The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-20

After all was still, he rolled over on
the ground until he came to the side Of
Burk.
"Burk I" he Kissed.
Burk started, with smothering oath.
"Who calls ?' he growled.
"Hush, you idiot!" Kissed Fallon, be-
tween his teeth. slave fooled you and
the boys as easily as fooled the conductor
of the train? Don't you know me? |
haven't got my card-case with me, but Pm
Blue Jack, at your service! Ha, ha !! The
serpent has got into Eden J"
II 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 counterfeit
Lieut.. Fallon had joined the wagon train,
the camp was astir as usual at daybreak.
The train halted at noon on the river bank,
opposite a. 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 friend of
mine. 1t seems almost as if she stood be-
fore me as l 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?"
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?" he remarked.
"I have been told so BEFORE" said Gay
dryly. !. .,,
ed Blue Jack, with agitation.
81 do not know your motive for making
such inquiries, Lieutenant, said Gay, after
moments thought. 81 do not therefore
know how to reply to you. | should like
to know the name of your friend whom |
resemble, but for an answer to your inqui-
ries | must refer you to my brother"
Gay Heber seized the first opportunity
to inform her adopted brother of the par
ticulars of her interview with the false
Lieutenant Fallon.
L tOlu It'll w opSdA W fOuY 4haih.
she said, shut my heart has been on fire
ever since. What if he should have known
my motherw
''He looked like death when he first saw
your face, Gay" said Mark thoughtfully.
ut was as if he had seen ghost.'
Gay started and exclaimed:
''From the moment | beheld the man |
shrank from him. / had an instructive
fear and adherence of him. Oh, Mark
dear Mark, don't let him know any more
about me than he knows nowW
81 will not, Cay" said Mark soothingly.
''If he is your father, he shall not know
| that you are his daughter"
The promise comiorted Gay, who smiled
family through the gloom that had fallen
| upon her. XXI
AS some young people came toward the
Hebers, Mark arose abruptly, and went to
look after his oxen.
Gay was about to join Mark, when the
false Lieutenant Fallon approached him, Of:
fering him cigar. ...-,.
slime evening, Mr.. Heber," said the dis.
| guised Blue Jack, courteously. "What
You don't smoke? Smoking is vice.
wish | could break myself of it. Your
sister is lovely child, or girl, shoulc
say. She must be fifteen years old. Is
she not 2"
"She is but child yet, lieutenant-only
fourteen-yet she is more womanly thar
many girls. of eighteen"
"On1y fourteen, said the pretended lieu
tenantly, musingly. ''I-I had fancy
that she was fifteen. knew child once
perhaps she's dead now-but if she wer,
living she would be fifteen years of age
and the very picture of your sister. And
oddly enough, that child's name was tn,
same as your sister's--Gabrielle ~
Mark repressed start, and turned away
his paling from the keen scrutiny of tn,
scheming villain.
"The child | alluded to-" continued tn,
false lieutenant, ''had black hair and BROW
eyes rather singular combination Blu
her mother, poor creature, had had tn
same features, and had been great beaut,
in her day. She was a New York belle
la belle Gabrielle But she went insane
aud wandered away with her child andwa
never heard of more.
"If you had seen the New York dailie
of thirteen years ago." resumed the falls
lieutenant, 'syou could not have failed t.
notice a striking advertisement offering
thousand dollars reward for information c
/ ne whereabouts of an insane woman an
hor hid. The reward was afterward in
nr ua 70 five thousand dollars. Did 20
never hear Of the advertisement, MI
Heber ?'' -,
have seen it ~ ~ -. -
"Ah, yes; true. You were but 90
at the time. Yet if YOU lived near Me-
York, you might have heard OF the Oh
appearance VII,
"Why, the conductor told me you cam
from York State" said the false heutei
ant. srs ga
$50 did, responded Mark.
uN,o,v / ask from what part Pr inquire
'"s "C Certain f" said Marx. 81 cam came fFo'
the western part VI inc peate a;sa MY ~
the name of the lad, whose us US ,p9P;ah VIZ
called forth the advertis. 'o'i' VI "''''
speak ?" -;s,,e % 50
"Her given name was Cab. s.;S
the pretended officer evasively.
could get trace of that insane womali az
her child, / would give thousand dollal
out of my own pocket. Think what
start in life that sum would give a youn!
man like youW
Mark shrank back, as from the touch G
an embodied pestilence.
81 can give you no assistance in you
search, Lieutenant Fallon," he said cold