Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 106: what you’re looking at

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AT THE POINT OF THE SWORD. —— 99 She stood in the open door-way when the leader of the troop came up the walk, hat in hand, and a smile wreathing his dark face. “Still here, Bertha. Iam glad you are well and unharmed. I feared you might have suffered from the raids of these Yankee banditti, who are spreading desolation far and near through the Shenandoah — Valley’? It was Colonel T'rafton who thus addressed the | maiden. ‘“‘Tam happy to meet you, colonel,’’ uttered the girl ‘‘How is the conflict going ?”’ ‘‘Asit should. Sheridan is retreating. Our army will follow him back to the Potomac, perhaps into Mary- land. Before snow flies, Pennsylvania will be at the feet of the South; that 1s my prediction.’’ ‘‘T hope you may prove a wise prophet,’’ answered the girl, with glowing eyes; at the same time she | thought of her patient up stairs, who had been wounded fighting for the old flag. What would Colonel Trafton say did he know of him? ‘Vou have an invalid soldier under this roof, I un- derstand ?’’ the colonel said. “Vou have not been misinformed, aobseh 2 ‘CA Yankee soldier, too?”’ ‘Again you are right. ? ‘May I inquire why your uncle has been so indis- creet, to say the least, as to harbor an enemy to the | South; Be “Pure humanity prompted him, colonel. We ought not to sink our humanity in our partisanship.” ‘Indeed!’ he-sneered. ‘‘I cannot see that human- ity should prompt Orvin Clymore to turn his house into a Yankee hospital. Can it be that it is to save his property that the old man has changed his coat??? ‘Ror shame, Colonel Trafton!’’ “Tt looks that way, anyhow.”’ (E(0) Wan earn comicbooks