THURSDAY JUNE 3», 11*27
THK SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PAGE SIX
Round to the North
BygHarold MacGrath
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WIN A GIRL
ON HOW TO
the old Inherent sense of chivalry
D e a r M iss F lo : —
She turned to Armitage
W h a t I w o u ld lik e to kn o w I t th io —
That fiber which holds the stout
“Your word of honor not to touch
do g irls llk o m en w ho pay a g roat doa*
heart Impervious to ordinary perils ma."
of a tto n tlo n to thorn— or do thoy fir«
and Kennedy and Armitage were men
“I give it"
fo r m en w h o a to m r a th e r In d iffe re n t?
of the stoutest of hearts—began to
"I will let him go Let him rent M y system la to lot th em do tho fuss
disintegrate in the face of thia horror
ember that It was 1 that gave hint hU
To die in the fury of physical con Ufa. even as I would have taken It ing, bu t to n ,« of m y frie n d s to ll mo
th a t I'll n e v e r get a n y w h e re th a t w ay .
Parson John Kenedy, a Union apv, test Is nothing; indeed death la for Indifferently.“
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within the power« of the South. Dis gotten.
o • • •
She untied Armitage s hands He
But to sit still to reach out mentally
severed la the act of spying upon the
felt the Senior of her fingers, but In
Unquestlonaly. there are some (Iris
group of Secret Service agents of and anticipate Is a thousand times to no wise comprehenued its origtn. A» upon whom Indifference act« a« a »pur
whom Kennedy it the leader. Jeanne die! Armitage closed his eyes. It for Jeanne, since this was Io be the to conquer and bring to their feet new
la given the alternative of death or is a strange fact that when confronted last time «he was ever to see this worshippers, but I tlou't believe those
Marriage to one of their number The? by immediate death of the catastro man. a terrible, almost trreaistable girls are In the majority Girls today
are all masked, but Jeanne rejects phe order Instinctively we close our desire seised her to throw her arm> do not place undue value on the ad
one volunteer and chooses another of •yea.
around his neck and tell him that «he miration of every man. and they are
Perhaps Kenedy closed his eyes loved him. loved him!
the eleven as her husband. To her-
too engrossed In the business of liv
too;
mayhap
he
took
sardonic
plea
pelf, she calls him Irony. Parson
ing to waste a great deal of effort on
Armitage
rubbed
hl«
wrists
ener
Kennedy performs the ceremony and sure In eyeing the dancing sparks getlcally to take away the sting of the any one man. *
the bride and groom, ignorant of each There might have been a prayer on hemp. Then he freed Kennedy, who
When woman had more time to plav
other's names and she not even know- his Ups.
wss really helpless, and dragged hlui - they expected snd demanded alien
An
unexpected
gust
of
cold
night
lag what he looks like, sign the Mar
outside .he cabin. Jeanne broke off tlon. admiration, and pursuit from all
riage certificate as “Mary Smith" and air striking Armitage's forehead, the fuse half a foot from the keg. ap tnen of their acquaintance, and If one
“John Jones " As witnesses the group caused him to open his eyes. The piled the flame of the candle, and man displayed Indifference, the gtrl'.i
door of the cabin opened He saw a
sign as follows:
darted from the cabin.
vanity was hurt; her business was to
slender youth enter and step on the
Aa Armitage led Kennedy out of teach him C'.at he was not Immun«
fuse.
John Kennedy, D. D.
“Is It you. Jeanne Beaufort*“ asked the danger-sone he -was thrown to her feminine charms ns he thought
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violently to the ground. The earth An amusing pastime!
Kennedy.
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Itut girls of today have a broader
•'Yes. Parson Kennedy it is Jeanne had opened up. and hades had stretch
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Beaufort It Is the woman upon whose ed a flrvy arm toward heaven, to with range of Interests Not that they do
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head you set a price, dead or alive. draw It In a cascade of sparks and not yet demand attention, admiration,
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and pursuit of men—they still expect
It Is the woman you broke and dis flaming debris.
In the meantime Morgan, prey to men to fetch and carry for them—
They leave her bound and disappear honored for doing for her cause what
singular emotion, waited impatiently and like It, but If they don't—well,
Henry Morgan, a Southern officer you were doing for yours."
She gazed down somberly at the for Jeanne. What had delayed her? what la one scalp more or lees' There
and spy for the Confederacy, is In love
Where had she gone’ Had »he any are so many other Interesting ano
with her but she rejects bis advances. cropped gray head so near her feet.
Idea that two men Instead of one »rare amusing things In life!
"Have
you
a
prayer
that
you
can
One day getting a letter signed “your
in that cabin?
They rather expect men to accept
husband." Jeanne realises that her recall?"
Came the thud of hoofs. The rider them on their own terms, so to speak
She ran over to Armitage and
Identity is known. Disguising herself
gought the knots with her fingers and was Jeanne. She drew up at hts side snd moat men have been »rilling to
with a brown w < aad staining her
"Where have you been?" What ha» respond to this franker and healthier
teeth. When she had done, he was
tfece. Jeanne assumes the name of
free to walk but his hands were still delayed you? Why did you come from understanding of friendship betwwen
Alice Trent, she goes to Baltimore tied behind his hack.
thst direction?” he demanded »uspl the sexes.
to carry on her work. She is unaware
“Yon are free Captain Armitage. clously.
There might come a time In the
that a real “Alice Trent” lives in You are not here through any act of
“You lied to me. Morgan.'*
I affairs of a courtship when Indiffer
Baltimore
“ir
mine. You saved my Ufa once; I pay
ence on the part of the man toward
"Yea. You hired Armitage Into this an Incorrigible girl might be an ef
John Arm its 9«. a Union officer, res the debt. A life for a life; we are
without warning me."
cues Jeanne from a drunken man quits."
fective threat that the »rotiId lose
“Good riddance!" — all his olu I him If she didn't behave. But In
“Yon are a woman, and you would
Jeaane induces Morgan to abduct
Kennedy so that she may question let this man dla horribly?" he asked . jealousy rising.
, starting out to conquer. I wouldn't
•'Well, you overshot the mark, recommend Indifference as an Incen-
him about the names on the certifi incredulously.
thank God! I let them both go."
“1 too was guilty."
cate and about the carious tattoo
I tlve to a girl's Interest. Your modern
"You— what?"
"In what »ray?"
mark on the arm of the man she mar
I miss Is a bit too honest, herself, to
"They are free."
“I was there—that night"
led. Armitage rescues him. but Jeanne
“But the cabin!”
The dark eyes merely rose to the
escapes She sees placards announc
Into the office.
“Oh you were welting to see the
ing a reward for her capture, "dead level of his own. Everything was
He ran to the clothes-press and
perfectly clear and understandable spectacle, and I did not wish to dis sarung back the door. Tbe operator
or alive.'*
now. The eyes of Jeanne Beaufort appoint yon wholly."
: lurched Into his arms, gasping.
General Armitage. father of the Cap and Alice Trent were exactly alike.
"You love Armitage!" He leaned
Then came a fusillade of musket
tain. is discussing plans for the final
“Hurry." she cried Impatiently. over to seize her wrist, but she ! shots. Artultage let go the operator
campaign against Richmond when “They will be returning If we watt swerved her horse.
and ran outside.
Jeanne, attempting to steal them, is too long."
I "Yes. I love him. What then?"
He grasped the situation Instantly.
captured. Though she Is In boy's
"Well, before God, you're unlucky!
•'I saved your life that night In the
clothers. Captain Armitage recognises hills."
You can never, never marry John The engine was running away. He
saw the head and shoulders of tbe spy
her. but says nothing, and she is bound
Armitage. You are mine, mine!"
"Hurry!" was all she said.
to face a firing squad in the morning.
"We were madmen. We were none
Quickly and cruelly he dug his who had accomplished this amazing
spurs Into his horse and fled to avoid coup in the midst of fifteen hundred
•Armitage helps Jeanne to escape of ns accountable for what we did."
the
breaking of the verbal dam. the men. He fired three shots from his
“I
was."
Interposed
Parson
Ken
and she makes her way back to her
ruination
of all bis carefully laid revolver.
nedy,
“So
be
off,
son.
She
will
blow
borne. It is now the center of a Con
One struck the steam-gauge above
me
up—and
see
me
forever
in
her
plans.
federate encampment Sentries bring
Jeanne Beaufort’s head; the second |
In
another
moment
he
would
have
dream»!
L»t
her
go
ahead,
then;
and
word that a Union spy is on the
always at her side will he my shadow. told her everything for the sake of shattered the forward rah window.
grounds
The third lodged In her arm She
making that upright figure droop.
Be off.”
Armitage. restored to his father's sank with a stifled cry to the metal
The spy attempting escape fs killed
Armitage backed toward the chair
Jeanne reads a dispatch in his pocket. and sat down on the edge of IL "Both division, at President Lincoln’s Inter- flooring.
Twenty miles to go! for half an
Indicating that he was G-RD-A and on of us or neither of us.' he said.
cession, plunged eagerly Into his work.
hour
to fight off this faintness, this
his arm sees the tattoo mark. She
8hortly after hla arrival the entire
“Oh!" That monosyllable expressed
now believes that he was her hus anger. Impatience. Impotence, despair, army began its historic movement horrible pain! Could she do It? 8h •
southward, toward Richmond; and in would do It!
band Morgan is discovered to be a Jeanne clenched her hands fiercely.
In desaplr Armitage returned to the
Confederate spy and swears veng--
“Fool,” growled Kennedy. “Have 1 cidentally John Armitage entered a
anee on Kennedy. Jeanne hopes to not often told you that I'd rather di" danger-zone of a different sort. A de station. The telegraph out of rora-
obtain bp torture If necessary the than live? Haven't I called to Death tachment of Fwleral troope moved mission, tbe engine gone— they were
truth about her marriage from Ken a thousand times, to see him mock out to Intercept a train of munitions. trapped!
How Jeanne rose above pain and
They captured It near a small station.
nedy. The parson and Armitage ac me?"
faintness
during that twenty miles she
On the rear platform of the station
Jeanne looked down at her enemv
cordingly ar kidnapped and taken to a
never could explain She juat did It;
Teserted cabin. There, bound, they with reluctant admlratoln. This grav stood a number of cotton bales. From
are seated when Morgan lights a short man who had called to Death a thous under the newly arrived freight cars that was all. The final arrench he-
tween sensibility and laeenslbllttv
fuse attached to a powder barrel.
and times and been denied awakened a boyish figure came forth cautiously,
crept toward the bales and dodged in came when sne wae forced to stand
among them, wriggling close to the up to close the throttle.
From the rushes at the left of the
window, which was open.
At the same time, under Armitage's embankment rose a score or more of
order, a new Federal operator took Confederates, headed by Morgan him
the telegraph key and hammered out se lf
"Boys, she done It!" he cried “Fif
a few friendly greetings to the man at
headquarters to prove that he could teen hundred Yankees trapped like
rate In a hole!"
send tolerably well.
But Morgan's jubilation was greatly
The office was now deserted except
damped when he beheld the huddled
for
himself.
He
slouched
In
the
chair
942 Willamette St., Eugene, Oregon.
figure on the cab floor, the drenched
and lighted hla pipe.
“If you move or utter a sound. I’ll sleeve, the bloody hand.
"Jeanne? My Qod. they've shot her!
shoot!" said a quiet voice over hts
A
stretcher!”
shoulder
"Right about face! Now,
Morgan lifted her again and laid
march to that clothes-press, and re
member that It Is doath It you speak!” her gently upon the Improvised
A woman's voice! It was only when stretcher and ordered the hearers to
the operator felt himself propelled carry her to the knoll where the
forcibly Into the stuffy clothes-preis horses were tethered.
Of Lightweight Siika
As Morgan walked beside her Jean
that he realized this was no unsub
Which do you prefer?
ne
began to babble murmurously. Mor
stantial nlght-mare.
Stripes, prints or plain
Jeanne, for It was she, wrenched gan bent his head and caught an In
colors— your summer frocks
the clacking key from the screws. telligible eentence. It straightened
will use any and all of them
his spine and wiped out the tender
Next she smashed the battery- Jars.
— short sleeve styles at our
She arose and glanced out of the east ness In his face Instantly.
“John—you shot me!—How could
exceptionally low price.
window—and beheld Captain Armi
tage! He was coming along the plat you!" Immediately the low babhle of
incoherent phrasee began again.
form scribbling as he walked.
Armitage, and back yonder, and his
Armitage, Armitage, of all men!
From the door of the baggtgeroom bullet had done this work! Always
the spy saw that the unmanned engine that man was crossing his path. Oh.
stood a dozen feet beyond the first they must meet some day, In true
colors, face to face; and then Ood
coach.
Armitage briskly entered the sta help Armitage!
One day, as she lay recuperating,
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Morgan gave here a sheet of paper.
operator's
room.
Locked!
He
shook,
the
Misses and Juniors
"I had hard work getting thia—It la
handle violently.
Every woman and miss
what you Baked for," be said.
"Hey,
there,
Clark;
unlock
tho
should have several sum
When he had left she opened the
door!" he cried impatiently.
mery frocks at this small
No one replied. Armitage, vaguely sheet. It was the llat of the names of
CHAPTER IX.
••aufort, daughter of a
Virginian, «wear» eeagatanee against
tt<* North for the death of her father
aad two brother« la the Civil War. She
la enrolled aa a spy for the Confeder
ate goreraueat and iaatructed to uae
the wiles of her »ex to bring
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price.
tics lo the situation, for all women
do not rise lo ihe same line of ciiprl-
ahlp There are some feminine lianrts
that can be taken only by assault an I
battery, and others that aurrander to
patient elege There are women whoa»
love la for sate to Ihe highest bidder,
and others bestow It In pity.
Bo there you are, and your success
will depend upon yonr ability lo pay
rhoanalyae Ihe particular woman and
upon the skill with which you suggest
to her that you are the great unsatU
fled need of her soul.
But when the right girl comes
along, you'll forget all about "ayatem"
I —and set out to win her according to
, the dictates of your heart.
alarmed, smashed a panel and burst the elev-’t!
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be Intrigued by subtle methods.
Perhaps tho host working principle
at the moment is one that might be
placed under the heading of comrade-
ship—that la. treating the girl aa a
human being, respecting her for her
Intelligence, ability, good qualities,
and thereby winning her respect for
years; developing common Itereats
until you grow so close together thal CALL FOR rtCHiMH. WARRANT«
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Notice Is hereby given, that School
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the girl's Individual personality. A i will pay at the office of Ihe district
man who gets there most quickly clerk. School Warants up lo and In-
studies the girl nud applies his know j eluding No l«&5 Interest ceases after
Iwige deftly After alii It Is Impossible June 30th. I»S7
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It W SMITH. District Clerk
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