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ieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,
"You men are away from your com
mands without permission. 1 can see
that plainly."
The men looked guilty, but said noth
ing.
You evidently don't know me. I am
an officer of General Bragg's staff on an
Important mission of secret service.
He waited a moment to aiscover tne
effect of hiB words and then proceeded:
"It is a matter of the greatest moment
that 1 get across the river at once. 1
want you men to pull me over and then
report Immediately to your colonel.
Give me your names."
Without aDoearing to douot tor a mo
ment that he would be obeyed, he called
ya the men successively, and each man
responded with his name. There were
five men, and as each answered he
saluted resriectfully.
Now what regiment do you Deiong
to?'
-The th Tennessee.
"The old story." said Mark severely.
"You men are doubtless from east Ten
nessee. X ou are aeseriera, irymg vo get,
back to where you came from.
Mark had hit the nail on the neaa.
Th men looked terror stricken. He
knew, when he ordered them to pun
across the river, that they would obey i
him gladly. And if he should leave jj
them to report to their colonel, they
would attempt to uialte tneir way norm
instead.
"Get into the boat, every one or you.
Every man got into the boat, and one
of them took the oars.
"Now if you will get me over quicwy
I'll see what 1 can do for you with your
commanding officer when 1 return."
Jakey was standing on the bank with
his eyes wide open at this scene. Mark
had been a hero with him; now he was
a little less than a god.
"Do you want to get across the river,
my little man?" asked Mark, as if he
had never seen the boy before.
"Does 1 want ter? Course I does."
-Jnrnn in then, quick. I've no time
tn loae."
Jakey came down and got in with the
rest.
"Give way," cried Mark, and the boat
shot out from the shore.
Not a dozen strokes bad been taken
before Mark, who was delighted at the
success of bis assurance, saw a sight
that made his heart sink within him. A
boat shot around Moccasin point from
the eastward.
God in heavenl It was full of armed
men.
As soon as they saw the skiff with
Mark and tho deserters in it for such
they were they pulled straight for
them. In five minutes they were alongside.
"1 reckon you're the men we're look
ing for," said an officer Beated in the
stern.
"Who are you looking for?" asked
Mark, with as much coolness as he could
assume.
Deserters from the th Tennes
see." Mark knew it was all up with him.
His assumption of being on General
Bragg's staff, which had been so suc
cessful a ruse, suddenly appeared to him
a halter about his neck.
"Hand over your guns," said the offi
cer. The guns were handed into the boat,
all except Jakey s shotgun.
"That other one too.
"That's only a shotgun, captain," said
Mark.
"Well, never mind the popgun."
Every moment the deserters looked
for Mark to declare his exalted position
on General Bragg's staff, but no such
declaration came. It seemed possible to
them that perhaps he would not wish to
disclose his identity to so many. At any
rate they said nothing. Had it not been
for his assumption Mark would have
armlied to the captmn to lot a poor coun
tryman and his little brother pass. Had
he done so it is quite possible mat tne
men he had deceived, surmising that he
was a refugee like themselves, would
not have betrayed hiin; but Mark knew
that besides this danger the officers, hav
ing found him in such company, would
not let him go.
Mark's heart was heavy as the boat
in which he sat was pulled Blowly
against the current to Chattanooga. Ha
realized that there was now no oppor
tunity for his wits, on which he usually
relied, to work. He was in the hands
of the enemy; he would not be released
without a thorough questioning, and ho
could say nothing that would not tell
against him.
On landing all were taken to the pro
vost marshal's office, The soldiers ac
knowledged that they were members of
the th Tennessee regiment, but stout
ly denied that they were deserters. They
were Union men, some of the northern
ers who had been impressed into the
Confederate service, or had enlisted for
the purpose of flying to the stars and
stripes as soon as they could get near
enough to warrant an attempt. They
were sent to their regiment under guard.
As they were leaving one of them said
to Mark:
"1 hotie you'll keep your promise."
Mark did not reply; he had cherished
a hope that they would be taken away
before anything would come out as to
his assumntion of authority.
"What promise'i" asked the provoBt
marshal quickly.
"He's an officer on General Bragg's
staff. Vou ought to know him, colonel."
"The devil!" exclaimed the colonel.
"Oh, I saw the men were doing some
thing they were ashamed of, and I bluffed
'em to row me across," said Mark with
assumed carelessness.
i "Who are you?"
"1 belong in east Tennessee."
"You don't belong to any such place.
You're not southern born at all. You're
a Yankee. I thought you were only
trying to get north with these men; now
i believe you are a spy."
"I'm a southern man, sarten," said
Mark, with such coolness that the officer
was for a moment in doubt as to his surmise.
Let me hear you say New York.
he should leave S "New York.
"Hew xorkV repeated mecoiouei iruu-
icallv. "If you were a southern man
vou'd say Niew Yawk. 1 shall have to
hold vou for further information."
"I would like to go to my home in
Tennessee. I came here to buy a gun
for mv brother. But if you won't let
me I'll have to stay with you, I sup-
nose. Oulv I hope you won't separate
us. Jakev's very young, and I dou't
want to turn him adrift alone in a
strange town."
"I shall have to hold you till I can re
port the case to headquarters," said the
officer, and Mark ami Jakey were led
away to a room in the house occupied
by the provost marshal for prisoners
temporarily passing through his hands.
The reply that came to the announce
ment of the capture of the citizen and
the boy was to hold them under vignunt
guard. It was reported that Mark had
been nersonatinif an officer of the sta:
ud this looked very suspicious; indeed
quite enough so to warrant their trying
him for a spy by drumhead court mar
tial and executing him the next morning.
Mark was searched and everything of
value taken from him. They went
through Jakey's pocketa and felt of the
lining of his coat, but as he was a child
the search was not very thorough, or
they would have found the bills in his
boot They took his gun, but by this
time Jakey realized that there was some
thing more momentous than a squirrel
gun at stake, and parted with it without
showing any great reluctance, tie real
ized that Mark, for whom he had by
this time conceived a regard little short
of idolatry, was in danger, and the boy
for the first time began to feel that his
friend could not accomplish everything.
Jakey stood looking on stolidly as Mark
was searched till he saw a soldier take
Souri's red silk handkerchief. He had
produced the impression on the searchers
he had at first produced upon Mark that
he was stupid beyond his years. As the
man grasped the handkerchief and was
about to put it in his pocket Jakey set
up a howl.
"What's the matter, sonny?" asked one
of the soldiers.
"My hanchikuff." he whined.
"Is it yours?"
"Yas."
"Give the boy his wipe," said the man
to the would be appropriator. "Don't
rob a child."
So Jakey preserved his handkerchief.
Then they were marched away to
gether to a small building used for a ne
gro jail. It was two stories high, though
the lower story hud no windows. The
upper part was reached by a long flight
of steps outside the building. The lower
part was a dungeon, and though used to
confine negroes there had been a num
ber of east Tenuesseeans imprisoned
there. The place was kept by an old
man and his wife named Triggs. Mark
was put into a room in the upper story.
A guard was stationed at the door, and
the only window was barred. Had MarK
been arrested with detinue proof that ne
was a spy, he would doubtless nave oeen
put in the dungeon.
As it was, he was only guaruea wim
ordinary caution. This, however, seemed
quite sufficient to prevent his escape.
Jakey was put into a room by himself,
but he was not required to Btay tnero.
Ho was suffered to go and come at will,
except that the guard at the gate was
ordered not to let him leave the yard.
He asked the jailer's wife to permit hira
to go in to Mark so often the first morn
ing of his arrival that at last the guard
at the door was instructed to pass mm
in and out at will.
"Well, Jakey," said Mark, when they
were together in their new quarters,
"this looks pretty blue."
"Reckon it does."
"You'd better not stay here. Go out
in the yard and I'll try to think up some
plan. But I must confess I don't see
any way out," and Mark reBted his el
bows on hia knees, and putting his face
in his hands thought upon his perilous
situation. ,
Jest you don't worrrt," said Jiucey.
"sumep'n'll turn up sho."
Well, go out into tho suwigiit. Don t
stay herd. If they sentence me to hang
I'll try to get them to send you pome."
CHAPTER X.
THE RED SILK HANDKERCHIEF.
The men clasped hands, and Mark was
a led away between two soldiers.
Greatness underlying an uninviting
exterior is often called out by circum
stances. President Lincoln would not
have been the "great emancipator" had
he not been born in the nick of time.
General Grant would not have become
prominent as a soldier had the civil war
occurred before or alter ne was oi nt ago
to lead the Union armies, and Jakey
Black well, Jakey would not have de
veloped his ability as a strategist had it
not been for his friend, Mark Malone,
and the neirro jail at Chattanooga.
Jakey was as incompetent to sit down
and think out a plan for his menu s es
cape as he was to demonstrate a propo
sition of Euclid. He could neither add
columns of two figures nor spell words
of ono syllable; indeed he could neither
read, write nor cipher, the want of an
ability to read or write being a great
disadvantage to him In his present re
sponsible position. But the desire to
hulu his friend out of a bad fix having
got into his brain, from the nature of
the case it simmered there, ana men
boiled a little, and simmered and boiled
again. Like most people of genius,
Jakey was unconscious of his own pow
ers, but there was one person in wnorn.
next to Mark, he had great commence;
that was his sister Souri. Then came
the thought that if Souri were only
ihvra "nVie TnouL'ht do a heap." This
led Jukey up to the problem how to get
her there. The problem was too uiin
cult for his young brain to solve, so he
got no further until circumstances came
to his aid, or may lie not nave nan n'
germs of reason within him to go fur
ther without being definitely conscious
of them?
When he left Mark he went out into
the jailyard and began to stroll about
with his hands in his pockets. To a
casual observer he was simply a boy
with no playmates, who did not know
what to do with himself. If any one had
been near him he would have seen his
little eyes continually watching for some
means of communication with the out
side world. Occasionally he would
wander near the fence, first casting a
sly glance at the jail. There were
cracks between the boards, and Jakey
was looking out for a good wide crack
to spy through. At last he found a
place to suit him and hovered about it
listening for a footstep, and occasionally
getting a quick glance through the -opening
by putting his eye to it. But
Jakey knew well thaj-if caught at this he
would be called into the jail and forced
to stay there, so ho preferred to rely on
his sense of hearing rather than on his
sense of sight.
The jail was iu an unfrequented place,
and he was not soon rewarded. A man
weut by, but he was too far; then an
other man, but Jakey studied his face
and let him go without stopping hnn.
At last an old negro woman passed with
a basket ou her arm, smoking a short
clay pipo.
"Auntie! called the boy.
"Lo'd a massy! Is de angel ob de
Lo'd speaken to his sarvent from de
clouds?" said the old woman, starting
and dropping her basket,
"Auntie, hyar at the crack!"
"Who is yo' calleu? Yo' mus' be a
chile from yo' voice."
"Put yer eye close up to de fence aud
y' can see me at the crack."
The woman drew uear and put her
eye to the crack. Jakey stood off
a little way, and she could see him
plainly. Meanwhile he pretended to
have lost something on the ground.
"Why bress my po' ole heart, honey,
ef y' ain't nothen but a leetle boy in de
jailyard. 'T'aught t' be miff to keep
dem po' misable po' white east Tennes
sans dar what dey had in de cellar wid
out keepen a chile."
"My brother's a prisoner, 'n so air I,"
said Jakey in a melancholy voice.
"Climb ober de fence, honey, and run
away."
"The fence air too high, 'n 1 ain't a
goon fur to leave my brother anyway.
Bee hyar, aunty, air you niggers Union
or socesh?"
"Why, honey, do yon t'ink we turn
ag'in ou' own folks! Ain't de Yankee
B03ors comen down tur to giu u uunio-tion?"
"Ef y' c'd save a Union sojer from
hangen, w'd y' do it?"
"Fo' de Lo'd I would!"
"Then Bend thiB hanchikuff to Souri
Slaok."
"Who Souri Slack!" '
"She's my sister. Sho lives at Farmer
Black's."
"Whar dat?"
"On the Anderson road, close outer
the Soqnatchie river.'' 1
While this conversation was going on
Jakey continued hisofforts to find some
thing at his feet. Ho picked up a stone,
rolled in tho handkerchief and threw
them over the fence.
What good dut do? asked the col
ored woman, picking up the missile of
r.
When Souri gits it she'll know."
Will dut sabe de Union sojer'sneck?"
Mebbo 't mought, 'n mebbe 't
moughtn't."
1 cain't go myself 1m too ole but
I'll start hit along. Reckon de darkies'U
tote it."
She picked up her basket and was
moving away when Jakey called to her.
"Auntie!
"What, honey?"
"Yer mought git some un to toto hit
ter an old niggeu mined Jefferson Ran
dolph, ez lives up a creek 'bout five mile
from hyar, near the piko runnen that
a-way. Mebbe he'll pass hit on."
"fciho nnff.
"Yo' boy, tharl"
The jailer's wife was standing in an
open window regarding Jakey severely.
"Come away rroin tnat ar fencer
Jakey skipped along toward her, do
ing a little waltzing as ho went.
Ef that ar boy wasn t sioh a chile,
Fd think he'd b'en up to sumep'n."
What war yer a-iloen by that ar
fence?" she asked when he came up.
"Nnthen."
"What war that y' throwed over!"
"Oh, 1 war only throwen stones."
"What yer throwen stones that a-way
fur?"
"Fur fun."
"Well, y' just keep away from th'
fonce er y' shan't play in th' yard at all.
I'll shet y' up with thet big brother o'
yourn."
"Waal, I won't go thar no more." A,nd
Jakey took a top out of his troiwers
pocket and begun plugging imaginary
tops on the ground.
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