Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 115: what you’re looking at

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—~- 108 THE BURNING BAR‘ CHAPTER XX. THE BURNING BARN. hire) fre! fre It was this cry from the chamber window that ‘startled the inmates of the farm-house. Though weak, and doubly so from his excitement, consequent upon meeting Colonel Trafton, Moses _ Bluff was yet strong enough to break a square of glass from the window and shout fire through the opening. Almost instantly the utmost confusion prevailed. But few negroes remained on the place, and when these came rushing to the barn, the great building was one sea of flame. ‘Too late—too late!’ _ Like one bereft of sense and feeling, Orvin Clymore stood, with white face and wide-open eyes, staring at the burning barn. ‘“The horses—save the horses!’ This was the cry that fell from the lips of Bertha. She hastened toward the barn, but a loud’ voice bade her halt. In her excitement she had noticed the approach of strangers, and therefore knew not of the presence of Captain Chetwood, until he dashed-up to her side on a foaming steed. At his back rode a score of blue-coats, members of the Loyal Tigers, who had come to look after their old commander. Two of the rangers dismounted, and rushed into the hot stables, and at great risk, succeeded in saving the two horses belonging to the farmer. The barn was gone, with all its grain and hay—a severe loss, indeed. | (e(0) , Die ~~~. comicbooks