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"Thank you," answered the delighted Sempland; "where shall I get a crew?" "One has already been selected from among hundreds who volunteered. Five seamen are to attend to the propeller and an artillery officer to look after the torpedo. You can steer the boat?" "I lived on the water before I entered the army." "All right. The Wabash is lying off the Main Ship Channel.
"You will come back. You must come back!" "General Beauregard," said Lacy, as the two young officers were ushered into the general's office, "I have a most unusual request to make of you, sir." "What is it, Major Lacy?" returned the little general. "I want you to relieve me of the duty of taking out the David to-night, sir." "What!" "I want you to give it to Mr. Sempland here."
I am disposed to be lenient, but the offence is one I cannot condone. I will have to put you under guard until I can consider what is best to be done." "I make no protest," said Fanny Glen. "You will, of course, release Mr. Sempland from arrest, and see that his reputation takes no hurt?" "I will attend to that." He struck a bell again and summoned the assistant adjutant-general once more.
The room was one which Sempland had never entered before. It was small, furnished like a library or office, with several large closets and an old iron safe, and had two grated windows and one heavy mahogany door. It had formerly been used as an office and as a treasure room.
I told the truth," returned Sempland, calmly, "just as I said to you I would, and for that I am ready to answer in any way to please you. We can settle the matter when the war is over." "Very well. What did you say, Miss Glen?" continued Lacy, turning to that young woman. "I told him it wasn't true!" burst out the girl, impetuously. "Ah, but it is," said Lacy, softly.
"Don't!" she cried in greater terror than ever, "I will open!" He heard a brief whispered consultation, the key was turned in the lock, and the door was suddenly flung open. Sempland darted toward it on the instant and recoiled from the terrible figure of the little woman barring him with outstretched arms. If he had suffered within, she had suffered without the room.
"Because I want you to know Sempland as the hero he is, and because forgive my frankness I believe that you love him. So I want him to hear you say it before he goes out. It will double his chances of escape if he has your love to think of. You will inspire him to come back. As it is now, I am afraid he does not especially care to.
There were but two I loved on earth. I was ashamed of my father, but I loved him. Four years of war have taught me other things. I am sorry that he did not go with the South, but it is not for me to judge him. I could not see him condemned to death and not raise a hand to save him. And I discovered too late that I I cared for Mr. Sempland. I drove him from me in scorn and contempt I taunted him.
"Ah!" exclaimed Beauregard. "I have it now! Sempland " "Oh, sir!" cried the girl, "where is he?" "He is preparing," continued Beauregard, coolly he had the clew to the mystery and he determined to follow it to the end "to be tried by a court-martial " "By a court-martial, General Beauregard! For what, sir?" "For disobedience of orders and neglect of duty, in the face of the enemy.
When she discovered the undoubted fact that she did love Rhett Sempland her views on the mastery of man would probably alter at least for a time! Love, in its freshness, would make her a willing slave; for how long, events only could determine. For some women a lifetime, for others but an hour, can elapse before the chains turn from adornments to shackles.
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