Pittston Gazette

              Katablla ie* 1IM. I ▼ JL. XLVIll Ms. 51 | Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1898. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. )(1 OO t Yaw In AdTtuuca. recruit] held forth a long, thin, white hand dickered over his face, "it is hardly a part of a private soldier's equipment. But it has only been in my possession a few hours since my joining the regiment, and I've not had time to send it Kay, his captain, that brought matters to a climax. He applied for and received his furluuttb in the midst of the holi- The agent at Bruce Springs swore be had done his best to dissuade them, but there were three Englishmen who had never seen elk and were possessed with longing to stalk and shoot them. They were lavish with their money. Their interpreters talked directly to some of the old chiefs, Thunder Eagle and Rolling Bear especially, and the presents made these warriors caused the Sioux to clamor for more, but won a lordly permit from the crafty leaders to go shoot what they would—the Sioux wouldn't care—and so led them squarely into the trap. Ray hod found the debris of one of their camps toward noon of the second day of his daring march and four hours later as he sped along their northward winding trail he came suddenly upon a deep cleft among the hills, away down in whose depths trickled an ice cold rivulet where the tourists had drunk their fill, then gone on up the opposite heights, and after them, swift pursuing, a formidable war party that had evidently come up this tributary to the Ska hoping here to find and intercept their prey. JWS "The ring I left with yon would slide off the biggest of these fingers now, wouldn't it?" he asked. "Miss Leroy, this ii Mr. Murray, now a resident of Butte, but a fellow passenger with us on the night of the oollisiou." heart almost sank within him as he counted. Ponies they could not see, for they were herded farther up the cove beyond the fire, but every indication pointed to there being well nigh 100 well armed warriors right there within revolver shot, while others doubtless hovered like watohfnl spies about the unsuspecting camp beyond the range. "We could never get past them without discovery," muttered the captain finally. "We're far too few to drive them. How far is it back down the valley and around to the park?" And tbeo as Hunter started to follow be saw a sight that made bkn thrill with dredfl. As though they sprang from the bowels of the earth, two Indians on swift ponlea darted into view, and, bending low over their ohargera' necks, lashing them to mad gallop, they fairly shot across the resoanding, turf olad prairie, swift and straight toward the soadding form. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. days, left his kit with the first sergeant, his uniform with Murray, the carpenter, and Butte in a snowstorm, the Pullman smoker, and familiar looking tweeds, traveling cap, and ulster, at which Jim Long stared in astonished recognition when as he alighted from his cab at the Junction a swell oivilian stepped up and smilingly tendered him a cigar. Whatever clouds had lowered over the house of Hunter, were wafted away the night of that decisive conference of the powers, when Stannard and Truscott demolished the theories of Mainwaring and the aspersions of Brady and company. Even Conway had limped out of his buggy a few days later to Bay he, too, had beeu fooled. (He was destined to be fooled still more when a jail delivery turned loose his seven star performers on Christmas eve.) Corporal Croxford and Trooper Elzey still maintained their conviotion of Hunter's LESSON VI, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- away." NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 7. Then Stannard turned in his chair and glared at Brady and Rawson. "Well, what da you wish to ask about this flask?" Before the sounding of the retreat that night and the boom of the sunset gun Sergeant Merriweather's soul had drifted away over the dreary waste of snow clad slopes and leaves of prairie, but not before be had made clean breast of all his trials, temptations and downfall. His vain, empty headed, frivolous wife was brought out from Butte, but provfed scant comfort to bis dying hours. To Father Keefe and Stannard, Blake and day, be told bia piteous tale, Kittie miffling, sobbing, wailing at intervals, out ever intently listening. One extravtganoe after another bad swamped him. 3e used the money of the men's Athletics and Dramatic association, of whioh ae was treasurer. He stole forage from ibe stables and sold It to a dealer in Butte to cover bis shortage; but, that tot yielding enough, planned the robery of the magazine, whioh took place, Croxford and Elzey assisting, one furiously stormy night Tbey worked the Did ordnanoe sergeant with liquor and got bis keys, took out tb« boxes of cartridges, revolvers, etc., and, lo, the vragon of their confederates in Butte (ailed to oome. It was beaten back by the storm. Tbey then ran everything to the stack nearest Merriweatber's stable and cottage and hid the plunder underneath. Dawn almost surprised them at the task. Luckily the old sergeant was made too siok to go to his magazine for two days. They had arranged for the wagon to come out the next night and then to blow up tbe magazine and so destroy evidence of their guilt, but again there was failure, and Merriweather was at bis wits' end when he heard tbe oolonel say that stack must be moved □n the morrow. Then, rain or shine, mow or sleet, tbe wagon had to come, Mid then it was found, too late to change tbe hour, that the swell recruit, Hunter, was on the very post that guarded tbe stacks and stables and would be there at tbe very time they needed to act 80 to robbery they were compelled to add assault. Iext of the Le— on. n Elngi U, 6-U. Memory Verses, 11-14 —Golden Text, Lake il, IS—Commentary ky the Be*. D. M. ItMTH, Rawson rose deliberately. "First, that it be placed here on the table where all can see it; then that I may be permitted to read this." And he unfolded a newspaper. SAVTMOR OF 'THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER; TROn THE RANK5," ETC. COPyR/GHT. /ft90,0y JB. L/PP//VCOTTCO. "Look out) Kid I Look out!" rang Hunter's voice In a yell that woke the lalley. Bang went the Paddy'a ready larbine in reply. Dogs, ooyotes, (jarbines, rifles, Indian yells and Saxon blasphemy bnrst upon the silence of the night. An Indian pony pl,unged and tossed his rider sprawling vrtthin a domen yards of where the Kid had toned at bay, and Hnnter, rnshing to the resone, had jnst time to kneel when two or three revolvers seemed to oraok at once, and the air was rent with fire flashes. But the soldier's aim was true, and one tall warrior toppled heavily forward and bit the dust as Hnnter sped on to his oomrade's aid. He fonnd him clasping his hands about big. knee and rolling in agotty on the turf. "Tor the love of God, doott stop!" cried be. "They've smaabeqxny lAg, and I'm done for. There's • doaen io one of us." Dozen or not, they were in for it now. Hunter knelt, and, tboqgb his heart beat hard, sent shot after shot at every flitting form he saw until, amazed at the vigorous defense, the Indians seemed to haul away. Then up be lifted the protesting Kid and lngged him full another 100 yards before again be had to drop him and fight Tbeo onoe more, half lifting, half dragging, he rushed him on, oheered by the evidence that the Indians dared not oome too oloae and that oamp was aroused and blazing away. Luckily the guides had quickly realized what was np. Luokily they reasoned that there oonld be bat few Indians in the immediate neighborhood, for ont they came—three or four —to the suocor of the burdened man and reached him only as, exhausted by his efforts and by loss of blood from a wound hardly notioed when received, he sank, fainting, to the gronnd, the Kid still pluokily swearing in his arms. 6. "And Elijah said unto bim, Tarry, I pray thee, here, for the Ldrd hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on." The man who had wanted to die was not going to die, but was going to be taken by a whirlwind up to heaven (verse ]). He had said to Elisha both at Gilgal and at Bethel, "Tarry here, I pray thee," but in eaoh case Ellsba had with the same words refused to leave bim. They make us think of the words of Rath to Naomi and of Ittai to Bavid, in Ruth 1,18, 17, and II Sam. xv, 81, and of the advioe of Barnabas to the believers at Antiocb, that with purpose of heart they would cleave un»« t.be Lord (Aots xi, 28). Oar efej upon the faithfulness of the Lord Jesus and His cleaving onto us, as It is written In (Sen. 11, 84—the man shall cleave onto his wife—«nd in Eph. v, SI, 88, Paul says be speaks oonoeruing Christ and she ohuroh. As to His faithfulness sea each passages as I Cor. i, 0; x, 18; I Tbess. », 38, 84. "Notless than40miles, sir," answered Hunter, "though it can't be more than six or seven over the old game trail across the range." S i Very coolly the soldier stepped forward and handed the handsome toy to Stannard, who gazed admiringly at it and placed it in the full light of the lamps on the table of the commanding officer. CHAPTER XIII. And so the first written order Main* waring signed was one to permit the bearer to visit the prisoner Hnnter, and at 10 o'olook that morning, when, pale, oalm, bnt resolute as ever and smiling still despite her sleepless night, M iss Leroy entered the hospital for the customary reading, she sent the steward to tell Mr. Hunter that she hoped he would be able to see her soon after 11 tnd then indomitably went on with her tetf appointed task. "Then," said Ray, "there's nothing for it but to send a brace of men up the heights afoot to warn the camp before daybreak, while the troop hangs on to their heels." In the 48 hours that followed the arrest and inoaroeration of Trooper Hnn- ter one excitement chased another with inch rapidity that it was bard to keep trade of them, and Mainwaring, with almost a sigh at relief, weloomed the premature return of old Stannard, to whom somebody (believed to be Ray) had given the tip by telegraph that the sooner he got back the better. — * 'Take this infernal regiment and see what you oan do with it," said Mainwaring despairingly. "I thought I knew something about soldiering, bnt there's too d——d much individuality in the —lb for me." Then, olearing his throat, the lieutenant began: "Among the passengers arriving in this city from the east today is Lord Lunemoutb, eldest son and heir of the Earl of Lancaster. Lord Lunemouth is traveling for his health and has been advised to seek the glorious climate of California, but has met with unpleasant experiences on the way. His train was held up by desperadoes in Wyoming, the passengers were robbed and his personal losses consisted of some $200 in cash, a superb watch and a handsome, silver topped flask, the arms of bis noble house engraved on the stopper. The latter he valued as a keepsake. Here follows," said Mr. Rawson, "a description of the arms. Here," said be, lifting the flask, "are the arms and motto of the house of Lancaster, and now perhaps this gentleman, whom 1 perfectly well remember seeing in very different attire aboard the Pacifio express the night of the collision, will explain how he came into possession of the missing flask of LC*rd Lunemoutb?" It was barely 9 o'clock now, and high aloft on the northern side of the gorge, glistening white, the cliffs broke through the somber fringe of pine and shone like silver in the moonlight. Somewhere ahead of the watchers in the black depths of the westward end of the deep ravine an old game trail wound and twisted np the mountain side over into the beantiful park beyond. Hnnter well remembered and had traced it in his notes. Over this trail Lord Lnnemouth's joyous party had evidently gone. Over this the Indian sconts had cracKed mm. Over this the war party doubtless meant to follow in time to make their dash at daybreak. Over this, neck or nothing, warning must be sent, and the intermediate ground was so oompletely occupied by the Indians that cavalry could not hope to slip by undetected. It could only be attempted by daring fellows afoot. guilt until Mrs. Merriweather weaken- ed over her husband's death and oon- Jirmed bis whole ooufession. The Kid "%as enjoying « temporary relapse into virtue and was wearing a halo until pay day. Mrs. Merriweather, bailed out by Freeman, was living in temporary retirement in Butte, yet already beginning to "take notice," and all Hanson was wondering what Trooper Hunter had gone on 80 days' furlough for and betting two to oue that he never would come back, when be suddenly came. He hud been gone but 20 of the 80 days. He reported in person in the nattiest of fatigue uniforms to Captain Kay just before stable call one sharp, clear January afternoon, and in a brief conversation asked of his captain that be would send to Miss Leroy a little package he bad brought with him from the east and was manifestly disappointed when told that she bad gone. Then they probably had not met at all, and Ransom was off the scent again. Just what might have been the result of this disappointment bad matters remained in the usual midwinter plane of monotony cannot be 6tated. What did happen was a sudden call from the department commander, a sudden demand for a strong escort to accompany him to the hills, despite the biting weather, for sacred Indian lands were being invaded, and only bis presence oould prevail upon tbo Sious to trust the matter of righting the wrong to bim and Uncle Sam Him they trusted readily enough, but shook tbeir sbaggy heads at mention of the Great Father. "Let the Gray Fox leave enough soldiers here to drive I away the would be miners and prospectors, and they would keep the j peace." And so it wasordered. March and April saw tbo swell trooper deeply : interested now, despite longings for , news from civilization, in daily contact with and study of these warlike people, j learning tbeir uucouth language, buyiug tbeir furs and bead work, winning tbeir good will by unexpected gifts and Men and horses of Ray's troop both were weary. They drank eagerly, and some eyeq, already haggard, looked appeallngly at the set face of their captain. Forty-eight hours had they oome with but scant halt for rest, and there wan hardly a man in the party that conld not have slept instantly had be lain down on that soft, inviting turf—all, perhaps, but the indomitable leader and the tall trooper originally of the center set of fours, yet 60 often on this second day riding side by side with, instead of following six yards behind, his oommander, the place where the orderly is supposed to be. Scott, the young lieutenant, who shonld perhaps have taken exception to such favoritism, seemed to understand and object not at all. "Hunter was up through bere last month with surveyor's escort," was the explanation, and, though some men might have growled the information that "other fellera were along, too," no one seemed to object, for the reason that it was thoroughly known that Hunter made topographical notes from day today and had them with bim now, and it was these to which Ray so frequently referred as they hastened on. At 11:15 the post surgeon came, silently gave her his arm as tbey left the big sunshiny ward and led her to a doorway up the corridor in front of which a sentry was pacing—a sentry who baited and presented arms as the doctor opened the door and ushered her in. 7. "And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood to view afar off, and they two stood by Jordan." Gilgal, Bethel, Jerioho and Jordan are suggestive of stages In Christian experience, but there la no plaoe where we should ever be oon•ent to stop. We must ever be going and {rowing (II Sam. v, 10, margin). Gilgal suggests salvation, the reproach relied away and the passover kept (Joshua v, 0, 10); Bethel reminds us of visions of glory (Gen. xxvill, 19); Jerioho bad a pleasant situation (vsrse 19), bat in none of these may we rest as a matter of attainment 8. "And Elijah took his mantle and wrapped it together and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went ovsr on dry gronnd." Thus for these two men God did what He had done before for millions when He took the whole nation across this river on dry land. Jordan oannot be sag- And, besides Trooper Hunter's inoaroeration on the charge of aiding and •betting in the robbery and destruction of the magazine, the senior major had the following matters now to tackle: Captain Blake, in arrest for using insubordinate language to the oommanding offioer ("Said that^oompared with fuy mental oonditioo the magazine It was that night that Merriweather was brought baok from town to the guardhouse, shot and stabbed, as has been said. Mrs. Merriweather bad fled during the previous night, and the sergeant had been missing since reveille. It was the next night that Stannard returned and had Brady hunted up. Then came new labors and honors for Sheriff Conway, and this time there were no troops to divide the honors of the capture with him, for his prisoners were deserters all—one from an overindulgent husband, the others from a not too wasn't a in the way of a wreok, begad," explained Main waring to his senior, who strove to keep a straight faoe, butoouldn't); Mrs. Herriweather, disappeared since the night of Banter's transfer from hospital to guardhouse; Sergeant Merriweather, transferred from guardhouse to hospital with a ballet through one long and a knife wound in the other; Corporal Oroxford and Trooper Elzey, deserted— two hitherto shining lights of the garrison and admirers of Mrs. Merriweather ("Could Mrs. Merriweather have gone with either at them?" asked some one of the ladies, "Or with both?" asked certain brutes among the offioers)—and, finally, Lieutenant Brady, back from a bacchanalian boat with his kindred spirit Rawson, and now laid by the heels in quarters with an Irish orderly in attendance, for doctors would have nothing to do with him. And the first man to speak out when in few words Ray explained the situation to the troop was that incorrigible rascal, the Kid. "I'm game to go, sir." Then MainwaringTs face was indeed a sight to see, but the amaze deepened, broadened, almost overmastered him when, with perfeot composure, tho strange trooper replied: "Good for one," said Ray. "Here's another, sir." "And here," "And here, "came in low tone from half a dozen in the wearied troop, bat Ray waited for still another voice, until, half taming, he looked as though inquiringly at Hunter, who had already kicked off his boots and was palling on a pair of moccasins, drawn from his saddlebags. Then Hunter looked op and 6poke. indulgent Uncle Sam. Pawnee was the Mecca of the fugitives. Thither had Mrs. Merriweather fled to a married sister. Tbitber had Croxford and Elzey followed, after having remained tooover her retreat and settle matters with tbe sergeant, which tbey had done only too effectually, for Merriweatber's days were numbered. "With pleasure; tboogh this is not Lord Lunfemouth's, but the mate to it. It was given to me by a member of the house of Lancaster months ago. At the time of the train robbery it was not in my possession at all. For farther information on that head I mast refer you to Major Mainwaring." geatlTe of literal death, nor Canaan of heaven, for when Israel oroeeud Jordan Into Canaan It wai to encounter many enemiea and do ranch fighting. Jordan, whloh mesne river of judgment, aeema rather iuggeatlve of that judgment of aelf which henoeforth practice* constant denial of aelf that the life of Jeeus may ha made manifest In oar mortal flesh. "And It came to pass when th«y were gone over that Elijah aaid an to Ask what I ahall do for thee before I be taken away from Cbee. And Kllaba aald, [ pray thee let a double portion of thy iplrit be upon me." The greatest thing or a redeemed spul la to be filled .with the spirit of Ood for Bis aervioe; dead with Jhrist, rlaen with Christ, one with Htas or whatever He may pleaae of aarvloe, 1: inly we oan be a comfort to Him, a veaaa neet for His use. • A »' ' *  And so, an hoar later, when the Indiana swooped in foroe upon the camp, they found it thoroughly prepared, surroanded by hastily constructed rifle pits or breastworks, around whiob, 500 yards away, they dashed and yelled and kept up their wild fusillade, but both times they rtrove to charge three or fonr saddles were emptied by the cool aim of the defense, and then, to cap the climax of their discomfiture, out from the foothills burst their old acquaintance, the sorrel troop, "Laughing Lightning, " as once the Cheyennea had named Ray, cheering in the lead. And the warriors broke for oover and kept in oover at respeotful distance until Mainwaring himself, a whole day later, with hia three comrade troops, came trotting up the valley, and then they disappeared entirely. The plunder was safely run off to Butte and paid for at about one-fifth its cost and one-tenth its valne in a frontier city. Tbey got their money and felt measurably safe so long as Hunter remained in hospital, used up as a result of tbe fearful contusions he Imd received. But his wife had told them of her encounter with and revelations to Hunter, and their fears of discovery were such that Oroxford and Elzey determined to desert. The news that Hunter was arrested as having guilty knowledge of tbe whole affair was a thunderbolt. Mow in self defense he would have to produoe even a woman as witness and that woman Merriweatber's wife. 'Twas Merriweather who bade ber go at onoe to Pawnee, whither Croxford and Elzey followed. The three men were to meet and divide their spoils in a certain saloon in town. Tbe first two demanded more than their share. There was a quarrel, then a murderous bittle. Tbey took all be had and tied, but, with fatuous blundering, had gone to Pawnee to buy her silence, and there all three were jailed. Hunter was an innooent man. Plainly enough had the captain seen the symptoms of growing exhaustion on both his meu and mounts—the dark lines under the deep set eyes, the utter silence that prevailed along the dusty little company, tbe painful stumbling of the borpes and tbe constant effort needed to keep closed on tbe bead of column. But he knew his men, and they knew bim. It was not the first by many times they bad been called npon to rids with life or death the stake. Somewhere, not three hoars ahead probably, was a murderous band of Sioax seeking to redress undoubted injuries by the only method tbe Indian knows—tbe blood of the pale faced brothers of those that bad wrought tbe wrong. Two days later Stannard bad straightened out affairs at tbe post in marvelous habion (all save matters domestio— wherein, aaid he, no wise man meddled), and the man to start him on tbe right aoent was that scapegrace, the Kid, whom be had disciplined time and again in Arizona days and appreciated at his true value. The Kid's derisive and explosive laughter when told that Major Malnwaring had ordered Trooper Hunter confined as accessory to the magazine robbery, etc., had been promptly reported to Stannard on bis return, and that versatile young reprobate was sent for, marched to the adjutant's offloe and oollared by his old time troop commander, for one of hiB several enlistments tbe Kid had spent with Stannard, and knew him well. "House of Lancaster bo blowed!" was that veteran's explosive reply. "It was in my house right here at Ransom at that very time. Say, Raw son, you and Brady haven't bad any more sense in this matter than—I have!" "I, of course, sir. I'm the only man that knows the way." Whereat Ray'a white teeth gleamed in the moonlight and the men knew all was well. Three hours later a strangely assorted pair, a tall, slender, blond bearded man, with clear cut, handsome features, and an undersized, weazen faced, devil may care Irish lad, dressed alike in dark blae shirts and blouses, in light blue riding breeches and Indian tanned leggings, girt with cartridge belt and revolver, and carrying the brown oarbine in hand, baited for breath at the very summit of the divide between Keogh'a park and the deep gorge in the southeastward bills. Perilous, indeed, had been their journey. Leaving their oomrades well below the position of the Indian oamp, they bad slowly scaled the cliff's to the north, then crept along among the pines until immediately above the rejoicing Indians, and then, slowly and cautiously through the scattered timber, followed westward by the stars until at last in a depression they came upon the trail, easily recognizable in the occasional patches of moonlight Then, eager and cautious, they followed up. up the winding way, ever alert for sound of hoof beat, until at last they reached the crest and Hunter's watoh proclaimed it midnight. The way Stannard sailed in was characteristic. Brady bad not been drank oa doty. Ha had taken advahtage of tbe absence of Atherton and Stannard to relax the reins of his aelf oontrol, but had only got a good start when be sought and reoeived a seven days' leave from Major Main waring, whioh enabled him to meet Rawson at Pawnee. This was (boot ten days after tbe ex plod on. He was to have staid his week away, but In two days suddenly reappeared In Butte, fall of whisky and information. Malnwaring, who knew him bat slightly, reoeived a dispatch saying that he had news of a moat important character revolting from diaooveriea he had made at Pawnee and urging tbe oommanding officer to meet him at tbe railway station on hie arrival, whioh Malnwaring did. and then the very next night ordered Hunter's arrest. A remarkable winter, from a cavalry point of view, was that, the first which the old regiment spent at Ransom, bat, like many other things temporal and most things military, it came to an end, and people looking back upon it afte» ward declared they were rather sorry, after all, for there was so much to make it vividly interesting at the time and to form topics for talk in the weeks to come. CHAPTER XIV 10. "And be Mid, Tboa baat asked a iard thing. Nevertheless If thou see me then 1 am taken from tbee it shall be so into tbee, but it not it shall nut be so." To be filled with the Spirit means readiness for whatsoever Qod may appoint that He may be glorified. Aooordlng to the story of the Acts of the Apostles, It might mean such serrloe as was endured or rendered by aay of the aposNaa or dean one; it might mean serving tables or preaching the gospel, winning souls or enduing imprisonment, scourging or dsath; it might mean to be used in a great revival or asnt to a desert plaoe to reaoh one parson. To be filled with the Spirit means grace to •ay under all olroumstanoss, "My Jssus, as Thou wilt," or, " Yea, my Kather, this la so, because that Thou hast found II good" (Math, si, 86). 11. "And itoame to pass as they still vent on and talked that behold there apleared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire. That these tourists had bought the consent of their chief to hunt, camp and explore through the Indian lands, that they were innocent of wrongdoing, that they despised the robbers of the red man as muoh as the Indian hated him, had no bearing on the case. These were white men, rashly intruding far within the Brule lines at a time when the Great Spirit, through their medicine men, had sounded the oall to battle, and high or low, rioh or poor, English or American, man, woman or child, it made no difference. That fated party represented jnst so many coveted scalps, no more and no less, and if Indian strategy could compass their capture alive or their destruction without the spilling of a drop of Indian blood all the more would their warrior band receive the acclamations of a tribe that worshiped prowess like unto that of the prairie wolf or fleet footed fox. Niuety strong, led by a daring young chief whose father and mother both had died when the soldiers of the long hair dashed upon their village some years before, they had cut loose from all bands around the Ska and hastened in search of the white invaders guaranteed by 6ld Rolling Bear safe conduct not a week before. Bat meantime there bad been a meeting and recognition little looked for. Fonr happier Englishmen were nerer seen than Lunemonth and the trio with him, for no other reason than that for a time their Uvea had been in mortal peril and they bad enjoyed the unlocked for luxury of a square light. That exultation over, they bad had time to thank the American "Tommies" to wbdfte daring they owed it that tbey were not massacred in tbeir beds. Both troopers were wounded, the little fellow profanely voluble, the tall one strangely silent. Over this latter bent the younger of the first two Englishmen. straightforward dealing. May came and trouble. Congress was too busy with otiier matters to heed the request of the president that the recommendations of the gt uwral commanding the department of the frontier be immediately carried out. The horned cattle and other sup- Sensations flattened oat lamentably for nearly a fortnight after the quashing of Mainwaring's martial indictment against "the swell of tha sorrel troop," as Blake described Hunter, and when tbey reopened, about the height of the holiday season, other names and households than thoae herein mentioned were And tbis was what the Kid divulged. Every one knew he oould use a lasso like a cowboy, and Croxford had asked him, just for deviltry, to join him and "some other fellers" in roping the •wall, Hunter, on the midnight relief, and he was going to, but happened to bear that Merriweather was in it, and that set him to thinking. He'd beard tbe women talking about Mrs. Merriweatber's boasting that she had made a oonqueat of tbe swell recruit, and be remembered Merriweather's black eye and tbe rumor that it was Hunter "laid him out," and the Kid scented mischief and backed out. Then Oroxford came and told him it would be best for bim to keep bis promise, as he might get tbe credit of it anyhow, which prompted the Kid to tell them all to go to Ballyhack. But when Elzey and Hughes later came and "stumped bim" to join them in a spree to town that night and displayed their money he forgot Croxford'a threat in the prospect of whisky and, anything for a frolic, started with them, only to run foul of the patrol just across tbe creek. plies failed to arrive. The Indians said, And when this was told to Mainwai* ing be bellowed, "Tben what in dash daahnation did Brady mean by bis story?" For Brady's story was practioally this: "Sold again," and scalped an attache of the nearest agency as a bint of what might bappeu to the agent himself if he didn't expedite those supplies. Mid-May failed to bring the goods, but it brought the grasN, and that was enough. Storm signals had been set for a fortnight, yet the tornado burst with sudden and shocking force. Five hundred warriors swooped suddenly iuto the lower valley of the Ska. Out went every available man from Ransom, Rossiter and Winthrop, and there was war to the knife juitiiily conspicuous, although Blake managed to mix in more thau oue of them. Between him and Mainwaring was patched a truce, baaed primarily ou the luttar'H admission that be bad probably made a muss of the whole business, bat really couldu't be held responsible iii the face of suoh testimony as was offered by prominent officers of the —th, Messrs. Brady and Rnwson. Then Blake apologized for comparing the head of the juuior major to the wreck of the magazine, and peace with honor, though not without difficulty, was established so far as tbe men were concerned. It was, in fact, less difficult than in the case of the women, for Miss Leroy had, it seems, a very pretty will of her own that Mrs. Mainwaring could neither bend nor break. Mrs. Mainwaring was of an old and distinguished family, and so was Miss Leroy, and the woman Miss Leroy most seriously affected was Mrs. Blake, nee Bryan, daughter of a rather dissolute old ranchman once well known about Russell. It stung Mrs. Mainwaring that ber niece should have, as she Baid to her and whispered to others, so little pride. The story spread in the regiment through what was whispered, not through what was said, and Miss Leroy, already popular, became a hot /jforite forthwith. "I always said that when Brady drank be oould be depended upon to make an aai of himself," aaid Blake, "and this proves it." Bat what Brady'■ revelation* might have been Mainwaring refused to disclose. It wai enough, be Mid, to bang Hunter high aa the bay man, and the hay contractor, in Main waring'a opinion, waa the double daabedest sooundrel that ever lived. Thia atatement ao rejoioed Blake'a heart that he repeated it broadcaat and waa In the merriest of moo da nntil he heard that Mainwaring had forbidden Captain Ray'a having an interview with hia imprisoned recruit. Then Blake boiled over and made the odiona comparison between Matnwaring'a brain and the blown np building which resulted in his own summary confinement to quarters. Brady's leave had still two days to run when Stannard got back, but Stannard had beard enough of his dolnga In Butte to warrant the immediate action taken. An officer was sent with the post ambulance and orders to fetch him forthwith. Then and there Dana waited on him with the major's message to the effect that he would give him 94 boura in which to sober up and faoe the music, and Brady had aenae enough to know be bad no time to lose. That be and Rawson occupied a room together over the one fine restaurant in Pawnee, and one night they were having supper in one box when a party of four railway hands came into that adjoining, talking loudly about the engineer of 783, old Jim Long, and tbe swell that engineered tbe hold up—bow he bad pretended to be out there to enliat in the oavalry, bow he had tried to ride with and get points from Long and had two or three of hia gang on that very train all ready for business, but waa acared off by the fact that there waa a carload of soldiers. Then when the train robbery did take place they nabbed aeven of tbe followers after a long chase, but never got the leaders at all. Why, one of them waa right there at the fort thia very day, enlisted so aa to divert auapioion, and he waa keeping hia band" in by engiueering other robberies. That magazine explosion they had read about was all hia doing. From a rocky point tbey oonld see outspread beneath tbem to the northward a beautiful park country, faintly pictured in the silvery light, and laying a hand on his companion's sleeve Hanter pointed afar down to their left front. "Yon are not much hurt. I hope, my good fellow? You're— Go9l God! Yon —Gjay? I vow I beard yon were deodl" and parted them both asunder, and EHjal went np by a whirlwind Into heaven." They atlll went on. Thia suggests the only thing tor the believer day by day that he ■till goes on growing In graoe and in the knowledge of oar Lord and Saviour (II Pet. ill, 18). 19. "And KlIAa aawtt, and be cried. My father, nay father! Theohsriot of lareel and the boreemen thereof! And he saw him no more, and he took bold of hi* own elothee and rent them In twopieoea." Mot for a moment did be take his eyes off him, end he was rewarded by seeing him taken. The one great dlfflauhy with believers la that we allow so many things to take our eyes off the Lord, yet we know that our Instructions are to ran with patience, looking unto Jesus, and to oonaider Him lest we be weary (Heb. ill, 8, I). Then la no other way of real Although Kliaha saw him no more for the preeent, he knew batter than to Imagine that ha waa on any at the mountains roundabout (v erase 16,IT). He knew that he waa aa really in heaven. 18. "He took up also the mantle of *11- jab that fell from hint and went bask said stood by the bank of Jordan." We are Instructed to put on the Lord Jeeua and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof (Rom. xlil, 14), to put on the new man, whloh after God la created in rlghteousneaa and true hollnees (Kph. A faint smile flitted a bent the bearded face, and the prostrate soldier winced as he answered, "And yon, Bokeby, I heard yon were married." ere the Gray Fox could interpose. A "dandy" battalion was that with which Mainwaring danced away that sweet May morning, men and horses the pictures of health and high condition and eager for tbe lield and the fray. Stannard, with his four troops, had marched eastward for tbe lower valley, but Mainwaring was to Hasten to the mns, gather up the little force (till in stockade at the nearest agency, then sweep on down to join the others. Tbe telegraph line was repaired to Crested Butte, where the mutiny began, and there canie this startling message jnst in time to meet them: Even when Mainwaring came it was useless to resume trooper relations, tot he found Hnnter installed in the best cot the tourists owned, the Kid, too, in clover despite the pain of bia wound. The doctor said Hunter's hurt would not soon heal, and Lord Lunemooth vowed that both w6re his guests until they could be safely moved and rather plainly intimated to the major that he considered one particular private at least of more account than the battalion commander, urtiich was subversive of good order and military discipline. Then of course Mainwaring bad to hear the truth, already known to Ray and rumored throughout the sorrels, that their swell oomrade was even an older friend of these swells from abroad. "The springs lie just south of that high butte," he murmured, "and there we'll find their camp, if only we can dodge the Indian watchers on the way." Aye, there was the rub, and there was no time to lose. Ever watohful, aa before, they began the gradual descent, And unerringly their iustinct led them to the lovely park country on tbe north side of the hills, for there was noble game in profusion. Thither must tbe lordly whites have gone, rich in horses, arms, stores and provisions of every kind, and for months the Sioux were starving. But tbe moment be heard of Hunter's being hauled out of the stream after tbe explosion tbe whole plot dawned on him, and something more, for he remembered the stories of forage and cartridges being sold in town and saw that it was planned to fix tbe guilt on Hunter, snd, if not, to fix tbe crime of tbe assault on the sacred person of a sentry upon himself, tbe innocent Kid. Then Stannard would have cross questioned tbe two deserters, for such they were, despite stalwart protestations that tbey were only out for 34 hours' fun, but detectives, ferreting their movements, warned him to make no attempt. Merriw eat her might make an antemortem statement, but not these men. Neither would Mrs. Merriweather'' peach.'' She was in tbe county jail begging piteously to be taken to her Danny and declaring he and sbe were only going to Pawnee to see her sister for a day, and he must have been waylaid in town. If Brady bad not been addled, he could have remembered that Hunter had enlisted before the train robbery took place. But he pouted baok to Butte, gave Mainwaring a wildly exaggerated aocount of what be bad heard, vowed he oould bring tbe men with him next trip, and Mainwaring, already Buspicioua, had ordered Hunter's arrest accordingly."Sioux agenoy reports that Lord Lunemnutb and party of friends, 13 in nil, including guides, passed up tbe Ska en route to the northern hills two daya before tbe outbreak. Use all means in your power to find and protect him. Acknowledge receipt and report action." It was the sight of the fresh hoof prints of fourscore ponies that settled all question of rest at the rivulet in tbe mind of Captain Ray. "Men," said he, "I hate to wear you out, but before another sunrise we must ciroumvent these fellows, or it's all up with the tourists." "Then where in thunder was it I met you before?" growled Mainwaring in distinct sense of personal injury as be looked down into the plaoidly smiling face of the wounded trooper, and Blake nearly exploded with delight over the oool response: Then another snarl bad to be disentangled in which Stannard oould not help, since it was purely domestic. The veteran post surgeon bad bad a flare up with Mainwaring, all on aooount of Trooper Hunter. Tbe doctor protested against bis patient's being put in tbe guardhouse, declaring that no matter what tbe charges were he was entitled to humane aawell as medical treatment. Mainwaring said the man of bis own volition bad removed himself from hospital aod therefore deeerved no consideration. Tbe doctor said if Hunter were kept in tbe prison room with tbe garrison malefactors overnight he would bold Mainwaring responsible for ill results that were certain to oocur, which staggered Mainwaring for a minute. Be finally compromised, ordered Huntar sent baok to hospital, but put in a room by himself with a sentry at tbe door and another at tbe window, and oiden prohibiting his being seen or spoken to by anybody except tbe doctors and tbe steward, unlees it were himself or on his own written order. She had oome to spend tbe winter, but as soon as tbe holidays were over and her precious post children had their Christmas tree and other Christmas joys—even before the new year was fairly ushered in—she returned from the morning reading one day and found Mrs. Mainwaring impatiently awaiting her. There were invitations for dinners, ato., extending a week, even ten days, ahead, and Mrs. Mainwaring wished to know which it was ber niece's pleasure to accept and was aghast at the reply— any that might be acceptable to aunty up to Jan. 5, none for ber after that date, as she would then have to return to New York. It was forwarded to Mainwaring by Atherton, who said he was coming posthaste to take command in parson in tbat part of tbe field; meantime to lose not a moment, but to do his best. As usual, the call went out for Ray. There were Irish troopers in tbe leading four who loved to talk of the Clanna-Gael and home rule for £rin and death to "England's cruel red" when time hung heavy on their hands in camp or barrack, but that seemed all forgotten now. Like the famous Mavericks, they only talked of mutiny when no other fighting was to be done. Only the horses seemed to groan at the command to mount, and once more on went tbe sorrels au secours. 'v, 84). We who receive the Lord Jems ind are saved by Him and delight to aay tilijah (my God is Jehovah) should take ■qual delight in saying Ellsha (my God la ■iaviour), and in making it manifest that le does save us from ourselves and from D11 self pleasing or self seeking. "Not I, ■nt Christ," In all our'dally Mfe. The faot that Hunter oould not have been conneoted with tbe robbery was pointed out to Mainwaring aa they aat in consultation, Mainwaring, Truaoott and Dana, in tbe adjutant's offioe that night, Blake being still in limbo, and Ray being exclnded because be bad resented Mainwaring's refusal to allow him an interview with hia imprisoned trooper. It was pointed out that Hunter's enlistment oonurred soma time previous to the train robbery, and none present happened to think of the faot that be bad asked for and obtained a paaa the very night before it happened. Then Brady was sent for, and with him came bis comrade, still on leave from Wintbrop, Mr. Rawson. "At the armory of my old regiment, when the major was on recruiting service in Mew York city. I had the honor of being on the reception committee the night of our ball." Two days later, away up among the pine crested heights, hot on the trail of a big war party of Indians, the sorrel troop was pushing. Mainwaring, with the three remaining oompanies, was 14. "And be took the mantle of Elijah bat fell from him and smote the water* ind said, Where is the Lord God of Kltjahf And when be also had smitten the waters, obey parted hither and thither, and Kliaha went over." Thus the Lord did for one person what He had done for two and what He had done for millions, even for all Israel Let us learn to cry with Asa, 'Lord, it ia nothing with Thee to help, whether with many or with them that have no power! Help us, O Eord, our Dod, for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we go against this multitude" (II O'hron. ziv, 11). Hunter knelt and sent ghot after ihot at "Good God I" said Mainwaring, "and yet you look just like a fellow that deserted from the dragoons!" every flitting form. peering from tree to tree, flitting like shadows from rock to rook, until at last they reached the lower limit of tbe timber line, and there before them lay an almost open valley, two miles wide, destitute of "cover" except along the stream that nearly equally divided it, and up that stream, perhaps two miles, nome white objects gleamed in the moonlight near a clump of trees, and there at Keogh's Springs, just as Hunter bad predicted, lay tbe threatened camp. But while Stannard was waiting for Merriweatber to regain consciousness and Brady to become once more a responsible being there oame still another witness, an old oarpenter and new citizen of Butte, who appeared at Ransom, solely troubled on account of a friend there enlisted wbom he hadn't seen for many a day—not, in fact, since tbe morning of tbe train robbery—and bad just heard of him as having been arrested for complicity in tbe robbery of the magazine. Stannard beard his story, whioh was that tbe accused was a man of means, a charitable, kind gentleman, who just for a whim had come out to enlist for awhile in the oavalry; that be had helped him, tbe carpenter, to a home and work and his wife to health, and bis clothes and things were all at hia, tbe ex-tramp carpenter's, bouse, and couldn't be see Mr. Hunter? Whereupon Stannard said, "Come on," took bim to the hospital and marched into tbe Ad hour after nightfall, in the bright light of the climbing moon, they had Bplashed throngh another shallow, foaming stream in another and narrower rift among the hills, two veteran sergeants, with Ray and Hunter, well out in front, when just as the foremost, a shadowy form, rode warily to a little point of bluff 300 yards ahead Ray's guuntleted hand swung high his soouting hat in air, as half turning in saddle he signaled "Haiti" for the leader rider was gesticulating wildly, and.Sergeant Connors came galloping back. No, Hunter didnt rise to a oommis sion. There was talk about it, but he had aoquired other views. He ia aaid to have remarked that the "N. G. N. Y. would suffloe in the future." His wounds proved painful. An honorable discharge was asked for and granted, and there was a big time at the agency when he and the Kid bade good by to their oomradbs and were taken back to Ransom in an ambulance, the Kid "rich beyond the dreams of avarice" with the largesse of Lancaster, and Gray parted with only after his promise to spend a month at the anoestral seat that very year. Remonstrance proved utterly useless. The second week in January saw Miss Leroy, accompanied to the station by most of the ladies and a few of their lords, safety aboard tne east bound train, with old 783 and Jimmy Long in the lead. There were dozens of the children there to bid her good by. There were even a number of enlisted men, with whom she warmly shook bands before she took her seat in the roomy Pullman. Captain and Mrs. Blake, her devoted friends, went with her as far as Omaha, where she was to join another party. Mrs. Mainwariug fairly dissolved in tears as they kissed each other goodby, for, after all, Kate was the daughter of a long loved, long lost brother, if she was headstrong and independent, and never yet had woman left the dingy precincts of old Ransom so generally and thoroughly esteemed. "Yon hear bow completely Sergeant Merriweather's antemortem statement bag cleared Hunter, gentlemen," said Stannard. "Now, I suppose, you are satiafied."16. "Aud when the sons of tbe prophets, which were to view at Jerloho, saw him, they Mid, The spirit of Rlljah doth rest on Kliiha. Aid tbefr oaine to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him." When the rulers saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled, and they took knowledge of them that they had bean with Jesus (Aota iv, IS). When the Spirit of tihriat has such complete possession of us that those who know us best see Him and not us, then God will be glorified in us as Ha was la Paul (Gal. 1, 84). It will largely depend upon the sincerity and earnestness But bow were they to reaoh it unobserved, for here and everywhere the Kid could point out fresh pony traoks, and even as they paused at the belt of piues away out on the slopes beyond, hidden from camp by intervening rises in the ground, dark forms of horsemen, three or four, were plainly visible, and the Kid could tell from old experienoe that nothing living would escape those watchers' eyes. "As to that point, major, yes," said Mr. Kawson, with preternatural sang froid. "But I understand you have ordered bis release, and be is to oome here presently for bis exoneration. Is that »o?" "Treed 'em, by God, sir!" he cried, in excitement irrepressible. "They've stopped for a scalp dance. You can hear 'em plain." Then Malnwaring had to go borne and taoe the women folk, and there for the first timet Misa Leroy, shooked and stunned, having gone to her room) did Mrs. Malnwaring have him to heraelf and tell him of the identification of Hunter aa the polite and helpful stranger of the night on the train. Then, furthermore, did she add her plea to the doctor's and finally admit that, much to her own distreea and consternation, the feared Pet WW actually deeply if not indeed very painfully interested in this mysterious trooper. In justice to Pet, she must aay that that young lady waa probably unaware of the feeling that bad been growing upon her until the denouement of that evening. She (Mrs. Malnwaring) had striven to wean her from the morning services, but without auooeaa, and now she knew not what bad happened, for Pet bad shut herself in her room and begged to be left undisturbed. Later Hunter went ea$t. The Blakes and Rays heard from him frequently fur several weeks. He was onoe mora under his uncle's roof, ouoe mora in daily company with the bereaved widower, now restored to partial healtb and unexpected fortune sinoe the tragic death of his wife, but when the hope of the house of Lancaster went back to England, Lunemouth's lung in surprising working order, Gray, who might have gone, declined. The Langdons were still abroad somewhere, and Amy wore no ooronet. It had somehow dawned on Rokeby that that ooronet was an indispensable adjunct to the engagement, and the glorious climate of California had played havoo with Amy's expectations. There was some society talk uf Gray's going in search of that lovely but disappointed damsel, and "No doubt," aald he to a serious faced, beautiful eyed yonng woman with whom he was found limping along the sands one August evening at the seashore, "no loubt I should have gone and been refused again but for just one thing." Yes, faint, but distinct, beating quicker every minute, the weird throb of the war drum could be heard, and with it the shrill whoop and yell of excited danoers. "Certainly," growled Stannard "What of it?" "Well, first I would ask the trooper when he ooines to say where be waa at the time of the robbery of the train." And Hawson's face beamed with the consciousness of calm conviction of an erring brother's guilt. But op the slope the trees were thicker, and again, though wearily, they sought their shelter and slowly crawled from clamp to clump until toward 8 o'clock they were nearly opposite the sleeping camp, lying ont thqpe in a lovely glade, barely long rifle shot away. "Then you're right, Hunter," promptly spoke the captain. "That can mean only one thing. They've located the party over in Keogh's park, just where you said they'd pitch their camp, and these beggars mean to jump them at dawn. 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MTTSTOS, FA. oa'mcHTOf • I •« ANCHOR" STOMACHAL beat tor I But every one wondered for all that —even the many who would not give their thought expression—whether ati understanding did not exist, whether she wan not going with the expectation of meeting somewhere the remarkable recruit by the name of Hunter, for Hunter had left on a month's furlough just ten drys before. Thru drank eagerly. Staunard nodded brusquely. "Entirely unnecessary, Mr. Kawson," said he. "Tbat has already been settled. He has witnesses in plenty—three, at least, here at the post or in town—to establish where be was at tbat very time. He spent tbat night and the morning following at the bouse of one Murray, a carpenter iu Butte." trotting down into the valley of the North Fork to intercept and beat back further parties should they be tempted to follow their friends in the search for the unsuspecting tourists. Athertqp, with the Winthrop battalion at bis heels, was coming across country to the support of Mainwaring, whilo old Staunard, on familiar ground, was rounding up stragglers down the Ska, herding them back to the agency and eagerly watching for the coming of the troops from Kossiter and the big posts away to the north. Then the Indians would be hemmed in. Twioe, thrice they had seen an Indian on nimble pony, moving cautiously about, well out of sight of camp. Time and again the coyotes yelped and loud mouthed challenge was bayed by suspicious watchdogs near the tents, but still the Saxons slept, all innocent of dauger, and time was getting fearfully short. Slowly, cautiously, the shadowy troop led forward to a grove of pines not far from the water's edge and close to the sheltering bluff beyond which the warriors were having their jollification. There tbey waited, breathless, the sound of revelry gaining every minute on the night. Taking Conuers and Hunter with him, Ray crept forward to reconuoiter —he and his sergeant veterans in the craft, Hunter a novice, whose heart beat wildly, but who never faltered. Mrs. MaiL waring declared that Kate's sole reason for going was that she was too conscientious. She found her health restored, no one remembered having heard of it as impaired, and she felt she must return to her kindred in the east and resume her interrupted duties there. But Mrs. Staungrd aud other wise women well kuew that the main reason for her going was that life with Uncle and Aunt Mainwaring was not as peaoefnl or congenial, despite their pride in and affection for her, as it should have been. Brady and Kawson exchanged glances indicative of incredulity, but Kawson then went on: Which was more than Pet would permit the major to be next day, however, for she waa np and on tbe lookout for him on hia return from stable*. He marveled and waa shocked at the pallor at her face, the trouble in her eyes. Without preliminary remark, aba went atraigbt to her subject. "Major Malnwaring, at what time and where may I see Trooper Hunter, aa yon call him, today V "Did yrru briny that flankl" " What's to hinder our orawling out as fur as we can go, then if we're seen shoot the sucker that tries to stop us and run for it?" muttered the Irishman. "It's the only chance I see." room where, seated in an easy chair, waa the invalid benefactor, and with him the old surgeon and tbe young lady. Dr. Jayne, it seems, bad suddenly diacontinued his attentions to both tbe patient and tbe nurse. "In justice to my friend Mr. Brady and myself, I ask that he be required, then, to brinK with him tbe silver topped flask the steward says he has there in bis room this very day and explain where he waa the morning of the train robbery if not with the robbers." But meantime what damage might they not do! There were no railways then save the few trunk lines, no means, except by marobing, to reach the fabled Indian lauds, aud Lo was in his glory. Warned of their peril, settlers, herders and stockmen had taken to flight aud abandoned the lower valley, 60 the Indian was riding, proud monarch of all be surveyed, over the hroad waste of the lowlands, burning, pillaging and raising, us the newspaper men first on the scene expressed it, "no scalps, but much hell." If only good news could be heard of tboee tourists, all might yet be well. The moon was well over to the west, but still so high her light betrayed every moving object in the open ground, but, as the Kid explained, there seemed to be no other way. Down went the two fiat upon their stomachs, and the slow, tortuous process began. Before tbey had made 100 yards Celtio patienoe gave out. "D d if I can stand this!" said the Irishman. "There's not an Indian lu sight now. Come on. Let's run for it." "And what was that, pray?" afcked Vliss Leroy, a quiver about her lipa despite her nonchalanoe of manner, for ha lad been her shadow since he oante. It struck Stannard unpleasantly at the time tbat no one of them looked pleased at hia coming, but men are obtuse. A woman would have appreciated the impropriety of interruption at a glanoe. Fast and furious drove the dance. Loud and shrill arose the whoops and warcries, dying away at times like the yelp of prairie wolves to faint and distant gurgling, then swelling again like the chorus of hounds in full view of the quarry. Drum, rattle and piercing whistle added to the clamor, echoed baok from the dark, pine crested cliffs that overhung this wild nook in tbe hills. Fresh fagots heaped upon the fire threw the dusky, writhing forma, resplendent in war bonnet and savage finery, into bold relief, and Rav'a brave. Stannard snorted derisively, but sent tbe order as requested, and just as the first call was sounding for tattoo Trooper Hunter, pallid, yet calm and self possessed and decidedly prepossessing, was nsbered iu and stood patiently at attention.And then there was still another and more vital reason. "Everybody" was talking about her interest in Trooper Hunter aud bis undoubted admiration for her. But Hunter had had to go back to duty with his troop, had met Miss Leroy only on the long afternoons and evenings when he, with two or three other bluejackets, worked at the festooning and deoorating under her active supervision of tbe poet assembly hall. Tfeen bad bad an interview with "Wall—I, I'm sure I don't know, Kate," for the major, like many a lion among men, waa a lamb among women. "I—don't think you—ought to wiah to aae him." "This," said be, taking from an Inner pocket a worn little glove of un- Iressed kid. "It was dropped by my bedside when I lay in hospital at Random. I have been looking, longing, for the hand that lost it ever sinoe." And even while they stood there, beaitant, at the door tbe steward came hurriedly to say that Merriweather was oonaciooa and had asked for hia wife and a priest. The two veteran majors, [tsooyer and doctor, hastened at enoa to "But I do wiah it, major. Moreover, I should be aabamed of myaelf if I did •ot." And tbe reply conveyed all tbe Staunard looked him carefully over end said, "Did you bring that flask'/" to which the aoldier calmly replied: THE END. MINER8' SAVINGS BANK, of Prrrero*. _ Interest paid on Deposits twice a year, ftanaral baarag business done. C. M BMU». Suiting action to tbe word, tbe little •inner was on hie feet and in another minute skimming away like a raoer lo tbe eoaL  O ASTORIA. Bears the »TllD Kind VOU H«l A»W|S Boufht T" "I did, air, rather unwillingly." ** Why unwillingly?" «.** Bewailhaw a onto* anU» But what mad brained triok could have prompted bo picnic?