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CHARL ! /iTTTHOR OF (iTHB CCLO?TEL'S E "TEES DSSE Copyrighted, iS33, by j. B. Lippincott ( Special Arrangement through t ? _ CHAPTER L " ^^^^ Pspf T WAS nearly midnight, .ind ? ;? f?T^ still the gay party lingered on Xy> the veranda. There had been a fortnight of "getting settled" at the new post, preceded by a mont h of march? ing that had brought the battalion from distant service to this strange Texan sta? tion. The nev cottiers had been hospita? bly welcomed by the officers of the little garrison of infantry, and now, in recog? nition of their many courtesies, the field officer commanding the arriving troops had been entertaining the resident offi? cers and ladies at dinner. The colonel was a host in himself, but preferred not to draw too heavily on his reserves of anecdote and small talk, so he had called in two of his subalterns to assist in the pleasant duty of being attentive to the infantry ladies, and just nov at 11:43 p m , he was wondering if Lieut. Perry had not too literally construed his in? structions, for that young gentleman was devoting himself to Mrs. Belknap in a mininer so marked as to make the cap? tain, her lawful lord and master, mani? festly uneasy. Mrs. Belknap. however, seemed to en? joy the situation immensely. She. was a pretty woman at most times, as even her rivals admitted. She was a beauti? ful woman at ail times, was the verdict of the oii'icersof the regiment when they happened to swak of the matter among themselves. She was dark, with lus? trous eyes and sweeping lashes, with coral lips and much luxuriance of tress, and a way of glancing sideways from under her heavily fringed eyelids that the younger and more impressionable men found quite irresistible when ac? corded the rare luxury of a telo-a-tete. Belknap was a big and boisterous man; Mrs..Belknap was small in stature, and soft-very soft-of voice. Belknap was either brusquely repellent or oppressively cordial in manner: Mrs. Belknap was either gently and exasperatingly indif? ferent to those whom she did not care to attract, or ca:v?si:;_;iy sweet to those wheise attentions she dr-sir,-!. In their own regiment tho young off: cerssoon found that unless they wished to be involved in an unpleasantness with Belknap it eras best to be only very mod? erately devoted to his pretty wife, and these to whom an unpleasantness with the big captain might have bad no ter? rors of consequence were deterred by the fact that Mrs. I ie! knap's devotee among the ..youngsters" had invariably become an object of coldness and aver? sion to the other dames and damsels of the garrison. Very short lived, there? fore, liad been the little flirtations that sprang up from time to time in those frontier posts wherein Capt. and Mrs. Belknap were among the chief orna? ments of society; I ?ut now matters seemed to be taking oilier shape. From the very day that handsome Ned Perry dismounted in front ol' Belknap's quar? ters and with his soldiery salute report' ?1, to the then commanding officer that Col. Brainard and his battalion of cavalry would arrive in the course of two or three hours, Mrs. Belknap had evinced a contentment in his society and assumed an air of quasi-propriotor -hip that served to annoy her garrison :-; ters more than a little. For the time being a'J the cav? alrymen '.vere bachelors, either by ac? tual ran!: or "by brevet.'' as none of the ladies of the -th accompanied the bat? talion on its march, and none were ex? pected until the stations of ?.ho regiment in its new department had been definite? ly settled. Tho pot surgeon, too, was living :i !:'.". ?d' single blessedness as the early spring wore on, for his good wife had betaken herself, with tho children, to the distant < r.st as soon as the-'disap? pearance of ?he w inter's snov, .; render -d stabing over the hard prairie roads a matter ??I" no great ?langer or disc?>a:fort. It was. the-doctor himself who,.-seated in an easy chair at the eu i of the ve? randa, first call, ! the colonci'i attention to P< rry's devotional attitude at Mrs. Bel knap's side. She was reclining in a hammock, one lillie, sh"pp? red fo<?t occa? sionally toucliing the (lour and impart? ing a gentle, swinging motion to the affair, an 1 making a soothing swish swisli of skirts along the matting under? neath; Fl- r j: w .h d hands looked very sledder and fragile and white tis tii-y gleamed in the soft light that shone from the open windows of the parlor. They were busied in straight! hing out tile kinks in the gold cord of his forage cap a cu in rearranging n li:;!-' silken braid and tassel that was fastened in a clumsy, man like fashion to oho of thc buttons at the si le; be. seated in n camp chair, was I .ending f orward so that his handsome, shapely head was only a tritio higher than hors, and the two hers so dmd: and rich ia coloring, bis ?so fair arid massive aud strong-came rather leo close together for thc equa? nimity of Capt. Belknap, who had es? sayed io take a ban i at whi I in thc par? lor. One or two :>f the ladies, also, were silent observers of the scene-silent as to the scene bet ause, being in conversation at ii. tim? with brother officers of Lieut. Perry, they were uncertain as yet bow commentson hisgrowingfiirtation might be received. That their eyes should oc ca iona liv wander towards thc hammock air: then glance with sympathetic sig? nificance ?: those of some fair ally and intimate was natural enough. P:>i when it became presently apparent that Mrs. Belknap was actually unfastening the little .silio n braid that had hung <>:i Ned Perry's cap ever shire the day of his ar? rival-all the while, too, looking shyly up in his eyes as her fingers worked; v. ben it was seen th.at she presently de? tached it from the button and then, half hesitating! v. but evidently in compliance ; Frontier Life. ES KING, U. S. A., DAUGHTER" "FROM THE RANKS," RTSR," ETC. Company, Philadelphia, and Published by he American Press Association. ? with his wishes, handed it to him: when ; he was seen to toss it carelessly-even . contemptuously-away and then bend down lower, as though gazing into her shaded eyes, Mrs. Lawrence could stand it no longer. "Mr. Graham," said she, "isn't your friend. Mr. Perry, something of a flirt?'' ; "Who?-Ned"/' asked itfr. Graba' in 'well feigned amaze and <~ith sui^k glance towards the object of his inquiry. "How on earth should ? know anything about it? Of course you do not seek ex? pert testimony in asking me. Ile tries, I suppose, to adapt himself to circum I stances. But why do you ask?" [ "Because 1 see that he has been induc I ing Mrs. Bell-map to take off that little ! tassel on the button of his cap. Ile has ? worn it when oil duty ever since he came: and we supposed it was something he cherished: I know she did." Graham broke forth in a peal of merry laughter, but gave no further reply, for just tuen the colonel and the doctor left their chairs, and, sauntering over to tho hammock, brought mighty relief to Bel? knap at the whist table and vexation of spirit to his pretty wife. Tho flirtation was broken itt a most interesting point, and Perry, rising suddenly, caine o^er and joined Mrs. Lawrence. If she expected to see him piqued or annoyed at tho interruption and some? what perturbed in manner, she was greatly mistaken. Nothing could have been more sunshiny and jovial than the greeting he gave her. A laughing apol? ogy tc Graham for spoiling his tete-a tete was accomplished in a moment, and then down by lier side he sat and plunged into a merry description of his experi? ences at dinner, where he had been placed next to the elia plain's wife on the one hand, and she had been properly ag? grieved at his attentions to Mrs. Belknap on the other. "You must remember that Mrs. Wells is a very strict Presbyterian, Mr. Perry: and, for that matter, nunc of us have seen a dinner such as the colonel gave us this evening for ever and ever so long. We are quite unused to tho ways of civilization; whereas you have just come from the east-and long leave. Perhaps it is tine fashion to be all devotion to or.e"s next door neighbor at dinner." "Not if she be as repellent and vener? able as Mrs. Wells, I assure you. Why, I thought she would have been glad to leave the table when, after having re? fused sherry and Pontet-Canet for up? wards of an hour, her glass was filled with diam;?ague when she happened to be looking the other way." ..It is the first dinner of the kind she has ever seen here, Mr. Perry, and I don't suppose either Mr. or Mrs. Wells has been up so late before in years. He would have enjoyed staying and watch? ing, whist, but she. carried bim ol? almost as so<;n as we left the table. Our society has been very dull, you know-only our? selves at the post all this last year, and nobody outside of it." "One would suppose that with all this magnificent cattle range there would be some congenial people ranching near you. Are there none at ail?" "Absolutely none! There aro some ranches down in the Washita country, but only one fine ene near us: and that might as well be on the other side of the Atlantic. No one from there ever comes here; and Dr. (Juin is the only living soul in the garrison who ever got within the walls of that ranch. "What he saw there he positively refuses to tell, despite ail our entreaty." "You don't tell me there's a ranch with a mystery here near Rossiter!" ex? claimed Mr. Perry, with sudden interest. "Why, I do, indeed! Is it possb le you have been here two whole weeks and haven't heard of Dunraven Ranch?" "I've heard there w.ts such a thing; I saw ir from a distance when out hunting the other day. But what's the mystery? -what's the matter with it?" "That's what we all want to know and. cannot fiud out. Now, there is an ex [?Lit worthy your energy and best efforts, Mr. Perry. There" is a big, wealthy, well stocke?! ranch, thc finest homestead btiildings, wo are told, in all tliis part of Texas. They say it is beau? tifully furnished-that it "has a fine library, a grand piano, all manner of things indicative,- of culture and. refine? ment among its occupants-but the own? er only comes around once or twice a year, and is an iceberg of an English? man. Ai' the people about the ranch arc Kag!i di, too, an 1 the most repellent, boorish, discourteous lot of men yon ever haw. \Vhen the Eleventh were la-re they did everything they could to be civil to them, but not an invitation would they* accept, not one would they extend: and so from that day to this *ione <>f the officers have had any inter? course with the people at the ranch, and the soldiersknow very little more. Once or twice a year some very ordinary look? ing men arri ve who are said to be very distinguished people-in England; but they remain only a little while, and g.j away a. : udden?y as they came." "Ard you have never seen anv of them?' vt r, except at a distance. Nor has nay one of tim officers, except 1 >r. Quin." "And you have never heard air. thing about the inmates and why they keep up this policy ot' exeiusivcm - "Wo have beard ail manner of things -some of them wil ily romantic,.some i mysteriously iragie, and ail of tl,, m. probably, absurd. At ail events. Capt. j Lawrence has told me he did :m? wish i nm to v. ;> at what 1 ba i heard, or to bo I coicenied in any way willi tho .'.."ri-s j afloat; so you must ask s ?mebody else. ! Try thc doctor. To change tim sur ?j cet. Vir. Perry, I seo you have Josi that mys? terious little silken braid and tassel you wore* on your cap button. 1 fancied i ir re was some romance attached to ii. ami now i! is g< inc." Perry lana:! d. Ivis blue ey ; twinkling with fun: "ll i will tel! you how .-md where I m ? thai m.--. S. will you t< ll IMO ; what voa have heard about Dunraven : Kan. ii?" "1 cannot, unless Capt. Lawrence j withdraws his prohibition. Perhaps he ; will, though, for 1 think it was" on ly be? cause lie was tir? d of hearing all (mr conjectures and thcorh s." "Well, will yon tell me if I can induce the captain to say he has no objection?" persisted Perry. "I will to-morrow-if you will tell me about the tassel to-night." "Is it a positivo promise? You will tell me to-morrow a)] you have heard about Dunraven Ranch if 1 will tefl you to? night all I know about tho tassel?" "Yes-a promise." '.Very well, then. You are a witness to the compact, Graham. Nov.' for my confession. I ha**e worn that tassel ever since our parting bail at Fort Riley. That is to say, it has been fastened to that button ever since the bail until to? night; but I've been mighty careful not to wear that cap on any kind of duty.*' "And yet yoi: let Mrs. Belknap take it off to-night?" "Why shouldn't I? There was no i sentiment whatever attached to it. I haven't the faintest idea whose it was, and only tied it there for the fun of the thing and to make Graham, here, ask questions." 'O?r. Perry:" gaspe? Mrs. Lawrence. "And do you mean that Mrs. Belknap knows-that you told her what you have just told me?" "Well, no," laughed Perry. "I fancy Mrs. Belknap thinks as you thought that it was a gage d'amour. Hallo! look at that light away out there across the prairie. What can that be?" Mrs. Lawrence ross .suddenly to her feet and gazed southeastward in the di? rection in which the young officer point? ed. It was a lovely, starlit night. A soft wind was blowing gently from the south and bearing with it the fragrance of spring blossoms and far away flower? ets. Others, too. had arisen, attracted by Perry's sudden exclamation. Mrs. Belknap turned languidly in her ham? mock and glanced over her pretty white shoulder. The colonel followed her eyes witli his anil gave a start of surprise. The doctor turned slowly and composed? ly and looked silently towards the glis? tening object, and then upon the officers of thc cavalry there fell sudden astonish? ment. "What on earth could that have boen?" asked the colonel. "It gleamed Iii-:-" the head light of a locomotive, away down there in the valley of the Monee, then suddenly went out." "JSo silent a moment and watch," whispered Mrs. Lawrence to Perry. .'You wi ?I sec it again; and-watch the doctor." Surely enough, even as they were ali looking about and commenting on the strange apparition, it suddenly glared forth a second time,-shining full and lus? trous as an unclouded planet, yet miles away beyond and above the fringe of cottonwoods that wound southeastward with the little stream. Full half a min? ute it shone, and then, abruptly as be? fore, was hidden from sight. Perry was about starling forward to join the colon.-1 when a little hand was laid upon his arin. "Wait: once more you'll seo it," she whispered. "Then take mo in to Capt. Lawrence. Do you see that the doctor is leaving?" Without saying a word to any one, the post surgeon had very quietly withdrawn from the group on the veranda. Ile could not well leave by tho front gate without attracting attention: but he strolled leisurely into the hali, took up a boo!; that lay on the table, and passed through the gr. .np of officers spated smoking and chatting there, entered thc sitting room on ii:'.1 south si le of the hall-the sid;* opposite the parlor where the whist game was ie progress-and there lie iva* '<>-t to sight. A tiii'Ai time the bright light burst upon th,? vi.-w of the gazers. A third lime, sharply and salden';.-, it disap penrod. Then for a moment all was silence and watchfulness; but it (rame no mor". P. rry looked questioningly in his com? pare -n's face. She had turned a. Tittle white, and lie f:-!t sure that ehe was shivering. "Are you col i?" ho asked lier, gently. "INO-no: that; but I hate mysteries, after what I'vo heard, and we haven't seen that light in ever so long. Come here to the corner one moment." And she le.! him around tv the other flank of the big wooden, barra?: k like residence of the commanding oilicer. "Look up there," she said, pointing to a dark window under the peaked dormer roof of the large cottage to the south. "That is tlie doctor's house." In a few second,.- a faint gleam seemed to creep through the slats. Then the slats themselves were thrown wide-open, a white shade was lowered, and, with the ray.; behind ii crowing brighter ev? ery instant, a broad white light shone forth over the roof of the veranda. An? other moment and footsteps were heard along the doctor's porch, footsteps that presently approached them along the grass. "Come," she said, plucking at his sleeve, "come away ; it is the doctor." "Xor what reason?" he answered. "That would seca: Uko hilling. Xo, Mrs. Lawrence, let us stay until he comes." Rei, th*- doctor pas.; d them with brief and courteous salutation: spoke of the beauty of the night and thc balm of the summery air, and went in again by the neun door to the colonel's quarters. Then Perry turned to his partner: "Well, Mrs. Lawrence, what does it all mean? Is this part of what you trad to tell me?" "Don't ask me nov.-. 1-1 did not want to see what wo have s-.-.-n. bat I had heard Queer stories and cotilo not boin ve thom. Take me in to (."apt. Lawrence, please. And, Mr. Perry, you won't speak of thi> to any one, will yon? Indeed, if I bad known, i would not have come out here for the world; but 1 didn't believe j it, eve;: when she went aw:n and took j the children." " Win > went awaj ?" "Mrs. Quin ? tho doctor's wife. Aral sh-1 was -h a sw? et wonjan, anal so dc . vote?I to ! im." "Well, pardon mo, Mrs. Lawrence, ' ; don't see-through this thing at all. l>-> you ia m that the doctor has anything lo do with the mystery?"' Sh- l-.-A-.-.l lur li ea? I as they turned bael; !.. tile hon .: "I must not tell you ;;nv more to-ni ht. Yo:i will besare to hear something ??f it ad, ?CT.?. Every? body ca !!.:? pi :/'.a saw thc lights, ai.d all who v. ere heiv be2\ r?i you came knew what tivy ua-aut." " Y\ liai were they?" "Signals, of some kind, from Dunraven j Ranch." j CIIAl.TEK LI. : ?s,/ . j ' ' fi f ?SI?& ED PERRY hated iv '3SE22^neille and morning j TsSrl sSS^ stables about as ve 'J?j?"?? hemently as was pos ?-??jC., jp? sil?le to a young fei ^iri^ low who was iii othei respects thoroughly in love with his pro fession. A fairer type of the America! cavalry officer, when once he got in sad die and settled down to business, ow would hardly ask to find. Tall, athletic slender of build, with frank, laughing blue eyes, curly, close cropped, ligh brown hair, and a twirling mustache that was a source of inexpressible deligh toits owner and of some envy .to hi: brother subalterns. Mr. Perry was prob ably the best looking of the young of? cors who marched with the battalion U this far away station On thc borders OJ the Llano Estacado. He had been tc* years in service, counting the four h< spent as a cadet, had just won his sil vet bar as the junior first lieutenant of tin regiment, was full to the brim of health energy, animal spirits and fun, and, bar ring a few duns and debts in Iiis earlie* experiences, had never known a heaviei care in the world than the transient and ephemeral anxiety as to whether he would be called up for recitation on t sub ject he had not so much as looked at, or ..hired*' absent from a roll call he had lazily slept through.. Any other man. his comrades said, would have been spoiled a dozen times over by the petting he had received from both men and women; but there was something essentially sweet and genial about his nature-something .'lacking in guile about his perceptions,** said a cyni? cal old ca:>tain of the regiment-and a jovial, sunshiny way of looking upon the world as an Eden, all men and all women as friends, and tho army as the profes? sion above all others, and these varions attributes combined to make lura popular with his kind and unusually attractive to the opposite sex. As a cadet ho had been perpetually on tito verge of dismis? sal because of the appalling array of de? merits lie could roll up against his name, and yet the very ofiicers who jotted down the memoranda of his sins-omission and commission-against the regulations were men who openly said he ''had the making of one of the finest soldiers in the class." As junior second lieutenant -..plebe'-of the regiment, he had been welcomed by every man from the colonel down, and it was considered particularly roug?t that ho should have ta go Lo such a company tis Capt. Canker's, because Canker was a man who never got along with any of his juniors: but there was something so irrepressibly frank and contrite ia Perry's boyish face when he would appear at his captain's door in the early morning and burst out with: "By Jove, captain! I slept through reveille again this morning, and never got down till stables were nearly over,'' that even that cross grained but lamest troop commander was disarmed, and, though he threat? ened and reprimanded, he would never punish-would never deny his subaltern the faintest privilege; and when promo? tion took tho captain to another regi? ment ho bade good-bv to Perry with eyes that were suspiciously wet. "Why, blow it ail, what do you fd lows hate Canker so for?" the youngster often said. "Ile ought to put me in arrest time and again, but he won't. Blamed if J. don't put myself in arrest, or confine myself to the limits of thc post, and do something, to cut all this going to town and hop:: and such things. Then I can stick to the troop like wax and get up at reveille; but if I'm outdancing till 2 or 3 in the morning it's no use. I teil you: I just can't wake up." It was always predicted of Ned Perry that ho would be "married, aral done for" within a year of his graduation. Every new face in the five years that followed revived thc garrison proph? ecy, "Now he's gone, sure!" but, how? ever devoted he might seem to the damsel in question, however restless and impa? tient he might be when compelled by his duties to absent himself from her side, however promising to casual observers perchance to the damsel herself-might be all the surface indications, the abso? lute frankness with which lie proclaimed his admiration to every listener, and the fact that he "had bier, just so with half a dozen other girls." enabled tho cooler heads of the regiment to decide that the time had not yet come-or at least the woman. "I do wish,'' said Mrs. Turner, "that Mr. Perry would settle on somebody, be? cause, just so long as he doesn't, it is rather hard to tell who he belongs to." And, as Mrs. Turner c. al long i von a reigning belle among th** married women ?f the -th, and one to whom the young oirieers were always expected t<> show much attention, ber whimsical way of describing the situation was readily un? derstood. But hore at the new station-at far away Rossiter-matters were triking on a new look. To betri:* with, the wives of the ofiicers of tito cavalry battalion had not joined, none of the ladies of the -th wmv here, and none would be apt to come until the summer's scout? ing work was over and done with. The ladies of the little battalion of infantry wore here; and. though there were no maiden sisters or cousins yet at the post (rest assured that more than ono was al? ready summoned), they were sufihuent . in number lo enliven tho monotony of garrison ide and sufficiently attractive to warrant ail tho attention they cared j to receive, it was In'giimmg io bo gar- j rison chat that if Ned Perry bad imt ! "settled 0:1 somet-ody" as the ultimate object of bis entire devotion, somebody j hid settled on him, and th.:;: was pretty Mrs. liol kn:: p. And though Ned Perry hated reveille and morning stables, as lus been said. : and could rarely "lake his week" with? out making one or m.Te lapses, here he ? was this beautiful May morning out al daybreak when ii was his junior's loar ; of duty, and wending his way with th ;t . youngster out to ?!:.. lia-1 of cavalry sr.o hhs. booted aad spurred and equipped f.T a t i ttv Tlm colon- I bad listen? d ? iib some ' surprise to lu's request, protend just as the party wa . bn akmg up th:- nigh! be fori-, to |?o ab? nt from garr?s..11 a few hours the follow mg morning: "Ibu wo have battalion drill ::t 9 o'clock. Mr. Pern , arr 1 I ticed you there." h. - said. "( Hi, I'll be back ia time for that. sir. ? wanted 1?? be od' ihr? e hoar.- or so be- , fore breakfast." Tito coloite- could not help laughing. ; "Of course you cati e. . go \ berever you like at those hours, when you are not on griard: Imt I never i .n d you wotri i want to p-t up s.* ea ri j "Neither 1 would, colonel, but Pvc hoon interested irs s KW I heard about this ranch down the Mon.*e. and thought I'd like lo ride down and look at ii." j "l?o ahead, by all means, and see whether those heh;-: came from there, it made me think of a piny I one,- saw - the 'Colleen Bawn' - where a fellow's sweetheart signaled across the lake by showing a light in her cottage window just that way titree times, and he an? swered by turning out the lights in bis room. Of cours? the distance wasn't anything like-this; and there was no one here to turn down any light- Eil! what did you say?" "I beg pardon, colonel. I didn't mean ? to interrupt," put in a gentle voice at his elbow, while a little hand on Perry's arm gave its.sudden and vigorous squeeze, ?'but (Jr.pt. Lawrence has called me twice -he will not re-enter after lighting his cigar-and I must say good night." j 4'Oh. good night. Mrs. Lawrence. Tra sorry you go so early. We are going tc reform you ali in that respect as soon as we get farly settled. Here's Perry, now, would sit-up and play whist with me ar. ( hour yet." "Not this nightvcolonei. He has prom? ised to walk home with us" (another j squeeze), "and go he must, or be a faith- ? less escort. Good night. We've had j such a lovely, lovely time." And Ned Perry, dazed, went with her j to the gate, where Capt. Lawrence was j awaiting them. She had barely time to ; murmur: "You were just on the point of telling i him about the doctor's iights. I cannot 1 forgive myself for being the means oi ; seeing it; but keep my confidence, and ; keep-this until everybody is talking about it: it will come soon enough." Naturally, Mr. Perry went home some what perturbed in spirit and all alive j with conjecture as to what these thing's j could mean. The first notes of "assena j bly of thc trumpeters"-generally known j as "first call"-roused him from his-sleep. and by the time the men marched-cut to j the stables he had had his plunge bath, a ! vigorous rub and a chanco to think over \ his plans before following in their tracks. I dressed for his ride. The astonishment j of Lieut. Parke, the junior of the troop. ! was something almost too deep for words when Perry came bounding to his side. "What on earth brings you out, Ned?" was his only effort. "Going for a gallop-down the Monee; that?g all. I haven't had a freshener for j a week." "Gad! we get exercise enough at morning drill,-one would think, and our i horses too. Oh!"- And Mr. Parke stopped suddenly. It flashed across him that perhaps Perry was going riding with a lady friend and the hour was her selection. If so, 'twas no business -of his. and remarks were uncalled for. When he mounted and rode away from the stable Mr. Parke was outside at the picket rope, and busily occupied in his duties, supervising the fastening of thc fresh, spirited horses at the line, for the troop commander was a man intolerant cf disorder of any kind, and nothing more offended his eye than the sight o? two or three of his charges loose and plunging and kicking up and down the stable yard. On the other hand, the? was no one exploit that seemed to give the younger animals keener delight-; nothing that made the perpetrator a big? ger hero in his own eyes or the object ol* greater envy among his fellows-and as a consequence every device of which equine ingenuity was master was called into play. regularly as the morning cam? around, to break loose either from thc controlling hand of the trooper or from the taut and straining picket rope. Th* first core of the officer in charge of tho troop sergeants was, therefore, to sc that all the horses wore securely lasher, and knotted. Not until lie hadexamined every "halter shank" was Mr. Parke at leisure to look otmd, but when he did his comrade bau "sappeared from view And over this broad, level, horizo/i bounded, not a moving object could b* seen. Far away, in littleg; .raps of titre** or four, black dots of grazing cattle marked the plain, and over in the "breaks"-of tho Monee, just beyond the fringing cottonwoods, two or three Uvi-il^ cf Indian ponies were sleepily cropping their morning meal, watched by the little black imp of a boy whose dirty red blanket made the only patch of color, against the southern landscape. Later in the day, when the sun mounted high in tho heavens and the brisk west? erly winds sent thc clouds sailing swift across the skies, all the broad prairie seemed in motion, for then huge .shad? ows swept its taco with measured speed, and distant cattle and neighboring pony herd appeared as though calmly and contentedly riding on a broad platform. Nature's own "observation car." laking a leisurely journey towards the far away Pacific. But the sun was only just up as. Mr Parke carno back from his inspection ol the halter fastenings and paused to look across the low valley. Far down to the southeast the rays seemed glinting on some bright objects clustered together within short range of the shadowy fringe, and the lieutenant shaded his eyes with bis gauntlet and looked ?xed? le thitherward as ho stood at tho stable door. "Some nev.' tinning down at tua: Eng iish ranch they talk of. I suppose." was his explanation of the phenomenon, and then "wonder why Pern hasn't ridden to cultivate the acquaintance of those : people before this. I Ie was always tile ?irs: man ia tho -th to find out who our neighlk>rs were." Pondering over tins question, it oc curred to Mr. Parke that Perry had said he was going'down the Monee that mern? ina; but nowhere was there a speck in sight that looked like loping horse-man Tobo-ure. tue trail bore close to the" low biuiis that bounded lite valley on the north by tho lime ono had ridden a mile or so out from tho post, lie was prob? ably biddon by this shoulder of the prai? rie, and would continue to bo until he reached the [send, five miles b; low. No uso watching for him then. Besides, he might not y< t have started. Mr. Parke roca i led the fact that he half suspected a \\ hilo ago that Ned was going to ride an carly ante-breakfast rid.?-with a lady friend. Mrs. Belknap had her own horse, and was an accomplished eques? trienne; Mrs. Lawrence rode fairij well, iind was always glad togo, when some? body could give her a sa?Mle and a r< li? able mount; There were others, too, among the ladiesof the infantrv garrison who were no novices a elie va I Mr. . Parke had no intention whatever of pry? ing into tho matter, it was simply as som? thing the or?ieor in charge of stable duty was entitled ta know that ho turned sudiienly and called: "Sergt. Gw\ uno!" Ile heard the name passed down the ?.?ark inurier <>f the stable by^ the men sweeping oui the stalls, an?l tho prompt and cheery reply. The next Instant a tedi young tr<; ?per stoppotl forth into the blaze ci' early sunlight, his right hand rn!-vd in salute, ano sto > 1 civet and mo lion loss by ibo lieutenant*:, side. "Did Mr. Perry luke an exira heav e, "No. sir." "1 thought possibly he meant to t ike Roland, i le's the best lady's hor.-e in the troop, is lu4 not?" "Yes. sir: but Roland is at the lino now." "Very weil. then. That's all i pre? sume he luis just ridden ?iowa to Dun? raven." And Mr. Parke turned todook 4 once more at the gi:.nmg objects clown the distant valley, lt was a moment oj two before Tie was aware of the fact thai the sergeant still stood there, instead of returning to his duties. "1 said that was a'!, sergeant: yen cari go bael: to your feeding.*" Andi then Mr. Parke turned in some surprise, for Sergt. Gwynne, by long-odds the "smarty est" and most soldierly of the non-con} missioned 'ofiicers of tl ie cavalry-bat'tal lion, for the first time in his history seemed to have forgotten himself. Though his attitude had not changed, his face had, and a strange look was in" his bright blue eyes-a look of merer dullly and wonderment and trouble ali combined. The lieutenant was fairly startled when, as though gathering hint? self together, the sergeant falteringly asked: "I beg pardon, sir-he had ridden where?" "Down to the Ranch, sergeant-that one you can just see, away down tho valley." "I know, sir; hut-the name?** "Dunraven Ranch." For an instant the sergeant stood as though dazed, then, with sudden effort, saluted, faced about, and plunged into tho dark recesses of the stable. [YO DE COSTINTKD.j What's tire Matter with P? A pious and prosperous old deacon of Portsmouth, N. H.,had been speculating in pork on a "margin," Jarid for some months was very successful in his ven? tures, so that he saw visions of gfeafc wealth in the near future. -But after a time pork did not pay so well, and he kept speculating, until asndden jianic in pork caused him to lose hearty, and to square himself he placed en attach? ment io the amount he had lf>st on his brokers, and sought to recover by law what he had lost by luck. ' This sudden catastrophe, of course^ noised the secret-cf the deacon's sp?culai tions abroad, and his unseemly haste for wealth became the tal ko* the town. But the deacon braved it down and went about the streets with his head as high as" ever. One evening he attended prayer meet? ing at his church, and the pastor calletjL upon him to lead the exercises by asking Divine guidance. The invocation was after the deacon's usual style. Begin? ning with the president and his cabinet^ he besought prosperity for all the rulers of the nation, state and city in order. Then branching off into lesser affairs he was praying eloquently for the financial, succ?s^ of all Portsmouth, enumerating . every trade and calling in succession, when a sinful.mirth loving boy in the back part of the church called out, "What's the matter with pork?" A large sized hush fell on the congre^ gation then and there, during which tl?e good deacon made haste to "boil dowfi*\ his remarks and take his seat Next to having his investments pan out profit? ably the deacon lias an ardent yearning to find that wicked boy. fie wants to talk with him.-Boston Globe. "Salt Water Evidences. As yon go down the steep hill at the new cemetery which leads to the basin of the Ocopilco, and when about hali way down, on thc riglit and left you will see a l>ed of shells of marine fish. It \s plainly defiled on lite wall of either em? bankment, and would seem to indicate that at one period of the world's history our little Ocopilco, at times only a few spans wide, was a large salt water river^. with ebb and flow of tide, and that some prehistoric race gat!:cree oysters and left the shells piled up where they are now visible. Who were they? The question will doubtless remain forever unanswer? ed. Not a trace of them has been found?, unless the oyster shells mentioned be one; but it is thought by many that thL^. continent was inhabited centuries <Vfor<} the Indians got possession of it, and bys race of people well versed in the arts anet sciences. Recent discoveries of ancient cities buried deep beneath the earth, over which forest trees per! ia ps centuries old were growing, gives color to the belief that our continent once led the world in fine architecture, in the science, and in all the elegancies of refined life.-Quit man (Ga.) Press. God's or Shakespeare's. The vicar of Stratford-on-Avon preach? ed a sermon in justification of the pro^ jected further mutilation of his church by the erection of a huge and unsightly rercdos. Tho reverend gentleman's lino of defense is highly interesting, witness the following: "Nobody needs accuse mc of want ot reverence for the poet's memory, or want ot' care for his last resting place. But, though 1 do not object to this, elim ch being commonly called Shakos speare's church, nor to receive gifts for it in honor of his immortal memory* still, our prima?7 object in promoting its beatification is that it isCod's house." Candid, at an} rate! 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