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She was a soldier; death had been about her from her birth; she neither feared to give nor to receive it; she was happy as such elastic, sun- lit, dauntless youth as hers alone can be, returning in the reddening after- glow at the head of her comrades to the camp she had saved. while all who remained of the soldiers vho. but for her. would have been massacred long ere then. threw themselves forward. crowded round her. urwsed and laughed. and wept. and shouted with all the changes of their intense mercu- rial temperaments. kissed her boots. her sash. her mare‘s drooping neck, and lifting her. with wild vivas that rent the sky. on to the shoulders of the four tallest men among them. bore her to the presence of the only chief )tEicex' of high ran}; who had survived the terrors of the d: 3'. And he. a grave an! mi‘de looking imam. 1‘1: ."0\‘.‘I°Ud his 111: mu and bowed O \ Zuninm 1w." 3:; courticrs bow before .0!- O. O. ’..: ~::.-: . o 3' ": 0-. . o o o .0 .0. :-.-. o:.:. 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'01' 1.11111 1011] me there “'11:; 1121113111: 3'1111:1111'â€"1101'e 11.1 meantâ€"1‘31) 1 1(1: 11: 111-:11111' 10 soo.T11:1t was just up- 1111 5112111511. 1 111511111111111111'11111 1:111 11;) :1 11:11111 1111-2“. " .11111 (Cigarette [1011111111 to :1 E1101? slope crowned with 111:: 1'0- mains of :1 once 111ig111y palm forest. I) "I not up very 1131111. I could see miles round. I saw how things were wizh you. For the moment I was coming straight to you. Then I thought I should do more service if I let the nain army know and ln-(mght you a re-en- forcement. Irode fast. Dieu! I rode fast. My horse dropped under me twice, but I reached them at last. and I went at once to the general. He guessed at a glance how things were. and I told him to give me my'spahis and let me go. So he did. I got on a mare of his own staff, and away we came. It was a. near thin". If we had been a minute later, it had been all up with you.” “True, indeed,” muttered the zouave in his heard. “A superb action, my lit- tle one. But did you meet no Arab scouts to stop you '2” Cigarette laughed. “Did I not? Met them by dozens. Some had a shot at me; some had a. shot from me. One fellow nearly wing- ed me, but I got through them all somehow. Sapristi! I galloped so fast I was very hard to hit flying. Those things only require a little judgment. But some men always are creeping when they should fly and always are scampering when they should saunter, and then they wonder when they make fiasco. Bah 1” And Cigarette laughed again. “Men were such bunglers. Out!” “Mademoiselle, if all soldiers were like you,” answered the major of zouaves curtly, “to command a battal- ion would be paradise.” “All soldiers would do anything I have done,” retorted Cigarette, who never took a compliment at the ex- pense of her “children.” “They do not all 'get the opportunity. Opportunity is a‘ little angel. Some catch him as he 5",} VI Emmy w /131. 34.34. u .00.: or... . ..,. u: ”fin.” f”; . ¢ {p In 5.00 . no, v/il'Oo. O F'A5NHH . 21.... 2.07:8 UNDER Two FLAGS By “ OUIDA .. wither HiH‘ ("110. \‘ I!) ”it .. ()1? .. ' .':2“-‘-‘1W hm'selt' with a ’1‘ shouis'im‘ of 1:0 ' support - mime: am} :1115\\'01‘(‘._i.: “.1; <°u;;11:::‘;m_it‘1'. \‘(‘1‘}' sin: «3211-. rim ‘L; midway b'a It'llvz‘: swift and hot into ixht wivesâ€"tears of jov, -. Sim W? .s but :1 chih. and .-:!w could he mox cd of France as other (:1in- ;:::e~ ui' "130i? mothers. 3 w " 4 W” she said mp- .t .t‘0|‘l 1‘“. ::3<:*e:1 war-n. 13w 1.7.1": LL? loft 1:: 22d. and the . ii)? “.381: «,t' t‘z'stdtii‘ {iii a. 2102' fave 'Ii'» size .‘. you saved the honor “3- name of France, 1 '::'.23 of the men who I {or \\\,1\1~T110y she {2:111 done: they :31! bemuse she set 20 \V ‘0. lu.. n; 1‘," (r) u-A 112:] you do this MI his officers were down. and how Splendidly he led the troop! He was going to (lie with them rather than sur- rvzzder. Napoloon”â€"m:fl Cigarettv un- cowrwl lx‘r curly head reverviltifiny. as at five [1:12le of :1 (1:93 yâ€"“anoivon would 1::2\’v given: him 112:: hrigzulo or? 1:338. If you had 2909:) him kill the \o ‘A‘: (“Iiii "EIc will have justice (lone him. nor | er fear. .-‘ ml for you-the cross shall '1 be oz: your breast. (figara‘tte. if I live ! owr tonight to write my dispatches.” And the major saluted her once more and turned away to \'l{'\\' the ‘:‘.:':::::.:e‘ :"tzewn plain and itutitiaer the few who E reuzainml out of those \le) had beeni l i t l watt-nod by the clash of the Arab arms in the gray of the earliest (la vn. (fixat'v‘tte's «yrs flashed like sun play- " ing on water. and her flushed cheeks‘ grew scarlet. Since her infancy it had been her dream to have the cross to lie above her little lion’s heart. It had been the one longing. the one ambition, the one undying desire. of her soul, and, lo. she touched its realization. The wild. frantic, tumultuous cheers and caresses «1' her soldiery, who could not triumph in her and triumph 'ith her enough to satiate them, recalled her to the actual moment. She sprang down from her elevation and turned on them with a rebuke. “Ah. you are , making this fuss about me While hun- dreds of better soldiers than I lie yon- der. Let us look to them first. “’9 rill play the fool afterward.” __ -A And. although she had ridden 50 miles that day if she had ridden one, though she had eaten nothing since sunrise and had only had one draft. of had water, thong! :"29 was tired and stifi' and bruised and parched with thirst. C‘ignrette dashed off as lightly as a young goat to look for the wound- ed and the dying men who strewed the plain far and near. She remembered one Whom she had not seen after that first moment in which she had given the word to the squadrons to charge: It was a terrible sightâ€"the arid plainfl ' lying in the scarlet glow of sunset cov- ered with dead bodies with mutilated limbs, with horses gasping and writh- ing. with men 11.1.1ing like mad crea- tures in the torture of their wounds. She had seen great slaughter often enough. but even she had not seen any struggle more close. more murderous, than this had been. The dead lay by hundreds. French and Arab locked in one another’s limbs as they had fallen when the ordinary mode of warfare had failed to satiate their violence. and thev had wrestled together like wolves fighting and rending one another 01 or a disputed ea1cass. “Is he killed? Is he killed?" she thought as she bent or er each knot of 111otionless bodies where here and there some faint stiiicd breath 01 some mean of agony told that life still lingered beneath the huddled. stiffening heap. And a tightness came at her heart. .Xn achitg ‘11 fear made her shrink as she raised each hidden 1:. e t1: at she had nevex known linole. “"" hat if ‘19 be?" she said fiercely to herself. "It is 11.:‘1thi11g to me. I hate l1.i11.1.the cold aristocrat. I ought to be glad if I see .0 him lying here; But. despite her hatred for him. she could not bani-sh that hot. feverish hope that cold. suffocating fear which. turn by turn, quickenvd and SIR'.‘*‘.<£~'!wd the bright flow 01" her warm young blood as she searched among the sixth. A dog’s moan caught her ear. She turned and looked across. Upright among a ghastiy lot of men and charg- ers sat the snmh. snowy poodle of the chasseurs, heating the air with its lit- ’ tlc paws as it had been taught to do when it needed anything and howling piteously as it begged. ___ 11" -L :â€" :‘. Dd:.’s‘,‘, “Flick-Flack! What is it, Flick- Flack?” she cried to him, while. with a bound, she reached the spot. The dog leaped on her, rejoicing. The dead were thick thereâ€"10 or 12 deepâ€" French trooper and Bedouin rider flung across one another, horribly entangled with the limbs, the manes, the shattered‘ bodies of their own horses. Among them she saw the face she sought as the dog eaverly ran back, caressing the hair of a soldier who lay underneath the weight of his gray charger that had been killed by a musket ball. LI -_L- 1.-.: ”CC“ “Lbbv‘. w“ - Cigarette grevzv» very pale, as she had never grown when the. hailstorm of ,_____‘ shots had been pouring on her in the. midst of a battle; but. with the rapid skill and strength she had acquired long before she reached the place, lift- ed aside first one, then another, of the lifeless Arabs that had fallen above him and drew out from beneath the suflocating pressure of his horse’s weight the head and the frame of the chasseur Whom Flick-Flack had sought out and guarded. ‘ j v“- “â€"w o____ For a moment she thought him dead. Then. as she drew him out where the cool breeze of the declining day could reach him. a slow breath. painfully drawn. moved his vhest. She saw that he was unconsrious from m» stifling Oppression umlor which he iatl lit'k‘n hum-(l Since noon. An hour more with- out one tout-h of fresher air and life would have been oxtmut. Cigarette had with her the flask or brandy that she always hroaght on such errands as thnso. She fort-ml the (and llt'th‘OU his him and poured some down his throat. Hm- hatul shook slightly as shv (litllSO. a w Jul-moss the galiztsit little raztzgn‘iignor nt-wvr before tho-n had known. i it rvvivml him in :1 degree. {'19 Month- :00 morv frtwly. though hnarily and 1i with (iiiiivulty still. but gradually the idonthly ivacivn color of his face was l replaced by the hue of life. and his hv'll‘t began to boat more loudly. Con- scinusuoss did not return to him. He l:2\ mm: 0131059 and senseless, With his km: N! I'vsting on her lap and with Flick- tuck. in eager afiection, licking his hands and his hair. "He was as good as dead. Flick~ Flack. if it had not been for you and mo." said Cigarette. While slw wmwd )is lips with more brandy. “All. mm! Am] 110 would be more grmvt'm. Flick- I-‘Iack, for a scm‘m’ul secs”? from mi- findi Still. though she thought this. she let his head lie on her lap. and as she looked down on him there was the glis- ten as of tears in the brave. sunny eyes of the little Friend of the l‘lag. “He is so handsome, so handsome!" she 11.1utte1'ed in her teeth. drauing a. sillzlike lock of’ his hair through her hands and looking at the stricken st:ex1:v.tl1 the powerless limbs. the bare chest cut and bruised and heaved pain- full; by each uneasy breath. She was of a vivid. voluptuous. artistic nature; she was thoroughly womaulike 1n her passions and her instincts. though she so tiercelv comemned womanhood. If he had not been beautiful. she would never have looked twice at mm. new:- Om-e have pilled his fate. And he was hvautifhl still. thmruh his hair was heavy with <h~w and «ms-x, though his face was score-hm wnh powder. though his eyes were doswd as with the loader) weight or dvath and his heard was covered with the red Stams 02’ blood that bad flowed from hm lance wound on his shouhh-r. The restless movemvats of Iittle Flicl.:â€"Flac~k detached :1 piece of twine passed around his favoritp’s throat: tlw glittvr of gold arrestmi tfiu'arutw‘s eyes. She caught What tlw pnmllv‘s un- pationt caress had brokm: {mm} the string. it was a small blue vnamm me- dallion honhon hux with a hoh» tar-ungh it hy whirh it had been slung-a Emy toy once (-ustly. DOW tarnished. :m- it hon" mmn om'ripd through many math h: d been carried through many math stems and many ve ears of t1:1r::s::.p had been bemt by blows strm 1, :at the breast against which it rested and was dotted now with wood. Inside It was :1 woman’s ring of sapphires and 01):) is. The matter of feed is of tremendous importance to the farmer. Wrong feeding is loss. Right feeding is profit. The upâ€"toâ€"date farmer knows what to feed his cows to get the most milk, his pigs to get the most pork, his hens to get the most eggs. Science. But how about the children? . Are they fed according to 1 science, a bone food if bones are soft and undeveloped, a flesh and muscle food if they are thin and weak and a blood food if there is anemia? Scott’s Emulsion is a mixed food; the Cod Liver Oil in it 2 makes flesh, blood and muscle, the Lime and Soda make bone land brain. It is the standard l {scientific food for delicate â€"â€" l 1 children. She looked at both close in the glow Be sure that this icing: in the form 0! a label €- 91} the Scott Bowne CHEMISTS TOronto, Ontario 50amd$h 15W“ Send for free sample; Bot'trli: o! of the setting sun. then passed the string through “and fastened the box afresh. it was a mere trifle. but it sumced to banish her dream. to arouse her to contemptuous. impatient bitter- ness with that new weakness that had for the hour broken her down to the level or this feverish folly. He was beautifulâ€"yes! She could not bring herself to hate him; she could not help the brimming tears blinding. her eyes when she looked at him stretched ‘ senseless thus. But he was wedded to his. past: that toy in his breast, whatever it might be, whatever tale might cling to it. was sweeter to him than her lips wofid ever be. Bah! There were better men than he. Why had she not let hi; ! lie and die as he might under the 121's.) of dead? “You deserve to 7 e shotâ€"you!” said “You deserve to I e shotâ€"you!” said Cigarette, fiercely rhusing herself as she put his head <."" her lap, and rose abruptly and show 1 to a Tringlo who was at some dis: :ice searching for the wounded. ere is a chasseur with some breath 2n him,” she said. curily, as the man with his mule cart and its sad burden of half dead. moan- ing. writhing frames drew near at her summons. “Put him in. Soldiers cost too much training to waste them on jackals and kites. if one can help it. Lift him up! Quick!” “He is badly hurt.” said the Tringlo. She shrugged her shoulders. “Oh, no! I have had worse scratches myself. The horse fell on him; that was the mischief. Most of them here have swallowed the lea en pill once and for all. I never saw a prettier thingâ€"every lasvar has killed his own little knot of Arhicos. Look how nice v- H and neat they loo... She was not going to have him im- agine she caxed 1'01 that chassm 1r whom he lifted up on his little wagon v» 1111 so kindly a. careâ€"not she! Cigmette “as as [now] in her v w: as was ever the Princess \ enetia Lemma. Nevertheless she kept pace with the mules, carrying little li‘lick-Flack, and never paused on her way. though she passed scores of (lead Arabs. whose sil- ver ornaments and silk hroideries. commonly after such a fantasia. re- plenished the knapsack and adorned in profusion the uniform of the young filibuster. being gleaned by her right and left as her lawful harvest after the fray. “Leave him there. I will have a look at him.” she said at the first emptv tent they reached. Cigarette left alone with the wounded man 13111:; insensi- ble still on a heap of forage. (cased her song and grew very quiet. She had a certain surgical skill. and she messed his wounds with the cold. char water and washed away the dust and the blood that covered his breast. A v---“ “He is too good a soldier to die. One must do it for France." she said to her- self in a kind of self apology. And as she did it and bound the lance gash close and bathed his breast. his fore- head. his hair. his beard. free from the sand and the powder and the gore a thousand changes swept over her mo- bile fr ce. It was one moment soft and flushed and tender as passion; it was the next jealous, fiery. scornful. ;:ale and full of impatient self disdain. He was nothing to her! He was an ' aristocrat. and she was a child of the people. She had been besieged by dukes and had flouted princes. SheI had horne herself in such gas iihettx a such xivacious freedom. such 111-11111! . and careless sovereigntyâ€" hah. 11 hat: was it to her whether this man lived ; or died? If she saved him. he wentdi give her a low how as he thanked her. thinking all the while of miladi And. . yet theze she staid and watcned him. She 11ml; some 100d. for She had [111111 E f‘tSting all day. Then she dre 123111: dox 11 before the fire she had 11:."1111'1 and in one of those soft. curled. kitten 1 like attitudes that were characteristiej of her kept her vigil over him. 5 She was bruised. stitI'. tired. longing: like a. tired child to fall asleep. [1111" 1-:es telt h t as. flame. her rounded. sttpple limbs were aching her thmat was sore with lung thit‘St and the 1:11:11 that she seemed to have s11 altowetl till 1111 draft of water or Wine would tat-1e the scorched. dry pain out of it. tint. as she had given up her fete day in the hospital. so she sat nowâ€"as patient in the suits at: '11.(e as she 'a‘ impatient when the 1 11 aetous agility of her young frame was longing for the frenzied de- lights of the dance or the battle. Ev- 11:: now. 1nd then. four or five times in an hont. she gave him whom she tend- 1-11 the soup or the wine that she kept warm for him over the embers. He 1:ng it without Knowledge. sunk half in lvthargy. half in sleep. but it kvpt 11w iii’v gluwmg in him which. Without She dropped down hero're the fire, it. might have perished of cold and ex- haustion as the chill and norwvrty wind of the evening succeeded 'to the heat of the day and pierced, through the canvas walls of the tent. It was very hltter. more keenly felt because of the} prevlous‘ burning of the 'sun‘. There~ was nocldak or covering to :1an over him. ' She tool; op her blue clofhf {male and threw itacropvhla chest and: 5 That’s what you need; some- thing to cure your biliousness, and regulate your bowels. You need Ayer’s Pills. Vegetable; gently laxative. -‘-C-Arer°°-o Bowen. Nan. shi‘vering dos’fii'te'hersert, curled ‘cl‘oser to the lime fire. Want your maustachc or bczircâ€"l‘ a beautiful brown or rich black? Use She did not know why she did itâ€"he was nothing to herâ€"and ym shv kvpt horsvlf nide awake through 31w (furl: autumn night :a-st lw shuuid «gin and stir and slim not hear Im: "I hnvo szlvud his life thought. looking at him. the third “0‘0. [110? 5:1?!” He moved restlessiy. and she went to him. His face was flushed now: his breath came rapidly and shortly; there was some fever on him. The linen was displaced from his wounds. She dip- ped it again in water and laid the cool- ed bands on them. “Ah. bah! If I were not unsexed enough for this. how would it be with you now?" she said in her teeth. He tossed wearily to and fro. Detached words caught her ear as he muttered them: “Let it be; let it be! He is welcome! How could I prove it at his cost? I saved him. I could do that. It was not much”â€" Sh-e- lis'cened with intent anxiety to hear the other Whispers ending the sentence, but they were stifled and broken. “Listen!” she murmured below her breath. “It is for some other he has ruined himself.” Liver Pills She could not catch the words that followed. They were in an unknown language to her, for she knew nothing of English, and they poured fast and obscure from his lips as he moved in feverish unrest; the wine had saved him from exhaustion, inflaming his brain in his sleep. Now and then French phrases crossed the English ones. She leaned down to seize their meaning till her cheek was against his forehead, till her lips touched his hair, and at that half caress her heart beat. her face flushed. her mouth trembled with a too vivid joy, with an impulse, half fear and half longing. that had never so moved her before. She was too generous for that. “What is right is right. {10 is a soldier of France.” she muttvrul. while $110 kopt her vigil. [10 did um waken from the painful. delirious. stupofied slumber that had fallen on him. He only vaguely felt that he was sufiering pain; "‘C" be only vaguelr (beamed of what he murmuredâ€"his past and the beauty of the woman who had brought aii the memories of that post back to him. And this was Cigarette’s rmvnrd -to hear him mutter \warily oi' the 1.3mm mas and of the lost smile of :motiwr' 'lhv daw n (:1 :29 :it last. Her con- stant care and the skill with which she had cooled and dressed his wounds had done him infinite service. The fever had subsided. and toward morning his incoherent words ceased, his breathing grew calmer and more tranquil He fell asleep- sleep that was profound. dreamless and 101': eshin She looltml at him with a tempestu- ous shadow darkening her face that yet was soft with a tenderness that she could not banish. She hated him She ought to have stabbed or shot him rather than have tended him thus. lle neglected her and only thought of the woman of his ohl order. As a danzlztvr of the people. as a child of the army. as a soldier of France. she. ought to have. killed him rather than have carvssvd his hair and soothed his pain. 'l‘hvn gently. very gently. lest she should walwn him. she took her tunic skirt with which she had covered him from the chills of the night. put mom broken wood on the fading fire and with a last lingering look at him where he slept passed out from the tent as the sun rose in a flushed and beautiful dawn. 5‘! “He will never know,” she said to herself as she passed through the dis ordered camp and in a distant quarter coiled herself among the bay of a for- age wagon and. cowrod up in dry grass like a bird in a nest. let her tired limbs lip and her aching cy ves close in repose. She was very tired. and every now and thou as she slept a quick. sobbing breath shook her as she slumbered'like a wornout fawn that has been wound- ed while it played. ...c u- “Yes, he proposed to Miss Coke whll they were standing at the edge of on of her father’ s deepest coal mines." “And what did she do?” ., “She threw him down.”-â€"Glev _ Plain Dealer. ' r we never trouble troubles um stilt [TO BE common.) twice." sue ‘ €mvare 01'