Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-21

VIII not, Gay, said Mark s0oth
ingly. " If he is your father, he shal
not know that you are his daughter"
The promise conforted Gay, witt
smiled family through the gloom tina
had fallen upon her.
As some young people came towerC
the Hebers, Mark arose abruptly, and
went to 10 ok after his oxen.
Gay was about to join Mark, when the
false Lieutenant Fallon approached him
offering him cigar.
Fine evening, Mr. Heber," said the
distinguished Blue Jack courteously.
What You don't smoke? Smoking
is vice. wish ! could break myself
of it. Your sister is a lovely child, or
girl, should say. She must be fifteen
years old. Is she not?
She is but child yet, lieutenant
only fourtcen-yet she is more womanly
than many girls Of eighteen"
Only fourteen, said the pretended
lieutenant musingly. IL had fancy
that she was fifteen. | knew child
once-perhaps she's dead now-but if
she were living she would be fifteen years
Of age, and the very picture OF your sis
ter. And, oddly enough, that child S
name was the same as your sister s-Ga-
brielle'
Mark repressed start, and turned
away his paling race from the keen
scrutiny of the scheming villain.
The child | alluded to- continued
the false lieutenant, had black hair
and brown eyes; rather singular COM
bination; but her mother, poor creature,
had had the same features, and had been
great beauty in her day She was
New York belle, la belle Gabrielle! But
she went insane, and wandered away
with her child and was never heard of
more.
If you had seen the New York dali
lies OF thirteen years ago, resumed the
false lieutenant, you could not have
failed to notice striking advertisement
Offering thousand dollars reward for
information of the whereabouts Of an
insane woman and her child. The re-
ward was afterward increased to five
thousand dollars. Did you never hear
of the advertisement, Mr.. Heber?"
" Never" said Mark. How should
| have seen it?'
"Ah, yes; true. You were but boy
at the time. Yet if you lived near New
York, you might have heard of the dis.
appearance. 81"
-" | did not live near New York
Why the conductor told me you came
from York State, said the false lieu
tenant.
=" So ! did, responded Mark.
May ask from what part?' in
quired the villain.
" Certainly" said Mark. Is come
from the western part OF the State. May
| ask the name of the lady whose dis
appearance called forth the advertise
ment of which you speak? 7"
Her given name was Gabrielle,
said the pretended officer eyasively. "If
| could get trace of that insane wo-
man and her child, would give a thou
sand dollars out of my own pocket.
Think what start in life that SUN
would give young man like you"
Mark shrank back, as from the touch |
of an embodied pestilence.
" can give you no assistance in your
search, Lieutenant FalloH," he said
coldly.
Permit me to ask if Miss Heber is
your own sister, born of the same parents
as yourself ?" demanded the pretended
officer abruptly.
:" do not tolerate any intrusion into
my private family affairs, Lieutenant
Fallon," said Mark haughtily. my |
sister has already been annoyed by your
questions in regard to her history, and |
must request you to leave us alone
beg your pardon, Mr.. Heber," said
the villain, adding maliciously, II see
this is sore subject with you. You
have not said that Miss Heber is your
own sister. / presume you cannot say
so truthfully."
I'VE will not discuss the matter, sir.
Gay Heber is my sister, and while | live
'he shall not lack for protector"
All, yes" said the pretended officer,
Using his favorite phrase of assent,
Brothers are not usually SO devoted to
listers as you seem to be, Mr.. Heber.
That evening Gay, whose curiosity
lad been stimulated by what had taken D
,lace, to find out something more about ,
Ter psrentage, was examining some
ewels which had been left by her mother a
md some trinkets which she had Dos +,
essed when a child She had taken
hem from a little box in the bottom of
Ter trunk, and thought herself perfectly n
eopre under the cover of the wagon.
lhen she suddenly detected the false \
lieutenant Fallon peering at her through =,
hole which he had cut in the canvas
III this she reported to Mark.
On the following day Mark had
iolent alteration with the nfe,saded
eptenant.
No one has eyes or ears for anything =
ut this exciting scene, and it thus hap
ened that small body of horsemeu in -
ne uniform Of the United States had
Ome up, and dashed into the very camp
siore their approach was noticed. =
4 loud bugle call from the head Of the
oops was the first token the emigrants
lceiyed Of the new arrival,
In moment the eombatants were
osed. a@S ...s. All eyes turned to the new y
)mers
The disguised Lieutenant Fallou look
aud turned faint. He knew what this
sit meant, ifno one else did -
Conductor" shouted the leader Of L
e troop we are here In search of ~
lue Jack, the noted desperate, accused On
the attempted murder of Lieutenant ~
allon OF the United States army, whom pa
; bruially attacked and flung into the III
eep Canyon as dead. The lieutenant
now at Fort Kearney, in a critical ee
'ndition, aud We demaad his wonld-be. Ii
urdererl' tn
TLo or,;,-r,nts had E.,o,ol ,.-h OF
eathless amazement to the announce. Ii
ent Of the officer in charge of the small tw
.taehment Of troops. They we're act. W
lily spellbouHd. Not so the person nj
ost interested in the announcement "