Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 13, 1906, Page 6

‘ -THE— Captain’s Double | By LILLIAS CAMPBELL DAVIDSON CHAPTER XXXIil. “The Noblest Death That Man Can Die” It was morning in Wynberg. The hospital that had been prepared for the wounded by the provident care of the Colony was already getting full. The committees of relief had their hands occupied, and the ladies of the place were pleasantly employed, with great interest to themselves, in doling out garments to refugees and talking aSes of need that must be at- Mrs. Belmont, Ursuta’s was among the busy and talkative. This morning she calied to Ursula as usual to go with her to the hospital, and take the sister the fruit and clothing she had pledged herself to supply with a favish hand. Ursula was ready—her basket filled with comforts, and herself as eager to go as was Mrs. Belmont. It was the thing that made her happiest in this time of suspense and waiting—to be able to help the soldiers in however ull degree, There had been a fresh batch of in- nt down the night before, and over tended to. hostess, vali the sisters and the medical corps were busy over their new cares. Ursula stopped one of the sisters to give up the things she had brought and to ask } if there we anything more she could bring. The sister looked at her hastily. “Miss Hamilton!” she said. One of the men just brought in must be a friend of yours; he asked if you weren't in nberg.” That leap of her heart seemee to tell her before se could get out the words. “Asked for me? Do you know who it is—an officer?” one of the irregulars—Captain nley. He is not really bad”— » saw the alarm in Ursula’s eyes. : as wounded in the arm—they thought at first it might be amputa- tion, but he’s going on splendidly and can walk about now. It was in that skirmish at Breitmann’s Farm. Ill tell him you're here, presently; I » say you'd like to see him. Per- ps you'll go out and wait under that tree; he ought to take a turn out- ide to get the air.” With a heart that beat with joy and id suspense all in one Ursula d. She hardly saw the world around her as she made her way to the seat beneath the tree. Noel safe, though he had been wounded, down here, and asking for her! The world suddenly alive with glory, and songs of invisible birds rang in her she stepped out into the broad sunshine and looked up at the blue sky. There was not long to wait. A tall figure with weary step came out from the house and turned toward where she stood, with a step whose languor quickened at the sight of her white frock. She did not wait for him to reach her; she ran forward from the patch of shadow, her face radiant and tender as she held out both her eager hands. He caught them in his own strong clasp—only one hand to close over them, alas! for the other was in a sling, and bandaged to the finger- tips. He drew them together to his brea down at her with a smile that spoke more than a thousand words could do. There was no kiss, no cry of greeting, but they were not needed, as each looked into each other’s face. “Ah, you are hurt, and I did not know it!” “Only a clean bullet wound; it is all right. I wouldn’t have let them bring me down here only for the hope of see- dai ing you. Ursula, there is great news for us, Can you guess it? You partly know. What is the only thing that could make me come back to you, and say we shall never part again?” “You are cleared!” she breathed. “Then he told you? He kept his prom- ise to me.” “Did he promise you? It is to you, then, that I owe it all? Darling, I might have known! He did not say a word to me, but he saved my life; if it hadn’t been for him I wouldn’t be here now. and he found out, somehow, and man- aged my escape. I'll never forget it of the fellow, no matter what he had done in the first instance. There must have been some deep scheming in that business that went far below hig instrumentality.” -“It was Countess Ilka and others— he told me as much. Some people he talked of as ‘they. Do you think it was a foreign government? Daddy thinks they paid to have the secret stolen—poor Baverstock was only a tool; they seeme to have got hold of some power that they used to frighten him.” “So that was it! I know nothing in the way of details. Only I found in my pocket, after I made my way south, this note. He spread out a crumpled bit of paper before her eyes, laborious- ly, with the one hand that was not yet used to doing the work of two. It ‘was only a scrap, and the writing was fll-formed and uneducated: “Captain ‘Winsanley wasn’t in the job at Ports- mnouth over the General’s papers. He @idn’t kmow anything about it. I had | t and held them there, looking } I was to be shot as a spy, | dressed up to look like him—and did the job.” It was signed “Jex Baver- stock,” and Ursula stood gazing at it with a thankful face. .“Oh, Noel! That must clear you with anyone—that, and what I can say about it; for he told me!” “It makes me able to face the sun and hold up my head again. Ursula, it made it possible for me to come back to you.” | “Oh, bless him—bless him! We will thank him all our lives! When I begged him to tell you I almost thought he never would bring himself to it. It must have been a dreadful thing for any man to do.” “You begged him? Then he told ; you?” “Yes; I knew him again as soon as I saw him, and daddy had recognized the photograph. He was a private in daddy’s regiment—the old battalion— doesn’t it seem wonderful? He knew me, too, and he said at last that he would speak and clear you, but I didn’t think he would have written this. You won’t let harm come to him be- cause of it, Noel? He was only a tool, T am sure of it, and he has made such a noble reparation for the harm he did you.” “T won’t show it to any one but your | father and Kenyon. That is all I need to do, There must have been a lot of good in the fellow, after all, as you say, to make him do a thing like this, when it couldn’t do himself anything but harm.” “And he saved your life, Noel? Oh, I will love him as long as I live!” “Yes, there’s no doubt of that. Iwas to be taken out and shot the next morning. Pleasant position it was certainly. He made me change clothes with him to get away, and had a horse waiting and a pass. It was uncom- monly clever of him to think of it. He is fighting on the other side, I suspect, and knew the ropes.” “And what became of him—did he escape with you?” ‘ “No; he said the only chance was for him to take my place till the morn- ing, and give me the time to get off. He declared there was no risk to him- self; they would let him off with only some rough words for his part in the business, they knew him too wéll, and he was too valuable to their side for anything else. He knew best, no doubt. What passes me, and what I have puzzled over the more I come to think of it, is how he ever managed to represent me as he did that night at Porthmouth, so as to take people in. Even you, darling, though you swore it wasn’t me, you seem to have thought it was at first. He must be a wonder- ful actor, and his make-up must: have been marvelous. I can’t make it out.” “But you must have seen the won- derful likeness to yourself, surely?” in amazement. “Do you mean to say you didn’t?” “I never saw him at all, in point of fact. The hut where we were was dark but for the moonlight, and he was in the black shadow all the time. Now you speak of it, I did notice that his voice was like my own, rather—at least, so far as one ever hears any like- ness in his own voice. Was he really | so like me that we could be mistaken for each other?” “So like that any one would take | you for twin brothers.” “Odd, too, for I had a twin brother, only he died when we both were born, That accounts for my getting off so easily. The Boers would take me for him, probably. By Jove, though!” He stopped short. “What, dear?” for he looked uneasy suddenly. “Oh, only that I hope it didn’t com- plicate matters—make it hard for him to prove he wasn’t me after all. If he looked so like, how was he to make them believe the reality? Especially as I had his clothes and everything that was on him.” - “Surely he could have no difficulty! He would only have to bring witnesses who knew him on the Boer side. Noel, he has been the best friend either of us ever had; we must try to help him all we can, if we ever find him again.” “Right, my darling! I’ve been a pariah and an outcast myself long | enough to be glad to hold out a hand to a poor beggar in the same ‘case. After all, no doubt, he hasn’t had a chance in life—some people get the kicks while the rest of us are having the half-pence. If he’d been in my shoes and I in his we might have both been different sorts. - Anyhow, it seems to me that there’s more to be done in the way of helping to life up the submerged lot than in giving them a shove down. We'll look on Jex Bav- erstock as our mission, sweetheart, you and I, shall we, and see if we can’t set up those steppingstones Tennyson talks about, with us to lend a hand?” And up country, close to the little fortified camp not so many score of miles from Colenso, the same radiant sun that streamed above them as they stood hand-in-hand together there shone tranquility on a new grave. It had been dug a week ago, after a firing party tramped gravely and soberly back to town. It was a mere freshly turned strip of earth, pounded down hard on the still and silent form below it. There was neither stone nor raised mound to mark the spot where the spy | too hard to the slow, heavy _ intelli- , latter was fast to the line. ihad fallen and gasped out his last! hats.” It had been hard to prove, after all, that change of prisoners— gence of the captors who had ied and sentenced and were now carrying their sentence through to the end. They found’ the man in the morning whom they had left over night. What matter that he protested he was some- one else, and demanded that he should be kept back from punishment till his words could be proved? It was the last poor subterfuge of a man who was afraid to die—a_ subterfuge as foolish as it was futile. They shook their heads, grimly and remorseless- ly, and Wondered at the weak folly that could expect a plea like that to be even listened to. And so they marched him out under the shivering chill of the opal sky, quivering into a new day and smiling as pure and undefiled as the first morn- ing that God made in Paradise and called good. They left him a reverent minute or two to say his prayers in if he desired it, but he seemed to have no prayers to say. As the east blushed into a sudden rapture of light and col- or the short, sharp order sounded, and the rattle and snap of the rifles cut the silence like a knife. When it ceased a man was lying face down- wards on the sweet, green grass-land, where the flowers smiled. They found between his shirt and his breast a thin gold chain and a pearl-set heart—a trinket too graceful and frail for such a hiding place. “It is the gift of his sweetheart,” they said, quietly, and they buried it with him scrupulously. The sun was risen in a blaze of glory as the silent firing party tramped back to the camp. Be- hind them, on the slope of the hollow, the red earth lay disturbed and rough- ened for the length of a tall man, and the world about took up its sweet and tranquil smile again above the man’s peaceful resting place. (The End.) How They Save Lights in Stornoway. On a sunken reef 350 feet distant from Stornoway lighthouse is a, re- markable beacon, which warns ma- riners with the help of a light which is only apparent, says the London Globe. The beacon is one of cast iron plates, surmounted with a lantern containing a glass prism. This prism derives its light from refracting the rays emitted from the lighthouse, and the optical delusion is marvelous. Mariners naturally suppose that there is a lighted Jamp on the beacon itself and many of them will not believe oth- erwise. But the object of the beaeou is attained when the navigator sees | the reflected light, which indicates the perilous rock below. This beacon in the North of Scotland has been in use more than half a century and since it was fixed in position others have been placed in other neighbor- hoods to make clear points of danger. It is an ingenious and very effective safeguard against perils of the coast. Big Towns on Mississippi. The towboats on the Mississippi river know how to tow. The Sprague went up from Memphis the other day with sixty-two pieces in its tow—the largest ever taken up the river by’ a single boat in one trip. The boat had in its tow 46 coal boats, 12 barges and 4 fuel flats, making the grand total of 62 pieces, the largest by far that was ever attempted before. It took the boat over an hour to pass Memphis, but while it paddled along slowly its movement was sure and the same slow rate of speed was maintained from the time the boat was sighted below the bridge until it was lost to view around the Mcund City bend. No Hard Times in Sight. To the boundless fertility and vir- gin resources of the vast nation are | again credited a bumper crop. From the West and the South come well- authenticated reports promising a splendid yield of wheat and of cotton. No boll weevil has attacked the cot- ton nor cut worm nor rust the wheat. | - The enemies of our staple crops have vanished and the West and South} glow with the wealth of the harvest. The national cornucopia is overflow- ing. All this promises well for every man, woman and chilé in the country. From the marvelous alchemy of the harvest springs prosperity. A Pike and Eel Tale. In the Severn at Buildwas early the other morning a man who had set an | eel line found that an eel had been} caught and that a pike of two pounds | weight had taken the eel while the | The eel, which was over a_ foot long, had | worked out through the gills of the | pike and had wrapped the line round the pike so fast that it could not move at all—London Globe. “Engaged. “T have here,” began the applicant, “a letter of recommendation from my minister.” “Sorry,” interrupted the merchant, | “but I’m afraid——” “Pardon me,” put in the applicant, hastily, “but the minister writes that Iam so worldly he utterly disap- proves——” “Hang up your hat and coat.” Looking Ahead. “lm a little sorry that the necktie strike in New ¥ork didn’t continue.” “why?” t “Because it might have made it dif- | ficult for my wife to give me the usu- al neckwear atrocities at Christmas time.” : Quite a Blow. “Why has old Gotrox made a new will?” Oba. { “His doctor advised a change of PRINCESS PATRICIA, DAUGHTER and niece of King Edward, who will be PATRICK O'BRIEN, Assistant postmaster of St. Paul.. He has been employed in the St. Paul postoffice for more than forty years. LLOYD C. GRISCOM. Lloyd C, Griscom, ambassador of the United States to Brazil, selected by the president for the appointment as am- bassador to Russia. Mr. Griscom was minister to Japan during the late war. MISS BERTHA KRUPP, Wealthy German woman who is to be married on Oct. 15. A handsome chapel of wood that brother of Emperor Nicholas of Russia. | King of italy, who recently was at the PROMINENT IN THE PUBLIC EYE. OF THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT married to the grand duke Michael, GOV. A. B. CUMMINS of IOWA, Who opened the campaign in Wiscon- sin. He urged tariff reision and gov- ernment control of corporations. 4 VICTOR EMMANUEL, mercy of a notorious anarchist, Dut- to, who lately gained admission to; the palace ef Racconigi, and shook hands with King Victor Emmanuel. will seat 400 guests is being erected at her villa for her wedding on Oct. 15. It will stand until next spring, when her sister will be married. MRS. ARTHUR PAGET, American woman, to honor whom King Edward makes her husband a kniaht of the Victorian order. WITH BELGIUM OFFICERS. Sultan Purposes to Reorganize Turk- ish Gendarmerie, Brussels, Oct. 9.—According to a dispatch from Constantinople publish- ed by the Petit Bleu, the sultan pur- poses to reorganize the Turkish gen- armerie in the provinees of Smyrna, Beirut and Adrianople under the Bel- gian army officers who have hitherto ‘been employed in Macedonia. These officers have. been re-engaged, while the Swedish and Norwegian officers in FALLS INTO BOILING WATER. Two-year-old Child Is Scalded to Death. St. Anna, Minn., Oct. 9—While the two-year-old daughter of Frank Jur- ceyk was playing about in the kitchen where the mother was washing she ac- TIRED BACKS. The kidneys have a great work to do in keeping the blood pure. When they get out of or der it causes back- ache, headaches, dizziness, languor and distressing urin- ary troubles. 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Green—Who was it that said “Let me make the songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws?” Brown—I don’t know the man’s name, but he was a wise guy, all right. Green—Because why? Brown—Because it is possible to evade the laws, but one can’t get away from the songs—especially when they become popular. NO REST NIGHT OR DAY. With Irritating Skin Humor—Hair Be- gan to Fall Out—Wonderful Result From Cuticura Remedies, “About the latter part of July my whole body began to itch. I did not take much notice of it at first, but it began to get worse all the time, and then I began to get uneasy and tried all kinds of baths and other remedies that were recommended for skin hum- ors; but I became worse all the time. My hair began to fall out and my scalp itched all the time. Especially at night, just as soon as I would get in bed and get warm, my whole body would begin to itch and my finger nails would keep it irritated, and it was not long before I could not rest night or day. A friend asked me to try the Cuticura Remedies, and I did, and the first application helped me wonderfully. For about four weeks I would take a hot bath every night and then apply the Cuticura Ointment to my whole body; and I kept getting better, and by the time I used four boxes of Cuticura I was entirely cured, and my hair stopped 319 falling out. D. E. Blankenship, N. Del. St., Indianapolis, Ind., Oc 1905. Oh, Those Girls! Mabel (in the background)—Do you believe that Charlie Tonneau is real- ly in love with her? Mildred—Oh, I am sure of it! Mabel—Wby so? Mildred—Why, he calls that red hair of hers “golden” and swears that those horrible freckles are “perfectly lovely.” $100 Reward, $100. ‘The readers of this paper will be pleased to that there {siat least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all {ts stages, and that fs Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive Cure now known to the medical fraternity. 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How long is it since you saw a pair that suggested a barn door? Hurt, Bruise or Sprain St. Jacobs Oil relieves from pain. Don’t think that a man has praise- worthy aspirations just because he aspires to be praised. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reuuces {n- on allays pain,cures wind colic. ca bottie. ‘When a man dies does he become a Shade or a Shades? PUTNAM FADELESS DYES preduce cidentally slipped and fell into a pail | the brightest and fastest colors ei ee work and of boiling .water. Physicians were at once called to attend the child, but ¢ould not save ‘her life, and she died a few hours Jater ins n ie eae ‘ Don't criticise your neighbor; set ~ him an) example. ‘ a oe