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THE WILSO OCTOBER 3, 1895. f 1 A CONFEDERATE BELLE . t r k TTTATnT ' rCoDyriebt. 1825, V.y the Author. rmitn sriffl tllfit if it WC1'8 liOt for his largo real estate and 'flouring in terests he would go south and enlist at once. Mr. Kean, for all his valor, was a very quiet man at home, where ho found it to his advantage to keep his secession proclivities to himself. When Miss Norton and her escort appeared for a week's visit, Mr. Kean felt more com fortable and became more outspoken under his own roof tree. It so chanced that at the very time Raymond and his cousin stopped at Mr. Kean's on their way home a nephew of that gentleman, Chariest-eland byname Tiri a resident of '-Chicago, had come down on a visit to his uncle. Charles Leland waa about 23 years of age, a re cent graduate of Harvard and then a law student. He wasan unusually fine looking young fellow, had been the star athlete of his clas and in addition ranked fairly well in his studies. Mr. Leland'a father was a New Englander, 4 'an abolitionist from conviction and an out and out Union man from princi ple,"" and the son waa yery ranch the same kind of a person. - I hare purposely dwelt on these de tails the hotter to illu4re the division that existed among znany families north and south, and the bolter to introduce the three leading actors in this little to hi, .nd taintog. MituvM exTk f Awtitiff rtiQ iT t Ti iiTi nnwn inH i throats of opponents, but thia does not mean that he could not be brave and tenacious in maintaining them. The Keans had always been very hos pitable. Perhaps this is why that at this time their house was filled with guests fugitives, corning north or 'hurrying south. A woman with less tact than Mrs. Ke:.:v- with such a diversity in her guests, would have found difficulty in avoiding an open rupture, and she cer tainly had difiieulty, -but her whispered counsel, rather than the breeding of her friends, avoided domestic war. She saw from the firt the danger of having Tom -Raymond and -Charles Leland in the same house, and - this danger was mag nified to her when she forced to put them not found herself onlv into the same room, oat to sleep in tne same bed. "Now, young gentlemen," said Mrs. . Kean after the introduction, ,'M , want , no war talk in this house. Here at least we must hare union, and you two must be friends, or pretend to be, which will answer my present purposes. After each has gone his way, if be feelsj that he must fight for the aide he believes to be right and fights in a manly way, he won't forfeit my esteem, no matter whi,ch aide he takes. " Very sensible advice this, and the young men laughed as they shook hands and promised to abide by it. But sharp eyed and ihrewd though Mrs. Sean cer tainly was she had not secured peace by tabooing the war. It waa soon very cer tain to her and her husband that the young men hated each other quite as heartily as they admired Pus Norton. The young lady in the case waa not long ignorant of the impresaion she had made on "the handsome Yankee," as she called young Leland when he was not in hearing. Instead of keeping her "southern sentiments in .the back ground, as her aunt advised, Miss Nor ton aired them before the Yankee, par ticularly when there waa nobody else near, and she delighted to make suoh occasions, nor was he eager to avoid them. MI think Puss is coquetting' waa Mr. Kean 'a comment to his wife a few days before the young lady 'a departure for Mississippi, "but I am mighty rare of two things. " On being aaked to ex plain what these two things were,' he continued: "First, Jhat Charley is dead gone an Puss, and, second, that Tom Kay mood would like to blow the whole m t - j 1 top of bis head off if he had half One morning, jus two days before Tom Raymond left, and who as was attiring himself with best and pistol, as he had been doing wita great rega laxity since his fourteenth year, Leland, wisn a sneer thai the mnMn4n laugh did not wholly bide, aaked him why he burdened himself with arms in tne house of a friend and in a city where officers of the law stood on every street earner. "The great God gave me power to de-" iena myseii, responded Tom Raymond, with fire in his eyes, and bo long as i can do that I ain't going to ask the help of any officer not much V I "Defend yourself from what?" "From insult." "Then every time you strap on thia pistol you anticipate that some one is going to insult youf ' "That's it." "How often bare you had "to use a pistol in this way since you first betran the practicer not once, but I might have been in sulted many a time if folks didn't know I had the thing bandy." And Tom Raymond patted the stock of the pistol as if it were a dear friend. "Then I am to understand that you would shoot a man for an Insult, real or imagined, without giving him a chance to explainer shoot back?" persisted Le land. "That would depend. But seeh'ar, Mr. Leland, what fo' do you pahaume to.taJk.to mejn this war? Iftjon want I to carry a pistpJXifexiob3t',' ''' Raymond, wi.b light Nr "Thanks," r3plifg, u . ever do burden; myfecli '.,,-i.h ; . will have tho vuranfccf the lav, i-. act, and I will promise in advaiiee ; to carry it couceulcd nor tqf the table a friend. " - . Mrs. Kean uirt have everhend this conversation, for she called her hus band's nephew into the hall and at once assigned him to another room. Eay mond reported the "insulting language of Mr. Leland" to his cousin and asked her advice about calling him cut, but she opposed it and tried to soothe her irate lover by assuring him that she had a plan to get even with the Yankee. Up to this time she had given Ray mond ample reason for jealousy, but during the rest of their stay in Louis ville he heroically endured her flirta tions with bis rival, under the impres sion that her set purpose was to encour age his love andjtbeu to scornfully re ject him, which . would , be vengeance enough for even so impetuous a man as the Mississippian. Miss Norton and her cousin resumed their journey south at the end of eight days, she taking with her two trunks full of dry goods and a pretty good knowledge of the leading Union people and secessionists in Louisrille. True to his purpose, Raymond; on reaching hoxne, ealisted ia an infantry regiment, and through his father, who had been at state, pOoer, secured a second lieuten ant's commission. - - Young Leland went back to Chicago and before the summer waa over he w-doin, Miro.ptl c.lrr Ra vraa with Buell on the march " the second day at Shiloh, and waa with the advance that entered Corinth after Beauregard '8 retreat. I have reason to believe that Miss Norton had not been long absent from his mind since they parted. I know that as soon as Corinth fell he embraced the first opportunity to dispatch a messenger to the Norton plantation, a few miles away, tendering his services to the young lady and her family "in any way that might be con sistent with his duty. " That very day Miss Norton, looking the more bewitching for her pallor and nervousness, answered his message in person.. She did not meet him as if she regarded him as an enemy, 'but rather as a friend whose services were sorely needed at this time. She told him that her father, though not in the army, had gone south to Grenada to avoid falling Sh& had a plan to get oven tetth-. ths Ftm- kee. into the hands of the Yankees, and thai her mother and a younger brother were " unprotected on the plantation, and that the hands were uneasy and inclined to . abandon the place. - Captain Leland sympathised with her in a manly fashion and promised to do ; everytning in his power for the comfort ) of her family. He took her to headquar ters, ntrodaoed bar; to Oeneral BuelL and so secured gaard far the XTartosa place. The hands who had1 come into the town were returned to the planta tion, and for a ssonth bat few days passed that did not find the captain a Tialtor. Lelsad'a brother officer, with whom be waa at this time very popmlsr, joked him about "the pretty little rebel" and laughingly told him that he bad sur rendered at the first re. Of his loyalty to the cause be bad sworn to defend there was not the siirhfcesa donhe - say f more bia ability and valor, nor do I think that at any time. even when the worst came and a dis honorable death stared him in the face, be ever wavered in bis allegiance. It was through the captain's influence that Miss Norton was permitted to go south through our lines for the purpose of visiting her father, who, she said, though "she did not disclose the source of her information lay dangerously ill at Jackson. While Buell and Bragg were racing on parallel lines for the . Ohio in Au gust, 1862, Captain Leland, temporarily cm the staff of Qeneral 1 Hamilton, re mained back at Corinth. The first week in September he received a letter from Miss Norton, dated at Memphis, then held by the Union forces, with Qeneral Sherman in command. The young lady explained her presence by saying that after leaving her father at Jackson she had come up to Memphis from Vicks- bturg on a nag of truce boat, i As she was free to go north: she bad paid a visit to Louisville and was now anxious to go home, but General Sherman had refused to pass her through the lines, and so she appealed to her kind friend Captain Le land once more for help, and could be come tQher assistance? Captain Leland, eager to show his de- .vor.T'-n , secured a week's leave, hastened to T.-.iomphis and met the young lady at tlio hou-e of a southern family with wl m d:o was stopping, s And now conies the first false step in the captain's wooi?.'.g, and thut love blinded him to a critical exiunination of his duty in the promises who can doubt? Miss' Norton made no effort to conceal what she was pleased to call her "loyal ty to the south. " How, then, could he imagine that she planned treason to him self? That such was not her purpose I am now positive, though at the time when trouble came to the love blinded young soldier her perfidy seemed patent to every one. She had brought down with her to Memphis a trunk full of wearing ap parel for herself and mother, she said. Without applying to headquarters she and her friends knew that this trunk w;ould not be permitted to go through the lines without inspection. "If wom en were to do the examining," she said, when explaining the case to the cap tain, "I would, not mind exposing the contents, but one naturally shrinks from having one's things pawed over by a lot of rude soldiers. " Captain Leland thought the matter over, and in his anxiety to help her be determined to .take the box through to Corinth as nis own. If be had known that that box contained large supply of medicines, with nu&dreda of letters, and much t1 nable Information for the' armies' of Price and Van Dora, then threatening Corinth and York, be would bare re" fused and notified . headquarters, I be lieve. .'.'. Without coinff into details. I will state that Captain Leland hastened back: to his command, taking with him the young lady and her trunk, and sending both to the plantation after he had reached headquarters. From the time he met Miss Norton after the fall of Cor inth to the hour of his parting with her after the return from Memphis, Captain Leland, never heard her speak of her cousin Tom Raymond, nor did he re mind her oi a man for whom for many reasons he had formed a strong dislike. But, as subsequent disclosures proved, Miss Norton was in constant communi cation with .her cousin, and in the very night of her return from Memphis he visited her and with her examined the trunk, taking from it such papers as she indicated as of immediate value. A few weeks after this the Union sit uation at Corinth was changed. The Army Of the Cumberland and much of the Army of the - Tennessee were off with Buell oh the Kentucky campaign. Price and Van Dcrn, at the head of from 40,000 to 50,000 veteran troops, marched at will through northern Mis sissippi. Memphis was cut off, and the hanjlful of brave men under Rosecrans in Corinth seemed doomed. Tho Confederate ear? airy drove back, and Confederate infantry occupied every important oatpost. ' General Van Darn's headquarters were at the Norton mandoQ, and bis boast that before the year ended there would not be an un captared Yantkee ta Mississippi seemed about to be realised. ( Excepting Lookout and Missionary Ridge, if I bad to select for the purpose of craphie deacsjytkm the fiercest and moil pkjturcsque battle of the wr, I thin): I should choose the Union defense of Corinth, If ot even Ocreea magnifl ceut defense of the toass a4 Clatorna, in the Oeorgia campaign, equals it. . for there Che attacking forces, r thoigb pro portionately supesicV were not so con tinuousry pereiseant. Here, as on very oaomkn when be was brodgbt ' under fire, Captain Le laod'l Allaotrr wsj conspicaoos. tx the ssciguinaay repulse of Tan Xcrn and the hot pssrsait tha followed n bis ttre- Ismsb eScBO won Ham ptammu of Ms su Vtxks cSocra. and be wci teoommsad ed fejr trottdiion. Bat Cs xasas bad willed it thct bs cVAkl nrer wear die aldn lesyves of a majaa. 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Cuts. and bruises should receive immediate treatment before the parts become swollen, which can only be done when Pain Balm is kept on hand. A sore throat may be cured before it becomes serious. A troublesome corn may be removed by applying it twice . a day for a week Or two. A lame back may be cured and several days of valuable time saved or a pain in the side or chest relieved without paying a doctor bill. Procure a 50 cent bottle at once and you will never regret it.' For sale by E. M. Na dal, Druggist. mxssa JP.1? '.i n:i I r: cr to the rack Ihnr r--iovccl it, the door 01 Hi the uiri 5ieiieii forrli. s-.a wn nr. rayed in w hite. Probably she w&3 at tired in her LorVlotlies. She seemed to see me at once, for .she emerged directly opposite, and I thought she vould speak or hastily retire. But after appearing to Ftare for a little while she came to the table and leaned upon it with her left hand, sighing several times in the most heartbroken manner, and now I saw by the help of the dim lamplight that her right hand grasped a knife -the gleam of the blade caught my eye in a breath ! "Good gracious!" I cried to myself instantly, the woman's asleep! This, then, is the ghost that frightened the Dane. And this, too, was the hand that murdered the captain !" I stood motionless, watching - her. Presently, taking her hand off the table, she turned her face af t, and Wtth a won derfully subtle, stealthy, sneaking gait, reminding one strangely of , the folding motion of the snake, she made for the apfoin's cabin. Now, that cabin, ever since Griflth'a death, I bad occupied, and yea racr guess the sensations wita which ; t fol lowed the armed and janrdsroW sleepv walker as, sb fflided' so wbat I zauss call my berth and noiselessly opened tha door of it Tne moment she was in the cabin her motions grew amaaingly swift. She stepped to the side of the bunk I was in the habit of using, and lifting the knife plunged it once, deep and hard, then came away, so nimbly that it was with difficulty I made room for her in the doorway to pass. I heard her breathe hard and fast as she swept by, and I stood in the doorway of my cabin watching her till her figure disap peared in her own berths So, then, the mystery was at an end. Poor Captain Griffith's murderess ' was his adored sweetheart ! She had killed him in her sleep and knew it not. In the blindness of slumber she had repeat ed the enormous tragedy, as sinless nev ertheless as the angels w ho looked down and beheld her and pitied her. l I went on deck and sent for the doc tor, to whom I communicated what I had seen, and he at once repaired to Miss Le Grand's berth, accompanied by the stewardess, and found her peacefully resting in her bunk. No knife was to be seen. However, next morning, the young lady being then on deck, veiled as she always now went, and sitting in a retired part of the poop, the second mate, the doctor and the stewardess again thoroughly searched Miss Le Grand's berth, and they found in a hol low in the ship's side, a sort of scupper, in fact, or the porthole, a carving knife, rusted with old stains of blood. It had belonged to the ship, and it was a knife the steward had missed on the day the captain was killed. i Since the whole ghastly tragedy waa a matter of somnambulism all points of it were easily fitted by the doctor, who quickly understood that the knife had been taken by the poor girl in her sleep just as it had been murderously used. What horrible demon governed her in her slumber who shall tell? For my part, I put it down to Mrs. Burney and a secret fever of jealousy which bad operated in the poor soul when sense was suspended in her by slumber. We tried to keep the thing secret, taking care to look Hiss Le Grand up every night without explaining our mo tive, but the passengers got wind of the truth and shrunk from her with horror. It came, in fact, to their waiting upon me in a body and insisting upon my immuring her in the steerage in com pany with one of the 'tween deck's passengers, a female who bad offered her services as a nurse for hire. This action led to the poor girl herself find ingoul what bad happened, God knows who told her or bow she manasted to discover it, but 'tis certain she got to wn w ;7Lr the selfsame day of bo understanding what she bad done Kor did she ever recover her mind. 8be was landed mad and sent at once to an asylum, where she died, God rest her poor soul, exactly a year after the murder, passing away, in fact, at the very hour the deed was done, as I after ward heard. THE J&VTj. Troubled, With Impure Blood. "I have been using Hoods Sarsapa- rilla for my blood. I find a great chancre in my condition already, and regard Hood's Sarsaparilla as an ex cellent blood purifier. I have been troubled with impure blood for a long time." Morril Horton. Vilos, N. C. Hood's Pills cure sick digestion. headache, in. He "It is endurance, the staying quality, that makes men strong." She (with a glance at the clock) You must be a Herecules." 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