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You gwine to come back soon?" "I don't know, Uncle Tom," said Chad, sadly. "Whar you gwine, Mars Chad?" "Into the army." "De ahmy?" The old man smiled. "You gwine to fight de Yankees?" "I'm going to fight WITH the Yankees." The old driver looked as though he could not have heard aright. "You foolin' this ole nigger, Mars Chad, ain't you?"

"The Lieutenant," she said, "writes in this-yeh note that this-yeh place won't be safe f'om the Yankees much longer'n to-day, and fo' us to send the wounded lady in the avalanch. Which she says, her own self, it'd go rough with her to fall into they hands again. My married daughter she's a-goin' with her, and the'd ought to be a Mr. Sm' oh, my Lawdy! you ain't reg-lahly in the ahmy, air you?"

"Reade and Hazelton have a friend of theirs here, and he's likely to make some trouble for us. He's an army officer." "I done heah'd ob him," nodded Sambo. "We can settle wid him, too." "We ought to, for he helped arrest me, and he's to be a witness on the torpedo matter." "W'ate's his name -de ahmy man's?" inquired Sambo. "Prescott. He's " The speaker stopped suddenly, looking about him.

"Well, I'll have a little wisit wid Jim, an' des' see how much he 'fected, an' if dey any stroke to be put in fu' de gospel ahmy, you des' count on me ez a mighty strong wa'ior. Dat boy been layin' heavy on my mind fu' lo, dese many days."

In the days that followed I saw that Clem was regarding me with an embarrassed, troubled look. Something of weight lay upon his mind. Nor was it easy, to make him speak, but I achieved this at last. "Well, seh, Mahstah Majah, yo'-all see, Ah ain't eveh told Miss Cahline that yo's a Majah in th' Nawthun ahmy." "No?" I said. "No, seh; Ah ain't even said yo's been a common soljah." "Well?"

They could see the conqueror coming home in triumph. Then when he cried, "A-who, I say, a-who is in Gideon's ahmy to-day?" and the wailing chorus took up the note, "A-who!" it was too much even for frail Cassie, and, deserted by the solicitous sisters, in the words of Mam' Henry, "she broke a-loose, and faihly tuk de place."