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k at him for a mo- towdd him tothe door. of surprise.. Then| ' What do you think 1 Can he pull pli through t ¢ He would with proper nursing and good food, not without." ¢ Can we take him with us? ¢ No, the Colonel wouldn't hear of We have to join . Medeat Peters- in two days, and we can t afford you on sight to be bothered with lame prisoners.-- ou needn't,' said Vickers ;| Leave him some biscuit and a bottle of oalreddy. Not that I'm | whisky, and let him take his chance. to a bullet or so, only you | We've done all we could. ish the be first anyhow,| 'I can't leave him,' said Roland. sake Pealse, he continued,| ' You've got mighty fond of him alf otion cojquering his 'dare- | of a sudden,' said Ned, with something isn, ¢ write the letter | It's | of a sneer. She woh't have a cent in| 'I'm as fond of him as I always was, f I can't send the letter I answered Roland. rite, and she and the| Wall said the other, aftera mo- stagve, [got her by atrick, | ment's silence, and with the air he A Pasty tick, too; but|might have worn had he found him- je murder to get her, She self forced to apply the knife to the only woman I ever cared a|flesh of his child, 'if you want my ¥eally. And she loves me, | Opinion, you shall haveit. You'll do 'me if you like ; but, for |a long sight better business for Rose write the letter if you let the fellow die, And besides 'bent his head over tho scrap | you can't save him. He'd take months 0. to heal up in hospital, with every care Le said boarsely, and|and attention.' ant on, panting out ' Somebody might come along and 'an eagerness which proved | give me a hand to the nearest town,' The | said Roland, vaguely, but' tenaciously. on of| 'The nearest town 1s thirty miles 8 of money for which the|away. How would you get hin there 1 been destroyed hy fire It's impossible, Besides, look at this." bili two days He pointed to the sky, an even blank ud, * Thatll bie fall: !' said Roland. I, cried the other; nt there was silence be- e [your nama passed' my slowly, 'I swore li burg the nd." get. h Ld uppose e rose; Vickers, with a amt are going to get leave of absence'to By of gratia entreaty in his face | PUTSe & Jolinny Reb Bly held up his left hand--the right «I might take it,' said Roland. was shattered. After n moment's| 'And be shot for desertion ¥ ation Roland bent and took it. * That's as it may be. Flere,) he said, 'take this' He are I shouldn't be missed till you are Ipped his flask - beside him,' Keep too far away to send 'back for me. 1 Bir heart up, perhaps you ain't as| Must g0 and answer to my name, and I'l see if I can |then see if I can't drop behind.' * Ned held his head in his hands as wounded | if it would else burst with the folly of his friend's idea. ose had Letter have taken you, I 'Ican't stay here all day talking ! he said. "Roland turned sharply nonsense,' he said. 'I'm off to camp.' He strode away, and Roland kept pace with him. He did not need his and ploughed his way back into friends assurance of the folly of the ip without a single backward glance. uct he meditated. He quite recogniz- ing to a large tent, the only one ed that, but it was only in the back- p, roughly run up asa tempor- ground of his thoughts which were hospital, he passed between two filled with the memory of a woman's of prostrate figures, sunk in the face. How could he leave the man of exhaustion or tossing in agony, | Bose loved, to dic, when any possible here a mau in the uniform of an |effort of his might save him. ny surgeon waa bending; pipe in The first flakes of the coming snow ath, over the body of a patient. storm fell as the detachment started. want to speak to you when you've It marched in very loose order, for the ed, Ned.' road was rough, the snow deep, most surgeon nodded without rajsing of the men more or less broken with eyes, completed his task, ran his | wounds and fatigue, and it was known stained fingers through his hair, that fo enemy was within sixty miles. tarned to Roland with a yawn Roland fell, little-by little to the rear, f 4 where the clumsy country wagons e last of 'em,' he said; lumbered 'along fall of the wounded at it singe nightfall, snd | ander Ned's charge. ut dt short, old man ; ¢ You'll take care of the letter,' he and I meant to whispered, and thrust it into his 's hand bye ; 1 fall The chances as you think, Ehelp for you.' ears started Biel's eyes, to the L1'l1 be back as quickly as I can,' be ted the surgeon the road, here ok surrounded by waple and hemlock, darted among the trees, and listened, with his heart in his ears, to the jingle and clatter of shot in the arm arms as his comrades marched on, It 'dying. He didn't died away upon the suow-laden air, write a and he retraced his steps to the shed Rose--to bis wife, I with an armfal of dry leaves and twigs and have a look at with which, by the, sacrifice of one of { bis few remaining cartridges, he speed- ily a blazing fire. Vickers lay alt i wahing him through b bal et vith Good % loud report crazy old hut to its foundation. Roland ran back. = Vickers was lying dead, with the firelight playing brightly on the barrel of a revolver clenched in his left band. Ten minutes later he val xh ins a deep snow drift, tramping oth Hb em on the track of his detachment. All tobaccos except the finest Vir- ginia have a pungent effect upon the tongue and will smart it if the smok- ing is long continued. Some of them will even blister it, or at least destroy its cuter skin at the point where the smoke impinges uponiit. The 'Myrtle Navy' is entirely free from this defect, which, together with its fine fall flav- or makes it a great favorite with smokers. so ------ Van Horne's Oslored Man Ar ologizes to. Hon. BE. W. 0. Van Hove, president of the C.P.R., "has had" esperiences which supply him witha stock. of high-class stories. This is one of its favorites. 1ts hero is the colored porter who goes wherever Mr. Van Horne goes, He always travels in the president's car, and from ocean to ocean is known to railway men as' Van Horne's nigger.' His one weakness is that he is prone to be profane under provocation.-- Knowing this, Mr. Van Horne took him aside when Hon. E. Blake first went, out as the O.B.R. counsel in the sence you oil smell tronb <i remeber, sah,' said the porter : and the interview ended. And he did remember. in black was in his choice of words until Winnipeg was reached. = At that point he was working beside a1 open window while the car was being wash- ed. The man outside handled the nozzle on the hose carelessly, and a stream of water shot through the win dow, and hit the porter right in the centre of his intellectual countenance, How hedid swear. Ile had ex- hausted his entire stock of stong language before he remembered the president's injunction. He looked around hoping to find that Mr. Blake was not within hearing distance. Mr. Blake was there, so was Mr. Van Horne, Both of them lying down| screaming with laughter over the in- cident. ° A sight of their mirth en- couraged the porter to believe that all remembrance of his bad language was was laughed off. As soon as Mr. Van Horn, was able to wear a serious face he told the porter he would have to apologize to Mr. Rlake. The porter promised, but forgot, and the next day the president went to him again. ¢ Apologized yet, Peter I * No, sah, bat 1'ze gwine-- * This thing. has gone far. enough. 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