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Consolidated Aug. 2, 1881.1
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! /iTTTHOR OF (iTHB CCLO?TEL'S E
"TEES DSSE
Copyrighted, iS33, by j. B. Lippincott (
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CHAPTER L "
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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 ;
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? 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! When I want
money for ir. it is Shakespeare's church
Y\ '.. e. i want to spend the money in ac?
cordance with my own ideas, and in de?
fiance of the g< neral sentiment of the na?
tion, then it is God's house.-London
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