Page:War; or, What happens when one loves one's enemy, John Luther Long, 1913.djvu/122

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DAVE'S BUSINESS

TRANGE things happen in war—like I said—especially when one lives so close to it. And so, funny people kept coming and going, asking funny questions. At last Evelyn said, kind of shivery, she'd better see 'em, they'd be polite to her—so's to keep me from breaking the commandments all to pieces—just in fun, of course. And so she did—mostly getting rid of them easy. Soldiers were passing all the time, and stopping to water their horses and fill their haversacks and ask questions, and not always Union soldiers. Only the Unions rode in the daytime and the others rode mostly at night.

But one day a squad of Union cavalry rode up and pounded on the door with their carbines—not even bothering to water the horses 106