disturbance in public
feeling and was perhaps one of the indirect causes that eventually led
to a division of his church and to the formation of a separate society
in another part of the town.

A new principal had assumed charge of the academy, the trustees having
decided for several reasons that a change would be beneficial. Mr.
Webber, who had ruled there for several years, industriously circulated
a report that by reason of several very flattering offers to engage in
mercantile pursuits, as well as failing health, he had decided to
resign. As his voice, and the apparent desire to use it upon any and all
possible occasions, showed no cessation of energy, a few skeptical ones
were inclined to doubt that his health was seriously affected, and as it
was over a year before he accepted any of the flattering offers, they
believed he must have had hard work to find them. For the rest the town
resumed the old-time even tenor of its way, though there had been added
to its annals heroic history, and to its calendar one day of annual
mourning.

Aunt Sally Hart said that "Liddy Camp had showed mighty good grit and
that young Manson ought to feel purty proud of her," which expression
seemed to reflect the general sentiment.

When the autumn days and returning health came to Manson, sunshine
seemed to once more smile upon the lives of our two young friends, and
how happy they were during the all too short evenings spent together in
Liddy's newly furnished parlor, need not be described. It was no longer
a courtship, but rather a loving discussion of future plans in life, for
each felt bound by an obligation stronger even than love, and how many
charming air castles they built out of the firelight flashes shall not
be told. In a way, Liddy was a heroine among the little circle of her
schoolmates and friends, and deserved to be, for few there were among
them who could have found the strength to have faced the ghastly scenes
she had, from a sense of duty.

"I do not care to talk about it," she said once to one of those who had
been near her in the old days at the academy; "it all came so suddenly I
did not stop to think, and if I had it would have made no difference. I
did not think of myself at all, or what I was to meet. How horrible it
was to be thrust among hundreds of wounded and dying men; to hear what I
had to, and see what I did, I cannot describe and do not wish to. Under
the same circumstances," she added quietly, "I shou