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XZpr fS . 14 . -4 I; i ft. ;-. Fr 7T-- ',- A as) sasnaWawF ",w U A' HlHKf maffrunaBnn THE DELUGE DAVID GSAHAM PHEUBS.iHfi fm7EFOQSCUr CHAPTER X Continued. But my vanity was not done with me. Led on by it, I. proceeded to hare oae of those ridiculous "generous im pulses" I persuaded myself that there must be some decency in this liberality, in addition to the prudence which I flattered myself was the chief cause. "I have been unjust to Roe buck." I thought "I have been mis judging his character." And incredi ble though it seems, I said to him with a good deal of genuine emotion: "I don't know how to thank you. Mr. Roebuck. And. instead of trying. I want to apologize to you. I have thought many hard things against you; liave spoken some of them. I had better have been attending to my own conscience, instead of criticising yours." "Thank you. Blacklock." said he. in a voice that made me feel as if I were a little boy in the crossroads church, believing I could almost see the an gels floating above the heads of the singers in the choir behind the preacher. "Thank you. I am not sur prised that you have misjudged me. God has given me a great work to do, and those who do His will in this wicked world must excct martyrdom. I should never have had the courage to do what I have done, what He has done through me, had He not guided my every step." XI. ANITA. On my first day in long trousers I tnay have been mere ill at ease than I was that Sunday evening at the Ellcrslys. but I doubt it When I came into their big drawing room and took a look around at the assembled guests, I never felt more at home in my life. "Yes," said I to myself, as Mrs. Ellersly was greeting me and as I noted the friendly inter est in the glances of the women, '"this is where I belong. I'm beginning to come into my own." As I look back on it now, I can't re frain from smiling at my own simpli city and snobbishness. For. so de termined was I to believe what I was working for was worth while, that I actually fancied there were upon these in reality ordinary people, ordinary in looks, ordinary in intelligence, some subtle marks of superiority, that made them at a glance superior to the com mon run. This ecstasy of snobbish ness deluded me as to the women only for, as I looked at the men, I at once felt myself their superior. They were an inconsequential, pat terned lot. I even was better dressed than any of them, except possibly Mowbray Langdon. and if he showed to more advantage than I. it was be cause of his manner, which, as I have probably said before, is superior to that of any human being I've ever seen man or woman. "You are to take Anita in." said Mrs. Ellersly. With a laughable sense that I was doing myself proud. I crossed the room easily and took my stand in front of her. She shook hands with me politely enough. Langdon was sitting beside her; I had interrupted their conversation. c "Hello. Blacklock!" said Langdon. with a quizzical, satirical smile with the eyes only. "It seems strange to see you at such peaceful pursuits." His glance 'traveled over me critically and that was the beginning of my trouble. Presently he rose, left me lone with her. "You know Mr. Langdon?" she said, obviously because she felt she must say something. "Oh. yes." I replied. "We are old friends. What a tremendous swell he is really a swell." This with enthu siasm. She made no comment. I debated with myself whether to go on talking of Langdon. 1 decided against it be cause all I knew of him had to do with matters down town and Monson had impressed it upon me that down town was taboo in the drawing-room. I rummaged my brain in vain for an other and suitable topic. She fU and I stood she tranquil and beautiful and cold. I every instant more miserably self-conscious. When the start for the dining-room was made I offered her my left arm, though I had carefully planned be forehand just what I would do. She without hesitation and. as I know now. out of sympathy for me in my suffer ing was taking my wrong arm. when it flashed on me like a blinding biow in the face that I ought to be on the other aide of her. I got red. trippea in the far-sprawling train of Mrs. Langdon. tore it slightly, tried to get to the other side of Miss Ellersly by walking in front of her. recovered myself somehow, stumbled round be hind her. walked on her train and finally arrived at her left side, con scious in every red-hot atom of me that I was making a spectacle of myself and that the whole company was enjoying it. I must have seemed to them an ignorant boor; in fact. I had been about a great deal among people who knew how to behave, and had I never given the matter of how to conduct myself on that particalar occasion an instant's .thought. I should have got on without the least trouble. It was with a sigh of profound re lief that I sank upon the chair be tween Miss Ellersly and Mrs. Lang don; safe from danger of making "breaks." so I hoped, for the rest of the evening. But within a very few minntes J realised that my little mis adventure had unnerved me. My hands were trembling so that I could scarcely lift the soup spoon to my lips, and my throat had got so far beyond control that I had difficulty in swallowing. Miss Ellersly and Mrs. Langdon were each busy with the man on the other side of her; I was mft to my own reflections, and I was not sure whether this made me more or leas uncomfortable. To add to my torment, I grew angry, with myself. I looked up and down and cross the big table, noted all these self-satisfied people perfectly at their ease; and I said to myself: "What's the matter with you. Matt? They're only men and women, and by no means the best specimens of the breed. You've got more brains than all of 'em put to gether, probably; is there one of the tot that could get a job at good wages if thrown on the world? What do you care what they think of you? It's a damn sight more important -what you think of them, as it won't be many years before you'll hold everything they value, everything that makes them of consequence, in the hollow of your hand." When the ladies withdrew, the other men drew together, talking of people I did -not know and of things I did not care about I thought then that they were avoiding me deliberately as a flock of tame ducks avoids a wild one that some wind has accidentally blown down among them. I know now that my forbidding aspect must have been responsible for my isolation. How- .mVsnVSln5 sjsssssssjsiSmnnnnjigsjggssjsssssssssssi ns9mm2smwBnmmBmK9mVar Bn Mil TBTgsfe--By a wJ yTwmnmnmmssssssmnn m , - 5?$ Mf VrmVnwl I "SHE LOOKED AT ever, I sat alone, sullenly resisting old Ellersly's constrained efforts to get me 'into the conversation, and angrily suspicious that Langdon was enjoying my discomfiture more than the cigar ette he was apparently absorbed iu. Old Ellersly, growing more and more nervous before my dark and sul len look, finally seated himself beside me. "I hope j-ou'll stay after the others have gone." said he. "They'll leave early, and we can have a quiet smoke and talk." All unstrung though I was. I yet had the desperate courage to resolve that I'd not leave, defeated in the eyes of the one person whose opinion I really cared about. "Very well," said I, in reply to him. He and I did not follow the others to the drawing-room, but turned into the library adjoining. From where I seated myself I could see part of the drawing-room saw the others leav ing, saw Langdon lingering, ignoring the impatient glances of his wife. while he talked on and on with Bliss Ellersly. At last Langdon arose. It irritated me to see her color under that in different fascinating smile of his. It irritated me to note that he held her hand all the time he was saying good by. and the. fact that he held it as if he'd as lief not be holding It hardly lessened my longing to rush in and knock him down. What he did was all in the way of perfect good man ners, and would have jarred no one not supersensitive, like me aad like his wife. I saw that she. too, was frowning. In an aimless sort of way Miss Ellersly, after the Laagdons had dis appeared, left the drawing-room by the same door. Still' aimlessly wan dering, she drifted into the library by the hall door. As I rose, she lifted her eyes, saw me. and drove away the frown of annoyance which came over her face like the faintest haze. Ia fact it 'may have existed only in my imagination. She opened a large, square silver box on the table, took oat a cigarette, lighted it aad holding it with the smoke lazily curling up from it between the long slenderfirst and second fingers of her white hand, 1 Stood idly taming the leaves of a mag azine. I threw my cigar into-the areDlaa.?nMaaghsoasd as it struck nurnW juntp.sw, that, neath her surface of serf set cal was in a nervosa state'fall as toss y ow. . 3 "Yon smoke?" saM L "Sometimes,'' she repMsd. It to soothing and distracting. I dent h0W4.it ,i.,wkh nfhnm, hat , whaaa smoke my pdasTis ste.pmpty." "It's a nasty habtt smoking.' said L . -"' "Do you think -soTT Seldshe," with the slightest lift toner (one ami her eyebrows. "Especially for a woman.' I west on, because I could think of nothing else to say, and would not, at amy cost, let this conversation, so hard to begin, die out. "Your are one of those men who have one code for themselves and an other for women, she replied. "I'm a man," said h "All stem have the two codes." "Not all." said she after a pause. "All men of decent ideas," said I with emphasis. "Really?" said she, in a tone that irritated me by suggesting that what I said was both absurd and unimpor tant "It is the first time I've ever seen a respectable woman smoke," I went on. powerless to change the subject though conscious. I was getting tedi ous. "I've read of such things, hut I didn't believe." "That is interesting." said she, her tone suggesting the reverse. "I've offended you by saying frank ly what I think," said I. "Of course, it's none of my business." "Oh, no." replied she carelessly. "I'm not in the least offended. Preju dices always interest me." I saw Ellersly and his wife sitting in the drawing-room, pretending to talk to each other. I understood that they were leaving me alone with her deliberately, and I began to suspect ME-JUST LOOKED." she was in the plot I smiled, and my courage and self-possession returned as summarily as they had fled. "Fm glad of this chance to get bet ter acquainted with you." said I. "I've wanted it ever since I first saw you." As I put this to her directly, she dropped her eyes and murmured some thing she probably wished me to think vaguely pleasant "You are the first woman I ever knew,-" I went on. "with whom it was hard for me to get' on any sort of terms. I suppose it's my fault 1 don't know this game yet But I'll learn it. if you'll be a little patient; and when I do. I 'think I'll be able to keep up my end." She looked at me just looked. I couldn't begin to guess what was going on in that gracefully-poised head of hers. Studying Human Nature, But in the End the Crowd Drank With Both Betters. W. H. Milbarn and several friends were walking along Sixteenth street the'other day when one of them picked up a woman's handkerchief made of lace. "What shall I do with it?" he asked. "Put it on the mail box at the cor ner and watch some poor woman steal it" suggested another of the party. "It won't be a poor woman who steals it" said Mr. Milburn. "It will be some woman of means." "Ill bet you it won't be a well-to-do woman." came from the other. ' "What will you bet?" "Refreshments for the crowd." "Done." said Mr. Milbarn. The handkerchief was placed oa the mail hex at Sixteenth and California aad the men retired n few feet to see what would take place, says the Denver Post Several poorly dressed women went by aad saw the handkerchief, but none made any move to get it At the end of four or five miautes a stylishly dressed woman came along . . &. r.t 1 wm u w wm ui r MM I with directness. tinned to look at me in that 3 steady, pawling way. "Win yon?" I repeated. "I have no choice." said she slowly. I lashed. "What does that meaar She threw a harried and, it to me, frightened glance toward the drawing-room. "I maa't intend to af- fead yon," she said ia a low votes. "You have been sack a good frisad to papa Tve no right to feel anything but friendship for you." "I'm glad to hear yoa say that." said I. And I was; for those words of hers were the first expression of ap preciation and gratitude I had ever got from any member of that family which I was holding np from raja. I put oat my hand, and she laid hers in it "There isn't anything I wouldn't do to earn your friendship. Miss Aaita," I said, holding her hand tightly, feel ing how lifeless it was, yet feeling, too, as if a flaming torch were being borne through me. were lighting a fire ia .every vein. The scarlet poured into her face and neck, wave on wave, until I thought it would never cease to come She snatched her hand away and from her face streamed proud resentment God, how I loved her at that moment! "Anita! Mr. Blacklock!" came from the other room, in her mother's voice. "Come in here and save us old people from boring each other to sleep." She turned swiftly and went into the other room, I following. There were a few minutes of conversation a mon ologue by her mother. Then I ceased to disregard Ellersly's less and less covert yawns, and rose to take leave. I could not look directly at Anita, but I was seeing that her eyes were fixed on me, as if by some compulsion, some sinister compulsion. I left in high spirits. "No matter why or how she looks at you," said I to myself. "All that is necessary is to get yourself no ticed. After that the rest is easy. You must keep cool enough always to remember that under this glamour that intoxicates you, she's a woman, just a woman, waiting for a man." XII. "UNTIL TO-MORROW." A week passed and. just as I was within sight of my limit of patience. Bromwell Ellersly appeared at my of fice. "I can't put my hand on the necessary cash, Mr. Blacklock at least, not for a few days. Can I count on your further indulgence?" This in his best exhibit of old-fashioned court liness the "gentleman" through and through, ignorant of anything useful. "Don't let that matter worry you, Ellersly," said I, friendly, for I wanted to be on a somewhat less business-like basis with that family. "The market's steady, and will go up before it goes down." "Good!" said he. "By the way, yoa haven't kept your promise to call." "I'm a busy man," said I. "You must make my excuses to your wife. But in the evenings. Couldn't we get up a little theater party Mrs. Ellersly and your daughter and you and I Sam, too, if he cares to come?" "Delightful!" cried he. "Whichever one of the next five evenings you say," I said. "Let me know by to-morrow morning, will youT And we talked no more of the neglected margins; we understood each other. When he left he had ne gotiated a three months' loan of twenty thousand dollars. They were so surprised that they couldn't conceal it when they were ushered into my apartment on the Wednesday evening they had fixed upon. If my taste in dress was some what too pronounced, my taste in my surroundings was not I suppose the same instinct that made me like the music and the pictures and the books that were the products of superior minds had guided me right in archi tecture, decoration and furniture. I was pleased out of all proportion to its value by what Ellersly and his wife looked and said. But though I watched Miss Ellersly closely, though I tried to draw from her some com ment on my belongings on my pic tures, on my superb tapestries, on the beautiful carving of my furniture I got nothing from her beyond that first look of surprise and pleasure. Her face resumed its statuelike calm, her eyes did not wander, her lips, like a crimson bow painted upon her clear, white skin, remained closed. She spoke only when she was spoken to, and then as briefly as possible. Th dinner and a mighty good dinner it was would have been memorable for strain and silence had not Mrs. Ellers ly kept up her incessant chatter. I can't recall a word she said, but I ad mired her for being able to talk at all. I knew she was in the same state as the rest of us, yet she acted perfectly at her ease, and not until I thought it over afterward did I realize that she had done all the talking except an swers to her occasional and cleverly-" sprinkled direct questions. (To-be continued.) and noticed the prize. She glanced about her and then took the hanker chief. Around the corner she stepped into her automobile. "There," said v. Milburn, "what did I tell your' "You win." said the man that had the other end of the bet - Just then they heard the woman snealr to her chauffeur. "I lost my handkerchief. John." she said, "but found it again on that mail box. Wasn't I lucky?" "Hold on." said the man who had bet with Mr. Milburn. when the auto had gone. "I don't know whether I tost that bet or not" "To tell the truth, neither do I," re plied Mr. Milburn. "Then I think you both-ought to pay the bet said another member of ths party. And so it came to pass. He Knew Maria, "I could tell you what I think of yoa in a very few words." "True, you could, Maria," responded Mr. Meekraan. "But you won't Maria, you woa't CRIME IN Process of the Evolution, of the Crimincil From Boy- . hood Traced v - e i Few: "When I first came into this office under Inspector Byrnes," began In spector Mclaughlin, "yoa could count the Italian criminals in New York on your lagers. But now" He pushed sack his chair aad looked squarely at me, writes Frederick Boyd Steven son la the Brooklyn Eagle. "Now no one knows how many there are. It is the same with all other nationalities they have increased so rapidly that it is almost impossible to keep track of them." "And Is there a proportionate in; crease in the criminals in other large cities of the United States?" ' "UaqaesUoaably. The fact of the increase ia New York would Indicate that New York-is the .clearing house for crime in America. It not only is the starting out place, but it is the winding up place. New York has a much larger criminal population than any other city in America, and prob ably, than any other in the world. The crime problem in New York Is getting away with us. and it has ar rived at the point where we must do something, and do it promptly." "What is the first step?" "The first step," said the inspector decisively, "is to drive the crooks out of New York city." Has No High-Flown Theories. "But how about otner cities and other states?" I queried. Then it was that the trait of the old M" thief catcher came to view. He smiled cynically as he said: '1 am interested in driving the thieves out of New York city. Let the other cities take similar methods. If they would all do that the criminals would have to go to work. I would have them earn their livelihoods as honest men do or put them all behind the bars." "Then you do not believe in the in determinate sentence as advocated by the Prison association?" He shook his head. "Nor probation?" "See here," he said suddenly, and he set his jaw flrmlv. "Not one habit ual 'criminal out of a hundred ever reforms. Once a crook, always a crook, is an old saying that I have found to hold perfectly good. Some years ago a well known thief came to me and said he wanted to reform and earn an honest livelihood, and I helped him. He secured a place in the house of a wealthy woman. Not long after that he stole the woman's diamonds. When he was brought be fore me he said: 'I couldn't help steal ing those diamonds. I meant to be honest, but when I saw them in the drawer I .couldn't resist the tempta tion to take them.' That is the case with the majority of criminals. Now and then you may find an old crim inal who wants to reform. But those cases are exceedingly rare." This feeling is shared by about all the men who are engaged in the occu pation of running down criminals and endeavoring to prevent the perpetra tion of crime. Robert Pinkerton once expressed practically the same views to me, and only the other day Samuel J. Barrows, corresponding secretary of the Prison Association of New York, told a story where he was made the victim of a pretended reformed crim inal. The man had come to him with a tale' of reform; a small loan was made to him and repaid, followed by confidence resulting in the advance of quite a sum of money for goods to set him up in business. Since that ad vance no word has been heard from the so-called reformed criminal: The incident however, did not affect Mr. Barrows'-faith, for he still believes there Is good in many criminals and that assistance should be given to them.to reform. But with the profes sional thief catcher, it is a different matter. They "are daily brought in contact, with such a low order of hu manity aad dally see the lowest side THE SADDEST Confederate Soldier. Returning Home at Close of Civil Conflict Shot By His Father. Who Mistook Him for Straggler From the 'Army Bent on Robbery--Tragedy ''Revested at Close of Joyous Gathering. "The saddest war story that ever occurred has never been fully told so far as I kabw," said a maa who fol lowed Lee to the surrender at Ap pomattox. "I believe that Mrs. Chest ant ia her 'Diary from Dixie' made a brief mention of the incident "The soldier had enlisted in Georgle from his home, where his father remained-undisturbed during the strug gle. "The1 'young maa had fought through the war without a scratch, save a slight wound which left him slightly deaL This aflUctton he had never referred to ia aay of his letters. "After the surrender he communi cated with his father, sayiag he would 3a ' $ , la -&WJ. OUR LARG&emES av.s. By Inspector McLaughlin of New iThatidty Clearing House for Crime Reformations Recorded. V" f ' v of degraded Jraamal&'jMf that they naturally become lausdilsaa " whoa reform aad crime arejlakmi together. Pathology of Crime. But nevertheless, there Is "adnata otogy of crime. The psychology of the thief or the psychology of the mur derer not only is aa interesting study, but it is also a scientific study. v Aad coupled with the psychological is the physical side of tbo problem. If yoa suggest to the professions I thief catcher-the possibility of heredity or atav ism, nine times out of tea he will re ply positively: "No; a thief is a thief just because he Is a thief that's all." But back of the surface indications specialists are beginning to trace a cause and a possible cure for crime. The cure does not perhaps, lie ia aay great reform movement that can reach the habitual criminals of today. It lies, rather, in a cure for the future. It is not difficult to trace the causes of crime. They may be expressed ia a few general words: Pauperism, en vironment, physical disease, insanity, with all it sociologic relations; politi cal corruption, anarchy and false eco nomic and industrial conditions. As an elementary course in the synthesis' of crimes one needs but to take a glance almost any morning at the faces in the "line-up" of criminals at New York police headquarters. There you will see the young criminal just starting out on his career of crime, and there you will see the old and seared thief and murderer aad all around lawbreaker, with intermediate specimens between the first and the worst stages. In the faces of nearly all the habitual criminals the pur suits of the men and the women can be read like an open book. In the faces of the younger offenders the reader is often stopped with a query. There is a mixture of good and evil. General Criminal Types. New York criminal types may be taken as general types throughout the world. The extent to which this class prevails in the United States was shown by the complete census of 1890, when there were 215.000 criminals, in sane persons and paupers in alms houses, in adition to 3,000,000 paupers at large in the United States. Since then these numbers have been greatly augmented. This nation expends something like $200,000,000 a year to protect the good from the bad. In other words every honest man is com pelled to pay from $3 to $5 annually in order to receive protection from the criminal classes and It frequently hap pens that even then he is not protect ed. The evolution of the criminal is the natural result of the present sys tem In regard to the care or rather the lack of care of the children of the poor. The boy of honest poor per sons is allowed to play ia the street with the boy of the criminal and the degenerate. With these vicious asso ciations the result is a criminal or a drunkard. If a boy like this becomes a man and .has children what chance have these children to become .honest and useful citizens? Professor Poellmann, of the Univer sity of Bonn, investigated the charac ters of the descendants of a woman who was a confirmed drunkard. He traced her descendants for six gener ations through a posterity numbering 834 persons, and obtained a record of 709 of them. He found that 107 were of illegitimate birth, 162 were profes sional beggars, 64 Inmates of alms houses, 181 women of bad repute, 76 convicted of serious crimes, and seven convicted of murder. Another statis ticianthe Rev. O. McCultoch traced the histories of 1.750 criminals and paupers who were descended from a WAR STORY reach home .on or about a certain date. Travel then was uncertain and "As many of the old time neighbors as were living in the vicinity were invited to the home coming of the re turning, soldier. The ex-Confederate arrived" on the old .plantation the night before the earliest date he had mea tloned In his last letter. It was late and his father and the 'family had re tired. "The only creature on the old place that seemed to be awake was a dog. As the soldier-entered the gate of the J grounds the dog began barkiag. "The sound aroused the owaer of the manor. The country was overraa with stragglers, some of whom had not hesitated to commit burglary. "The father of the returning hoy arose. He stood ia his doorway with his shotgun aad challenged the ap proaching stranger, as he supposed. "The young maa, beiag deaf, made no reply, but continued oa his wsy. criminal who lived la 17f. aad he ascertained that these descendants, nearly aB of ' were criminals, 121 had repute. Ia tracing S34 i ants of two sisters who dtod ia ID the Rev. Dr. Stocker of Berha fowaaV that 76 of them had served 116 yeara la prison. 164 ware women of had re pute. 106 were illegitimate children. 17 were degenerates, 142 saggars ami 64 paapers. Three Tenets of Crime. Dr. G. Frank Lydstoa, professor off criminal anthropology of the Chicago Kent College of Lsw, says there are three tenets of crime: "1. The criminal and vice are the product of certain li of heredity, congenital disease, sad unfavorable surroundings involving pernicious teaching ample, physical necessities and other social maladies. "2. The influences result la a class of persons of tow grade of develop ment physically and mentally, with a defective understanding of "their true relations to the social system ha which they live. Such persons havo no true conception of that variable thing called morality, and, ia the caao of the criminal, no respect whatever for the rights of others, save in so far; as it may be compelled by fear of punishment. Some become crimiaals, some paupers, inebriates or insane. "3. These subjects are character ized. upon the average, by certaia ' anomalies of development that consti tute the so-called stigmata, or marks of degeneracy. In them, vice, crime, and disease go hand in hand." Dr. Lydston classifies criminals un der the following heads: 1. Instinctive criminals: Bora criminals, the moral Imbecile, or so- called moral instane, the stable fac tor in criminality. 2. Criminals by impulse: The oc casional criminal, criminals by pas sion, criminals from accidental or in tercurrent factors of disease, in ebriety,, necessity, or social excite ment . 3. Epileptic and insane criminals. 4. Political crimiaals. What Is the Remedy? Now, the- analysis of crime is aH well enough in its way. but the prac tical, citizen asks: What Is the rem edy for crime? The increase la the United States, and especially In New York city, shows the necessity of some remedy. Inspector McLaughlia admits that the criminals are almost beyond control in that city, and ho believes that the law is to blame for this condition of affairs. The Inws are numerous enough, for there are-ha the United States S24 anti-social acts classified as crimes, but the case ha wishes to reach is not reached by a specific law. The inspector wants a law that will provide that whoever has been convicted of a felony, or whoever has been convicted as a pick- tAyjsnm nMMMMMMnMMMMMMMMi pocket, thief or burglar, having a visible means of support, found loiter ing about public places or on the streets and unable to give a satisfac tory explanation of bis presence, may be imprisoned for not more than sta months. On the other hand, the sociologist will ask: , "How will such a law prevent crime?" When the criminal Is horn, society does nothing to prevent him from con tinuing n criminal. la a period of 4 years in the last century statistics show that the population of this coun try Increased 176 per cent while the proportion of criminals increased 445 per cent This does not took as if we had treated the crime problem with aay great degree of Intelligence. Be not afraid to associate with year fellow workman. Work has no caste. The man In the doorway raised his gun aad fired. The stranger fell dead. "The father summoned his family and the few remaining servants of the plantation. Aa iavesUgatioa was held and the tragic truth revealed. "The father, of coarse, was solable. He returned to his while his servants carried-the Hmmss form of his hoy to the homer that had been awaiting his coming. "The next day the invited guests begaa to arrive. The father had given orders that the tragedy should not be mentioned until he himself told It - "I do not recall what explanation was made to the guests as to the ab sence of him whom they' were to he-' or. Bat after the repast ther ware told, and then they filed past the dead. "The body was wiapped.ia 'the flag for which the bravo young maa had fought The community was used to funerals. Every private burial ground had a grave made by the unhappy war. Bat no funeral like this had ever taken place ia the vicinity, ami I doubt If it ever had a counterpart ia aay state, North or South. 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