Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-03-27

me name of your friend whom resemble, but
for an answer to your inquiries must refer
YOU to my brother
Gay ncber seized the first opportunity to
inform her adopted brother Of the particulars
of her singular interview with the false Lieut..
Fallon.
81 told him to speak to you, Mark she
said obut my heart has been on fire ever
since. What ifhc should have known my
mother 2'
% lie looked like death when he first saw
your face Gay, said Mark thoughtiully. ut
was as if he had seen ghost
Gay started, and exclaimed
From the moment | boheld the man ]
shrank from him. had an instructive f.
and adherence Of him. Oh, Mark, dear Mas,
don't let him know any more about me than
be knows now g.
81 will not, Gay" said Mark soothingly.
"lf he is your father, he shall not know that
you are his daughter
The promise comfotted Gay, who smiled
family through the gloom that had fallen
upon her.
As some young people came toward the
llebers, Marx arose abruptly, aud went to
look after his oxen.
Gay was about to join Marx, when The
false Lieutenant Falon approached him. Of
icring him cigar
" Fine evening, Mr.. llcber,' said the dis.
guisod Blue Jack courteously. What
You don't smoker Smoking is vice /
wish | could break myselfof it. Your sister
is a lovely child, or girl, should say. She
must he fifteen years Cd Is she not2"
She is but child yet, lieuienant-only
fourteen yet she is more womanly than
many girls Of eighteen"
"Only fourteen said the pretended lieu
tenant musingly. Ill had fancy tha
she was fifteen. knew child oucc per
haps she's dead now-but if she were living
she would be fifteen years Of age, and th'
very picture Of your sister. And, oddly
enough, that child's name was the same a
your sistcr's--Gabrielle I"
Mark repressed a start, aud turned ava,
his paling face from the keen scrutiny Of tn
scheming william.
q" The child | alluded to, continued Tia
false lieutenant, " had black hair and brow
eyes rather a singular combination bu
3
features and had been great beauty in he
day. She was a New York belle, la bell
Gabrielle But she went insane, and wan
dcred away with her child and was neve
heard Of more.
&" If you had seen the New York dailies q
thirteen years ago" resumed the false lieu
tenant, you could not have failed to motto
a striking advertisement Offering a thousan
dollars reward for information of the where
abouts of an insane woman and her child
The reward was aiterward increased to fiv
thousand dollars. Did you never hear O
the advertisement, Mr. lleber2
" Never" said Mark How should
have seen it,"
"Ah, yes true. You were but boy a
the time. Yet if you lived near New York
you might have heard of the disappearance.
" did not live near New York"
why, the conductor told me you cam
from York State, said the false lieutenant.
$50 did, responded Mark
" May | ask from what part?' inquire
the william.
Certainly" said Mark. 81 came fror
the western part of the State. May as
the name of the lady whose Disappearance
called forth the advertisement of which 20
speak ?"
A" Her given name was Gabrielle" said I'll
, pretended officer evasively. 1t | could g
a trace of that insane woman and her chit
would give a thousand dollars out of m
own pocket. Think what start in life tn,
sum would give young man like you !"
) Marx shrank back, as from the touch Of a
embodied pcstilence
" can give you no assistance in you
search, Lieut.. Fallou,' he said coldly
" Permit to ask if Miss Heber is your ow
sister born of the same parents as you
self2" demanded the pretended officer al
ruptly.
" do not tolerate any intrusion into II
private family affairs, Lieutenant Falon
said Marx haughtily. My sister has alrdad
been annoyed by your questions in regard
her history, aud | must request you to Leaf
us alone"
&" beg your pardon, Mr.. Heber,' said tn
5 william, adding malcously, see this is
sore subject with you. You have not sa
Q that Miss Heber is your own sister presun
, you cannot say so truthiully."
We will not discuss the matter, sir. CT
4 lIeber is my sister, and while | live she shc
f not lack for protector
c "Ah yes, said the pretended officer, Il
), ing his lavorite phrase Of assent, Brothe
are not usually so devoted to sisters as Y,
" seem to be, Mr.. Heber."
?, That evening Gay, whose curiosity had be-
!. stimulated by what had taken place, to fl
1t out something more about her parentage, "
examining some Jewels which had been l.
is by her mother, and some trinkets which s.
had possessed when a child She had tax
l. them from little box in the bottom of h
d trunk, and thought herself perfectly secu
under the cover Of the wagon, when she su
t, denly detected the false Lieut. Falon peer
s at her through hole which he had cut in 4
t canvas. All this she reported to Mark.
is On the following day Mark had viole
a. alteration with the pretended Lieutenant
No one had eyes or ears for anything b
this exciting scene, and it thus happened tb
5. a small body of horsemen in the uniform
e the United States had come up, and had das
is cd into the very camp before their approa
~ was noticed,
A loud bugle call from the head of t
2 troops was the first token the emigrants
y ceived Of the new arrival.
,e In moment the combatants were loost
n and all eyes turned to the newcomers.
The disguised Lieut.. Fallon looked a
turned faint. He knew what this visit mea
= if no one else did.
Conductor" shouted the leader of
e, troop, we are here in search of Blue Jat
the noted Desperate, accused of the attempt
ID murder of Lieutenant Falon of the Unit
to States army, whom he brutally attacked a
as flung into the Deep Canyon as dead. I
lie lieutenant is now at Fort Kearney, in cri
cal condition, and we demand his would.
murderer 90
The emigrants had listened with breathe
amazement to the announcement of the ofli(
N in charge Of the small detachment Of troo
rs They were actually spelbound. Not so I
Ie person most interested in the announcement
1t Blue Jack himself
1t The desperate had comprehended the
IT rand of the troops in the first moment Of tn
appearance After his first sensation of fai
-. o,l t,rr,r Ia ko1 raoouoro1 HE cooln