HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927. PAGE THREE OUND to Harold Mac Gvath Illustrated by Henry Jay Lee Copyright ty Harold Mac Graih - iUlaajed tKru Autocastar Serviof 1 51 t 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 1811.) She swears to Mri. Wetmore, her aunt, that she will carry out the Biblical Injunc tion for vengeance "an eye for an eye!" While at Richmond she meets 11 . . ... nenry morgan, a debonair young omcer, who tails in love ivith her. She repels his advances. She ia en gaged as a spy for the Confederate government and urged to uie all (hi wneb 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 technioal branches of her new calling. And clad as a boy often in the Blue of the North, Bhe 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" says r.is 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. To her surprise she receives a let ter bearing the curious device she had seen tatooed on her husband's arm. The letter, ironical in its tone, shows that her unknown husband is still in Richmond and knows the name and identity of his wife! She cuts her hair, stains her face and, going to Baltimore, assumes the name of Alice Trent, not knowing such a person lived in Baltimore. An intoxicated man accosts Jeanne and she is rescued by Captain John Armitage, a young Union officer whom she tells her as sumed name. Jeanne tells Morgan of the tattoo mark and at her request he agrees to abduct Parson Kennedy so that she can question him about the names on the marriuge certificate. Kennedy had, with the authority of a Secret Service officeT, directed that Armit age watch him (Kennedy). Kennedy in carried away and bound, but as Jeanne is questioning him, Armitage rescues him. Jeanne escapes. CHAPTER VI "CAPTURE" The Parson and Armitage lay quiet ly in the thicket for fully half an hour, when they rose and plodded off toward the city. Evidently the abductors had con vinced themselves that a lone man would not have attempted the rescue of Parson Kennedy; and they too chose the path of discretion over that of valor. "Do you know where we are?" ask ed Kennedy. 'Yes about five miles below the city. That's the Potomac over there. I had mighty hard work hanging onto the back of that hack. All told, there were five of them. The girl must have arrived on horseback before they did. It strikes me we'll see more of that cabin." What was the man at the door?" I don't know. He had a handker chief over his nose and mouth. Then he ran." "Ran and left the woman; h'mph!" "She seemed able to take care of herself. You said that I freed the viper. Who put poison into her fangs? You did. From a lawful enemy you turned her into a personal one." "Was I alone in that? Who sug gested marriage to save her?" "You showed your face that night you told her your name." "I did so, believing that she was about to die." "Well, you had a good look at her to-night." "Not very. The dodger rends that Jeanne Beaufort is very pale; this girl had the color of a Creole." "I cun muke a Creole by using the juice of a wulnut-shell. She's clip led her hair short. Whenever you bee Henry Morgan talking to a man or a woman you don't know, follow and find out who and what they are." "So Morgan is the man! I sus pected that." "And his life wouldn't be worth a puff of smoke but for one thing; he is going to take my hand and put it on Jeanne Beaufort's shoulder. And 'he fop thinks he's hoodwinking us all!" "But what about Senator X, whom Morgan Berves?" "We have warned him as much as we dare. But the Senator is a thick headed mule. He stakes his life on Morgan's integrity. And until we get Jeanne Beaufort, we can't lay the facts before him plainly." In rushing from the cabin Jeanne had gone straight to her tethered horse and ridden away. Armitage! She had heard Parson Kennedy roar out that name. Armitage with Parson Kennedy! Armitage one of the eleven? It was riot possible. There had been nothing in his attitude to suggest that he had recognized her. She was dressed al most exactly as she had been that night in Richmond. Armitage was purely an outsider; and this conviction afforded her great relief. That Parson Kennedy had spoken her name did not alarm her. She knew that he had but taken a chance shot in the dark. Why should he hate her whom he had wronged? She entered Washington. She had sworn to run these men down. Two days later Armitage called up on Alice Trent. They were to go out riding. It was a glorious Sep tember day, mild and sunny. "How is it that you are not with those beloved troopers of yours?" "Oh, for the present I am aide to one of the chiefs. It is my business to tee that fresh troops are promptly entrained, that the recruiting officers are not permitted to get into the dol drums; and sometimes I draw or copy maps. By the way, aid you witness the riots in Baltimore at the begin ning of the war?" "No, I was not there at the time How wonderful those elms are! Is General Armitage your father, by any chance t" , "He is and the finest old ehap in the world, too. He's just a man, but something of a martinet; and to tell the truth, I'm rather afraid of him. You see, my company is among his troops, in the old regiment he was in command of before his promotion and he's an idea that, when I'm around, I should do double turn so that no one could accuse him of showing favoritism. The boys in irony call me the old man s pet. Lord, how. he makes me grind. But I like it." 'And so you draw mapj?" "Of a kind. To the uninitiated my maps would suggest Chinese charac ters. Have you any Men-folk at the fr.nt?" 'My father died at Manassas and my brothers at Ge -tysburg," she an swered, staring actoa the fields. I beg your pardj.i! I'm sorry." "Why shouldn't you ask me? Put "A spy, sor. I caught him in the tillygraph poles, sor, an' have brought him in." I'd rather not talk of them." Armitage had unvitr.-n-'y opened the secret door. She was Janno Beaufort once more, with a thousand dollar reward for her, "dead or alive." What was it? Why coulu she not play with this Yankee m sha had 'plajed with others? Wh.it subtle barrier was it that blockel each im pulse as it was forming'.' Was it te cause he was virile, good to look at, frank and pleasant? Or was it be cause the heat of her hatred for Northerners had abated, anl thu he, naturally honest and direct, despising hypocrisy, was beginning to weary of this game in which hypocrisy was the chief essential? She was greying m a blind alley. After the ride she gavj him tea; but the sest had gone out of every thing. She hated herself, Morgan, Armitage hated the world. Armitage returned to his rooms in a thoughtful and analytical frame of mind. He must not see this lovely girl often. She drew him too closely. On the following morning he was ordered to report to his regiment and remain with it until it was necessary to recall him. He wrote a note to Alice Trent, regretting that he would not be able to see her before he left. She saved that letter; but she was glad that he had gone from town. She had a human heart also, and it was just as wonderfully made as his. She went about her affairs as usual. Twice she visited the house with the secret door and left her information in the drawer of the deal table in the attic. There was no sign "To rent" upon this house; yet it was vacant. No one was ever seen to enter it in the daytime. The house belonged tc the Confederate Government, sub rosa. If Jeanne found the candle out of the bottle, it signified that there were orders in the drawer for her. Thus, on the second visit after Cap tain Armitage's departure, she learned with delight that she was to be given active service again. A certain general, who was one of the few great strategists left in the Confederate Army, was in danger of annihilation, and only an exact knowledge of his enemy's plans of campaigns would permit him to slip out of the net. These plans were at this moment in the tent of General Armitage, hav ing been carried to him by Captain Armitage himself. So Senator X had secretly written to some friends in Illinois. Of course, Morgan had un sealed this letter, read its contents and resealed it, as he did with most of the Senator's correspondence. She, Jeanne, must act immediately. A mile south of Armitage's troops, n the hollow of a blazed rotten oak, weie hidden batteries and telegraphic nstruments. The lower wire was to be tapped. Communications here had not yet been destroyed. Each night at nine the receiver would be at his post. The mobility of the troops would not make it ad visable for her to attempt to commu nicate in person; hence the telegraph. All she had to do was to get the nformation lequired and telegraph t. "All I have to do!" she mused, with a crooked little smiie. All she had to do was to steal into an army of for midable numbers, go straight to Gen eral Armitage's tent, glance at the ftlans and telegraph them! She laughed with sudden ironic laughter. But there was a glow of pride in her heart. She was given this hazardous exploit as casually as if she had been asked to tea. It meant that her abil ity, her cunning and resource, were highly prized. She would make the attempt; she would prove definitely to her insurgent heart that there wa nothing but the Cause. The cloth dodgers were growing dingy on the trees and fences. "Dead or Alive." To cook your hare ycu had to catch it. The camp lay in the Virginia hills It was early in October, and the night air was chill. The men were gath ered in groups about the fires. In General Armitage's tent he and his staff were discussing the final de tails of the campaign which was to e set in motion the following niht and end in the scattering of the rt-bel forces. Success meant that they would be in Richmond by Christmas. Trooper Murphy, whose picket-duty lay between the stream and the tenth telegraph pole to the south, ijlt the need of extending his line of march. He was disobeying stringent orders. He determined to go ten telegrap i poles beyond his allotment. Jo, when he reached the end of his beat, which twisted westward, he paused, count ed the poles and rubbed his eyes. There was still a tint of lemon in the west, enough to throw out in distinct relief each pole. Now, if his- eyes weren't deceiving him, something was moving up that tenth pole, nearly a thousand feet away. It stopped at the cross-bars, twisted itself abou he lower one, and seemed perfectly content to remain there. Private Murphy knew now what this meant espionage; and some frowsy butternut was sending Morse. "Come down out av that, Johnny, or I'll cook yer potaties in saltpeter!" A quarter of an hour later the orderly outside of General Armitage's tent stuck his head inside the flap. "Private Murphy, sir, to report with a prisoner." The General and his staff looked up from the maps. "Anything unusual?" demanded the General. "The officer of the day sent him directly to you, sir." Bring him in." Captain Armitage, however, did not look up. "What's this about?" "A spy, sor, I caught him in the tillygraph poles, sor, an' brought him in." General Armitage turned his flash ing eyes upon the prisoner. "Have you anything to say?" "No sir." "How long have you been in this camp?" "Two days, sir." "What troop do you belong to?" "None." "You were sending a message?" "I was, sir." There was a pause. "You knew the penalty of such action, coupled with the wearing of a blue uniform, and that neither youth nor age mat ter " "You were sending information to the enemy. What information?" "The information which will pre vent the springing of tha trap." There was something in the sound of this sentence that caused the man bending over ths maps to look up. "God!" he murmured, as he saw the face. Jeanne Beaufort! Suddenly the dark eyes met his, and their fiance bit into his soul like acid. "Search him," said General Armi tage. "And be quick about it." "It will not be necessary, sir, until after I am dead." There was not t'ie slightest tremor in the tones. "What I took away from this tent, sir, I took mentally." General Armitage ran his fingers through his beard. "Very well, then; I'll grant you that much. Take him away, Private Jfurphy. Orderly; Take this message to Crompton Sun rise. Tie his hands and feet." 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