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Ann fills a gap 5n Hendricks Cortlandt's lonely heart. The situation Is resented by Mrs. Rcnnesljeer, Hendricks* sister, whose son, Hendricks, has been looked upon as the natural heir to the Cortlandt wealth. The Civil war breaks out. A tentative engagebient between young Renneslyer and Ann Is understood, the youth enlisting. War hospitals are established in New York, and Ann takes up the work of cheering the wounded back from the front. With her guardian, Ann visits Renneslyer In his encampment on the outskirts of Washington and meets noted people. Ann devotes herself to Densley Howard, a dying soldier, who tells feer she must not ms#ry Renneslyer. Renneslyer's name appears in the death list, soon after Ann had secretly written breaking off their engagement. Hendricks Cortlandt goes to Enrope. Ann hears that Renneslyer Is alive, and starts for the front. 35" «- ft*' CHAPTER XI--Continued. --7-- The "Coal Men's Regiment," and ttte •Union League Brigade" were especially active; It seemed to Ann that their burners hung from every bouse; that •very boarding detailed the advantages «a*y offered. Before the recruiting office at Twelfth and Glrard streets, there was such a dense throng of men eager to enlist that she found some difficulty in proceeding on her way to |he Sanitary commission rooms. The boilding was placarded with signs: "The Washington Grays." "Woodward's Light Battery," "Fall In, Men," •ltd an appeal to negro citizens, "Men of Color--come forward," It was like the early days of the war. In New York, only here there was an added tensity because of the nearness of the enemy. All the while, over the hoarse tumult of the crowd, the shrill voices ef newsboys could be heard calling: "Confederate cavalry approaches Har- Ttatourg!" And in Inarticulate answer Ann saw the men press sullenly forward. At the 8anltary commission rooms the girl Interviewed the lady manageress. but she could learn nothing definite. "Miss Byrne? Test Oh, Mr.- Henfrfeks Cortlandt's niece? . . . Wont you alt down?" Ann did so reluctantly. "I hate to tike the time to," she admitted, smiling ingratiatingly at her Interloctiter. "You see--I want to go to the front. Do you know where the Army «f the Potomac is?" i"No one knows that, exactly; aetno- Where In southern Pennsylvania, of •djarse." •ft heard iewsboys calling oat that •|^e has crossed the Potomac." "Yes. There will (be another terrible Wttle soon. You can see how busy We •re, here. The nuost sensible thing you ceuld do would be to settle down and Mp us." "I can't wait," Ann said hastily. "I Most get In touch with the army, helire the battle." ; ' s | j "But, my child, the front Is no place !*r a young lady. Sorely yon realise t^at?" ?™But I can nurse!" Ann cried. "I ive been working In the hospitals In few York ever atfece they were sed!" r"Nurse? So young? Extraordinary! til Philadelphia! However, that Is' > ajslther here nor there. ... If yon j r <*n nurse. I dare say we' might And | ; ; f»u a place on our hospital train; It £|#lll start as soon as we gef orders." • Ann shook her head. "I can't wait," p Mie said stubbornly. /yi "You would not be allowed to go be- Baltimore without a. paife fiWB governor" » £•>. "How can I get a pass?? "You would have to go to ffai'Visfor it--and it is a great question you could succeed in reaching The Ital. You know Ewell is raiding that neighborhood. We fear that any moment be may cut 'off the "Well." Ann murmured, regardless high-bred Philadelphia eyebrows ted at her expense. "Harrlsburg -#ext." , -j She was rather cast down at the * ;,#elay. and she was moreover, afraid fhat Mrs. Cortlandt might succeed in Vy teaching and stopping her. She looked • *bout her for, possible aid, atwl her ' Jfeyes fell on the only man In the room. tBe was a young chaplain, gaunt of figure and exalted of face. He was booking at her when she noticed him; Ibis eyes were the sort in which pity lies in ambush: he was a young m?n born to be gulled. Ann went over to him at once. "I wish you would help me,'l she laid, trustingly as a little child. > "Anythtbg 1 can do!" stammered the young man. "Are you in trouble?" "Yes . . . . great trouble." She d^wd deeply. "I must get to the front," she said, "and I hear I have to **** 4 pa88, to 150 beyond Baltimore.4 <?"They are hard things to get, these it ' ***« "You have--a pass?" puUed, ;a folded j fir "far* ' pocket, andj sure enough, tt wat wt pass. It bore the governor's • necee- «ary signature, and it was made out to a Mrs, Edwnrd Blake. When she looked up at him, the young maij obi served that the girl's gray ey«®, seemed suddenly black. "Why isn't she--this Mrs. Blake--going?" "Her son died before could start." • "Oh, the poor woman I . v Don't you think It seems a pity to waste It?" He looked bewildered at this direct attack, so she added smoothly, "Of course I know that, the governor would give me one--he is a great friend of my uncle'B, you see--but I can't bear to delay. . . . There's goiqg to be this battle. ... I want to get there before It's fought. . . . I want to find some one. If I could only have this pass!" >' - , "It wouldn't do you any good. # isn't made out to you." "Would anyone know that?" "It wouldn't be right," the young clergyman said firmly, but a wave of color swept from his inordinately low collar to hffe blond hair. "I suppose not." Ann drooped again, hopelessly. "I wish I could give it to you." She turned pleadingly to him, and she laid one beseeching hand upon his arm. "Oh, do give it to me I If you will, I can start for Baltimore at once. Please let me have it--please!" He looked at the slender white fingers Irresolutely. Somehow, his was not an arm upon which beautiful young women often leaned, and he burned to be worthy of this appeal. Ann swept her gray eyes up to his. You will, won't you?" she said confidently. She held out her other hand, trustfully. Her evident dependence, was too much for him. He put the folded paper In her outstretched fingers, and tingled with a delightful feeling of wickedness. "Of course," he said virtuously, "I shouldn't let you have It, if It were not a case Of* and death!" "No, of course not. »" .s I can never thank you--but m never forget you! . . . Come on down with me, and help me.find my cab." As she took her seat In the train, Ann observed that there were fewer women traveling that day; the car was filled for the most part with soldiers. They were Interested In her, that was quite evident, for she never looked up without meeting a pair of smiling boyish eyes, but she was disposed to be discreetly shy with them, and she struck up a protective acquaintance with a grizzled major who was returning to his regiment with one empty sleeve. She consulted him about her probable destination. "Where do you think the Army of the Potomac is?" she demanded. "I am ordered to Frederick City, as the nearest railroad point. I should try to go there, if I were you. It's your best chance for information. You might even run Into the Fifty-Fifth. No one knows. You'll have to spend the; night in Baltimore." "The night!" Ann echoed. With a sinking heart. Nights on trains were all very well, but nights in strange cities were more than she had bargained for. "I--don't know anyone there," she faltered childishly. The major frowned. "I do." he said at length. "I think the woman who runs the Eutaw house would remember me. I was taken there when I lost my arm, and she was very good to me. She'll look after yon, I am sure. I'll take you to her." "Oh, thank you!" murmured Ann. How would the world revolve, she wondered, if it were not for kindly men? The hostess of the Eutaw house welcomed Ann querulously. "Take you In?" she said doubtfully. "Well, I «l Syppoae Not." Ann Drooped Again, Hopelessly. . v he murmured sympathetically, ' "and only fancy--I have 90a ftlwPt needed."' * from his don't see as 1 can do anything else. There ain't a mite of room--but IH have to manage. There's a sofy In my room. I reckon you can have that." 'I shan't sleep anyway," Ann said hastily. Nothing seemed mora Impossible to her than that. "That's what they all May," her hostess remarked, with sinister cynicism. Ann shut her eyes experimentally; she was certain that she oould not sleep : J»when she opened them again the morning sun was streaming Into the room, and her hostess was standing over her, urging upon her the necessity of haste, if she were still determined upon her mad Idea Of catch- She dressed in a bewildered ffltrtry^ and protested Impatiently as she choked down the hot coffee and-cornbread brought her by a weeping darky maid. She had but one thought in her mind--to get to the train before it started, for now added to her wish to find out If It were true that Hendricks lived, was a desire to, drink more deeply this exhilarating drought of cxcltetnent. She would find tyut about Henr drlcks, and then, somewhere, she would find a hospital. Her drive to the station--dashing through the crowded streets and swinging crazlly around corners--was gorgeously exhilarating, and her spirits soared in response. The station was the Center of excitement, and the streets leading to it were filled with people; they tossed aimlessly about, regardless of the hot July sun, and shouted and gesticulated. As she drove .through the crowd Ann caught scraps of news; the Confederates were concentrating their forces north of the Potomac river, and Harrlsburg was In great danger. Here and there she heard execrations of General Lee, but oftener a glimpse of an exultant face betrayed the presence of a secessionist. Little groups of men in blue uniform marched past her, clearing the street as they went, and once an army band swung along at the head of a whole regiment, riving the warm air with the shrill clamor of-fifes. The train stood puffing and ready before the station, and sjx or eight soldiers hung out of every window, shouting to their fellows on the platform, and waving indiscriminate greetings* Ann waa a Godsend to them; the entife train waved at her, with wl'd gaiety. She could < scarcely make her way thrdugh the crowd, and when she finally reached the ticket window the agent hesitated over her request for transportation to Frederick City, but the eloquent plea of her deep mourning, as well as the governor's signature op the pass she mutely offered him, overcame his scruples. When the train started she was sitting in it, surrounded by admiring young soldiers who were joyfully disposed to forget their threatened baptism of fire In the presence of the pretty girl. There was no question, today, of her withdrawing from their attentions; the boys were wildly excited at1 the prospect ot an Immediate battle, and Ann was softened by a grim realisation that these skylarking youngsters might be among the ill-fated, ten thousand for whom sinister preparations were being made; she would not have snubbed them even if she could have done so, which was doubtful. Theyx swarmed about her, firing eager questions at her, and told one another that she was "a plucky one, all right!" Their very numbers made her at ease with them. The train made poor time; often it backed mysteriously up the track It had so laboriously traversed, while the boys shouted hilariously. "We've changed our minds! We aren't going to fight the Johnnies, after all!"-- and sometimes it stopped for long intervals, for no apparent reason. When that happened the soldiers swarmed out along the right of way, shouting and leaping like little boys. One of them brought a stalk of goldenrod back to Ann, and she stuck it in her belt. It made a gay note of color on her black tweeds. She fidgeted uneasily at each new delay, for she was still afraid of being turned back. Even trainload of forlorn prisoners, caught In a raid and rushing northward. did not distract her for long. At the Monocacy river three miles from Frederick City, they came to a final halt. The bridge was unsafe, the train men announced, and every one was hurried off the cars Into the blind-, lng heat of a late June afternoon. Im' mediately the officers began < ollectlng their men In some sort of order; as Ann stood, bewildered, waiting for events to shape her next move, she saw the advance column inarch off down the ntted, dusty road. As she stood somewhat forlornly a young captajjn came hurrying up to her. "Where are you going?" he asked. curtly. "To Frederick City," Ann replied, turning wide and confident eyes upon him. "I am trying to find Captain Renneslyer. He was with the Fiftyfifth New York. Do you know where that regiment Is?" "No--and you can't go wandering around this country. There's likely to be a battle almost anywhere, any time. The best thing you can do Is to go back to Baltimore." "I wouldn't think of doing that*" Ann protested. "Sorry," he said, "bot back yon go. Get right Into this tralu again--the one you came down in. It will be leaving In a few minutes." I won't do anything of |he kind." Ann declared furiously. The officer laughed. "I'm In command here," he reminded her. "It's an order." To escape further humiliation Ann went into the car and sat down. She was vehemently angry, but quite Impotent Presently covered black wagon drove up to the train, and a crooked old driver climbed laboriously down to open the door In the rear. Ann watched him curiously: there was nothing else for her to do. A he?y of young women swarmed surprisingly out of the wagop; It was Incredible that it could have held so many hoopskirts. and so many agitated and fluttering girls. A calm nun followed them, prim and self-contained and hot. In her <*>If and black hahit; while her "Wher* are you alt from?" Ann demanded. ••The Cottvent school at Emmlta* burg. We all live In the North, and the mother superior is sending us home just because she thlrik* there may be a battle around here somewhere. Isn't It mean?" The dttier girl Interrupted eagerly, "There Were soldiers in the convent grounds this morning," she declared, round-eyed. "They gave their horses a drink, and the mother superior sent nillk out to the men." "What regiment?" Aiin asked In idle curiosity. "The Fifty-fifth New York." Ann shot to her feet. -* "I'm going!" she declared hotly. "Going where?" ........ "To find the Fifty-fifth!" "She has a lover In it!" etf the girls whispered romantically. Stooping, Ann reconnoltered. The nun had turned towar.l the train, and the old driver was beginning to climb to his high seat. Anr swung herself into the aisle. ... At the door she almost ran down the placid nun. . . . On the step she halted. The bus was beginning to move off, In a leisurely and inviting fashion. The train made a convulsive start, and Ann leaped to the ground. The door in the end of the departing, bus had swung open with a Jolt of its first motion; there was dark sanctuary within. She sprang after It. The horses were barely sturted; she caught up easily," and grasping the handrail In the rear, she Ann's Intention A«d been to start very early in the morning, bnt sh4 could not refuse this urgent For hours she showed the p^ckf nuns how to scrape lint and roll bah<£ ages. She was eager to be gone, for (die knew that she could never bring herself to leave, once the place Was really turned into a hospital, but the Mother Superior was quite firm in forbidding , any such thing. "You must stay here, my daughter, as long as the convent Is tenable," she said smoothly. Before supper the Mother Superior called together the half-dozen Southern girls who remained in the school. "I have decided to send you North, my daughters," she announced, "arid Miss JByrne, too. I cannot take the responsibility of keeping you here. At ten o'clock every morning a train leaves Gettysburg for the north, and I have advices that the road is passable In that direction. . . . You can all be accommodated in the convent at Harrlsburg until you have had time to communicate with your families. You, too. Miss Byrne. I cannot take the responsibility of having you remain here." % The idea of leaving Emmltsburg, where a great battle was about to be fought, and going to an unheard-of little Junction like Gettysburg, was almost more than Ann could bear, but there was a certain definiteness about the Mother Superior, and, immediately after breakfast, she allowed herself to be packed, together' with seven other girls, info the convent bus. Gettysburg was strangely quiet as blond Swede from Illinois told Ann, as he stopped to drink the water she offered him. "Where are you going nowf" "We are ordered to camp att ridge by the seminary on thV other side of town, but we yare placing vedettes on all the roads. They say General Reynolds has been ordered to occupy the town: looks.as if this ii the place all right It's a pity you ladles aren't safe away." Ann laughed. "I can nurse," she said. "If there Is going to be a battle I can be useful." "Why don't you report to the Medical corps? They have taken over the seminary building for a hospital." Into Ann's mind rushed the tales she had beard of field hospitals arid the atrocious care men received In them--care vastly different from the well-equipped wards in which she bad worked. ' ' "I am going," she said to her hostess. "I have worked for a year and a half in hospitals in New York." \ Ther woman smiled at her anxiously. "Reckon you belong there, then." she said reluctantly, "but I kind of hate to see you go off like this." Her dubious glance followed vAnn1 down the street and gave the girl a warm sense,of being looked after. She thought she would always remember this kind friend bound to her by such exciting events. It was not until she had crossed the town that it struck her she did not know her hostess" name. There was great confusion they drove into it. There were no seminary, which was being children playing" in the streets, and the square in th& center of the town was deserted. There were no soldiers to be seen, either; It was like a falaee under a spell. At the station they found the Harrlsburg train waiting to start, but no one could say when. The nun in charge of the young women detided to take them aboard, and there await events. All at once the nun remembered that she had not bought the tickets, and arose in a great flurry to get them. Ann, observing her Jailer's panicky rush to the Station, smiled grimly. She rose tranquilly, and strolled to the rear door of the car. The girls, hating the Northerner, allowed her to go In silence, and she walked calmly down the steps and across the platform. The main street lay before her, hot and empty, and she marched briskly off down It It was as simple as that; no one noticed l.er departure; there was not 1 an exclamation over It. 8he Bolted Into the Dusty, M6t Interior of the Covered W«gon. bolted into the dusty hot Interior of the covered wagon. She settled herself deliberately In the most comfortable corner, and marveled at the ease of her escape. It was a forlorn way they traveled, for the fences had been torn from before the houses, to be used for fuel, and the straggling gardens had been trampled by careless hundreds. Ann wondered uneasily what her reception might be at the convent. Suddenly the bus ceased lurching and groaning, and ran smoothly oyer a good road. Ann looked out; her unconscious driver had turned In between Iron gates, and was taking her down a well-kept driveway. She stood up and peered through a tiny peephole in the front. All that she could see was the austere black outline of a cross, high against the angry sky. In a moment they had arrived before a high front stoop, and stopped. A woman's voice asked, "Any mail, David?" "No, Sister." "Did you bring anything back with you?" ^ , ' "No, Sister." , ' • The bus vibrated aneasttf, ** the tired horses gathered themselves together for a last effort, which should carry them to the barn. Ann knew that the moment of revealment had come, and she reluctantly poked her abashed face oat of the door. "Yes, he did." she said falterlngly. "He brought me." On the top of the high steps was a pretty nun; under her white coif her face looked extraordinarily young and childlike. Her eyes met Ann's with an unmistakable sparkle of amusement. "Did you get in without David's knowing It?" she demanded. Ann nodded, and ran up the steps. "I had to come," she said, "I am looking for an officer--Captain Renneslyer." ^ The ctm nodded in her turn. "Come" In." she said, slipping her arm through the newcomer's, "and tell the Mother Superior all about it." Ann's heart sank, but when she was face to face with the wise and kindly head or the convent school she found little difficulty In telling her story, and she thankfully agreed to stop for the night Ann slept for twelve houra. Ion to the world and her plight. When she awoke she glanced bewllderedly about the white room where she lay. There came a sharp knock on the door, and the pretty nun thrust her face Into the crack. "Gopd morning." she said. "Do you know anything about bandage making? And scraping lint?" "Do I? 1 did nothing else tor six months!" • "Then drees quickly, and come down. Tift battle will be right here in Emmltsburg! The Confederates are Just pouring down every road. The Mother Superior says that the convent | will undoubtedly be used for a hos- CHAPTER XII * Gettysburg. Ann found shelter In a little house on Chambersburg street: she felt sure that it must be respectable because It stood next door to a righteous-appearing Lutheran church, and she liked the look of the place besides. She liked its hostess also. She had found her trimming geraniums with an extraordinary placidity, in view of the fact that there were said to be enemy soldiers in Gettysburg. She took Ann into her stuffy little house and brought her cold wster from the pump in the back yard. When the girl had washed away the dust of her Journey, the two settled down In the stifling parlor to talk, and to watch from benind the Nottingham curtains for a glimpse of Confederate soldiers. The little town remained ominously silent. A little boy came running down the street shouting, and as he qame near they could hear that he was calling: "The Johnnies are coming!" Ann ran out Into the frotit yard to question him. ' "There's a whole brigade with wagons; they're "after clothing and shoes. That's «11 I know! Lemme go on I" Suddenly into the stillness of the house broke clamorous soundsshouts and (he thunder of horses' feet. "That's from the Emmltsburg pike, it must be our men!" "It's Buford's cavalry--It must be!" They opened the door and the noise came louder. It was infinitely reassuring. As they watched, the end of the street was filled with a great cloud of dust, and suddenly a front rank of cavalry broke through It and bulked huge and black against It In five minutes they were gone; in half an hour they came loafing back, gay with triumph. "We drove 'em out all right!" a formed from a school into a with a speed in which, it stf Ann, there was a sort of panic. She found the doctor rather indifferent to her proffered assistance. He had, he said, half a dozen men nurses, whom he had picked up in Gettysburg. She set humbly to worft bringing cold water to the patients, and fanning them as they lay exhausted. No one of them was alarmingly ill, and as the darkness settled down they all went to sleep. There was nothing for Ann to do, so she found an empty room in the seminary, and locked herself Into lt.v The seminary yard was crowded with troops; the men lay about on the grass laughing and talking, so Ann kept her curtains drawn until she blew out her candle. Her window faced the mountains, and when she threw it open she gasped In amazement. The night was velvet black and the stars In the sky were hot shining dots; Ann could follow the outline of the mountain range only where It cut arbitrarily against them. The long swelling slope was Invisible, but on It were myriads of points of light bright and hot like the stars, only nearer and more flickering. They were the campfires of the enemy, and as she looked at them Ann thrilled with a scmsation that was as much anticipation as fear. The next morning the gtrl was awakened by picket firing down the pike. She sprang up, dazed, and for a moment glared about her wildly at her strange room. There were no more volleys, but dowh In the yard beneath her window there was a great turmolL Peering out she saw a wagon had bfcen backed up to the main door and that two or three men were being taken from It on Improvised stretchers. She flung on her clothes and ran down to find that a group of wounded pickets, the first casualties of the fight In a railroad cut not far from the seminary, lay in one of the recently cleared lower rooms. There were no cots for them, and It was a fortunate man who had a blanket between him and the floor. At nine o'clock a report reached* the hospital that General Reynolds had arrived In Gettysburg in advance of the first corps, and that he had mounted a fresh horse and galloped out past the seminary to the front. Some soldiers reported they had seen him, surrounded by a half-dozen aides. The hospital corps felt the stimulus of this good news at once; even Ann was certain that the horrid tide of wounded would ebb with the arrival of the potn ular Union leader. She was engaged in cutting the uniforms from horribly mangled men; the regular nurses were unable to cope with the wounded, and she was welcotw tt> do what she could. he gasped length "Good (TO BE CONTINUED.) I Pmkfcam's Vegetable . ARanatksHeStafy - Dover. DeL--"I wtoervery wo would take your wonderful roedicuy Make Merry Festival of Death lng ttwi uala w i&& '•x4LZatiiMiMi^§-:2 pltai I Think of It 1 And we have no flock boarded the train she stopped to j dressings. All the sisters are gath speak to the driver. The girls came ered in the refectory, cutting the linen trooping into Ann's car, chattering ex-1 into strips. .^. . Come quickly, ai^d .cited}?* ' "" Wholesale Executions in Slam Coneld- ; ttfd a Sort of Holiday and Cet»- v brated Accordingly. . ^ One day 1 heard so much talk of "execution" that I decided to stop work long enough to see It. The Siamese mad$ a sort of holiday of it. This was to be a three days' festival. Thirty-six men In all were to be put to death, twelve a day. Squatting In an open pavilion, with all their relatives and friends squatting about them, tljey were given their last meal. All sorts of food and delicacies were brought and every one. concerned had a grand feed. At the appointed hour the procession formed to walk through tr.e town from the pavilion to the execu?. tion grounds, which were about a mile away and near the palace. Twelve banana leaves were laid In a line, eqtial distances apart across the center of a clear space, which was three or four hundred feet each way. The twelve prisoners sat cross-legged on these. Behind each of them was a stake with a crossplece to which their elbows were tied. They were handcuffed, but their hands had some play. Back of the stake and crosspiece was s higher <^take still. The use this was to be put to I fttand out later. The prisoners werfc. given cigarettes and every one of them began to puff hard. When they were all well tied the sheriff came up to each in turn and, stooping, picked up handfuls of mud from the ground. He plastered It first In one ear and then In the other. He did this, I was told, so they would not hear the executioner when he came up behind them. ed their beads over and put a small spot of mud on the backr of their neeks. All the time, even with their heads bowed, they kept w smoking. When all twelve men were mudplastered and bent over, a signal waa given and out came the executioners, twelve of them, dancing and brandishing long straight swords above their heads. They were dressed in bright red, their sarongs caught up to look Hke trousers and their faces painted in stripes and blobs of red and yellow. They took their places, one behind each prisoner. The crowd was gesticulating and laying bets as to which executioner would do the neatest job. Another signal was given. The swords made a fancy swirl in the air and all descended at once. They halved the blobs of mud, cut almost through the necks but did not quite sever the heads from th^ bodies. This was left for a second set r»f executioners, who finished the job and set the heads on the sharp high stakes behind. The audience was quite still while the blows were being struck. When the heads were set up some of the women screamed and ran away. I looked at the head nearest me; a faint line of cigarette smol^e was curling out of the noqe. I had had enough. --Charles Mayer, In Asia Magazine. ham's woman Mlerfui medicine aass iitt » haartoneiwgimcfagood to me. 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