The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1916, Page 11

| . 1 : j The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, January 15, 1916 eI ane paneeeee LLLEOLE OOO OOOO OOOO DODOECLE EL, | whe. 1916 * , T e G t S d 711 W hy Not Ba ten th oe By Maurice Ketten Next Week's Complete Novel in / ; aint oot ind dnd h 4 | Th h rea adow :. e Evening World . 66 A Romance of Love and European War WHY NOT COMPEL GRIP VICTIMS To WEAR Muzzles he Teeth of the T i : RE GAAP ADA Pr wn WARNING © PREVENT COUGHING IN PUBLIC 2 | e ree r?) e ger ! 4 ON’ OUGH ] By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle % || CONT Cova By Maurice Lebi Author of “SHERLOCK HOLMES," Ete, 4 IT SPREADS y iu anc J RAR RTNR NANA RAR ARAN RR BARRA RTS | “ ‘ GRIP GERMS (Author of the “ARSENE LUPIN” Storles) ] (Coyrright, 1802, by A, Copan Doyle) t and too good for ours, and : 5 j gewores oF PAECEDING ChArrana, Out heavy lores had been ole to bite, BOARD oF HEALM| Arsene Lupin, France’s arch-thief, was reported . ih #0 that things were none too merry Department esa Nig Sin’ toenat tothe whom: with ts. On the other hand, Hougou dead, and all the French Police re i Beta arm a rging on ee mont, a blood-soaked ruin, was «till joiced. But the report was false. ,sooye, ii, ramen to the Calter, farm Ped ced every Bstien ee phar, INDIVIDUAL w ie abeent at 60 irm, though, to tell the honest truth, ° : God ax man in bound to do, there were OLLAPSIBLE } q Lupin returned to Paris, and there proceeded to i i @ eprinkling of red coats among the } blue ones who made for the rear. play a wholly new and amaring role in the ts ihe ne Hut these were lade and stragglers, | " lly city’s dirty ar the faint hearts that are found, crime-drama. } eed er gi wa 4 everywhere, and ony Seain that no tction ie regiment fiinched. + was little we . ee. eo “ae cof the ‘battio, but a. man q His newest exploits are related in “THE TEETH 6 would plind not te know that all } A be > Ba yl ” CHAPTER Xi. ¢ —oula ey Sind hot to Know that OF THE TIGER. (Continued) with flying inen, But then, though SCREEN YouR FACE ann | The Shadow of the Land. wo on the right wing know nothing IKEEP YouR OWN GRIP GERMS DURING | “ of ft, tl Prussians had begun to - a NOTHER fellow who bad Pfu" 20% Napoleon had sce twenty | NOBODY ci a jtergeants, and I, aud, ob! but it was brought | together, the Soothes beon shot tn the thigh-a thousand of bis men to face them,| | WANTS a readtul, dreadful sight—eo much and the Rrenchmas, tying silently ana great, black-mustached chap which made up for ours that had) | THEM wt Rit nitkce tne ae Ullie Of Sauk tie cen oe < he was too-leaned his back Mine OG Ml dark to. us, however, | {aa possible, “It was bad to eee Mm Milelde near Hougeumomt, against his dead horse and, ang there was a time when the the, heat of fight, but mow, in the picking up bis carbine, fired as coolly French horsemen had flooded in be- cold morning, with no oheer or drum- CHAPTER xy. tw # and the rest of the army, tap or bugle-biare, all the glory had . aa if he had been shooting for a prize, that We thouste we ware te only gone out of It, and it wos just one The End of It @nd hit Augus Myres, who was only brigade loft standing, and bad set |fuge butcher's shop, where poor . . two from me, right through the fore- our teeth with the intention of sail: SENSIBLE WAY To WEAR A HAT dovile Bad been ripped aad puret and ND ae 1 bere very neasiy head. ing our lives as dearly as we could. | PROTECT MOUTH AN ae pays f : come of it all, and . ' nook of God's Imugo. ‘There, Then le out with his hand to wet am~ yeh" five‘ in the. afternoon, and. we “ NOSTRILS | | CaMibs mune’ cus eoult feed every precious glad { shall be to other carbine that lay near, but be- had nothing to eat, the most of us, otage of yemterday's fight, vee eee Fos myeelf there, After fore he could reach it big Hodgson, since the night before, and were erage at lay iin sawaree, an et 5 faterloo we marched to dier company, ran out and passed nis }t Bad driseies oF ete had not had slope, the dead gunners ‘who lay But. there were plenty of folk im layonet through his throat, which g thought to spare either upon the es ee bromen nee ste A ia now who loved Boney, and that was a pity, for he seemed to be @ weather or our hunger. Now we be- uarda’ © ee Hee “das. ceait Pod ‘as natural when you think of the very fine man. Fan to look round and tighten our, anil, and at the oad of tt the bluse £OTY that ho had brought them, amd At first { thought that the culraas Who'was spared. T'was Bind to eee Conts ‘wore IyitK iieaped upon red Dow he bad never asked is army to eiers bad run away in the smoke, but Jim, with his face all blackened with foemd wee “, oe at coke fo where he would not go bimeelf. not men who did that very powder, atanding on my tient rear, | Leesa wy tent wars Heyer stern enough faces for ws, ane jeaning on his fire-lock, He saw mo heir horses had swerved @t iooking at him, and shouted out to And the very first thing Leaw, when ang we ot pir me Weed ia, and they had raced past Know if I were hurt. I got there, was Jim himeelf. He wan Oy ah Peg io were the our square and taken the fire of the “All right, Jim,” I answored ying on the brood of hie beck. bis Yr? set foot in the elty. two other ones beyond, Then they manana eat Wie For | (San toned oo ee the sky, and ou ‘e Seeres Orer & bridge which they Yoke through a hedge, and, coming fot over yet. By God, Tit have him have passed clean away from him, so oo regiment of Hanoverians who or he'll have me: He had brooded that he looked just like the old Jim park, the were In iine, they treated them as So much on his wrong, had poor Jim as L bad geen him tn his cot a hun- i Nese Bola de Boulogne, and eo they would have treated us (f we had [hat I really bolleve it had turned his [dred times when we were school- Into the Champs d’Elysees. There we Radia a a ete te “1, for he had a gl Vitis eye nates together, bivowacked, and pretty soon the Aa av he spoke that was hardly i 1 had given a cry of grief at the streets were so full of P Pieces in an anit. He was always a man that to sipbt of him, but when I came again Mngiish thy popes It was dreadful to sce the big Ger- ” little thing to heart, and since Kdie! | to look upon his face, and to sen how H that it became more Uke a " " Gey “ er ts could ever have goo him iret timo the culrasniers stood up to their atr- 1+ wow at this time that we saw two in lito It Waa tara to en for him. away I went with rapes IT could get rups to have a better sweep for their single fights which they tell me were ‘Two Frenoh bayonete had pamed company—f, wart, of fay Jong, heavy swords, and cut and common enough in the battles of old, through hiv ohest, and he had died in | pany—for we were only allowed Btabbed without mercy. [do not be- before men were trained in masses.) [in inatant, and without pain, if oue ' #9 about in couples—to the Rue Heve that a jrundred inen of that reg ay in the hollow two horsemen | could believe the smile upon his ips. Miromesnil. Rob waited in the hall, 2 4 a 0! ring along the ridge in ¢ront | The major and I were raiaing hie and I was shown ment were left alive, and the French- of us, riding as ward aa hoof could| HE IS PICKING |head, in the hope that eome flutter put m upsiaire, and as f men came back across our front, rattle. The frat was an English dra f eters of lide might remain, whem f beard a Buus rare, bite the mat there was iouting at us and waving their wea. £420. hiv face right down on his . iS FERNS well-remembered voloo at my aide, Palo, Juat the same ae passe Nop ara ~ lhorse’s mane, with a French cutra FUMI GATING c THEY und there was De Lissac, upon parte those wild eyes pons, which were crimson down to pier, an old gray-headed fellow, th tig elbow, Hitter dead rs. For & mowent she did not the bilts, ‘This they did tu draw our ering behind him on @ oie kerk TAPERS : ved ag ‘cad nie me, but when ahe did phy 3 fire, but the colonel was too old a Sony i a big black AND Guardemen, He ined & great Blue took three atope forward and sping soldier, for we could have done little "Gur chaps eet up @ hoo hey ANTI GRIP A cost muftied round him, aad bts Bat, at mo with hee two arma: soune We arm at the distance, and they would eying on. fire te Ri with the high plume, was lying on peck. my have been among us before we could pave Using on. for it seemed a shame | MASKS s the ground beside him. “Oh, my dear old Jack: . eo an Englishman run like that; ” ahe Selced oe fa neuanian run like that pore vee ery Dale and bad dark “how ‘fino you look ine red 4 ) had dropped his sword and was | unarmed, while the other was pressing | he wus us he hed ever been, with the I, very Aumy, for an 1 looked At hee very well tnat if we opened from the keen, bun nose, the wiry mustache, pretty face I seemed to see wQuares they would be upon ny “9 3 ke a0) and the close-cropped head, Shinning that other face wha had us Ina twinkle, On the other hand, junta Sese that he could not wet a __ — a away to baldness upon the top. His to th a opalgies it was hard to bide as we were, for they had passed the word to a bat- (ery of twelve guns, which formed up eyelids had always drooped, but now ended by bringing us here dn Where we had lain tn equare, and all thought now that it had been twelve guns looking us tn the,face, buy one could hardly see the glint of his the plains: of Belgium os a cockshot out beyond the point whence we had given; but, you may take my word we were over them in a moment, and eys® from beneath them. At last, sting maybe by our hoot- had ing, = e made up his mind to chance @ few hundred yards away from us, Tis eye fell on a lance beside a for two hundred and fifty cannons, seen the French army. for it, Jim Horscroft was the real 1 saw our youngest subaltern, ‘next —"Halloo, Jack!” he cried. “I didn't but out of our aight, nding fuel : i Hs er ean his Rh all this time the roaring of nore Wau Brie of 1 to be acon mow, leader of the brigade when we charged to him who had been killed b ree meet cM wre oe Lay here, and “No, C am @ private.” balls fu y » bro’ an: own 2 ns Hy oF ” Gd bop- those guns had been something dread- only elching of the guns the Old Guard lancer, scribbiing great o wi a mig! ve known It, too, when “What! dato the , which in called P! cleverly enough, be gripped ful to It ., £ i h hat! Not one of the common sten to, but now they suddenly flashing quickly out of the cloud-bank, | 0 n lump of chalk upon them, like the I aaw friend Jim.’ je who ye hold of jt: Hut the other was too died away, though It waa like the lull and the black Agures, stooping, ented daiowe what happened during gchoolboy that he was, Tt wan at that It tw you that have brought all this "Yam, T cary % Loe ely ‘or Rim and was on him like a tu a (hunder-storm when oue feels etraining, mopping, sponging, work- putting my musket against a blue- Moment that we heard a noise of trmble,” said I. "O; ee a that @ worse crash is coming hard @t ing ke devils, end at devilish work. Goat and pulling the trigger, and that Cheering behind us and eaw the whole “Ta, ta, ta!” he eried, in bis old, Im- dragoon thrust up with the the fringe of it There waa still © But through the cloud that rattle and {he man could not fall because 4e was British Army flood over the creat of patient fashion. "Tt is all arranged which she had nicm, but the other turned It and mighty uolse on the distant wing, whirr rose louder and louder, with a Joeman could for fall hechine be was tho’ Tiago and come pouring gown for Ue. When I was in Spain I |t wana woodeshi on ath noe a ced him through the shoulder-blade, where the Prussians were pushing doep-mouthed shouting and the horrid blotch upon the cloth and a Upon the remains of thelr ens loarned to believe in fate. It Is fate velvet and shiny ‘thon 6 Reding if wis all done in an instant, and the onwards, but that was two stamping of thousands of feet. ‘Then enin curl of smoke from it, as if it _ 7h guns, too, came bounding and which bas sent you here this morn> clined to go back to rene The other battertes, both there came a broad, black blur hag taken fire ”) rattling forward, and our light caval- ing brae, 8 d English, wero silent, and through the haze, which darkened and - # plunging fire, And one of their gunners ran up on to the top of the slope and 4 hanuaplke into the wet earth, t them a guide, under the very muzgles of tho whole brigade, none of whom fired a abot at him, euch | ig bin the other. Ensign * wis the youngest subalte: 3 inan cantered his horae up the wing his teeth at us over his / wt another rub. As Baie sat down ry-as much as was lett of it—kept ie tmuan's blood Hee at your reginy ran out from ile square Shoulder like @ snarling dog, Ke cleared @o that the armio# darkened, until we could see that {t Ka gr ‘ fonna mayest thrown UD pace with our brigade upon the right. door,” sald I, with my hand on pocr Tanta ate, wan all in bieck, wo and pulied down the handsnike, but | That was to them, but we nee a little of each other. was a tindred men abreast, march- M#ainst two big Frenchmen and 89 Phere was no battie after that. Tho Jim’n shoulder, beard of De RCO} sac's death, was a dreary alght along our ing swiftly toward us, with high fur Sdueesed together, the three of w quick as a jack after a minnow, & done for us presently, ‘They had advance went on without a check, un- “And mine on his ao we have paid Heiter “Came fiying over the ridge, pushed forward a skirmish line whose , for there seemed to be fust a hats upon thelr heads and a gleam of that we could not raise a weapon. 1 our ariny stood lined upon the very our debts.” He thing open his mantle ane mata 19%, £0 000 thet you know iene made sucha thrust from be. We Was toward the batterles on our tered knots of red, and the brase-work over their brows ee eee ee en tov ery ground which the Franch bad held in as he spoke, and I saw with horror at breaking things, Te samy, peat Nua that not only hie point, but hia Tight and left rather than on us, but , Ereen where the German and behind that hundred came an- }it6e ome, gor Vis hand up to mY the morning. ‘heir guns were oure, that a great black lump of clotted Were to ‘ug things. He sald that you ennon, too, came out between the W® sent out two companies of the stood, while the masses of tho other hundred, and bebind that an- {Todt and 7 fel shat F was & oblcken their foot were rabble, apread over blood was hanging out of his aide, hones, "and tae ee, was in the second and third buttons of the lad's N'nety-fifth to keep them in eheck, French appeared to be as thick ®® other, and on and on, oolling and \2, Kis grasp, “Tender vous, coqulh the face of the country, and thelr gal- “Thin is my ¢hirteenth and last.” Yeyy,? + Antoine had the nner It wae strange to hear the crackling f¥er ‘Hough, of course, we !now that writhing out of the cannonmnoke, like Teudea-vous’’ said le and then @ud- tant cavalry alone was able to pro- sald he, with a amie, ‘They say th Thank jen! Uelen!* he shouted, and Kind of noise that they made, for both {hey tuat have lost many thousands 4 mogtrous anake, unt!) there seemed Genly doubled up with scream, £OF gerve eome sort of order, and to draw thirteen ls an unlucky number. Could he. "tt gaa’ hua, tlank You." said fatl dead on his ¢, while the lancer, Sides were using the rif in these attacks, to be no end to the mighty column, “ome one had stabl id him in the bow= om unbroken from t! 14. you spare me @ drink from your bring th wen like your kindness te Wown halé to pieces with muske? | An officer stood among the Frencii We heard @ great cheering and Iq front run a epray of akirmishers ! with a bayonet Then at last, Juat as the night be» tliek?” neatly a weer: I heard of tt halls. toppled over beside him, still Skinmishers, a tall, jean man with « Shouting from atong them, and then gnq behind them the drummers, and . There was very little firing after the gan to guther, our weary and atarv ‘The major had some brandy and ly @ week ago. I was mad for holding on to his Weapon, so that they [pantie over lis shoulders, and as our Suidenly all their batteries opened they all came together at a kind ®rst sputter, but there was the crash ing men were able to let the Prum- water. De Lissac supped it up ot uite mad. L ft " ret har P w lav together With that dreadful bond fellows came forward he ran out mid- tse!l.or with a roar which made the CP tripping step. with, the oflcers Of Dutt against barrel, the short orles siang take the job over, and to stack tagorly. Hix eyes brightened, and @ atl eOnnectun th wt there og Daten the two partion “and eae rare scent oeMNe clustering thickly at the idem and ofatricken men and the rouring of the their arma upon the ground that they little flock of color caine back Into But when the battery opened eto e ) With his 01 i Nabosgid °° waving their swords and cheering. . ¢ deny - had won. That was aa much an | ca was no time fur us to think of any- avont up and hie head buck. T can‘ , eae per thane ue te There vale @ doxen mounted men, &#? to Rive ground, slowly, sullenly, saw or can tell you about the Battle “It was Jim did thi thing else. A square Is 4 very good him now, with his lowered eye- ag “ too, at their front, all shouting to. “ep by step, but still to give ground. of Waterloo, except that I ate a two- hoard some one calling my name, and “I? you a upon his face. O1 rind them ta gether, and one with bis hat hela AB, it was worth ail we had gone pound rye loaf for my mpper that there he was, with hiv gun against aig Boe, madame," said @ 14 no woree one of taking @ cannon Upon b * face. On this the ubaltern 2 Aloft upon his sword-point, T ray through, the thrill of that moment, night, with as much salt meat ae they my tunic. Two of my men cut him Qian. JuMing In. the Count de Beton eran to hus, te FRB Or We ‘ove full th bY could have fought more manfully : x ree new wae . c: a until our ears were weary of the slogh Uit at him with one of the queer Gur ara thare was not & man down S26 pooh Gia unen Dat day ‘Thero wax ong Freichman before hole at the end of my twit, and then Paria In leas than a month, Jack, an: po ly ih hag !mportant.’ T aan 90 nd splash when hard tron met living crooked swords that tho riflemen 1 the, druminer by io did not Twas wonderful to ee them, for, Me & Miurp-faced, dark-cyed man, it fitted me as tight ana hoop to a you will nee hor. You witl'find har at *07ry to cut our chat hort, but I aan flesh and blood carry understand what tt meant | It war ney came onward, tney got ahead Who was londing and firing ax quietly barrel, After that I lay down 1a the number eleven of the Rue Miramennit, mara Zou wilt come to 22 After ten minutes of tt we moved hey came together liko two rams, Napoleon's Inst great effort to crus . aa If he were at practice, dwelling straw, where the rest of my company which te near to the Madeline, Break “#/n. will you not, when I lon dred paces to the ach rau for the ot 1 » were but two more hours of thelr own guns, wo that they ad upon hiv alm, and looking round first we ; ° : 3 {nsolated, And would yo! our square a hundred » adie JA te ener, ang ed rand if we could hold our no longer any help from them, while Fg S i . m, al Las were #prawiing, and in lesy than @ it very gently to her, Jack, for uid you pet le look, Ab, I ahall neve: over vf hia haggard cheeks, ¢ Sat of Wi “( is he “tf Yabes take the vet] and afe'in a - range, ween and | hem from attack way of meoting a horseman, but there ids, and the kind of sneer that he had ight, but we left another square be 1 om the i yick off an officer. Lre- minute T was in sep. | Out by the side door instead hindus, for. a hundred and. twenty Frenehnan was pelow, Our man tone, all would be, wel. SAR Front of ie dolar tare member that It struck mo that to Sl gennce think Bow abe loved me. Tell main ono? Thaak 9eu, Som Mame ad hen and seven officers xhowed where broke his sword off, and took the * and weary and . we either a Mil #0 cool a man aw that would be ; ck; Sco en one Moe atanding. Then the other'a binde through ‘his left arm, prayed shat we might have strength day. Hvery gun had thelr range to g good service, and 1 rushed at him, CHAPTER XIV. trunks, and that Antoine, has the fei Rot Me xd ; keys. (ina found va out Again, and we tried Dut he was the stronger man, and he ‘9 load and stab and fire while a ® foot, and we aaw long red lines and drove my ‘bayonst into him. He i guns found Moline; but man instant Managed to let the life out of tin man of Ua stood upon hie feet, scored’ right down the dark column turned na'T truck him aid fired ful The Tally of Death. Be ee ener our mother? 1 ANd that was tho last I was ever to the horsemen—lancors they were this enemy with the jagged atump of bia | Hi# cannon cvuld do ud no great 44 it advanced. Ho near were rd} into my face, and the bullet left a AY was breaking, and the trust that you have left her very well. #*¢ of Cousin Edie, She stood in the timecwere upon us from over the lade, € thought that the French burt now, for we were on our faces, 4nd so closely did they march, that weal across ‘my chek which will first «ray Mht had fuat be- And monsieur, too your tuener? Bear sunlight with the old challenge In her I tell you we were glad to hear skirmishers would have shot bim 0d in an instant we could turn into every shot ploughod through ten files mark me to my dying day. gun to steal through the thom my dintinguished regards.” ©ye% 4nd flash of her teeth, and ao [ thud dt thelr hoofs, for we know down, but not a trigger wae drawn, & huddle of bayonets if his hotse of them, and yet they closed up, and 1 tripped over him aa be fell, and bed © ven now, ae death clowed in upon *0ail always remember her, shining that that must stop the cannon for a aud be got back to his company with came down again. But behind the came on with @ ewing and that two others tumbling over me, | was long thin slite in the walle nd wave God unstable like a d: of 4 Jninute, and give us a chance of hit- one eword through Ms arm and belf thunder of the guna there arose a Waa fine to aoe, half amotherd in che beap. When, at of OUF Darn, When Roe OMe Ne TAT ene amy mother, ailver, — ting baci. other in hia hand. sharper, sbriller noise, whirring and Thetr head was turned it for last, I strugéied out cleared ™Y «nook me hard by the shoulder, amd — “Rurely,” wound may 44 I joined my comrade in the And we hit bi pretty hard, too, — * rattling, the wildest, Jauntiest, most ourselves, while the Ninety- over- eyes, which were half full of der, 1 du 4. 1 had the thought, in be #0 serious an you think. f oould street below I saw a tine carriage that time, for we were cold and CHAPTER XIll stirring Kind of sound, lapped them on one aide and the Pit. I saw the column had fairly broken, UP rape’ nd . the surgeon of our regiment to P4!r at the door, and I knew that sho yictous and savage, and I for one, felt The End of th * St £ at se do charge’ ored as (y-senena on the otter, ates and was abredding into roups Kis my stupid sleepy brain, ppt pki | bad saked me to slip out so that her f ed no more for the horsemen ek 8 c oMcer “They mean i shall always thir . It we men who wero either running for asters were upon ue, ani pped = grand new trie that I eared no more for tl ren ind of the Storm cays went reme the eet re oad ieee ee. were ry pon "My dear Jack, I have not been nda might never know than if they had been a/ many sheep what common people she had been fighting back to all the things that seem And ag he epoke we saw @ strange broken us, for how could @ four-deep back, in a vain attempt to check the Dold of @ halbert that was leantee giving and taking wounds this ffteen on Gorriemuir, One geta past being ‘ associated with in : afraid or thinking of one's own skin strange in that creat battle, thing, A Frenchman, dreeeed a 20 jtno stand against such 4 column? brigade, which waa still sweeping on- against the wall; but then, as law years without Knowing when one has an weer cones Spe riya pod after a while, and you just feel that now that I Jook back upon OMfcer, of Hussars. came alloping Rut at that moment Colburne, the ward. the long lines of sleepers, I remem- Come home, ut If te well, father and mother, who ‘had been #0 tle oay horwe ive le Rot! V towards us on al colonel of the Fifty-second, ewunghia | My faco felt as if a red hot {ron > rea where I was, but I can tell you that all ls ended for my little ma Kind to her, Well, it was just ber to brini had been laid across tt, but I had v and I had rather go with my vol. Mind to | A of his lungs, Gary came TOUBS 80 Ot sah Hs 28 the use of my limbs, so, Jumping thet I stared when I eaw that {t wee tigeurs than remain to be an exile end she could no more hetp it ch aa to say that the Frenchmen toe helt. Their front over the litter of dead and mangled none other than Major Elliott that and o beggar. Besides, it ie fers pee ® rabbit can help wagging its you want to make some one pay for all you have gone through, it, there was nothing that We took our change out of the was queerer than the way and yet it made me heavy Iancers that time, for they had no tn which it acted on my comrades. t 1 he was a deserter, Aince we were for jing waa forty pacea from us et the men, I scainpered afior my Freximent, hag roused mo up. Hie face was very certafn that the allies Would have ry broastplates to shield then, and we your some took it as though i had the king and. they for the emperor, 1ne wae f Ms and ‘fell in wu homey i of to think of it. Two monthe ‘i { 2 ie a pon the right flank. me, #0 I have saved mywelf oared neventy of Them Cue ot a eee ee vithout ques: Aw I fussed ‘us ho roared out, in ‘moments and we had e good took at 8G) fe if at was there, limp- Amve, and behind him stood twe eer- thet humiliation.” leter T heerd that she had saddles at a Muybo if we “The . My 1 The m1 had been nts, with long alipe of paper and th. , this same Count de Heton, and ehe could have y mothers tien or change. and others pattered ane are orn shed, tt wae funny to me to remember ine, “huinons che worme in himselt. Senedix im thet gullet a er int ye Ta died in chiid-bed a year or two later. weeping for their lads we should not ont prayers froin the first gun-fire he sch ike a leaf blown that I had always thought of Frenoh- ie iP . And as for us, our work was done, away to He saw mo come ur and nodded, but ” no much barbarous action.” ers again cursed befor a et “Wake up, laddte,” eald the Major, have felt co pleased over it, but then a At the same inatant men as emaell men, for there Was not jt wag too busy a tino for words, But De Liemac shook hia head with for the great’ shadow had been to the last, and o men are just brutes when they aro . . 4 thers rode an aldo de camp with 9 Of that firet conypany who could phe brigade was stil! advancing, but quite in hie old, easy fashion as If me same sad amile cleared away from Europe and should Bebing, and have as much Shousht vore ina wav that way creepy 1 ‘i Taeat face that ever T saw Not have picked me up as if T hed the General rode I front of me, with we were back on Corrtemutr again. "You do not know, Major,” uaid he. DO longer, be thrown | acrogs as two bull pups when they've got ten to, been a child, and their great hats his chin upon hia shoulder, looking — iryeg major,” I atemmered, “Do you auppoes that I should ‘have Preadth of F 8 ean over peaceful one another by the throttle, There was one, my own left-hand t inuat stop ‘em of we ape made them look taller yet. They were back at the British position J 2 ton fled to Bootiand and changed my farms and litle villages, darkening ‘Then the colonel did a wise stroke, for he reckoned that this would stave 7 off tho cavalry for five minutes, so telling about his mate, Mike ‘Threadingham, who kept iden aunt, Sarah, Hee eo “Gone Agame, ao hand, wizened, wiry fellows, too, with "“*There is no keneral advance,” suid “I want you to come with me I rove Sey had not more to fear than % lives which shuukl have beem #0 all our ; »mpany could hear flerce, puckered ayes and bristling he “But I'm not Koing back.” feet that I owe something to you two my comrades in Paris? I waa unx- Dappy. I came back to Corriemutr mustaches—old soldiers who had “‘pne Duke of Wellington has won a lade, for it was I that took you from foun to live, for I was muro that my ter I had bought my discharge, to line and us and how sho } t the money “‘ttow is it going?” asked the Gen- fought week in, week out, for MANY & yreat victory, uide-de-oamp homes. Jim Horscrott ts mis- ilttle man would come back, Now 1 4nd there, when my father died, I per hollow, out of which had be sed to him to « : year, And then, 1 stood with @ inp solemn voice, and then, hia feel- Y2UF homes: im ssorecr had rather die, for he will never head ‘00K over the sheep farm and mar- guns, before they could home for the children of drowned wo weak squadrons left out of finger upon the trigger, waiting for ings getting the better of bim, he "!0#" an army again. But I have dono Med Lucy Dean of Berwick and Rave wallors, Again and again he told me rogimenta of heavies,”’ he said, he word to fire, my eye fell full upon qaded, “if the damned fool would only | gave @ start at that, for what things that could not be forgiven, [t Drought up seven children whe ore ave us time to breathe, and thls story, and yet, when the ind began to laueh like a man whose the mounted offlowr, with his ha: upon push on!"-—which set us all laughing with the ruvh and the hunger and the wan T that led the party that took and ®!) taller than their father, and we wanted it t giment \was over, he took his oath that he jjervex are overstrung. ia eword, and I saw that it was De fn tie flank company weariness, 1 had never given @ shot the Duc d'Engheln, It was I— mighty good care that he shall not had been meltir 1 icicle had never opened his lips all day, AS “Perhaps you would ¢ TAsaw But now any one could see that the arinesa, A 4 7 ah, mon Dieu, Exlie, Ete, ma cherie!” forget it. in the wun, But, bad as it was for to me, 1 cannot say whether L spoke in our advance? Pray 1 T saw it and Jim did Theard a French Atmy was breaking up. ‘Tho ‘ought to my friend wince the ttme “ite throw out both his hands, with But in the quiet, peaceful days that us, it was a deal worse for some of or not, but [ know that my mind and self quite one of us" ths gen- shout and saw him rush forward mad- columns and squadrons whi had he had rushed at the French Guards qj) the fingers feeling and quivering P&* BOW, each as like the other ag othera, The whole of the Dute - my memory were clearer than f can eral, bowing and siniling ag if he ly at the French column. And, a# mtood so squarely all day wer with the whole regiment at bis heels, in the air, then let them dro) v. 90 many Scotch tups, + os rir4 Relgians were off by thx tine helter ve them, and I was were asking him to a dish of tea, qutck ag @ thought, the whole brigade all ragged at Kes, and “Tam going out to take a tally of {ly In front of him, and hie chin fell Ket tee yee ike ee fifteen thousand of them, “T shall have much pleasure, took their cue from hiin, officers and there had been thick fringes of akir- forwarni upon his chest. One of our Sven reach of the time about the “ 0) and there were great gaps left in our folk at home. usin Ed the , taking off his hat, all, and flung themselves upon th tah there » now a MF losives,” Bald tho major, “and If ooo nes laid him gently down, and When Jim and I went a-wooing, MAseuRh whisk: tearrench cave. with Rar andes “ing eyex, and Da moment afterward. our’ th Gis eae Cane Wemeivee Ue oe ae 2 nee rete” ® you care to come with me, I shall be then other etretehed’ the ‘bir’ Bua the man with the cat's whiskers came oy as pleascd them Ligsic with hin cat's whiskers, and j ents closed up and the brigade ad- charged them on the flanks. We had Guard thinned out very glad to have you.” ant) over him, and so we left thosg Up from the sea, Thgn the brency guns bad been all the doings a) West loch which ) paced la four lines over the hollow been waiting for the order aud t\ey us as we pushed on, and we found So off we wet, the major, the two (wo pom fate had 0 atrangoly “ (THE END.) ar