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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927. PAGE THREE OUND to NORTH "Harold MaoGrath Illustrated W Henrv Tav Lee Copyrigki hy HroU Mao Grrtl - KoUaifocl thru Auiocattur Service 7 WHO'S WHO Jeanne Beaufort, daughter of a Vir ginian, swears vengeance againBt the North for the deaths of her father and two brothers in the Civil War. She is enrolled as a spy for the Con federate government and instructed to use the wiles of her sex to bring Parson John Kennedy, a Union spy, within the power of the South. Dis covered in the act of spying upon the group of Secret Service agents of whom Kennedy is the leader, Jeanne is given the alternative of death or marriage to one of their number. They are all masked, but Jeanne re jects one volunteer and chooses an other of the eleven as her husband. To herself, she calls him Irony. Par son Kennedy performs the ceremony and the bride and groom, ignorant of each other's names and she not even knowing what he looks like, sign the marriage certificate as "Mary Smith" ond "John Jones." As witnesses the fc-roup sign as follows: John Kennedy, D.D. C-WG-L H-RD-M A-NK-S P-PA-0 G-RD-A J-NK-P J-WG-A F-BN-S F-WG-S W-BE-H They leave her bound and disap pear. Henry Morgan, a Southern officer and spy for the Confederacy, is in love with her but she rejects his ad vances. One day getting a letter ngned "your husband," Jeanne real izes that her identity is known. Dis guising herself with a brown wig and scaining her face, Jeanne assumes the name of Alice Trent, and goes to Baltimore to carry on her work. She is un aware that a real "Alice Trent" lives in Baltimore. John Armltage, a Union officer, res cues Jeanne from a drunken man Joanne induces Morgan to abduct Kennedy so that she may question him about the names on the certificate and about a curious tattoo mark on the arm of the man she married. Arm itage rescues him, but Jeanne escapes. She sees placards announcing a re ward for her capture, "dead or alive." General Armltage, father of the Captain, is discussing plans for the final campaign against Richmond when Jeanne, attempting to steal them, is captured. Though she is in boy's clothes, Captain Armitage rec ognizes her, but says nothing, and she is bound to face a firing squad in the morning. CHAPTER VII. The officers filed out gravely, the Generals son along with them. All those carefully laid plans gone like a puff of smoke! But it was certain in the minds of them all lhat nothing on God's earth could prevent a firing squad at sunrise. Captain Armitage entered his tent calmly enough; but once there he fell to pacing. By and by he snuffed the candle. The spy lay quietly, wasting no effort at the bonds, tied none too gently. The guard paced back and forth and occasionally paused to glance inside the tent. Hour after hour went past. At midnight the spy heard a rather unusual sound at the rear of the tent. It was a whispering sound, as of one crawling over grass. Presently a strange hand worked at the ropes. There came a faint whisper: "When you hear me talking to the guard, slip out at the rear. Make straight for the river. The way is fairly clear." The whisperer felt his hand being caught by two small ones. He drew it back quickly, for the kiss had the feel of hot lead. A little later a shot was heard along the river-bank. Two more shots followed hurriedly at the tent of General Armitage, where a light still burned. - "I have to report, sir, that the spy has escaped!" At about midnight Captain Armi tage had stopped to question him. Just before that he had looked into ih tent and the spy was yet there, When General Armitage leturned to his tent, he found his son. "Ah, Johi.," said the father violent ly, "all these plans gone to pot in a night! Damnation! Spies outside and traitors within! In God's name, how can we end the war whon such things exist?" "I am the traitor," said the ion quietly. "What's that?" The General leaned across the table, his mouth opn, his eyes at their widest. "I freed the spy." "You, my Bon?" "Yes. But before you give any or ders, Father " "Say 'Sir'l" came quickly through the lips of the man opposite. "Before you give any orders, sir, I wnnt you to hear the rights of It, such as they are." v "Rights? Did you give the spy his Information, too?" "No. Bir. When the spy said to search him after he was dead, did not the strangeness of that request strike you, sir? It was a woman." "A woman I" The General stepped back. "You say a woman?" "Yes, sir, a woman. And if you will permit mo to explain, sir, the explanation will be short." "There was no intrigue, such as would be your natural supposition. This is why I released her." And briefly the son recounted what had taken nlace on a certain night in Richmond. "Sir, I was one of those men, and she was the woman." "Go to your tent and consider your self under arrest. You're no son of mine hencoforth." When Jeanne Beaufort climbed ashore she knew now and understood he had saved her because he had recognized her, not as Alice Trent but as the Jeanne Beaufort who had faced alone the anger of eleven men. He was the man who had stepped out that night and offered to marry her to save her life. She knew that fche loved! Five days later Jeanne was serving tea in a drawing-room in Washington Every time the bell rang her heart leaped wildly. She feared to see Armitage; yet inconsistently she longed to see him. She craved to know if we would recognize in "Alice Trent" the woman of the loft, the cabin and the tent. One day he appeared in mufti with nn officer unknown to her, a Lieuten ant Lowell. Shrewdly she watched Armitage, and her covert scrutiny finally convince! her that he harbored not the slightest suspicion that "Alice Trent" and the woman he had saved were one and the same. They were at war, he on one side and she on the other. . . . God was a just God, but nevertheless He had His playful iron ies. She loved a Yankee! When Armitage and his friend left the house they wulked along in silence for a while'. "Well?" said Armitage finally. "She is all you say, John, and more. But if I possessed your turn of mind I'd fight shy of her." "That's my intention. What would you have done in my place?" "Where?" '"Jeanne Beaufort." "Oh. Well, since you ask, I'd have got up with the firing squad. It's a devil of a mess you've got yourself in. Here you are, guilty of a treason able act, meriting court-martial and long imprisonment. Your dad has dis owned you. And who could blame him? You are at liberty today be cause the whole organization stood back fo .you. You're on probation; so mind how you walk. You'll never convince those who don't know that you didn't have an intrigue with that woman. Your father turned you over to the Government a pretty brave thing to do. Have you been to see Kennedy yet?" "No. I suppose I ought to.'' ' "Go to his rooms now. Tell him you thank him. Without his aid you would have faced court-martial. He's not always clear in the upper-story; for he had a tough time of it, and it left its mark." "All right. I'll go over and have a talk with him." Kennedy did not seem particularly glad to see Armitage. "Son, there's only one real ques tion I'm going to ask you," he said. "Did you know this Jeanne Beaufort that night in Richmond? Hod you ever met her before?" "Good Lord, no!" "Well, for a while you will be un der my orders. Watch that rogue Morgan; follow every woman he speaks to. In other words, find this woman you let go; find Jeanne Beau fort." The old plantation home of the Beauforts was like the run of its kind. The kitchens were under a single story. The shelving roof ran up to tre windows of the wing, to the spare bedrooms. Upon the shingles lay the figure of a man, and from the corner of his eye he watched the near est bivouac-fire. By and by taps sounded, and the man entered the gar ret and dropped to sleep. Jeanne had returned home to find that her father's regiment, with oth ers, was quartered at the plantation for the severer months. She was de lighted. It puts wings to depressing thougts; it gave her physical as well as mental occupation. It was like olden times to see these bright-faced young officers about, with their exaggerated compliments, the courtly airs which the Northern ers lacked. Tonight she sat at the piano. Tht younger officers were gathered about her. The older members of the staff sat about the table talking in subdued tones. They, too, hod insisted that she play and sing, while they puttered over maps which were growing small er and smaller. The entrance of an orderly inter rupted the song. "Sir, I have to report that Sentry Jennings found this pair of shoes at the end of his beat. They were warm when he found them, sir." Instantly Jeanne and her admirers gathered about the table. A General took up a shoe and looked it over carefully. "Made by the Yankee government," was his comment. "Army shoes," said Jeanne, "More than that, they are officer's shoes." All but the General looked at her in wonder. "You are right, Miss Beaufort,' said he coming to her hescue. "It signifies that we have an unwelcome guest hereabouts. The next thing is to find him. Mann, will you see the proper orders are given to prevent this Yankee from getting out of our lines?" "Yes, sir!" The younjj officer ran from the house. The General put the shoes upon the table and rose. The rest of the staff rose with him. Presently Jeanne was alone. With her arms folded across her bosom, she bent her gaze upon the shoes, mute wiinesse of a business she knew only too well. Somewhere in the camp was a man in stockinged feet. They were stout shoes, but at the bume time they were small and shape ly. The muck, which was still damp upon them, made manifest that the owner had come across the river be low the plantation; for at the nortb of the camp the soil was firm and rocky. "From the South! What did that mean? A slight' shiver wrinkled her spine. There was ever that fear in her heart that some day she would meet one man in the pursuit of his duly. What would happen when that dreaded moment came? He was in his stocking-feet. A man did not wander about a camp in that fashion. He was somewhere within the housel This knowledge came as a shock. 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