The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1899, Page 21

i THE SUNDAY CALL. rave- lonel the swift-running Pasix, t worshiped your father, as did every Irish and a grave-faced colonel of infantry o B T e L s e e R and T aged a you were to be brought to t b him Gov. to some men in Stew: bidden to come along and fe for they were just as ignoran erable m clothes and 4 whil bout d-faced, kind old general visit- tal at least half a dozen have told; for an attendant for one of the women doctor himself hurried to as on his arm that, half 1pplies 1 Garrison slowly de- town, and hired a boat that rowed the ber flimsy white vell with certain items contraband of wa thanks and the dark si S Jtirring Story of Army Life ~ ° ofe ) could have told of causes little dreamed i h of in the regiment—were either given to apparently tc taliine nalf of what he knew. ing ome goin That something most unusual had oc- country he ey he room of Mr. Gray the day crime of th he i was a broken tion and mi ition, o1 hi: By Brigader General Charles A. King. o e cde gt St Sl e Tt 2 were fc ing qu enl Manila alr ted end no embarras- and with tk nurse’s & to know what 1 ry may come up wher r,” and—would 3 Lawrence before she hes estions asker Prime’s to re- r at the fiimsy Copyright by F. Tennyson Neely. ght have ce; but Armstrong quished her an wishes were obser what was it that so ked Billy, wh xtended h! utterly crushed her? vlonel had once mor = own guilt,” was the wrote e . tation of her husband's A 1 signa- ¥ ring e, authorizing the changing of guard arrangements on the wharf the evening he some new, save and ‘o the ugliest of ho . effect of soft, sw: era the . o £ It was a r he . welcome of thel o * soft yothing 1ir r ta few weeks - r 1 ead bent on his knees, hi tips studying silent t of t xirl s fully {llum "ot ; the unclouded moon. port via Hone message had broug meet him at t the Pacific, t g of the opportunity nnial bloom and wearied w in the service of the He had willingly accepted t [ Conled and provisioned the trar transport. Di r wish that dir to get the lat pines, and the week behind t . “Did you hea somewhat eag Dorie?” he co ¢ Private Latrobe Uolunteered £ to Carry the Division Com-, asm. “1 did not,” was the on the Sedgwick’; 1 balted lamely aad glance 3 Pt p : appealingly at his w T ¢ mander’s Dispatch. o g, nterto | W ment. It was Miss Lawr ama 8 4y to his relief and dispelled str n the H t situation. ;. “I should fancy very few army. psople eve woul b08e that roundabont tr when they can ¢ t rt and have the ship Mantla Colone! Frost com. quite , and the was ushered In, an I pillows, - e, the. was W one. "N3 re the Dudes were another time ws Y ent the at- aranfly Bay, and shovi ange ’ he threw herself > ng them out to the but Garrison replied that oh: of scene the two were ushered imto the presence e = -~ - > homaly, nereer hostile front before their sea-legs could and alr would not neip him of the gTay haired chief, and he arose, oiomi . Lo was Sinote: i Marsden, b » Rl 2 4 pearance, uniforms landed from the hospital launch _each. neral’s Irish orderly—to sear o . Doxic, bat T had o goncernedly at home as though they had on the back trip from Cortegidor one® “I want you, boys sald e, “to be Eengrel s, Irish oy cocarch for 8 right on the Doric, but I had to b e antebg 'Sping In the Philippines since warm March day. One wore the badge of ready to take the next transport home. bag aiuor wolrrs it general's tent, either 20t Yiin M9 that you migh . b the date of their enlistment. 1 a subaltern of the —feenth Regularg, the The doctors say you need a sea Voyage, about his desk or overcoat, and to bring Jbe Slance at her Why! Mr e £ sure, in the case of more than h other the chevrons of a corporal and the Gray; so there is the order. The doctors s Why, what could be more them at once to room number so and so . - \ - mous fighting regiment.of say your father needs you, Prime; and he Pala ” . to find you hera® And ‘G 0 hink of all e In which to look about them, since volunteers: yet the same carriage bore the Tecord will be duly straightened OUt ioi o it Of cour here oo 8O- wicked boy! What won't I do to sense of (AN TeCTUlts Were more numerous than them swiftly ~through the sentineled In Washington—the charge of desertion, tieed aitt them: but she was and with DeYer tellng me you were here, too, jeifoneq men But no matter what may streets of the walled city, and the guards no doubt, will be removed. It's & matter il mer iosiiriiors Anc Fas an Iriah,. - ARE Mideadt: feg-kie. aimed, he Do his lack of drill or preparation the at the Ayuntamlento sprang to thelr arms of influerice. To-night you dine with me unk and told him a piteous Pable dodge and helghtened ly told her &Verage Anglo-Saxon neve; to and formed ranks at sight of it, then dis- here: and I have asked your good friend, story and made him swear he'd mever e j| part of the half-dased reciple for ‘an object, know the time when he doesn't how persed at the low-toned command of its Colonel Armstrong, to come." the general or anybody. 1f questioned ne JOUs 100, Miss Lawrence Rt e, mIEht bel Gf "8 veteran, our Tankes fommine: oramanier WHeR It was scen that, tnatead Again the blood rote guiltlly to Billy's could picad he hod §Ode our snd eate EEGRe Mius-sue hend ers: and mue Ihor wriggled into’ their blanket rolls and an . elderly eneral it whic ek e cvo et had he made his peace little full with the boys.’ Sie gave hi h number, would have given them hatband of a f: explain He was 3 officer, whirles - v ot - 3 M e Willle Gray!” trudged away to the posts assigned them; straight by and held two youths in fleld Bejor and. Iechlaable sricey (oued coun money—a big bit, too; and he got more u S o ce aoto the posts assigned them: straight selor and invaluable friend from whose than full. The very vehemence of his qo UROn that flushed 2 Sooe h R g0od graces he seemed to have fallen en- nials made me suspect him,” sald Arm. OMcer). unspoker the @EETessive. One of ‘em’s young Gray of the tirely. Not once had opportunity been strong: ‘but he was firm when examiiey, jeweled arm about ¢ his promise— glve There were changes in the composition —teenth; he that was hit in the charge afforded in which to speak and open his The general mever required him to re. DOStess, to whom she General Drayton of the forces even before the move be; e : o n. on the Pasay road,” said the officer of the heart to him. = As for WHting. that seem: main® ot ihe ot ar Oiine He could gg 1YINE any effort to d Ty I i tramn detunclation, The Dudes and the “Toughs” parted com- guard to & comrade. “But who the devil's ed impossible. “Billy could handle‘almost to town any evening he wished, wog 55 for protection.) R LSl rump, garembling pany; and the former, with Stanley Arm- the other? He had corporal's chevron's any implement betfer than & pen. But cover his Gppearing at the Poicie where have foretold that we of cad to foot, pale with bafMed pur- strong once more fldln% silent at their on. Some fellow just got a commi: sion, even in the few minutes left him in which f . it " the general long had a room, a have met out here—of all h] A and with growing dread, she bent head, joined forces w ewart's riddled perhaps.” And that was the only way to think he knew that now at least he he was well known, he could’ san he ‘::’:f. long did you say had J . both hands clenched. regiment up the raflway toward Malolos. the soldier could account for a corporai must -face the music, - c . n s " like the man his only in to have a word with on ou mad fool!” she cried. “Do you Colonel Frost had succeeded in,convine- riding with & commissioned officer In a father would have him be. even though it know what I can do—will do—unless you Ing the surgeons that he would be as out general's carriage. They had a long whirl. took more nerve than did that perilous handkerchief one of the ladies must nave Y0U: [ 8 give them to me here and now? As God of place as his name itself in such a clime ahead of them, these two: and the cor- dash on the Tagal works that Sunda dropped. But one thing she failed jn—get. 04 S0 th hears me, Will Gray, I will give that and climate, and was in daily expectation poral told Gray, as he already had the morning. Billy would rather do that ting the letter back Keeny had lefr §¢ the r::wl other packet to General Drayton myself of an order nome. Billy Gray, mending general and Colonel Armstrong, much of twice over than have to face Armstrong’s at camp in the pocket of his old b Juse, n& the n and swear that Colonel Canker was right only slowly, had been sent to Corregidor, the story of his friendship for “Pat” La- stern, searching eves, and hear again the and when he sobered up and all the ques. 9rowning all hat you were the thief he thought yoy, where the bracing breezes of the China trobe, of that poor fellow's illness at San cold, almost contemptuous tone in which tion were asked he hung onto it in case A0 0dd and tr ! that 1 got those letters from you.”” BSea drove thelr tonie forces through his Francisco, and all the trouble it cost his the colonel safil to him the day the doctor the truth came out i sefec that he mighy dem. well knew For a moment she stood there. menao- lungs and veing and the falntly rising friend and chum. There was a strong led his vanquished and hysterical charmer save himself from punishment Hof e did not, of Mrs , @t his bedside, looking down in al- hue of comli health back into his hol- bond between them, he explained: nni from the room: “Don’t try to thank, ma broke hfm. Me got drinking oftener, YOUD& lleute most malignant triumph on his amazed low cheeks. @ boy had been harder hit the blush of shame that stole up in the -try to think what you risk—what vou de- and the general had to send him (o his REone. and incredulous face; and then, with an than seemed the case at first, said the face fé the narrator found instant an- serve to lose—for putting yourself in the re giment; and then when we heard of awful fear checking the beat of her heart gellow! of the —(eem};n but the wise swer v.hat otJ!Uly Tay, lemtl ed power of ucT- ‘woman.” Canker’s’ charge against you I saw the and turning her velps to ice, she grasped young surgeon of the “Second Reserve” 1o see seTvice the %xvnf apd nol ‘w- From st 44y untll this, hers on the Way to WIDE {ho Wuih o4t of L, Ha (To by Copginned) of week? An‘lv emalds, and to. give Mrs. ,-.m,,:",‘: has done ev h occasion the wou nd the brace of atte: d precluged all possib)