mrs. Fain. "1 was not aware of that. Suppose the young man was a spy." "Cameron," said Laura. "1 wish yon wouldn't talk so to mamma. She will be suspicions of every poor beggar that asks a crust. The man's name was Slack There are plenty of Slacks among the poor whites about here. 1 have a sick family of that name on my hands now not a mile up the road." "Has the fellow goner asked Fitz Hugh. "1 think 1 would letter see him." "Gone! of course he's gone," sai Laura, with a heaving bosom. "Where did he say he was going?" "To Chattanooga," said Mrs. Fain. "I'll mount and follow him. 1 can easily overtake him on horseback." "Nonsense," said Lanra, with a pout; "yon have kept away from me for a week, and now you are going as soon as you've come." "But, my darling, would you have me" "1 would have you Btay where yon are and" Mrs. Fain, seeing that some cooing was coming, wisely withdrew. "And what, sweetheart?" "Tell me what I love to hear." she said softly. "I've told you that so often you should certainly be tired of it by this time." Fitz Hugh looked inquiringly into her face as he smoothed back her hair. He was iiM'ii M i.i m- re.;ucsld in repeal Ills acsnrances nf at': di'in, but there was a nervous wneeiiu.i about his fiancee this morning that puzzled him. His back was toward the window, while she was facing it. Suddenly she clasped her arms tightly around him "Now go if you can!" she said, affect ing a playt u! tone. "Why. Laura, what does this mean?" he asked, astonished. "You don't love me," she whined. "Love you. pet! You know I do." "Then why do you act bo?" "Act how?" "Yon never come anymore but you want to go right away." "But. sweetheart" a half down kisse for exclamation points "I only intend being gone a little while." "If you once start out to follow some body you don't know anything about you'll be gone all day, and then you'll be ordered away, aud maybe I'll never see you tiny moro." Never was a lover more charmed at such evidence of woman's affection, and never had this lover less cause to be charmed at the evidence of his hold upon Laura Fain. Had Captain Fitz Hugh seen what Laura Fain saw from the moment she put her arms around him and held his back to the window Mark and Jakey going down the walk to the gate he would have exclaimed: "Oh. woman, thy name is perfidy!" "Oh, woman," the departing soldier would have responded, "thy name is in deed perfidy, bnt how glorious thy per fidy!" CHAPTER VI. LN THE ENEMY'S LINES. i lllfi Mark hnndetl thevltd whiskered ferry man tlie crixp ten dollar note. "Jakey," said Mark as they passed be hind trees that hid them from the honse. "1 don't like that officer coming to the Fain plantation just at this time. There'll surely be some mention of us, and it is possible he may want to have a look a' us. You know, Jakey, we're only poor modest people, and don't want to be stared at." "We ain't got onr store clothes on. and don't want ter make no acquaint ances," Jakey observed solemnly. Mark had noticed Laura Fain's agita tion when she caught sight of the officer at the gate, aud knew there was good reason for it. He did not fear that she would betrs him intentionally, but that she might t led to do so from her very anxiety to keep his secret "The first chance we get, Jakey, we'll take to the woods. We told them we were going to Chattanooga, and if this officer takes it into his aristocratic head to escort us with true southern polite ness a part of the way he'll expect to find ns en the Chattanooga pike." "N" twouldu't be perlite fo' ter git in his way." They had gone but a trifling distance when they came to a creek flowing as a wayfarer they met told them through Moccasin gap. The road crossed it by something between a hedge and a cul vert Mark led the way from the road np the creek and began to climb the hills, on which there was sufficient growth of timber to afford concealmeut For an hour he trudged along with Jakey beside him. He tried to get the boy to give iim his hand to help him along, but Jakey demurred indignantly and kept his sturdy little legs so well at work that he never once fell behind bis companion. At last they came to a hnt occupied by an old negro. "Good morning, nncle!" said Mark. "Moruen, sail." "Hev y' seen anything of a colored boy 'bont eighteen years old go by hyar this inorneu?" "No, sah." "He's my boy Sam, and Fin a-hnnten him. He run away last night. He'll git a hundred ef 1 ketch him." "1 ain't saw him, sah, 'n I tell yo' what, marst'r, ef I had saw him 1 wouldn't iu form yo' oh de fac." "Thet's the way with you niggers, since the Yankees turned your heads. But it won't last long. Our boys'll drive 'em so fur no'th pretty soon that you darkies'll hevtostoprunnen away." "Now don' yo' believe dat so sarten." "Do you really believo the Yaukscan whip us?" "De Lo'd hes sent 'cm to tote his col ored people out o' bondage." Mark was satisfied with this prelim inary examination that he could trust the old man. "Uncle, I'm no secesh. I'm a Union man. 1 want to stay with you today and travel ionight. Keep me all day. and I'll go away as soon us it is dark." "Fo' de Lo'd. 1 knowed yo' wa n t uo south'n man all de time." "How?" 'Yo' ain't got de south'n man s way o' talken. Yo' did hit well enough, but yo' cain't fool me." "Well, will you keep u.?" "Reckon 1 will." "What's your name?" "Randolph's my name, sah. JefT'snn Randolph. My marst'r said he gib me a mighty big name, but hit didn't do no good. Dcy always call me notten but Jeff." "You're as well off iw the president of the Confederacy in that respect," said Mark. "1 guess we'll co inside." i eft, go in uar Keep oar. Mark ami Jakey waited for the day to pass, and a they had no means of amus ing themselves it passed very slowly. Jakey played abont the creek for awhile, bnt both weie glad when the darkness came nnd they could get away Before setting out on his expedition Mark had carefully studied a map of the "region, preferring to fix it in his unnd than to carry it about his person. Upon leaving Jefferson Randolph's hut ne made direct for the Tennessee river. ; Ouce there, he know from his remem brance of the map that he was uot far from Chattanooga, aud that betweeu him and that place was Moccasiu point, formed by a bend, or rather loop, in the river, the jtoiut putting out southward j for more than two miles, with a dis tance of uearly a mile across its neck. But he knew the ground was high on , the east shore of the peninsula, and he did not know the proper place to strike j inla..i and cut off the distance around j the river's margin. There was no one near to inform him, so he kept on by the river. It was late at night when they reached a point where the river took a slight tnrn to the east, and about a mile from the quick bend around Moccasin point Marx was anxious to enter Chattanooga either late at night or soon after day light, hoping to meet few people, that his entrance might not be noticed. He cast bis eye about for some means of crossing the river. Noticing a skiff moored just below a hut, he surmised that the skiff belonged to some one liv ing in the hut. Uoiug to the door he knocked. "Who's thar?' "Do you tins own the skiff on the river below hyar?" "Waal, supposen 1 does?" "1 want to cross." "Whatd' y want terdothet fur at this time o' night?" "Father dyen. Just got word a spell ago." " What'll y' give ter get over?" -Five dollars." "What kind o' shinplasters?" "Greenbacks." "Whar d' y' git "em?" "From some people ez got 'em traden with the Yankee sojers at Battle Creek." "All right, stranger, but it's a sight o' bad times ter be called ter a man's door at night. You uns go down ter the river 'n I'll cover y' with my gun tel 1 know yer all right" "I won't mind a small thing like that ef you'll put me'n my leetle brother across." Mark and his companion went down to the river. Pretty soon a wild looking man, with a beard growing straight ont from his face like the spokes of a cart wheel, came cautiously down, covering them with a shotgun as he proceeded. 'Got a pass, stranger?" "No." "Reckon they won't let y' land when y' get over thar." "These army fellers are like a rat trap," said Mark; "they ain't so partic ular as to goen In; it's the goen out they don't like. But y' better try to strike a point on the river whar ther ain't no guard." "Far how much?" "An extra fiver." "Greenback?" "You ain't very patriotic. Won't f take Confederate bills?" "Not when 1 can get green uns." "Y' ain't a Union man, are yT "No. But I know a valyble thing when I sees it." The night would have been very dark had it not been for the moon behind the clouds. As it was, the boat could only be seen from the shore when they drew too near. They pulled up the river west of Moccasin point, keeping near the east bank. They could see campfires of guards on the other shore. Once, getting too near a river picket, they were seen and challenged. "Who goes thar?" "Oh, noneo' your business!" said Mark jokingly. "Pull in hyar or I'll make it some o' my business." "Oh, now, see hyar! We can't stop every five minutes to please a guard. How do you know but we're on anny business?" "Well, pull in hyar and show your pa pers." Meanwhile the ferryman was keeping the oars nioviug gently, and the boat turned at an angle with the current, which was taking the boat toward the east shore. "Now pull away hearty," whisjiered Mark, and the boat shot ont f sight of the picket in a twinkling. A bullet whistled over their heads, but wide of the mark. "Golly!" exclaimed Jakey. "What a pnrty tune it sings!" They were now off Moccasin point and Mark began to look for a landing place. Just above he noticed a camp fire, aud above this was a placewliere the bank was low, with overhanging trees. Mark directed the ferryman to pull for these trees. He slipped a hand kerchief in one of the rowlocks the only one used in turning the boat into 6hore 60 as to tnnfllu the oar. The coast seemed to be clear for a landing, but as they drew near they proceeded cautiously nnd listened for the slightest sound. The lxwit's nose touched without noise, and Mark and Jakey got out. Mark handed the wild whiskered fer ryman the crisp ten dollar note, which he clinched eagerly. "Yer pui ty well ter do, stranger, cou sideren yer close." "Didn't y' hyar what 1 said to the guard 'Iniut business for the army?" "Yas." "Waal, don't say nothen 'bout it. Th' Confederate service pays ez it goes." The ferryman cared little whom he pulled if ho could make ten dollars in one night, and dipping his onrs in the water rowed away from the shore. Mark turned to look about him. His first move was to get uuder the trees. From there lie proceeded inland for a short distance, looking for something. "Ah, hero it is!" he said presently. "Now I know where I am." He had struck the Nashville and Chat tanooga railroad, which runs close to the ri.ver. bank for about a mile nnr wW uc lanueu. ne Knew tie was about two miles from the town. "Now, Jakey," he said, "we'll bivouac right here. As soon as it is light we must set out. Are you sleepy?" "Am I? Reckon I am!" CHAPTER VII. THE CAMPS AT CHATTANOOOA. "Cap." he iid, "I bc'n thlnken I'd likt ter jine the army." At the first sign of dawn Mark awak ened his companion, who was sleeping so soundly that it required a good shake to rouse him. Jakey sat up and rubbed his eyes with his fists while Mark looked abont him. He could see down the river for half a mile, where he noticed bluffs to the water's edge, and thought it was lucky he had not been forced to land there. Beyond were the Raccoon moun tains, while close to the southwest Look out mountain towered above him. After Jakey had completed his fist toilet the only toilet either made Mark led off on the railroad ties to Chatta nooga. The railroad soon left the river bank, and they proceeded in a north easterly direction, striking the town from the south. A great many tents were in sight as they passed along, and Mark judged at once that there was a large force con centrated there. He was tempted to turn aud retrace his steps, for he knew already what he was sent to discover, but to get out was more difficult than to get in, and he was not willing to risk an attempt in the daytime, so he entered the town in which citizen and soldier were alike asleep, and without meeting a soul walked about till he came to n hotel called the Crutchfield house. As he approached the door opened, and a negro boy with a broom in his hand stood in the opening. "Cau 1 git a room?" asked Mark. "No, sah, not till de proprietor waken np." "My little brother is tired; he must go to sleep at once." The boy's eyes opened wide at a dollar bill slipped in his hand. Without a word he took a key from the rack above a desk in the office, aud in a few min utes both travelers were safety lodged, with no one but the negro having seen them euter the town or the house. "So far, so good," said Mark. "Now comes the real racket. By this time to morrow morning I shall be either safe across the river again, or 1 wouldn't give a Confederate bond for my life." After a few hours' sleep be rose, ami ailing Jakey they made a toilet and went down to breakfast. Mark had pur posely neglected to write his name on the register, and hoped that the land lord would not notice the omission. But he did, and the guest entered his name as Mark Slack, Jasper, Tenn. After breakfast he took Jakey and strolled around the town, making pur chases. He thonght it prudent to get some of his greenbacks changed for Con federate bills. He followed the sugges tion Jakey had made at setting out und bought some calico and tobacco and the squirrel gun Jakey had modestly suggested for himself. Mark was not unwilling to have the gun with them, as he thonght it might possibly be of serv ice in case he should get hunted and cornored; but in that event he counted very little on any means of defense ex cept flight or deception. Mark was astonished at the number of officers and soldiers he saw in the streets. He found a new general in command, of whom he had not heard as a prominent leader, Braxton Bragg. He made a circuit of the town and an esti mate of the troops, but this was of little value, for njKm the arrival of trains regiment after regiment marched into camp. Mark stood on the sidewalk hold ing Jakey by the hand, looking at tli6 Confederates tramping along under the stars and bars, their bands, when they had any, which was rare, playing dis cordantly "Dixie" or "The Bonny Bine Flag." "What regiment nir thet 'ar?" asked Mark of a soldier standing beside him puffing at a rank cigar. "Eighth Tennessee." "Whar they all come from?" "Tupelo. Come from thar m'self a spell ago." "Whar y' goen?" "Only old Bragg knows, and he won't tell. Reckon we're goen no'th to Knox ville ter foller th' two brigades ez went up a spell ago." "What troops air all t'nese hyar anil them ez is comen?" "Waal, thar's Cheatham's and With ers' divisions, and 1 reckon Anderson's. 1 saw Giucral Polk terday, 'n they say Hardpe's hyar. I'm in th' Twenty fourth Tennessee m'self, and thet's Cheatham's. Lay's cavalry brigade is hyar. Thet's all the cavalry I know on." 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