The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1899, Page 23

R STAN TN\ /7 S A\ 1IN / /A\ N \/ | By Ada L. Falstead. A & I | \\ / . . = L d B8 8&E=4 B 4l { \Y/¢ ° ~ e base o & N she rk t lding him in a thralldom. he had forgotten to make the promised reference to his war — e se eres tato lowing morning she recelved a mem to Archibald. ) t gol California violets, accom- marked, as they passed through - v d and sse feutenant’s car nd proceeded up the flower-flanked ils backward w ought by & messenger; and Presidio, “that you would not object te ad which brought over her favorite name- tal, Miss Hammond.” 4 Everard's owr inhaling thelr per at him wonderingly. “T had not con- R & et ol sweet ecatasy \s to that, Lieutenant Osmond.” / . g1 rovals Srom ever meet she handsc pon & sick comrad . . SOn Wave Swiftly 5 she wondered, and C f particular !men—ut.l 'g::" / ol was g d o come. / . e * v erefore, attend any of v, 1 me with you,” gh. a A vhere he would be a despite her heart's r.lnm.ln:n:& £ ~ s - ored as his superior manhood i v the thought cr ossed mind at & a of war merited in the vista of gloom that instant that she would gladly shoulq £ N . tch passed her she could not, accompany him to the re. = g ) Francisco's “‘ex part of the globe. Yet, albejt s fr word e felicity which such ¥as of a romantic nature, no / E 3 ought of love occurred to her. : +Xo Ormond himself the moment & Y 2 As e feit . k soldier, which her promised no- ments be = K & owr s Reate Y here were many . r thoroughfare, < cked In bunting, > - rios He THE SUNDAY CALL. ng but sadness, the com- & to whom vou refer of : your oOwD company?"” she asked. *“He is of my regiment.” With this brief andeva- stve answer the Heutenant assisted her from the carriage. - < They entered the hos- Mol pital and were conducted ' 3% P to a semi-darkened room, 4 from which at their en- trance and a stlent signal from Osmond a nurse softly ‘withdrew. “Who is here?’ a softly from the bed “1t is I, Lieutenant Osmond, who called upon you this morning. I have brought a lady with me, and am golng to leave her to sit with you for a Httle while.” “But—a—my father and sister, Lieutenant voice spoke Osmond! Did you visit them and are they ' ecoming to see me?”’ ” The words, though eagerly spoken, were very I'll re- faint, and If Lieutenant Osmond neard he made no reply to them, but turning to Violet he mur- € y “You will please pardon me, Miss Hammond. e turn shortly.” Then he passed out. through which he disappeared. What could his summary leave-taking of her portend? She was half alarmed at the 4 The sick soldier lay qulet, as if waiting for some one to The clock told the noon hour and the last ringing chimes roused the sick man's countenance, but there was a broad bandage about his eyes and she could only percelve that his face was very pale and mured simply: 3 & Like one dazed Violet sat, her eyes riveted upon the door %39 strange position in which she % o 7 ¥lolet. Advancing toward the bed, she strove to see more distinctly emaciated. Bending gently over him she timidly ventured: of course The sick 4 moved restlv | “Yes," he said 1 sailed steamer as they had to me here. “Qh, then you were ill at the starting?”’ asked Violet less con- strainediy. sYes, and for six months previous. 1 was wounded at the ba of Santa Ana last February—at first th ught tatally—and it had been better so, as I am crippled and blind; at the islands ably blind, but maybe they they sald incu were mistaken, and now I father will have me treated by a . fst. [ expect him this forenoon, but likely Lieutenant Osmond has not had time to inform him as to my being at the am home my hospital. They think of me as dead, no doubt, as it was reported so in the papers and afterward | hadn’'t the heart to write to them just how it was. It will be all but jolly for father and V1 to find me like this."” “For whom—whom did you say’ eager- Iy questioned Violet, bending lower over the tnvalid “For the governor is my sister.” Still lower bent the breath now coming fast “Why!" she exclaimed, “is it not odd? I had a brother -t the Philippines and my name also is Violet!"” Yes, It is odd, very o.d,” accorded the yourg soldier, and of course your brother came back with the rest?” “Alas, no. Among the unmarked graves on that far-off island battlefleld i= that of my darling Archibald.” “Archibald?’ bewllderedly repeated the young soldier. “Yes, Archibald Hammond."” There was a quick, low cry. The sick man stared into a sitting posture, his arms outstretched toward her, and even in the semi-darkness Violet saw the radi- ant glow upon his face. “it is not so, it is not so!" he ecried. ““Oh, cruel fate that deprives me the hap- piness of beholding you. Violet, my sweet California Violet! Look at me. Do you not see? I am your soldier brother, your poor, disabled Arc .ibald, returned from the Philippines! PR RS, MO G e 16 & “My experiment has succeeded!" radi- antly announces the specialist who for the past three months has been in at- and Vi—Violet, who young girl, her 28 Jitting at the Base of a Monument. beside funeral piile w.itten in vi iverard and me your grave in of Yes,” says Archibald, I w with ~ou. To-morrow will be Than ing, 4 1 will bring tha treasure as . sor nir —— RATHER NOVEL FISHING WILY SHARKS FOR This being the season for fish yarns, John who has for years com- ducted e shorthand work at n 1 ventic prung t story at Club. It took the bi uit, so to About the funniest g | saw,” he said, “was while on a ves ywn off Cape Hatteras Inlet or some point near rere. One day we ran into about forty thousand milllon shark . The lot of them, and I wo { all there for me I give everybody a sort of We had some fun with them. There was a passenger on board who had had some experience wi v beasts before. He went to the cook and got him to make a lot of dumplings. He ca deck with three or four dozen of them and began tossing them to the sharks. They snapped them down y. Now you must bear in mind tk dough balls in coming from the cook time to cool on the outside so that did not notice anything out of the w But the inside of that ball was like a fery furnace, and in & minute after it had been swallowed the heat began to act. I 't belleve there 1s anything hotter than hot dough, and if not exposed to the air it keeps hot, Well, you should have seen those sharks jump and plunge and throw themselves I never saw anything like It in my life, and while I am always opposed to cruelty, it doesn’t seem’ as if there was any harm in doing anything to a shark.”