The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1884-05-10

for"
II am doing my best, Clark, my boy,'
Falon replied, "and shall be up with that
crazy sergeant presently. You know am
good for short brush of foot race; fast
running is one of my accomplishments
thanks to my bog-trotting education and
the practice Lord Cough gave us"
Hardly had the words done ringing
in bis comrades ears when the gallant
Fallon, the pride Of his corps, received IN
his generous breast a dozen musket-balIs,
as he sprang up the broad stair-crse of the
Dagon Pagoda-first Of them all, ana quite
alone. He fell on his face, stone dead, on
the stairs, sword in hand, and smiling.
When all was over, and his regiment
held the post of honor on the very throne
of the Boedh, they gave him a soldiers
most distinguished obsequles, burylng
him in q solemn grove Of talipot trees be-
hind poonghee house of the grotesquest
architecture, and just outside of what were
afterwards the Sepoy line of the Eightieth
His faithful orderly planted rude
cross at his graves head, and set an Eng
Iish white rose there. An American mis-
sionary gave it to him.
In Calcutta, Norah Fallon-beautiful
accomplished, witty, altogether radiant
with rare charms of mind and person.
wairen with her young child for news
frOm the sOldicr-husband who had her
heart in lis keeping within the stockade
of Rango0n. When they told her he was
dead, she fell, uttering only a sharp cry,
and lay as one dead, for many days. But
when she aWOke 20 the consciousness OF
her profound bereavement and her eternal
wid0Wh00d, she shed not one tear nor
sp0kea work, but took her boy and went
abroad a tl0Op-ship that sailed on the NOR
row for F4Dgoon.
On the voyage. still she spoke not, nor
ever went; the silence Of her sorrow had
h something sacred, almost awful, about it,
that commanded 81 deicacy Of eonsidera-
ton which WAS q sort OF worship, from the
rude st around her.
Arrived 1T RangOOn, no sooner had the
ship dropped anchor off the Kings wharf
than Norah sent her chaprassev--a HinCol
errand-cocr-wit a note to General God
win, commanding the cOrnpany's forces it
Eurmah: '"rhe wife of Maurice Fallon
Adjutant in the Eighteenth Of her liza
iesfv's R0vnl Irish, would be permitted 4
5; see her husbands grave; she awaited tn
expression of the Generals wishes, ol
board the MahanuddY.''
She waited long. At last the "nsWe
came: ut was with untel&ned soTro" ina
- lIentciiatI 0thcf&l No0"ih 1o''ilo hlI"se'
constrained oy t}e eS'ge1lcieS oi h'S posi-
: hoh: TO FeiuSo tle "ito" o' one @' H's "eS
ollicerF' whose loss was 1"'@ t'E iho ""'i
AngIo-lndlan army, the s%d privilege 0
visiting the spot WheIe MS toh'IaoeS ila
.c consigned nan 70 Il pFaVo >"ldiet grave
But the Generals 10ot1@ III Lah&ooA wa
precaH0us; hooTlI aEpEch~nS'o"S q IL
tack, by strong body ut the enemy, WeT
entertained. 1t was EnoWn that DARN
Ia Burman chief was approaching with
numerous and Well~@rmed force, ana ma
e already arrived Ill tie ncIGh0Orh00u {
IS kcmmendinc. Therefore, for the preSeh
Fl the Lieutenant General must t0Told III
+ E@hoIhS oi MS country-Wonlen from III
IN shipping on any preteNt. lie hoped 10 Z
IL forgiven by the dear lady, whose grief
>e humbIy asked to be permitted to p"l
l. tIcIpatc IN; o"5 III this case, lie was n'
al lett III the exercise OF the least dlscretlo
t such were the regulations.
q When Norah Falion had read these line
III She retired to her cabin in silence, and W;
'e not seen again that day. On the next st
so was observed in frequent and eager COZ
81 ference, in whispered Hindostane, with a
/" OLD and faithful bearer, gray-bearded an