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
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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. He was
really unusual, being of that type of
youth which has surrendered half of
its illusions and tenaciously clings,
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Her interest in him deepened
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