So well had they done the work that by the end of a week only a few scattered white objects remained glittering on the surface of the quickly drying soil.

But they were the bones of the missing outcast, Spencer Tucker! ***** The same spring a breath of war swept over a foul, decaying quagmire of the whole land, before which such passing deeds as these were blown as vapor.

It called men of all rank and condition to battle for a nation's life, and among the first to respond were those into whose boyish hands had been placed the nation's honor.

It returned the epaulets to Poindexter's shoulder with the addition of a double star, carried him triumphantly to the front, and left him, at the end of a summer's day and a hard-won fight, sorely wounded, at the door of a Blue Grass farmhouse.

And the woman who sought him out and ministered to his wants said timidly, as she left her hand in his, "I told you I should live to repay you." LEFT OUT ON LONE STAR MOUNTAIN..