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The power of her devotion touched the hearts of these rough men, for they were brave themselves, and, lowering their guns, with one accord, they cheered this little grey-eyed, dimpled farmer's girl with her hair blowing in the breeze, until the Jersey hills rang. And now the lad in Brownsburg rose to the situation.
Then Barbara, as day was breaking, climbed to the crest of Goat Hill, and began to signal desperately toward Brownsburg, in the hope that Marshall Frissell might see and understand. For an hour she waved, but all in vain. Marshall was asleep.
I find no report of his work that winter, except this item from one of his letters: "There have been seventeen additions at meetings which I have recently attended six at Brownsburg, Hendricks county, and eleven at Springville, Lawrence county, Ind."
They had a boy friend, Marshall Frissell, in Brownsburg, Pennsylvania, on the other side of the river, and Marshall and Dominick had learned to wigwag signals, in boy-scout fashion, back and forth across the Delaware. It seems that, on this memorable night, the brother and sister discovered a great force of Germans building pontoons about a mile below the wrecked Lambertville bridge.
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