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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927. PAGE FIVE OUND to HOIJH "Harold 'MacGvath Illustrated by Henry Jay Lee Copyrigki ly Hftroli Mo GratW - RcUased thru. Autocarter Servior WHO'S WHO. Jeanne Beaufort, beautiful daugh ter of a Virginia tobacoo planter, brave and daring, haa lost her father and two brothers in the Civil War. She swears to get revenge. At the time she is living with her Aunt. Mra. Wetmore, in the South. Jeanne lays her plans and goes to her Aunt Delier's in Richmond. Va. She manages to meet the President and she is assigned duties as a spy, Her first mission is to go to Washing ton and find a man by the name of parson Kennedy and bring him into the Southern lines. She is introduced to Henry Morgan, a young officer, who falls in love with her at sight. She repudiates his love making, and he disappears for a while. Jeanne, disguised as a boy, has had horrible adventure. She has a document with code names on it. John Kennedy, D.D. C-WG-L H-RD-M A-NK-S P-PA-G G-RD-A J-NK-F J-WG-A - F-BN-S F-WG-S W-BE-H The organization is composed of young men with the exception of one, and they are spies who work for the North. There are eleven in number. For weeks they have been in Virginia. Jeanne has sworn to track them down, one by one. Choose! CHAPTER II. This time the game she was play ing began to bring forth results. She applied herself to the practical arts of war telegraphy, signaling and things like that; she perfected herself in swimming and running and shooting; she even went so far as to inure herself to privations. She became as sound and hard as a maple sapling. It became more and more difficult to get through those blue lines, but she always juccecded and often as a boy in the uniform she hated. Sometimes she would spend three or four days at the plantation. And oddly enough, it was during one of these visits that she stumbled upon the secret which was seriously worry ing the Confederate leaders. Rich mond always knew what was going on in Washington, but Washington was now getting some truths about Richmond. No one will deny that there exists such a thing as servant's news. Beaufort, some time before the war, had given freedom to one of his slaves. The youth had gone to Rich mond, and once a year he would re turn to his people. The story he told came to Jeanne through the garrulity of her old dar ky mammy. A loft in a deserted warehouse, meetings held late at night by men in full mask, who came singly and departed singly; this was sufficient to rouse something more than idle curiosity in Jeanne. She instructed the old mammy to get the name and locality of this warehouse of mystery. When she se cured these two facts, she returned to Richmond. The Cleghorn warehouse occupied a third of a block, and was flanked by two bulidings whose ground floors were tenanted. It was unguarded. The lighting was bad; here and there a dim beacon told one which way the street ran. The big warehouse was one story higher than its neighbors. The east side was blank; three windows faced he west, looking out upon the roof of the adjoining building; the panes of glass were cobwebby, dust-and-rain splashed, and all them cracked or broken. In the center of the loft, which in cluded the whole floor, stood an or dinary deal table. It was night out side. Jabbed into this table was a single bayonet. In the lock of this was stuck a lighted candle, which flickered or burned steadily as the night draughts waxed or waned. Seated about this table, on empty crates and boxes, were eleven men. The night was hot, and most of them l.ad thrown aside their coats. They wore masks the kind that hides chin and mouth under a limp curtain. This not noly concealed the facu effectually but disguised the voice as well. The man seated at the table was evidently the chief; he was also the oldest. His head was peppered with gray. "Our business in Richmond is done. You have all been of great assistance to me; but I have this day myself discovered the things wo sought. I know the number of men, aims, rounds of ammunition, and food supplies. In other words, we now have our fingers on the pulse of the enemy; we can feel it growing feebler and feebler. I shall no longer be your chief after tonight. We shall each of us go on our own again. We leave tonight. The horses are ready at Moriarty's stables three blocks away. We ride west first. Then we turn toward Maryland. No main pikes until we are near the boundary. In the sealed envelope I have just given each of you are facts and in formation. Some one of us will reach Washington. And gentlemen, wo all leave together, eleven of us, all of us." He put peculiar emphasis upon these words. "Any man who palters, hesitates, offers excuses Well, I'm a rough Boldier; you are all familiar with my ways. The man who hesi tates dies." One of their number sprang to his feet and dashed toward the win dow. The gray man's revolver flashed in the candlelight. "Quick!" cried the man who had caused this agitation. "Some one on the roof!" They followed him pell-mell through the window. Crouched close to the wall was a form. They pounc ed upon it roughly, hustled it to the window, and those yet inside hauled the offender into the loft. "I saw a hand flash across the window-space, in the act of throwing something. A boy!" The gray man shook the boy vio lently. The hat fell off. "Good Lord, a woman!" cried some one. "Hold her!" said the "chief. He ran downstairs to the street, searched doorways, cellar-window pits, but found no one; nor could he discover a runner, east or west. He ascended to the loft again. "So, a young woman!" He laid his revolver on the table. "What ere you doing there by that win dow?" She did not answer. In reaching her point of vantage outside that window she had been forced to crawl through cellars, worm her way over bales of cotton, through grime and dust. What with the dust and the sweat of her exertions, she looked like the urchin she pretended to be. "How did you find our presence here?" demanded the gray man. No answer. "You refuse to answer questions? Your life dependB upon it." "Well, then, you must pay the pen alty. You must die." Then she spoke. "And who among ; ou shall bt so brave as to do the killing?" "I," said the gray man. To her jars there was something terrible in .hat cold, unemotional tone. He whip ped the mask from his face suddenly. "I will let you look upon my face to prove to you that I will never let you leave this loft alive, unconditionally." It was the face of a fanatic. She had only to look into those metallic blue eyes to know that he would keep :.is word. She sent a roving glance among the other masks. "Will you permit such a thing?" "Does an oath mean anything to you?" asked her grim questioner "Yes!" with proud, uplifted chin. "Will you take an oath to reveal nothing you have heard?" "No. I have given my oath, heart and soul to the south. Either let me n'e go or shoot me if you can!" "Wait a moment, Parson," pleaded the young man to whom she owed her capture. "I have an idea. Wo cun't renlly pprmit you to shoot her." "Her? She ha3 no sex," said the leader placidly. "We can't be bother ed with a prisoner at this hour." "We can tie her up and leave her here. But this is my idea. I'll han dle this pretty viper. No doubt she's pretty under that smudge," he added, ironically. , "Pull my fangs if you can," she re plied.. , The gray man frowned thought fully. She had courage. Said the young man: "You say you i.i e bound heart and soul to the South. Well, your body shall never belong to it." She stepped back her first sign of fear. "Come, come," warned the chief, "none of that. Better let me take the burden upon these shoulders. It is one thing to shoot a spy; it is an other thing to " "You haven't' heard me through," interposed the young man. "What I .mean is, her body shall be bound to the North." "And how?" 'By marriage to one of us." One of the number gave a start of surprise at the suggestion. The gray man smiled for the first time.- Marry her to one of these mad young cockerels, bind her and leave her! "But if by chance I should already bo married?" she inquired, her cour age returning. "If you wish to commit bigamy, that's no concern of ours." With a swift, unexpected gesture the young man caught her hands. The fingers were ringless. He laughed and flung aside the hands. "Who's for this fool adventure?" demanded the gray man. His com rades stirred uneasily. "Make up your minds; it is death or marriage. I stand ready for the ceremony." She wanted time, time, time! It would take her confederate fully an hour to rt-turn with men. She had written in code enough to condemn them all to the wall or the noose. Wrapped around a pebble, it had jcen flung into the street. She had aot known that these desperate men would really be here; she had put hardly any faith at all in the darky's tale. And noW to play with them, to hold them until aid arrived. They would all be dead ir the morning o what mattered it if she went nrough with the farce? "And what of the man who mar ries me: All tins memit time. "Oh," aid her tormentor, "he shall call it a sacrifice to the altur of war. You will serve the South, but by the Lord Harry, you'll belong to the North. We'll punish yoa with doubt, ilcubt and fear; always you'll be won e'ering who and what this man is who n ames you. Of course we are still ready to take your oatn." "I have declined to give it." "Very well. Line up, comrades, and she shall choose among us, woman's ancient perogative, so it can never be said that we forced 'arselves upon her. Death or mar riage mass or the Bastile!" "I consent," she said. "I am young; I do not want to die."' Already a quarter of an hour had been consumed. If only she could hold them long enough! She stared speculatively at the circle of flashing eyes. "There is, then, a minister of the gospel among you?" she asked, in credulously. "Yes. 1 am he." The gray man laughed. Each hair at the base of her neck stirred at the sound of that laughter. "Come, comrades!" But these comrades demurred. It was one thing to risk one's life, for one might risk it and still save it; but it waB another thing to marry an unknown woman, simply to save her life, a woman they might never see again. The gray man took up his revol ver. "I will shoot her." The man who spoke was he who had, a little while earlier given her the start of surprise. "I thought I was to choose," she 3aid, looking at the stern-visaged man fingering the revolver. More time closer and closer the net was draw ing. "And choose you shall. Trust me; your marrige shall be as legal as :hough performed in a cathedral. (Continued next week.) U. 0. World Debate Tour. First For United States University of Oregon, Eugene. A tour of the world by a University of Oregon debating team, the first of its kind to be sponsored by an American institution, has been authorized by student body authorities and plans are well under way. Jack Hempstead, of Gladstone, stu dent debater, and J. K. Horner, coach, are preparing for the tryout April 30 which is open to any student willing to stay out of college for one year The debaters will work on the steam ships during the tour and do what ever they can to help earn money to defray their expenses, making the project unique. This idea will symbol ize the democratic spirit of Oregon, Hempstead said. In the United States the Oregon men, four in number, will meet the leading college teamB, in England and Scotland they are plan ning contests with the largest uni versities, as well as the University of Hawaii, University of New Zea land, five, colleges in Australia. 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