Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-31
II URNAB v.


1t was in the public room of a hotel of
ths principal square Of Estella, in Nav
ARE, at that time the head-Quaiters of
his perambulatory Majesty uncrowned,
King Charles VII, l first saw one explor-
er. That is some nine years ago, and he
was an explorer then, but not celebrated.
A tall fellow, with crisp black hair and
mustache, swarthy Spanish complexion,
and dancing eyes. He was dining hearth
lv on campaigning fare, in company with
a stout young officer in Carlist uniform.
They were speaking the most cultural Of
German That did not surprise me much,
for we had fellows of many nationalities
in our army-French. Americans. Ital-
lans, and, of course, 1rishmen. The fol.
lowing morning 1 met the Carlist officer
at breakfast, and we foregathered. He
told me he had been Lieutenant of Ch-
lans, was a cousin of the War Minister,
Mt Berlin, and had come to share in a
little guerrilla fighting in the Pyrenees,
to add to the stock of military experience
acquired IN more regular service in tho
franco-German war. Naturally, he was
Baron-the Baron Won Kamecke Later
IN the day | saw the German chatting to
his companion of the table of the pre-
vious evening under the colonnade cut
side the inn. What very tall man the
stranger was. l had not noticed his great
height when he was sitting. He wore .
cork helmet, cutaway coat, cord breech-
es, and high boots The German ap-
proached me and said in his characteris-
tic French; "Msieu, c'est un gompa-
triote fous, un gapitaine dams les Garles
de la Refine d d'Angleterre, and he present
ed me to my ''gompatriote. How dye
dog said the giant in an off hand fash
ion, and i'll accents that savored more of
the West End than Whiteclapel "How
dye do ?' said l, bowing as stiilly as he
aaf aa nafaqp nsma MI ab%n s aits sosass SaSA
cended to inform me. "Deiightcd, I'm
sure. took you for groom. "Haw,
haw =. laughed the giant, you re rum
customer. you're RUNNER, | said
"but | suppose you didn't know who
was at dinner last night, or you would
have exchanged few words in the YER
nacular with me in this strange land"
Wrong" he quickly added: Il did
know, but l had prejudice against you.
Now, know it 10 have been unjust"
How dld the prejudice arise - II was
told you opened n letter of mine at Bay
onne. and telegraphcd the contents to
London as your own. l have since learn
ed it was the Junta did the dirty trick
was mortified beyond measure, and col
ored at the suspicion that l could nave
been guilty of the dishonorable act
Hum ! As n rule of life, believe only
half what | see, and nothing that hear"
and was turning on my heel +; but Capt
Burnaby smilingly extended his hand,
saying Think we shall be friends"
grasped his hand. May 1 hatter myself
wish the hope that we are friends 4
few weeks roughing it together among
soldiers, when fighting is going on, be-
gets more trust and liking if the sympa-
thies are there, than years OF automatic
London acquaintanceship. We rode knee
to knee for weeks after that, slept under
the same roof and sometimes ON the same
boards, and exhausted all our anecdotes
i'll the endeavor to carry ont the provis-
ions of loiut-stock guild we had formed
for the Reciprocal Recreation Of Animal
Spirits and Combined Curtailment Of the
Kings Highway.