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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927. PAGE THREE TO fc: OUND rt Harold MacGvath Illustrated hv Henry Tav Lc v w w Copyright loy Hrold Ma Gr& - RUiA tkru AuAocatr Servlaf IBfr WHO'S WHO Jeanne Beaufort, dnughter of a Vir ginian, swears vengeance against 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 uso 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 Ireny. Par sen Kennedy performs the ceremony and the bride and groom, ignorant of each other's names and phe not even knowing what he looks like, sign the marriage certificate as "Mary Smith" and "John Jones." As witnesses the fcroup sign as follows: 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 They leave her bound and disap pear. Henry Morgan, a Southern officer and Bpy -for the Confederacy, is in love with her but she rejects his ad vances. One day getting a letter rigned "your husband," Jeanne real izes that her identity is known. Dis guising herself with a brown wig and staining her face, Jeanne assumes the neme 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 Armitage, a Union officer, res cues Jeanne from a drunken man Jeanne induces Morgan to abduct Kennedy so that she mny question him about the names on the certificate and about a curious tattoo mark vi the arm of the man Bhe married. Arm itsge rescues him, but Jeanne escapes. She sees placards announcing a re ward for her capture, "dead or alive." General Armitage, father of the Captain, is discussing plans for the final campaign against Richmond when Jeanne, attempting to steal them, is captured. Though she is i" boy's clothes, Captain Armitage rec ognizes her, but says nothing, and she is bound to face a firing squad in the morning. Armitage helps Jeanne escape and she makes her way back to her home. It is now the center of a Confederate encampment. Sentries bring word that a Union spy is on the grounds. The spy attempting to escupe is killed. Jeanne reads a dispatch- in his pocket, indicating that lie was G-RD-A and on his arm sees the tattoo mark. She now believes that he was her husband. Morgan is discovered to be a Confederate spy and swears vengeance on Kennedy. Jeanne hopes to obtain, by torture if necessary, the truth about her marriage from Ken nedy. The parson and A rmitnge ac cordingly are kidnapped and taken to u deserted cabin. There, bound, they are seated when Morgan lights a short fuse attached to a powder bar rel. CHAPTER IX. That fiber which holds the stout heart impervious to ordinary perils and Kennedy and Armitage were men of the stoutest of hearts begun to disintegrate in the face of this hor ror. To die in the fury of physical contest is nothing; indeed, death is forgotten. But to sit still, to reach out men tally and anticipate, is a thousand times to die! Armitage closed his eyes. It is a strange fact that, when confronted by immediate death of the catastrophic order, instinctively we close our eyes. Perhaps Kennedy crosed his eyes too; mayhap he took sardonic pleas ure in eyeing the dancing sparks. There might have been a prayer on his lips. An unexpected gust of cold night air, striking Armitage's , forehead, caused him to open his eyes. The door of the cubin was open. He saw a slender youth enter and step upon the fuse. "Is it you, Jeanne Beaufort?" ask ed Kennedy. "Yes, Parson Kennedy, it is Jeanne Beaufort. It is the woman upon whose head you set a price, dead or alive. It is the woman you broke and dishonored for doing for her cause what you were doing for yours." She gazed down somberly at the cropped gray head so near her feet. "Have you a prayer that you can recall?" She then ran over to Armitage and sought the knots with her fingers and teeth. When she had done, he was free to walk, but his hands were still tied behind his back. "You are free, Captain Armitage. You are not here through any act of mine. You saved my life once; I pay the debt. A life for a life, we are quits." "You are a woman, and you would let this man die horribly?" he asked incredulously. "For the evii he has done me, yes." "I too was guilty." "1 was there that night." The dark eyes merely rose to the level of his own. Everything was perfectly clear and understandable now. The eyes of Jeanne Beaufort and Alice Trent were exactly alike. "Hurry!" she cried impatiently. "They will be returning if we wait too long." "I saved your life that night in the hills." "Hurry!" was all she said. "We were madmen. We were none of us accountable for what we did." "I was," interposed Parson Kenne dy. "So be off, son. She will blow me up and see me forever in her dreams! Let her go ahead, then; and always at her side will be my shad ow. Be off! " Armitage backed toward the chair and sat down on the edge of it. "Both of us or neither of us," he said. "Oh!" That monosyllable ex pressed anger, .impatience, impotence, despair; Jeanne clenched her hands fiercely. "Fool," growled Kennedy. "Have I not often told you that I'd rather die than live? Haven't I called to Death a thousand times, to see him mock me?" Jeanne looked down at her enemy with reluctunt admiration. This gray man who had called to Death a thous and times and been denied awakened the old inherent sense of chivalry. She turned to Armitage, "Your word of honor not to touch me." "I give it." "I will let him go. Let him remem ber that it was I that gave him his life, even as 1 would have taken it. indifferently." She untied Armitage's hands. He felt the tremor of her fingers, but in no wise comprehended its origin. As for Jeanne, since this was to be the last time she was ever to see this man, a terrible, almost irresistible desire seized her to throw her arms around his neck and tell him she loved him, loved him! Armitage rubbed his wrists ener getically to take away the sting of the hemp. Then he freed Kennedy, who was really helpless, and dragged him outside the cabin. Jeanne broke off the fuse half a foot from the keg, ap plied the flame of the candle, and darted from the cabin. As Armitage led Kennedy out of the danger-zone he was thrown vio lently to the ground. The earth had opened up, and hades had, stretched a fiery arm toward heaven, to with draw it in a cascade of sparks and flaming debris. In the meantime Morgan, prey to singular emotion, waited impatiently for Jeanne. What had delayed her? Where had she gone Had she any idea that two men instead of one were in that cabin? Came the thud of hoofs. The rider was Jeanne. She drew up at his side. "Where have you been? What has delayed you? Why did you come from that direction?" he' demanded sus piciously. "You lied to me, Morgan." "I?" "Yes. You lured Armitage into this without warning me." "Good riddance!" all his old jeal ousy rising. "Well, you overshot the mark, thank God! I let them both go." "You what?" - - "They are free." "But the cabin!" "Oh, you were waiting to see the spectable, and I did not wish to dis appoint you wholly." "You love Armitage!" He leaned over to seize her wrist, but she swerved her horse. "Yes, I love him. What then?" "Well, before God, you're unluckyl You can never, never marry John Armitage. You are mine, mine!" Quickly and cruelly he dug his spurs into his horse and fled to avoid the breaking of the verbal dam, the ruination of all his carefully laid plans. In another moment he would have told her everything for the sake of making that upright figure droop. Armitage, restored to his father's division, at President Lincoln's inter cession, plunged eagerly into his work. Shortly after his arrival the entire army began its historic movement southward, toward Richmond; and in cidentally John Armitage entered a danger-zone of a different sort. A detachment of Federal troops moved out to intercept a train of munitions. They captured it near a small station. On the rear platform of the station stood a number of cottonbales. From under the newly arrived freight cars a boyish figure came forth cautionsly, crept toward the bales and dodged in among them, wiggling close to the window, which was open. At the same time, under Armitage's order, a new Federal operator took the telegraph key and hammered out a few friendly greetings to ths man at headquarters to prove that he could send tolerably well. The office was now deserted except for himself. He slouched in the chair and lighted his pipe. "If vou move or utter a sound, I'll S'MATTER POP by c. m. payne A LESSON IN FRENCH r ; T7 ' Come, rr Comes IqT" Kt J TELT?FECTL.- 5VJEETS (jU 1 nTTU 17 ?vw vtorjE-RT-ut-, r fy w w uo 1 fa shoot!" said s quiet voice over his shoulder. "Right about face! Now, march to that clothes-press, and re member that it is death if you speak!" A woman's voice. It was only when the operator felt himself propelled forcibly into the stuffy clothes press that he realized this was no unsub stantial night-mare. Jeanne, for it was she, wrenched the clacking key from the screwj. Next she smashed the battery jars. She arose and glanced out of the east window and beheld Captain Armitage! He was coming along the platform scribbling as he walked. Armitage, .Armitage, of all men I From the door of the baggage room the spy saw that the unmanned en gine stood a dozen feet beyond the first coach. Armitage briskly entered the sta tion and made for the door of the operator's room. Locked! He shook .he handle violently. "Hey, there, Clark; unlock the doorl" he cried, impatiently. No one replied. Armitage, vaguely alarmed, smashed a panel and burst into the office. He ran to the clothes-press and swung back the door. The operator lurehed forward into his arms, gasp ing. Then came a fusillade of musket shots. Armitage let go of the opera tor and ran outside. He grasped the situation instantly. The engine was running away. He saw the head and shoulders of the spy who had accomplished this amaz ing coup in the midst of fifteen hun dred men. He fired three shots from his revolver. One struck the steam-gauge above Jeanne Beaufort's head; the second shattered the forward cab-window; the third lodged in her arm. She sajjk with a stifled cry to the metal floor ing. Twenty miles to go! For half an hour to fight off this faintness, this horrible pain! Could she do it! She would do it! In despair Armitage returned to the station. The telegraph out of com mission, the engine gone they were trapped! How Jeanne rose above pain and faintness during that twenty miles she never could explain. She just did it; that was all. The final wrench between sensibility and insensibility came when she was forced to stand up to close the throttle. From the rushes at the left of the embankment rose a score or more of Confederates, headed by Morgan himself. "Boys, she did it!" he cried. "Fif teen hundred Yankees trapped like rats in a holei" But Morgan's jubilation was great ly dampened when he beheld the hud dled figure on the cab floor, the drenched sleeve, the bloody hand. "Jeanne? My God, they've shot her! A stretcher!" Morgan lifted her again and laid her gently upon the improvised stret cher and ordered the bearers to carry her to the knoll where the horses were tethered. As Morgan walked beside her Jeanne began to babble murmurously. Morgan bent his head and caught an nitelligible sentence. It straightened his spine and wiped out the tender ness in his face instantly. "John you shot me! . . . How could you!" Immediately the low babble of incoherent phrases began again. Armitage, and back yonder, and his bullet had done this work! Always that man crossing his path. Oh, they must meet some day, in true colors, face to face; and then God help Armitage! One day, as she lay recuperating, Morgan gave her a sheet of paper. 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