ML. If ABG&U lift). v Auther of "Dchiuyw lUncM," TmtObll K. Cepyrlgfct, by J. pabHtbad CHATTER L "Ha thU, porter." In the Pullman car of the westward ad express, half way across the con st, two passengers were Razing list dy out ercr the wintry landscape. It 1 a bitter morning in February. North ad south the treeless prairie rolled away 1 successive ridge and depression. The I snow lay deep in the dry ravines and streaked the sea like surf ace with jagged pines 01 ream, between which lay bread paces clean swept by the gale. Heavy masses of cloud, dark and forbidding, draped the sky from zenith te horizon, and the air was thick with spiteful gusts and spits of snow, crackling against the window panes, making fierce dashes very rime a car deer was hurriedly opened, and driving about the platforms like a myriad swarm of fleecy and ag gresslve gnats raging for battle. Every new and then, responsive te some wilder Mast, a blinding white cloud came whirl- r from the depths of the nearest cull. d breaking like spray ever the snow ace along the line. Net a sign of life 1 visible. be tiny mounds in the villages of the Jrie dogs seemed blocked and frozen; -the trusty sentinel had "deserted ft" and huddled with his fellows for nth and shelter in the bowels of the lib. Fluttering owl and skulking ltte, tee, had vanished from the face ature. Timid antelope fleetest irsers of the prairie and stolid Bed cattle had cone, none knew hither, nor cared te knew until the blizzard" had subsided. Twe heavy hgines fought their way, panting, into he very teeth of the gale and slewlv round the long train after them up de among the foothills of the great steau of the Reckies. Once in a Ihilc, when stepping for a moment at rate group of brown painted sheds and 1 battened shanties, the wind moaned bd howled among the iron braces and Ice chains beneath the car. and made nch mournful noise that it was a relief ) Start once mero and lese sound of its tailing in the general rumble. As for he scenery, only as a picture of shiver Iroveking monotony and desolation Did one care te take a second leek. ad yet, some miles ahead, striving I te reach the railway in time te in- rcept this very train, a small battalion Icavalry was struggling through the sts, officers and men afoot and dree ing their own benumbed limbs and half numbed cliargers through the drifts hat lay deep at the bottom of every alee." Seme few soldiers remained i saddle; they were tee frozen te walk all. Seme few fell behind, and would are thrown themselves flat upon the sirie in the lethargy that is but prerue- Itien of death by freezing. Like men half adened by morphine, their rescue de- nded en heroic measures, humane in elr seeming brutality. Officers who at aer times were all gentleness new fell en .the hapless stragglers with kicks kd blows. As the train drew up at the htferm of a station in mid-prairie, a brseman enveloped in fur and frost and 1 from his panting steed reined up de the leading engine and shouted te 1 occupants of the cab: "Fer Ged's sake held en a few min- We've get a dozen frozen men tth us we must send en te Fert War- Iner. And the train was held. (Meantime, theso far te the rear in the leeper knew nothing of what was going ahead. The car was warm and com- ttable, and most of its occupants were atly appreciative of its shelter and snots in contrast with the cheerless 36 without. A motherly looking an had produced her knitting, and i blithely clicking an ay at her needles, fiile her enterprising son, a youth of nr summers and undaunted commence Iranian nature, tacked up and down aisle and made imiietueus incursions I the various sections by turns, rrceiv- : such modified w elcorue as could be erded features streaked with mingled dy and cinders, and fingers whose ensity te cling te whatsoever they Ghed was due no raeic te instincts of iatery nature than te the adhesive Irties of the glucese w hich formed a constituent of the confections ad been industriously consuming ) early morning. Four men playing st in the rearmost section, two or i commercial travelers, whose intl- cy with the porter and airs of easy Iprictorshipteld of an apparent con- lling interest in the read, a young 1 of reserved manners, reading in a ion all by himself, a baby sleeping etly upon the seat opposite, the two Dgers first mentioned, and a Maltese bn curled up in tne lap 01 ene of a, completed the list of occupants. be proximity of the baby and the In furnishes strong presumptive ence of the sex and general cendi- of the two passengers referred te, enders detail superfluous. A baby travels without a woman, or a with a woman already encum- with a baby. The baby belonged 1 elder passenger, the kitten te the eer, J.110 ene was a Duxem matron, Iber a slender maid. In their ages suat have been a difference of fif- fears: in feature tncre was still I disparity. The elder was a flue woman, and ene who prided upon the Junoesaue proportions khe occasionally exhibited in a exercibe up and down the aisle, bne would call her a beauty. were of a somewhat fishy and blue; the lids were tinged liernamcntal pink that told of If the adjacent interior sur- I possible irritability of tern tern implexien was of that met- jicu is se sere a trial te its ll yet se inestimable a com- rivals; but her features be, her teeth One, her dress, pincaner these 01 a woman .. lef her owns fl Iwaaflrm; it K Ihersthat Baa 'c ipatult dtt," kMsasaX 'man ia the lartit King) Dicevru," "MAateiia Faith," Etc. B. LlpplaceH Company, Fhlladeipkla, and by special arraagfat wHh them.1 of birth and breeding, and yet one who might have reseated the intimation that he wa aet strikingly handsome. She looked like a woman with a will her head was high, her atop was of just such a walk aa Virgil wrote Ma "vera lactam and ah made tha young section by himself think of that very passage aa he glaaeed at her from under his heavy, bushy eyebrows. She looked, moreover, like a woman with a capacity for influencing people contrary te their will and judgment, and with a decided fondness for the exercise of that unpopular function. There was the air of grande dame about her, despite the simplicity of her dress, which, though of rich material, was severely plain. Bhowereno jewelry. Her hands were snugly gloved and undisflgured by the distortions of any ring except the mar riage circlet. Her manner attested her a person of consequence in her social circle and one who realized the fact 8he had repelled, though without rude ness or discourtesy, the garrulous efforts of the motherly knitter te be sociable. She had promptly inspired the small, candy crusted explorer with such awe that he had refrained from further visits after his first confiding attempt te, peke a sticky finger through the baby's velvety cheek. She had spared little scorn in her rejection of the bourgeois advances of the commercial traveler with the lan guishing eyes of Israel; he confided te his comrades, in relating the incident,, that she was smart enough te see that it' wasn't her he was hankering te knew, but the pretty sister by her side; and when challenged te prove that they were sisters a statement which aroused the skepticism of his shrewd associates he had replied, substantially! "Hew de I knew? 'Cause I saw their pass before you was up this morning, cully. It's for Mrs. Copt. Rayncr and siBter, and they're going out here te Fert Warrcner. That's hew I knew." And the porter of the car had confirmed the statement in the sanctity of the smoking room. And yet such Is the uncertainty of feminine temperament Mrs. Rayncr was no mero incensed at the commercial "gent" because he had obtruded his at tentions than she was at the young man reading in his own section because he had refrained. Nearly twenty-four hours had elapsed since they crossed the Mis souri, and in a that time net once had she detected in him a glance that be trayed the faintest interest in her or still mere remarkable in the unques tionably lovely girl at her side. Intra siveness she might resent, but indiffer ence she would and did. Who was this youth, she wondered, who net once had se much as stolen a leek at the sweet, bonny face of her maiden sister? Surely 'twas a face any man would love te gaze upon se fair, be exquisite in contour aud feature, se pearly in complexion, se lovely in the deep, dark brown of its shaded eyes. The bold glances of the four card play ers she had defiantly returned and van quished. These men, like the traveling gents, were creatures of coarser meld; out her experienced eye told her the seli tary occupant of the opposite section was a gcntleraaift The clear cut of his pale features, the white, slender hand and shapely feet, the style and finish of his quiet traveling dress, the soft modulation and refined tone of his voice en the one occasion when she heard him reply te some importunity of the train boy with his endless round of equally questionable figs and fiction, the book he was reading a volume of Emersen all combined te speak of a culture and position equal te her own. She had been ever the trans continental railways often enough te knew that it was permissible for gentle men te render their fellow passengers seme slight attention which would lead te mutual introductions if desirable; and this man refused te see that the oppor tunity was open te him. True, w hen first she took her survey of these who were te b her fellow trav elers at the "transfer" en the Missouri, she decided that here was one against wlsein it would be necessary te guard the approaches. She had geed and sufficient reasons for wanting no young man as at tractive in appearance as this one mak ing himself intciesting te pretty Nellie en their journey. She had already de cided what was Ne!""'s future was te be. Never, indeed, would she have taken her te the gay frontier station whither she was new en route, bad net that fu ture been already settled te her satisfac tion. NellieTravcrs, barely out of school, was betrothed, and willingly se, te the man she, her devoted elder sister, had especially chosen. Rare and most un likely of conditions! alie hed apparently fallen in love with the man picked out for her by somebody else. She was en gaged te Mrs. Rayncr's fascinating friend Mr. Steven Van Antwerp, a scion of an old and esteemed and wealthy family; and Mr. Van Antwerp, who had been educated abroad, and had a Heidel berg bear en his left check, and dark, lustrous eyes, and wavy hair almost raven was a devoted lever, though fully fifteen years Miss Nellie's senior. Full of bliss and comfort was Mrs. Rayner's soul as she journeyed westward te rejoin her husband at the distant frontier pest she had net seen since the early spring. Army woman as she was, born and bred under the shadow of the flag, a soldier's daughter, a soldier's wife, she had ether ambitions for her beauti ful Nell. Worldly te the core, she her self would never have married in the army but for the unusual circumstance of a wealthy subaltern among the officers of her father s regiment. Tradition had it that Mr. Rayner was net among the number of theso who sighed for Kate Trevers guarded smiles. Her earlier victims were kept a-dangling until Ray ner, tee, succumbed, and then were sent adrift. She meant that no penniless sub altern should carry off her "baby sister" they had long been motherless and a season at the seashore had done hex work well. Steven Van Antwerp, with genuine distress and loneliness, went back te his duties in Wall street after seeing them safely en their way te the west. "Guard her well for me," he whispered te Mrs. Rayncr. "I dread these fellows in buttons." And he shiv ered unaccountably as he spoke. Nellie was pledged, therefore, and this youth in the Pullman was net one of "theso fellows in buttons," se far aa Mrs. Rajner knew, but she was ready te warn him off, and meant te de se, until, te her surprise, she saw tliat he gave no symptom of a desire te approach. By neon of the second day she was as deter mined te extract from him seme sign of intere-tt as she had been determined te riHjfnt it. I ran in nil ui-a exnblii nt F' ' I I II ' Jill ,i , i, i i', 1 , i "Hf', luu, . flaa'fae 'm'atassd 1. vtmmtm: "M a aat MM Me svi ,ir earth can 1 waba ataartat aa err was Mm. Raraer's aeete leat JnauJrr. addressed tn.itn tatearUcaW.' Then waa aVreal. TravaMwaa heallv iw)LVl,u. ska aw of tha" kitten sat the moment aad sparring wtth upraised finger at tha threatening paw, ; "De leek out of the window, Nell, aad Ml " "There te nothing te sec, Kate sett ing but whirBag drifts aad a big water tank all covered with fee. Br-r-r-rl hew cold it leeks!" aha answered, after vainly flattening her laca against tha inner pane. "There mutt be something tha shatter, though," persisted Mrs. Rayner. "We have been here full five minutes, and w are behind time new. At this rate wall Sever get te Warrener te-Bight, I de iih the porter would stay here where he'belengs," The young man quietly laid down his boekandarose. "I will Inquire, madam,' he said, wtth grave courtesy. "Yeu shall knew in a moment" "Hew very kind of you!" said the lady. "Indeed I must net trouble you. I'm sure the porter will be here after a while." And even as she spoke, and as he was pulling en an overcoat, the train rum bled off again. Then came an exclama tion, this time from the yeunger: "Why, Kate! Loekt tee all these men and horses! Why, they are soldiers cavalry! Oh, hew I lore te see them again! But, eh, hew cold they look leek frown!" T "Who can they be?' said Mrs. Rayner, all vehement interest new, and gazing eagerly from the window at the lowered heads of the horses and the muffled fig ures in blue and fur. "What can they be doing in the field in such awful weather? I cannot recognize one el them, or tell officers from men. Surely that must be Capt. Wayne -and Maj. Stannard. Oh, what can it mean?" The young man had suddenly leaped te the window behind them, and was gazing out with an eagerness and inter est llttle less apparent than her own; but In a moment the train had whisked them out of sight of the storm beaten troopers. Then he hurried te the rear window of the car, and Mrs. Rayner as hastily followed. "De you knew them?" she asked. "Yes. That was Maj. Stannard. It it his battalion of the th cavalry, and they have been out scouting after rene gade Cheyenncs. Parden me, madame, I must go forward and see who have bearded the train." He stepped at bis section, and again she followed him, her eyes full of anx iety. He was busy tugging at a flask in his traveling bag. "Yeu knew them! De you knew have you heard of any infantry being out? Parden me for detaining you, but I am very anxious. My husband is Capt. Rayner, of Fert Warrener." "Ne infantry have been sent, madame, I have reason te knew; at least, none from Warrener." And with that he hurriedly bowed and left her. The next moment, flask in hand, he was crossing the storm swept platform and making his way te the head of the train. "I beliove he is an officer," said Mrs. Rayner te her sister. "Who else would be apt te knew about the movement e' the troops? Did you netice hew gcntle his manner was? and he never smiled. He has such a sad face. Yet he can't be an officer, or he would have made him self known te us long age." "Is there no name en the satchel?'' asked Mhs Travers, with pardonable curi osity. 1,He has an interesting face net handsome.'.' Ami a dreamy leek came into her deep eyes. She was thinking, no doubt, of n dark, oval, distingue face with raen hair and mustache. The youth in the traveling suit was net tall, lrke Steven net singularly, romantical ly handsome, like Steven. Indeed, he was of lees interest te her than te her married siBter. Mrs. Rayncr could see no name en the satchel, only two initials; and they re vealed very little. "I have half a mind te peep at the fly leaf of that book," bIie said. "He walk ed just like a soldier; but there isn't anything there te indicate what he is," she continued, with a doubtful glance at the items scattered about the new vacant section. "Why isn't that porter here? He ought te knew who people are." Aa though te answer her request, in came the porter, disheveled and breath less. He made straight for the satchel they had been scrutinizing, and opened it without ceremony. Beth ladies re garded this proceeding with natural astonishment, and Mrs. Rayner was about te interfere and question his right te search the luggage of passengers, when the man tunned hurriedly towards them, exhibiting a little bundle of hand kerchiefs, his bread Ethiopian face clouded with anxiety and cencern: "The gentleman told me te take all his handkerchiefs. We'se get a dozen frozen soldiers in the baggage car some of 'em mighty bad and they'se tryin' te make 'cm comfortable until they get te the fort." "Soldiers frozen! Why de you take them in the baggage car? such a barn of a place! Why weren't they brought here, where we could make them worm and care for them?" exclaimed Mrs. Ray ncr, in impulsive indignation. "Laws, ma'am! never de in the world te bring frozen peeple into a het carl Sure te make their ears an' noses drop off, that would! Get te keep 'cm in the cold and pile snow around 'cm. That gentleman sittin' here he knows," he continued; "he's an officer, and him and the doctor's werkin' with 'em new." And Airs, uayncr, vanquished by a statement of facts well known te her yet forgotten in the first impetuosity of her criticism, relapsed into the silence of temporary defeat. "He is en officer, then," said Misa Travers, presently. "I wonder what he belongs te." "Net te our regiment, I'm sure. Prob ably te the cavalry. He knew Maj. Stan nard and ether officers whom we passed there." "Did he speak te them?" "Ne; there was no time. We were be yond hearing distance when he ran te the back deer of the car; and there was no time befere that. But it's very eddl" "What's very odd?" "Why, his conduct. It is se strange that he has net made himself known te us, if he's en officer." "Probably he doesn't knew you or w 0 arc connected with the army, Kate." "Oh, yes, he does. The porter knows perfectly w ell, and I told him just before he left." "Yes, but he didn't knew before that time, did he?" "He ought te have known," said Mrs, Rayncr, uncompromisingly. "At least, he should if he hail taken theiaintcst interest. I mentioned Capt. Rayncr 60 that he could net help hearing." This statement being one that Miss Travers could in no wise contradict as it was 0110, indevd, that Mrs. Rayncr could have dispensed with as unneces sary the younger lady again betook herself te silence aud pulling the kitten'i ears. "Even if he didn't knew before," con tinued her sister, after a piuse in which she had apjuu-ntly been breeding eicr the indiffercuce of the young man iu tie elf te altar I 6M Ms lmfl AaaUktr maae.:WTeta what' I did it' JL aa. lu aaaataawi aadav xajMahatstaasklas) I AtM that's what I thought," said Mlat Treter,withaietamMe. "However, he had ae Hat then s he waa burrving off te ate whether any of the aeMien had coate'eB beard.- He took Mi ak with hit, aad apparently waa in haste te offer aeaM one a drink. I'm aare that la what jhaaaaard te de.f-ehe added, at he law a frown gathering ea her sitter's face, if ' " "What papa did just after the war a time when everybody drank te aet at all the proper thiagaew.' CiptlUyaet never touches it, aad I dent "allow H te the house," - "Still I should think it a very ueefei article when a let of freaen and ex hauetcd asea are ea .one's hand," said Miss Travers. "That was but a ahall flask ha had and Tre tare they'll aeed mere." ' There came a rush of cold air from the front, aad the twinging deer blew open ahead of the porter, who was heard banging shut the outer portal. Then he hurried la. "Can some of you gentlemen oblige me with some whisky or brandy?" he asked. "We've get some f resea soldiers aboard. Twe of 'eta are pretty nearly gene." Twe e the card players dropped their hands and started for their section at once. Before they could rummage in their bags for the required article Mrs. Rayner's voice was beard: "Take this, porter." And she held forth' a little sil ver flask., ,"I have mero in my trunk if It is needed," she added, while a blush mounted te her forehead as she saw the quizzical smile en her sister's face. "Yeu knew I always carry it in travel ing, Nellie In case of accident or ill iisms, and Fm most thankful I have it new." "Ever se much obliged, ma'am," said the porter, "but this would be only a thimbleful and I can get a quart bottle of this gentleman." "Where are they?" said the person thus referred te, as he came down the nisle with a big brown bottle in bis liand. "Come, Jim, let's go and see what we can de. One of you gentlemen take my place in the game," he contin ued, indicating the commercial gents, two of whom, nothing loath, dropped nte the vacated seats, while the ethers lushed en te the front of the train. The erter hesitated ene moment. "Yes, take my flask; I shouldn't feel Litisficd without doing something. And please say te the office that I'm Mrs. Itayner Mrs. Capt. Rayner, of the in fantryand ask if there isn't something I can de te help." "Yes, ma'am; I will, ma'am. Oh, he knows who you are; I done told him last night He's gein' te Fert Warrener, tee." And, touching his cap, away went the porter. "There! He did knew all along," said Mrs. Rayner triumphantly. "It is most extraordinary." "Well, is it the proper thing for peo pee pee peo in the army te introduce themselves when traveling? Hew are they te knew it will be agreeable?" "Agreeable? Why, Nellie, it's always done, especially when ladies are travel ing without an escort, as we are. The commonest civility should prompt it, and officers always send their cards by the porter the moment they find army ladies arc en the train. I don't understand this ene at all, especially" But here she broke off abruptly. "Especially what?" naked Miss Nell, with an inspiration of maidenly curios ity. "Especially nothing. Never mind new." And here "the baby began te fidget, and stir about, and stretch forth his chubby hands, and thrust his knuckles in his eyes, and pucker up his face in alarming bontertions preparatory te a wail, and after one or two seething and tentative sounds of "sh sh sh sh" from the maternal lips the matron abandoned the attempt te Induce a sec ond nap, and picked him up in her arms, where he presently began te take gra cious netice of his pretty aunt and the kitten. Twe hours later, just as the porter had notified them that Warrener Station would be in sight in five minutes, the young man of the opposite section re turned te the car. He looked tired, very anxious, and his face was paler and the sad expression mero pronounced than befere. The train conductor stepped him te speak of seme telegrams that had been sent, and both ladies noted the re spect which the railway official threw into the tone in which he spoke. The card players stepped their game and went up te ask after the frozen men. It was net until the whistle was sound ing for the station that he steed before them and with a grave and courteous bow held forth Mrs. Rayner's ail vor flask. "It vas a blessing te ene peer fellow at least, and I thank you for him, madam," he said. "I have been se anxious. I wanted te de something. Did you net get my mes sage, Mr. r" she asked, with inten tional pause that he might supply the missing name. "Indeed there was nothing we could ask of you," he answered, totally ignor ing the evident Invitation. "I am great ly obliged te you for your kindness, but we had abundant help, and you really could net have reached the car in the face of this gale. Geed morning, mad am." And with that he raised his fur traveling cap and quickly turned te his section and busied himself strapping up his various belongings. "The man must be a woman hater," she whispered te Miss Travers. "He's going te get out here, tee. Who can he There was still a moment before the train w euld step at the platform, and she was net te be beaten se easily. Bending partly across the aisle she speke again: "Yeu have been se kind te these peer fellows that I fcel sure you must be of the army. I think I told you I am Mrs. Rayner, of Fert Warrener. May we net hepe te see you there?" A deep flush rese te his forehead, suf fusing bis checks, and passed as quickly away. His mouth twitched and trembled. Gazing at him in surprise and trouble, Nellie Travers saw that his face was full of pain and was turning white again. He halt choked before he could reply; he speke low and yet distinctly, and the words were full of sadness: "It it is net probable that we shall meet at all." And with that he turned away. CHAPTER II. Kven in the excitement attendant upent their reception at the station neither Mrs. Rayner nor htr sister could entirely re cover from the surprise and pain which the stranger's singular words had caused. Se far from feeling in the least rebuffed, Mr. Rayner well understood from his manner that net the faintest discourtesy was intended. There was net a symptom of rudeness, net a vestige of irritation or haste, in his tone. Deep embarrassment, inexpressible sadness even, she read in the brief glimpse she bad of his paling face. It was all a mystery te ner and te the girl seated iu silence by her side. Beth followed him with their eyes as he Lurried away te the rear of the car, and then, with joyous shouts, three or four burly, fur enveloped men came bursting ill the front deccaud the two ladies. ay a group thai laaNy front the welcoming embrace ee her stalwart husband, Mrs, Rayner found Ume te present the ether aad younger atacers te her sister. As many aa half a deaen had followed the eantata hi hte 'wild rush upon the ear, aud, while ha aad his baby boy were resuming ae tuatataaeeehip after a separaUea of many long saeaths, Miss Travers found herself the eenter of a circle of young "efneers who had braved the wlatry blla aard la their eagerness te de her proper homage. Her cheeks were aaasae with exchesseat aad pleasure, her eyes daac tag, aad despite the fatigue of her long journey the was looking dangerously pretty, aa Capt Rayaer glaaeed for a saeeaeat from the baby's wondering eyes, took in the picture like an Instan taneous photograph, and then looked again into Mrs. Rayner's smiling face. "Yeu were wise in providing against peeslbttHiee aa you did, Kate," he said, .with a significant nod of the head, ''There are as many as a deaea of them, or at least there will be when the th get back from the field. Stannard te eat yet with his battalion." "Oh, yes; we taw them at a station east of here. They looked fresea te death; aad there are ever se many of the soldiers f resen. The baggage car te full of them. Didn't you knew itT "Net a word of It We have been here for three mortal hours watting at the station, and any telegrams must have been sen: right out te the fort The colonel is there, and he would have all arrangements made. Here, Graham! Fester! Mrs. Rayner says there are a let of f resen cavalrymen forward in the baggage car. Run ahead and see what is necessary, will you? I'll be there in a minute, as seen as we've get these ladies. 011 uie inun. Twe of the young gentlemen who nod been hovering around Miss Tfavers took themselves off without a moment's delay. The ethers remained te help their senior officer. Out into the whirling eddies of snow, bundling them up in the big, warm capes of their regulation over coats, the officers half led, half carried their precious charges. The captain bore his son and heir; Lieut Rew escorted Mrs. Rayner; two ethers devoted them selves exclusively te Miss Travers; a fourth picked up the Maltese kitten. Twe or tlirce smart, trim looking in fantry soldiers cleared the section of bags and bundles of shawls, and the en tire party was seen within the doorway of the waiting room, where a red het coal stove glowed fierce welcome. Here the ladies were left for a moment, while all the officers again bustled out into tha storm and fought their way against the northwest gale until they reached the little crowd gathered about the doorway of the freight sheds. A stout, short, burly man in beaver overcoat and cap pushed through the knot of half numbed spectators and approached their leaders "We have only two ambulances, cap tainthat is all there was at the pest when the dispatch came aad there are a dozen of these men, besides Dr. Grimes, all mere or less crippled, and Grimes has both hands frozen. We must get them out at once. Can we take yeur wagon?" "Certainly, doctor. Take anything we have. If the storm holds, tell the driver net te try te come back for us. We can make the ladies comfortable here at the hotel for the night. Seme of the officers have te get back for duties this evening. The rest will have te stay. Hew did they happen te get caught in such a freezer "They couldn't help it. Stannard bad chased the Cheyennes across the range, and was ordered te get back te the rail way. It was twenty below when they started, and they made three days' chase in that weather; but no one teemed te care se long as they were en the trail. Then came the change of wind, and a driving snow storm, In which they lust the trail as a matter of course; and then this blizzard struck them en the back track. Grimes is se exhausted that he could barely held out until he get here. He says he never could have brought them through from Buff Siding but for Mr. Hayne: he did everything." "Mr. Haynel Was he with them?" "He was en the train, and came in at once te offer his services. Grimes says he was invaluable." "But Mr. Hayne was east en leave; 1 knew he was. He was promoted te my company last month confound the luck and was te have six months' leave be fore joining. I wish it was six years. Where is he new?" And the captain peered excitedly around from under his shaggy cap. Oddly, tee, his face was paling. "He left as seen as I took charge. 1 don't knew where he's gene; but it's Ged's mercy he was with these peer fellows. His skill and care have dens everything for them. Where did he get his knowledge?" "I have no idea," said Capt. Rayner, gruffly, and in evident ill humor. "He is the last roan I expected te see this day or for days te ceme. Is there any thing else I can de, doctor?" "Nothing, thank you, captain." And the little surgeon hastened back te his charges, followed by seme of the young er officers, eager te be of assistance in caring for their disabled comrades. Rayner himself hesitated a moment, then turned about and trudged heavily back along the wind swept platform. The train had pulled away and was out of sight in the whirl of snow ever the western prairies. He went te his own substantial wagon and shouted te the driver, who sat muffled in buffalo fur en the bex: "Get around there te the freight house and report te the doctor. There is a let of frozen cavalrymen te be taken out te the hospital. Don't try te come back for us te-night; we'll stay here in town. Send the quartermaster's team in for the trunks as seen as the storm is ever and the read clear. That's all." Then he rejoined the party at the wait ing room of the station, and Mrs. Rayner noted instantly that ail the cheeriness had gene and that a cloud had settled en his face. She was a shrewd observer, an 1 she knew him well. Something mere serious than a mishap te a squad of sol diers had brought about the sudden chance. He was all gladness, all rejeic ing and delight, when he clasped her and his baby boy in his arms but ten minutes before, and new something had occur red te bring him serious discomfort. She rested her hand en his arm and looked qucstieningly in his face. He avoided her glance and quickly began te talk. She saw that he desired te answer no questions just then, and wisely refrained. Meantime, Miss Travers was chatting blithely with two young gallants, who had returned te her side, and who had thrown off their heavy f urt and steed re vealed In their bocem'og undress uni forms. Mr. Ress had gene te leek ever the rooms which the host of the railway hotel hed offered for the use of the party; the liaby waa yielding te the inevitable and gradually condescending te notice the efforts of Mr. Fester te scrape ac quaintance; tha kitten, with dainty step, and ears and tail erect, was making a leisurely inspection of the premises, sniff ing about the- few benches and chairs with which thebare room was burdened, and rcoeniioitcring the deer lending te the hallway w ith cvideut desire tfO extend apeaisad : Atf'y A . il m-that dlreeUen. Pre. eatly that vary deer opened, aad la came two or three bundles of far ia matcallne shape, and with them two shaggy deer hounds, who darted straight at the kit tea. There was a sudden flurry and scat ter, a fury of spits and scratching, a yelp of pain from one brute with lacerated aeae, a sudden recoil of both bounds, and then a aery rush through the open door way in pursuit of puss. After the first gallant instinct of battle heraervdhad given out, and she had sought safety tn flight "Oh, don't let them hurt her!" cried Miss Travers, as the darted Inte the hall and gazed desnaringly up the stairway te the second story, whither the dogs had vanished like a flash. Twe of the young officers sped te the rescue and turned the wrong way, Mrs. Rayner and the cap tain followed her into the hall. A rush of canine feet and an excited chorus of barks and yelps were heard aloft; then a stern voice ordering, "Down, you brutes!" a sudden howl as though in re sponse te a vigorous kick, aad an instant later, bearing the kitten, ruffled, terri fied and wildly excited, yet unharmed, there came springing lightly down the steps the young man in civilian dress who was their fellow traveler en the Pullman, Without a word he gave lib. prise into the dainty hands outstretched te receive it, and never stepping an in stant, never listening te the eager words of thanks from her pretty lips, lie darted back aa quickly aa he came, leaving Mist Travers suddenly stricken dumb. y Capt Rayner turned sbhjapiKi his heel and stepped baclsdflsWwaillng room. Mr. Ress nudged 3rbrether lieu tenant and whisperedf "By gadl that's awkward for Midasf Thn two subalterns who had inkfnV'the wng turn at the top of the stairs reappeared there just as 'the, rescuer shot past them en his way back, and steed staring, first after bli disappearieg form, and then at each ether. Miss Travers, with wonder and relief curiously mingled In her sweet face, clung te her restored kitten and vgazed vacantly up the stairs. Mrs. Rayner looked confusedly from one te the ether, quickly netiug the con straint In the manner of every officer present and the sudden disappearance of her husband. There was an odd silence for a moment; then the spoke 1 "Mr. Ress, de you knew that gentle man?' "I knew who he Is. Yes." "Who Is he, then?" "He Is your husband's new first lieu tenant, Mrs. Rayner. That ia Mr, Hayne." "That! Mr. Hayne?" she exclaimed, growing suddenly pale. , "Certainly, madam.. Had you never seen him before?'' "Never; and I expected I didn't ex pect te see such a" And she broke 1 short off, confused nnd plainly distressed, , turned abruptly, and left the hall as had her hushnnd Obnfinusd ntzi Saturday SUN DANCE OF THE SIOUX. ORtAT BY RELIGIOUS CELEBRATION AMERICAN INDIANS. Tfca Oaremimy nescrlbstt la the March Cemtary Barbaroet Btti.r 'f, Cruelly aad aU TorteM Thsy SematlmM VtmA u., Mating aad Tten tha Warrior's Nerva. The March number of The Century Magazine has an article by Lieut. Schwat ka,dsscriblng ths great sun dance held a few years age by 8ieux Indians at the Spotted Tail agency en Beaver creek, Nebraska. White men are rarely' permitted te flew the ceremony, and it was only through the Influence of Spotted Tail, the chief, and Standing Elk, the head warrior, that Lieut. Schwatkn was per mitted te be present at this dance, the celebration of which occupied eight or J nine days. In the magazine the ceremony is fully described. We quote from advance sheets but two Incidents of the dance. The charge upon the sun pole, which Mr. Frederic Remington has made the subject of a spirited illustration, is de scribed as fellows; WAVED HIS BLANKETED ABM ABOVE HIM. lAttr Frsderie Itemlngten In lh March Cen tury.' "Leng before sutirise the eager partici pants in the next great step were pro pre paring themselves for the ordeal, and a quarter of an hour before the sun rose above the broken hills of white clay a long line of naked young warriors, in gorgeous war paint and feathers, with rifles, bows and arrows, and war lances in hand, faced the east and the sun pole, which was from 600 te COO yards away. Ordinarily this group of warriors num bers from 00 te 200 men. An interpreter Bear me estimated the line I beheld as from 1,000 te 1,800 strong. Net far aw ay, en a high hill overlooking thobar thebar thobar barie scene, was an old warrigr, n medi cine man of the tribe, I think, wnese solemn duty it wbs te anneunt by a shout that could be heard ly every ene of the expectant throng e exact mo ment when the tip of "e merniug sun appeared above the eastern hills. "Perfect quiet icstcd upon the line of young warrior anu upon me great throng of sarage spectators that blacked the green hills overlooking the arena. Suddenly the old warrior, who had been kneeHng en one knee, with his extended palm shading his scraggy eyebrows, arose te his full height, aud In a slew, dignified manner waved his blanketed arm above his head. The few warriors who were still unmeunted new jumped hurriedly upon their ponie3j the broken, wavering line rapidly took en n mere regular appearance, and then tha old man, who had gathered himself for the great effort, hurled forth a yell that could be heard te the uttermost limits of the great throng. Tbe morning sun had sent its commands te its warriors en earth te charge. "The shout from the hill was re-echoed by the thousand men in the valley; it was caught up by the spectators ea the hills as the long line of warriors hurled thsmselres forward towards the sun pole, the objective point of every armed and naked savage iu the yelling Uue. As ther oenveresd towards it the slower ponies drenped out and the weaker ones ' LJ . !. ....... Nnr ami Nearer and weracvnsqpu u uv I ,!,( R s "'.' tmrer they cwit, iiw &n HtW Hi iiv . a .!. . -. JtT r sum maaxu Ullill It WJtB UUi MHaaTaW 7t " ' bmmuI a. all la . .. .. -. .. i- 1 yTOwa of piunging none tmm jmmmg ,yr 5 kSatiMMIulln SIHaM f JtHJI' "When the leading warriors i reached a point within a hundred of the sun pole, a sharp report of. 1 wnwreu aieng ine tine, ana a : later the rushing mass was a flame, and tne rattle of rifle I like the rapid beat of a drum i - '. 4.V4 v. k- it.. ttii? . mada -ih-rA, "W& mimwmsxjrvit. sheet gftPffS4- ibeti was C&w among the hills. Every shot, every twJJi'R (C'teneaBBBr A- JJ- " . -"-. "' w.. ..v.JMna,wn,mHiai, uuie, aim para ana culpa were mfmm ,' -from its sides like shavings from aha tfMh tary bit of a planer. When ererjr busies , &f had been discharged, aad every arrow" -v ;'! " abd lance had been hurled, the' rilsalX? crowded around the pole and shWHsl'g ' as only excited savages can aM f $V Uea of the sun pole were devoted la tsa n worship, fattiug, dancing "aad eaajataffv sther rites. TheflaaletdeaTk taatdaV: .4 Jribed by Lieut flchwatkal' h&, "The row of dancers took their tmmf-ilki aremntlv at sunrise, but It was sM'tau " fere t or 10 that the tortures begaa.?!? ' "Then icb of 'the young men' pre-- tented himself te a msalclr.t ,maa, ,waaS7 took between Ids thumb aad fureaagar L fold of the loose skin of the breast, chtal'V half way between the cellar bone, lifted tt as aadtnenran a sharp ireiMIManMrPH Ik Ms. apcrtiiwn'irjvfflP the teift ww wu jrm?,!, k, $. the befwt stronger' fUjv e of l&tt Blwut iWjSae 01 a cafKb'trV pcucll vs je4m&sr Than tfn.i V ii u T.t.tri.i . - ,u- ... J- Tartbsif,..jvtUM$f4, iStfMtk wards und fruwurds, at ti y $hi aad left wa Utrewrf ft ngur4t!,jhl noose with n ttijh cretig V !ruie.t skin. Tins v. s .led r I.et.j ti ter fastened jtns Uir-ncux! frf tl.e topefth n no!- je" th; t w . tti arena, m t breaw tu'i)u'ypasu lurce, mi, and jelnlr the poll vote Te ubewte tumitli he nvvu e$x let skewers ur igli tan slua, 4hjrriM J, that eve -ft s Um Qie;f a-Vm ? sy si quire nur Leiv-f t,t tauure. Bits i)ii attempt &r r ry e.wy. tvl wed JUal3' tegethhmsKfT ti thj heibl) em;, mustyekrn!titB)jfer 1,U&M Kxii . fresathtj'dSTigs, v. i, "As h- ' r-s m- hlr vft(!w ht Amit tacrease. 1 drcjw c,f $i pa?ti6n r down Hi 'nj ni. ! d ci, ji u d- muscle out ou bin bydyw tueus rl I .SttSWic he threv against vulsed beating farAlklv in .a. vli.il.- ?..-., ., mA ?.. if... .IT , ri, ff i ... JfKlt M.I.D.h mh Jt . . .9-Sh tlm iera. which Ijruw from ft.j B. ti whehr nbjaji 0( the ill- 'Y.f.St m ,t efik litfej frn tit .-a fVlt.ij . iV - Wter i ttmWMmX '. whole teE Vh i.&?m Mw fterfnf tte WfiJe cv A5M"-'B l JUimlutia. AH U' e while ii4 i.JLjt ,iM y tomtems $r rfnd$wI weird clwiijjcf flvj hllATiarwVfti'SJ,?.4 centlam. X wtmderfnl tWftVSEfflfS-. extentlbb . ni ibe- ii.um.iiefa,,. inirfYr53? . 4i3 strena-a u ,nt,Thit jnneittwiLlW' W. Jftc i have a hr tv ! pii hfrffifr sMehi - - . -' -' ' fc -' -w - "7T-T '-ik" t"Z etretcaerti eaeuMettA"' 'iw thSKW4-Mjk. WW .IMBK WSI' ,V l.tJlCI' lftl)HAU 'UllPVf i' i thai him we Id 'iar-ly allow m,, 3teF seucain V . ri-pSA5KStfW "I kne . 1 1 cfe rlesmnt AvtmffiUwJ' long upon hlfi cre!ptMc Oeaj itHtk ally, In tT. or uum' hours 'U iltCmV.rtlK5a irec. But uirre are nisnr cj..v.i wnusnni.ti .... .. .. v , . . .', .,ariv oueieainiyflirip( tust i?u j iwy'Af quired. Oftentimes tli titeHWv .... . " . ,.''..' r . ...V' J.-2' 1 MrMM3. ...r.T.... .u.l.ll- . IL ''.,,, 7r- ' "" "iuj wijuij inun jnif running lowiire it ts.wx v. backwar ' .h ih sritttrt horse anliiitr i'c'esse,'jt,lfcttinthi' attempts " tir tha'-ftCcut-ifC yh''i from the!' eundA r!h, m'lr . THtm-A'lr in'h wii tvjt, tea, te 'JM Mill UkdtC foariepofjaf nn eie fuaviwvw jreu'r vl(J "?&' luurawUkS MtbJn iU arbrut, wsc i?MUrui tt S4J$$1 ingsksw.e obrhhrsesafio, te wk . 4W! sheulden wf Wrew MmU uati ," Oi!M andforenrdn c.nrNfr.l tt.1 fl Alxi .. '".Jlrfi . miJ .M held the mi." te'h, .',- . s5fsS -ri.4M. .wm.. tyirvp iv r &l.KJ3&. Hi if Ul tvil'lt' "FalatnR ' wanvn-. 'sT'j.ti f among tl ee ru 3 v 6t,t but urt cr fe. ' felt,eppi&fcrw: nirt.i n hvii fit W V MS Ll I i .. .,!. ..?" pectin j4 ft? txmaa iair,if?y.r f iufeM victim is at loeeo 63 iltnKr e.l ,H4. fleer or nma ledcer.car trrij,a learn i jfni charge el 'isminsjg Ttwu&nk fytsmptr' , 1,4 I saw te I ibloeri-omdoaW6l.c'v . c.1 in front nd buhitul rwIrmU'l J&fcidt' 4 manner. Vhtbittlie Wncw aft) , wards en lng thus be petslb' tfeus wa !.. . m . ...nti fM k.w. . ii i."i .. v. vv .' 't- ii" iui.i, "iKiJ I ue net 1.t a. v fjln a4.'Vi;' after yen 3 psi6 1 if arey b.. understand tlf 't i rrtd c- i4s J&l $ but once n ahfHluse. It 1 faitHi trf W jt-w antl I r iff, fl.4 ., Jkfi,, ..it.- .. ..r. grew up wn. I1 v sNtaln' lit t tfh savage lu . .. . -rx . . ir. - .1 . ..f-..- ra; I'M r- ni- umujrwais,, ,? ,J: ever, and in the w file from and just ered wit) robes, the , r di t tt '.tr'r-flevTO H ti. ifir KHT,tfsa wmarj ijKS . iff i Acxtn.. AiAtArvstv .,rf, 'iu-w ly piloted .tutiale? I 8 If i vu uiRaruMcxc.'i- 'JTsssfrrJ . if .. - . j ITJa.- - evertheh heads fac when it hf "Many 'U1 beenrepe. r die or a tut! long rope bteMfn awl withlsewtfi t ' setUnt s u , ! d t'm OuJj h 'fc' fl'iflvJJ- M t m, h n jwUkM' " ' li ti ( eirt V thn t' ? te ti a tftvvt ui ti p iirw" 'ij. ijl (b u l 't rt mii ' x l tfuf running c timber, t after the i i self; or, v turcd ma ropes un i strength fermants f emenlcs mr n't v tei.t, yftfsmt th V it) titt'i" fJ.klii. , Yxit tw t) . Tf( et tt - dr lil t4 u-t ill it tlf! 3. WlBUlW 'itt1! some form in all. Til ceiw urn ;e uf ih e)t ?! much Of t n x.j ' .ml ufcu& tns double cff-r or .e ether cere uCnltr lyer etlurtv biib' only as I mr- iu" t iviit as-l ' BtilV- ib it Ball I' lnrt, ' Har-ir Oeerge'i. ' (l j' J hMer,y the flr eiiilser O'-vlc menmayf of paltLat'sty. Vrt-tve jeara ny,e test July tie citty vm eurcfid, thr years latci il .at .vrj)ratel i'artetj in i7u inn cai Moiireds made thvir tirnt reifU fA'i'nt Jew. 'Sen. ilea sua if iltita ifer ineui yialuRlcs iltv Mil Ti ty. his t t they hsv, dw irl..i -irli LU4 i h . i .- -.1 . Orfdea, y I thwr total vote in Vh Oeoeei ic . territory bus 8,600, whll-t i-,e U s &rn.enM l.&X, even after the "palrge tr .-ira chlsed. , 1 Mr. Scot t Is a rmti e 1 1 Jiat- u 'unty, N. Y., 64; jmeJJ- '"k " toraUfor teraUfor toraUfer nia in 185J, "! t wa in i7i I Uiah, where he 1 jean aitive in bueliwia tn-t has prespc . i Tue U gret rejelclnfi ever this I g deferred trijtupn. and sanguine (' jttlJihinVteeyKth4"v' f-threw of j.,f ciivy ri rvj-wpvia ax Utah new ut iuiid. A t u ' wertUU. A rallrvM i Irs'aud, niwtiag in Carrickmt l te liunll"ne lant of a b - I w 1, 3 J h. M?' iCeSj- fully mali ned f r v y iu Tlui Menaahat tzrtuiue. a .i teli- goods carjWJnK'e v than formal)-' i. " Cjlsjiuttiartu2i-JT .out jw y Uiwhej- J r s .Z ' 'S, 'J"-.. W.143 , 3v V jS-,'.1 ' ? ". JSS4. VA l $&& 'rT rv-S&'i-TJ fm t iiju.-vy'! &RS ' $4m : Hi i?sft7h $&' $. "GiM.S A$? ft . ?r. &m:a w,ra ..y -HjU :m 15?' jfl -e SSPMS .vS " i. ,. ;v.v3i. T r VCJOf! r1 m 'Mi-vm 'r ' (! AC"
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