Pittston Gazette

              KmTAltL.ISHKJ) I 850. t VOL. XLVU. JSO. » I Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZER E CO., PA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER CD. 1 * Weekly Local and Family Journal. I**?8SBWS» excuse as lie oouid, However, then nor- lights went out in the houses, and tne little baby on my breast grow heavior and heavier, and by and by it was dawn, and, oh, so cruelly cold, and I—I opened tho shawl and saw"— Here, overcome by the recollection, the poor wonujn covered her face in her hands and burst into wild sobbing. you take that dreadful thing ott," said she, indicating his dangling saber and utterly ignoring his protest that, as officer of the guard, it was an essential part of his uniform and equipment Her only response was that he was to remember that he was then on duty to her. "Take off that sword, sir, and hurry about it, for there goes the band." And so, unslingmg the heavy weapon, he handed it submissively to his imperious queen, who promptly stowed it away under the wooden settee against the wall and then, courtesyingc to her partner, indicated to him that at last he was at liberty to lead her to the dance. the upper room, an utterly incomes* man. garrison knows by tins tune that it was the captain that blackguard aimed to kill, and it is not the Indians alone that would do him if they could. 1 find that whenever I have had to leave the guardhouse some of the men have talked loud for him to hear, swearing that he would Ik* taken out and hanged at daybreak. Others want to tempt him to try to escape, so that they can pursue him over to town and hammer him into a jelly there. The tower is the only place where he can be unmolested, sir. I couldn't guarantee his safety from some kind of assault, even if I had him right here iu the guardroom." 76 OliD ried awav. With nervous fingers Helen counted over the money in the envelope. Two hundred dollars! Ormsby was indeed geueroas. Then, desperate, determined, thoughtless of the military crime she was alKiut to urge upon her hnsband, thinking only of the dreadful menace his presence was to the friends who had harbored and sheltered her, she sped away up the row and, turning through the broad open space near the colonel's quarters, came out upon the snow covered brow of the heights overhanging the silent, icebound stream, and there, barely 100 feet away, the dim outlines of the huge, hulking figure could be seen. She knew it only too well—knew it at a glance. Graice was standing on post at the moment, listening apparently to some faint, distant sounds of maudlin revelry that rose from the unhallowed walls of Bunko Jim's, beyond the Platte. With one brief muttered prayer to heaven for guidance and strength, she sped across tho snowy expanse and was at his side before he oould either halt or challenge. He never had time to speak before impetuously she began: Over across the wind swept parade, among the rows of wooden barracks, was one building where no laughter rang and about which, wary and vigilant, three or four noncommissioned officers hovered incessantly. Here were quartered Crow Knife's few remaining comrades of the Indian troop. Here were gathered already a dozen of his kindred from Big Road's transplanted village, forbidden by the fury of the storm to return to their tepees up the valley, banished by the surgeon from the confines of the hospital, where they would fain have set up their mournful death song to the distraction of the patients and refused by tho colonel tho creature comforts they had promptly and thriftily demanded, except on condition that they consume them in quiet and decorum at the Indian barracks and deny themselves the luxury of their woe. Tomtom and howl were stilled, therefore, while the funeral baked meats went from hand to mouth and disappeared with marvelous rapidity, and indeed but for its exciting effect upon the warriors the colonel might as well have accorded them the right to" lament writer the4i' own fashion, since the howling of tho tempests would have drowned all human wail from within the wooden walls. But while they had promised to hold 110 aboriginal ceremony over Crow Knife's death and meant to keep their word they had refused to pledge themselves to attempt 110 vengeance on his slayer. Well they knew that throughout the garrison nine out of ten of the troopers would have ,cared not a sou bad some one taken Graice from tho guardhouse and strung him up to the old flagstaff without benefit of clergy, but this would not have satisfied Indian ideas, hanging according to their creed being far too good for him. RJW VIGOROUS. EL. And then the captain. "Helen, Helen, my poor, poor girll Hush! I spoke like a brute, but I was hit hard. I was your friend; I am your friend. It is late. You must go in. Take my cloak, you are shivering." A Veteran ol the Late War Adds One More Name to the List of Striking Cures by Pink Pills in Michigan. With that he turned and led her to the angle by the colonel's quarters, and there she looked up one instant into his sorrow stricken face. '' Do not come farther with me," she implored "You have been so good to me,'' and, bowing to her will, he let her go, and stood, following her swiftly retreating form with his longing eyes. And then, soft and sweet and clear, as though rising above all surrounding of crimQ or sin or sorrow, there floated on the night the prolonged notes of the cavalry trumpet sounding the soldier lullaby, "Lights out" And just then a corporal came from the little office. II IU-FUIIIIEI, LIKE FAULT IF TIIITEEI CIIL1IEI. corrHibHi. iBSk. Br t. te nnyson wen*. And now, smiling, joyous and once more thrilling with mischievous delight as she bore her sulky prize across the room, Kitty came suddenly upon the major, standing mooning and preoccupied, gazing apparently at the portrait of Colonel Farrar, yet, as was equally apparent to the little knot of laughing lookers on, seeing it not at alL Kitty was on the point of accosting and bringing him to himself; bat with eager whisper and gesticulations, Amory, Martin and others called her to them. "Sergeaut it's 10:25. Shall I form my relief?" CHAPTER XL later," and, taking up his lantern, the sergeant followed. Ten o'clock and no one yet came riding back from the column with later news. Almost as soon as the command had disappeared from view Mrs. Farrar had gone home, Helen, Ellis, Kitty and Will in close attendance, and there they were presently joined by Aunt Lucrecia, whose volubility even calamity seemed powerless to check, and then, to the to- Jief of all the women, Captain Leale knocked and was promptly admitted. A big stove bnrned brightly in the center of the guaroroom, and tho men of the third relief, sitting or sprawling about, sprang up and stood to attention as the officer looked in. Another stove, the mate to it, was burning almost at red heat in tho general prison room across the hall. Here were confined some half dozen poor devils, the scapegraces of the command; some drink sodden and stupid, others merely reckless( and "ne'er do weel." Following the spirit of holiday decoration and never expecting the visit of an officer that night, one of the number, with a fine sense of humor, had induced a comrade to fetch him a parcel from the barracks, and now 011 the bare wooden wall opposite the entrance there bung a chromo with a flowery border and the pious sentiment, "God bless oar happy home, " Will's eye caught it at the inrtaut "Take that down!" said he, with manifest indignation. "There is to be no burlesque business here tonight" There was a faint odor of dead tobacco about the grimy room. "You'll have to search those men and that room," said ho to the sergeant as they turned away. "There must be neither pipes, matches nor anything with which they can start a fire. If this old rookery ever flames it will go like a flash. Do it at onoe. Any men in tho cells?'' The sergeant nodded assent "I'll inspect it in the guardroom," said he, and as Lealo turned shortly away, intending to go in search of the officer of the day and the sergeant opened the door to let him out, Graice could be hoard 011 the upper floor, savagely kicking again at his bars. Prow the Courier-Herald, Saginaw, Mich. swept o»«r of Its victims to the grave eecaped the tote lived on in suff irlp«, broken in health bog 'ew year* igo » wave of La Grippe rnree of eaaee similar to ■% hD *be land and brought thoueande Dr Wllllame'a Pink Pllle and rnminht l 0 here who would toy them thean I bought a bos cad «orrow and continued their see with good reeulie. I -•'a *od eplrit. aooa began to gala fa diwtk aad - dieeaee, It* after ef- and felt the good effeeTrfflte Pllle. - - mon •PPelllnKt aa It sought "Tbev were the flnt thin. UuikLi • - weakneeeee of toe ooMtimtion and ,bu torf*. u*end* shattered wreck* of their nUM _ ]*? *— * former aeivee ▲ few daye ago a Courier- _ ' ** eaa.I.eea .***KWF repreeentatlve, while at the ihrlr- JJTE5H* »«/«•*■*«! OM •own of Akron, Mtob , met John Ir* of thelndnetrlal arm*, If MM to 1 the dlaeee* had falhm, *J* EE!" * to *"• U how he had aufferei fr*?® IhefSto#«B Mm relief. ?"*?? trataHlhg la tba hlitw, and 'hen quote hie own "• femona eall follow.: -About 101 To'qnteeia to the front aad'fight for Ha taken down with the l't***f»»ton, »n lya"|lal| riifiiaai ■ ■apt fattened on me very hard. oT North Hka a tidal tan, iai ,se winter I waa ao bad m*B*•**•» **»«*• ot brare boye la btae ouee. I waa n9jnm amy quarter. Uanotgetwerm. !*ndf,,I®i** P«twMone ot • inlMii'a and oould M*. *®d*k* horroreof war, they abaald ered their muskets and aanM to tha with sweet- ,ront to b*tUe for tbeb ooantry There waa Among tha Irat to a new at the oaU waa \ it would I Q Mattbewe, who eu Hated aa a mam bar j to another, of Company D, 198d Ohio Infantry, aad ceuee ma Id- who fought bravely until tha ataaa af An It waa in my great ettuggle. Mr. Msltkeas now Hwa . , *nd again it would with hta wife aad family of ate ahlMiaa 0«iin me in the eyee. It jMdjgrandohUdran pa hta farm near Ahna, received no benefit fr Dm that — on I tried varioue year*. H« finally baoaaa on red of h and no good, and my ron- ha apofceof bla aaaeaa follow*: palnfnl aa It waa "Daring tha late war I war a member at aew an advertleement of Dr P^PyyP'j0?1* Okto lefeatey, and m- Ptlia for Pel. People, and ft** mnch intercet of the wonderful h *? WMla attha float »y had effeotad in ao many *«r toMI» jM» tried eo many proprietary ,„j . . "ITW Winaalliii, hat I bad no faith In It, but fla»alo|)nillnto a yane■* ao many other tbinge, to OeaUaetta4tim» When Twee I waa feeling ae bad ae ***?1 ***? got a box of Pint HI a, and ehortly ?*-gff3*7? , !*_ T to bed I took one pill. lean !f ** Celt you what a eurprleed man I waa Sf. y**" W** ff** nut morning Then I pnt on my thoe* *^1T*r.Vr' . *f* ***•.• with caee, a thing that I bad not done for !???? f f ?■ "•** A little whUe after tble I wa* p ™* mveA " ™* Vm*- I drove to Bay City, Ulohigan, ' My OMe waa ako eoapfloated by aavara ot twenty tbMemilea, and waa MAnay teoabla aad other ittniaaa ttat bafit all tired when I got there. M b*at martloal akUL I hare triad I am now eerenty alx yeara of age andl«»«7 lMDJ» ■!» pconthteo inn- nelly aotiee for a man of my yeare. I utMaa of all klada that wan aald to be aork on my forty aore farm aod exper- tor aneh tronblee aa mine, la my enoe no trouble from the work. I waut for kaatth I apant huadreda of dolo aay a good word for Pink Pllle, ae they lar*D bnt" eeamC d to ba all la rah, aad telped me where all alaadkT no good whet- "XHhlag aiaaad to Math my trouble aad D»er. 8tnoe my Uineee and core a number me relief. About a year ago a frlaad Df my neighbor* here need them, aad aay km to tey Dr. Willlame'iPlak Pilla, hey have been gtaetly benefited." •* although I had no faith la thMa, I Mra Smith, the reteran'a wife, who aat "J!®"} Dear by, eonfirmed the worde that her baa b"X a great und bed apoken and added her teatlmony , . ' *D**. ~ *PP"Mr'. o the good that the pllle bad beea to the emily The worthy eouple are old-aad *? V?°T»yr ) eapeo'ed reeldente of Tneeola oonaty, T?V? _*p*11 *° **" *"**1 "** v—trey hare lived for thirty ytare * ;  sturdy pioneer, and oleared "I am now able to work on my farm — near Akron. Ha yet aed hare ao fear of the old twwbleaoaatng * by twelve of hie baok ae loaf aa I eea gat a box of Piak PI k Pilla, PUia. Mv eeee was a deep seated cam, (M of uaefal long ataMtog, aad eel waat to let othaee who asa aillletcd aa I waa. kaow the beaa- with same meledy H* toe* thwe Pfak lUla for Pale People Seymond, a proaperone aad lead ***** **• *■ ■•*■ reeldlng near Oolumblavilla, Dr. VflHnAFUflBs for Pile Pso- Mieh 8peeking to a repreeen pie aM aewgivea to the waUle aa aa ualowritr HeraUi, Mr Keymond feillnK blood builder and nerve reetorer, ago taat June, one curing all forme ef waaknsse arWag from attack of paialyale, a watery ooadltkm of the blood or sheMstby overwork and ae ed nervea. The pllle are aold by all deelfrlppe After a week era, ot will be eeat poet paid cm receipt al baa that I eummoned price, 60 oente a bos or ate boxaa for )2 50 tored ' about alx (they are sever eold in bulk or by the 100), Tor some by addreeelng Dr. Mad. Oo., reported Bohenectady, N T. "That man has more gall than any man I ever met, sir," said Grafton. '■'He's kicking because wo refused to send to the barracks for his share of the Christmas cigars." Terrible m was the feote were yet oat the " lett th "Light* out," murmured Leale. "Lights out Ah, God help me I For life and love it is indeed lights out" The next day Crow Knife died. "Don't wake -fcifc," they murmured ' 'Do let Aunt Lou have that comfort See, she's coming to him now." And, as what Kitty most wanted at that moment was an opportunity to restore her interrupted dominion over her angered lover, and as he was blind and deaf to anything but the consideration of his own grievances, personal and official, Wayne was left to become the central object of interest, while Kitty drew her deposed officer of the guard to a distant oorner. "I am in search of w right hand man," said he, with bis bright, cordial smile. "They tell me he is playing Achilles and sulking in his tent, but I have work for him to do," and then onoe more did Kitty look remonstrance, for she could form no idea of work for him that did not involve deprivation for her. "Royle Farrar, I must speak to you here and now. If your being here meant only danger and harm to me. you might do your worst, and I would bear it You are under a false name. Your life has so changed you that as yet no one has recognized you, but it cannot last and then there will be bitter shame and perhaps death that would lie at your door —your mother's; your poor, gentle mother, Royle, who holds her life only through the belief that you are no longer alive to bring further disgrace to yonr father's name." Heroic. lag lit k L Smith, a vetera on waoee Hged bead and be heard htm teL Had what bad given b We sen do no battel words, which are ar seven years ago I war 'Grip,' and it fatter For aocat halt the . I that I oonld not leave (be house, chilly all tbe time, and oould I felt ulll was frtsan solid, only breathe with great difficult? "This oondltlon alternated ln« ape)la of great violence, an almoet continuous pain, and shoot from one part of my body ' with great soddenneea, and ' tende en (ferine Sometlmea ulpe, then In my lege.' "" go to my head and p waa so Intense that sight "Did you search him before he was sent up there?" asked Leale. "Has he matches or tobacco?" CHAPTER XIL The long expected Christmas ball was in full swing, but the late comers entered snow oovered and buffeted, for a howling blizzard was sweeping down from the gorgeq of the Rockies and whirling deep the drifts about the walls of old Fort Frayne. Leale had come in about tattoo, grave and taciturn, his fine face shadowed by a sorrow whose traces all could see. He bad come for no festive purpose, was still in undress uniform, and, after a brief low toned conference with his colonel, had turned at once in search of Helen Daunton, who, ever since the dance began, had hovered near the windows that looked oat toward the guardhouse, barely 100 yards away, yet now, even with its brilliant light, only dimly visible through the lashing storm. Twice had Mrs. Farrar essayed to draw her friend into the little circle by which she was surrounded, but Helen had speedily shown she was nnable to give her attention to what was being said or to take any part in the conversation. It was at the window Leale found her and gently but firmly drew her to one side and closed the shade. "Nothing I could find, sir, but other and sharper men have been confined there, and I'm told that somewhere under the floor or inside the walls they've hidden things, and he's hand in glove with all tho toughs of the garrison." "You are not going to send Mr. Farrar away after all," she began, but Leale laughingly checked her. "Very well I'll notify Captain Farwell," said Leale briefly, "and he will attend to it," and he left the building 011 this quest just as the second relief came tramping out into the storm, leaving the guardhouse, its few minor prisoners on the lowei floor and that one execrated criminal,his old colonel's 4rstborn and one# beloved son, cursing at his captors in the tower, all to the care of the members of a single relief, and the sentry on No. 1 set np his watch cry against the howl of the wind, and no one a dozen yards away could have heard, nor did it pass around the chain of sentries, nor was there other attempt to call off the hour that memorable night. For long days after men recalled the fact that the last hour called from under the old guardhouse porch was half past 10 o'clock. "Far from it," said he. "I need him at the guardhouse and moan to put him in charge of the prisoners when they come in. Tho chances are that the colonel will have to arrest not a few of those fellows, and he'll do it in the interest of peace and good order, despite the fact that he has no warrant Are you ready, sir?" Wayne was a study. That he was struggling to recall some important matter was evident to all who had long known him, and for the time being be was lost to all consciousness of surrounding sights and sounds and bad floated off into that dreamland of reminiscence in which only he was thoroughly at home. One or two of the ladies who were at the moment restihg from the dance stood leaning on the arms of their attendant cavaliers and watching with them the result of Lncretia'B timid yet determined approach. Almost tiptoeing, as though afraid that her noiseless footfall might rudely awaken him, she was stealing to his side, and presently they saw her lay her hand upon his arm and peer trustingly up into his face. Thinking only of him and for him, she, too, then, was almost unconscious of any observation, kindly and good natured though it was. But now he had partially recovered himself and angrily interrupted: "Is it my fault I'm here? Did I suppose of all cursed places they'd send me to it would be here, to be ordered about by my cub of a brother, to see my noble captain making love to my"— Two of the best and most trustworthy Indians were pi seed by Leale, with the surgeon's consent, as watch rs by the bier of the soldier scout, but the others, to a man, were herded within the barracks and forbidden to attempt to set foot outside. Close at hand in the adjoining quarters the men of two troops were held in readiness, under orders not to take off their belts, against any sudden outbreak, but the few who first had talked of lynching or other summary vengeance had soon been hushed to silence. What was feared among the officers was that Graice had been told by some of the guard that the Indians were determined to have his scalp, and that the soldii ry so despised him that he could net rely upon the m to defend him. Sergeant Grafton was confident that Graice hoped in some way, by connivance perhaps of members of tho guard, to slip out of the building and lake refuge among the outlaws at the groggery across tho stream. Having killed an Indian be had at least some little claim, according to their theory, to a frontiersman's respect. "I'm ready and willing to do any duty, Captain Leale,'' answered Will ruefully. "Bat I was the first to volunteer lor that courier ride to Big Road, and I think the colonel ought to hare given it to me- I'll be officer of the guard tomorrow auyhow, and would just as lief begin now. Shall I come at once?" "You dare not say it!" she cried. "None, sir, and none in the outer prison room." "You've had some experience of what I dare, my lady, and one thing I dare and mean to do is to stick it out right here and take my chances at Frayne. There's no other poet where I'd find ao many friends at court if things go wronfr " 'I called In med Dh frnitleaa, mI jhjslclang Frcm tbeL preparations thai were me, bat they did me no dl:ion was aa bad and uofore I trltd them. .-J %' "Ksep the other empty, then. The chances arc it'll be filled tomorrow when the column gets back. Remember the orders about fire." "No man's like to forget that, lieutenant, with the powder stored there on the second floor." "You shall not sta.y here if I have to buy yqp. to go." she cried, but she shrank even as she spoke, as though dreading a blow, for with uplifted hand he sprang to her side, then roughly, savagely, seized her slender wrist. ' Finally, I Wlhiame's Pink I read with cures that they casta I had "Yes, the second relief goes on in a few minutts, and yon would better inspect them. is started right You have a' capital sergeant of the guard. I want the sentries on the north and east bluffs instructed to listeu for all sounds from the east and to keep a •lose watch on that plant of Bunko Jim's. Watcli every movement in that rowdy town over yonder, though I believe most of the populace has already ridden away at the bidding of tiie so oalled cowboy king." Meantime, having had two dances with his uow pleading and repentant sweetheart and having been cajoled into at least, partial forgiveness, WillFarrar had sought his colonel to say that he really ought now to return to his guard, at le&st for a little time, but Fenton, conscious of the shadow that had overspread the garrison earlier in the evening, seemed bent on being joviality itself. "I know," answered Will gravely "How much powder is there there?" "I have felt in every fiber," said he, "how you were waiting, watching and agonizing here for news from—from him. There is no news, Helen, except —you know the man he stabbed—who gave his life for me—is dead?" "I know," was the shuddering answer. "Has he heard? Doeshn realise?" preparations  tried It, u I had »»«If U.ey wert One daj mtu-i nana), I 1 before not* "Only a dozerf cartridges for the reveille gun, sir, but that's enongh to blow the place into flinders." "Who are you to {(one as guardian angel of the Farrars? Who are you to say'shall* tome? Do yoq realize, my love, that your place in the army is not in officers' quarters, but down yonder in laundresses'alley? By the Lord, I've a mind"— Unwilling pa interrupt too suddenly the current of his meditations, she hesitated before speaking. Then, half timidly, she suggested, "Yon like the picture, major?" "There's no one in the light prison room on that floor?" ' 'No one, sir. That floor is empty. There's no flre up there at alL " Slowly his gaze came down from the flag draped portrait, and through his eyeglasses Wayne benignantly regarded her. Finally his wandering wits returned, and be aroused himself to a faltering answer to her repeated question. "It makes him look too old," he said. "I can't bear anything that looks old, don't you know." Then, dimly conscious at something he might have put in far happier form, be quickly strove to recall his word*. "f—I don't mean women, of course—I like old women. You know I liked yon 20 yean ago." "You left me to guess it, then," murmured she, vaguely grateful for even this admission and desirous of encouraging avowals even thus late and lukewarm.Presently the tramp, tramp of martial feet was heard on the crunching snow, and officer and sergeant botn stepped forth to receive the relief of sentries just taken off post. One of them was Crow Knife. Ho gravely saluted as be passed his officer and placed his carbine in the arm rack, then went out on the east-side of the little building and stood there, silent, listening for sounds from the distant east. tortj ;sDis so well tuat * diet Dae oo' But here a f Crk shadow fell between him and the t. under writhing object of bis brutal rage, an iron grasp was laid in turn on the hand that so cruelly crushed the white wrist ▲ deep voice, eloquent with wrath, poo trolled, yet boiling, seemed to ring in his ears the two words, "Let go!" and then, releasing perforce his hold on the shrinking, startled woman, Graice writhed in furious effort to free himself from the clinch of Malcolm Leale, and writhed in vain. "Possibly not. He seems to be sleeping. But he will know it soon enough. Helen, do you know this—that tomorrow we must give him up?" Will bent over and kissed his mother's forehead. "I'll get my sword and go at once," said he, "and I'll bo back as soon as I've made the rounds of the second relief. I suppose nobody here means to turn in for an hour yet We ought to have news of some kind before midnight" With that he quickly left the little parlor and, vaulting the low fenoe, let himself in at his own door in the adjoining bachelor roost. Mrs. Daunton, who had been occupying herself close to Mrs. Farrar, presently arose and stepped into the hallway, took a heavy wrap and noiselessly quitted the house. Surprised, Captain Leale looked about him for an explanation. Ellis had drawn aside the curtain and with pale, set face was gazing fixedly out upon the parade. Kitty looked bewildered. It was Mrs. Farrar who spoke. He bade the boy return to his immediate commanding officer and obtain her consent before again coming to him, and Kitty flatly refused. She was danomg with Martin at the moment, and that left Will to his own devices, and, after a fond word or two from his mother, he had stepped back of the seat occupied by her little circle of chosen friends and was standing watching the animated scene before him. Close at hand, not a dozen feet away, stood Helen Daunton, partially screened from Observation of the dancers. It was at this moment that Leale again came striding in, glanced quickly around until he eanght Will's eye, and the young officer promptly joined him. "Give him up?" she asked, unable to comprehend bis * meaning and looking with new dread into his compassionate face. Returning to the guardhouse, as he had promised Will, Malcolm Leale was in nowise surprised at Grafton's anxiety and even less to learn that Graice had begged to be allowed to havo speech with bis captain. "Yes, to the civil authorities. He has—I cannot choose words now-r-be has committed murder and must be tried by a civil, not a military, court" "You must give him up," she moaned "Oh, what can we do—what can we do?" and fearfully she glanced to where Mrs. Farrar was seated, chatting blithely, even joyously, now with her garrison friends. It was a ghastly face that peered ont from the dim interior of the little prison in answer to the officer's summons. At sound of footsteps on the creaking stairway Graice had apparently hidden in the depths of the room and only slowly came forward at the sound of the commanding voice be knew. Hangdog and drink sodden as was his look, there was some lingering, some revival perhaps of the old defiant, disdainful manner he had shown to almost every man at Frayne. Respect his captain as even such as fie was forced to do, look up to him now as possibly his only bopo and salvation, there was yet to his clouded intellect seme warrant for a vague sentiment of superiority. "May I hove the lieutenant's permission to go out on the bluff awhile?" he asked, as Farrar came by him. "I can hear the call of the corporal if we are wanted for anything, and I am very anxious." And Will, who at first would have said no, saw the anxiety in the Indian's face and consented. "You've the devil's own grip," he savagely hissed through his grinding teeth. whert. „ C4r Smith ta a ap a 200 acre farm ilv«a tuere, anrronndea ' birteen children. Tbanka to tie baa a proa pact of many jeara ueaa "I've" a grip, my man, that won't loosen till you are past doing further mischief here," was tho stern, relentless answer. Then, uplifting his voioe, fxale shouted for the oorporal of the guard, and at the instant the cry went echoing over the posts of 6 and 7. The sentry still writhed in impotent rage. Finding his struggles futile, he onoe more lashed with his tongue. "Yes," he went on, "you know, it seems to me—wasn't it that last night wo danced together at Jefferson barracks? That was every day of 80 years ago." "Crow is strangely superstitious, "said the sertteant. after a moment's silence. "He has been like that ever since he oamc on guard. He says the ghost dogs were howling the death song last night and that somebody's to get his deathblow tonight Wo can't laugh him out "yea," he answered, "and well I know dow why you gaze at her. J know all the miserable troth. Oimsby told me when he came to ask my counsel and my help. He has only left me a short time sinoe. 1 was pledged to help your husband, Helen, and I am doubly pledged to help that dear, dear woman's son. I moft protect Rqjrle Farrar to the utmost of my power; but, Helen, in thia last half1 hour, by the bedside of the brave fellow who gave bis life for me, 1 have looked life and my own soul in the face. I know what I must do pnd what I cannot da I am uot strong enough to play at friendship with the woman 1 love with all my soul. I can only be your friend by serving you from far away. When what is coming to Royle Farrar has come, I shall tako leave of absence and go over the sea. It is goodby between pa now. Tonight I look my last upon the face of Royle Farrar's wife. What? You want me, Will?" he suddenly turned and asked, for at thia moment, throwing back the snow matted hood of his overcoat, Farrar entered and came quickly to them, unseen by his mother. "Is Farwell here?" hmasked. "He came in a moment ago. Yonder he is now, sir," answered Will, indicating by a nod the figure of the officer of the day in conversation with some one of tho guests at the other end of the room. ' 'This has been a trying day for Helen. She is not strong, I fear, and tonight she is so nervous and unstrung that she seems to shrink from company or conversation. I have never known her so distracted. I fancy she wants to be alone a few minutes and to take the fresh air on the gallery." Ellis moved impatiently, but said not a word. She could see that, so far from having stopped on the gallery, Helen Daunton had hastened through the gate, and, turning to Will's quarters next door, was there awaiting bis reappearance. Tho boy came out in a moment, his sword at his side and wrapping his cloak about him, and stopped short in evident surprise at sight of Mrs. Daunton. "Ah. well," answeredLucretia, "you know it is so very difficult to reckon from, because that was the 29th of February, and that eoming only onoe in four years, you"— Another sufferer WM Neli ng farmer, Lapeer Co., Mttva of (be the of it" "Then ask him if he will join me in five minutes at the guardhouse. I need Will turned away and watched the rapidly retreating form, growing dimmer every second. "I suppose ho dreads trouble for his people, and this row makes liim nervous," said he. "I'mgoing the rounds now, sergeant, and will leave you here in charge." "Don't be too sure of that, captain. There are some kinds of a hold even your grip can't loosen." "Hal" Wayne laughingly interrupted and then suddenly fell back again into his old mooning way. "And yet, you know, there was something I wantod to ask you that night, and I was so confoundedly abaentminded"— Outcast, ingrate, drunkard, murderer though he was, he, Private Tom Graice, born Royle Farrar, was legal owner of all that his captain held fairest, dearest, most precious in all the world. Leale's love for Helen Daunton was something the whole garrison had seen" and seen with hearty sympathy. It would be something to teach this proud and honored officer that he, the despised and criminal tough, was, after all, a man to be envied as the husband of the woman his captain could now only vainly and hopelessly love. It was his plan to bargain with him, to invoke his aid, to tempt the honor of a soldier and a gentleman, but for a moment, at sight of that stern, sad face, he Btood abashed. to see him," said Leale, and the youngster sped promptly on his mission. *atd: "Tbrte ymtt alght I euffired an tuBght on, 1 think •n after tff et of If ay condition so 4 physician and docw , for nontbe with but little relief, time I had Men In the paper* "No insolence. You go from here to the guardhouse as it is." The music had just sounded the signal for the forming of the sets for the lancers, and with soldierly promptitude the officers, with their partners, began taking their positions. Floor managers have little labor at a garrison hop. Ellis Farrar, who had reappeared upon the arm of Captain Vinton, mutely bowed her head and accepted Ormsby's hand as he led her opposite Will and his now radiant Kitty, and Malcolm Leale, halt- "D—n the guardhouse, and you, too," raged the soldier, hurling down tho carbine. "If I'm to spend Christmas in limbo, I'm cursed if yon shall spend it making love to my"— And here, with a tigerlike bound, his free hand brandishing a glistening knife, he lunged at the officer's throat A lithe form had come leaping like a panther up the path, and even before Helen'scry had died away Crow Knife had hurled himself between the men and the shining blado was buried out of sight There was a moment of furious struggle, and then the sentry lay, felled like an ox in his tracks, and Leale's foot was at his throat The knife, bloodstained, had dropped in the snow. The Indian, his hand pressed to his side, was swaying slowly back as the sergeant of the guard, with a brace of men, came running to the spot "It is just 10:30 now, sir. Shall we all off?" . "Oh, very," said she, "for you mentioned that there was something you wanted to ask me, and I've been wondering what it could be for 20 yean." "Aye, aye, let it go," was the answer .=) the young fellow stalked away in the direction of the stables. It was his puri**ie to take the sentry posts in inverse order, so us to visit first those on the astern flank. clamor, nearer came (He sounds; cnen tne added rush of many feet in the adjoining barracks of K troop, the quick, stirring peal of trumpet, sounding some unfamiliar calL Overstrained and excited as were her nerves, fearing for him against whom the wrath of the garrison was roused, she could only connect the sounds of alarm and oonfusian with him and his hapless fate. She started forward to call the colonel's attention, for among the danoera the sound was still unheard is it? Diu mail ever live that ooaldtBzn Malcolm Leale from the duty he deem•cl bis own?" And away rushed poor "Do you know," said he delightedly, "so have I, so have L" And here he leaned beamingly over her, and his eyeglasses fell off and dangled at the end of their cord. "It was only tonight," he went on, "it came to me that it was something connected with this ring— my class ring, you know. It's odd I can't think what it was. Why, your hand is trembling!" Coyly she upraised it to meet the coming ring, and then again he faltered. Ellis well understood the purport of the conversation that ensued, though ■he could hear no word. Will searched one pocket after another, then ran back into the house, came forth again in leas than a minute, handed a square, white envelope to Mrs. Daunton, and, raising h& forage cap in farewell, hastened away across the parade. Ashamed of her espionage, yet fascinated, Ellis lingered at the window and saw Helen tear open the envelope and draw forth • little packet or roll, which she closely inspected and rapidly counted over. Money! Treasury notes beyond question! Money, and paid her by Jack Ormsbyl Ellis dropped the enrtain and turned away. She cared to see no more. IVrry. Ellis sprang to her mother's aid* lost as, to the accompaniment of a shriek from Kitty's lips, there came a lull roar, followed by a sudden thud wd crash of falling tifubera and the loarse shouts of excited men. An in* ;tant later, Ormsby, nearly breathless leaped in at the door. "They'll have to faring him in here. Leale would have saved him if he had not jumped. Ellis, your mother most not see his face. Take her into the dressing room." "And why?" cried Ellis. "The lives of oar best and bravest hove been risked to save that worthless life? This is no place for him. He shall not be Without a break the watch cry went from man to man, No. 5 shouting a gruff, stentorian, "All's well," that again directed the attention of the officer of the guard to his probable condition. The last sentry had called off and No: 1 had given, loud and prolonged, the final assurance that all along the shain was peace and security before Will reached the bottom of the slope and began his examination of the stables and rorrals. The last thing he saw as he •ast a backward glance northward alCmg the snowy slope that terminated the plateau on its eastern side was tho solitary figure of Crow Knife, standing mute, motionless and attentive, just at the upper end of the post of sentry on No. 6. "1 ij 'e -1 iii31 t| * l"f~ ■■■■ "You wished to see mo," said Leale, ''and I will hoar you now." "Yes, sir. The news o{ Crow Knife'a death is all over the garrison, and the men are fairly mad over it. They won't try lynching, bnt the Ben tries at the guardhouse are double, front aDd rear. Oraice is sleeping yet or else shamming. I don't think he's too drunk not to realize what would happen if Crow Knife's people got nt him." "I've got that to say I want no other man to know," was the reply alter an interval of a few seconds, "and I want your word of honor that you will hold it sacred.'' "I remember, I was holding the ring just like this when somebody called to me that I'd better hurry"— Again the shots and shouts, the rush of hurrying feet on the broad veranda without Again aud nearer, quick and imperative, the thrilling trumpet call. Then, close at hand the loud bang oi the sentry's carbine and the stentorian shout of "Flrel" And then, just as the music abruptly ceased in response tc the colonel's signal, bursting in at the door, followed by a couple of troopers, came Rorke, rushing fur a ladder that had been in use during the day. "Take this man to the guardhouse," was the brief, stem order, as they lifted Graice, stunned and sodden, to his feet. Then the captain turned to Crow Knife. "Did that crazy brute strike you? Are you hurt?" he asked, in deep concern. "Yes," she said breathlessly. "Indeed you'd better hurry." But he was still wandering in the past. "It seems to mo—oh, they'd sounded officers' call, and that meant the devil to pay somev here, don't you know." But Lucretia was wilting now, despondent again, for still he went on: "You know, I fancied until the very next day that I'd left the ring here." And, suiting the action to the word, he slipped it on her finger. "And yet the very next day, when I was on scout, I found—I found it here." And with that be again replaced it on his own finger. Lucretia's face was a sight to see. There was an instant of silence, and then, failing to note the expression of her face, looking "I decline any promise whatever. What do you wish to say?" "Well, whnt I have to tell you inter ests you more than any man on earth. Captain Leale. I'm in hell here; I'm at your mercy perhaps. My life is threatened by these hounds, because by accident that knife went into that blind fool's vitals. It was only self defense. I didn't mean to hurt him. "Then your duty is doubled, lad," was Leale's low toned answer—"to hold the prisoner and to protect him too." irought here." "Hash." mid Ornmby in s kw, in enn tone. "In God's name, Ellis, rash! The man on that Utter Is your nother's son, your own brother, Royle fairer. That is the secret I was guarding for Helen Dannton, your brother's wife." Over at the guardhouse the second relief was being formed as Farrar reached ♦he spot—seven soldiers in their fur oapa and gloves and heavy winter overcoats and arctics. The oorporal had just reported them all present and the lieutenant quickly yet closely inspected their equipment, then stepped to the front again. "I understand," said Will firmly. "The man who gets at him tonight, sir, will have to go through hell first." Ho was delayed unexpectedly among tho stables, for one of the orderlies, in the aloence of his troop and officers, had gone visiting among his associates in the adjoining building, and one or two spare horses were loose and roaming about the gangway. The next thing he heard of his sentries there were excited shouts for the corporal of the guard, and, hastening out into the night to as wrtain the cause, he nearly collided with little Meinecke, the trumpeter. "Captain," said the Indian slowly. "I believe I'm killed." "It's that madman, Graice, sorr!" ho cried in answer to the look in hie commander's face. "He's fired the tower, and he's bnmiq to death." Leah* sprang to support him. Other men, running to the scene, linked their hands and made a chair and raised the poor fellow from the ground. "Carry him gently to the hospital, lads. I'll be with you ia a moment,"saidLeale, and then he tnriwd to where, trembling, terrified, Helen Daunton still stood as though jiowrrless to move. And then he turned to find Kitty standing, smiling in saucy triumph, at his elbow, leaning on tho colonel's arm. "No. I was the object, I clearly un derstitnd," said Lcale. "Go on." Ltfted hi* hand in vesture of farewell and turned abruptly away. A moment later aa the women gathered about Mrs. Farrar, obedient to Ormsby's murmured injunction to keep her from seeing the face of the dying man lest it prove too severe a shook to her weakened heart, the solemn " Well, it's as man to man 1 want to speak. You know I never meant to barm him. You can give me n chance for justice, for life, and I—I can make it worth your while." ing at the screened threshold before tak-1 i his departure, turned for one long look at Helen Duunton's face. Some intense fascination had drawn her once more to the east window, and there, as tho dangers formed, alone, almost unnoticed, she slowly turned and her eyes met his. One last, long, intense gaee and, in one impulsive movement, as though he read in her glorious eyes the kindling light of a love that matched his own, he would have sprung to her side, but, with sudden recollection of the barrier between them, he gathered himself, lifted his hand in gesture of farcwC ll and tnrued abruptly away. Tho music crashod into the opening bars of the lancers and the dance began. Springing to the window, Helen Daunton dashed aside the curtain, and, all one glare of flume, the guardhouse buret upon the view. A black ladder, silhouetted Against the blaze, was beinp raised at the instant the curtain fell from her nerveless hand. Will seized hif cap, made one leap to the door despitf Kitty's frantic effort to seize him; then, missing his saber, whirled about anc rushed from point to point in search ol it. Divining his object, the girl threw herself in front of the settee, behind which she had concealed it, and, whec he sought to reach around her, desperately, determinedly fought him off. Seizing a cap, the colonel vanished intc the night, Throwing over his shoulders the first mantle he could lay his hands »n, which happened to be Lucre tia's, Wayne followed his leader. Will, delayed and maddened, only succeeded in capturing his saber by forcibly lifting Kitty out of the wayj then be sprang to the doorway to join the men hurrying from distant points to the scene. Orrju- Ity, too, had rushed after the colonel, and only women were left upon the floor. These, horror stricken, yet fascinated, had gathered about the eastward window, where Helen Daunton crouched, unable to look again upon the frightful spectacle. It was Ellis who hurled aside the certain, just as old Rorke, re-entering., sprang to the middle of the h»U. "In addition to tho usual orders," said he, "Nos. 6 and 7 are cautioned to keep a sharp lookout and to listen attentively for anything at the eastward. In the event of any unusual sight cr sound, call for the corporal at onoe. Who is No. 6?" "That will do," was tho stern response. "No more on that head. What else have you to ask or say?" - men came  y, bearing a stretcher, on which lay tht alanket covered form, followed by i silent group of officer*. The doctor simply touched the wrist, gave one glance into the scorched and blistered face, shook his head and drew the blanket Kitty, sobbing, olnng to Willy's arm, theix quarrel forgotten. Helen, who had thrown herself almost hysterically upon her knees at the stretcher's side, turned in added terror at the words of the colonel, "Another patient, doctor," for at the instant, supported by Wayne and ithers, Malcolm Leale was led within ihe doorway, a handkerchief pressed to "Helen—Mrs. Daunton! First let me set: you heme. I ask no confidence, no explanation, but this is something in which I must help you. I have guessed the truth, have I not? That man is your brother?" officer of the dnv," said be, indicating Kitty, "and you will report for duty instantly." "Lieutenant," crieti the boy btjiath lessly, "Crow Knife's killed, sir. Stab bed to death!" "Listen one minute," pleaded the prisoner. ''They'd kill me here it' they could grt mo, quick enough—Indians or troopers either. I must be helped away. I know your secret. You love my wife. Help-urn out of this—here—this night and neither she nor you will ever"— "Graice, sir," said tho corporal Irresolute, rejoicing, disappointed into the dim recesses of the past, he again wandered off. The young officer's face darkened a bit He had no trout in the man whatever and knew well his evil reputation. "Graice," said be, "yon have double functions tonight. Yon have not only the same orders as New. 6 and 7, but the commanding officer directs that you keep a special watch over the settlement across the river, particularly of the plant of Bunko Jim. I believe you know it" "MyGodP' moaned Will, as heriiastencd up the slope. "There's a curse on 3hristiu«Hti'lc at old Fort Frayne.'' "My brother, Captain Leale? God pity me, that man is my husband I" "Of course I might have knpwn I couldn't have left it on jour Soger without even seeing—without even seeing if it would fit—without"— And here he lout the thread of bis language entirely, and. groping for his glasses, finding them, distractedly he tried to fit their spring on Lucretia's finger. Fenton, who lind joined the group of onlookers, could stand it no longer. Bursting into a roar of laughter, he come toward them, and, thus interrupted, poor Wayne dropped both hand and eyeglass, madly trying to fit his own ring into his own eye and look through that under the impression that it was a monocle. When 10, 20 minutes had passed away and Helen Dauntou failed to return, Mrs. Farrar hail becomo anxious ;ind ill at ease Leale, too, had been listening eagerly for her stop on the porch without, and, unable to control his longing to we and speak with her, despite her palpable efforts to avoid him, be had early token his leave and gone forth in search. Ellis, slipping from the parlor into the dining room, had thence managed to go to her own little chamber for a moment or two to herself. Whatever doubt remained as to the justice of her suspicions up to dinner time that evening, it was banished now, and her heart w as hard against Orinsby tl at he should have so braved and deceived her. Looking out from her window she could see much of the walk in front of Officers' row, but not a sign of Helen Daunt,on. The clouds had thickened, tho moonlight had grown dimmer all of a sudden. Onco more the snow was sifting down. She could not dream where Helen had gone For a moment not another word was spoken, Leale had recoiled—staggered —as though struck a mortal blow. Then, in hoarse whisper, so choked and broken seemed his voice: "Silence, you hound! Slink hack to your blanket where you belong. I thank God my friend, your father, never lived to know the depths of your disgrace) Not a word!" he forbade, with uplifted hand, as the miserable fellow Strove once more to make himself heard. "For the sako of the name to which you have brought only shame you shall bo protected against Indian vengeance, but who shall defend you against your self? I will hear no more from you. Tomorrow you may see your colonel, it that will do you any good, but if yon have one atom of dcceucy left, tell no man living that you are lioyle f nrrar," and with that, raging at heart, yet cold and stern, the officer, heedless of further frantic gleas, turned and left the KjDot. For a moment longer Helen stood "Your husband! Your husband, Helen? Oh, my God! And I had thought yon free to be loved, as I have learned —as you have taught me—to love you." there Again tliat powerful fascination seemed to hire her to draw aside the curtain and gaae forth acrot» the white expanse of the parad« to where the guarded prison stood, within whose walls wax caged the savage creature whose lift was linked so closely with those of nreny there besides her own. Then the thought of that other, the man wnose loVe, all unwittingly, she had won and the fear that, glancing back, he might see iter shadow as when lie came, canned her to draw hastily away. In all that pay and animated scene, as once more she facet! the merry throng, Helen Daunton stood alone. The dance went blithely on. Chat and laughter and the gliding, rhythmic steps of many feet mingled with the spirited music of Fort Froyne's capital • 'There are plenty of others that know it as well," was the surly and unexpected answer. UnsUrmirm the heavy weapon, he handed U HuhnUrtveiy to hi* imperious iptcen. Still angered against her and deeply impressed with the importance of the duties devolving upon him, Parrar would have hastened by them with only brief and ceremonious salutation, when Pen ton stopped him. bis eyes. ■ "He grot the fall flash of that explosion in bis faoe," murmured the old soldier as the doctor met them. Then, is the solemn presence of death, in the bosh and silence of the throng, Mrs. Farrar stepped forward and laid her white hand gently, reverently upon the lifeless breast. "Captain Leale,'* she cried, "in pity say you do not believe that. Oh, hear me! Do not turn from me," sho implored, for in his misery he had averted his face. "You shall not think me so vile," she went on desperately. "J never knew until today that you had learned to— care for me. I thought all that had gone with my youth—oh, so Jong ago! Ionly asked of life a place where I could be useful and safe and where, by and by, perhaps i oould forget I have seemed to myself so old and dull and sad, so different from tho women men love that I never dreamed it my duty to say I was not free. Oh, I thought yftu were my friend. My heart has been so heavy and so numbed I have thought it doad since that Christmas eve four years ago. Ah, let me tell it to you, and you will understand. Four years ago this uight my little sick baby woke and wailed with pain. That man, my husband, was ia a drunken sleep on the floor. The baby's cry woke him. Ho swore a dreadful oath at the little w®-1- thing in my arms and struck It harfl across the mouth. 1 don't know what wild words I said to my husband, but I told him I wonld never see his face again. Then I caught my baby to my breast, and I ran and ran through the cold Christmas streets, and the stars went oat, and the "That will do, sir," was tho stern rejoinder. "You were asked no questionif and will keep silent until you are. Do yon understand your instructions?" "I am not deaf," was the sullen response."What on earth are you people laughing at?" he inquired. •'Where did I understand that you were going, sir?" said he, with mock severity of manner. VI gavo you permission to remain here, sir, and you'd better jump at the chance. Here's my niece telling mo that yon are engaged to dance with her, and at this moment it seems you are about to leave the room. Off with that overcoat, or it's your saber that will oome off, si*, in arrest. What, slight a member of your colonel's household! Lord bless me, sir, it's tantamount to mutiny I" * 'Reckless and hardened he may have been," she said, "but somewhere, somewhere, I know a mother's heart is yearning over him and a mother's lips praying for the boy she loves." "Answer my question, Graice," said Will, tingling with indignation, but keeping his temper. There was a moment's silence, then— "Laughing at? At your trying to make a spectacle hook of Lucretia's band, you inspired old lunatic," was Feu too's unfeeling answer, and poor Lr cretia, unable to stand the raillery i. the momeut, turned and fled to the dress ing room, leaving Wayne to oonfron' his tormentors as best he might. But at the porch the captain turned again. Wiud and snow were driving across his path. The sentries at the front and flunk of the guardhouse, muffled to their very eyes, staggered against "I s'pose I da " And so it happened that only one or two could hear the single, whispered word with which the doctor tuned to his commander after one brief look into Malcolm's eyes. "There appears to be some doubt, however," said Farrar coolly. "Post you relief, corporal, and we will look farther after No. 5. Has that man been drinking again?" he turned and asked the silent sergeant, as the relief marched away. VOomeaway, ma'am! For the love of God, miss, stand clear of that window! The poor divij'9 elimbed to the top, and the cnnnou powdher's in the tower." But while music and laughter rcignee within the wooden walla of the assen. bly room and many young hearts wen able to cast aside for the time being thC oppression that had settled upon th" garrison earlier in tho evening, am while in some of the barracks then were sounds of merrymaking and Christ mas cheer, there was raging in manv i breast a storm as wild as that that whirled the snowdrifts in blinding clouds all aronud and abont the guardhouse, where a score of seasoned troopers, silent, grim and by po means in love with their task, were keeping watch and ward over their little batch of prisoners, especially of tho cowering wretch who had been stowed aw»2 the force of the gale. It seemed to keep honest men on pos vhestra. Even Mrs. Farrar's sweet It was a desperate woman who stole silently out of the little army home and intercepted Lieutenant Farrar at the gate. In few words sho known her errand and asked for the note Mr. Ormsby 'had placet in his hand, and Will for the first time remembered it He had stowed it in tho pocket of tho overcoat he was wearing as he returned with Ormsby from the colonel's and was coniDelled to run back indoors m/nhi in find it. Absorbed though be was in his own trouble, Will could not but remark how strange it seemed that his mother's companion should be seeking and Ormsby sending those mysterious notes at night He mado such explanation and wild as that for no other reason than protect the life of a man so crimin face, so long shadowed by sorrow, beamed with the reflected light of the With a moan of despair, Helen burst through the group and toward the open doorway, as though she herself would hie to the rescue, ftorke, with one leap, regained the threshold and thrust her back. "Blind!" [TO B* ooNTimiap ] "But, colonel," responded Farrar im petuously, "the officer of tlie day"— gladness that shone on many another. Longing'to be alone with her misery, Helen turned to seek the seclusion of the dressing room and had almost reached its threshold, when, over or through the Tell u» Mr. Bryan! "It's hard to say, sir. He's one of those steady soakers. It would bo difficult to find him when he hadn't been drinking more or less. I think ho has been drinking all day, but bo knows what he's doing and 1b as sober as he is at any other time." The meiuliers of the guard, who ha A big part of Mr. Bryan's spMches relates to rosy pictures of how the country would blossom and bloom undw trm coinage He tries to show how the silver owner could take his metal to the mint and have it made into dollars that would be worth full value This private snap coin would soon find its way into general circulation. He does not state whether it would be given away by the silver kings or put into circulation by other means. He should not fail to tell how people can get sixteen silver dollars for one gol4 do' ar.—Warren Mail. "Not another word. sir. Here is vour ana perturoea ail in one, Forrar stood one moment hardly know ing what to do, when Kitty seized him by one arm, and (jCale, noting his embarrassment. Stepped to his aid. sunied their lounge around the red! stove the moment the captain disappe ed, onoe more sprang to attention its li re-entered and called the sergeant t strains of the lancers and the howl of the wind without, there came some strange "My God, can no one save him?" she cried. him, "lam tempted to ask the officer of the day to relieve thcue sentries No. 1 pome up into tin hallway Jae. ''I believe that, with the watch have 011 the Indians, (lu te is no [ bility of an outbreak on their part t)iat gave her pause. "Save him, ma'am! It's sure death to the mqn that dares to try it Any moment if may blow up. They're rushin clear of it now. The colonel's ordered them all back. No! God of hivin, some one'B climbin the ladder now! It's Captain Leale! Ob, don't let him, menl Dhrive him back! Ob. what use Farrar gazed doubtfully at the relief m it trudged away through tho misty moonlight, shook his head in some dis■atisfaction, then turned in at the doorway of the tower. "I will look over tho guardroom and ■aUa-" aaid he. "and visit sentries "I am going to tho guardhouse, Will, and I will look after your duties there. Have yo&r dance and return at your convenience. The colonel will let you go after awhile." iind {Joiuewlieie out upon the parage she Vthe distant, muffled crack of the cavalry carbine. Another, another farther away, and then, mingling with thorn, a hoarse, low murmur as of many voict m and of commands indistinguishable through the gale. Louder grew the And then Kitty resumed her Bway. "I shan't dance one step with yon until ''Thereisn't, sir," wan the sergeant's nromut reply. "But every man iu the