VOL xxxiv Spring and Summer! Shoes and Oxfords. The season brings many new and pretty styles in fine shoes a " d fine footwear—Tan color, Chocolate color, Patent leathers and fine Dongolas. n the new coin toe, Bull Dog toe, Empire toe, clotii or leather tops and in all sizes. I A A to R E. Green Shoes, The Latest Craze. Have you seen them. See the different styles in our windows—Ladies' and Gents' Green shoes on especially attractive lasts -several shades to choose trom well-made, servicahle ar.d stylish. Men's And Boys' Fine hoes. All styles, all varieties of footwear to be found in our stock. We aim to supply ! all wanis—the wish for low prices along with others. See onr line of Men s, lk>\? j and Youths' fine shoes in russetts, vici kid and fine c alf, in the popular shades ami up to date styles. Complete line of Ladies' awl Gents' patent leathers, riuc Kangaroo shoes and slippers for summer wear. Complete stock of bicycle shoes low cut shoes and Men's Romeo slippers- stock of Glen's and boys plow shoes, heavy box toe shoes which we are sclliug cheap. OXFORDS. Our stock of Oxford ties is very large and owing to the backward season leaves us with a large stock on hands. These Oxfords are all made of fine Dongola and Russett leather, and we intend closing them out quickly, and in order to accom plish our purpose we have marked them away down, so if you wish to purchase Oxfords cheap attend this sale. Full Stock of Leather and Shoe Findings Sole Leather Cut to Any Amount You May Wish to Purchase. Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention JOHN BICKEL. 128 S. MAIN St. BUTLER, PA. jm l AfN I G. F. KECK, * IE mfi I MERCANT TAILOR. L& ft 142 North Main St.. Butler. Pa. i T* When we make you a garment—or a suit —you may be sure that every st'tch in it is perfectly made. Our especial pride is \ in the quality of our tailoring, we pay high /Xr K °-+• wages and employ first-class tailors, so we j* "I Ljl yjfe i ° get the highest grade of garments aud you '•+ know our prices are lower than others, ° + and we keep the largest stock of goods to Jrlf select from. Call and examine for your- VfTTTn + se!f > FITS. GUARANTEED, reme/nlier the \ II p] ace fi F KECK Merchant Tailor. 142 N. MAIN ST.. RUTLER, PA. _ J. S. YOUNG, Tailor, flatter and Gents Furnishing Goods. Summer lieat makes the problem of looking'dressy and keeping cool a hard one. But we've solved it; and for once economy, comfort and fasliion'go hand in haud. Our summer suits are finer in fabric, nobbier in pattern and more stylish in cut han ever before, they fit your curves and yet they're not sweat bath outfits. The prices may surprise you. J. S. YOUNG, Tailor. 101 S. MAIN St., - - - BUTLER, PA T. H. BURTON, T. H. BURTON. "THE BEST I've seen for the money," said an enthusiastic buyer who had visited every store, reserving ours for the last, "and when I leave my $12.001 feel as if I had an SIB.OO suit for it." Nothing new to us, we always did claim to give the best —always felt as if the pub lic knew it too. We would like you to compare any thing you see elsewhere for SIO.OO or even $12.00 with our $7.50. T. H. BURTON, T. H. BURTON. 120 S. MAIN ST. BUTLER, PA. The Wise Grocer. "\Vill try to induce his customers to buy the very best gro ceries in the market, because by so doing he makes a sale that will give satisfaction, and it is the pleased and satis fied customer who builds up the grocer's business. We have some of the very best goods obtainable which we sell as close as any house in the county. Leave us your order and we guarantee satisfaction. The Butler Produce Co., C L MOORE, Prop'r 130 W. Jefferson St., Butler, Pa. IF YOU GET IT AT THE BUTLER PRODUCE IT'S FRESH. -r* WHILE YOU ARE WAITING For your prescription don't fail to look *- - over our line of perfumes, we have re- // i I V ceived some very fine ones lately, and f IJ>J 'a . will be pleased to have you examine We also have a verv la. ge assortm nt ■of tooth brushes made expressly for us f = mir/ wbi'h bear our stamp, these brushes y we guarantee and request the return of any th.it prove unsatisfactory. ' — You may need something for your - chapped hands and face, and if so we -yf\ recommend Cydonium Crsatn as a fine ~ toilet preparation. REDICK & GROHM AN S DRUGGISTS. PEOPLES PHONE. 114. BUTLER P;i Ti IE BUTLER CITIZEN. Biliousness Is caused by torpul liver, which jirev.-nts i!;»res tlon and perin.t* to ferment and putrify In the stomach, rtca lullow dizza.-.'ss. headache, taiumlna. nervous'i>«», and, « B B if not relieve,!. !-. 1 > >us fever ITjy ,_ E z «r Mood pcisotrug. Hood's H ■ ijft 1 Ua ft I i rmi ir t ;v. r. :.1 feartvhe. dizziness, eon »tioat-,.:i. - ' The my Pills to Hood s barsajiarillA This Is Vour Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, ensh or stamps, a generous sample will be mailed of the most popular Cat; rrh and 'lav I > ver < .ire (Ely's Cream snfiicieat to demon strate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 50 NVarren St , New York City. Rev. John Reid, Jr.. of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely's Creaui Balru to me. I can emphasize his sratemer.t, "It is a posi tive cure for catarrh if used as directed ' Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream T?a!m is the acknowledged on re for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious droa- Price, f>o cents. RAILROAD TIME TABLES 1\ I?. A L. K. it. ii. Schedule of Passenger Train- in effect May I s '.»7. Butler tiim Trains leave Butler as follow- Con neaut Lake E?q>r,>s " Jo a. in.. Erie Mail a. m. and Greenville Accom modation 5:05 p, ni. Trains arrive- as follows: Conneant Lake Espres.- 9 •> p. 111.. Erie Mail 2:5t) p. 111 and Green ville Accommodation a. m. SUNDAY TRAINS. Conneant Lake Express leaves n > a. m. and arrive-: at 9:55 p. m. Train leaving at T :25 makes connec tion with Erie Ry. at Slienango, wtst: train leaving at < J:SS makes connection with VY. & P at Mercer and with Erie at Shenango, east: train leaving at 5:05 makes connection with Is. Y. & F. at Mercer, north and south. A. B. CROUCH, Ticket Agent. pITTSHUKG & WESTERN "• Railway. Schedule of Pas senger Trains in effect May 10, 1897. BUTLER TIME. I>t'l>:ii t. Arriw. .xllcghouy Ac\omn»tHlsiti«»ii '• •' !• \ m AUfgheny "Flyer'. .. * !•"» •' *' Nt'W Accoliiir.'ion 1 •'.'•! 1. Akron Mail * 1 • VM " I'.M Allt-jrhenv Ai:v«4»ni.NLitiou 1" Oo " li " Alleghi'iiv :J (V» p.:i 4 • Allegheny "Flyer ' Chicago i.xi»rov>. ... '• 4t» '* \'l '•" .Uleghenv Mail * l' l * 0,1 Allegheny "Flyer". ; ; Rlhvuod A-1 .'imib : tTj " u j (*liicag»» I.iiiiif.l. "» " *'• am Kan-- ;.IHI }Jn. lfi»rtl '• '■>- v r.M (liirioa \ iiiui'■ nii*»* • I"» ''" it A M Foxburg At •iiiiii* 71» *' S srXi'AV Tl» AI \S. AH.-h.-iiv !vt - I:» a m •.» - " j Alli'jJieiiy A< • •liiim-1..': -si... . " -I" I' M ' 1 M I N'. u iW;,- \ - amri n.. - 1"» " ' • j Chicago K\pr» x- a Hi r.M I V. *• Allegheny ni Trains iioilli at » :\L in. ainl ' ' '■ 1». e.t. Ti. k»- ol«we conn' l ti; ant Foxlmrg lor |K»intr? '»n Allngheuy Valley IJy. For 1111-■ ?11 ticket-* t > .ill {Hiints in tin ih ue-l k »r KHitliwot apj iv to A. It. CROI t 11. K. !5. Siii.'i. Hnti. r I'a. •Foxhui'g, P:». C. W BASSKTI. A (i. P. A . Allegheny, Pa. PENNSYLVANIA WESTEN PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. S<*iiEi>t*LK IN EFFECT MAY 17.1K>7. SOUTH WEEK DAYS j A. M. A.M. A. M IV M i M. j BUTLER L.M'- 25 8 11 15 2 :r» Saxonhurg Arrive »i ► 4 8 U-*» 11 W - >»> j Hntler Junrinci|«l iotervneilfate nation* at a. in. J aii-1 s:1 P. M. Allegheny l ily., lea- • 7 i«» 11 2 . 25" 10 Sharpibar j. >7ll 91211 37 I " 12 2 \1" 7"1 Saxonhnrg H l"i;l" 1*» 12 I" \ :t«. 7 21 BUTLER arrive! 8 3<, '10 .W 1 17 5 u'< 7 s<) A M. A.M P M P. M P. M. SUN DA V TR AINS.—Le »\ Alh'uhe'.y City !'■: But ler and jmin ijml interna tliate >tati"!s- at 7:2" :«.ra. ual ; in. WFIK DAYS. For THE EAST Wfiik DAY>. P. M. A. W.| P M P. M 2V, r, 2511 v Bni.nK .r .. 1 17 :t 25 7 27jar Butler Jnnotioti Iv .. !_ .'t 7 *c, |v Butler Juu lumi ai s 12 O ii.*> 7P» ar Frceport.. l y h2B 12 tni 3 :ti» 7 ftff u Allegheny Junction . " 824 12 <'l 51 t»li ** (.eeehburg " 8 (*'ll !'• 4 01* 821 • Paulton (Aitollo) ... 7 5:; 11 *• ! 851 - 8:»ltsl»un r • 7 II «•» 5 0»i, 22! • Bluirsville 7 CHi lo lo 5 15 j .(•/' »♦ BlairsvjlJt- Inttix- '1 »u.. • 2" !<• 15 8 5o 11 155, " Mtoona " 8 <«» 1 <*» :t lot « IT irrM - 1 .**< ♦» - nmnirtvtmft. n 20 P. M.jP. M A.M. P.M. On Sunday, tiain leaving Buth r 7:. • « in., connect* for llarri.xhurg, Altooiia and Philadclphi.i. Ttirougli train* for tin cast le ue PftMairu (I'ni- 'i Station l. follows: Atlantic ExpreaH, daily.. • vm Pennsylvania Limited " 7:15 •' ltay E.\|»iv.v, " 7,' to " Main Line Express, 44 ... s "0 " Philadelphia Express. 44 4:-U» r.M Flastern Express, ' 4 .. . 7:"5 " Fast Line. 4 * .8:lo 44 Philad'a Mail. Sundays only 8:40 a.m frVr iletnjled inforiuatio:i, address Titos. E. Watt. Pa—. Agt. We.sti.iri D|f»trVi c..: ner Fifth Avenue and Mnith flt ld Street. Pitt-hurg, P. J. B. HUTCHISON, J. ii. iVooD, General Manager. <»« n'l l'as&r. Agent. The Place to Buy GAS COOK ING AND IIEAT IN G STOV KS, | GAS BURNERS AND FIX TURES, HOSE, BATH TUBS, ENAMEL AND IMPROVE WELSHBACH GAS BU RNERi W H. O'BRIEN I ON 107 hast Jefferson St. BEE KEEPER S SUPPLIES SUCH AS Hivt'S. S,ji<»k«-r- Kivmkl Vramr*. «*tlons, Section li« »\« s HKhk) u I 11 pi 11 s Founda tions. The best uimmK at thr l7 1 cKmwcmmM [Copyrtcht. »e»t. by J. U Llppir.cr.tt Company.] XVI. 1 The honorable acquittal of Caj>t. 1 C'loxe proved, us \tiis to i>e expectei!, t.i 1 thoni in the flesh of certain > f li: ac < colters, and stirreti up trouble In the 1 gallant —ttenth. This was . lriatter t C'!ose didn't much niiiul. lie \va-grant- f ed six months' < ave on a surj;.-on*s ccr- t tiilcate of disability, which meant on j full psty. and lit' took it very hard that % some meat's were not devised to 1 send him north undeT order?, HO J that he could drav mileage. He and i i Lambert went back to Tuprnloo together : and j.ai ked up, for "G" eon;; any was • of"iered relieved by another, an 1 ( lose . waiH there iua/'lo the happy ivcip'cnt 1 of a p:i»« to Chicago, while the old com- i pany, after seeing- their ex-connnand- i er safely aloard the sleeper, went on 1 down 'he road to New Orleans and \ took station once more with regimental s headquarters. ' Here Mr. Lambert found means of getting occasional brief leaves of ab- j s-' nee and of employing t. s-• two or three i ( D:,ys ill visits to hi*< wMle neigb!. TS t of Walton hall, now -trf* i«>: tt <'".•> - 1 ciic-d in a : i.'turestjiH* l"it ' v.'..a; |1 dilapidated »>« 1 co<-: - <•! •• t . tfi? ' .v ' 1 ' I been Hie property or a near relative i before the war, and was reclaimed and , put in partial order for their use, ap- < parently, through the efforts of their j old physician and the energies of Mr. t Barton Potts. Here the warm, soft, salty breezes fceemed to bring new lease ( of life to the beloved invalid, though 1 it was plain to one and all she could i never be herself again. Serorj r s. her i kinsman son-in-lav. was rapidly mend ing- and eagerly casting about for era- 1 ployment. Floyd, restored to duty with out trial, was serving patiently and i faithfully with his regiment in Texas, bent evidently on making good his words. The two events which seemed i to bring general cheer and rejoicing to the household were those which three mouths before would have been prompt ly derided as absurd and impossible; one was the weekly letter from a troop er in the union blue, the other a much rarer visit from a Yankee subaltern, whose profession was not to be disguised because he was in "cits'." On the oc casion of his first appearance in that garb Miss Walton did him the honor to say: "Ah never did like you, but Ah do think those clothes wuhse than the others." This was rather hard, be cause, as the spring came on, Lambert's lot at the barracks was not as pleasant aa it might have been, and his com fort consisted in running over to see how Madam Walton was doing-. Cram and his battery, with Waring, Pierce, and all, had been ordered away, and then for the first time Lambert | realized, what his regimental comrades i had marked for months, that he pre | ferred the companionship of the bat' j tery men to that of the men who wore j the bugle, the badge of the infantry in ■ those benighted days. Old Brax con- : I eluded he had had enough et garrison ' I life, and sought a long leave. Maj. ! | Minor took command of the reg-iment 1 j and i>ost, and the adjutant aud quarter- I j master took command of Mai. Minor, j i It had neither been nor forgot ten by these etalf officials that Lam bert had been equally outspoken in de fense of Close and denunciation of his accusers, and the further fact that he preferred to spend his leisure hours with his fellow-graduates of the artil lery rather than his uncongenial breth ren of the —teenth gave the offended ones abundant material to work on. Minor was a weakling—a bureau officer during the war days, a man who could muster and disburse, without a flaw, but never set a squadron in the field without a "fluke." Lambert was a cap ital drill-master and tactician, and "O" company, under 1118 instruction, was rapidly overhauling every other in the regiment, even those of Kin soy and " Lively, the two real soldiers among the ' captains. Minor bated the sight, of a page of tactics, and never even held Liiultcii' liw.l it clear, ' ringing voice, and Minor couldn't, make himself heard. One morniug the or derly came to Lambert at company drill with "the major's compliments, and please to take company 'G' outside the garrison, or make ICBS noise." It was the adjutant's doing, as things turned i out afterwards, but it angered Lambert against his commander. Then, when i May came round and he asked for three days' leave, Minor hummed and hawed and looked at his staff officer and final ly requested that it be submitted in writing; and "it" came back with a curt indorsement to the effect that Lieut. Lambert would be expected hereafter to show more interest in matters con nected with his regimental duties; the application was disapproved. All this time he had written every few •weeks to Close, and got a very nice let ter in reply, written by a young fel low who announced himself as the cap- , tain's brother, Wallace. The captain j wis getting better—very much better —but the eye doctor's bill was a big one, j and he thought the government ought j to pay it. He. had bought, some land up | there six years before, and, what with i schools and roads ami bridges, the taxes 1 ' were awful. What, he wouldn't mind ' doing would be to come back to the i regiment as quartermaster; but in j those days there was no four-year limit j ' to staff positions, and the incumbents, ' - both adjutant and quartermaster, pro posed to hang on as long as jKissible, j ' and Lambert replied that he fefved ■ there would be no chance. t j And then one day there came a tele i gront to the eommandingofficerof Ci»m --' paay "G" at the barracks with the brief announcement that u soldier serving in the Twenty-sixth infantry under the name of Roberts had been identified by Corporal Floyd Walton, Fourth cavalry, as Private ICiggs, a deserter from the —teenth. Please send charges and descriptive list. Two weeks later Lieut. Lambert -was summoned to Austin as a witness l>efore the general court-mar tial appointed for his trial. The Mor gan line steamer would not sail until Saturday night. There was time to run over and see if the Waltons had not something to send to their soldier boy s, in Texas, and Lambert sent his trunk L ~ to the Morgan wharf while the Mobile e boat paddled him away through the Uig-olcts and out into Mississippi sound and ianded him at the familiar pier at t. PRSS Christian just at tu: light of a < lovel\ Ma?" evening. T< minutes' walk i along tho. shore brought him to an in- i closure wherein the moonbeams were | < beginning to play among the leaves of the magnolia and to throw a huge black : •. shallow, that of the grove of live oaks. ! over the veranda of an old, white- ; t painted southern homes lea l bowered in ■ vines and shrubbery at. the end of the > ; broad .shell pathway lea from .the , gate. Somewhere among the foliage a I ; mocking bird was carc'ing to hhe rising i moon, and the music of soft, girlish ■ , voices and subdued laughter came drift- j . !ng out on the evening air. Lambert's ' , heart gava a quickened throb or two i as he recognized Kate Walton's un- | mist-akable tones. He had to traverse the length of the moonlit walk. She, v. ith her unseen friend, was in shadow, so there was uo possibility of trying the rfTrct of surprise. " \V !I. vrlinyuh'n tlie wide wuhld 'd ' i. r ::r>n;-halaiit greeting. "Ah supposed you were d.yyd'u burKxl." (There is no sueh thing as spelling that word as pronounced by the rosiest, sauciest, and possibly sweet est little mouth in creation. He could not take his eyef from it, and she knew It.)- ."MissAwgden,thisisMr. Lambert. Ah think you've heard sister Esthuh speak of him. —Ah suppose you want to go right in to see huh. Ah'll call huh down." So Lambert made his bow to Miss Ogden, who had her own womanly in tuitions as to the extent of his eager ness to see sister Esther, and who pres ently declared, she had to go home, and went without much delay over the leuve-taking. in spite of Katesie'a vol uble remonstrance and well-feigned dis appointment. Miss Walton, in fact, hung on to her all the way to the gate and made every proper and apparent effort to detain her there; but a wise head had Miss Bettie Ogden: she would not delay. She had heard sister Esther talk of Mr. Lambert time and again, and had read in Katesie's significant silence or simulated scorn a whole vol ume of information. She went tripping lightly, laughingly away, and Katesie watched her until she was out of sight, then came dawdling slowly back. She well knew it would be linlike Esther to come down inside of 20 minutes. Lambert was seated in the big wicker chair, amusing himself with a kitten. He did not even look up when she finally returned. "Hasn't. Esthuh come down vet? Ah told hub you wuh hyuh. ten minutes ago." "No. Possibly she didn't understand. I didn't hear her answer. Indeed, I could hardly hear you call." "That's because you were listening to Bettie Awgden." (Pause for reply or denial: none offered.) "She doesn't like Yankees any better'n I did —do" "Then it wan on my account she left so suddenly. Where does she live? 11! run and call her l>ack and tell her — what shall I tell her? —that I only wanted tosaygood-by toMrs. Scroggs?" "You haven't said how-de-do yet." "I haven't? How utterly stupid of me! You see between Miss Ogden and the cat, you were so engrossed that I deferred that ceremony until you should have time, to devote to me. Permit me." And carefully depositing pussy on the chair, he quickly bent low and seized Miss ICatesie'« hand,which he raised toward his lips: "Miss Walton, 1 am so glad to see you again. This fort night has seemed a year.' I Indignantly she snatched her hand away. "Fawtnight! It's five weeks to-day since you were hyuh." Then, sudden ly conscious: "Not that I cay-uh." He started up in feigned astonish ment. "Five weeks'.' You amaze me! and how sweet of YOU to keep count (Something more than mere teasing and merriment now in 'he sparkle of his eyes and the twitching about the corners of his handsome, sensitive month.) Those five weeks hnve Wert five years." But she had sprung to the doorway, wrathful at being so artfully trapped. "Ah didn't keep count. It was Moh; V Ah don't cay'uh how long you stay away, or how soon you go. Esthuh! ain't you ayvuh coming down? Mr. Lambert says he's got to go." "You haven't told me how Mrs. Wal ton is, and Mr. Scroggs, Miss Katesie. And how's Cousin Bart?" "Cousin Bart's up at QuitmaD; BO'S Walton; and Moh's 'bout the same. She'll nayvuh be any better so long's | Floyd's whuh he is—weah-ing a Yan ! kee jacUet»" "That is queer, isn't it? The queer est thing about it is that he's just been made corporal in the very troop he charged into at Selma. A classmate of mine is second lieutenant in the same troop, and wrote me about it." "Floyd ought to be the lieutenant." "Miss Walton, you continually sur j prise, und now you delight me! This I is really promising! A southern girl i says her brother ought to be a Yankee j officer." j But she flew at him from the door j step, her eyes flashing flre. He seized the kitten and held the struggling I quadruped, paws foremost, between i him and the impending vengeance. "Oh! Ah do despise an' hate you I maw an' maw ev'y time you eoiue. You're mean, spiteful, hateful! ou know Ah nevuh meant any such thing. | Ah'd sco'n him if lve was! Ah'd tulir, mah back on him —as Ah do on you 1 now an* Ah wish it was fo'evuh! And, suiting action to word, the tum bling. clustering ringlets which fell ' upon her pretty shoulders were flouted almost in his face as she whirled about and marched tragically back to the doorway. "Well," said Lambert, mournfully, "it's an ill-wind that, blows nobody good. Your wish bids fair to be grant ed. I think I won't disturb Mrs Scroggs to-night, und if you'll tell me where to find Miss Ogden I'll bid hei come back to you, so that you car. re sume the fun I Interrupted. Kindlj say to Mrs. Scroggs thut if she has any thing to send to Floyd and can get it ready before ten to-morrow morning I'll be glad to take it with my baggage The hotel portey will eopv: for it. Good night, pussy. )un don't seem to ob ject to Yanks. Oood-by. Miss Katesie. When your wishes are so prom pi IJ granted and you so easily get rid of a fellow you might shake hands will him, but pussy'U have to do." With that he solemnly took the kit- . ten by n furry j aw and with ludicrous gravity gave it a formal shake, then , turned deliberately away. He was down the steps and crunching along the shell walk before she started from the stupor which had seized her. Then she sprang to the edge of the veranda and he. treading lightly now and list ening for the sounding of the summons for .1 parley, heard, as he expected, tlit half-tremulous, half-truculent hail: "Aw. Mist' Lambert!" "Yes?" "Whuh you going?" "Oh, didn't I tell von? I'm ordered | to Texas." Then he listened, wickedly, malicious ly, and vouchsafed no further word. For a moment not a sound came from the shaded veranda. Slowly, therefore, he turned, and, treading as though on china teacups, went on towards the j gate* Did he hope she would .-all again? Bid he know or realize the ! deep-rooted, stubborn pride of the > southern girl? Slowly, more slowly still, he faltered to the gate. Xearing j it, still eagerly listeninc. he shortened ' step, only pretending to walk. Stil! no j sound, no summons to return. His hand was on the latch, and there it wait- ! ed, reluctant to open, but waiting was in vain. He glanced back over his | shoulder, and, vague and shadowy, he j could just distinguish the outline of the | slender form he had grown to love with ! srch longing and tenderness and pas sion. It clung there motionless. At least, then, she had not turned indiffer ently away. But the word, the whis per, he prayed for and craved to hear, and would so eagerly have obeyed, came not to recall him. Fifteen—twenty sec "Oh : Ah do despise an' hat# you maw an' maw »Yr time." ends he waited, then, in sudden pride, or pique, or resolution, threw open the white barrier, slammed it after him, and strode briskly away, startling the mocking birds into sudden silence with the lively whistling of an old West Point quickstep. But Esther, coming forth from the oj>en doorway to greet :ind welcome their friend, saw the erect, soldierly figure marching off in the moonlight; saw her little sister standing as though rooted to the spot, heard the ostenta tious spirit and swing and rhythm of "Buenaa noches;" heard a faint, ques tioning, Incredulous, tearful little voice piping: "Mr. Lambert! Mr. Lam bert!" and the woman had learned in that instant what, the lover would have given worlds to lenow. XVII. "Lieutenant, there's no use trying. We're only twenty, and there must be two hundred of 'em. They've got that stage load long before now, escort and nil. The hole thing's over with. If there were any women 'twould be dif ferent; every man of us would go then to try to rescue them; but there were only men. I'm as sorry for Col. Sweet as you can be; but we can get his body when the Indians have gone. We can't efford to lose any more of our people." The speaker was the captain of a party of Texas frontiersmen —rangers 'thev were afterwards called, when their organization was more complete; but these were the days when the Ix>no Star state was uninvaded by railways and when to Its very heart—far as the capital the savage Kiowas and Comanches often raided in full force, ravaging the scattered settlements far f,nd wide. Lieut, Lambert, his duty fin ished with his testimony in the ease of the deserter TJiggs, had obtained permis sion to delay his return a few days and taken stage to Lampasas, where Floyd Walton was stationed with his troop. Lambert, would not willingly return without seeing him and delivering in person the little packages so hurriedly pre[>ared at the new home. Then. too. there was no man in the army in whom the young officer now felt so deep an in terest. -"Was he i)ot Katesie's brother, und might not that brother have some influence over that olid urate heart? It was not the porter of the hotel who went for these packages. It was I.aru ber! himself, hoping, of course, to see the young lady whom he had so suc cessfully tormented the evening previ ous; but his scheme had been check mated in most absurdly unromantic fashion. The New Orleans evening paper among its military items con tained a brief paragraph to the effect that Lieut. Lambert was ordered over to Austin as a witness before a court martial there in session, but would re turn to the barracks in a week or ten days, and this pajier he had been care less enough to leave on the veranda. Katesie had gone miserably to lier room, Esther had lit. upon the para graph, nnd in ten minutes Lambert's melodramatic scheme was exploded. Never would he forget the saucy merri ment in her pretty face when he ap peared upon the scene that morning, hoping nnd expecting to find her peni tent, piteous, and mutely begging to be forgiven before he went away. He had come prepared to be grave, sorrowful, dignified, and then to be disarmed by her distress, to lead her away under the magnolias to the shaded recesses of the old southern garden, there to assure her that she was pardoned, nnd then to tell her how she was loved. A charm ing chateau en Espngne was that which the boy had builded; a sweet, sad, ful, ecstatic parting was it all,TW4»ejJLs a result of his skillful use of den orders to Texas;" but, like___maily another well-laid plan, it went ludi crously aglee. She was tliere on the veranda, romping with her kittep, when he came and never made the slightest reference to his departure, ne alluded gloomily to the fact that the boat would be along in less than an hour, and he cheerfully responded: "Yes; Ah thought Ah huhd its whistle just a moment asro," and raced pussy to the fat end of the gallery. He trlee other announcements with no bettex success, and was bewildered and de feated and stung by her apparent heartlessness and indifference when at I last he had to go, and went away mis | erably jealous and wretchedly in love, I.fairly beaten at his own game, j So gloomy and unlike himself was i Lambert that the two or three class ' mates who happened to be at Austin were much surprised, and so absorbed ' was ho io his own woos tuid pangs that not until he reached Lampasas did he c ifarn that the soldierly-looking 'nan '' uho rode all the way from the capital 1 1 with him was no Lss a person than ' the llrevct Lieut. Col. Sweet of whom P lit- had heard so much at Tugaloo, and ° l>o, promoted to the rajik of major, I si was now on his way to rej>ort for duty j a it a frontier post. Tho stage with the s rolonel rumbled away on its journey ; for supper. Lambert went on out to | t camp, > nly to find that Corpoml Wal- o toe with four mtn had gone us escort 1 ] to that xeiy stage. a« ther,- were ,-u- i mors that the Conmnches and Li pans • were >ll th£ warpath again. It might j be four days before they returned It s tvould l>e two t>efore a. stage went back ! h I Austin, and it was now nine o'clock I 1 at nigVt. The very next morning brought dire- ' ful news. A big band of hostile* had . 0 swoc jed down on the stage station at ' the erossing of the Caliente, 50 mi es | f1 to tin-northwest, massacred everybody, \ 1 ..lid run off the sUH-k. The cavalry j troop in camp st LampHfWs was miles j may by the time the tidings reached x Lambert ut the tavern in town. Thon j J came worse news. A settler rode I -p'.rring in from the Concho trail to j •«} that he had --ecu the Indians when ' j they attacked the stage with overpovv- 1 •ring e.iimbi rs, ajid had just nianagrd ' to e , with liis own life, tie •><■- iieveU that not one soul WHS kft to j tell the tale. There were many gallant j j spirits among the Texa.ns of the fron- | tier--men who were accustomed to | tijrlit at the drv.p of the hat, and who, in defense of home aud frieiuls, were I indomitable. Vet even these well knew j the hopelessness of the situation as de- \ scribed. They were for too few in i number to undertake the pursuit and | attack of such a band as this. More- j over, their own wives and children would l>e left in danger \verr tliev to 1 take the field. It was even Impossible to persuade two or three of their num ber to ride post-haste on the trail of the cavalry, who, at the first alarm and on receipt of tidings that the In dians had ridden away eaatw«j-d to- 1 wards the Brazos, had takeu the rosd tor Wa-:o at dawn in hopes of heading them off or driving them should they attack the defenseless settlements. There were, therefore, absolutely no troops to go to the rescue of the stage [«i rty, if, as seemed beyond hope, any nf ihein were still alive, fund Lambert, burning with eagerness to do some thing and tormented with anxiety as to the fate of "Brother Floyd," found himself hejpless. A se-geaut and son.e semi-invalided men had been left in charge of camp, and from these he. gathered a little in formation, but not of an enlivening na ture. The nearest post." to the west ward from which help might come were McKavett and Concho, each over a hundred miles away; but Concho, be ing on the left bank of the Colorado, md doubtless warned by this time of the Indian raid, could be sending cav alry down the valley in pursuit. It was expectation of this, probably, that started the raiders eastvard towards the Brazos, where there were no troops, and where, sweeping northward again in wide circle, they might confidently expect to get safely liack to their wild fastnesses, leading the cavalry a stern L-hase all the way. Shrewdest tacti cians of modern warfare as they are, the\ hud indeed already divided, one party riding eastward as reported after swooping down on the Caliente station, rind driving some of the stock ahead of theni. for the sole pur)>ofie of draw ing the Lampa«i.s troop off in that di rection, leaving the settlers along the Colorado to the mercies of the other and larger portion of the ittvnge force. There was no use now in sending couriers after the troop. It had five hours' start. It would be evening be fore the fleetest horse could overtake the command. Lambert urged the seigeant to give him a horse and arms, mount three or four men, and let them go with him, if only to reconnoiter. Then some of the Texans who had no families to defend might volunteer. Bui the sergeant dared not take the responsibility of disregarding his in structions, and was wiser than Lam bert in the wiles ot Indian warfare. "I'd go myself gladly, lieutenant," lie said, "but orders are orders, and a party of four or five would be surrounded and cut off and massacred before you faiily realized that an Indian was near you." Then Lambert had appealed to "tilt Texans, and the cuptain had re plied us above; and then, just when he was giving u-p in despair, a sergeant and two men, dust-covered and with horses in a lather of foam, rode furi ously In from the Waco trail. "Is it true?" cried the sergreant, a« ho saw the unusual gathering at camp. "We met a feller half-way over to Bra zos riding like hell, warning folks the Indians were to the north, and he said they had jumped the stage this side of t'liente. It's true? And you haven't done anything? Mount every sound man you've got, and give us fresh horses," "My orders were to take cure —" be gan his eonirade. "Damn your orders! I bring later. The old man didn't believe it, and had a *ure thing ahead of him. jor he'd have turned back with the hull outfit.. Why, man, that stage—or what's left of it— j ain't thirty miles away, an' you fellers j sitting herelikesomanydamnwomen!" ■ And the trooper flung himself from the . ! saddle at the word, nnd then caught ' sight of Lambert's forage-cap and eager face. "Get me U 1I„J-»-, too, sergeani; Til go wun you. I'm L«leut. Lamoerx, n classmate of your second lieutenant." "You'll go in command, sir, and we're with you—six of us, anyhow. I've heard Corporal Walton speak of you, sir, often. How many of you fellers 'll go ?" he demanded eagerly of the knot of Texans, while the few troopers hustled about saddling spare horses and levy ing on the list of invalid mounts, too sore or too feeble for a long chase, but good enough for a thirty-mile dash when It was life or death nt the end of it. In an instant the whole atmos phere seemed changed—charged with ozone, electric force, magnetism something—for the snap au>l spirit of the newcomer flashed from man to man. Lambert, a stranger and without authority in the premises, could effect i nothing: Sergt. Dolnn, a war veteran, a man they all knew, and clothed with power as coming direct from that mili tary deml-god"thecaptain,"hadadozen jnen armed, equipped, In saddle and ready for business, in ten minutes. Six were soldiers, six civilians who half laughingly ranged - their raw-boned Texas ponies in line with the mounting troopers and Oolan sung out to Lam bert, who had raided his classmate's tent for extra boots and riding breech es: "We're ready, sir." In the hot May sunshine, at high noon, they went loping northward over the lovely prairie, spangled with wild* ♦lowers, the Colorndo tw istingand turn ing like a silver serjient in its green bed to their left. Five miles out, a wretched, half-demented creature huiled them from a clump of willows by a little stream. "You're too late, you fellers. They ain't- anything left alive from the Pnloma to the Caliente. except Indi ans. The country's alive with Oood-by to your scalps if you venffire t ;ver that ridge." Aiul he pointed to « the long, low line of bluff* that spanned j : llie horiron to the northwest. One man t ptopi>ecl to question, but speedily came j 1 galloping on in pursuit. "He's tcAreil : 1 out of his wit*, ru- can't prove w hat he < ,RVS." was the brief report to Laiulwrt | and the sergeant, now riding side hy . nide at the head of the little column. Another hour. and. closer to the river, j they were following' the meandering | of the stage road. and the ridge loomed | higher ahead. Two more settler* had 1 >eem passed; and they »en> exapirvra- . tlve beyond any semblance r fellows at the station, and of his criminal disregard of Tejcnr. i warnings. "We'll know- the truth in an hour, lieutenarvt, so there's no om wasting time with those bectrar?. You can see the Paloma from yonder bltiffs." was 1 I Man's only comment. .1 xls t at inn; o'clock the foaming, pant im? horses were reined in.and the girths "< >-« ned, while Lambert, guided by the vcterar Indian-fighter, cravl«d cau tiously up the height in front of them. Half the men dismounted, wece sta tioned with ready rifle or carbine where they could command every approach. Who could say whether Indians were rot even then lurking in every ravine o A young Texan, following the road, pushed on cautiously to the point, so as to scout the trail beyona. With drooping- h'ads and heaving flunks the motley herd were huddled in a little swale to the right of the road. their holders eagerly watching the young leader and saying few words. Warily l)olati reached and peered over the crest. They could see him pointing—could see both he and Lambert shading their eyes with their hatids antg out Dolan, and, swinging into saddle, with Lam bert only a length in lead, struck spurs to his home, the whole squad clattering at their heels. Ypung Texas, peering around the point, heard them coming, and threw a long, lean leg over his scragyy pony. "See anything?" he hailed. "Yes; Indians attacking sonjethlng or other txnit a mile to the nortji of the road; looks like a dug-out 0' some kind." " Tls a dug-out, by Oawd! I know ♦he place. Witherell'B herd used to graze around their last year, and ha and his boyß built that dug-out in ease they were attacked; and maybe the stage managed to get back there. Some one's alive, else the Indians wouldn't be figihting." A cheer went up from the foremost men. After all, then, there was ves tige of hope. Lambert, eager and im petuous, was spurring off to the open prairie that lay beyond a sweeping bend of the stream, but. Dolan hailed him: "Not yet. lieutenant, not yet. There's rome wild arroyos out yonder. Stick to the road, sir, till we can see the hut. It's up a long, shallow \allev beyond that second divide. I know the place now." "But they'll see us, sergeant," shout ed Lambert, as he br nt over tfce pom mel, and drove his rowels wickedly at the torn flanks of his poor brute. "I hoped to surprise them and charge." "Lord love you, sir, there's no sur prising these Ijeggars in broad daylight. They've been watching for some of as ever since sun-up, and they've seen us now. Lucky they haven't guns, 'cept old muzzle-loaders. They've mostly nothlnir but bows and lances." The horses were i>ant'ng furiously now.andsome of the fquad were string ing out far in the rear. Dolan. glancing back, saw two or three men vainly lash ing their exhausted mounts long raus ket'fchot behind. "It won't do, lieutenant; we'll have to keep together, or, first thing you know, n hull pack o' them yelpin' curs 'll bS7*t aut of some ravine, cut those fellows off—kill and soalp 'em and scurry away ;m their fresh ponies before we could get back to help. Let 'em eatoh up, sir, We'll get there time enough." Ami so, more slowly now, as sdviaed by the veteran plainsman. Lambert led his party, the your.g Texan ranging alongside and riding on his right. He, too, wanted to clmrge,and again old Do lan pointed out the absurdity of it. "Their ponies are fresh, and nimble. We'd never catch them, while they could ride around and Rplit.ua with their damned arrows. What we want is a chancewith our Spencers and rifles,sir; tnat's the way to empty their saddle* and stund 'em off. Look yonder, sir." And then, just as Dolan pointed, three mounted warriors, their war-bonnets trailing over their bounding ponies' I Micks —the first hostile Indians Lam bert had ever seen —burst from tihelr covert behind the low divide to the rightandwent scurrying away towards the northward hills in wide detour to join their comrades. The road disap peared round a gentle rise In the prai rie half a mile ahead. "Out with you, Lang and Naughton!" said the sergeant, briskly. "Go ahead to that point." And the two troopers, well knowing what was required of them, darted on without a word, Lam bert and the main body following now at steady trot. Before the two thus thrown in advance had como within three hundred yards of the bend,a little jet of smoke and fire Unshed out from over the ridge, followed instantly by two others; lioth riders swerved; one horse stumbled and went down,his rider cleverly rolling out from among the striking, struggling hoofs. "That's the way they'd have picked you off, sir," shouted Dolaa, as the whole party burst Into c, gallop and drove straight for the ridge. "We'll sweep them aside in a second." They did not wait to be swejrt aside. Six or clgrht painted savages were spin ning away over the sward by the time the troopers came laboring to fiie .top, and others, circling, yelling, brandish ing their arms, and hurling jeer and challenge over the intervening swale, were In plain view along the opposite slope not half a mile away. Beyond that lay the scene of the siege; and just over It. only a few yards away from the road, lay two bloated, stiffening objects, at sight of which every horse in the party shied and snorted. There lay, bristling with arrows, two of the stage mules. Two hundred yards farther, the smouldering remains of the stage itself, with the gashed and muti lated body of a man only a lariat's le-iiglh away, gr«H-ted the eyes of Laro l>ert and his foremost men. Here Dolan flung himself from his honw, tossed the reins to one of the men, saying; "Ilold all yam can. Lead *em to the hollow yonder," and, kneeling, drove a long , range shot at some gaudily-painted 1 warriors clustered about some object i half-way up the opposite slope. A pony I plunged and reared, and a ycjl of rage N023 end defiance went up. 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