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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1927. PAGE THREE OUNO to NOKTH Harold MacGvath Illustrated by Henry Jay Lee Copyright ly HroU Mao Grail -EUUated thru Au.tocturtr Serviar M. f 0 7N WHO'S WHO Jeanne Beaufort, beautiful daugh ter of a Virginia planter, has lost her father and two brothers in the Civil War. (The year 1864.) She swears to Mrs. Wctmore, her aunt, that she will carry out the Biblical injunc tion for vengeance "an eye for an eye!" While at Richmond she meets Henry Morgan, a debonair young officer, who falls in love .vith her. She repels his advances. She is en gaged as a spy for the Confederate government and urged to uie all (he w..es and power of her sex to find 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 learns of an organization of el even Union spies and of their meet ing place in a Richmond loft. As she overhears the leader address the masked men seated about a table, Jeanne is discovered and dragged into the room. The leader unmasks as he threatens her with death, but is dis suaded from shooting her by the sug gestion 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 riage. Him she names "Irony." To her surprise the leader is no other than Parson John Kennedy. He per forms the ceremony. "Irony" Bays his name is among those who sign as witnesses, (just before they leave her bound), in the following code form : 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 Later Jeanne learns that Morgan is a spy. CHAPTER IV In the little station at Fair Oaks, some ten miles out of Richmond, a telegraph operator sat before his in strument. At midnight he became galvanized into action. He ran outside to the station platform, glanced right and left, to make sure that no one was in sight; then he returned to the office and put out the light. A moment later ht was in the cellar, a candle flicker ing in his hand. He pulled aside a Btack of gunnysacks and uncovered a telegraph instrument. Over this he stooped. In Morse code J-WG-A was repeat ed three times. He waited anxiously. Buck came the answer J-NK-F. The operator's message contained grave news. An attempt would be made the following night to blow up the i.mmunition stores in Washington. The receiver of this message climb ed down from the telegraph pole, hid his batteries and instrument, mounted end rode olT into the night. The man in the cellar piled up the gunnysacks once more and returned to his office, relighted the lamp and slouched into his chnir. He had cleared the track for the coast-bound, and when that passed through, he was done for the night. All at ence he assumed the attitude of a tense listener running horses he was certain he heard them. He reached for his revolver and carefully examined it. Running horses were not unusual in the night, but one never knew or could forsee what they might bring. Louder and louder grew the hoof beats, nearer and nearer. The sound ceased abruptly. The operator waited, his revolver ready. Then came the sound of run ning human feet. The door opened. The revolver flushed in tho light then dropped. "George?" cried the operator. "Yes, John, old boy." "What's up?" "Tho whole business. The game at Fair Oaks is done for. The marvel is that it has lasted as long as it has. Did you end that message?" "Yes." "Thnnk God! Fognrty will get away. Come! I beat tho train to you. Five minutes look alive!" The operator blew out the light, and the two hurried out to the steam ing horses. "There she comes!" cried the new comer, waving his hand down tho track toward the point of light which glow larger as they looked. "A troop of Johnnies, old boy, all prepared to put your back to the station clap boards and sail you out. Mount!" They rode in silence for half an hour, cross-country at first. They had mapped out a route against such a crisis as this. They walked a shal low stream toward an unused road, whence they might make their way northward without worrying over , pickets. "Tell mo what's happened," said the late opernlor at Fair Oaks. "Do you remember when tho Far son made us all ride north, threaten ing to shoot any man who lagged?" "Yes." "Well, that's all I'm at liberty to tell you Just now, I came back be cause this is my post. You were Bent down hero to give me a lift at the ecrct wire. But for quick and lucky work tonight, you'd have gone over." "Who is it?" "I know, and that is sufficient for tho present. You're not built for this k nd of work. John, and tnnt Is wny I'm not telling you anything. You still have some illusions. But to hoodwink the Parson!" "Parson Kennedy is a Hun." "Yes. poor devil, he's a Hun. But We are going to let this double-Bpy go back to Washington." "And why?" "There's a woman we want, Brother John." "A woman!" "You're an old solf-soap, Jack; you can't get the idea out of your head that women are holy." "But to hunt a woman!" "Whose name we don't know, whose face we haven't seen h'mph! Fine chance we have of catching her, ex cept in one way. This isn't the kind of woman you and I know; it's a fe male rattlesnake. Whenever she strikes, it's death. Do you know what I think? Well, that young woman we all married a few weeks ago may be th every woman we've been after." "When we reach the rflad, you'll have to go it alone. I must get back to Richmond. Turn to your right three times, then go straight ahead. You'll strike our outposts by noon. Here we are. And good luck to you." Then J-WG-A climbed the bank of the road. His friend wheeled his horse midstream and went splashing down it. J-WG-A and G-RD-A had gone their separate ways forever. Meantime Jeanne had ordered her carriage. She was tired, and she knew that her aunt was struggling against sleep. When Jeanne reached her room, she undressed and sat down before the mirror to do up her hair for the night. With a sigh she realized that those beautiful tresses must go, and not la ter than tomorrow--must be clipped ort like a boy's. She would save it, and wear it as a wig dyed brown. She saw the fold ed bit of paper sticking from the mir ror s frame. Calmly she plucked forth the note and opened it. Medusas head! A crudely drawn circle, with a strange, Greek-letter-like device in the center, stared back at her. Below it was written in cramped etters: Compliments of the season to Madam Who from her fond and loving, but negiected, 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 shoulder. "Cut it close, Auntie close." "But -.(hy, why'.'" demanded the be wildered aunt. 'I am a soldier; soldiers obey or ders. I am going back to Washington, Auntie but not as Jeanne Beaufort. 1 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 hair-dresser, Auntie. Never mind the price. Tell her the wig must be made within forty-eight hours. It must be dyed a durk 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 admired 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 vas a small bag for such toilet ar ticles as sh needed She took noth ing else. She had trunks in Washing ton, and these contained everything. Ah, but she did take something else a sheet of paper. Somewhere she right find an H or J or a G, some letter to compare with those on that d( cument. Dressed as a boy it would have been comparatively easy for her to go directly to Washingotn; but she proposed to arrive this time in her present garments, the somber gray such as hospital nurses wore. It took her ten days to reach Balti more, for that was her first destina tion. A deep tan lay upon her face, arid to this she added a semi-permanent stain. Only her eyes were Jeanne Beau fort's. She would call herself Alice Trent. The name came into her nrnd quite innocent of calculation. She had never heard of anyone by that r.ame; she could not even recall hav ing read it in a book. It was one of those incomprehen sible tricks of fate, this idle selec tion; and later it came very near proving fatal to her. How could she possibly know that Alice Trent was a living being, her own age, a resident of the very city she had chosen as her base? Heretofore she had gone by the name of Susan Warren. She had lived quietly with a middle-class fam- ily whose sympathies inclined toward the South. Now she must go out in the high world; she must gather her information from military and dip lomatic sources. So, one morning, there arrived on the Baltimore train, among other pas sengers, a handsome young woman in srber gray. She glanced about inde cisively. A regiment was entraining. Until the soldiers had passed, it was im possible to make the exit from the station. Company by company the coaches swallowed up the troopers. An intoxicated man watched her speculatively. He approached, doffed his cap amiably and asked if she would like a gentleman see her home. Jeanne had no time to reply. A lean brown hand seized the offender t.y the collar and flung him roughly to one side. A pleasant-faced young officer saluted Jeanne and offered to ce her to her carriage. "It was very kind of you," she said ss she took her seat in a rickety old phaeton. "The pleasure was mine. I am Cap tain Armitage." "My name is Alice Trent," All young officers were useful. He raised his hat, and she was driven off. A very agreeable face, vhe thought. But he was a hated Yankee; and so she dismissed him with a shrug. Political influence, unmerited pro motion, jealousy, inefficiency, cheat ing army-contractors, these prolonged the Civil War two years. It was only when the iron ring began to tighten about Richmond that the Gov ernment awoke to the fact that Lin coln and Grant could end the way if let be, and that there were as dan gerous enemies within the gates as ti-ere were outside of them. About this time the Secret Service bureau became a real arm of the Gov ernment. It began to be what it has since become, second to no other in the world. Certain families, known to bo in sympathy with the South, were watch ed. Jeanne knew this and arranged her plana accordingly. The family to which she was assigned as a guest from Baltimore had borne the clos est scrutiny, cheerfully, urbanely and successfully. They were Northerners who had the bulk of their fortune invested in the South. Aside from the zest of the intrigue, they were delighted to have Jeanne. Her dark beauty, the splen dor of her eyes and dark brown hair, hor low, musical voice this capti vated them from the start. That her skin was artificially dark ened, that her hair, while her own, was yet a wig, was quite unsuspected by her hosts. They vaguely under stood that her presence in Washing ton had political significance, but be yond this they did not bother their heads. They had been asked to harbor her so long as harborage was neces srry; they needed no more than that. They began to take her everywhere, (.rid within a fortnight's time she be came a bright new star in the political and military firmament of Washing ton life. Morgan took particular pains to keep out of her orbit until September. On the other hand, wherever she went she found that young captain, John Armitage. He attached himself to her immediately. He was just enough different from the ordinary average man to interest her. 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