The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-03-26
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train.'
! Marks boyish brows grew stern, snt
his eyes flashed.
The coward and villain = he exclaim
ed. IN horsewhip him for that flow
dared he 2
Don't get into trouble on my account
dear Mark = exclaimed Gay, in alarm
He's bad man, and he might kill you
He didn't kiss me, and | have laugh
him to keep his distance, so that he won
trouble me again. Don't speak to him
Mark, please DON'T
But Mark would not promise.
About sunset Lanford beheld in tn,
distance solitary horseman, who, upor
looking back and observing the train
wheeled his horse about, and rode rapid
y toward it. As he approached it, he
said:
Are you the conductor of this train
sir? | am bearer of dispatches from
Fort Kearney to Fort Sedgwck. Viii
you grant me the protection Of your trair
during the remainder of my journey?'
What is your name?'
'Fallon, Lieutenant Fallon,' was the
reply, and he offered to show his creden
tials.
Landlord babe Lieutenant Fallon well
come, and offered him the freedom of the
camp.
Fallon ate supper with the Whitmans
and after conversing until late hour, re-
tired to the rear Of the train to sleep
After all was still, he rolled over on the
ground until he came to the side of Burk
'Burk !! he Kissed, 4
Burk started, with a smothered oath
Who calls p he growled.
Hush, you idiot 2 Kissed Fallon, be-
tween his teeth. Have l fooled you and
the boys as easily as fooled the conduc-
tor of the train I? Don't you know me ?
| haven't got my card-case with me, but
I'm Blue Jack, at your service Ha, ha!
The serpent has got into Eden!
Il and the boys have looked for you
to join us all day. said Burk. But Of
course we didn't look for you in this dis
guise.
Upon the morning after the counter
felt Lieut.. Fallon had joined the wagon
train, the camp was astir as usual at day
break. The train halted at noon on the
river bank, opposite lovely island. AT
sunset they again halted, and for the
night.
In the course of the evening Lieut..
Fallon approached Gay, and said
Miss Heber, | must say to you that
you are startlingly like former freud
of mine. 1t seems almost as if she stood
before me as | first knew her. 1t is a
strange, startling coincidence. could
almost think-but no. Impossible You
are the sister of Mr.. Heber, are you not p
Gays pure face flushed.
Yes she answered, with some hesita.
ton.
The disguised Blue Jack turned yet
winter. He had marked that hesitation,
and his wonder at it thrilled him with a
sudden fear.
You do not look like your brother,
Miss Heber p he remarked.
i have been told so before said Gay
dryly.
And you are his own sister p persist.
ed Blue Jack, with agitation.
i do not know your motive for max.
ing such inquiries, Lieutenant said Gay
after a moments thought. i do moi
therefore knew how to reply to you.
should like to know the name of your
friend whom | resemble, but for an an.
swer to your inquiries | must refer YOU
to my brother
Gay Heber seized the first opportunity
to inform her adopted brother of the par.
ticulars of her singular interview with the
false Lieut. Fallon.
i told him to speak to you, Mark,
she said, but my heart has been on fire
ever since, What if he should have
known my mother?
He looked like death when he first
saw your face, Gay said Mark thought
fully. 1T was as if he had seen ghost
Gay started, and exclaimed
From the moment bcheld the man
shrank from him. l had an instructive
fear and adherence of him. Oh, Mark
dear Mark, don't let him know any more
about me than he knows now
L will not, Gay said Mark soothing
ly. If he is your father, he shall no
know that you are his daughter
The promise comforted Gay, who smil
ed family through the gloom that hat
fallen upon her.
As some young people came towarc
the Hebers, Mark rose abruptly and wen
to look after his oxen.
Gay was about to join Mark, when tn
false Lieutenant Fallon approached him
offering him cigar.
Fine evening, Mr.. Heber,' said tn,
disguised Blue Jack courteously., What
You don't smoke ? Smoking is a vice.
wish / could break myself of it. You
sister is lovely child, or girl, l shout,
say. She must be fifteen years old. l
she not 7?
She is but child yet, lieutenant
only fourtcen-yet she i, more womanl
than many girls Of eighteen
Only fourteen said the preteude
lieutenant musipgly IL had fame
that she was fifteen. knew q chill
once-perhaps she's dead now-but
she were living she would be fifteen year
Of age, and the very picture of your sis
ter. And, oddly enough, the child
name was the same as your sister's-Ga
brielle =
Mark repressed start, and turned 9
way his paling face from the keen scrut
ny of the scheming villain.
, The child | alluded to- continued tn
false lieutenant, had black hair an
3 brown eyes; rather singular combini
, ton but her mother, poor creature, ha
. had the same features, and had been
! great beauty in her day. She was Ne
t York belle, la belle Gabrielle ! But 81
t went insane, and wandered away with h
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