THE WEALTH MAKERS
April IS, 1895
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CONTINCED FROM LAST WEEK.
CHAPTER XIV.
- AS UNWELCOME PRI SOSES.
It was 8 o'clock, ia the morning.
Oolooel Maynard pnshed back the tent
flap, intending to step outside and go to
the meat tent for breakfast The bright
ness of the morning teemed reflected in
hia countenance. His itep was firm, his
bearing fall of youthful, manly vigor.
He bad been rapidly gaining the confi
dence of bis officers and waa coming to
bendmired and beloved by bis men. All
misgivings as to hia fitness for his re
sponsible position had melted away.
Colonel Mark Maynard was the man
most to be envied of those do older than
himself in the Army of the Camber
land. He had scarcely passed from his tent
when, glanoing down the road beside
which his camp was located, his atten
tion was arrested by an ambulance com
ing slowly along driven by a man in a
soldier's blouse and smoking a short
day pipe. On either side rode a cav
alryman. The colonel paused to watch
the coming vehicle audits attendants.
Had it not been guarded he would have
supposed it to contain a sick soldier go
ing to hospital As it was, it must ei
ther hold an officer of high rank or a sick
or wounded prisoner. Whatever it con
tained, there came to the man watching
it an uncomfortable feeling that it was
in someway a link between himself and
misfortune. The bright, happy look of
moment before disappeared, to be re
placed by a troubled expression, though
he could not have given a reason for
foreboding. When the ambulance stop
ped opposite his tent, be muttered with
a knitted brow:
"What does this mean?"
One of the attendants dismounted,
went to the door of the ambulance,
opened it and handed out a woman, who
descended to the ground with some dif
ficulty, as though in a weakened condi
tion. The two then came directly to
where Colonel Maynard was standing.
The woman was attired in a striped
ealioo dress. Her head and face were
bare. The colonel knew at a glance that
be had seen her before, but could not
tell where. She walked slowly, for she
seemed scarcely able to drag herself
along, and he had time to study her
features as she came on. The two stop
ped before him. The soldier saluted, and
drawing an envelope from his belt hand
ed it to Colonel Maynard. The colonel
took it without looking at it He was
still studying the features of the wom
an. "A communication from General
colonel," said the man who hand
ed him the paper. As the soldier spoke
Colonel Maynard recognized the woman
he bad met at Mrs. Fain's. His hand
trembled as he grasped the envelope
and tore it open.
HlADQCARTBRS DmSIOK,
Army or th Cumberland, v
Ik THS Fibld, Sept. , 1862. )
Colonel Mark Maynard, Commanding the th
Cavalry Brigade:
Coi)iri I send you woman who this
morning waa caught tampering with the tele
graph line, and who has evidently been tak
ing off our dispatches. Being in transit and
about to move on this morning, I take the lib
erty to send her to you under guard, with the
suggestion that you do with her as seems best
to you. I have use for the limited number of
men present for duty on my escort, and this
ia my apology for troubling you. Yours ia the
nearest oommand to which I can send her. I
am very respectfully your obedient servant,
i ,
, ' Brigadier GeneraL
1 Colonel Maynard read the missive
over twice, slowly, without looking up.
He had not read a dozen words before
he knew that he held in his possession
one whose life was forfeited as his own
life had been forfeited to the Confeder
ates a year before. His keeping his eyes
on the paper was to gain time, to avoid
speaking when his utterance was chok
ed with a strange emotion. His thoughts
were far away. He stood on the bonk of
the Tennessee river below Chattanooga.
It was in the gray of the morning. He
saw a skiff tied to the shore. He jump
ed down to seize it and found himself
among a group of Confederate soldiers.
Personating a member of General
Bragg's staff, he oommanded tbem to
row him across the river. They started
to obey. As they left the shore suddenly
a boat swung around Moccasin point.
It was full of armed men. He was tak
en back to Chattanooga, tried and con
demned to be banged for a spy.
All this passed before his mind's eye
as he stood pretending to study the com
munication before him. not this bare
statement of it, but each detail, each
feeling of hope, fear, despair, as they
rapidly suooeeded eaoh other from the
moment of his capture till his escape
and safe return to the Union lines.
Looking up at last with an expression
of commiseration which surprised the
prisoner, he said:
"Madam, will you please accept my
heartfelt sympathies?"
Miss Baggs, who had already recog
nized Colonel Maynard, simply bowed
her head in acknowledgment without
speaking, but fixing her large dark eyes
upon his. When placed in a similar
position, Maynard had met his enemy's
glance with affected coolness in a vain
, hope of deception. Not so the woman
before him. The time for deception had
passed with her. She was a Charlotte
Corday, knowing that the guillotine
awaited her, a martyr in whose eyes
gleamed the divine light of a willing
sacrifice to a cause she believed to be
sacred.
The colonel spoke apain:
' "Madam," he said, "it ia my duty
to report your case to my commanding
officer for transmission to the headquar
ters of this army. There ia a little house
across the road. If you are able to go
there, yon will be more comfortable
while we are awaiting the reply. "
"As you like, colonel.
"Perhaps it would be better to use
the ambulance."
"I can walk. I would prefer it "
"Will you accept my assistance?"
She took his offered arm, and the two
walked slowly toward a farmhouse a
few hundred yards distant As the colo
nel passed a sentry he directed him to
have the officer of the guard summoned
and sent to him. On reaching the house
and mounting the few steps that led up
to the door, they were received by a
farmer's wife and ushered into a small
sitting room. Bowing to the prisoner,
Colonel Maynard stepped outside to in
struct the guard. It was not essential
that he should hasten, bnt he did not
feel equal to an interview.
After seeing a sentinel posted on each
side of the house Maynard turned to go
to hia teut He was drawn by some un
accountable instinct to look onoe more
at the abode of his prisoner. She was
gazing out at him with a pair of eyes
melancholy, unresisting, full of resigna
tion. What fiend had suddenly thrown this
beautiful woman, this queen of mar
tyrs, Into his keeping, with death star
ing her in the face, and he perhaps to
inflict the penalty? Why, if he must
suffer this turning of the tables by fate,
oould not the victim have been a man,
some coarse creature who would die
ilikeabrute? And why bad it not come
upon him before love had introduced
him to that instinctive delioacy, that
gentleness, those finer heart Impulses of
woman?
"0 God I" he murmured, "suppose
appose she were Laura?"
He could not bear to look and could
not torn away. For a few moments the
two gazed npon each other, while the
woman's natural feminine discernment
told her that she was pitied; told her
something of what Maynard suffered;
that her enemy was really her friend.
She gave him a faint smile in recogni
tion. There was something in the smile
that was even harder for him to endure
than had she shed a tear. Hers was a
winning unite, and her position was so
desperate. She was so brave, so ready
to sacrifice for her struggling people.
She bore her trial with such gentleness,
yet with such firmness.
She was a woman, and she must die.
He turned almost fiercely and strode
back to his tent Beaching it, he found
the man who had brought the prisoner
waiting for him. The soldier saluted
and handed him another envelope.
Why did you not give me this with
the other?" asked Maynard, surprised.
"I handed it to you, colonel, but yon
did not see it "
Maynard stared at the man without
making any reply. He had been preoc
cupied, deprived of his ordinary facul
ties. Opening the envelope, he took
out a small bundle of papers, on the
back of which was indorsed, "Inter
cepted dispatches found on the person
of Elizabeth Baggs, captured Sept
, 1863."
Without looking at their contents he
dismissed the man who had brought
them, and turning went into his tent ,
It was noon before the courier sent to
announce the capture of Miss Baggs
rode up to Colonel Maynard's headquar-
Looking at his prisoner.
ten and handed him a dispatch. It was
as Maynard feared. He was informed
that in the present exigency the matter
could net be given attention at general
headquarters, but it was deemed impor
tant to deal summarily with spies, be
they male or female. He was therefore
ordered to convene a "drumhead"
court martial, try the prisoner, and if
found guilty execute the sentence, what
ever it might be, without delay.
When Colonel Maynard read this or
der, every vestige of color left his face.
He could not believe the evidenoe of his
senses. Was it possible that he, Mark
Maynard, once condemned to be execut
ed for a spy, was called upon to super
intend tbo trial and the execution which
would doubtless follow of another for
the same offense, and that other a wom
an? Tet there were the instructions
duly signed "By order," and only one
meaning oould be attached. He held it
listlessly in his hand for awhile and
then handed it to his chief of staff.
"At what hour shall the court come
together, colonel?"
"I presume at once. The order so di
roots, doesn't it?"
"How about the witnesses?"
"Yon will have to send to the source
from which the prisoner came to us. "
"In that event I will fix tho hour for
8 o'clock this afternoon. The judge ad
vocate will require a little time to pre
pare the charges and specifications."
"As you think best"
Colonel Maynard turned and went
into his tent Hours passed, and he did
not come out "The colonel is in trou
ble," said one. VThey say he was once
in the secret service himself," said an
other. "Then he knows how it is to be
in such a fix as the woman up in that
house." "He's been there." "It was at
Chattanooga a year ago. They say he
brought the news of Bragg's advance
into Kentucky." "Well, if he has to
execute a sentence of death on a spy,
and that spy a woman, I wouldn't be in
his boots for the shoulder straps of a
major general."
And so the comments went on while
th onlnnel kept his tent and Miss Baggs.
peered dreamily out of the window,
watched by guards.
TO BE COSTUTCXD.J
Fntnr Poltta to Great Britain.
Paris, April 8. In the' senate yester
day M. Hanotaux, minister of foreign
affairs, replied to the statements made
In the house of commons March 28 by
Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary sec
retary of the British foreign office, In
regard to the Anglo-French situation
In Africa, which statements were called
forth by the complaint of the British
Royal Niger company that two French
expeditions were trespassing on terri
tory In the Upper Nile valley that is
under British protection. M. Hano
taux said the question would doubt
less be settled amicably. , '
Woman Suffragist Win In Ctah.
Salt Lake City, Utah, April 8. The
woman suffrage article, which waa
passed to third reading by the constitu
tional convention several days ago,
came up again yesterday on a motion
to recommit, with Instructions to pre
sent the question to the people In a dif
ferent article. The motion was lost, 42
to 62, and a vote to adopt the article
was then carried, 75 to 14, and It now
goes to the committee on revision. Un
less the opposition can muster votes
enough to have this action reconsidered
woman suffrage In Utah may be con
idered an accomplished fact
Extra Session Possible.
Lincoln, Neb., April 8. Technically
the legislature adjourned Vt noon yes
terday. When the hour of noon ar
rived Senator Stewart moved that as
the fixed time for adjournment had
arrived the senate do adjourn. The mo
tion was defeated. This action Is be
lieved to mean that the governor may
refuse to recognize anything doneafter
the hour mentioned, and that the mo
tion was made for that purpose.
Should the governor take this course
an extra seBlon would become a neces
sity, as appropriation bills had not
passed at that hour.
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Billiard In Nebraska.
Omaha, Neb., April 8. A general
Storm prevailed yesterday In Nebraska.
In some localities it is a violent dust
storm, In which the air was so filled
with fine particles of sand and dust
that the sun was obscured. In other
localities the dust has given place to
rain, and It Is blown by a severe gale.
In the northwestern part of the state
the storm has become a howling bliz
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Cattle on the ranges will suffer se
verely.
Trouble with Strikers
Jersey City, N. J., April 8. Trouble Is
anticipated among the terra cotta works
strikers at Spa Springs when the efforts
to resume business is made to-day. Gov.
"Werta has been called on for troops to
protect property. The governor has
summoned Malnr General Plume to a
cenferance to be held this morning at
Taylor's hotel, an if there is no change
In the situation for the better troops
will be sent to the pcene at once.
Krots Gun Will Be Tested.
Springfield, 111., April 8. The Krotz
gun, which is attracting wide atten
tion, will be publicly tested here April
19. It is operated wholly by electricity
and shoots 1,600 times a minute. Army
and navy experts will examine It.
Suicide In Hotel. -Kalamazoo,
Mich., April 8. A man
who registered as Frank Robin, South
Haven, Mich., and a woman with him,
whose name is not known, committed
suicide here yesterday.
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EASTERN WAIt ENDING
TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN
CHINA AND JAPAN LIKELY.
Mikado Disposed to Modify His Demands
Retail of hoMlan Protest The Great
Bamr of tho North Growls When III
Approach to the Pacifio Is Barred.
Washington, April 13. The Japanese
legation has received advices from Ja
pan which give color to the belief that
the present truce between the mikado
and the Chinese emperor may be merged
at an early date into a definite treaty
of peace. , ,
The grounds for this hope are only
conjectural; but it is guessed here that
the Japanese plenipotentiaries will
grant or have granted some concessions
from the text of the original demands
of the mikado, which were five In num
ber: L Independence of Oprea.
2. Permanent cession of the 'Island of
Formosa to Japan.
3. Indemnity of 300,000,000 taels (Chi
nese coin worth $1.33).
Permanent occupation of Port Arthur
WfTSBOB afTTTlU H1TO Of lAfAMr
and the Immediately contiguous terri
tory. 5. A new Japan-China treaty opening
the Interior of China to commerce.
It is given out at the Japanese lega
tion that any concessions which have
been made are due to the repeated re
Quests of the Chinese plenipotentiaries.
But there is probably a more forceful
Influence at work than any which can
be exerted from Peking. It looks as If
Japan were yielding before the hostile
attitude of Russia.
It is felt here that Japan cannot af
ford to antagonize Russia to such an
extent as to press for a permanent oc
cupation of Port Arthur and the con
tiguous territory, because If any power
other than China Is to control that dis
trict Russia must be that power. The
czar needs a Pacific seaport and China
has none to give that would be a thou
sandth part as useful to the czar as one
on the east coast of Manchuria, which
Is the Port Arthur territory. Both Rus
sia and China have, therefore, the
strongest reasons for opposing this ex
action of the mikado.
If the Japanese have modified their
demands as to indemnity the pressure
must have come from Great Britain act
ing on behalf of English financial back-
EMPEROR OF CHINA,
ers of the half-Insolvent Manchu dy
nasty. But it is not likely that Euro
pean Interference would be made along
that line, as the amount of the indira
nity Is not exorbitant.
. France alone, or chiefly, is Interested
In the cession of Formosa, which forms
naturally a part of the "Island Em
pire." The question of the Independence
of Corea cannot be one of prime Im
portance to China.
It Is of great moment to Russia, how
ever, because the czar desires a right-
of-way through Corea for the great
trans-Siberian railway, and the Impres
sion has prevailed here that before the
mikado stated the conditions of peace
he had arrived at an understanding
with Russia whereby the latter's right
of railway route through the hermit
kingdom was to be guaranteed. If this
guaranty fail, then Russia will have an
additional reason to oppose Japanese
aggresions at Port Arthur.
If the money demand 300,000,000 taels
has been modified, little importance
Is to be attached to the concession, ex
cept that China's burden will be light
er. It looks now as if, barring some unex
pected hitch in the negotiations, the
end of the China-Japan war had come
and a treaty of peace were In sight.
Should this prove the case, the atti
tude of Russia will have had more to
do In bringing It to pass than any ap
peal of China to the mercy of the vic
tor. Yokohama, April 12. It Is stated here
on reliable authority that unless peace
Is concluded within the period of the
armistice, truce will not be extended
and the Japanese armies will in May
advance upon Peking.
' , City Treasurer Guilty.
Princeton, 111., April 13. City TreaS'
urer James Maranda of Spring Valley
pleaded guilty, to four indictments for
malfeasance in office in the county court
here. The penalty will be fixed by the
court. His prosecution grew out of a
shortage of $3,000 in the city accounts.
Deep Water to the Sea.
St. Paul, Minn., April 13. The senate
adopted a memorial favoring deep wa
terway improvements to the sea. Con
gress Is asked to continue the present
work and to extend the system In the
interest of the business development of
the entire northwest.
New Trial It Denied.
Peoria, 111., April 13. A new trial has
been denied to Julius Schwabacher, who
was convicted of burglary after a long
trial a few days ago, and whose term
of Imprisonment in the penitentiary
was fixed at five years.
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