HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.
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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
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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. "I
had hard work getting this it is
what you asked for," he said.
When he had left she opened the
sheet. It was the list of the names of
the eleven!
(Continued next week)
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