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no one must be allowed to pass ahead of this column. All mills be burned and the
canal destroyed. Keep the force on the southern side posted of any important
movement
of the enemy, and in case of danger some of the scouts must swim the river and
bring
us information. We must try to secure the bridge to the city one mile below Belle
Isle
and release the prisoners at the same time. IF we do not succeed they must then
dash
down, and we will try to carry the bridge from each side. The bridge once secured,
and the pridoners loosed and over the river, the bridge will be secured and the
city
destroyed

Jennie paused and lifted her eyes burning with feverish light. Merciful God How
With
oakum and turpentine. A city of one hundered thousand inhabitants, under the cover
of
darkness men, women and children, the aged the poor, the helpless Socola made no
answer. A thoughful dreamy look masked his handsome features. Jennie read the next
sentence from the Dahlgren paper in high quvering tones The men must be kept
together
and well in hand, and once in the city, it must be destroyed and Jeff Dravis and
his
cabinet killed

The girl paused and fixed her gaze on Socola. The man who planned that raid come
with
the willfull and deliberate murder of unarmed men in his soul. The man who helped
him
inside is equally guilty of his crime she resumed her reading without waiting for
reply.
Prisoners will go along with combustible material. The officer must use his
discretion about
the time of assisting us. Pioneers must be prepared to construct a bridge or
destroy
one. They must have plenty of oakum and turpentine for burning, which will be
rolled in
soaked balls, and given to the men to burn when we get into the city

Socola lifted his hand. Please, dear these instructions are not mine. I do not
excuse or
palliate them. The daring youngster who conceived this paid the penalty with his
life. Its
all that any of us can give for his country. Theres something that interests me now
far
more than this sensation for more than the mere fact that my truce business here
has
been discovered by you and my life forefeited to your Goverment and that is that
the
women I love can deliver me to death You doubt it I had not belived it possible. I
will show
you. Jennie stepped to the door and pulled the oldfashioned bellcord. A servant
appeared. In strained tones the girl said Go to Caption Wlfords office and ask him
to
come here immediately with two soilders Yassam The Negro bowed and hurried from the
house, and Jennie sat down in silence beside the door. Socola confronted her, his
hands
gripped in nervous agony behind his back, his slender figure erect, his breath
coming in
deep excited draughts. You think that I will submit to my fate without fight

You have got to submit. Your escape from Richmond is physical impossibility He
searched
the depth of her heart. I was not thinking of my body just then. I have no desire
to
live if you can hand me to my executioner He paused and a sob come from the girls
distracted soul. He moved a step closser. I am not afraid to die you must know that
I am
not coward No. I couldnt have loved a coward The thing I cant endure is that you,
the woman to whom I have surrendered my soul, Should judge me

worthy of death. Come, my own, this is madness. We must see each other as God sees

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