The Case for Mrs. Surratt (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Case for Mrs. Surratt The pounding continued, and still she hesitated to get out of bed to admit the visitors. From her open window she could hear brief snatches of song and the raucous laughter of the victory-mad Yankees who were celebrating Lee's surrender all through the night. Her thin lips tightened in contempt and anger. She was sure that some of the celebrants, in the enthusiasm of whisky and their victory, had heard her family were Southerners and were come to taunt them with their defeat. That it could be the police would never have occurred to her. She lay in her bed, leaning on her elbow, waiting tensely for theroisterers to tire of their game and depart. And then, when she de cided the pounding would never cease without her intervention, she reached for the black and white shawl she had folded carefully and placed on the small table beside her bed before retiring. Slowly and resignedly, she clambered out of bed and groped her way across the room, barefooted, toward the closed door. With her hand on the knob, she paused uncertainly. She could hear the light ¿at thud of bare feet moving down the staircase that connected the three ¿oors of the house. She opened her door an inch or two and peered out into the dark hallway. She could make out the shadowy form of Lou Weichman walking down the stairs, very tentatively, stuffing the tail of his nightshirt into his breeches as he passed her room. He was muttering imprecations under his breath. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.