The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1900, Page 6

6 THE SUNDAY CALL. the women wera in clover. Sometimes one plans, perhaps.” That is to say, she had " N vl v o s, s say, their snowy wake. Now, head traight object 's v with an- | girl had as many as six beaux—which was silently accepted theirs so long as none for the fort, they nterod nrinfh:‘ hngm: ot ate. e 2obod "‘rf{.’i’.‘iii;‘?f‘-“% Ljoy. 8o im t not often, two' girls other presented {tself. But now that stretch. It was Welland's team of fiery (t?:” rr;unncr u]m everybody's, m:l::;h by he effect. And this was the social sit lizing what had the same war. there was obviously a lover—one who v . " Sometimes—t r e had Al It A Lt e ek incks Jand Welland's ™ beautitul; st fitgh at Woster in-the héight of the holl- 1k pock it happened e ‘won _her heatt &y pleinly indlins S the - wreck of it. A moment day season, with Christmas not a week Weapon and brought eeing quarry to arried woman fou in the he had lost hi 3. B ¥ € more and they came tearing through away. TRiS was the 20th, the date on earth sixty f T oy S A o A e By agoiost his own—whe conld CERho IS gutewass: heedlsss: ‘of the. Mg Which, as has been said, Mrs. Welland _The guard ound a half-fainting girl at ons of a than in the illy say that she had “other plans?’ It try’s abortive attempt to halt them seemed on the verge of losing the good the spot three minutes later, and far out P! 2 - reputation with which she had come road ran down a panting, stagger- e ord. Then there Was a mean thing in Gwynne, and When Another instant and they flashed un- Foster what St n d of war. And he saw Nell's growing pallor and the dark b Lo - ouid $hh poSIAE s what's go- circles under her ees, and the lassituds e soher Smindow:. Sd" ootmn . SR And that night matters came to a daughte winter and listlessness, and heard no more he- 8 acrogs 'the parade and O ooy, was the cold that the se his wa cers slammed out of doors and scurried 5o jeen up the row, and poor Nell sank in & ¢ tpat - trembling, sobbing heap on the floor, and ficers' row was left to care covered her eyes. The nerves were. in- Steam road from Foster Cit deed, gone. was still light enough o and ranches up the see when the relief party in B o ooy b ards t the b . he restante e but Yards to the back fer t mnants—Mrs. Welland, unhurt. Disr e it o8 the Ith lieved e v tle Mrs. Welland v merry laughter and happy. birdlike song been reduced n who couldn't dance and wouldn't about the house, he could have kick~1 i3 Sood sald her crit- himself;. for, in taking counsel with his b ahoa ¥ been mated with one Wife on the subject before speaking to oI hoth substantial 1'arquhar, he had discreetly concealed all ha thought of what was the most vital part fn of the statement he intended to make; rs. On 2 te a.p and now he dare not teil her, and strove SOT€ In spirit, robes, bundies and boxes horse sleigh d been driven along pobted to to work himself into a compensatory pas. @IStr ed all the way from town, but no the gates and everything of pe t beds about the shion Jimmy. The major, of course, had gone left, army St rene to“condole with Welland and Mrs. M sheds had been whisked awa been poure with Teade i+ Bath Wokel whiteusuiabe. coucinudine i {hh coldaela abs and forgiv fused to re the sentry so lo men, and black, said the women. Many¥ cold snap lasted, bu iC with the was f these last named ministering angels of cupants of officers’ to use DG Or the' tanl weont the garrison had hastened, of course, lo volvers. g Ry S Jroam: tee what they could do for her, and found jfhf 20th came on Sunday ey had boy's redemaption that very pretty little woman pallid but evening service at the fort a came when Well 3 -~ ary Bishop preached time, and found th t ol uraccountably composed, and eVen earth and good will TN, Sng fou unevasive. To cach v »n who entered mast of his hearers A, in turn’she patiently told the story. They Woman—pretty Mrs. ¥ Who, fOF nio un ever had gof ot certan packages at the her - part ooked more _pious QHHeARS pes Ceriany than usual. “They're the worst kind office. These were safely stowed in 0 AL L > , ind, BT e 3o - s S oatin DiSHAR, - SIS B Gy, W e e haren s just stepping In beside her when a She had a headache, was the a. Mr shot was fired near them. The horses Gwynne was for making her go lest started violently, jerking Mr. Farquhar Whole garrison she was miserable ff his feet. Then aw: they tore, the J-‘rmwlu'l:lyi‘” aceoun “Let ‘em say it reins over the side, and Jimmy Farquhar !’.s'l’m ;hfl",( ?“U‘h b :{;;\edr s teeth. hanging ‘on to them like grim death, Was pow.” And he took nis g suicide o rified her land drov boy followed th Jim rquhar with him and strov him, and_interposed the son agent, t 1y 1 o dragged head foremost uver the icy road and kissed her and feit like blu again sent him { e until knocked senseless ugalnst a rock. her that he was an ass and \,fr]?tinz 'tlx‘ solemn word. b he_w She was' pitched ‘into & drift, and—that things badly, but choksd and br R T e FatTarod n_whil The crescent moon was hangin claring that if retrayed his p o w or him and all. A, g oy B o T es R T S 13 broken and there was r of concussion ached, not her he: of the brain. Not until late at night did for free air. Ac surgeon return to Foster. “The !0 trot about the pos O oo~ sald he. *But the sounding of lights h over “that ver presun hild when he hat little eward in od repa Sty tated now;: but. He held on nearly half (Gf€q OGP0, B7 n ter did they move 0ut she went into the e the piwt.: and, meantime 400 NP, the Solv ahe Currec P there had been no end of—talk o o S g pri elor quarters. up along the dark. s a g anting wit! door.” 1p to t blunt wa ently, hadn’t cared a rap " begin with, who fired that shot, and S.o%, QUaTIEER: NE O OTE the sedat vell ugh ke had knc why? And whither went the bullet? It ,j.q"¢o1" Only the little fan B 1 we placy Came, said prominent citizens, from the o goor showed at Welland Jimmy @ley next to the express office. They had piack at the colonel's. He and ' 3 fiot seen the perpetrator; but some onme pact A% TS COOIE e had--a woman—for it was current on the (jlong half a dozen other ar ots of Foster City that a woman's assed with swift, I o she passed with swift, lignt rtled cry, “Look out, Jimmy re-" Fveinbody seemed. over at ceded but a second the sound of the shot. fererce to the mission. E Pernaps that's what made the pistol CATTY the north end of the row, ugiy Wi Twe hangers-on at the hotel vowed cottage the boys had long # B1Y the cry came from Mrs. Welland's lips. “Saints’ Rest,” where, to 2 ¥ '\\h\!:‘) day, they had ac ¥ » of his girls e sleighing together—Mrs. Welland ubs, ana that was and handsome Jim Farquhar- ' encis Born at that very fucked in with Weliana's costly robes. Thers was @ maze of vards, NAITOW Das: glee and her utter joy, Jim Well—well—\Welland! and lttle wooden buildings all Moved in and taken 'a ~0o! Oh, of course Nell heard of it, Jugh the middie of the block, and It of Galbraith Barclay. s easy for a man to slip away. Wel- ~“pargon Barclay,” a God-fea ehe was spared the sight of the start eople came o od with Mrs. land, looking grave and troubled, was serving soldier and gentleman f’.‘,(l‘,‘,f‘,f e 'f',.,,“,'ld s P“(Z“D‘O( Mrs. known to have gone to town that ‘nmight regiment honored, even if the Syt R S heasith "\and to have spent some hours hunting imitate It meant that Jimmy moral shock, and with bated breath and “apout the bars, taverns, etc., and making cut loose from “the boys,” to sa I signifi ing toward Nell; {inquiry. and study. He had so told her e B Knew what it all meant even Town gossips, ever agog for scandal In the squadron unsaddled from the before the visitors departed, and, like a the army, took that visit to mean that he rest, and now—and now, with I Jong. slim. big little fool, as she called her- Was hunting for the feiler that he had month gone by, had he no e e : 2 o Eona 40 e W hired to shoot the leftennant for courting mother and others were to | selt. six fimes had she gone to the win- pieeocie S0 ' Hora were not lacking from what might have been dow and looked out toward town a=d gcen good folks at the fort - to accept tha: must be infinitely worse? 1 & theory. But Welland was a turned from her to Only to Gw. ne did he cpen nis could not = the word m that interview the major turn back without one I coking dazed. He dodged his dim light In the window she knew Sop wife vered about the door of ‘be his, the window of the room wher Nelly's malden bower ns though he longed lay i torment, where she peak with his child, who plainly other woman—that v y day had didn't wish to gee him or him, nursed im, him J : for the news of Jimmy those tc wnspeople s ] 1« that he had passed a bad the parade the chapel in and fever that med through the night. She e« Ao an Farqul night and was in such “Pills"—oh, the frreverence of it! t the black groups of soldier | meant the doctor—woula let nobod ee about it, s 1g that the little b and—oh, the iniqu must be packed within. The walk ¢ y at the fence along the icy r A { . him but the nurs time to turn back One A SF L} of iti—oretty little Mrs. We 3 P4 5 lingerin at that on' the homeward way, the What was ar oft along T “rupching feet! Jovial voices! Bey t Dana., Frost and t boys coming up to inqut they would meet she had gone! N quickness of though e gateway of Cag rters, scurried aro to the back of the & e, and then, crunc furrowed snow, haster of the f -ndin lland. a through }Awmr THEY \ TORE, THE REINS OVER THE SIDE AND JIMAY FARQUHAR HANGING i Sen 5 RTINS ON FO THEA g 4l LIKE the fr pra GRIM VHE DEAD SHOT A look . ¥ OFALL THE GIRLS - . AT FORT FOSTER s gl BRINGS THE FLEEING QUARRY TO EARTH . She wes asham ter, whose by the re whole 1 of the flag child she would have b less post lo vears before, d she not expected him to re- ve for better thin o B i it B g A I've nothing especial against you blithe Yoy was Jimmy, only tWO youngster,” sald he. “You are no wors: out of the Pol o €T than the rest, and—not much better; b But gate after gate was closed and g n debt. s mother and I—and to - meant that the ihat matter—have other plans. She's Kot = L S A A Rl T ccounts so far if she is only hteen. So don't have to go clear around the post and e v\;v‘hfmm the main gate at the front N v t could this mean? Here Ve te to town. Tt was Jand's wide open! She shrask uhaccount- ste time and attention where they're wanted. w no! nothing. Now, just after gun fire and Again had Welland B & the scoiling she had given herself there filled with packers, teamste If Gwynne 2 hi quha 5 Ay rs, miners, -1 il bk hol g e Farauhar with+2 cams s ‘sigbt that wellbuigh drove her With & speinblieg cf acidiers and cowboys, Shiy fram FU SaEE DS B wiier club he couldn’t have hurt him more. The gt ! with a sprinkling of soldiets 3na COWDOyS: as a tot of three. long years before a man was reputed “square” as he w: i overcoat who alight=d stiffly from the 2520 aWkward, blushing maid of fifteen. bilunt. The Jad was sensitive to the quic Afar otit over the snowy wasts & black 5tege whispered to Welland that it was 5hg Jad Fomped of more sedately croque Teing youns and trathful, and prone (o ot was spreading into a biotohcrawling llke hunting for a newdle in a havstack, or' Know? in she dartad, and aimest s a six to eight mo accept other men's words, he believed swiftly but he'd try. The only section of thelf Uhe nove khnpic Jarted, and almost at of tim r St tousteht months ot dcoept other men's LWieds. . b ‘D@leved SwiLIy SIavRsa DRE O (ORONTLG DS BHGE talk that tha Keuieat ay hind heard, ¢ open kitchen door ran slap against cheeks tell thelr STy i aces nne n he had much right to and bigger every minute, and presently But it was enough—it served, this and ‘e’ Dastening forth from the dark in- v The mmander S people Ppose 111 Isu womenfolk at home in doubt. So far as Nell was concerned, it resolvin . At : : i : ) 3 5 2 . & itself into components, two of the committant fact thz - terior, a man in civilian dress, and the peel ¢ forts were nconsolable—unless a rea- was a lle 10 say she had other plans; and which, side by side in the lead, seemod Wonana was in (own ‘Mrs. ‘Welland had Bait-trensy, he Burled her ¢ haif-fear. Alencs. secord foree ot foot scldiery remained i tho major bluthed through the tan of his Zuriously strugiiing 0. rid themselves of ECNS o Parquhar's bedside—to set FOrt wprang fof the gate and the open praipis t fonr 1o Mok woatherchuaterr HIauL ML Ttie 5 tHird that, CIALE ook bivanes :A{‘el!he(:r Foster Uy the sars.”ln the. highest of Devond fflfm‘::,":" “"‘ddn‘?: iy oo hi S 15 GUAPIIEE. Thes Thestoht oF 4t Ntae £ i A Bl e SS = metropolitan society the unwritte: TONe. N ed. V‘Y’Fav\- e eavily on his e it later. She had had other very heels. distributing little dots along secms to be that when a husband has ay C5ok: (hem was up and away again in a iy ot trice; but just outside the gate with an-