Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-04

Is, my bearer came IN ana told M
that the native troops had risen and massa-
cred their o.ficers-so he'd been told he
didn't quite believe it, but thee was Ger.
tainly rising So came along to let you
know, SIR he added to the colonel
Quite right. You'd better bring your
wife in,' said the colonel-he happened "a
be dining at mess that night-'or have you
left her with Mrs LIE Nesurier? Mrs L.
Mesurier's bungalow was not a stones throw
from the gates, the coloners about quarter
Of a mile away.
q 4 haven't brought her, said Jack, all
ut once turning white to his very lips, as il
In that moment he realized for the first time
what the danger really was.
Good Coil man. cried the colonel an
grily, ARE you mad. You've been acting
Ike q fool hardy idiot the last month OF
more, but who was TO dream you would
carry your scat.er-brained folly SO far a
this. Good God, it is too horrible to think
Of
Jacks knees seemed fairly to give way
under him. i left her in Jamsee's charge,
be stammered She wouldn't come with me;
she wanted to put the child's things together,
and her jexelry, and
: Don't stand Cabling there, the colonel
cried-he was in furious rage and q horri-
bic fright, for Lady Mallory was one Of his
special favorites, and he had from the very
beginning estimated the danger of the COM
ing storm at something very near its proper
value; let us be of at once, and pray the
Lord We be not too late'
Poor JACK fairly sobbed aloud in his
agony of fear and dread, and followed the
colonel out in abject meekness At the very
first hint Of the bad tidiHgs, the colonel had
sent out the order fer the regiment to be in
readiness, and hastily giving LIE Mesurier
instructions upon which to act during his
absence, rode of at the head of a piauet, as
hard as their horses could take them, for the
farquhars' bungalow. l followed last Of
them all
IN spite of Jacks horse having just come
the three miles they had to traverse, he was
the first to reach the house / had gained
the colonePs side BY that time, but Jack was
well on in front As we rounded a turn in
the road which brought u in sight of the
bungalow, Jack turned rcund-'It's all right
all is just lighted up as usual then added,
in a lower voice, But Sir, cured of careless
ness in that respect forever
at ell looked just as usual, as Jack said
there were lights here and there, open
doors in one or two places, dogs barking
loudly and furiously as somehow dogs al
ways do bark when you approach house in
India at night
Jack pulled up ct the gate, and shouted
fol- a sycc to come and take his horse.
where the devil are they all' he burst out,
irritably: hut nobody came.
He jun: ed down, and flung the reins to
one of the dragoons-the colonel and fol-
lowed him. They've bolted off to sec the
row. he explained, as We went along the
drive; 'but it will he all right, Marie prom
ised she would look out for ,ne-she'H be at
the drawing room veranda. All, there she
is, he cried Safe, safe my darling
HE sprang up the steps OK the veranda to
where Lady Marjory WAS standing just ON
the threshold Of the door Aading into the
drawing room She was wearing a flowing
muslin gown, and entirely white. and stood
holding the Intel Of the door,
Jack rushed to her and caught her in his
arms, with glad and triu M hant cry-toh,
my darling.-my-' And then-upon my
soul. Urquhart," the colonel broke off: in o
shaking vo;c-, Il can scarcely tell the story
after all these years-and then there was
silence for one dreadful instant ere, with an
agonized shrek, he threw up his arms and
fell down at our feet, apparently as dead as
the poor little woman standing in the door
way"
~Deai.' cried Urquiiart
"Dead-yesl With cord tied tightly
about her pretty, soft, childish throat, with
her great blue eyes staring blankly be-
fore her, as, with the horror still stamped
upon them, they had stared when
size stood alone TO look grim and ghastly
death in the face-deads yes, stone dead,
with her baby tied up in her arms, and her.
sc f tied there 20 watch for the husband as
she had promised him she would do. II
WIS the ghastliest sight l ever saw, to see
,ha poor dead thing with the great clusters
o. white, sweet-smelling roses nesting
against her poor strangled throat ~. W.
Winter