Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 22: what you’re looking at

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BETRAYED AND BETRAYER. | 15 with your life. Igive you all I have to give—my heart. Is it not enough ?”’ ‘“Yes, a thousand times yes,’’ he cried, pressing her hand to his fevered lips; ‘‘and yet—oh, heavens, my country !”? ‘Your country should be my country—as mine should be yours.’’ As she spoke, a thin ete of fire curved in the distance from Fort Johnson, hovered an instant above Sumter, then broke in a brilliant flash. It was the signal shell—the first gun of the war. They both saw it. “‘See,’’ she said, with sudden enthusiasm, ‘‘Beau- regard has spoken.”’ He stood trembling with the awful fear of the next moment upon his soul. ‘“Speak, Royal—my heart’s beloved-—speak !”” Several consecutive flashes of light spurted from Moultrie, and the quivering shells springing into the air, burst in succession above the ramparts of Sumter, fire. The sight started a new light in Royal Chetwood’s eyes, and dissolved the Spell that had held him. ‘*Desert that flag?’ he cried. ‘‘Never!”’ ‘’Then,’’ said Bertha, drawing from him and standing erect, ‘tare we indeed strangers.,’’ CHAPTER III. BETRAYED AND BETRAVER. After having been abroad the greater part of the night, or rather morning of the memorable 12th of April, Captain Trafton returned to his luxurious bachelor apartments in the fashionable section of Charleston a little before sunrise, encircling the waving folds of Old Glory in a halo of im >- comicbooks (E(0