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TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
GENERAL MORTON REWARDS AGNES
malicious habits of Agnes Lane. And that General Prentiss, ' ' she continued, "after a bloodless skirmish, left the reward in my hands. ' '
"My dear little girl," said the general, "it is yours, honestly fought for and wrested from the enemy, My only regret is that the South is unable to reward you many times as well. ' '
' ' And can I do with it as I like ? ' ' she questioned, holding out the bag gingerly, like a truant boy caught redhanded with a string of fish.
"Yes; certainly."
"Then I am going to distribute it among the men," she said promptly, and proceeded to walk down the ranks, flinging the gold pieces as she went.
"Little girl," mused the watching general, "if I was twenty years younger, and wasn't married, and you'd have me, I'd battle for you ; you have more minted gold in that captious little heart of yours than you could ever spend or squander."
A shell from the gunboats on the
Tennessee flew screaming over their heads and cut short the officer's musing. A foam and mud spattered orderly rode up and delivered a dispatch to General Morton :
My powder almost exhausted. The Federal position must be forced, no matter at what cost.
Beauregard.
"It's slaughter, pure and simple," Morton muttered, crushing the message in his hands; "the Pelicans can never cross the fields in front of the Federal works."
He turned to his aides and gave the order to advance. Instantly, the brown ranks galvanized into life, and a silent forward movement commenced thru the sheltering forest.
There, on its rim, they were halted and formed for a charge across the fields to the earthworks beyond.
"Charge!"
The shrill, falsetto yell, not in chorus like a battle-cry of the North, but singly, persistent, wailing, and