. A hero in homespun. : A tale of the loyal South . tleygate, and partook of the corn pones which Eliza-beth had baked for them, anticipating their need ofa warm bite as they went homxC. They came tothe fence and stopped for a moment. Every manwas mounted, and those who had ridden the nightbefore, now each led a horse. There was not aword about the fight, We had a right bad fire, didnt we ? askedJob Crosby. Yes, said young Moses Davis, with a faintfacetiousness. Wha dye reckon sot it? Light-nm r No, ye fool, said Captain Ben, they warntno lightnin las night. The forelog rolled out onterthe flo
. A hero in homespun. : A tale of the loyal South . tleygate, and partook of the corn pones which Eliza-beth had baked for them, anticipating their need ofa warm bite as they went homxC. They came tothe fence and stopped for a moment. Every manwas mounted, and those who had ridden the nightbefore, now each led a horse. There was not aword about the fight, We had a right bad fire, didnt we ? askedJob Crosby. Yes, said young Moses Davis, with a faintfacetiousness. Wha dye reckon sot it? Light-nm r No, ye fool, said Captain Ben, they warntno lightnin las night. The forelog rolled out onterthe floor, an the house ketched from that. That remained the authentic explanation, and thefire on Scalp Dance Hill entered into the historyof the Holler without specific mention of attendantcircumstances. There was a raising a few days after,and Captain Ben furnished his new home, quite aswell as his old abode, with the proceeds of twohorses which he sold, — the one in London, and theother at Barboursville, — and the still was again in COBB The Secret of the Sinks. Page 257. The Secret of the Sinks 257 successful operation, as the good feeling at the rais-ing attested. The two bands of Seagrave and Jackson weremissed at once from the neighborhood, and thestory that they had fallen in with the rear of theConfederate army accounted for their absence tocomplete satisfaction. But this information wasconveyed with a quiet suggestion that their returnneed not be expected. The Holler breathed morefreely after that, and one horror of the war was re-moved. As to what finally became of them, thereare two theories extant — one that they joined John Morgan^s Horse-thieves in a body, andwere killed or captured in one of his raids; and theother that perhaps old Ben knew something about it. Jack and the Bailey boys went on that day andrejoined their regiment near Manchester. Theynoticed as they passed the Sinks that there wasfresh earth here and there that might have coveredblood st
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