they were
about half-way across the little flat they saw the person on the bridge
in the very act of burning it, and waving his hand in triumph; and the
man who was riding abreast of him in front fired his carbine at him. As
he did so the deserter wheeled on him, and said, "God d--n you--don't
you know that's a woman," and springing on him like a tiger tore him
from his horse; and, before they took in what he was doing, had, before
their very eyes, flung both of them into a place where the current was
running, and they had disappeared. They had seen the deserter's head
once in the stream lower down, and had fired at him, and he thought had
hit him, as he went down immediately and they did not see him again.

This is all that was known of Little Darby, except that a year or more
afterward, and nearly a year after Mrs. Stanley's death, a package with
an old needle-case in it and a stained little Testament with a bullet
hole through it, was left at the Cross-roads, with a message that a man
who had died at the house of the person who left it as he was trying
to make his way back to his command, asked to have that sent to Vashti
Mills.

The End.

NOTES:

Thomas Nelson Page is known primarily for his short stories.
1853. Born at Oakland Plantation, in Hanover County, Virginia.
1872. Graduated from Washington and Lee University.
1874. Received his degree in law from the University of Virginia.
1922. Died.

Some books by Thomas Nelson Page:

In Ole Virginia.
Meh Lady. A Story of the War.
Marse Chan. A Tale of Old Virginia.
The Burial of the Guns.
Elsket and Other Stories.
Newfound River.
The Old South.
Polly. A Christmas Recollection.
Among the Camps. Young People's Stories of the War.
Two Little Confederates.
"Befo' de War." Echoes of Negro Dialect. (with A. C. Gordon)

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