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VISSUED TWICE A WEEK-WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. l. m. grist & sons, Pnbiisherj. j Jf jfaniiljt Jleurspaper: 4for the promotion of ihe political, gotial, ^grirulfural, and Commercial Interests of (he $outft. {TEB's?i?oiS'0cVT.VTHBEEVraire. ' VOL. 42. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28,1896. NO. 103. i BY CAPTAIN C Author of "From the Ranks," ' Secret," "The Deserter,' Copyright, 1896, by F. Tennyson Neely. SYNOPSIS. Chapter I?Royle Farrar disgraces himself at West Point, deserts the school and leads a wandering life, sinking lower and lower, marries his employer's daughter and then commits a forgery. Chapter II?Colonel Farrar, father of Royle, is killed in a battle with the Indians. Chapter III?Royle Farrar's younger brother Will graduates at West Point and falls in love with Kitty Ormsby, whose i- brother Jack is in love with Will's sister Ellis. Chapter IV?Will is made lieutenant. They all return to Fort Frayne, accompanied by a certain Mrs. Daunton. Chapter V.?Itttas been reported that Royle Farrar is dead; but he turns up at the fort in the guise of a common solaier under the name of Graice. Ellis Farrar and Jack Ormsby quarrel over Helen * Daunton. Chapter VI.?Helen Daunton has an interview with Jack Ormsby, in which it transpires that she is Royle Farrar's much abused wife, whom Ormsby has before befriended. Chapter VII.?Helen Farrar discovers her husband. Chapter VIII.?Ellis Farrar witnesses another interview between Helen Daunton and Jack Orinsby. Chapter IX.?Trouble arises betweeu v the cowboys and Indians. Chapter X.?The garrison is ordered out to protect the Indians. Chapter XI.?Helen Daunton makes preparations to get her husband away rmin fh<? fort. Chapter XII.?At the Christmas ball they are startled by the cry of "Fire !" in the guardhouse. Royle Farrar comes to his end amid the dames, and Captain Leale loses his eyesight in the attempt to rescue the unworthy husband of the woman he loves, Helen Farrar. Chapter XIII.?A misunderstanding ^ among the Iudiands causes more trouble. r They leave the.reservation and are pursued, by the Seventh. Chapter XIV.?Colonel Fenton is re lieved of his command and ordered to report at headquarters. Chapter XV.?The battle ends in triumph for the Seventh, and Colonel Fenton returiis vindicated. CHAPTER XVL Juno had come, a radiant June, and all at Frayne was joyous anticipation, despite the momentous fact that the Platte had overleaped its bounds and was raging like Eome mad mountain torrent far as the eye could see. The flats to the west of the post were one broad, muddy lake. The grassy bench beneath the bluffs to the east was partially torn away. Part of Bunko Jim's frontier stronghold still clung to the opposite bank, but some of it was distributed in driftwood long leagues down stream. Across the river, at a point half a mile above the ruin of the ferryhouse, a troop of cavalry, caught on return from scouts had pitched its tents and picketed its horses aud was waiting for the falling of the waters to enable it to return to its station, anawiin tnai troop, the maddest man in all Wyo* ming, was Lieutenant Will Farrar. Six or seven weeks previously an order had come to Fenton to send two troops to scout the western slopes of the Big Horn and keep the peace between the settlers and the Shoshones. Time was when these latter rarely ventured across the Big Horn river, partly through fear of the Sioux, who claimed sovereignty over all the lands east of the Shoshone preserves in the Wind river valley, partly through regard for the orders of their loyal old chief, Washakie, who for long, long years of his life had kept faith with the great white father, held his people in check and suffered the inevitable consequences of poverty and neglect, the policy of the Indian bureau being to load with favors only those of its wards who defy it and deal death to the whites. Settlers seldom encroach upon the Sioux, those gentry being abundantly able and more than willing to take care of themselves, but the Shoshones had known long years of enervating peace and, being held in subjection by their chief, became me natural prey of the whites, who mistook subordination for subservience, as is natural to freeborn Americans and as easily adopted by fellow citizens of foreign birth and who 60on began to encroach on their own account, stealing Shoshone crops and cattlo and promptly accusing the army officer on duty as agent of cattle stealing and all around rascality when he reseized the captured stock. Then, while this badgered official was defending himself in court, the Shoshones had to defend themselves in the field, and that peripatetic buffer between the oppressor and the oppressed, the corporations and the cranks, the law and tho lawless?the much bedoviled army?was sent out as usual to receive the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and of both parties. Finding it difficult to swindle thoShohones so long as their new agent?the army agent? | remained in power, the obvious thing was to down him by misrepresentation at Washington and, if that didn't work, by deft manipulation of tho local law. Of course they didn't expect to prove him guilty of anything, but there was no law against lying, and they could compel him to come into court and prove himself innocent and leave his unarmed wards at the mercy of the setter in the meantime, and so it happened that there were high jinks up the Wind river valley and along thoso wonderful ranges in the wild valleys of the Gray Bull, the Meeyero, tho Meeteetsee, north of the Owl Creek mountains, and, the cavalry having long since been withdrawn from that section, that was how the detail fell on old Port Frayna "You can straighten matters out in a month," said the commanding officer to Major Wayne, who had hastened back from the east to take command, and when it came to selecting the troops to go, even though it lacked less than two months to his wedding day, Will HARLES KING. 'Foes in Ambush," "A Soldier's ' "An Army Portia," Etc. Farrar gloried in the fact that his was one of them. It is bard to conceive of a lot in which a spirited, soldierly fellow of 21 could possibly be happier than commanding a troop of cavalry on an expedition through so glorious a coun try. Amory's troop and Leale's were designated, and, the latter captain being still in Berlin and the senior subaltern on staff duty in the east, Farrar was his own captain and troop commander and, despitOvithe troubles of the Christmas season, long since buried so far as he was concerned, just about the happiest fellow that wore the army blue. The expedition had proved even longer than was planned, but at last, while Wayne, with Amory and tho recaptured cattle and rounded up Shoshoncs, went over the Owl Creek mountains to render aocount of his .stewardship at Fort Washakie, Will was told to make the best of his way homeward with his own oommand, and, marching leisurely along in the radiant spring mornings through a country unmatched for wild beauty in all America, shooting, fishing, plunging in mountain streams, sleeping dreamlessly in the open air by night, they reached the valley of the | Platte toward mid-June. The blessed landmark of the Eagle buttes came in j sight one peerless morning. The blue summits of the Medicine Bow loomed up across the horizon to the southeast The flag tipped bluffs of old Fort Frayne would greet their eyes before the close of tomorrow's march, and eo they did, but with a raging torrent tearing at their base, and this wus Monday and less than 48 hours cf Will's wedding day. Meanwhile there had been a partial reunion within tho walls of the fort, and already a joyous bevy cf army folk had gathered in anticipation of the June wedding, with Kitty Ormsby as tho center of attraction, since she was the colonel's niece and he was to give her away, and Wayne was to be best man by order of the bride, provided he didn't get things mixed in his own inimitable way and turn up unexpectedly at some one else's affair, as he did the night of the Willetts' dinner to Captain and Mrs. Billy Ray of the ?th, where, with army bonhomie, a seat was squeezed in close beside that of tho winsome guest of the evening, and where be was charmingly welcomed and made at home despite the fact, which dawned upon him only with the champagne, that ho was due at the Amorys', where a similar function was being held in honor of the Trnscotts of the same regiment, then on the march from Kansas to Montana. "You'll rue it, Kitty, that ever you insisted on my having Wayne for best man," wrote poor Will, with prophetio but unavailing protest "Wayne saved my Willy," was the positive rejoinder, i and no one but Wayne wculd do. "All 1 right" said Will, "if you find years later that there's been some fatal fiaw in the proceedings, don't blame me." But here, on this glad June morning, all Buushine aud serenity aloft, all perturbation at the post, all raging river about it, it looked as though the proceedings themselves would be delayed and that instead of a military wedding 3 in the post chapel at high noon, with everybody en grande tenue, there would 1 be no wedding at all, even though Will, ] like a modern Leander, swam this wild western Hellespont in search of his 1 bride. Far away to the east the floods had swept their bnttering ram of logs and trees and dashed it against the bridge abutments at the railway, and, though the Farrars were safely here and had been for several days, Kitty's train, j that which bore her and Jack on their westward way, had been brought up : standing long miles toward Cheyenne, ' and there was no telling when the passengers could be transferred to the wait- 1 ing cars upon the hither 6hore. And so, believing the other in waiting at the 1 post, bride and groom elect woke to ' their wedding morn to rail at fate. It would have been some comfort could 1 they have known that, though miles i apart, they were at least on the sam i side of tho stream that swept between i them and the altar of their hopes. And there was deep anxiety under the roof where once again tho Farrars were installed, for the mother was possessed with the fear that Willy would [ be mad enough.to try to swim the J stream, and, though Fentou had had his ' signalmen out forbidding uuy such at tempt, no acknowledgment had been < received to the effect that the repeated 1 message was understood. An Indian who thought he could cross at Casper ? rocks, several miles up stream, was ; Bwept from his pony and only saved by 1 the strength of his horsehair lariat. A scow that was launched at the bend was : battered to flinders, and bottle after bottle, corked and slung long yards out 1 into the stream, went bobbing dcrisivo- ' ly away, carrying their penciled contents with them. Arrows, with silken strings attached, dropped helplessly in 1 the stream. Bullets, similiarly tethered, 1 snapped their frail attachments and whistled over the opposite shore and told no tale other than that of anxiety. Every fieldglass at the post, when brought to bear, revealed Farrar at 9 o'clock of his bridal morning striding and probably swearing np uud down the bank, tagging at his tiny mustache and sprouting beard and possibly threatening self destruction. It was a thrilling scene. Then, many other people seemed burdened with troubles of their own. Ellis had never recovered either strength or spirits sinoe the events of that Christmas week, and her lovely face was thin, arid the bright, bravo eyes of old were wate shadowed with a pathetio sorrow; bat arid though this shadow had come into her movi life another one, much harder to bear, mail had been swept aside. Ever since her and lover's words had revealed to Ellis that "1 it was her own brother, to save whom ditic Malcolm Leale had periled life and lost she i his sight, the girl's eyes seemed grad- to m nally to open to the utter cruelty of her was suspicions, the injustice of her treat- all k ment of Helen Daunton, the woman don' whose life that very brother had well year nigh wrecked forever. In the long hours gath of her convalescence she had turned to of C Helen in humility that was sweet to pla? see, and now the love and trust between from them was something inexpressible. But read; there was something even Helen could ?an neither explain nor justify, and that be al was Jaok Onnsby's conduct since her got i convalescence. least True, Ellis had told him in their last for t interview that all was at an end between were them; that he had forfeited trust, faith thinj t - x j _1 J ^ l , ana even respect iuju piueeu ? muua uu? c between himself and her forever. She funei had refased him farther audience, and Bt her last words to him had been full of bursl scorn, even of insult But no word of dulg anger or resentment had escaped him, tion and surely no man who deeply loved tears would harbor anger now. Sobbing her of h heart out the girl had thrown herself on perm Helen's breast just before their return, tabli to Frayne and told a part of her story Miss until then concealed?how, in their last wise interview, Ormsby had gently said that the he would vex her no more with his Chin pleadings, but if a time should ever logu< come when her eyes were opened and less, when she could believe him honest and partj worthy he would come at her call, and mids she had humbled herself and called, newE but all in vain. To Helen she had told the I the whole story of that humble letter breal and that neither by word nor sign had "the he acknowledged it had ] But Helen saw a ray of hope. The woul little note had been intrusted to Wayne Ai late Thursday night and he had prom- was! ised to deliver it early Friday morning, kisse and all that day had Ellis waited eager- and 1 Jy, and nightfall came without the look- latio ed for visit Wayne came on Saturday welo to convey some conventional words of tion, farewell from both officers, "So sur- what prised to hear of the sudden return from room California; so sorry not to have seen most them, but time was very short, and"? oppo would she never hear the last of the Sev- And enth?"Orm6by had had to attend the not i review at the armory Friday night, and whei then there was just time to rejoin Leale Ag Was by \ ToM all si "Kitty}8, you mean, do you not, majorV party and r^t him aboard, for their good ship all s Bailed at 7 a. m. to catch the early tide that at Sandy Hook. Falteringly Ellis had he di asked if he were sure ho had given W Ormsby her note?if?if Mr. Ormsby mate had read it. Wayne was quite positive but But Helen would not believe, and of th with unabated hope sho awaited frens Wayne's return to the post They ar- and I rived a week before him, for on leaving at th bis charge at Washakie the previous if no month he had hurried straight to Wash- they ington in response to a summons from some the secretary of war, had made his re- ing c port and then gono to New York. Not he sp until the Monday before the redding want did Le reappear, and then only by de- he w fcerniined effort did Helen corner him Kitty long enough for cross examination. drea< "Certainly," said Wayne. "I remem- ing a ber the note perfectly welL I put it be c with one from tho club that I found cretii there and handed both to him together, ebull He'll be here to the wedding. He'Bcom- mair ing right along with Kitty. I'll ask him proct again, if you like." T1 "Don't dare ever mention it, major, and I or that I asked any questions concern- that ing it How long has he been baok?" with asked Helen, with vivid interest, an- Kitty other question uppermost in her mind. there "Not a week. Just back, you know. I sorrc only saw him a minute. I was just start- ghoa ing for the train. He looked astonish- man, ingly well, and, you know, I forgot to Anth ask was Leale better. He was full of his 8ceu( wedding preparations." in tl "Her wedding preparations?Kitty's npon ?you mean, do you not, major?" tion "No, his; I give you my word He jt said so, you know. He told me the faile lady's name?part of it, at least. Effie ^ag something. I can't recall it just now. tnnit He'll tell you. Oh, it was all on that -way account, you know, Kitty couldn't start i0WS| sooner. She had to wait for him." cerer Helen was astounded. It was news she fn)i, declared she would never believe, and geve: yet she remembered having heard men- const tion of an attractive cousin, a Miss Effie Ellis Leale. and miuht it not be possible that ?'t in his wanderings with the blinded in- didn valid, with his own sore heart, Jack i ]et Ormsby had met and fonud consolation ??j in this fair relative of his stricken friend, " ] that she in turn had quickly learned to at to admiro the manly fellow who was so get a devoted to their particular hero? At all the 1 events it was something not to be men- ? ( tioned to Ellis, thought Helen. No n But what was the use? Wayne told it for ]i to Lucretia, Lucretia told a dozen during ??j tho day. It was all over the post before Bure night, and despite Helen's effort Ellis you heard it among the first. One more y0u < among the many mishaps with which tied' to usher in Will's wedding day I ""5 At 10 that beautiful June morning p au there wus something more than pathetic were about poor Lucretia's sorrows. While lose i Fenton, Mrs. Farrnr, Helen, silent, Ai brave faced Ellis, and a dozen sym- Wnyi pathetio souls from all over tho post fled < were gathered on the north piazza over- foun hanging the bluff and the roaring and i T8 of the Platte, signaling to Wi watching eagerly his vigoroi jments, the lady of the honse r led within doors, wept unceasing refused to be comforted. :t is dreadful to think of the co; m that chicken salad will be in, noaned. "It is preposterous to ta e of patience 1 I've said all along to be an unlucky day, because y< now perfectly well?at least if yc t yon ought to*-that it is just ] ? ago this day - that we were a ered at Fort Ctoeok for the funer Japtain Crocus which was to taJ 3 the moment tlje ambulance got: the front, and the band was a Y, and the escort and the hearse ai d after all the whole thing had landoned, for whon the ambulam n there were no remains at all?< there were, but they weren't rear jurial becausethey'd revived ai sitting up qSad saying shookir js. Why, I think a wedding witi i bride is ten Mimes worse than ral without a^without a"? it here, it must be admitted, tJ t of laughter in which Rorke h ed was too muoh forherdetermin to weep, and, blazing through hi , the maiden demanded explanatic is unseemly cdnduct. Rorke was lanent membe# of the colonel's e ehment now, but he could not rii LucretiaV displeasure, and w; and knew hii danger and fled kitchen, there to tell cook ai aman the lady's plaintive mon 3, while Amfcry, equally oonscienc ran out to convulse with it tl r on the pcrdh. And then in.tl t of all the Jpfighter came delirioi i from the "bfo man" sent tclme iride and Oifaajby at the station ai i to them tj^e direful newB thi bridegroom ^was late." The trai passed Fetterman Bend. The brie d be there in 80 minutes, id she came* and what a scene the: And how she was hugged ar d and mauled and pulled abou bow she strove to tell of her tribi ns and could not for the volume i oine, exclamation and iuterrog; and not until tranks, boxes ai ; alls had been whisked away to hi : aloft and somebody said it was a 11 o'clock did she find breath ai rtunity to say: "Graciousheaven I'm to be married at noon! Ai i thing done yet! Why?why e's Willy?" ;hast they looked at one anothe not all this to have been explain< Vayne? Hadn't Wayne told he her? Told her what? All Maj ae said to her about Willy was th; as almost frantio with impatient eet her, but he'd?he'd have to tal ath first. -What did he mean 1 ing such ridiculous stuff? Wb; they all laughing?crying a here? Couldn't cross? Can't 1 i? Why, the man she thought 1 would swim Niagara rather the his wedding day! And then?o] of days?perhaps her words a; ated space and reached the ears i naddened lover, for at the very m ; came an Irish howl from the port out "Oh, fur the luvof God, shta Don't let him! Oh, mother i ;s, it's drownin he is!" And the; 1 -"-I J ? J r^4 + 1 LLTICiiH OliU VCXXWj UiU Uiuov ua w r scatter for the balconies, whil hrieks and terror and protestatioi she'd never speak to him again ired to, Kitty collapsed upon a sof; as ever there a wedding day i h it? Soaked to the skin, drippini triumphant, Will Pairar rode 01 e floods and up the heights amid tl :ied acclamations of the garrisoi throwing himself from the sadd e colonel's gate demanded to se t to squeeze, his bride. There we: gathered, the elite of Fort Frayn i in wedding garb, some in trave Iress, and what a cheer went up i >rang to the porch and his mothi ;ed to clasp him, dripping thoug as, to her heart of hearts. Not i r. "Don't you come near me, yc Iful thing!" she cried, and, laugJ rnd protesting, he was led away aparisoned for the ceremony. Li a's spirits were once more i ition. Wayne was back, the r is had come; so why longer deU jedings? iey were not. There was as bliti bright and joyous a soldier weddir perfect noonday as ever was set in the walls of old Fort Frayne, ar 7 made a bewitching bride, ar ) was a wonderful unloading i iw from heart after heart on to tl lders of one luckless, sorely tri( Major Percival Wayne. Oh, Ma tony 1 But here was one of thy d lants ten times worthy thy nam lat one day there came crushing i him the consequences of a generi of misdoing. was enough that he should hai d to explain matters to Kitty, worse when he took the first oppo y to explain matters to Jack. H of doing it was somewhat as fc , and they were dressing for tl nony, and Jack, gorgeous in h dress uniform as a lieutenant of tl utb, was siok at heart over the coli trained greeting accorded him t Vhy, of course, old fellow, yc 't impose silence on me, and I s'po out about your engagement"? dy what?" says poor Jack aghast, four engagement. You said, ev( tend Kitty's wedding, you couldn way until yours was fulfilled?c 10th, wasn't it?" lertainly, our annual inspectio: uan in the Seventh would miss th ove or money." 3ut, Jack, don't you know? I': you told me a lady was in tlio cas told mo her name, and?iudeoi iid?that Effle and you were to 1 f fou transcendental idiot! Itoldy< d I?Company F and Company Ii tied for place and neither dor< a point" id then, instead of smashii ne, as was his first thought, Jac lown stairs in search of Ellis ar d her and told her Wayne's sto] then his own, breathlessly, eagerl. ill Imploringly, and there were Blushes and as tears and soft laughter and soft, happy e- murmurs, and?and how horribly those ly big opaulets get in the way and service medals and soutache braid scratoh at n- such times! And at last did Jack uplift " his voice again to say, "Ellis, I'm in Ik heaven," and then did she uplift a it blushing, tear stained, kiss rumpled face )u to archly inquire, "A Seventh heaven, )u Jack?" and then did old Fenton come 18 blustering in to take a veteran's share ill in the engagement It-was known all al over the house before the wedding party se started in Then came the next scene in Mad ill Anthony's play. Amory and the chapid lain declare to this day that when the to party was duly marshaled at the altar ce the major clicked his heels together and at raised his hand in salute and began, ly "Sir, the parade is"? when Onus by id "Helen, darling?not thatl Don't waste in thou kisses." *e canght the hand and brought it down. Bat when it came to the ring there was " ? consternation. To the horror of the groom, the despair of the bride, but to ' the marked and tremulous emotion of a Aunt Lucretia, the circlet produced for the occasion by the dazed best man was ft: an old fashioned but beautiful cluster 1(1 of flashing gems. Only by a miracle er did it happen that the other ring was " in his possession. How the mixture ocII cnrred there was no time to tell, until 81 later, when all were gathered, for there were two whose fortunes we have fol? lowed through these long, long chapters who were absent from the ceremony, r- who, in fact, were having one of their ** own, and to these two, while the band r? without is softly playing in front of the or ohapel, and in eager hundreds the men at are gathered to cheer the bride and 38 groom on their reappearance, let us turn te and listen. - ? "No, dear -Mrs. Farrar," were Helen at Daunton's words as the eager guests M were pouring forth to the wedding. 16 "They are bringing him here, even 16 now, so that he may welcome Will and III Kitty on their return from the wedding b. he cannot sea" a* And no sooner was the party fairly at 01 the chapel than there drove to the colo?* nel's door the old colonel, and two 'h soldiers assisted to alight and led to the >P doorway the soldierly form of Captain Leale, his eyes still covered by the deep green shade. It was Helen Dannton's ie hand that guided him into the lately ?? crowded parlor, and he knew the touch M and thrilled with the joy of it i* "Helen!" he cried. "They told me all were gone. What a blessed welcome! to I've been so long in exile! With your S> voice the old home feeling I've been groping for comes to me through the ie dark." "Then it is still dark with you?" she I0 faltered. 0> There was a moment's pause. The re band had just ceased the joyous march 0? with which it had "trooped" the wed 4 mug party JL11U wo uuapoi, auu uiou, (* M though in accompaniment to the cere31 mony just beginning and to the sweet fh romance already throbbing here, the ex30 qnisite strains of the "Traumerei" )U softly thrilled npon the fragrant air. b- "Helen!" he spoke, his deep voice t? trembling, as did the hand that still a' clung to hers. "ITon know that for me 'm the lights went out before ever that e* powder flash crossed my eyes." She ky strove, hardly knowing why, to release her band. "No, dear," he went on genie tly. "Don't be afraid I have come back ?g to vex you with my sorrows; but listen, 1 ;n they will all be here in in a moment. I id went away hoping to teach my heart a ' id friendship for you that should give me 1 * aL- ?Ui. onotn on/1 aorrrA vnn 1 jl lUtJ to VA/1UO agdiu UUV4 uv? * w J W ? le as your friend. When I found that it : >d was almost sure that I should walk in id darkness all my life, I said, 'Now at < e- least I can accept tho blessing of her el friendship, even as she offered it to me.' 1 in A man maimed and set apurt from his 1 a- fellows can learn thankfulness for a 1 great good, though it is not his heart's re desire." And hero her graceful head It was bowed, and silently her tears came r- gushing forth. "But time has taught is me the falsityof that," he went on, il- firmly now. "You shall never misunderie stand me. Even in the dark my pulse is beat gave the lie to friendship. I loved ic you, I love you, and so have come to I, say a long goodby. I've made my fight jy to be your friend and failed. At least I have been a soldier. I will not be a m coward." se She could control herself no longer. Though she had freed her hands, she seemed involuntarily stretching them ;n forth. Then, leaning upon the table for 't Bnnuort. one hand found the glove that >n he had removed and laid there. He had withdrawn a paoe and lifted his head a. as though the blighted eyes were strivat ing to peer from under their shade for one look at the face they had gazed upm on in such passionate farewell so many e. months before. The strains of the rl, "Traumorei" were still thrilling softoe ly through the open casements, and, overcome with emotion, tenderness and m passion, Helen bent and laid her soft ? lips in fervent pressure on the senseless jd glove. Then the room rang with a sudden, ig startling, joyous cry. The shade went :k whizzing into space, and the next inid stant Leale had sprung to her and seized ry her in his arms. 7. "Helen, darling ?not that! Don't waste those kisses!" And she sank sob bing in bis arms just as?grand, joyous triumphant?the strains of tho weddinj march burst forth, re-echoing amonj tho walJs of Fort Frayne Rorke was the first man to come tear' ing in to announce tho return of th( wedding party and the guests, buf Fen ton was close on his heels "on hospita ble cares intent" and exploding ovei Wayne's performances. There was nt time for a formal reception. "Proceed ings" had been delayed well nigh ax hour as it was and the east bound trail was reported unaccountably on time RriHft nnd hrideerroom. bridesmaids, ush era, bachelors and benedicts, maids ant matrons?Fort Frayne seemed surginj tnmultuoasly np the colonel's step, sur rounding and bedeviling poor Wayne t< the verge of distraction. He laid th< blame on his spring overcoat, a venera ble garment of the fashion of 20 yean agone, but that he had so seldom won as to canee it to seem to him ever new and available, and for this garment he darted into the adjoining quarters while the laughing guests came tripping uj the steps in the wake of the bride, who, totally ignoring Helen and Leale now, who were gazing into each other's eyei in the deep bow window, rushed at hei uncle with characteristic explosive abuse. "I'll never be married at Fort Frayn< again as long as I live! What on eartl did Major"? But she could go no fur ther, for the shout of laughter thai greeted her sally and the exclamation! which r(!sulted from the discovery o; Leale and Helen Bilenced her complete' ly. And then the bride was rushed awaj to doff her finery and ree ppear in trav eling garb, and then Will was hustlec to his quarters to change his full dresi uniform to the conventional garb of civ il life, just as Wayne came in, dazed, half demented, overcoat in one hanc and a package in the other that he now dreamily h.eld forth to Ormsby, wh< took it, as wonderingly opened and be gau slowly counting over a number ol greenbacks, sole contents of the wrap per, but he dropped them as of littl< consequence when the bewildered majoi produced a moment later another?t little note from the depths of an innei pocket. They were all crowding arounc him now, but at sight of this miesivt Ellis made a spring and captured it, on ly just in time, and was eeized in tun by Ormsby, who pleaded for possessior of what was plainly addressed to him, and then came renewed uproar, to: Will reappeared in uniform trousers anr unfastened blouse and a towering rage. "Of all things that could have hap pened to aman, thinkof this!" he cried, "MoW Wnviift didn't vnn nrnmise m< " ?v ? -J r from the field to send that dispatch t< Hatfield the moment yon got to thi ----"I did, and I pledge my solemn wort that I kept it I sent it the very flrsi post I struck." "You did, for a fact, you moonstrucl ?oh, but just listen, all of you! In stead of my traveling suit here's what ] find?a letter from Hatfield, forwardet from Fort Washakie. 'Dear Sir: In ac cordance with your telegraphic instruc tions, we have this day forwarded t< you a cutaway tweed traveling suit bj American express and trust the same is,' etc., 'also statement of?um, neve: mind.that?'We are'?now, mark this, all of you, good people?'we are some what at a loss to understand your sud den change of address, but are compellec to act on your telegram, a copy of which is inclosed. "Fort Washakie, May 25. Have tweed cutaway traveling suit her< by 18th prox. without fail. W. Far rar."' Fort Washakie! Gracious pow ersl Think of my traveling suit al Washakie and I here and the train com ing!" "But, Willy, dear," said his mothei soothingly, "surely you can wear fa just a day or two last year's suit " "That? Now? Why, heavens ablaze Korke couldn't squeeze me into it wit! a shoehorn. I'll have to travel in rnj pyjamas. Oh, couldn't I murder you, Major Percival Wayne!" Poor Wayne's cup was indeed full tc overflowing. Martin and some of the youngsters lugged Will off to squeeze him into last year's garments, made oc cadet measure, and then down came Kitty, the bonniest of brides, in the daintiest and most coouettish of costumes, and while Rorke and his satellites were passing the champagne, and everybody?no, almost everybody?was crowding about the bride, there stood poor Wayne still diving into those long forgotten placer mines of his pockets and fetching up bills and billets aud odds and ends, while Lucretia tremulously and Fenton, Farwell and Amory delightedly watched him, and then came a new excitement Enter Will, ontioo7oi1 nf. Inst: into the licrht erav tweeds he had so complacently donned a year before and that now fitted him like the skin of a sausage. A sudden move of one arm carried away the breast button. "It's no use," he cried. "I'm worse off than Peggotty. Every jump's a button." And then Kitty caught sight of him, and then there came a scene. "What'sthat?" she exclaimed. "That isn't the man I married. I won't stir a step with him in those thinga" "But I haven't any other," pleaded Will in despair. "Who wants you to wear such things?" she fairly screamed in almost hysterical laughter. "I married a soldier. Your uniform^ Bir, your best blouse and trousers and forage cap, and don't you dare wear cits till I tell you." And, as it was manifest that he couldn't wear those now incasing him, the groom a third time hastened away to the upper regions, and, while dozens clustered as before about Kitty, an absorbed group still hung upon the movements of the major. The light as of other days was dawning on his face. He was searching still, and at last he found and drew forth a tiny box, at sight of which Lucretia's maiden heart fluttered almost out of her throat "And now what have you unearthed, old Rip Van Winkler" boomed Penton. "A ring, by all that's gorgeous?a ting, ana a Deaucy, ana an inscription on it. 'P. W. toL. F., 1874.' Who's P. W.1 Who's?but a glance at his sister's transi figured face as she tottered there at his 5 side warned the old warrior to desist I Wayne was panting with excitement "I know," he cried. "Of course it * wasn't my class ring. It was this. I 3 got it for"? And here he turned and drew her to his arm, and the others considerately moved away as at last r that ring was fitted to the finger that 3 had been waiting for it 20 long years. Five minutes more, and with Rorke 1 leading off in. the cheer*, with music 1 and sunshine, mirth and gladness, smiles and tears and prayers and blessings, the young couple were whirled away to the * station, bound for the bliss of the honey? moon. But what made that wedding day so i remarkable was that it seemed to lead 5 tn ?n manv mnrfl Thnrfl ramn a from Martin to Jack tOrmsby only the other day. The latter, being a Now York guardsman, was sweltering in his tent at Peekskill, while Mrs. Jack consoled herself by a brief visit to the Leales at West Point The former, being a West Pointer, fell back naturally into the vernacular of his cadet days, and this was somewhat as he wrote: "Your blessed brother-in-law continues to be the joy of the Twelfth, and the dovecot is every whit as hospitable as Amory's. But of course Will and Mrs. Will haven't outlived their salad days, and their tiffs and make ups are too funny for anything. Will is just as true : a soldier as ever, but we always know when the 'wind's in the east' at the cot by his becoming even more aggressively, austerely, self denyingly military. Just now all is bliss, for dear Lady Farrar, 'Queen Mother,' as we learned to call her from your sweet wife?my salutations to her ladyship? ' is, as you know, in the third week of ' > her first visit to 'the children,' and this, I Jack, old boy, brings me to a predio7 tion. In our cadet days we used to say 1 I J I .J - I I J Tl_ iUi.Uax eiuaa uiwu muoii, wju j. iu umimig " what that wedding day of Will's is re' sponsible for. "First there's yon and ' Miss Ellis?God bless 'em! There's ' Leale and Mrs. Royle Farrar?God rer ward 'em! There's Old-Man-Heapk Mashed *in-the-Moon and Miss Lucretia [ ?God help 'em! Bnt, do you know, we ' believe onr bully old colonel has the 5 promise now of being made at last just " the happiest man in old Fort Frayne." 1 the end. \ Dog Dignity.?Sir Walter Scott I declared that he could believe anything of dogs. He was very fond pf . tbem, studied their idiosyncrades, wrote much in their praise, and told j many stories of their straDge habits. } Once, he said, he desired an old point5 er of great experience, prodigious fa- ' > -vorite,. and steady?hi the field as a- ? 1 rock, to accompany his friend Daniel I Terry, then on a visit to Abbotsfbrd, and who concluded to go on a sporting c excursion. The dog wagged his tail . in token of pleased obedience, sho6k [ out his ears and led the way with a [ confident air, and began ranging about . with most scientific precision. Sud. denly he pointed and up sprung a ) numerous covey. Terry, bent on r slaughter, fired both barrels at once, j aiming in the centre of the covey, and t missed. The dog turned round in ut, ter astonishment, wondering who could . be behind him, and looked Terry full . in the face, but, after a pause, shook I himself again and went to work as bei fore. The second steady point and a secj ond fusilade followed, but with no . effect. The dog then wheeled about and trotted home at leisure, leaving 1; the would-be-sportsman to find for - himself the rest of the day. Sir Walter was fond of repeating the anr ecdote, and always declared that it r was true, while Terry never said more in contradiction than that "it was a I very good story." i r- The First Shaving.?The confes' sor of Francis II of France refused him absolution until be had completely > removed bis beard. An ancient Ger1 man was by tribal custom not allowed to * cut off his flowing beard until he had 1 killed bis first man in battle. About 1 the year 200 B. C., the Roman emper' or, Scipio Africanus, inaugurated the ' custom of shaving among the Roman nobles. Henry I of England wore a heard until a courageous Dreacher lev 1 eled bis eloquence at him to such good purpose that he submitted to be shaved. From the time of Julius Caesar until the advent of William the Conqueror the Britons wore mustaches, but the clergy, after the conversion of the islanders, were forced to shave by law. One of the early popes established the shaving of Roman Catholic priests to distinguish them from the patriots of Constantinople. The priests of the Greek church still wear beards. Peter the Great of Russia laid a tax on beards, and delinquents were forced to have their faces shaved with a blunt r razor, or to have the hairs pulled out with pincers. So everybody shaved. The first shaving was done by order of Alexander the Great, who forced the 1 Greek warriors to cut off their beards, as he found them awkward impediments in the hand-to-band contests of that time. I Death of a Remarkable Freak. Tom Hawkins, a noted Negro charac ter, died at the poorhouse in Balmy ra, Mo., recently. He had been an inmate of this institution for 30 years, or since 10 years of age, and was a freak. Although an idiot, be had a most remarkable memory and while he could not read nor write, could recite, word for word, chapter after chapter, from i the Bible. Whenever he heard anything read he immediately committed , it to memory and never forgot it. His remarkable memory has been put to severe tests on numerous occasions and waa never known to fail him. He had frequently recited the contents of several columns of a newspaper word for word, after hearing it read.once. In all other particulars he was a per) feet imbecile.