Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-19
JACKS HEROINE.
A Tale of ,he Indian Mutiny.

gan. People had been slumberlng
peacefully fer some time, but this event
reused them. Having remarked, how
ever, that no doubt it was going to be
ouelled at once, they turned over and
went to sleep again.
Holding this opinion, Colonel Gray,
commanding the til then stationed at
Bandermunda-gave ball; and at this
ball, the following conversation took
place:
'sPretty? pretty is not the word for
it. Lovely, say"
"perhaps; but no more animation than
a poker,'' was the reply.
THAT'S how you take it. For my part
l like repose."
berg
"For shame!" eXcla lined a voice be-
hind them; and Captain Waring sudden
ly came round the curtains upon the two
men who had been canvassing the colon
ePs niece so freely. "For shame! Where
has your taste gone; my masters! The
idea of such perfection being criticised in
that way when garrison hacks are as
plentiful as peas-here, there, and every
whereof
"You shouldn't have listened, then, !"
retorted the SUBJ, saucily.
srI didn't. 1 caught only your last
words. Any one would have thought
that even in those-tO you-disadvan-
tageous circumstances, she was re-
freshing sort of person to know in wealth
er like this. with the thermometer few
hundred in the shade shade, L
mean-and waltzes danced at steam-rate.
Iceberg, by Jove! It's my next dance; pll
90 and see if she can cool me?'-with
which remark the captain left them,
pieking his way carefully to where the
lady of their talk was seated.
eff Warning only manages to wake up!"
said the sub. as soon as the other was
out of hearing, with meaning smile,
and he strolled off lazily into the gardens.
eyes" thought Markham Shaw, as he
watched Miss Gray's quiet eyes brighten
ing when her partner approached. "She
seems struck too Credite, posteri! She
evidently yawned thrice, although Gabby
Amstruther was in the midst Of one of his
most brilliant fights"
Gahbv Amstruther had obtained that
strange afix from his supposed eloquence;
low in the Civil Service, but of strange
diffidence in relation to ladies, was apt
to look rather unkindly on the virtues
and graces of his fellows which he him.
self did not possess.
"Hello. Gabby!'' he cried, as that now
dismissed worthy strolled aimlessly to-
ward the door, sscut out l see."
ssExactly!'' retorted Amstruther, rather
nettishly. "But don't be SO confounded-
ly familiar.
"I'm sorry for you," continued Mark
ham, 'sBut you can't expect to make
any running in that quarter. She has
struck her flag years ago, only War1ng
does not seem to see 1t. Would you be-
lieve me if l told you that Miss Gray
cbevied a rat round her bedroom three
times with poker and then slew it into
the fire CRATE"
II believe you to be capable of listen
ing to any bosh that any one likes to tell
Won :" growled the other. "Why should
not she?'
uOh, I don't know But she's such a
sleepy sort OF creature that IL almost
seems Incredible"
"Do YOU like herr" asked Gabby, lean
ing lazily against the door,,post, and
slowly lifting his eyes to the others
face.
"Well. no - answered Markham; "can't
say l do She's not my form at all. !
like animation, wit, and all that sort of
thing"
elias she snubbed your" asked Gray,
aggravatingly.
Markham laughed again.
"Well, no! Why should she? | never
gave her the chance-like you did"
Steps were heard on the veranda, ac-
companied by the gentle rustic of ball
dress.
land you consider" went on Captain
Warning, as he and his companion stopped
for a moment and looked out into the
night, 'sthat these-blacks have some
justification for their cruelty?''
ssSurely," was the reply.
Markham Shaw looked at Gabby Am
struther, and the two walked away into
the ballroom.
esHave you heard the story of Gavin
pore, or rather the fearful rumor that is
gradually gaining credence, and is now
almost fact?" asked Captain Waring.
GA messenger to-day from there corrob-
grated this report. Where is the justi-
fication for the murder of those men,
women and children? Where can be the
justification for that foul we'll checked
with their bodies?''
Miss Gray did not answer at once, but
kept her eyes fixed on the beautiful scene
beneath and around them. After a few
moments, however, she said, suddenly:
clad we not better seek that justifica-
ton in the days of Give and a Warren
Hastings? Surely we have not so far to
90 to find it, Captain Waring, there are
things in England women scarcely know
as realities which are here manifest to
the eyes of child. When men go to
India, it seems to me as if they go to a
different world. When they leave Eng
land, they leave all their gentlemanliness
behind them with their dogs.''
"Pardon the interruption" said he,
"but do you mean that men are without
all refinement when they are here?'
mo, not exactly. mean that when
they come to this country they seem to
forget that the people over whom they
are placed by the mere chance of fate
have feelings of honor like themselves
You know what mean, don't your
"Well, YES But that seems to me a
Door excuse for the Cawnporo well. Sup
posing now, for the sake of argument,
that you had the opportunity of saving
white of the loss of black lives-would
your
She turned quickly, and looked him
straight in the eyes.
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