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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
MRS. MAR YE S OLD COLONIAL MANSION IS BURNED TO THE GROUND
gained an impregnable front. But the Confederate commander had blundered again. His troops were half demoralized. The semi-victory they had won at awful cost had passed for nothing.
Mrs. Marye at that moment seemed to see and sense what was wrong. The fire of the Yankees was desultory; their backs were turned, even. The brave Southern boys were wasting their much-needed energy in superfluous movements and countermovements. If there were only one man with the courage to die alone — far in the lead of his comrades ! The woman grew frantic. If only she could move them forward with her will, her hopes, her faith, her
She stopped. Then moving resolutely to where the saber, pistols and flag lay, she knelt down beside them and began to pray fervently.
She had decided to go herself!
But they were all startled by the precipitate bursting open of the smoke-house door.
Mrs. Marye looked up for a moment and gave a glad cry. The newcomer was Robert !
The eyes of the mother saw the
hero, her soul rejoiced in its continued faith and her heart thanked Providence.
But her Robert saw nothing but blood and felt nothing but death. He was crazed with fear. Early that morning, at the first advance, he had run away!
He had been fleeing ever since, hither and thither, for wherever he fled he seemed to be surrounded by flaming muskets, bursting shells and horribly mangled men. "Whimpering like a dog, his clothes half torn from his back, his hands scratched and crushed in climbing ... tortuous paths, and even spattered with other men's blood, he had stumbled on, until he reached the familiar refuge.
' l Robert ! ' ' cried his mother, rising and following him to the side of the room, where he had slunk and seemed to be trying to hide, "Robert !"
The white-faced boy turned for an instant with an almost threatening snarl.
* ' Robert, you dont seem to understand,'1' she said, now bewildered at the boy 's conduct. ' ' Cant you see me? It's your mother!" She drew close to him and laid a gentle hand