Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 September 1893 — Page 3

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Continued from Second Page. against his coming. Hell bo here any minute. Take this to comfort ye, but kape still about this till ye see me apr'in—or Doyle. Now ran." And with scant ceremony the dreary party was hustled out through a paved courtyard to a gateway opening on a side street. Houses were few and scattering1 bo far below the heart of the city. The narrow strip of land between the great river and the swamp was cut np into walled inclosures, as a rule—abandoned warehouses and cotton presses, moss-grown one-storied frame structures, standing in the midst of desolate fields and decrepit fences. Only among the peaceful shades of the Ursuline convent and the warlike flanking towers at'the barracks wsn there aught that spoke of anything but de moralization and decay. Back from the levee block or twp double ljnes of strapiron slretched over a wooden cauSS-' way between parallel wet ditches gave evidence of some kind of a railway, on which, at rare intervals, jogged a sleepy mule with a sleepier driver and a musty old rattletrap of a car—a car butting up against the animal's lazy hocks and rousing him occasionally to ringing and retaliatory kicks. Around the barracks the buildings were closer, mainly in the way of saloons then came a mile-long northward stretch of track, with wet fields on either side, fringed along the river by solid structures and walled inclosures that told of

days more prosperous than those which so closely followed the war. It was to one of these graceless drinkingshops and into the hands of a rascally "dago" known as Anatole that Mrs. Doyle commended her trio of allies, and being rid of them she turned back to her prisoner, their erstwhile companion. Absinthe wrought its work on his meek and pliant spirit, and the shaking hand was nerved to do the woman's work. At her dictation, with such corrections as his better educa-

tion suggested, two letters were iV^ draughted, and with these in her hand she went aloft. In fifteen minutes she returned, placed one of these lottersin an envelope already addressed to M.

Armand Lascelles, No. Rue Boyale, the other she handed to Dawson. It was addressed in neat and delicate feminine hand to Col. Braxton, Jackson. Barracks. "Now, Dawson, ye ctfh't see her this, day, and she don't want ye till you ean I come over here sober. Off wid ye now

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to barracks. They're all out at inspeo-: tion yet, and will be for an hour, .this with the colonel's mail on hisdesk. and thin go you to your own. Come to {me this afthernoon for more dhrink if 5ye ean tell me what he Raid and did •when ho read it. No! no more liquor •now. That'll brace ye till dinner-time, •and more would make ye dhrunk."

Miserably ho plodded away down the flevee, while she. his ruler, throwing !on a huge, dirty white sun-bonnet, followed presently in his tracks, and ^hadowed him until she saw him safely reach the portals of the barracks after {one or two fruitless scouts into wayBide bars In hope of finding Some one j-ps |to treat or trust him to a drink. Then, v, retracing her stops a few blocks, she ^-jjrang sharply at the lattice urate opendng Into a eool and shade' nelosure, beyond which could be sov lie whitepillared veranda of a lon.7, nv. iuuithem homestead. A grinning netfro boy' answered the mtinmons. "Tt'a you, is it, Alphonse? ffcyour mistress at home?" "No gone town—ehoz Mine, d'llorgI"viUy/' "Mine. Devillease, is it? Very well: you skip to town wid that note and ret it in your master's hands before the cathedral clock strikes twelve, or ye'tl buffer. There's a ear in free minutes."

And then, well content with her fcnorning'a work, the consort of the henior first nontenant of Light Dattery (a dame whose credentials were l^^too clouded to admit of her reception 4#or reeognit" within the limits of a'' regular gcrvlson, where, indeed, to do him justice, Mr, Doyle ne\ir wished to •ee her. or, for that matter ar.yvvhtre else) betook herself to the magnoliajRhaded cottage where she dwelt be^|:jyond the pale of military interference, fend some hours later sent 'Louette to say to Doyle she wanted him, and toyle obeyed. In his relief at finding ».the colonel had probably forjrot* "ten the peccadillo for which co expected punishment, in blissful ^possession of Mr. Waring*s pitting-room and supplies now that waring was absent, the big Irishman was preparing to spend the time in drinking his junior's health and whisky knd discoursing upon the enormity of his misconduct with all comers, when

Ananias entered and Informed him there was a lady below who wished to tee him—"lftdy" being the euphemism of the lately enfranchised for the ifemalea of their race. It was Lou tie Vrith the mandate from her mistress, a ^mandate he dared not disregard.

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"Sey I'll be along in a minute," was III* reply, but he sighed and 'swore heavily, as he slowly r^ascemled the pt&lr. •'Oire me another dhrink, jsmut," he ordered Ananias, disregard* Ittg Kerry's sugg^tJon: "Rotter drink Wmore tilt after dark*" Then, 1 lowing hi* potion, he went lurching down the steps without another word.

IVsrty and Pierce stepped to the gal* and gated silcntl^* after Mm #s veered arvmnd to the gat® leading "lo the old war hospital indosurv where lime battel? vm quartered. Already hi* walk was perceptibly un*t«ady. **Ke«a hi* head pretty well, even after tu» leg* are gone," said Perty. "Know* too much to go by the sally-

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VI *'Why, what does he go out there for, when he has the ran of Waring** aid** board?" "Oh, dklntyou h«ar? 6he sent for "ThaO It, is It? Sctaetfmos I woo-

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is an abject coward in the dark. Be believes in ghosts, spooks, banshees and wraiths—everything uncanny— ftnd she'd haunt him if he laid his Hands on her. There's only one thing that he'd be more afraid of than Bridget Doyle living, and that would he Bridget Doyle dead.** *ti "Why can't he get rid of her? What hold has she on him? This thing's an infernal scandal as it stands. She's only been here a month or so, and everybody in garrison knows all about her, and these doughboys don't make any bones about, chaffing us on our lady friends." "Well, everybody supposed he had got rid of her years ago. He shook her when he was made first sergeant, just before the war. Why, I've heard some of the old stagers say there wasn't a finer looking soldier in all the regiment than Jim Doyle when he married that specimen at Brownsville. Doyle, too, supposed she was dead until after he got his commission, then she reap-

yearsago to prove she had forfeited all rights, but now he can't Then she's got some confounded hold on him, I don't know what, but it's killing the poor beggar. Good thing for the regiment, though so let it go." "Oh, I don't care a rap how soon we're rid of him or her—the sooner the better only I hate to hear these fellows laughing and sneering about Mrs. Doyle." And here the young fellow hesitated. "Ferry, you know I'm as fond of Sam Waring as any of you. I liked him better than any man in his clans when we wore the gray. When they were yearlings "we were plebes, and devilled and tormented by them most unmercifully day and night, I took to him then for his kindly, jolly ways,, No one ever knew him to say or do across or brutal' thing. I liked him more every year, and missed him when be was graduated. I rejoiced when he got his transfer to us. It's because I like him so much that I hate to hear these fellows making their little flings nowj" "What flings?" said Fertygg "Well, you know as much as 1 do. You've heard as -much, too, I haven't a doubt." "Nobody's said anything about Sam Waring in my hearing that reflected on him in any way worth speaking of," said Ferry, yet not very stoutly. "Not on him so much, perhaps, as the world looks at this sort of thing, but on her. She's young, pretty, married to a man years her senior, a snuffy, frowzy old Frenchman. She's

alone with Her child and one or two servants from early morning till late evening, and with that weakened little monkey of a mam the rest of the time. The only society she sees is the one or two gossipy old women of both sexes who live along the levee here. The only enjoyment she has is when she ean get to her mother's up hi town, or run up to the opera when she can get Laseelle* to take her. That old mum* my cares nothing for musid and less for the dance she loves both, and so docs Y\ ring. Monsieur lo Marl goes out in* the foyer between the acts to smoke his cigarette and gossip with other relics like himself. Waring has never missed a night she happened to be there for the last six weeks. I admit he is there many a time when she is not, but after he's had a few words with the ladies in the general's box, what becomes of him? I dont know, because I'm seldom there, but Dryden and Taggart and Jack Morton, of the infantry, can tell you. He is sitting by her in the D'Horvilly loge grille® and going over the last act with her and rhapsodising about Verdi, Bellini, Moeart, or Gounod—Gounod especially and the garden scene from 'Faust.'" "Isn't her mother with her, and, being in mourning, doesnt she have to stay in her latticed loge instead of promenading in the foyer and drinking that two-headachea-for-a-picayune punch?" queried Fterry, eager for a diversion. "Suppose she is,1" answered Pierce, stoutly. *Tm a crank—straight-laoed, it you Uke. TVs the fault at my bringing up. But know, and you know, that that little woman, in her loneliness and tn her natnral longing for some congenial spirit to commune with, is simply foiling madly in lore with Bim Waring, and there will be tragedy here before we ean stop iiw "See here Pierce," a&ked Fe*ry, "do you suppose Sirs. Oram would he so loyal a friend to Waring if she thought there was anything wrong in his at* tentions to Mme. Lascelles? Do you suppose Oram hhns^ "He has spoken.w \Af "He has? Tbwhomy* **X& ma* three days ago said I had known Waring longest and test» perha^swaa his most Intimate fefand* and he though I ought to warn him of what people w*re*ay ing. "What hate yoa doner* "Nothing yet simpiybecaaee I know Bam WaHnf watt tfcULtcao*

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what he'd do—go and pull the nose of the man who gossiped about him and her. Then we'd have a fight on our hands.'**J§f| & "Well, we can. fight. I suppose, cant we?" "Not without involving a woman's name."|?« "Oh. good Lord. Pierce, was there ever a row without a woman au fond?" "That's a worm-eaten atticism, Feiry, and you're too decent a fellow, as a rule, to be cynical. I've got to speak to Waring, and I don't know how to do it. 1 want your advice." 0i "Well, my advice is Punch's: 'Don't.' Hello! here's Dryden. Thought you were on court duty up at headquarters to-day, old man. Come in and have a wet?" Mr. Ferry had seen some happy days at Fortress Monroe when the ships of her majesty's navy lay off the fiygeia and the gallants of England lay to at the bar, and Ferry rejoiced in the vernacular of the united service, so far as be could learn it, as practiced abroad. -'ji "Thanks. Just had one over at Marton's. Hear you've been

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and all that sort of thing down here," said the infantryman, as he lolled back in an easy-chair and planted $|s bootheels on the gallery raiL "Glad I got out of it. Court met. and adjourned at ten, so 1 came home. How'd Waring setoff?" 'Buhl—Cram's wagon," laughed Ferry, rather uncomfortably, how* ever, "Oh, Lord, yes, I know that. Didn't I see him driving Mme. Lascelles np Bampart street as I dame down in the mule car?"

And then Pierce and Ferry looked at each other, startled. That evening, therefore, it was a comfort to both when Sam came tooling the stylish turnout through the sallyport and his battery chums caught sight of the Allertons. Pierce was just returning from stables and Ferry was smoking a pipe of perique on the broad gallery, and both hastened to don their best jackets and doff their best caps to these interesting and interested callers. Cram himself had gone out for a ride and a think. He always declared his ideas were clearer after a gallop. The band played charmingly. The ladies came out and made a picturesque croquet party on the green carpet of the parade. The officers clustered about and offered laughing wagers on the game. A dozen romping children were playing joyously afround the tafl flagstaff. The air was rich with the fragrance of the magnolia and .Cape jasmine, and glad

with music and soft arid merry voices. Then the stirring bugles rangout their lively summons to the batterymen beyond the wall, The drums of the infantry rolled and rattled their echoing clamor. The. guard sprang into rank, and their muskets, glistening in the slanting beams of the

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clashed in simultaneous 'present" to the red-sashed officer of the day, and that official raised his plumed hat to the lieutonant with the lovely girl by his side and the smiling elders on the back seat as the team once more made the circuit of the post on the back trip to town, and Miss Flora Allerton clasped her hands and looked enthusiastically up into her escort's face. "Oh," she cried, "isn't it'all just too lovely for anything! Why, I think your life here must be like a dream."

But Miss AUerton, as Mrs. Cram had said, sometimes gushed, and life at Jackson barracks was no such dream as It appeared.

The sun went down redand angry far across the tawny flood of the rushing river. The night lights were set at the distant bend below. The stars came peeping through a shifting filmy veiL The big trees on the levee and about the flanking' towers began to whisper and oomplain and creak, and the rifling' wind sent long wisps of straggly cloud racing across the sky. The moon rose pallid and was, hung lor awhile over the dense hlaek mass of muss grown cypress in the eastward swamp, than hid her face behind a heavy hank of clouds, as though reluctant to look upon the wrath to come, for a storm was rising fast and furious to break ttpon and deluge old Jackson barracks. lie be Continued i?e*e WeeJL]

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