The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-05-02

." You will think II strange, Jack,
he said, that all this day, when the en-
emy's bullets we're hopping around us
like hail, there was but just one idea
that filed my mind and / could find
room for no other. Ever since | saw
Colonel Westhope, it has been forced
upon me, though a newly-awakened
dream-Eke recollection, that he is the
gentleman with whom lived ere | was
taken away by your people for taken
away l must have been. Your moth
er used to tell me that my father
was a Cumberland gypsy, who met
with some had accident from the law !;
but am now convinced she must
have deceived me, and that my father
was no such sort of man. You will
think it strange; but, when putting
on my coat this morning, my eye
caught the silver bar on the sleeve,
and there leaped into my mind areyived
recollection Of having worn a scarlet
dress before,-scarlet bound with
silver and that it was in the house of
a gentleman and lady whom / had
just learned to call papa and mamma.
And every time l see the colonel, as
| say, | am reminded ofthe gentleman.
Now, for heavens sake, Jack, tell me
all you know about me. You are a
few years my senior, and must re-
member better than | can myself
under what circumstances ! joined your
tribe
* Why, Bill I said,' know little
of the matter, and 'twere no great
wonder though these bullets should
confuse me somewhat in recalling
what | do know. Most certainly we
never thought you gipsy like our
selves; but then | am sure mother
never stole you she had family enough
Of her own and besides, she brought
with her for your board, she said, a
purse with more gold in it then | have
seen at one time either before or since.
l remember il kept us all comfortably in
the creature for whole twclvcmonth
and it wasn't trife, Bill, that could
do that. You were at first like to die
among us. You hadn't been accus-
toned ~ Shopping V'so, vi " rou,t ''uor
as ours. .And, dear me how the rags
YOU were dressed in used to annoy YOU
but you soon got over all, Bill, and
became the hardest little fellow among
us. | once heard my mother say that
you were a Io0e-begot, and that youl
father, who was an English gentleman
had to part from both you and YOU
mother on taking a wife. And NJ
more can | tell you, Bill, for the lifj
Of me.
" We slept that night on the sand
master, and found in the morning tha
the enemy had fallen back some mile
nearer Alexandria. Next evening
there was party Of US despatched ol
some secret service across the desert
Bill was with us but the officer unde
whose special charge we we're place.
was Captain Turpic, nephew o
Colonel Westhope, and his heir. Blu
he heired few Of his good qualities
He was the son of pettifogging law
yer, and was as heartily hated by tn
soldiers as the colonel was beloved
Towards sunset, the party reached
hollow valley in the waste, and thel
rested, preparatory, as we engaged j
=, erecting temporary huts Of branches
some in providing the necessary mate
rials and we had just formed snu
little camp, and we're preparing t
light our fires for supper, when W
heard a shot not two furlongs away
; Bill, who was by far the most actiy
among us, sprang up one of the TALES
date trees to reconnoitre. But he 500
came down again.
: "' We have lost our pains this time
/, he said: there is party Of Frencl
n of fully five times our number, nj
a a mile away The captain, on Il
t news, wasn't slow, as you may thin
d in ordering US off; and, hastily gat
J, ering up our blankets and the conten
Z, Of our knapsacks, we struck aero
:, the sand just as the sun was settin
/, There is scarce any twilight in Egyr
IS master: it is pitch dark twenty mi
d utes after sunset. The first part
d the evening, too, is infinitely disagree
d able. The days are burning hot, al
le. not cloud can be seen in the SIX.
re but no sooner has the sun gone dow
ID than there comes on a thick white fc
ot that covers the whole country, so tf
IN one can't see fifty yards around; a
II so icy cold is it, that it strikes a cf
N to the very heart. 1t is with the
to fogs that the dews descend: and dei
We ly things they are. Well, the m