Chapter 39 REPARATION

"Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,

And welcome home again discarded faith."

--SHAKESPEARE.

My past life had rushed tumultuously upon me. Oh! the misery of it would have slain me there, a rebel picket, but that balance was made by its all coming.

I must turn my back upon my comrades, but I should go to my father. The Southern cause mus