The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 17, 1902, Page 4

TJE SUNDAY CALL —— et + : — - w hirurgeon and part man of I cout . . “settied ! them!” ond over his neck. *Tis an old-wrestler's man. With a kind of spasmodic stroke have in tuat fetid room_the lack of in- was part chirureeon an% Par J0% O L setiiod "EIAbhAFOn 48 £5° ehomt. S0, therdt . 1 ana hold, and with the strensth of all my of reason I felt at his heart, the dread terest, the somber, mirthless procedure, Ged—thoush mostly PURGE, 5%, nq" Ay p wirge adiel hal TG (D Gl B Sk Yo amd ol e gsa yeRedor Realty aht erowine na § sodhe nes Bpa it Bpetng (b Son them—with all this a few raised age.” I paid little heed fo what the man - gy, A O Should alser & Pt Ao O ot began scyoss training, I bent his head down and his and in another moment I turned over sion on t crawith sl this.a fox raised aser. 1 peic Uita hesd J6 s 10 "0 E d o turday night, and ‘,m"‘\is s a fierce hani -w-‘ ?;‘u tgw‘ bgals They shoulders up till he weakened his hold and found him dead and cold. With the the Aelght or _el Doles A e cortidor, iy, took . 'He knew somewhat of o mis e Eibsstion o oo e e ot e Al G AT R Ve 1 T Sort of movement which an insane man to the doors leading Inio the corridor, rain took me. ‘e knew Someniat of evening. : = e exception ot Hageltine himself, the Then in an instant over he rolled under mMakes as he crouches away from some- Xwatched from actopl T roci 450 Saw ot Dekes Cadés St eriie Beact vos { w many men, Sir Henry? e i T o s i B struggling, kicking, gurgling, thing, I pushed myself acrose the flot'r & Jiving car S LR IO T R B T ) heni € z§o|x=an-flagelv?‘§1aok begin?” the Letter swords, and there in the dark- and I—I opened my lips and took in a i ithteh body, tdheporvghgxuechsd out i deliver him to twe soldiers, who, one mfi' “Marvin," 4 oz ier again e they Ccan reach Newport ness.the mix-up was complete at first and prodiglous gust of air, and then closed SDite o e wound, for 1 touched some- deliver him to two soldiees, Who 0%6, Bk, "Marvin.” sald I suddemy,, Whoor g e | A OO s Wil take with. you a To one uttered word or ory, till down in mv fingers on his throat and put one Ining on the other’side. "Twas a fl_mpils. e e the” ot~ conbry 1 ot ere” siyseli = ohand, friendly fopes sfficlent tor y the stern of the now locked boats came knee on his chest, digging the other foor body. B RTINS AR "1 heard re, for they had A =ronn and one of our pursuers sank into into the mud between his legs. I'sat up quickly, holding my clothes ‘Fidor, to be thrown withoul FO€0uE ge , (Marvin, sa; sbiadin. lor 98 m,;:l(_:d m.eam no more, ¥ his seat. I cannot think of it even now, long now dried to the wound to keep fmn& the breastworks, there to rot with "mu; A e ieihe s o hc"y s by force, if nece Five thousand men—Huntington Har- Acton was farthest aft, Curtis next and years gfter, without the sweat running :s?g’gigml‘yhi":ofi::irfggfloé“xg JSide. and sands of others, good men and true, all o with tv};%ycaap]z)?xnf,o{(flfi'o:frn”- s i T ous - thin Newport! * the attack finally I in the bow, so that Hazeltine and I came down my spine. 'Twas frightful en. ) 8. 19ng DAMOw toqm AU M ts . thal s 2B P7bo 3 ! P 2 ort! s e Ay ki t up of stone and little slits for ‘ndi Vith th e quiet manner the o 'Aye, well! But is he then of a fact a was more ed on. Sunday! 'twas Monday night together. Tis go now. For soon bubbles crep! O Aone A Jripdown, BHh L o Wie the: same ners b the et o : : : 7 : » 1 ¢ ™ Jiting men, 50 close. togeth it ox o moblens £ the churca?’ and my woun ut prac- I.Su‘\vmzz"i;;p’iaflfg ago, ana T cleared the i;grhflsul;\stfnrcflen:lha: parry 1t a;ulsrtil:i, fhe up as if from the depths of hell out cf Many instances they lay across‘one an ing for hours, days, weeks at & time, iitaq for his answer e room . wal : s e, if peed came. gl at a bound and went oyt of the gar- Jefense alone was like to have knocked the Wwater. And still I held him there, other. I had for the moment mor Without speaking: others to walk aimless Teue enough! - Though, God knows, i v is than the others. : heir fellows. I Il and its king— evening, 1 toid theM Gen to Cherry street, as I had done but me overboard on the other side. I re- Frsing iy OGS el e LN L e T Tyiabguit, over 00 Kmony e e bl oo o move Suneufe, N N lota, ana despite Yesterday morning. turned the thrust and wo foueht thefe the bubbles came nof so fast. Ang still ~“Ye're in ‘ell. Diyer mean to say yer 137 close by the wal (ryl io fo, Loy tho devl” im Marvins®” st % ] ey Somer bt of ths town :s"%%‘;!s S F?;htflusvxflg‘ gkl DUt [ thrust my fingers into his flesh and held don’ know the old Sugar 'Ouse?’ said & chills and with the pangs of e i . Aye. 1ad, old Jim Marvin! Yeu can throw To our abode and fold my friends ihe erazy with anger. So cldse were we to: my knees hard upon his chest And his deep sonorous v!odh;:e‘A i face 1n DinE me. But no m:{;e{,;_:rut‘g 4 ity So9 him a5y Hay at Gowan's Tay ton t . E i ¢ » t 0ld relaxed the more. God knows I @id! An my us that day, and ol at is it? Is ainin o e T B imAcw and sat by myself, Jooking Snd LArULt. apa on (hC INStARt As e par. Then, of a sudden, & horror seized me of my hands (g cover my grief. DId I know Of 4 man mith whom I talked nad 1a bit Vot 2007 O Tne CE0 RONa touch y » beef. ? Pain or no pain, dead 1 i upo y ried blow of mine I felt m, oint enter the thing lying there beneath the water, the Sugar House Prison, where my com- or foul bread and salt bee . just them? ain or P! ’ y peraon X saw, looked ONC Uben the WL biack I e R iing ROl bt hoing b e e T il B s Rt Al B en e DTGl 20 lona NOME GRINL S e the MigHT wllx[n}(l){uthht?llzxi.o:;. Hive, 'on thing. was"sure- there liv an away e S00% light as day compared with my heart by, I pulled the rapier back and saw the warm and soft under me! I can feel It leaving to go as I had seen them in It)}l\g cept for a shade less In_the ToOm. T; longer on this earth a Deborah P n e e na for and though And so they found me Dnext man fall. Hazeltine had saved him- now, and have for thirty years, and shall dead carts but a few hours before? But ¥ slept, as I had during the day, {bse. 'But a Deborah there was—ay passe s e r i ? y ! And g that seemed even to me wrong and hould I ever see her again? BV Phi when ame e S v self and killed the man next him by for as long as I can feel anything in this I know that foul prison? Aye, well oze shou! e Ll fck Chgd s 153?:&:; ‘Pm}e‘;;;oatg?né parrying the stroke. Y body of mine—a horror T could no more was like to know it better. unnatural, and when I woke, somewhere . “'so the days passed on, one lke an- vhich such as this erate attempt to cool At that he began to curse me for a control than I could the tides—and jump- And I lay back upon the floor and hid In the early hours, my face and POOY oinir"'cxcept that the heat ended and e my blood and r my mind. sy lout, using all the foul language €d to my feet and lifted the shapeless my face in my hands. burned with a fe\e{b]in 4 gradually the cold came on, first a com- have been How could she do %t! Might she not ch he must have been a good mas- mass and pitched it into the boat as she ~ Could it be? Could it be that but a wound gaye me terrible pain. fort to us all, then disagreeable, and v traw Ives and what- 1ad a belter faith in me? Nay, ter, and in between his cries I could hear Fushed her nose into me and Curtis cried day or two ago I had passed this grim I pitched about a while on a bit of s - . hen, finally terrible. For we had no sign o a 3 : it be that, almost in I had got inte my possession, and then, ept perhaps once a waek for” our e had w e something - wrong with the Acton talking to his opponents: out: building? Could it 3 X Rar fire, except D s - out w?kia“‘?ff ‘Tg\re if a woman fmn h\ml looked mfj “So! another gone below!” cried that in- “Quick, man, the guard! quick for your sight of its gray walls I had sat and turning '(o one r}‘;e&rmrsefrfgnd?" water boiling. This, too, stopped when, And so 1 entered ves and seen what she must have domitable spiri he turned to the mext. lifel” = . Sl vl denten inf drunk and been happy in that UAre you awake, my femdll o iy as 1 inferred, the want of woed in th ¢ ont dc here co her fai vholly. “Ah, of ours! fi “And wha nk you, man, I care for sim 2 B . sai R raboie. téwm B e Bvws of i Ciocx, oW coult suslasael o o the "Sarsing of our ‘hoat. 618 e one a0 life?" said 1. 88 T saw dark Rgures mev. Could 1t be so? It did Hot seem possible. *“Do you know aught of the chirurg i ALEN el Y PR .}),”,} 7 ‘COME CLOSE ed = . e : , To ME-AND- i : B Y, [ AND TALK” 3 . was at its height. The We came to the lane running down to our men was gone. ing down the lane. Could it be, too, that that genial Baron work?" Towed. er Bide the great the water by Arnold's house snd found Curtis said not a word, but, his man “Fhen I gave the boat all the strength I Riedesel and the young boy Prince and No, man, that I do not. What is t7" The cold got into my never-he: ests, and T our boat and boatmen so hid beneath having fallen by my chance stroke, he had and sent her far out into the stream, his comrades knew aught of-this? And +«.I have a wound here,” answered L wound, and Pbenn to grow too weal the P standing to re- the bank that it was no easy matter to turned quietly to the next. None of this calling: yet why not? Did not we up in Con- “And if ’I could but get my c]ut};en away to stand it all, and was so sitting against He looked at me and wel- find them, though we knew well they could I see, but I knew as if by divination ‘“Remember, Curtis, dead or allve! dead necticut this two years know this hell from {t, 'twould be less trouble. the wall one day, close to some new- comed me with a polite bow, but a s must be there. without the use of eyes, for my game was or alive! he goes to Washington, Remem- and the other hells swinging at their rol- “Let the cloth stick to it, lad,” sald he. mzde friends, that we might keep one prised as if to say, “H Cur as seemed always natural, took near up more than once. The man fought ber, man, remember as you love God, re- ten cables in the river, that held thelr “The room is full of typhus and small- another warm, when some forty new pris- and fo you will still be the command, and In & few moments we With far more energy than he would for member.” crowds of living and dying and dead? ox, and 'twere better to keep it closed. oners arrived; and I, lying back with my ng always had ned the boards and were up his cause. He hated me, and hammered And I was down in the shoal water I must get away from this scene! I But wait till daylight when we can see head to the wall and my eyes closed, face, must through the garden to the house and to &t me in a frenzy, crying out that I was crawling along the shore with nothing but could not stand it, And so with severe It better.” . heard one telling some of my compan- , for peopie iow. tood open, and Curtis a coward, and a traifor, and a spy,-and my nose ahove the surface. pam I rose carefully and, picking my _So I lay awake for several hours till lons that he came from Tappan. rned and look- way in’ when he leaned back What not, yelling, “There! there” each After a few yards I looked out and saw way over and among the two hundred and the light came slowly in, my thoughts ““When, man?” I asked, leaning forward spoke together softly od looking at our man, who had time he struck at me. the boat far off toward Paulus’ Hook and more men in that long narrow room, running riot at times, so that I thought quicker than I thought I could. a dream. On I i the household as a military ser- S0 the cries and the notse of the fight heard the crack of a dozen rifles near by made for one of the small windows. Each that I might go out of my head. And “But three days ago.” looking for but vant to do the work there for us. raged on by the shore till some one fall- fired by men who stood knee deep in tha was crowded two and three deep with then I would go over every hour of my is it, man?” asked I in a INg in our boat tipped it sideways, and water. So I crawled on perhaps a hun- silent figures clinging together in the hot life with her, from the wet night and the “Tell me then, if you can, back two the two barges slipped a foot or more dred yards, and then, growing faint and air, their faces touching cheek to cheek Lroken coach wheel to that moment at MOPths now, about the middle of Oecto- said he. apart. And t t hall, and to where we had foul fiend, seeing us likely not caring ‘much of what might come of and filling the lower space of the window. the Prince’s soiree when she turned from Der; did Clinton mo¥e on Newport?” »efore. d there we c: o moye ofr. gave a savage growl that I it I crawled out on the shore and lay Each man had his mouth open drawing mé and my heart died within me. It was . -That he did. but got no farther than e N o e MR e R S e e e D L e L R e O 2 ® 2l a matter of three short weeks, yet 1 Huntington Harbor with all his forces. inside the big 2ll the night, but could not find ye any- the gunwale of his boat, made a desperate again, “Would you but let me get a whiff of could not fancy my existence before it, Why, man, why?" I asked. e tailking with Where. Ye were not at your place jn thrust at me. So 1 lay stili—hours, it seemed—and. air, friend?’ T asked one of those on the cctld not remember much of what I had _ “Why, because the commander-in-chief, e, her arm resting Mrs. Hodges'. Ye were nowhere in the I saw it coming, and knew ’twould then, reason comlng to me,-I got up to outer edge of the group. But no sooner thought or felt for twenty years. And by some means I do not know, got wind oer o T I streets. 1 could not find ve at all" reach its mark. Aye, it did so, and walk away in my drenched clothes, and had I spoken than a voice behind me then, fancy running on, I would present of the thing before it started and made moment, a “But speak up, my man,” sald Curtis. Scraping along the ribs of my right staggered up through a garden to the- gaid: to myself, as one will, thousands of im- a feint—I was with my command, and : Creens, *“What mean you? e ide -as if some one had gripped me Street holding by a fence or a tree, lean- That i3 not your group!” . possible “ifs.” ‘twas a stiff fight, too—on Staten Island bles at the He's ordered to a command on the h the clamps of a red-hot iron. Ing for support against the side of a I turned to him and he must have seen If I had now the chance of going out anl Paulus’ Hook, and back came seur- ood a moment land shore and gone there.” I lost my grip on the sword and house, and so into the street, just 8s @ my bewilderment, for he asked: freely into the open air and away from IVIng the Johnnies with their tails be- h seemed to it fell into the water just as the other sign of the first light began to appear. 'When did you' come?” the city, but to do that must give up— tween their legs. thinking the town was oment, as if I this afternoon, just at dark.” beaf, weighted by Hazeltine's body on the The gata was open and I got into the “But just now, this morning.” must not know at all—must short three taken or going soon to be.” rd. d for the very absurdity and BunWale, turned over and tipped the street and. fell again into a heap; and “You do not know then that the room {s Weeks with her,would I do it? And Iknew, “Thank God,” 1 muttered to myself, 1 stepped out nedness of it. *Twas the last straw Jcle crew, the dead, the dying and the then, gripping the fence, lifted myself up divided into groups of six men, and that in my heart that I would lie down on the lying back again as the man went ram- with her back ir whole work and m living into the shallow water. and stood there, as a shout came to me, every ten minutes a group must change dirty straw and shake my head. Yet how bling on. Curtis and Acton must be y face must ! The others stood inactive on the The pain I felt, the despair that was in it seemed from a hundred people, who to ailow another six to breath the air. - could she doubt me? What was she safe then. And Hazeltine. to, dead e who was talking *ws of it, and just then came one of mc long before I came to this encounter, rushed at me and pulled my legs from “No, I did not know it,” said I wearily. thinking, doing, feeling now, and now? alive! After all, we had not done so me, looked up, crew nning up from the boat. set me doubly against this man who had under me and glcked me up. And I cared And then, without interest, but without And then what had become of Curtis and 1ill, and I had kept my word to the ge: “Quick, lieutenant, he cried, under Peen the cause of it, and I leaped down not a whit what they did nor heard a discourtesy. I was assigned to group No. Acton and that foul speclmen of man- eral so far as man could. But I knew ;ath, to m.e. “Quick, they into the water and grappled with him Word they said, for there was not enough 27. Turning again to him who had spoken hood that went with them? What of the 1 must be weak indeed, for the excite- inctly heard a there as he stood up. No words were in life for me to trouble at it. first, I asked what group those men now expedition toward Newport? And so ment of the new man's story had taken necessary now. We knew that, whatever — e by fthe window belonged to; and he told back again to Deborah Philipse, and the life out of me, and I siid down to v ! Pull, men, pull! the others might do, this was the end, CHAPTER XXIL me 'twas No. 28, round her and round ner in a circle of the cold floor all in a sweat that drench- wn the gardeh path In an in- and neither would let go his hold untii Sew “Then I cannot get to the window for thought, with the fever climbing into my ed my clothes and then froze upon them. ton close on to me, Curtis fol- one of us was dead. THE OLD SUGAR HOUSE. an Tour and a half?” veins all night long. With that I sank back into a quiet And as we came to the He was a powerful man, and though I Faif conscious as.I soon became, I . ‘That is it. my friend.” At daybreak the guards came, bring- stupor that lasted I know mnot, nor never ped into the boat there came had him by the throat he caught me by “So be it. : If these men who have b ing each man six days’ rations, and we knew, how long; but happler than [ 12 « 1y that I was being carried away, een Ing Knew, t large varge with half a dozen the waist, and, putting his foot behind Xn"eW on! here so long can stand it, so can L” A were ordered to form in line and march had thought to be since coming to the p eight men pulling toward us. mc. tripped me up and we fell under the then put into a cart that jolted horribly nd 8] g to i ¢ 3 1 was about to lie down, feeling unable pest, taking our share one by one. When Sugar House. From time to time, as [ walked slowly awa Standing in the bow was a man hailing water between the upright empty boats and after an interminable time carried to stand, and knowing another gor those FL came to my turn I found lying In my waked a bit and looked about, I would I put my hand to my and stood so U5 iIn the volce of Hageltine, for 1 call —he on top, I underneath. And there in into a bullding and dumped upon the floor shivers was coming on, when the tramp of hang about two pounds of raw pork and catch two or three comrades looking & moment. Then the need of the open by that name still, as so I knew this two-foot depth of water we struggled of a room whether at night or in the military feet sou nded in the corridor and as much weight of sea biscuit. And find- Gown at me as I lay not uncomfortably epped back be- and kicked and grappled. with one an- daytime I could not have told, as there & hoarseé voice cried: ing my friend, we got an {iron bucket cn a little clump of straw, and, d far out of an “Who are you here at this time o' other for all eternity. was little or no light then or during the “Turn out your dead! All hands turn wherewith one could heat the water. So seeing me looking _at them, they to loose the night Lying on my back under the water, whole time I was there. So I lay on the out your dead!” we ccoked and ate our meal, saving only would ask me how I did. And I smiled tting, or rather sald Curtis, before I could there came a thumping in my ears and floor, which seemed wet, for a time; and g from the windo “A’strange, intangible rustling sounded a bit of water with which the kind friend and told them, truthfully, as well as , I stood, how rank, take yourself and your my veins began to swell. I had no then finding my consciousness thoroughly through the room, before so silent that it helped me to get my shirt away from the they. Once a young and big fellow took e—least of all I—could tell, you love your life!” 'And thought nor fear of death, nothing went I began to take cognizance of what lay did not seem as if so many men could be weund. And then, tearing the linen up his coat and threw it over me, and, try as thinking nor conscious of pain, d out the words as if they into my mind but a sense that must near me, housed there. Then the crowd rose, ex- into ribbons, he wound it tight around my I would, I could not make him take it “;. 1 ,,;. strident voice back of me on “"")'{f cut the night air. not open my mouth, and then, with a A shiver of horror—that same dread— cept those who could never rise again this body for a bandage. back; for just then I could not seem to the other side of the screen saying in an “‘Oho! cous Rn. I have you g!ld‘vmree," wrench and a struggle that I knew must rushed over me instantly as I felt, in side the grave, and with the same quiet, As he did so his eye brightened a bit. rise up on my elbow, and by and by I cried he. “Row ard! svident attempt at a low torme; on, men, Into be the last, I caught him under one arm stretching out my hand, the body of a silent method that everything seemed to “L kunew a queer bird up the river who laughed and thanked him and turned