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fUUKlti rACxH
THE 6UHHY SOUTH.
Ji o L k i4, *> QQ.
Fate's Beggar Maid
By TOM GALLON
AUTHOR OP: “Tatterley,” “Dickey Monteith,’’ “A
Rogue in Love,” “Kiddy,” “A Prince of Mis
chance,” “The Dead Ingleby,” Etc.
CHAPTER XIX.
NE.MES1 S.
I lection of what this woman once had been
I to him—seemed to see her, in her young
I girlhood, when she had trusted him. and
he had betrayed her trust. For a time all
the after events—an ambitious marriage,
and the position he had taken in society,
and the long hard struggle he had had
for supremacy in the financial world—all
were gone; lie was a young man again,
In love with a, maid, and careless as to
what might happen. So far as he was
concerned, as he beat out now the problem
in his brain, Nance Ryder was young
again, and he was young, and she was
wandering forlorn in the world.
He refused to eat anything. He set
Coming ito think j out to find the woman who had so sud-
over it. he remembered denly 'been found by him, only to lie
That he had cat in this lost again. He made up his mind that,
room years before, when Martin »hnd j whatever happened, . he must discovc
her, must bring her lioek and hide her
away in this house—that much for his
OHN FALCONER had
'awakened in the morning
of the day which fdlloiwed
that hurried flight from
London -with Nance Ry
der, awakened with but a
dim recollection of all that
hi^d, happened^ In the
first place, he found him
self in a. room which was,
in a dim way, familiar to
■him
been a boy; the.v had had some happy
holidays, which held for their center this
particular house. Many and many a time
they had tramped back to it in the
(gathering dusk of a summer evening,
tired out, and glad to call it home. And
tortways Ursula Falconer had been there
to welcome them.
Sown protection. And beyond that w:
the thought of what he owed her, i
the sense of tlie double wrong lie had
put upon her.
There was no method In the search
he commenced that day; he trusted
blindly to some instinct within him that
Why had he come here again? Tliorej should find her. lie set out first for
must 3ia.ve bee.n some special reaf#i for | the village, qtid began to make cautious
j Stis com 1 nig back like this, after ail these inquiries as to anyone who might have
yearns; some reason, too for .his having i passed through, anyone of strange ap-
"tfallen 'a'Sleep in his chair. It was notw pea.rance. He failed to get any inforina-
imominig, and he was stiff and cold and
iscra.mped.
He got up and went to the mirror over
: *he fireplace and started a little at th<j
^reflection he saw there. It was an older
John Fa.lconer, someone who Shad been
aged through fear or sorrow, not the
determined looked, prosperous John Fall-
comer that had fronted him so often
from the mirror in Ills own office. Hu.t
Why was h« down here?
The remembrance of the events of the
previous day came over him graduall
: ©lowly he remembered tlie joqrney and
the getting .of the woman into the house;
fthen the return of Ursula Ftii'.coner to
London. So it had come to lids at last,
that by his hi under he was here in hid
tng in the country until such time as
he could bring this woman hack to
' (health and strength, and make amends
to her for the injury he bad inflicted.
A two-ifold Injury. Far aiway buck in
the past. John Falconer remembered pret
ty Nance Ryder; he cursed the faSe that
had brought her again into his life, and
had made her again dependent upon him.
That too, was a thing to be set right,
in some Indefinite future, when all the
horror and the blundering of this time
should have been happily cleared away
land forgotten. Ursula understood; Ur
sula was owrklng for him in some fash
ion, even now.
The day grew, and people began to stir
In the house, and in the road outside
laborers 'were go-inig tr> their work. He
felt tired and stiff. He wondered how
far Ursula had -ot on her journey, and
what particular plan had ha tolled itself
in her clever scheming brain. If only he
■had trusted her fully at the first! ' -
The woman in charge of the house
came in timidly with a cup of tea, and
carried it so -shakingly, and with such
a rattling of cup a.nd saucer, that Fai-
coner asked her impatiently what was
the matter. And so learnt theneiws—
that at some time in the night the
woman they had brought there the pre
vious day had left the house, leaving no
clue as to where she had gone.
John Falconer sat for a little time
absolutely stunn.-d by the intelligence.
He tried to picture to himself what this
meant to him; tried to understod that in
all probability it meant nothing, in the
sense that he had nothing to fear. The
woman was dumb, and must remain for
ever dumb; so much that disreputable
doctor had declared. But iwhat if a
mistake bad been made? At’hat if not
only her tongue were loosed, but some
chamber in her memory were opened,,
and she spoke—and spoke of him? In
that sense she beanie at once a menace
to him, if any inquisitive stranger
found her wandering about (the coun
try; in that sense it became vitally nec
essary that she should lie secured and
brought back-
There was, too, another reason. Memory
Hind traveled so far back with the man.
that he seemed to linger over the recol-
tion there; no one had been seen that
was not well known about the place, lie
retraced Ills steps, and, getting back to
the house, began to consider in what
direction tills woman could have gone,
had she come out of tlie place witli tlie
desire to hide herself. In effect, he won
dered what he would have done him
self under similar conditions and cir
cumstances.
He set off upon a less frequented road,
and came presently to a little group of
cottages by the roadside. Ilaking in
quiry there, lie was informed that a
woman had begged for food late tlie
night before, and had eaten hungrily
what was given her. Stie had gone along
a certain road afterwards, and along that
road lie went eagerly enough, now cer
tain In his mind that he was getting
nearer to her witli every step he took.
He remembered that in all probability
she would have walked slowly and with
difficulty, stopping often to rest and
to look about her. John Falconer stopped
for nothing; he went on and on, only
pausing occasionally to ask some way
farer as to any woman who rnBght
have passed along the road, and in which
direction she might have gone, begin
ning to understand at the end of It, when
lie was miles away from Elderton, that
he had followed hard upon the tracks
of several women that day, and that
not one of them was Nanco Ryder.
When night fell upon him lie was too
far from home to retrace his steps; ha
got a bed at an Inn and strove to sleep.
Hut long before morning had really
dawned lie was awakened by hearing
some carters talking to each other in
the inn yard ,and one of them spoke
of having seen a strange woman wan
dering on a certain road, and that strange
woman had had a, bandaged head. John
Falconer was dressed and down among
them in less than five minutes, and then
was off hot-foot upon the track of her.
About noorj, when he was exhausted,
he came upon a couple of tramps lying
asleep by the roadside. The woman had
a bandaged head, as they had said, but
she was not Nance Ryder. There was a
man wjAi heir, and the carters had for
gotten to mention tlie man. John Fal
coner turned back, wondering if lie should
ever light upon Nance Ryder again.
He had scarcely eaten anything since
setting out; lie was almost light-headed
witli fatigue and hunger. Vet still lie re
membered always that this woman wan
dered at large somewhere in the country,
that tlie power of speecli might be re
stored to her, and that she might tell
her story. And, always, wherever lie
went, he inquired for this woman with
tlie bandaged head, who seemed always
to elude him; and so, by slow degrees,
working in that circle they say that
wanderers so often take, came hack again
towards Elderton.
That was on the third day. for he had
slept a night at another inn, after going
fruitless journey In search of another
woman who had seemed to answer his
description. And here, at last, within
a few miles of the place whence he had
started, came on definite news of her.
A woman, better dressed than the
average tramp, had been seen sitting by
the roadside. She was evidently 111. and
she had her head heavily bandaged.
More than that, the.man who found her
had proceeded to question her as to her
name and where she was going, and al
though she had opened her mouth and
made sings, she had not been aide to ar
ticulate a word. Questioned as to which
direction the woman had taken, tlie man
was doubtful at lirst, but was reminded
by a fellow countryman that he had
mentioned that she had gone in tlie di
rection 6N*certain woods that could be
But the real truth of (it all was looked
away behind the lips of the woman who
could not speak.
CHAPTER XX.
THE WATOHMAIN’S FIRE.
Turning for a moment to those people—
■good or bad—who have journeyed with us
thus far along the road, iwe may look
first ait >Mr. Capsttck. Mr. Ca.pstick, who,
having put all his egigs into one basket,
and staked everything upon one throw,
finds suddenly tiliat his occupation is
gone, and that he must perforce start
afresh in some other fashion, for John
Falconer has been discovered dead (ob
viously by his own hand) in a. wood near
pointed out on tlie top ol’ a hill some j Elderton; and so there 'is milling more
miles away.
John Falconer thanked the men. and
pressed money upon them. lie found
some difficulty himself in starting in pur
suit cf tlie woman, by reason of tlie
fact that a weigtit seemed to hang upon
his eyelids and upon his limbs. Indeed,
at. that time many things seemed to
have slipped away from tlid John Fal
coner, who had been known in I^ondon
as a successful financier uinl a man of
position. This dusty creature, swaying
a little blindly as lie walked, and keep
ing sternly before him the remembrance
only of tlie woman who had gone into
tlie woods at the top or the hill, was a
different man from the John Falconer
down at tlie house at Elderton. But in
tiie future that was so soon to dawn for
him, he was going back to tlie position
he had held—when once lie had set right
till.? blunder lie had made.
He came at last to tlie wood, and en
tered it. It was a cool, quiet place, into
which the noonday heat of tlie sun did
not penetrate, and the murmuring rustle
of tlie leaves was soothing tw_ the worn-
out man. He began to find it difficult
to remember why he had come there;
found it necessary. Indeed, to stand still
once, and to tell himself laboriously that
tlie woman was in this wood, and that
lie had to find her.-. And even in tlie
telling of that to himself swayed and
dropped to his knees, and so fell prone,
and slept where he lay. Tlie last con
scious thought he had was that some
one or something was stirring near him
among the leaves—but he could think
of that presently.
It was fated to be the last sleep of
John Falconer. So deep a sleep was it
that he did not hear another rustling
among the leaves, did not see a hag
gard face thrust out near him. He slept
so heavily that when presently a ragged,
dusty creature, in the likeness of a wom
an, with a bandaged head, crept out and
stole near him lie did not awake. And
so it came about that "Nance Ryder bent
over him, and put back the straying
hair from Ills forehead, and looked down
at tlie man who had been her ruin
Some old remembrance of wliat had
happened in that far-off time must have
crept over her at last, for her eyes took
o n a new light. She drew away from
him witli a shudder, an 1 knelt there,
with her face pressed between her hands'
watching him, and presently found, by
the merest chance, the means to the end
that had shaped Itself in her poor,
warped brain.
The jacket of the man bad fallen open
ns be had dropped to that last sleep, and
protruding from the inner pocket was
the butt of (’hat revolver with which he
had once meant to take bis life. The
straying bands of tlhe woman crept across
liis breast, and touched tlie weapon, drew
it out, and toyed with it for a moment
or: wo. as if sbe did not quite under
stand wliat it was. Then she seemed
to grasp suddenly the power that bad
been given her, pressed tlie tiling close
against Ills breast, ami pulled tlie trig
ger. (He flung ujp an arm and then lay
still, and she drew away, frightened at
w.hat she bad done. Present*ly «he dropped
tlie weapon against his hand and stole
out of the wood, and aiway, leaving Tiim
to be found, In the fullness of time, with
that tell-tale thing apparently dropped
from his fingers, going (herself out into
•the world of men and women, to be
charitably cared for as an unknown
woman, found wandering and unable to
give any account of herself.
to be got out of .him. More than that,
tlie woman Saul Oapstick still (believed
to be Ruth Arkett bad disappeared mys
teriously, and was not to be heard of
again; for be it understood 1 that that dec
laration on tlie part of John Falconer,
that tlie woman Cap stick had so success
fully hidden away, was not Ruth Ar
kett, had had no effect whatever upon
the astute confidential clerk. He knew
(better, and was prepared to regard Fal
coner's declaration as merely another at
tempt to till row diust in the eyes of an
enemy.
(So we may look upon Mr. Caps-tlck,
going somewhat unsteadily down iilfl;
we may see him sinking lower than the
I opened the gate for a gentleman just
now. and when I stopped her, mentioned
your name.”
“A woman?” asked Martin quickly. I
have not seen her. What was she like ?”
he could not go home while he remember
ed that she was probably homeless.
The night was bitterly cold, and the
wind searches ever his warm rfothing-
Presently, In the very heart of the city,
‘That’s funny,” said the man, scratch- and not ve r>” far from the Flower's court,
I nig hi s head thoughtfully. "She came where bis father's offices had once stood,
■by not a minute ago, and turned down i Martin came upon a little hut, made of
Into Fleet street. A poor woman, she an upturned barrow and some planks and
looked, sir, not by any means a lady.
Martin hurriedly brushed the man, ard
canvas, before which a cheerful fire burn,
ed, in a sort of iron brazier. An old man
went out into the street. It was very I was seated Just inpidf> the hut, srpoking,
late, and there were but few people and IookIng a f the fire. Some repairs
about. He hurried on. peering into this
face and that as he went, but steing
were going on in the daytime in the road
way, and this man was the watchman for
„ , . . i , „ , I the night. Martin drew near, cfhilled and
no face he knew^ Finnally he retraced L ag he was> and spread ollt hls
his steps, and began to question the | ihands to , he warmth
porter at the gate .again.
*'You’re sure she asked *for me?” he
asked. "It seems so strange that any- , .. rirt , lsed to !t ~ was the r Iv . » C ome
one should ask for me. and come in, to think of it, I don’t 'are much to grant-
and ^ yet go 'away again without seeing ble at _ a „ thIngs considered. There’s
I many ’omeless ones tbut won’t get even
fire, good to have spoken to one fellow
creature, at least.''
Martin had risen to his feet. He moved
slowly towards her, a moment sbe looked
at him as though doubting her senses,
passed a hand across her forehead, and
made as if she would move away. tHe
came quickly round the fire, and put
hls arm about her, and held her. The
street was empty, save for the watch
man, and he only smoked his pipe and
glanced up at them casually, and so
did not count. Perhaps he was a sym
pathetic watchman, with a touch of ro
mance in him.
"Ruth—so I've found you out at last!”
lie whispered. "You came to me tonight.
| Why did you go away? Don’t you know
A col d night, he said, addressing the j pow much I have hungered for you, how
I have searched for you?”
"I never meant to see you again," sue
replied. “I thought I could be stronger.
I thought I could fight the world alone.
Tonight I came up to your door, know-
man
“Site was going past rue, sir,” said the I the smell of a fire tills night. Flutters j .
•parti*-, dogmatically, "as you might b»
at this moment, and I called after ‘er to
stop. She came back, and kept er’ ead
bent, so as I couldn’t see ’er face very
clearly. I told V.r there wasn't any
’.horopghfare through the temple, an’ ’oo
■might she be wantin'. ’Mr. Martin Fal-
conar,’ she says; an’ though she didn t
look like a lady, ’er voice certainly
soundted like owe. So I tola ’er which
way to go, an’ she went off at once.
level of that man thw lmd once so much: Then, just before you come up. she came
despised—(Mr. Ferdinand Kirk.
As for Ferdinand Kirk himself, he had
learnt a lesson, and had, ar. a somewhat
late hour, perhaps, suddenly determined
to the gate.again, and said, ’Thank you
—■goodnight,’ and was gone. Now you
know the 'ole of It .sir.'
It .became evident at once that he had
to be strictly honest for tlie future. What I not been' decelvfjl in supposing that
was left of that five hundred (pounds
found its way into a luck investment, and
the luck investment into another, until
presently (Mr. Ferdinand Kirk left Isling
ton behind for ever, and went off to end
iris days in that country which lie had
once so much despised. Which, perhaps,
accounted for tiie fact that Rutlh, going
back on one melancholy night to the 1 i 1 ’-
tie house at Islington, found it Shut tip
and to let, and felt that one of the low
friends she had ever had was gone.
Tbe summer was gone, and the trag
edy of John Falconer was beginning to
be 'forgotten in thoise circles in iwhiioh
lie had moved. The big house in Downes
street, Kensington, was shut up, and
turned blank melancholy windows to the
streets; tiie Falconers were forgotten, to
*11 intents and purposes. The winter
had come, ana one particular night of it.
found 'Martin Falconer in his chambers In
tlie temple, sitting over the lire, and
dreaming of what bad 'happened In the
months that had slipped away.
Going back to that night when he had British had begun their third parallel,
saved Ruth from the vengenance of his j t was successful in driving the enemy
niother, he began to connect the various back, and retarding the completion of
events that had followed. He remem- i the works. But it was not repeated,
bered clearly leaving Ursula Falconer ! owing to the weakness of the garrison,
crouched on tlie ground, with her face Lincoln deeming it necessary to reserve
hidden; lie remembered carrying Ruth up all his strength to defend hls lines In
someone had come to the door of his
rooms. Whoever hls visitor wiis she
had come so far, and had feared 'o
enter. His own heart seemed to tell
Kim with certainty who It was that had
come that night. He ached with the
thought that he had again lost her. He
came out Into the streets, and turned
eastward In th ehope that he might
yet find her.
More than once he (hurried after some
poorly dressed woman; more than once a
figure, going dejectedly ii*t™ a side
street, drew him away, yet each time the
face that looked, startled, into his was
unfamiliar. Hour after hour went by,
and still he kept up that search. He felt
round ’ere. they do, some of 'em. like
moths round a candlelight, an’ flutters
away again. An’ most of 'em women."
Martin shuddered as he listened, fur so
might one homeless wanderer, at least,
flutter to the warmtb, and flutter away
again. At a movement from the man,
which was (half an Invitation, he seated
himself on an upturned barrow jttst with
in the but; lie was glad of the shelter
and warmth.
And then it was that one poor wanderer
fluttere d to tlie warmth, and spread out
white hands to it. Glancing up, Martin
almost cried out, for the face that bent
above tlie fire, anj Chat seemed dumbly
to crave permission of tlie watchman
to snatch warmth and rest, was
face of Ruth Arkett. She did not see
the young man where he sat in the i
shadows; she only smiled at tlie watch- ]
man and thanked him.
“It is good to see a fire,” she said. “And j
I am very cold. I seem to have been
col d for a long, long time. Y’ou are luck
ier than 1 am,” she went on, with a little
pitiful laugh, “because you have a lodg- ;
Ing and a fire, and I have neither. Heav- I
en help me. watchman! I’ve tried to find
work in this great and horrible city, for
I am (honest, although I walk these I
dreary streets tonight. I went to a friend
ing that you were in the room on the
other side of it. I knelt there, and
kissed the door ,and then ran away
again.”
“Well—I wont, let you go now, dear
Ruth," said Martin. “You gave me your
heart a long time ago, even while you
ran away from me. Think, dear, I am
as lonely as you are now—and I want
you. There Is nothing that can divide
us.”
Ruth drew from her breast some pa
pers clotely folded. She looked at them
fur a moment, and sighed, and laughed
softly. They were the papers that had
been given her by her dead father for
John Falconer. She put them into Mar-
t ] . | tin’s hands.
"Those are all that ever divide us,"
she said. "See—there is a fire;’’ burn
them.”
He dropped them into the flames, and
together they watched them burn. Then
Martin stooped, and slipped something
into the hand of the old watchman. As
they moved away together—Martin and
Ruth—Ruth looked back, and called
“Goodnight,” happily, to the man. Then
the darkness swallowed them and the
man was left alone, brooding over his
fire.
“Looks to me.” he said, slowly, with a
smile, "looks uncommonly like the end
tonight, and then was afraid, and came
away again. Now I shall go on again. ! of wot you might call a love story.'
It is good to have felt tlie warmth of the | (THE END.)
WHEN THE BRITISH CAPTURED
CHARLESTON.
Continued from Second Page.
of wagons and boats, and these fell into [ famaiory matter with the intent of in-
the hands of the British. It is difficult to juring his business; furthermore, that no
understand why they were not destroyed J alcohol, or other injurious, or habit-
before tlie surrender. All these stores '■ forming, drugs are, or ever were, con-
might have been saved had steps been tained in bis "Favorite Prescription; '
taken for their removal at the first j that said medcine is of purely vegetable
the rocky tide of the quarry, and out
on to the road where he had left the
car. He remembered putting her in the
car, and starting off for London, with
no very definite idea as to what he was
to do, and with only a great thankfulness
in his heart that lie had been in time.
Through the night they had journeyed
on and on, until at last tv hadokeen able
case of an assault, or to force a retreat,
should he finally resolve to abandon the
town. Meantime, it was resolved to de
fer the' apparently Inevitable end as
long as possible, In the forlorn hope that
Some modern miracle might occur t-o
save the town.
But day by day this hope grew less
and lftjs, and the troubles of the doomed
threat of a British siege. As we sha.11
see In succeeding papers. Sir Henry Clin
ton was fully aware of the importance
of his conquest, and of the depressing
Impression made on the patriots, and
composition, being made from native me
dicinal roots and contains no harmful
ingredients whatever, and that Mr. Bok’s
malicious statements were wholly and ab
solutely false.
lleved 111 “striking while the iron is hot.
to leave the girl In ,8^ Jet li>rte t^^tel,)garrison increased. Admiral Arbuthnot
certain that she would be well cared for.
Towards tlie close of the journey she
had been able to give him some Inco
herent account of what had happened
during the day, and of her narrow es
capes from death while in the company
of Ursula Falconer; and he had vowed
then that he would not leave her to the
mercy of anyone In the future.
Worn out with excitement and much
traveling, he slept late. When at last
lie awoke lie dressed hurriedly, and went
off to tlie hotel where he had left Ruth,
there to be met with the information that
the young lady had gone out early, but
had left a note for him. lie read it
eagerly where he stood in the hall of
the hotel;
“You will not see me ever again. There
is no hope for me in the future—be
cause I am leaving the last friend I
have in the world. But there i s a Fate
tools possession, of Mount Pleasant, thus
forcing the immediate evacuation by the
patriots, of Laniper's Point. Next came
the fall of Fort (Moultrie, whose gar
rison of two hundred n«en we.re hemmed
in, and forced to surrender. General
Pinkney, and the greater part of his
command l*ad fbrtunaiely left the fort
after the 'British fleet had effected its
passage, an dthus escaped capture. As
misfortunes seldom come single, the
same day (May theP17tlV) that saw the
fall of Fort Moultrie, also witnessed an
other disaster to the American arms.
The troops of cavalry tnat had escaped
through the swamps of Monk’s Corner,
and had been reorganized under the com
mand of Colonel White, of New Jersey,
was a second time surprised and de
feated by Tarleton. at Laundeau’s ferry.
The investment of Charleston was now
complete. It was evident to all that the
especially on the many who were "sit- | A retraction was printed by said Jour-
ting on the fence.” waiting to decide on ' nal but not until two months alter the
which side to jump. The British com-I libelous article appeared. They had to
mander. too, was one of those who be- ! acknowledge that they had obtained
*" v ”'~ ,u ~ : 1 '"* analyses of “Favorite Prescription,” made
by eminent chemists, all of whom certi
fied that it did not contain alcohol or any
of the alleged harmful drugs! But the
business of .Ur. Pierce was greatly in
jured from the effect of the publication
of tlie orginai libel with its great display
headings, while hundreds of thousands
who read the original wickedly defama
tory article never saw the humble, grov
eling retractions, set in small type and
made as Inconspicuous as possible. The
matter was. however, brought before a
Jury in the supreme court of New York
state which promptly rendered a verdict
in the doctor’s favor. Thus his tradu-
ctrs came to grief. Their base slanders
were refuted and they were obliged to
“eat humble pie.”
During the trial of the libel suit Dr.
Smith, vice president of the
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the men wWo Lave fought and suffered
for them. How long will the vengeance
of heaven permit the crimes of this yan-
kee people and government to igp unpun.
ished? In modern times there has not
been a similar instance of wickedness.
"It is said that the crimes of a nation,
like those of individuals, are always pun
ished sooner or later; and for tills and a , Lee H
thousand other exhibitions of perfidy, World's- Dispensary' Medical' Association"
meanness and falsehood, the northern stated under oath that the ingredients
People themselves have lost confidence of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescript'on
in their government. No man volunteers were extracted from the following native
into tiie federal service. Tlietr armies Roots: Golden Seal, Blue Cohosh Lady's
are gradually falling away. Their mas- Slipper. Black Cohosh and Unicorn bv
V ter proposes to force 500.000 of them in- means of pure glycerine. He was asked
to hls service, but he will utterly fail, how he knew, as a physician and expe-
And defeat, disorganization and ruin rienced medical man that the “Favorite
■will be the just retribution for national ' Prescription” -was a. cure tor the diseases
crimes of unprecedented magnitude and peculiar to women, and he stated that
atrocity.” he knew such was the fact because of
bis professional experience and the many
. (thousands of women whose ills had been
NfnmllP Trilm Aflrr 3 I if ! >y this “Prescription.” This ex
AlUlUfillWl a Lit, | perience was corroborated by the stand-
;drd Medical Authorities of the several
schools of medicine endorsing the various
John Graham, in a letter "from a self- ! ingredients in the strongest terms. Dr.
made merchant to his son,” says' "Send- Smith being asked to name these ail
ing tlie truth after a lie that has got a thorities. read from tlie standard works,
running start is like trying to round up such as the United States Dispensatory;
a stampeded herd of steers while the The American Dispensatory; Organic
scare Is on them. Lies are great trav- j Medicines, by Grover Coe, M. D.; Materia
elers and welcome visitors In a good j Mediea and Therapeutics, by Professor
heart Is full of tears and gratitude. What son, fatigued and exhausted by contin- ! many homes, and no questions asked. I Finley Kllingwood of the Bennett Modi-
Truth travels slowly, has to prove its j cal College of Chicago; "New Renie-
Identity, and then a lot of people hesitate I dies,” by Professor Kdwin M. Hale, M.
to turn out an agreeable stranger tO|D.; Text Book of Therapeutics, by .Dt.
make room for it.” ! Hobart A. Hare, Professor in University
A case in point was tlie slanderous and | of Pennsylvania; Laurence Johnson, M.
The Brit- i libelous article published by The Ladies' ! I>., Professor in University of New ’York;
Home Journal in May, 1904, wherein it I Professor John King, Author of “Woman
was claimed that Dr. Pierce's Favorite and Her Diseases"; Wm. Paine, M. D..
Prescription contained alcohol and other Author of “New School Practice of Medi-
harmful ingredients. Dr.. Pierce promptly cine"; Professor John M. Scudder. M. D..
brought suit against the Curtis Publish- I Author of a treaties "The Disease of
ing Company, publishers of The Ladies’ ' Women”; Horatio C. Wood, M. D., Au-
Home Journal.. The suit was for $200,- ' thor of "Therapeutics”; Roberts Bar-
000.00 damages. Dr. Pierce alleged that thoiow. A. M., M. D., Prof, of Materia
Mr. Bok, the editor, maliciously published Medica. Jkfferson Medical Oollege of
the article containing such false and de- : Philadelphia. ***
against me that Is too strong for nie; jdefense could be continued for only a
and I will not link my life with that few days longer. The British had not
■of anyone; I will fight my fight alone. I only finished their third parallel, but
Ttiink kindly of me, Martin; when I re- |had sapped the dam that supplied the
merr\ber all that you have done for me, canal with water ,and had even, in places,
and all that you have tried to do, my 1 drained it to the bottom. The garri-
heart Is left In me Is yours, and yours nous duty, was too weak to man the
only; and yet I wlj; not give It to you. j lines effectually. Its guns were nearly
Such Is my perversity—but I cannot help i all dismounted .and their shot expended,
myself. Goodbye—my dear—my dear; I | Its provisions, with the exception of a
kiss this page where your dear hand will
hold It.—Ruth."
So she was lost again, and there
few cows, entirely consumed
Ish had approached so near that their
sharpshooters picked oft the men at the
seemed no prospect of liis finding her. ! guns, and everyone who showed himself
He hurried away to the house of Saul j above the entrenchments. In this way
Capstick; but, of course, she had not j two of the most valued officers of the
been there. He went, with a greater | American army were lost—Colonel Parker
hope, to Ferdinand Kirk, with a like
result, and after that set himself dili
gently to find her.
Ho advertised covertly In various di
rections, putting little messages that she
might understand in various: newspapers;
but to no purpose, and tonight was as
far off as ever from any news of her.
He had not given up hope; only his heart
was wrung as he sat there in the warmtli
'because it might happen that she wan
dered somewhere homeless, and he could
not reach her.
His rooms were old and dingy, and
with quain.t nooks and corners: in them
where the shadows cast by the firelight
lurked and danced. More than once he
looked round sharply, with the feeling
that someone was near; more than once
he took up hls lamp, and went out on
to the staircase and listened. No sound
but the wind rattling a crazy window
somewhere; no one stirring.
He came Lack at last to the fire, and
stood there with Ills hack to it, and his
face to the door, and presently became
distinctly (aware of a siiglit movement
outside. It was as though someone nad
crept near to the door, and had stoopol
for a moment to listen; it was as though
and Captain Peyton, both of Vlrginta.
The British now again summoned the
town to surrender. Lincoln, as before,
proposed terms of capitulation. These
were again rejected, and hostilties, tem
porarily suspended, were fesumed. Clin
ton pushed hls works in front of hls
thir d parallel, crossed the canal, and
made his way to within twenty yards of
the American lines. General Lincoln had
less than three thousand weary men,
mostly militia, with lines three miles
in extent to be defended, against three
times as ma.ny picked soldiers of the
British army, assisted by a powerful na
val force.
THE CAPITULATION.
At this Juncture the citizens reversed
their former course, and addressed a
petition to General Lincoln urging him
to surrender the town on the terms
offered by the enemy. As nothing better
could be done, a flag was sent to Sir
Henry Clinton, and articles of capitula
tion were signed on the twelfth of May.
The town and all public stores were sur
rendered. The garrison, in which term
were included all citizens who had borne
arms, were to be prisoners of war. The
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a mere breath had parsed and gone (troops were t 0 march out of the town
■again. Above all, there had been, or
so he thought, the rustle of a garment
upon the stone stair, and against the
door.
He hesitated for a moment, half in .-ni-
pertltous fear, then caught up the lamp
again and strode across to the door an.l
pulled it open. No one there—no or.e
and t n deposit their arms in front of
their works. But their drums were not,
as was usual, to beat a British march,
nor were their colors to be reversed,
as often demanded by the victor. The mi
litia were permitted to go to the.ir homes
under parole, and. their persons and
property as well as those of the citizens
on the s fair case when, holding the lamp the town, were to be secure so long as
above him, he looked down. lie went 1 ke Pt 1 ® r r °'
so far as to call, to demand if anyone L T,le °! Charleston was obstinate.
, ’ . . . . but not bloody. The one side was cau-
were there Receiving no answer he | the ot her weak, and thelosses were
went back into his room, and set down j abou( thc British loalng 76 kllled
the lamp. . and 189 wounded, the Americans 92 killed
The plarr was hateful to hint ajter | and | 48 wounded The prisoners of the j MAIL TODAY,
Continental regulars numbered 1.977, and
that. He determined that lie would <ro
out, wild though the night was. He
put on his hat and coat and extinguished
the lamp and went out. Coming to the
gate of the temple, he noticed that Im
porter looked at him as though to oc
suTe of hls Identity, and held the gate
l’or a moment In hls hand.
"Someone inquiring for you, sir,” he
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of these 500 were In the hospital.
Thus fell.the town of Charleston. The
loss of the garrison maimed the force
and palsied the operations of the Amer
ican government in the south, and re
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