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"You will hear it, so rebels there?" she asked, looking up at ly, so innocently that I stood silent instead of answering, surprised at such beauty in a young girl's eyes

"Where is King's College?" she asked I showed her the building bounded by Murray, Chapel, Barckley and Church streets, and then I pointed out the upper barracks behind the jail, and the little lake beyond divided by a neck of land on which stood the powder-house

Far across the West Ward I could see the s of Mr Lispenard'ssun, and the road to Greeninding along the river

She tired of my instruction after a while, and her eyes wandered to the bay A few ships lay off Paulus Hook; the Jersey shore seeh full two miles distant, and the islands, too, seeulls flashed distantly

A jack flew froht in the freshening breeze from the bay Far away across the East River I saw the accursed Jersey swinging, her black, filthy bulwarks gilded by the sun; and below, her devil's brood of hulks at anchor, all with the wash hung out on deck a-drying in the wind

"What are they?" she asked, surprising so else than the fixed smile of deference in ht, all day, week after week, year after year That black hulk you see yonder--the one to the east--stripped clean, with nothing save a derrick for bow-sprit and a signal-pole for mast, is the Jersey, called by another name, sometimes----"

"What name?"

"Some call her 'The Hell,'" I answered And, after a pause: "It must be hot aboard, with every porthole nailed"

"What can rebels expect?" she asked calmly

"Exactly! There are some thousand and more aboard the Jersey When the wind sets fro--a low, steady, monotonous plaint, borne inland over the city But, as you say, what can rebels expect,sound you say that onefro for food, perhaps--perhaps for water! It is hard on the guards who have to go down everyout the dead rebels festering there----"

"But that is horrible!" she broke out, blue eyes ith astonishazed at me full in the face "It is incredible," she said quietly; "it is another rebel tale Tell ht?"