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The corporal looked after his captain
with an expression of mingled amaze
ment, grief and philosophy. He seemed
to be saying to himself that there un
fortunately were times, after all, whr-n
one could not rely upon themost reliable
of men. When he returned to the (croup
he found the captain bending over the
Kirl and saying: "Why Is it that you
don't want us to search up-stairs?"
The girl's head was burled In her
crossed hands. Locks of her hair had
escaped from their fastenings and these
fell upon her shoulders.
"Won't you tell me?"
The corporal here winked again at
the man next to him.
IBecause " the girl moaned. Be-
causc there ain't anybody up there."
The captain at lust said timidly:
Well, I'm afraid I'm afraid we'll have
The girl sprang to her feet again and
Implored him with her hands. She
looked deep Into his eyes with her
glance which was nt this time like that
of the. fawn when It says to the hunter:
"Have mercy upon me."
These two stood regarding each other.
The captain's foot was on the bottom
step, 'but he seemed to be shrinking.
Ble wore an air of being deeply wretched
and ashameW. There was a silence.
Suddenly the corporal said in a quick,
low tone: "Look out, captain!"
All turned their eyes swiftly toward
the head of the stairs. There had ap
peared there a youth In a grey uniform.
He stood looking coolly down at them.
tio word was said toy the troopers. The
girl gave vent to a little wall of desola
tion. "Oh, Marry!"
, He began slowly to descend the stairs.
His right arm was in a white sling and
there was some fresh (blood stains upon
the cloth. His face was rigt.i and death
ly pale, but his eyes Hashed like lights.
The girl was again moaning In an ut
terly dreary fashion as the youth camo
slowly down toward the silent men In
blue.
Six steps from the bottom of the flight
he halted and said: "I reckon it's mo
you're looking for." '
The troopers had crowded forward a
trifle and, posed In lithe, nervous atti
tudes, were watching him like cats. The
captain remained unmoved. At the
youth's question he merely nodded his
head and said:, "Yes."
The young man In- grey looked down
et the girl and then,1 in the same even
tone which now, however, seemed to
vibrate with suppressed fury, he said:
"And Is that anyreasonwhy you should
insult my sister?"
At this sentence, the girl Intervened,
desperately, between the young man in
grey and the officer In blue. "Oh, don't
Harry, don't! He was good to me! iHe
was good to me, Harry Indeed, he
was."
The youth came on In his quiet, erect
fashion until the girl could have
touched either of the men with her
hand, for the captain still remained
with his foot upon the first step. She
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continually repeated: "Oh, Harry! Oh,
Harry!"
The youth In grey maneuvered to glare
Into the captain's face tirst over one
shoulder of the girl end then over the
other. In a voice that rang like metal,
he said: "You are armed and un
wounded, while I have no weapons and
am wounded, but "
The captain had stepped back and
sheathed his sabre. The eyes of these
two men were gleaming tire,-but other
wise the caiptaln's countenance was
Imperturbable. He said: "You are mis
taken. You have no reason to " '
"You lie!"
lAll save the captain and the youth
in grey started in an electric move
ment. These two words crackled In the
air like shattered glass. There was a
breathless silence.
The captain cleared his throat. (His
look at the youth contained a quality of
Angular and terrible feiocliy, but he
said In his stolM tone: "I don't sup
pose you mean what you say now."
Upon'his arm be had felt the pressure
of some unconscious little fingers. The
girl was leaning against the wall as if
"Oh, Harry Ho Was Good to Mo."
she no longer knew how to keep her
balance, but those lingers he held his
arm, very, still. . She -murmured:, ""Oh,
Harry,' don't! He .was good to me! In
deed he was!" -
The corporal had come forward until
he In a measure, confronted the youth
in grey,' for he saw thnse flngets upon
the captain's arm and he knew that
sometimes very strong men were not
able to move hand nor foot under such
conditions. .
The youth had suddenly seemed to
become weak. Jie breathed heavily
and hung to the railing.- He was glar
ing at the captain, and apparently
summoning all his will power to combat
his weakness. The corporal addressed
him with profound straightforward
ness: "Don't you be a derned fool!"
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The youth turned toward him so fierce
ly that the corporal threw up a knee
and an elbow like a boy who expected
to be cuffed.
The girl plealded with the captain.
"You Won't hurt him? Will you? . He
don't know what he's saying. He's
wounded, you know. Please don't mind
him!"
"I won't touch him," said the cap
tain with rather extraordinary earnest
ness. "Don't you worry about it at
all. I won't touch him!"
Then he looked at her and the girl
suddenly withdrew her fingers from his
arm.
The corporal contemplated the top of
he stairs itnd remarked without sur
prise: "There's another of 'em com
in!" An old man was clambering down the
stairs with much speed. iHe waved a
cane wildly. "Get out of my house, you
thieves! Get out! 1, won't have you
cross my threshold. ' Get out!" He
mumbled antd waged (his head in an old
man's fury. It wns plainly tola inten
tion 'to assault theim.
And so iit occurred that a yourwr fflrl
'became en gaged In protecting a stalwart
captain, fuliy armed, and with eight
siim troopers at his back, from the at
tack uf an old mem 'With a walking
stick. A blush pased over ifhe temples and
brow of the captain and he looked par
ticularly savage amd weary. Despite
the girl's efforts he suddenly faced the
old man.
'Vsopk here," he eald (distinctly. "We
came 4n 'because we 'had ben fighting
in the woods yonder and we concluded
that mme of the enemy were in thiis
house, especially when we saw a grey
sleeve at the window. (Hut this young
man Is wounded and I have nothing to,
stay to 'h'lm. I will even take It for
granted that thre are no others like
him up-talrs. We will go away leav
ing your damned old house Just as we
found it. And we are no more thieves
ard rascala than you are."
The oJd man pimply roared: "I
haven't got a cow nor a pig nor a
okiicken on the place. Your soldiers
have stolen everything they could carry
away. They have torn down half my
fences for firewood. This afternoon
some of your accursed bullets even
broke imy window-panes!"
Tihe gia-1 h'ad been faltering: "Grand
pa! Oh grandpa!"
The captain looked at the girl. She
returned bis glance from the shadow
of the old man's shoulder. After study
ing her face a moment, he said: "Well,
we. will go now." He strode toward the
door and tola mien clanked docilely
after him.
(At this time there was 'the sound of
harsh cries and rushing footsteps from
wltihout. The door flew open a,nd a
whirlwind composed of blue-coated
troopers came hi with a swoop. lit wns
headed by the 'lieutenant. "Oh, here
you are," he cried, catching 'his breath.
"We thought hi! look at the girl!"
The captain said lntemselys "Shut
up. you fool!"
The men settled ita a halt with a clasli
and bang. There could be heard the
dulled sound of many hoofs outside of
the house.
"Did you order up the horses?" In
quired the captatln.
"Yes, we thought "
"Well, then, let's get out , of . here,"
Interrupted the captain, morosely.
The men began to filter out into the
open air. The youth In grey iad been
hanging dismally to the railing of the
stairway. He now was cllrrAlng slowly
up to the second floor. The old man
was addressing himself directly to the
serene corporal.
""Not a chicken on the place," he cried.
'"Well, I didn't take your chickens,
did I?"
"No, maybe you didn't, but "
The captain crossed the hall and
stood before the girl In rather a cul
prit's fashion. "You are not angry at
mo, are you?" he asked timidly.
"No," she said.. She hesitated a. mo
ment and then suddenly held out her
hand. "You were good to me and I'm
much obliged."
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The captain took her hand and then
he blushed, for he found himself unable
to formulate a sentence that applied
In any way to the situation.
She did not seem to need that hand
for a time.
He loosened his grasp presently, for
he was ashamed to hold It so long
"Get Out of My House, Yon Thieves!"
without saying anything clever. Alt
last with an air of charging an In
trenched brigade, he contrived to say:
"I would ratherr do anything than
frighten you or trouble you."
'His brow was warmly perplrlng. He
had a sense of being hideous In his
dusty uniform and with his grimy face.
She said: "Oh, I'm so glad it was you
Instead of somebody who might have
might have hurt brother Harry and
grandpa!"
He told her: "I wouldn't have hurt
'em for anything!"
There was a little silence.
"Well, gooti-bye," he said at last.
"Good-bye!"
He walked toward the door past the
old man who was scolding at the van
ishing figure of the corporal. The cap
tain looked hack. She had remained
there wstchlng him.
At the bugle's order, the troopers
standing beside their horses swung
briskly into the saddle. The lieutenant
said to the first sergeant:
"Williams, did they ever meet be
fore?"
"Hanged If I know."
"Well, say "
The captain saw a curtain move at
one of the wirtdows. He cantered from
his position at the head of the column
and steered his horse between two
flower beds.
"Well, good-tye!"
"The squadron trampled slowly past.
"Good-hye."
They shook hands.
He evidently had something enor
mously Important to say to her, but It
seems that he could not manage It. He
struggled heroically. The bay charger
with his great mystically solemn eyes
looked around the corner of his shoul
der at the girl.
The captain studied a pine tree. The
girl Inspected the grass beneath the
window. The captain said hoarsely:
"I don't .suppose -I don't suppose I'll
ever see you again!"
iShe looked at him affrlghtedly and
shrank 'back from the window. He
seempd to have woefully expected a re
ception of this kind for his question.
He gave her Instantly a glance of ap
peal. She said: "Why, no, I don't suppose
we will."
"Never?"
"Why, no 'taint possible. You you
are a Yankee!"
1 Bibles at Half
"Oh. I know It. but " Eventually
he continued: "Well, 'soma day. you
know, when there's no more fighting,
we might ' He observed that she
had again withdrawn suddenly into the
shadow so he said "Well, good-bye!"
When he held ber fingers she bowed
her head and 1m saw a pink Mush steal
over the curves of her cheek and neck. .
"Am I never goinr to see you again r
She made no reply.
"Never!" he repeated.
After a long time he bended over to
hear a faint reply: "Sometimes when
there are no troops In the neighborhood
grandpa don't mind It I walk over as
far as that old oak tree yonder in the
afternoons."
It appeared that the captain's grip
was very strong, for she uttered an ex
clamation and looked at her fingers as
If she expected to find them mere frag
ments. iHe rode away.
The bay horse leaped a flower bed.
They wer almost to the drive when the
girl uttered a panic-stricken cry.
The captain wheeled his horse vio
lently and upon his return Journey went
ctralght through a flower-bed.
The girl had clasped her hands. She
beseeched him wildly with her eyes.
"Oh. please, don't believe It. I never
walk to the old oak tree. Indeed. I
don't. I never never walk there."
The bridle dropped on the bay char
ger's neck. The captain's figure seemed
limp. With an expression of profound
dejection and gloom, he started off at
where the leaden sky met the dark
green line of woods. The long-Impending
rain 'began to fall with a mournful
patter, drop and drop. There was a
silence. .
At last a low voice said: "Well I
might sometimes I might perhaps
but once In a great while I might walk
to the old tree In the afternoons."
The end.
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The Interesting Showing Made by a
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A feast of reason and flow of soul do
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the housekeeping records of the Balti
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year contracts have been made for 23
000 pounds of beef. 12,000 pounds of
mutton, 9.000 pounds of poultry, 4,000
pounds of pork and 3,000 pounds of veal.
Four thousand five hundred dozen of
eggs will also be used. Large quanti
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chased week by week and not contract
ed for yearly, 14,000 pounds of sugar, 125
barrels of flour and 3,000 pounds of
crackers, 1,200 pounds of coffee, 100
pounds of tea, 120 pounds of chocolate
and 650 gallons of ice cream have been
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Some of the other Items Include 7.RO0
pounds of butter, 5,600 gallons of milk,
3,000 pounds of lard, 475 bushels of po
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and 160.000 pounds of ice. Fruit, gro
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The Sight Is First to Leave and the Sense
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Sense of Toach la Some Persons Is
Never Absent.
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"Order Is Heaven's first law." and the
truth la manifested even in the process
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to sound, or rather the nerves which
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The same gradual loss of power lis ob
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well as In the senses. Slumber begins
at the feet and slowly spreads up the
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