A Little Traitor to the South / A War Time Comedy with a Tragic Interlude

ll the circumstances, as he overtook the other man plodding along the shaded s

not good enough for Miss Glen, I still think. Nobody is, for tha

world may know

to Miss Glen had it not been to save her. But you showed the stuff that was in you, t

" aske

y not having had a

t was a

ny men would have s

mind giving up any one so much as you. And I was sorry for you to-night. You hadn't had a chance. God knows I love the girl, but I am not the

ot yours

sn't. But I withd

nt? You are not a fit man to marry any honest woman now, and when I thought of your record I doubted that you ever would be. I was sure you would not, but-see here, old man! Throw the past aside! A fellow that's got it in him to do what you have done for the South-why can't you control yourself? Turn over a

ou tell

wil

er be anything different. My father and grandfather both died in drunken sprees-it's in my blood. I can't help it. I've had a chance or two to do something a little out of the ordinary in this war, thank God for it, but I suppose the reason I was able to carry it through was that I

was rare that any on

me. I only wanted to trouble you. Well, no, not exactly that, eith

and it," said Se

f-contained-such as you never can understand such

is hands, and then droppe

d in me, enough good to make me go mad if I stop to think of it. I want

oesn't

n you. Not so much the good as the bad, but in some things women are alike, a

se! It'

what she has heard on the other. The war is young. We'll be beaten, of course, but

master i

t. Leave dying to me. I've sought w

t is

take out the

ha

if we can torpedo the flagship the others will hurry to her assistance and the blockade-runners can get out through the Swash Channel. Our magazines are running low, and we must have arms, powder, everything. There are

ral order you

t to him. They don't order an

ed Sempland. "She's been d

y time with al

told, has she c

y or more,

er done any dama

onsides one night and scared her peop

ddenly, "I have no right t

all righ

go to-

gh, and you could not do any good by

go in yo

t's almost c

chance. I can run the

run the thing,

to me than yours. Come! You have had your c

hesit

re. You're running away from the woman w

sn't love me, and I want to do it. For God's sake, ol

im into action. He pleaded so long and so hard, and so determinedly that he over

s willing, I'll g

't come back, remember that you're

e back. You m