How Beauty Was Saved

as usual of the war, and of our absent boys. All were gone to the front—not a man was left, except my father, an aged clergym

their eyes, muffled quite beyond recognition.[54] The men were riding miserabl

re was not a shadow of truth in the statement, so my father asked to see the Government order. "You need not trouble about that, we have it all right!" replied the leader. Then they pushed their way into the hall, the parlor, the bedrooms, and

le of quinine valued at one hundred dollars, and prized above gold or silver. This medicine they found, and, sneering and jeering, placed it with other things. When they had gone t

that, the men went wild with glee, and they ran, shouting, to the kitchen for cups and were soon drinking the fiery liquid. We stood looking on in agony,—the

n the house when the war broke out, and that we could prove it by the Home Guards, who would probably be along soon from their[57] camp near by. Of course, this was a ruse resorted to in our desperation, but it had a magical effect. The men ran to their horses, mounted in haste, and