ANDERSONVILLE VIOLETS. 
(Continued from, page 177 of cover.) 
John looked at her in wonder. Sho had never 
yet made a proposition that had not been car¬ 
ried out, but this was so strange and unexpect¬ 
ed. Nellie noticed John’s look of wonder and 
patted his cheek to reassure him. 
“I mean to ride to town and see Lucy,” she 
said simply. “I shall never feel that I have 
done my duty until I try to show her how he 
has loved her all these years. It may do no 
good, but I must try. If you could only hear 
him talk, John,” and the brave little woman 
faltered as she thought how Jack had spoken. 
Mr Lawrence rose from his seat and grasped 
Nellie’s hand. 
“God bless you, madam,” he said huskily’. 
“You are a noble woman. Your husband has 
told me all the story. I hope and pray that 
you may succeed. She has always loved him 
I know— it is her pride that holds her back. I 
cannot tell you what to do. You are a wom¬ 
an and know far Letter than I how to reach a 
woman’s heart. Iknowitisa matter of life 
or death with John Foster, and I think I know 
how you long to bring him happiness.” 
“But I must go with you,” said John, stur¬ 
dily. 
“No, John,” said Nellie gently. You cannot 
help me in this—stay here and wait for me. 
I shall take Sol, and there will be no danger 
at all.” 
She made her preparations as quickly as pos¬ 
sible. Sol brought the horses to the door. The 
rain glistened on the negro’s heavy face as he 
glanced down the road. 
“Don’t you let nothin’ touch her, Sol,” said 
John as he went out to inspect the horses. 
“I reckon I’d die fust, boss,” said the negro. 
He opened his coat and showed the bright han¬ 
dle of a revolver. 
“Please let me go with you, Nellie?” pleaded 
John as his wife came to the door all ready for 
the ride. 
“No, John,” she answered gently. “I must 
do this alone—this is nothing to what you did 
for me once”—and she smiled up at him to try 
and hide the tears that would force themselves 
into her eyes. She kissed little Nellie and 
shook hands with Mr. Lawrence. When she 
came to John he gathered her up in his arms 
and kissed her again and again, and carried 
her to the horse. With one last word of cau¬ 
tion to Sol, John reluctantly withdrew his 
hand from the bridle of his vr ife’s horse, and 
then, into the early twilight that came creep¬ 
ing darkly upon them, they rode away upon 
their errand of love. John and Mr. Lawrence 
waited at the gate—heedless of the rain and 
storm till the slow toiling horses passed out of 
sight behind the trees. Then they went sadly 
back to the house. 
“Your wife is an angel—God bless her,” said 
the older man with a strange tremor in his 
voice as he shook John’s hand. “She is strange¬ 
ly like one I knew years ago in New England. 
Is she like her mother?” 
“Very much,” answered John. “The same 
hair and eyes and the same face.” 
The old gentleman smiled sadly as he listen¬ 
ed. He said no more, but his head fell on his 
breast and he sat watching the fire, At last 
he rose to go to the sick man’s room. 
“I have to thank your wife and yourself,” 
he said with old fashioned courtesy as he shook 
John’s hand again, “for a great happiness that 
you cannot understand. There are many 
things in our lives that we cannot always ex¬ 
plain or understand, yet I think we are able to 
see at last that under every fancied wrong 
there lies a blessing that must gain in strength 
as the years go by.” 
He bowed gravely and passed out at the door 
and went to the sick room, where Jack lay 
with vacant eyes still muttering the old story. 
The gloom came settling down over the house. 
It crept in at the windows and gathered about 
the sick bed. The savage fire on the hearth 
snapped bravely at the intruder and sent its 
sparks out to man the outworks. Still the 
gloom deepened and still the old gentleman 
sat with bowed head thinking of Nellie’s moth¬ 
er. In the other room, with little Nellie on his 
knee, John sat praying for his wife’s safe re¬ 
turn. No wonder that the little girl, when she 
said her prayers that night,added; “God bes’ 
my Mamma an 'please let her come home all 
safe.” 
The anxious watcher ■waited far into the 
night. The fire snapped and snarled at the 
darkness, the old slave still crooned by the bed, 
and the sick man still talked vacantly on. At 
last John caught the gleam of a lantern far 
down the dark road. It turned in at the gate. 
A splashing in the mud and water followed, 
and John rushed out into the storm hardly 
daring to speak for fear lest Nellie had failed. 
Covered with mud, his black face shining in 
the light, Sol stood holding two horses. The 
tired beasts hung their heads wearily. 
John’s heart gave a great throb of joy as he 
saw two faces in the dim light. Nellie smiled 
pt him with the face *f an angel. The ether 
face was white and still—ghastly in the light. 
John silently lifted the women from the 
horses. He carried Nellie, and half led, half 
carried Lucy to the hall. There Nellie’s cour¬ 
age gave way. She laid her head on John’s 
breast and sobbed like a little child. Her 
brave task was ended—she was only a woman 
now. 
Lucy steadied herself against the door. 
Her face was pale as death. Her black hair, 
wet with the rain, fell about her shoulders. 
Her eyes were filled with a strange light as she 
looked at John inquiringly. He understood 
her aud pointed silently to the room where 
Jack was lying. She walked with a firm step 
to the door and noiselessly opened it. Gently 
she crossed the floor and knelt at the side of 
the bed where old Mammy was sitting. 
“Dear Jack,” she whispered, “I do love you, 
and I have come to ask you to forgive me. 
You are nobler and truer than I knew.” 
The vacant face slowly turned to her. She 
bent forward and kissed him. A Hash of in¬ 
telligence gleamed in the staring eyes and he 
sai l in a clear tone as his feeble arm passed 
about her neck: “My dear little girl, I did it 
because I loved you.” 
There is little more that we can say. We 
cannot tell how Lucy’s proud heart melted 
when the little Northern woman knelt before 
her and told the story of the Andersonville 
Violets. The curl, the letter, and the faded 
flowers touched her and the love that she had 
fought down for years mastered her at last. 
Back through the wild night they came. Back 
through the gloom and darkness to save a 
life. For Jack did not die. How could he die 
when the gates of an earthly paradise swung 
open that he might the better fit himself for 
that higher one? 
The four people whose lives have been thus 
strangely brought together, live on through 
many years of happiness. Jack and Lucy 
grow closer and closer together as the years 
trail past them. 
John and Nellie live the same self-sacrificing 
lives. They live for little Nellie. The years 
bring them prosperity, but they are glad only 
that they can do more for their little one. 
The old longing for home never dies out. 
They can never forget that they are “Stran¬ 
gers in a strange land.” That mighty gulf 
that opens between the two sections can never 
be bridged in their lifetime. Even their little 
girl must be sent away to be educated. But 
patiently and trustingly they work on, thank¬ 
ing God that they are permitted to develop so 
grandly the beautiful little life he has given 
them, and treasured above all else, binding 
their hearts closer together, filling their lives 
with the sweet perfume of romance. Nellie 
still keeps the little bunch of faded flowers 
that have brought so much misery and yet 
so much happiness—the Andersonville Vio¬ 
lets. 
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