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Updated: June 2, 2025
"We wus," said Aunt Maria, sadly "but now there ain't but one lef'. I'm Zion. It's t'arrable, but it's true. As it wus in the days of Lot, so it is to-day in Sodom." "Why, how did that happen?" asked the Bishop. Aunt Maria's eyes kindled: "It's t'arrable, but it's true last week Parson Shadrack deserts his own wife an' runs off with Sis Tilly.
There was not a word said about their narrow escape from a wreck. Ten minutes later Andrews called to Knight to stop. "Tell them to tear up the tracks and break the telegraph line, Tom," he ordered. Tom climbed over the tender and into the freight car. He repeated Andrews' orders. Shadrack grabbed him and asked: "What was that we struck back there?" "Curve in the road," answered Tom.
"It will take you forever to reach it," was the half-growled retort. "I ain't chasin' sunsets. Here's Happy Walley my Happy Walley, right below us, and the smoke you see curlin' up th'oo the trees is from the John Shadrack clearin'." A great wall, hardly a mile away, as the crow flies, the third mountain rose, bare and forbidding.
Tom and Shadrack exchanged glances and laughed. "Now I call that extraordinary!" exclaimed one of the guards. Then, as if he liked the word, he repeated, "Extraordinary!" "If we give you our words not to try escaping," asked Tom, "will you let go our arms? You have the guns, anyhow. It'll make walking easier." "All right," drawled a guard. "That's a good idea."
Then: "Bensinger, Company G, Twenty-first Ohio" "Dorsey, Company H, Thirty-third" "Brown, Company G, Twenty-first" "Pittenger, Company G, Second".... There were twenty of them, not including Andrews. Tom found himself between Wilson, Company C, of the Twenty-first Ohio, and Shadrack, Company K, of the Second Ohio. The thunder sounded again and a few drops of rain pattered down.
Two weeks is a very short time, but when you have been over the mountains and back, when you have hovered for days close to the banks of the Styx, when you have huddled for days close to the Shadrack stove, listening to the widow's stories of her John and Tip's praise of his wife, then a fortnight seems an age. But everything was as I had left it.
"What do you think we'd better do? I'm for staying to the road." "If it wasn't so blamed muddy we could go across the fields," said Shadrack, "but we'd get bogged again." "The road's our one chance," added Wilson. "Let's get to work." During the remainder of the afternoon they worked their way up along the edge of the road, hiding in the bushes time after time.
Dizziness overcame him for a moment. He held on with all his strength, closed his eyes, letting the cool rain splatter in his face. Then he climbed the ladder, Shadrack was sitting on the top of the car, swaying weakly. "Are you all right, Shadrack?" asked Tom. "Yes in a second. Thanks for coming. The smoke almost finished me. I was scattering the flames around. Is the fire going all right?"
"Oh, he's hot-headed," said the Judge. "He gets one idea and he can't think of anything else. Lock the door, Joe, so we won't be disturbed. And lock the kitchen door, too, or Alf'll be back. Now let's search these men, and see what we can find." Tom, Shadrack, and Wilson held their arms up, while the men dumped the contents of their pockets on a table.
Tom and Shadrack looked to Wilson to speak, but he said nothing. So the farmer had sent word to Union troops! When he had gone out to look after his chickens, he had sent a messenger with the news that three ardent Southerners were to be captured at his house if the soldiers would come and get them! Captured by their own troops! "Pull on your boots," ordered the Sergeant. "Wait a minute!
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