Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-08-27

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d she had been fainting long enough, awok'
: with sigh.
Ihave been searching for you, my buck
high and low said he. You're drafted
land must 60 where glory waits your
}, 'Wretchl' retorted Yusef, thou liest
The quota of our ward was made up weel
,Iago.'
'Ha! hat sneered the hireling, mot *
!, fast. In truth, you thought so, and faith
so did I; but we want more men, and tht
caliph revised the figures for dozen Of
the wards, this among the others. Ths
draft was drawn this morning, and you
were hit
why this haste ? said Yusef. sCans1
NOT wait till thou hast the evening paper
Perchance he will figure again and let us
|out.'
1t won't do,' said the officer, we cant
wait. We must have men. Comet
But I am physically unfit. ! am
4 know what you arc going 70 say. You
are ruptured, have cough, have varicose
veins, and are near-sighted, etc. It won't
do. We have reduced the cause Of exemp-
ton to barely one."
And that is
Death before draft
is there no escape?'
Mary. There isn't time to get substitu-
tee. and if there vas
Il haven't got the stamps, You would
say, but delicacy prevents you. True. too
Itrue?'
'Here!' shrieked Zara, tearing the mas
sive jewelry from hcrears and fingers, and
arms and bosom: take these elittering
gauds, and give me back my Yusef!'
The officer looked at them, and returned
them with preceptible sneer on his finely
chisseled features, with the significant re-
mark, Dollar store!'
All hope was gone.
AT least said Zara, lets do The regular
thing
'Yusef!'
.Zaa!'
And. they fell into each others arms.
mutually assuring each otlef that, through
veal and woe, they would be true to each
other, forever and forever.
In the course of four minutes Yusef
Thayer was on his way to join his rcgt-
,nent, leaving Zara f:.inting on the sward
Did she remain true to him? We shall
see.
One year elapsed. A gallant soldier was
standing at the door of humble cattage.
l'Twas Yusef He had returned unscathed
lby bullet, bayonet or shell. He had been
lin the commissary department, and had
lsuuffed the battle afar of.
'Mother!' hissed he, tell me. Zara-'
Was married precisely eleyen months
ago, my son, to one of the first gentlemen
Of Cairo, who made big thing out of an
army contract
'Marriedr hisse he, through his clenchedd
teeth, and smiting himself twice on th
forehead. .Narried!'
Certainly my son. replied the mother,
wringing out = shirt calmly, sAb0ut .
month after you were drafted
Tell me. did her paternal parent on her
fathers side compel her thus to sacrifice
|her youth and beauty, thus to break her
lplighted troth, thus to 80 back on herself
and mel'
NO.
Did not her father speculate In pork,
and get caught on falling marketf We're
mot his notes going to protest, and did not
this rich william Offer her the dread alter
native of her fathers ruin or her hand:'
Mary. She laid for him until she COB.
bled him.
Did she never speak of mei Has she
grown pale and wan, and so on?'
Not wan. Shes - fresh - peach
and the gayest Of the gay. The bulbul|
|sings not moro sweesly nor the nightin-
gale moro frequently replied the old lady,
putting more soap on . dirty wristband.
She lsunts at the opera, white ! wash
shirts at fifty cents dozen. Bismullah!
Such ID life"
'Destruction!' mutteyed Yusef. Il will
meet her. Iwill confront her, and taunt|
her with her faithlessness, and then
And uttering despalring shfek he flung
himself from the house.
There was . sound Of revelry by night. y
There was . ball In progress at theI
Spread Eagle botel, at which were oil thel
elite and bon ton Of Cairo. That nonel
but the elisest OF society should bs there |
the masagers had put the tickets ct TWEEN