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CHAPTER I.
SO MAN'S LAND.
It was the twentieth of August, eight
een hundred and sixty-two. Corinth had
been evacuated more than two months
before. The Army of the Ohio had moved
eastward into northern Alabama. The
president and eminent Union generals
were anrious as to east Tennessee, where,
it was rumored, the Confederates were
preparing for some new move.
High in the Cumberland mountains a
soldier in the blue and yellow uniform
of a private of cavalry sat on his horse,
looking down on the valleys of the Se
quatchie and the Tennessee. A carbine
was slung over his shoulder; a Colt's re
volver was at his hip. He was long and
lithe and graceful. About him was an
air of refinement seldom found under a
private's uniform except during that
war which called out men from all
classes, both in the north and in the
south. His hair was light; his blue eye
was restless and denoted its possessor
to be a man of great mental and phys
ical activity.
While there was something statuesque
in the appearance of the man and the
horse, they presented a marked contrast,
accoutered as they were for war, with
the peaceful fjpnes before them and
about them. Not a 'sound was to 4
heard up there in the mountains, except
such as came from the insects or the
birds. The equestrian figure mounted
on its lofty pedestal was the personilica
tion of war in solitudei '
, if. - -
"(Jo, an.d Ood bless yrmt" Tic mid.
As the soldier gazed down upon the
expansive view different expressions
Bitted across his tace. At one moment
tfiere was a serious look, such as men
wear on the eve of battle; at another a
shrinking expression; then a dreamy one.
He saw territory that lay beyond the
Dpion lines. He wondered what war
like scenes were hidden down there
within the blending, of roclta and rivers
and undulations, lying calm and sweet
before him that summer afternoon.
Were clusters of white tents there?
Were brigades, divisions, army corps
inarching?
Now he thought he could hear a dis
tant creaking of caissons and gun car
riages. But he know this could not be.
If they were there, they .were too far to
be heard. The sounds never became
real. The yonng man's fancies were al
ways broken by the actual rustle of the
leaves or some sound from the furred
or feathered inhabitants of the moun
tains. Then a scene he had passed through
the previous evening came up betore '!
, him. i
i He stood in the presence of a general '
t if division the finest specimen of phys-
ic il splendor of all the generals of the
Un "ton army one Who was a year later "
to t v;hreve the title of "the Roek of
Chick '?mauf?a'" The eeneral was speak
ki, wl ile his subordinate was listening .
respect, '.ully and attentively.
"I ain ordered by the department com-
mander 1 ' finfl ou' what is.?oi.nJfl at
ClSittanoo, Uur reconnouenng par
ties have tl ma far br0"K!lt U8 nothing
save that ti ere is no enemy very near
We are liable to be ftankl?d a,n,J cnt ff
from east Te. ""iesse Srf here!.
turned to a mat ' f 'f'1 out on P"16
ble. "Here is Chattanooga; here the
Sequatchie vallev, lPhe Zl
is- KnoxviUo, helu ' ' neral Kirby
Smith for the Co. f tes. Here is
Cumberland gap. 1. tho .ny wcon
centrating at cUtM. .'. y
only, hold it against a treat y superior
force, but can march ri, f!'n "ru
-he. traced the route w. hlf "Bf"
"forra a janotion With fie. b,mthttt
Knorville, and into Kwti ,LfjUl8
vllle and Cincinnati will 1 m ,liinT:
Forrest and Jlorgan.are hai n
our communications j. we get . Tcp,
Immense forces of the enemy A-nnx-viUe;
everj-thing prAits to" this r?mj
similar plan of campaign on the 'f".
the Confederates. If so, they m
concentrating at 'Chattanooga as a v-c
of rendezvous." ,,
The general vansed; then liking 'lue
aoldier in the eye said impressively:
5 ,' t
x ou are ine only man to wnom i cvm
intrust so important a mission. Itasil
order you, as yon know, beyond our
lines, except in. uniform. Go as far as
you dare as a soldier; 1 leave the rest to
you. Will you undertake to bring me
the information we'requireT
"I will, general."
"Very well. The fate of this army,
the success of the Union arms in the
west, perhaps the prolongation at the
war, depend, upon yon."
The young man bowed, but said noth
ing. "You will need a pass to get beyond
our pickets." The general drew a camp
chair beside a pine table and took up a
pen. "How will you have it written?'
" 'Pass Private Mark Malone' that
name will do as well as any 'beyond
our lines at will.'"
The general wrote the pass and hand
ing it to Private Malone, "Qo, and God
bless youl" he said. He took his emis
sary's hand and pressed it heartily.
As the words, "Go, and God bless
youl" rang again in- memory the soldier
touched the flanks of his horse lightly
with his great brass spurs and begau to
descend the mountain.
An hour later he entered the little
town of Jasper. Riding up to the tavern
be reined in his horse and lot him drink
at the rough wooden trough in' front.
A number of country . people were sit
ting on the veranda, and every one. fixed
bis eyes .on the soldier, who sat on his
horse looking about him with as much
apparent lndiHerence as il he were with
in the Union lines. When the animal
had drunk his fill bis rider cast the reins
to a negro and dismounted. Then, de
taching his carbine from where he had
hooked it to his saddle, he took it in his
hand and tramped into the house to the
jingle of his spurs.
Not a word was spoken by those wateh
ing in admiration the strapping young
fellow with so young a face set on so
stalwart a frame. He paid no attention
to them, but walked into the dining room
and called for supper. After devoting
himself to a plate of bacon and corn
bread, with a cup of chicory in lieu of
coffee (for the blockade, of the Bouthern
ports had stopped the flow of the coffee
bean from foroign countries), he walked
out on the gallery, and seating himself
on a wooden bench took a brierwood
pipe and a tobacco pouch out of his
pocket and began to smoke.
Jasper was "no man's land." The peo
ple living there and thereabout were
nearly all Confederate sympathizers,
but had learned to look for Union or
Confederate troops with an equal chance
of either. From the moment of the sol
dier's arrival they had discussed Tiis
coming in whispers. Soldiers of either
side usually came in numbers. It was
seldom that a single trooper had the
hardihood to enter the town of Jasper
alone, especially one wearing the blue.
Presently an old man dressed in "but
ternut" got up from his seat among the
loungers and approached the stranger
for the purpose of reconnoiter:
"Reckon y' come from Decherd,
Yank?"
"Thereabout."
"Over the mountains?"
"Yes."
"You uns got many sojersoverthar?"
"Where?"
"At Sparty."
"No."
"Murfreesboro?"
"1 don't know."
"Reckon thar's a powerful sight at
McMinnvill'e?"
"A division perhaps."
The man paifsed a moment and then
went on:
"Thet's an all fired pert rifle o'yourn.
Wouldn't mind lotten me handle it,
would y'?"
Mark cocked the piece, took off the
cap and handed it to his interrogator.
Ho still had his revolver, while the man
had a weapon which could not be fired
withont a percussion cap.
"Waal, now, thet's quar."
The man looked from the rifle to the
soldier, not knowing which to admire
most the mechanism of the former or
the coolness of tho Tatter. Then he
handed it back.
"You ain't no Yank."
"Why not?"
"Yanks don't come down hyar all
alone. Besides a Yankee' v ojer wouldn't
ride a blooded male like that a-one.
Morgan's men rides them kind o' critters
and wears thera uniforms sometimes."
Mark smiled knowingly.
"You tliink I'm one of Colonel Mor
gan's men, do you?"
"lsw-kon yer one o' ourn anyway."
And the. man walked aWay well satis
fied with his penetration.
The soldier got up, went into the tav
ern ai:d paid for his supper with one of
tho pi.stal (ihinplasters used at the time
in liei. of silver; then ho came out and
called for his horse. While waiting he
stood leaning against a post of the gal'
lery,- maintaining tne same easy eonn
dence that had1 characterized him since
his arrival. Presently a negro came
around from the barn, leading tho slen
der legged mare, and the soldier, saun
tering up to her leisurely, stroked her
neck; then mounting, withont once
looking at his observers, he rode away.
But private Malone's' conlidencewas
all assumed. He did not start on the
road he designed to, follow; he trotted
oil up the valley, intending later to find
a path or a crossroad which would take
him southward to the Chattanooga pike.
He suspected that the group he was
leaving would not suffer him to ride
that night in safety, and he did not care
to let them know,his true route. j
MarVtrotted on up the road while the
daylight was fading. 'He was musing
upon the difficult, the hazardous task
before him. The road was deserted ex
cept by, himself; .the evening was '(till,
and his horse's hoofs beat loud on tire
stones beneath hitn. When he was riding-In
tti9 one'u he felt comparatively
eonfidf nt, but upon entering a thicket
he wchild uneasily reach down and put
hie hand upon his rifle. He knew the
bushwhacker of the period, and fancied
that a rifle or a shotgun lurked behind
very tree. ' A"mid the peaceful quiet-of
a summer evening in the country It whs
strange that one should look for death.
None but a practiced scout would have
been thus on the alert.
The twilight was nearly faded. Mark
had gone about three miles from. the
tavern when, nearing a fork in the road,
he heard:
"Halt, tharl"
Instinctively his hnd went to the
handle of his revolver, for the sotftid
was near enough to indicate that a pis
tol rather than a rifle might be needed.
Air you uns the sojer ez tuk Bupper
at the tavern at Jasper?" asked a voice,
singularly soft for a bushwhacker.
"Well, Buppose I ami
"I know y' from yer voice."
"How's that?" asked the soldier, puz
zled.
Kind o' deep and smoothlike. Y
mought as waal put up yer shooten iron.
I got a bead on y .'
Mark could see ho one, but judging
from the voice of the speaker his alarm
partially subsided.
'hi reckoned y' mought come along
hyar, so I jist squatted and waited."
"Well, what do you want with me?"
"I'm one o' the Slacks. We're Union,
we Slacks air. They're goen to drive us
out 'soon, I reckon."
"Union, eh? What are you man,
woman, boy or gal?"
"I'm a gal."
"The dievkens! What are you stopping
me for at the muzzle of a gun?"
"Lor.dyl H6W'd I know y'? Y' mought
'a' ben a bushwhacKer. I war at tile toy
ern wfiar y' tuk supper. The landlord's
wife, she's my aunt. I sor jr come in
and henrn y' - tulken to old Venables.
They reckoned y' war Confederate till
y' paid in Yankee shinplasters; then
they reckoned y' niought be Yankee
after all"
Mark bogan to be interested. It was
now evident to him that this person en
sconced'behind a snake fence, holding
him under cover of a gun, was a friend
instead of an enemy.
"Well?"
"I kemout hyar to tell y' 'bout it."
"Then let me see you as well as hear
you."
A figure with a gun-climbed over, the
fence and advanced toward the soldier.
When it came near enough Mark saw a
Hrl who might ,be anywhere between
sixteen, and eighteen, for her skirt
only reached,to the tops of her shoes,
and her hair was cut square around her
neck. She came very near to him and
spoke in a low tone:
'After y left the tavern some on om
lowed y' was Union,.and some on 'em
lowed y' was Confederate; leastaways,
they wasn't sartin. Uncle, he's bad
secosh, and he 'lowed y' was Union-and
bound on Some errant fur the Yankees.
So he pursuaded several cm 'em ter
mount n follow y;. They was gitten
ready, and I slipped out to the barn and
tuk my pony, what I rode over on this
afternoon, 'n Jakey's squirrel gun
(Jakoy's my brother), what I alius car
ries when I ride ronnd In these hyar
war times, n I makes trackscross coun
try by a trail 1 alius goes to uncle's 'n
conies hum agin while the men air
comen by the road. I jest rode Bally
Maria among the trees thar and tied her
and squatted behind the fence till y
eome along and Lordy sakest"
"What's the matter now?"
"Listenl"
They were both quiet for a moment,
the girl's two big btack eyes denoting
her anxiety. They could distinctly hear
the tread of horses coming on a brisk
lope.
Withont a word the girl seized Mark's
bridle rein and led horse and rider off
the road into the wood. At a short dis
tance behind a rise in the ground she
stopped. Mark was inclined to go on
fartlrer.
'No, no," she said hurriedly. "My
pony's right thar. If Bhe ketches sight
o' your horse she'll whinny."
Mark dismounted, and the girl, pluck
ing a handful" of grass, lield it- to his
horse's month to keep his attention from
other matters that he might rfot neigh
and betray them. The two stooH look
ing at each other while the sounds grew
louder, dreading every moment tlatt
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There-were evidently not less than hall
a dozen of the horsemen on the road,
altogether too many for one man, even
If well armed, to meet.
The men rode up to tlirs fork of the
road, where they reined in their horses
for a parley. It was a question doubt
less which load the i ankee soldier had
taken. Presently they divided, one party
taking the left hand road to .Tracy
City, the other the road leading up the
valley.
As soon as they were gone JUark took
the girl's hand arid gave it a grateful
pressure:
"God blets you, my girl; you've.saved
me from capture or being shot in tho
back shot, I expect."
The girl Bhuddered. She knew well
enough the fate he would .have met if
his pursuer had overtaken him. They
would have come npon him warily and
ahot hiin.frpro behind a tree. .When the
sounds from Qse retreating-horsemen had
died-ftway in the distance she said:
"Comer' -
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Why go hungry when the City hotel
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"Hardware" did you say? Why, yes
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Smith, the furniture man, is prepared
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