I was living alone, and the house was attacked by bushwhackers, the band of a villain named Mullens." "Oh! I saw all about that in the Nashville paper this morning.

They were attacked by a band of Confederate plunderers, it said." "They were attacked by one man," the girl replied.

"They were on the point of murdering me when he arrived.

He shot Mullens and four of his band and the rest made off, but he got this wound.

And as I knew the villains would return again and burn the house and kill me, I and my old nurse determined to go southward to join my friends in Georgia." "Well, you can tell me more about it as we go," the doctor said.