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 Major ‘Thorne hac come out with them ; and loarn- ing thi the Gonoral’s route lay uptown, he offured to wall with Montague to his hotel,

Thoy sot out, and then Montague told the Major about the figaro in the prape-vine, and the Major laughed and told how it had felt. ‘hors had boon moro adventures, ib sucmed ; while ho was hunting a horse he had come upon tawe mules loaded with am- munition and ontanglod with their harness about a tree; ho had rushod up to seize thom—whon a aolid shot had struvk the bros and axploded the ammunition and blown tlio mules to fragmonta, And then there was thea story of the charge lubo in tha night, which had rvesoverod tho lost ground, and kopt Stonewall Jackson busy up te the very hour of his tragia death, And thore was the story of Andersonville, and the onoapa front prison, Montaguo could have walked tho abroots all night, oxohenging these war-time romini- HoonweH with the Major.

Abxorhed in thoir balk, thoy came to an avenue given up to the poorer olase of people ; with elovated trains rattling by overhead, and rows of little shops along it. Montague noticed « douse arowd on one of the cornern, and askal what if meant.


 * Somo aork of a movbing,” aaid tha Major.

They camo noarer, ond saw a torch, with a man standing nower it, above the hoada of the orawa,

It looks like w politivul meeting,” said Montagne, “Dut it camt he, woy-—duat after oleation.”

Peobahly it’s un Socinliat,” said the Major. ‘Thoy’ra ab ib all dhe time.”

They erossed tho avenue, and thon they eould soa plainly. ‘Tho men was tenn and hingry-looking, and he had long arms, which he waved with prodigions