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tid es aa ahe needed
(the took no- awoke to the fact that l.lnooln and and within a furtnigbl a time aha be
j thing else. Sh» bad trunks In Wash (Irani could end the war If let be. came a bright naw alar In the pollil
> mg ton, and theee contained every- and that there were at dungcrous cal and military firmament of W ash
! thing. Ah. but she did take some. eui'iulea within the gates as there ington life. Morgan took particular
pains to keep out of her orbit until
thing e ls e —a sheet of paper, Hom» were outside of them.
where she might find a H or J or a 0 .
About thle time the thveret Service Sujitrmber.
some letter compare with those nu bureau became a real arm of the
On the other hand, wherever ahe
Governm ent It began to be whs! went ahe found that young captain
1 that document.
Dreaaed aa a boy, It would have it haa since become, second to no John Armltage lie attached hlmaelf
telegraph operator sat before hla In Ing horses,
been comparatively easy for her to other tn the world.
to her Immediately.
Ho wtta Juat
strument.
j "There she com es!* cried the nen- go directly to Washington; bi^t aho
Certain families, known to be 'll enough different from the ordinary
At midnight he became galvanised comcr. waving his hand down the proposed to arrive thia lime In her sympathy with the South, were average man to Internal her He waa
into action. He ran outside to the track toward the point or light which (resent garments, to somber gray watch'd. Jeanne knew this and ar really unusual, being of Hist tyre of
station platform, glanced right and grv w larger as they looked. "A troop aUrj, „„ hospital nurses were
range her plans accordingly
The youth which has surrendered half i.f
,, , w k hpr tan
rea,), Haiti family to whlrh she was asslvneil aa Its Illusion» and tenaciously clings,
left, to make sure that no one was a of Johnnie», old boy. all prepared lo
sig h t; then he retunivsl to the office put your back to the station clap more for , ba, wsa her flrwt destina a guest from Baltimore had born« thv blindly we might say. Io Iho other
and put out the light A moment later boards and sail you out. Mount
tion. A deep tan lay upon her tana. cloaeat scrutiny, cheerfully, unbanely half.
he was In the cellar, a candle flicker
They rode In silence tor halt an and to thia she ad led a scnilperuia- and successfully.
He was bodt one day and diffident
ing in his hand. He pulled aalde a hour. eroas-couBtry at ftrst.
They nent stain,
They were Northerners who had the the noxt.
stack of gunneysacks and uncovered a had mapped a route against such a
on ly her eyes were Jeanne Beau, bulk of thalr fortune Invented In the
telegraph instrument. Over this he i crisis aa this. They walked a shay- fogt’a. She would call hersolf Alice South. Aalde from the seat of the
ller Interest In him deepened quick
stooped.
1 low stream toward an unused road. Trent. The name came Into her mind Intrtguu, they were delighted to have ly. for she wanted to gel lo the bot
(n Morse code JtWOsA was res whence they might make their way quite Innocent of calculation.
She Jeanne, ller dark beauty, the »plan tom of thia peculiarity. He wad still
peated three timea. He waited anx- northward without worrying over had never heard of anyone by that dor of her eyes and durk brown hair, a Yankee, but she no longer qualified
iously.
Back came the answer— ‘ pickets.
nam e; she could not even recall hav her low. musical voice—this raptl the word.
J-NK-F. The operator's m essage con-
.'Tell me what s happened," said |ng rett(t |t | n a book
,
vated them from the start,
She hod forsworn romance Aa If
talned grave news. An attempt would the late operator at Fair Oaks.
it was one of those Incamprehen-
That her skin was artificially dark red-blooded twenty could forswear Its
be made the following night to blow
~Do you remember when the Par- , lbj , tricks of fata, this Idle selection;
oped, that her hair, while her own dreams by the mere willing of It!
up the ammunition stores In Wash- gou made us all ride north, threaten . an,| |a ter It came very near proving
(To Be Continued)
,
waa yet a wig. was quite unsuspected
Ington.
' ing to shoot any man who lagged''
fatal to her.
by her hosts. They vaguely under
The receiver of this message climb- 1 "Yea."
How could she possibly know that
stood that her presence In Washing
ed down from the telegraph pole, hid
"Well, that's all l ‘m at liberty to xilce Trent was a living being, her i
Hit SMITH'« MAONBTIC ION A-
Ion had political significance, hut be
hla batteries and Instrument, mounted j la ,| you juat now
I came back be- own age a resident of the very city j
TONS demonstrated and for sale hy
yond this they did not bother their
and rode off Into the night. The man cause thia la my post. You were sent
„he had chosen aa her base?
W. W. Walker. 3S7 Main Street.
heads. They had been asked to har*
In the cellar plied up the gunneysacks
,jown here to give me a lift at the | Heretofore »he had gone bv the
Springfield
J-l<
bor her so long aa harborage waa
once more and returned to hla offlc». secret wire. But for quick an lucky name of Susan Warren. She had lived
necessary; they needed no more that
relighted the lamp and slouched Into work to-night, you'd have gone over
quietly with a middle-class family
CALL AND HE« Or. N. W Binary
that.
his chair.
“Who la It?”
whoae sym pathies Inclined toward lh« ;
They began to take her everywhere. on prices on plate and other work, tf
He had cleared the track for the
“1 know; and that Is sufficient for q„U(h, Now ahe must go out In the
.
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coast-bound, and when that passe,) tj,e present. You're not built for th'.a high world; she must gather her In-1
through, he was done for the night, j k|n<j Of work. John, and that is why formation from military and diploma
All at once he assumed the attitude lm no, telling you anything. You tic sources.
of a tense listener—running homes— a,m have some Illusions. But to hooJ-
So. one morning there arrived on
he was certain he heard them. He wlnk
parson!**
the Baltimore train, among other pas
reached for hla revolver and carefully
-pwr.on Kennedy la a Hun."
sengers. a handsome young woman In
examined It.
| ..Yea
___ _ poor devil, he's a Hun But sober gray. She glanced abou*. In-
Running horses were not unusual (n
kind of a game we need Huns, uecislvely.
in the night, but one never knew or We are going to let this double-spy , a regiment was entraining. Un-
SH2 Willamette St., Eugene, Oregon.
could foresee what they might bring.
ck , Q Washington."
i til the soldiers had passed. It w j
Louder and louder grew the hoof-| eAn<j why?"
Impossible to make the exit from th->
beats, nearer and nearer The sound I '•There's a woman we want Brother station
Company by rorotmn» the
ceased abruptly.
John."
, coaches swallowed up the trooper»
The operator waited, hla revolver
"A woman!"
An intoxicated man watched her
ready Then came the sound of run
“You're an old soft-soap. Jack; you speculatively. Ha approached, doffed
ning human fe e t
can't get the Idea out of your head hla cap amiably and asked It she
The door opened.
The revolver . Ihat a u WOmen are holy."
would like a gentleman see her home.
flashed In the light—then dropped, j ~But t0 hunt a woman!"
’ Jeanne had no tim e tn reply. A
"George?" cried the operator.
"Whose name wc don't know; 1#an hrowo hand seised the offender
Lovely Silken Things—
whose face we haven't teen —h'mph' by the collar and flung him roughly :r
“Yes. John, old boy."
Fine chance we have of catching her. one aide. A pleasant-faced young of-
"What's up?"
This Isn t the flcer
j aanne and offered to |
"The whole butanes«. The game at except In one way.
Trimmed W ith
Fair Oaks Is done for. The marvel Is kind of woman you and 1 know ; H • a ■ aea har to her carriage.
female
rattlesn
ak
e.'
Whenever
she
Lace
that is has lasted as long as It has.
"It waa vary kind of you." she said
strikes. It's death. DO you know what aa she took her seat In a rickety old
Did yon send that message?*
M yers of exquisite ua-
I think? W ell, that young woman
derthingi — irresistibly
"Yes."
phaeton.
we all married a few weeks ago may
lovely— pile one upon the
"The pleasure was mine. I am
•T h a n k God!
Fogarty will get
other as the m oil import
be the very woman we've been after ' Captain Armltage.”
away. Come! I beat the train to you
ant day o( all draws near,
"When we reach the road, you 11
her wedding I Only the
"My name Is Alice Trent." All
Five minutes— look alive!"
have to go It alone. I must ge back
best
is good enough.
young officers were useful.
The operator blew out the lig h t I
Richmond. Turn to your right
No
need to look further
He raised his hat. and she was
and the two hurried out to the steam three times, then go straight ahead
— our stock hat antici
driven
off.
A
very
agreeable
face,
pated the demands of the
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most particular and ran be
she thought.
But he was a hated
■ Here we are. And good luck to you
adapted to every budget.
Then J WO-A climbed the bank of Yankee; and so she dismissed him
with
a
shrug.
, the road. Hla friend wheeled his
Crepe de Chine Chemise, $2.88 and $3.98
Political Influence, unmerited pro
! horse midstream and went splashing
Crepe de Chine Gowns, $4-98
down It. J-WG-A and O-RD-A had motion, jealousy. Inefficiency, cheat
ing army-contractors, these prolonged
Dance Seta, bandeau and step-ina, $2.98
, gone their separate ways forever,
Meantime Jeanne had ordered her the Civil War two years. It was only
1 carriage
She waa tired, and she when the Iron ring began to tighten
knew that her aunt was struggling about Richmond that the governm ent
Bound to the North
By Harold MaeGrath
WHO'9 WHO
Jeanne Beaufort, beautiful daughter
of a Virginia planter, ha» lost her
father and two brothers in the Civil
War. (The year IS««.) She swears to
Mrs. Wetmore, her aunt, that she
will carry out the Blbual injunction
for vengeance—"an eye for an aye!"
While at Richmond she meets
Henry Morgan, a debonaire young
officer, who falls in lore with her. She
repels bta advances. She is engag 'd
as a spy for the Confederate govern
ment and urged to use all the wiles
and power of her sex to And one
Parson Kennedy and bring him
within the Southern lines It Is plan
ned to have her make headquarters
with a family of southern sympathy
in Washington. Jeanne learns tele
graphy and other technical branches
of her new calling. And clad as a
boy often In the Blue of the North,
she makes her way through the lines.
She learn of an organisatin of eleven
Union spies and of their meeting
place in a Richmond lo ft As she
overhears the Madera address the
masked men seated about a table,
Jeanne is discovered and dragged in
to the room The leader unmasks as
he threatens her with death, but is
dissuaded from shooting her by the
suggestion from one of the men that
one of their number marry her. She
consents and when one of the masked
men volunteers to marry she refuses
and claims the right to choose.
She rejects the volunteer and se
lects the one who suggested the mar
ring«. Him she names "Irony.'' To
her surprise the leader is no other
than Parson John Kennedy. He per
forms the ceremony.
•Irony" says
his name is among those who sign
as w itnesses. (Just before they leav«?
her bound), in the following code
form:
John Kennedy, D. D.
H-RD-M
C-WG-L
P-PA-O
ANK8
J-NK-F
O-RD-A
JW O A
F-BN-S
W BE-H
FW O-8
Later Jeanne learns that Morgan Is
s spy-
C H A P T E R IV .
In the little station at Fair Oaks,
some ten miles out of Richmond, a
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When Jeanne reached her room.
I she undressed and sat down before
the mirror to do up her hair for the
j night. With a sigh she realixed that
! those beautiful tresses must go. and
1 not later than to-morrow—must be
clipped short like a boy's.
She would save It and wear It as
a wig dyed brown.
She saw the
folded bit of pa;er sticking from th e,
mirror's frame Calmly she plucked
forth the note and opened It.
Medusa's head!
A crudely drawn circle, with a
strange. Greek-letter like device In the
center, stared back at her.
Below It was wrlttedn In cramped
letters:
Compliments of the season to
Madam Who from her fond and
loving, but neglected, husband.
The man she had married was still
In Richmond!
The following morning Jeanne sent
for her aunt. She sat down before
the mirror, picked up a pair of bright
new scissors and passed them over
her shooulder.
“Cut It close. Auntie—close."
“But, why, why?" demanded the be
wildered aunt.
“I am a soldier; soldiers obey or
ders. I am going back to Wshlngton.
Auntie—but not as Jeanne Beaufort.
I may never come back. In that case
there will be four of us"—with a ges
ture toward the photographs.
"Give me the scissors."
“Take them to the halr-dresser,
Auntie. Never mind the price. Tell
her the wig must be made within
forty-eight hours. It must be dyed a
dark brown."
“But why didn’t you keep It on your
head and dye It?”
"Sometimes I shall be a boy,
Auntie.”
Quite naturally her next glance was
Into the mirror, She rather adm ire!
the boyish face that looked back at
her. The hair, freed of weight, show
ed a tendency to curl crisply.
In the evening of the third day
Jeanne left Richmond. Her luggage
was a small bag for such toilet ar-
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