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Updated: June 17, 2025
To supplement the light from candle and fire, a huge hickory knot had been thrust into the fireplace, against one of the andirons. By its light Henry was weaving a basket, the floor around him littered with the long, pliable osier slips which the twins were sorting for his use. In the opposite corner, on a low stool, the negro girl, Rache, nodded over a piece of knitting.
"We were stuck in the front line of the Rache salient," explained Mahan, eager to recount his dog-friend's prowess. "On both sides our supports got word to fall back. We couldn't get the word, because our telephone connection was knocked galley-west. There we were, waiting for a Hun attack to wipe us out. We couldn't fall back, for they were peppering the hillslope behind us.
"You ought to have seen Rache an' Suse cry when old Gray bid us good-by," said Tom that evening at home. "Did you cry?" asked Margaret. "Guess not! Glad school's out; an' I'm never goin' any more." "I wouldn't if I were you, bub," said Margaret; "you know enough now." She always called him "bub" when she wanted to vex him, "But old Gray, as you call him, will be somebody yet, see if he don't."
"He laughed out in his happy way, and looked me in the face with dancing eyes. 'Why, don't you know but of course you don't, he said, 'for I found it all out by accident, myself. Rache isn't the girl to give herself away, and you mustn't let on if I tell you. I promised good faith and he bent over and said, low and gently, 'I'm awfully fond of Rache, but not that way.
His flint yielded the ready spark, and fagots and logs soon blazed cheerily in the wide fireplace in each room. "That big kettle which pa insisted upon our bringing, does come in handy right at the start," exclaimed Susan. "We'll have it filled and hung on that crane, so that Rache can scrub the floors; and while the water is heating, let's get something to eat.
"Och, an' shure I'm aloive, that same. But I'm more than half did, for all that; an' nearly drownded to boot. Arrah, boys! rache me a hand, an' pull me out for I can't move meself one of my legs is broke." We all three rushed down to the water whence the voice appeared to come. Under the drooping willows, where the current had undermined the bank, we perceived an object in motion.
He was pulling some of her cherished foxgloves through the picket fence, and eagerly devouring their flowery stalks. "How well you rache through an honest fince, you black pirate!" she shouted; but finding that harsh words had no effect, she took a convenient broom, and advanced to strike a gallant blow upon the creature's back.
Then, as they were going down a steep hillside with a considerable slant to the left, the groom came back from his post at the head of the team, to the side of his bride. Susan was looking out across the landscape; Rache was engrossed with her efforts to keep the various small articles from falling off the sledge.
My three oldest is in the Works, and Rache is about the best hand they've got, if I do say it. Rache earns good wages, I tell ye better'n the boys. But then, what with tobacco and beer, and beauin' the girls around to dances and shows, and all, you can't expect a fellow to have much left for his own folks. And my other two gals is workin' out in town.
Here and there, lonesome prisoners had eased the heavy time by altering the records left by predecessors. Leaving the name standing, and the date and length of the captivity, they had erased the description of the misdemeanor, and written in its place, in staring capitals, "FOR THEFT!" or "FOR MURDER!" or some other gaudy crime. In one place, all by itself, stood this blood-curdling word: "Rache!"
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