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Waiting for the Dawn. BY IRENE INGE COLLIER, CHAPTER IV. the decisive interview. Wax lights in glittering candalebra shone over the party of young people assembled in Mr. Farman’s pretty parlor. The windows were open, the lace curtains looped back to let the cool, perfumed air into the room. Outside, the ’shrubberies and walks were bathed in moonlight. The occupants of the room were Krouped adversely to Eugene’s plan of a private interview with Eloise. Miss Carroll was there, fresh and rosy as if the day's exercise had had no fatigue for her. She and Sam Farman, Car rie and Fred formed a group a little apart from where Eugene Bertram sat beside Anna at a ta ble strewed with sketches, most of them by El- o se—and where Miss Ennis, pale, but very lovely, sat leaning her white arm in the low em brasure of the window with Sydney Farman at her side. . The conversation was general in a measure, only Eugene uttered some low spoken sentences now and then to Anna, bending his graceful head close to hers. For sometime, Eloise could not catch his eye. Then his look told her nothing. It was impas sive, almost cold, and her heart was chilled with misgivings. It was an effort to join in the gay talk that passed from lip to lip—light repartee and playful teasing jokes upon Carrie,'Sue and Eloise for having been a party to a monopoly, Anna asserting that it was too bad, when they should, like her, have made themselves gener ally agreeable. • Why, I even fished,’ she said. ‘ But what did you catch. Miss Anna ?’ ‘A fish; never mind its size. Did any one of you do anything so useful ?' 'Yes,' said Sam, ‘ Miss Sue and Carrie both fished—and caught—not minnows like yours, Anna.’ ‘ Indeed ! what was the size of the catch ?’ • I can answer for Miss Susie—six feet lack ing a very few inches, was the size of her catch,’ looking at himself in the glass as he stood at the back of Sue’s chair. • You have insinuated that Carrie and I were fishers of men,’ said Sue, ‘ but what of Eloise? Did she catch no fish ?’ ‘ She had hers already impaled on her hook. At least, so I thought, but—’ He glanced over at Bertram’s self composed, uncommunicative face; saw him lean to speak to Anna with a look cf admiration into her fair face. Then his glance wandered to Eloise and Sydney. How pale she was, and what a look of sadness on her face. She was speaking of the Catholic faith to Sam. Turning the leaves of Keat’s poems and commenting upcn St. Agnes’ Eve had led to the remarks on the papal faith. Sydney had said: ‘You have many supersti tions connected with the holidays of your relig ion.’ And she had answered him ‘Yes, but they are most cf them beautiful and comforting. I love the Catholic religion because its mem bers stand so staunchly by each other and are so kind and charitable. I do not admire its ex clusiveness, nor do I believe that the priests are the only ones worthy to afficiate in sacred rites —to perform the ceremony of baptism for in stance, or to marry a couple. Marriage perform ed by a minister of any other denomination is equally legal.’ ‘Some of the Catholic hymns are very beauti ful.’ ‘Yes, those of Mary, the blessed Mother, es pecially. I always thought the idea of the Ma donna's intercession was one particularly com forting to women.’ ‘Speaking of songs,’ said Sam who had been listening, ‘ we have had none to-night. Come Miss Sut.’ ‘ The wren sings not in presence of the night ingale,’ she answered signing with her hand to wards Eloise. ‘ Will the nightingale not favor us in return for the compliment?’ Sam asked turning to El oise. The others began also to importune her. It was in vain she asked to be excused. Her voice was so gentle, her smile so sVeet when she plead headuche and weariness that they thoughtlessly disregarded the plea her pale cheeks should have confirmed. She went to the piano, looking at Eugene as she passed—a significant look that he replied to by a slight glance of comprehension while he continued his conversation with Anna. Seating herself at the fine instrument, she said: Twill sing only on condition that you help me. Come, here is ‘Spted Away;’ now for a full chorus.’ ‘She played the prelude. Sidney and Car rie began to sing with her. Presently Eugene came up and added his rich bass, making a fine quartette. When it was finished, Carrie put ‘The Tempest of the Heart'before her she sang it, accompanied by Sidney. She shook her head, as he put before her, ‘Enani, Fly With Me.’ ‘I am not equal to that,’ she said. ‘Oh pray, Miss Eloise,’he insisted, and El oise began the song. It had always excited her, now she was carried away by her emotion. Sbe thought of but one, sang but for one. Her eyes rested on Eugene, he felt the power of their dark, sad look, though his own were bent to the floor and he would not raise them. Sud denly, her voice faltered, her hands fell heav ily on the keys, she turned deadly pale and shivered. Carrie came to her quickly, the others gathered around. ‘It is only a little faintness,’ she said, at last, almost gaspingly. The £fresh air will revive me better than anything, I will go out on the piazza a moment.’ Instantly Sidney was at her side, but Eu gene stood there also; his features expressed much concern at her evident indisposition. She took his arm with a slight bow of thanks to Sidney, and went out upon the cool piazza where the moonlight struggled through cluster ing vine-leaves. ‘Will not some of you follow my example?’ she said, as she left the room. ‘Moon-light is so much lovelier than even the light of waxen tapes.’ Sam and Sue followed them out, and Sam proposed that they should stroll through the lovely moonlit grounds; and they at once step ped down from the piazza and were soon thread ing the winding walks in diffierent directions and lost to sight in the mazes of shrubbery and vines. Sidney went into his mother’s room and began to talk to her o/Eloise and of Eugene. ‘Can they be lovers?' he asked with so much feeling in his tone that his mother at odco guessed his secret. ‘I can’t think he is worthy of her, though every one thinks him such a model. He is cold and prudent, I know, and he gets into no scrapes. He has not heart enough to suit that sweet girl. She is all sensitiveness and gen tleness.’ Meantime, shut in by the shadows of a rose arbor and seated in a rustic seat, Eugene was talking to Eloise and chiding her for her sad looks to-night. ‘I am afraid, my love, every one noticed and wondered at your heart-broken, distrait air.’ ‘I cannot help it Eugene. I am unhappy and I am not skilled in disguising my feelings.’ •I am sorry that you cannot call up strength of mind to set aside this shadow of care that I may be so unfortunate as to have given you cause for. 1 cannot reveal that secret, at least not now, but it shall be done, and soon!’ ‘Eugene, I hope you are sincere. Tell me now bow shall I meet my brother when he comes ? I have never kept a secret from'him. He has been father, mother, brother and all to me; ' must confide in him.’ ‘It may be best you should not meet him. You are in a very nervous, excitable state. A little rest and quiet will do you good. Listen, I have a villa on the Florida coast, as I have told you. Go there and rest and recruit; I have a house keeper and servants on the place. I will arrange that every comfort and attention shall be yours. This confining life you haye been leading is telling upon you.’ ‘It is not the confinement, it is the weight of secrecy and suspense. If you ’ ‘Do not again ask me to do what I must re fuse, positively and absolutely, but in all love and gentleness dearest girl. And let us talk of this trip to Florida. Will you go ?’ ‘Yes,’ she said after a pause, ‘It is better so. My absence and immurement will make you feel safe. You fear now that your secret will escape me. I will go, but no one must know where I am gone; I will steal away like a guilty thing— leave friends, false and true ones, behind me, and conceal all trace of my flight Will that satisfy you ?’ ‘I only wish to please you,’ he answered cold ly. ‘You need not go unless you wish. If you really wish to leave here and to keep your de parture a secret you can do so readily and soon. The stage leaves here at night after twelve I be lieve. I will come for you as if to take you home, and we can leave here at ten, say, and wait on the roadside until the stage comes.’ How systematically he arranged it all! She shuddered to think what power this man had over her. He was so cold, so strong of will, so indomitable, and yet so calm. She olasped her hands in nervous agitation. ‘How cruel you are Eugene! Yes, I feel that I must leave all who love me. Oh God ! help me to bear what lies before me.’ ‘Silly child !’ he said; taking her handB and holding them fast, ‘You are in the tragics again; will you never belike an ordinary mortal, my ro mantic darling. Nobody compells you to this, you can remain if you wish, at least till yon are willing to oblige me. Say, decide, what you will do. I hoar voices: Farman and Miss Car- roll are ooming this way.’ She stood irresolute under the starlight. Prompt- decision, firmness cf character was what this girl lacked. This want was an offset to all her accomplishments, all her amiability and sweet ness. Proud and pure, she yet had not the nec essary decisiveness to meet the trying ordeals of life. Eugene went with her to the house, but it was getting late and he did not go in. Sydney Far man was going to ride to town to his office in which he often slept, and he accompanied Eu gene. As the two drove along under the mid- nignt moon, with the stillness and shadows, Syd ney bef.au to speak of Eloise. ‘ I tell you Bertram,’ he said, ‘Miss Ennis is a divine creature, sings like an angel, graceful and dignified, handsome and fascinating.’ • You are quite an enthusiast.’ ‘Not a bit too much so. I would be the hap piest man on earth if that woman loved me—oh —I would ask no more after I gained her love.’ ‘If I were you I would attempt to win her.’ ‘ I must feel my way. I have the nerve to try if I felt assured.’ • Faint heart never won fair lady. I never heard a more honest confession. Do you really feel what you profess ?’ ‘ Never moie in earnest, and every word is truth itself,’ answered Sid Farnam. ‘Why you ought to try her.’ How his heart throbbed ! If another man were to sue for her hand, how wretchedly he would feel, but then she had not the position that Anna Farnam held, and from a mercenary point Anna would be more attractive than Eloise. He asked himself then why try to retain her love, what good would it avail him. 1 1 am going' to tell Miss Eloise* Ennis the. first opportunity; hope her good genius may promp! her to say yes. Look here Bertram what makes her so sad ? You are her friend and have been with her most all to-day and then to-night.’ ‘Lookout Sid you will upset the buggy,’ try ing to avoid the question from Sidney. • I wish there was a little danger of shaking that answer out of you. Tell me what makes her act so strangely ?’ ‘I do not know. All she told me was her brother had written he was coming and would take her back to New York with him.’ ‘If I can succeed in gaining her consent, he nor anyone will take her against her wishes. She shall be my wife.’ ‘Yet you say you feel timid about approach ing Eloise on the subject?’ Sid did not notice he left off the Miss. ‘I wanted to see if I was in your way and if you do not like her a little better than you re marks indicate, I know I am not in your way.’ ‘ In my way ! why, old fellow, you know you are not. You know whom I like. You must stir around; if you don’t, I maybe near kin in the future.’ ‘Paradise is open then for me, and woe to anyone who dare trespass upon my ground. I have a good character.’ ‘That is true Sid; everyone knows you are more than worthy of Eloise.’ ‘ Everyone likes her I believe, and no one can slander me, surely. Yet I am quite un worthy cf the priceless gem.’ ‘ Soin6 persons might object to your exclusive ness. I know a lady here who rather dislikes your constant attention to Eloise.’ • I do not visit anyone but Miss Ennis; in fact, I spend a delightful hour or two with her, often. She sings for me and chats merrily, and I really eDjoy my evenings. I have but little leisure time and after studying all day it is a recreation for me.’ ‘ That is just it Sid. You ought to visit more among the other young girls; they will be jealous.’ I don’t care for the rest. She is the only— Pshaw ! Eugene you are laughing at me. You have never loved—are phlegmatic and cold in your nature.’ ‘You wrong me Sid, but I presume you will soon see the error. My heart is thickly encrust ed with the duplicity I see in woman, but I feel it wearing the scars that lovely eyes have left there.’ ‘ You are not affectionate in your disposition ?’ ‘ Yes very.’ ‘I never thought that; your worldliness has taught you to conceal it.’ ‘ You wrong mo very much. I have seen a great many lovely women and even loved, but got over that long ago; though I never forgave the woman that wronged me. There are two blue eyes whose smiles I hope to win.’ ‘ I trust you may, if you will only let my two blacks ones alone. ‘I promise.’ ‘Here we are at my office. Eugene come in and stay with me to-night,’ throwing him the reins as he sprang out. ‘Not to-night, I have some business to attend to, as late as it is.’ ‘Will you go out in the morning and bring the ladies into church ?’ ‘I will be out in the evening. Good-night.’ ‘Good-night. Bertrau, it is after one; we have driven slowly.’ Sid entered his office quietly smoking a cigar and was soon asleep dreaming of Eloise as his wife; that her hands were his own to kiss as he had so often longed to do. Eugene drove on whistling an opera air; put his horse away, not waking his groom, lighted his lamp and a cigar, and drew up his table covered with pens ink and papers; saw all was safe for the night from intrt» u ers; and sat down to write four letters of importance. One to his banker in Florida, telling him that Ocean View was to be inhabited by a cousin, who was in delicate health from close confinement, and he wished to allow her use of any amount she might wish, and check on him. Another letter he wrote to Dr. Theus, an old chum of his, plac ing Eloise in his charge, and yet another note to the agent of his property, telling him to send a carriage for Eloise every day after a certain time, nntil she came. He sealed the letters and walked the floor, felt sad and really lonely. ‘Would to God she knew all I want to tell her, bat all confidence would be lost in me if I did, and, although I do not love her as I should, still she knows my secret, and for that I must be pol itic, or she will tell all.’ (TO BE CONTINUED.) Battles Around Atlanta Ninth Paper. Johnston Reviews Sherman. BY SIDNEY HERBERT. Note.—The ‘Eighth Paper’of this series ap peared in the Sunny South of April i3th, and the ‘Tenth Paper’ on thej27th of that month. By some oversight there\ was an error in the numbering, and the present article is pnt in to fill the vacancy. A portrait and biographi cal sketch of Lieut. Gen. Joseph Wheeler will comprise the ‘Eleventh Paper’ of the series, whioh will be the next in order. The articles already published in this series have given all the matter to be found in Sher man’s ‘Memoirs' and Johnston’s 'Narrative' that has to do with the battles fought around Atlan ta. Gen. Hood’s book has not yet been pub lished, so that his views remain to be given hereafter. In addition to the above I have also given much original matter, gathered from various sources, bearing upon the subject. Lieut. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the great Confederate cavalry commander, who was always in the front in a defense and in the rear on a retreat, contribu ted a valuable collection of orders, telegraphs and reports, all of which have added largely to the making of a complete record of the cam paign. Gen Johnston, it appears, is not fully sat isfied with Gen. Sherman’s statements as pub lished in his ‘MemoirsJ and has corrected some of them in an article contributed to the ‘Annals of the War,’ in the Philadelphia Weekly Times. I shall copy, however, only such paragraphs as refer to the operations of the two armies in the vicinity of Atlanta. A STUBBORN RETREAT. During the month of June, 1864, after the death of Lieut. Gen. Polk, on Pine Mount, the movement of Johnston’s army continued in the direction of Atlanta. Of the operations up to June 23d Gen. Johnston says: ‘The Federal army had gained no ground by fighting, unless the driving in of a few skirmishers can be call ed so. The Southern army was never, during this part of the campaign, driven from a posi tion by fighting or the fear of it; only by dan ger to its communications by the extension of the strongly intrenched lines which the ene my’s greatly superior numbers enabled him to make and man. The positions gained on the 21st near the south end of Kenesaw and on a hill near, were outside of our position—not occupied by onr line,'fend if at all, only by pick ets, and Gen. Sherman was deceived by reports of efforts to retake fl.hem and night attacks, hits for one received. According to the reports of General Sherman's subordinates they gave but two; one on equal ground would have made one effective shot to the enemy’s fifteen—which is incredible. The more so, because a fire so utterly ineffective could not have repnlsed or checked in seventy days of such close and con tinual fighting as General Sherman describes— veteran American soldiers snehas his. We had, too, direct proof of the inaccuracy of these re ports. After the action of June 27 (pages GO-61) we counted 1,000 dead of the army of the Cum berland lying before two of Hardee’s Divisions, very near, some against our breastworks. The calculated proportion of wounded to killed is five to one; this would indicate a loss of G,000 there. But the officers of that army reported 1,- 580 killed, wounded, and missing (see page 223 above report)—less than two per cent, of the 60,- 000 men of that army. The dead belonged to the first and second lines, and we coaid see seven exposed to onr maskets and cannon, so that many others must have been killed. In like manner, on the 27th of May, we repelled an as sault by four divisions and counted 700 dead within thirty paces of onr line. As five or six lines immediately behind these dead were ex posed to our shot there must have been consider able additional loss. Yet Federal officers report ed but 1,400 as the entire loss, when it could not have been so little as 4,000. General Sherman does not allude to this action. In the engage ment two days before (referred to on page 44) we had a much greater force engaged longer, and therefore must have inflicted a much great er loss. In the three actions at least 2,500 Fed eral soldiers must have been killed, as many as, according to Federal officers, were killed in all the fighting in ten weeks described by General Sherman—of which that in these three actions was not a fourth part.’ which werenecer m.J Cenfederate troops vN by our troops, ■'e so incessantli! If the beaten, it is unaccountable te\t they were permitted to remain before four weeks, and then shifted their ground c'nly to avoid losing their communications. The attack on Hooker and Schofield on the 22d! was made against orders by Gen. Hood with ytevenson's Division, su p- ported by Hindman's. It was defeated by in- treariched artillery. But the troops held the ground they gained long enough to remove their dead and wounded. On the 25th an at tack like this was made on Stevenson’s Divi sion by the troops that had repulsed it on the 22d, and they were repelled with as heavy a loss as they inflicted then. But this affair es caped Gen. Sherman’s notice.’ THAT DECISIVE CONFLICT Of the terrible battle of June 27th, which proved so fatal to the Federals, Gen. Johnston says, referring to Gen. Sherman’s account. ‘The description of the attack cn the Confeder ate army on the 27th of June, prepared from the 23th, and the statement of the Federal loss, contrast strangely. About 9 a. si. of the day appointed the troops moved to the assault, and all along our lines for ten miles a furious fire of artil’ery and musketry was kept up. At all points the enemy met us with determined cour age, and in great force. * * * By 11.30 the assanlt was over, a«^a had failed.’ The state ment of loss was 2,500 killed and wounded. According to this, an army of Americans inured to war was defeated by a loss of but two aDd a half per cent. It is incredible. General Sher man’s subordinates must have imposed upon him. It is equally incredible that another ar my of Armerican veterans, as completely pro tected as men using arms can be, could strike but two and a half per cent, of men exposed to their muskets and cannon, in seven lines at least, two hours and a half. The writer has seen American soldiers, not inured to war, win a field with a loss ten times greater proportionally. Page 70: The Confederates are accused of burn ing their pontoon bridges after crossing the Chattahoochee. They did not commit that fol ly. On the 17th it was reported that the Fed eral army was on the southeast bank of the Chattahoochee, from Roswell to Powers’ ferry. That night General Hood was placed in com mand of the Southern army by telegraph. On the 18th, at his urgent request, Johnston form ed the troops on the high ground overlooking the valley of Peachtree creek from tne south, to meet the advance of the Federal forces reported that morning by General Wheeler. General Sherman’s returns, on pages 24 and 13G, show V ‘ duty May 1; 112,819 ^s. Those of the South- present for duty May 1; 58,502 June 6, and 53,275 July 1. 1-1,200 infan try and artillery and 7,000 cavalry were receiv ed in six detachments, coming at different times—all in May. General Sherman points out these additions to our forces, but says noth ing of the reinforcements he received—except the arrival of the Seventeenth Corps (9,000 men) June 8. His reported losses in May, corrected, by General Thomas’ (on page 5, report of Com mittee on Conduct tot' the War, supplementary part 1), and the difference between the May and June returns above, show that he received above 25,000 men in May alone. According to the table on page 133, before July 18 the Feder al army lost in killed and wounded about 21,- 000 men, of whom about 2,500 were killed. The Southern army lost in the same time 9,972 kill ed and wounded, of whom 1.288 were killed. The Southern officers believed that the Federal losses compared with theirs about as five to one. And circumstances justify that belief.’ Marksmanship of Confederate Soldiers. ‘Except on three occasions,’ says Gen. John ston, ‘the Southern troops fought in their in- trenchments, exposing scarcely a thirtieth of their persons, while their adversaries were fully exposed on open ground. Therefore, with equal marksmanship they would have given thirty 98,797 men present June 1, and 106,07C ern army show 12, SHERMAN S L0SS68 ESTIMATED. Gen. Johnston thus discusses the losses cf of Gen. Sherman’s army in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign: ‘The reports made to Gen. Sherman charge his troops indirectly with being ohecked, repulsed—intimidated by such losses as ordi nary troops would have disregarded. This is incredible to those who, like the writer, have often witnessed the vigorous and persistent courage of American soldiers, the best of whom were not superior to Gen. Sherman’s. But the testimony of 10,036 graves in the Union ceme tery at Marietta of soldiers killed south of the Etowah, is conclusive. About 2,000 of them fell in the action about Atlanta. But at least as many were killed north of the Etowah and bur ied at Chattanooga. As the towns and villages in the route of the Federal army were burned there could have been no hospitals, and, there fore, few deaths by sickness south of Dalton. These proofs show that the estimate on page 357. ‘Johnston’s Narative,’ which Gen. Sherman pro nounces erroneous, is not much so, to say the least. On page 18 Gen. Sherman claims to have taken 3,215 prisoners in May, because he had captured 12.983 in the four and a half months ending September 15. We had no loss by cap ture in May, and only a little more than two hundred up to July 18; the marches and results of the fighting in that time did not enable the eDeiny to make prisoners. His successes and prisoners were subsequent. On page 19 Gen. Sherman claims that the strength of the couutry by mountains, streams and forests gave his ene my to make a fair offset to his numerical supe riority. Between Dalton and Atlanta one sees but two semblances of mountains—Rocky Face, which covered the march by which he ‘flanked’ Dalton, and Kenesaw, less than two miles long. The country was no more unfavorable for the ollensive than the Wilderness, or that on which Lee and McClellan fought near Richmond, or that between Amelia and Appomatax Court house.’ > shekman’s plan discussed. ‘General Sherman,’ says Johnston, ‘certainly executed his plan of operations with great per severance, skill and resolution. But it is a question if that plan was the best. The resuds obtained, compared with those attainable, indi cate that it was not. At Dalton only the South ern left flank was covered by Rocky Face, not its front, and an attack in front wonld have been on ground as favorable to the Federal army as its general could have hoped to find. With odds of near ten to four, he might well have thought the ‘breaking up of Johnston’s army’ attainable there. It' defeated, Atlanta, its place of refuge, was one hundred miles off, with three rivers intervening, while the Federal army, if unsuccessful, had a secure refuge in Chattanooga which was easily reached. At liesaca the Fed eral general had a still better opportunity, for the two armies met there without intrenchments between them, the Federals having a line of retreat from its centre directly to the rear, while the Southern troops, formed near and parallel to the road to Atlanta, would have been driven from that road by defeat, and, consequently de stroyed. Battle at either place, whatever the result, wonld not have cost a fourth of the number of men actually lost. And success would have ended the campaign and decided the war. On page 39 Gen. Sherman*>ays: ‘ Of courstj it was to my interest to bring him to battle as soon as possible.’ His overwhelming numbers ought to have made it possible at any time. The flanking operations forced the Southern army back to Atlanta, but could do no more . There it was safe in intrenchments much stronger than any it had previously occupied, aud too extensive to be invested. And three railroads met there, either one capable of supplying the army . So it could have mantained itself there indefinitely, and so won the campaign with lit tle more loss. This is no after thought, but was expressed to General Hood when he took com mand . The Federal march to Jonesboro’ caus ed, but did not compel, the abandonment of Atlanta . For if the Southern troops had re mained in the place, the enemy would in a few days have been forced to return to his railroad. And beside, Atlanta could have been suffi ciently supplied from Macon through Augusta; but at Jonesboro’ the federal troops could not be fed. This mode of gaining Atlanta made the acquisition of no great value. For the cam paign continued, and General Sherman was oc cupied by General Hood until late in October, when he commenced the disastrous expedition into Tennessee, which left the former without an antagonist.’ ATLANTA, GA., JUNE 12, 1878. JentistrY In view of & general reduction having been made in the various branches of business, as well as in the cost of liv ing and in the price of labor of almost every conceivable enterprise, we have concluded to make public a corres ponding reduction, from former prices, in the following operations in our own business: GOLD FILLINGS, that have here tofore been made at $5.00, will be re duced to $250; those formerly $3.00, to $1.50, and those at $2.00, to ONE DOLLAR. We can say that fully eight out of ten of all fillings made, CAN BE DONE OF GOLD for this amount — the work being as good in all respects as if we received five dollars per filling; thus you see these teeth may be saved for the amount or dinarily charged taf extracting them. 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