The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-04-01

Isaac! put dat vass a goot shot. Elm, zwei
drei, vier horses got no riters any more"
"Can you make out my father?" called out
Jasmin. Can you distinguish man riding a
chestnut with heavy mane and tail that
almost touches the ground?"
"I gan see a man on kray horse nit a
long tail, unit one on plack horse, unit
unt-dere, dat shell knocked de hint wheels off
a wagon. Dey're all running away vrom it.
Now de fellers pehnt are tipping id Offer to
ket id oud dc roat. Dere it koes town de hill,
rolling ofer unit ofer, unit de mules nit id. Now
dey all kallop on unit leaf i'd"
Try if you can't make out finc-looking
man riding chestnut horse" broke in Jasmin
anxiously. TRY very hard, please"
- don't know What you mean by chestnut
said Hirschmyer obviously. ave haf no chest
nut in de try-goots pizness. What iss it like p
Unable to restrain herself any longer, Jasmin
ran upstairs to the hurricane deck, took the
glasses away from Urschmyer, and swept the
hillside After a long alienation of hopes and
fears she at last had the satisfaction of seeing
her father dash across the open space beside the
burning wagon and disappear in the protecting
woods beyond.
PAS all right so far" she said to Barnard,
as she returned to his side.
Thank Heaven" he answered earnestly.
"You are sure of it?"
80, yes; l recognized both him and Dan
Boone that he's riding now. If being able to
make good speed is any indication of their con-
dition, l can assure you that they are both in a
high state of health"
She tried to say this with her accustomed
spirit of raillery, but the tension was too great,
and a couple of pearly tears stood in her eyes
in spite Of all that she could do. She disap-
peared into her room, but presently returned
with her hair newly smoOthed down, and other
evidences that the wash bowl had been resorted
to to remove traces of her agitation
q must now 60 and see about Capt. Gamma
way" she announced to Barnard; :" l fear he is
badly hurt"
At the head of the stairs she met Mr. Grim
sted, with some other men, earring the senseless
form of Gannaway into the cabin, where they
deposited him on a sofa Jasmin looked at the
PROSTATE figure of her lover, and then at Grim
sted, and her eyes blaZed with wrath against
the Ohioan. There was something very often
sive in the thought that this commonplace fel-
low with brutal handspille should overthrow u
gentleman, and Kentuckian, welding sword,
and she hated him for it. She would not speak
to him, but asked one of those who were assist
ing him:
is the gentleman much hurt?"
Grimsted answered:
q can't tell, mum, until the doctor sees him
/ hit him little harder than | intended. All
/ wanted was to keep him from sticking
Hirschmyer with that vicious looking prod he
mcbbe l hit him harder than l needed to-"
Ball." nterposed the mate, who came up at
the moment, "w'ats the use O. making sich q
palaver over little whack with caps'n bar? q?
l belt men with it every day, an never think
nothin on it, no more'n they do. The only
trouble with him is that he didn't git enough.
He orter had the head pounded clean often
him."
You didn't dare strike him." leaped to JAS
Minis lips before she was aware of it. "You
talk about him now, but you didn't dare face
him when he was himself"
A man, having the air Of country doctor,
came up and examined Ganuaway, while Jas
min looked on eagerly.
Hit with a capsn BAR" he soiloquized !;
"and it evidently wasn't any love tap, either.
Maybe serious-maybe not. Can't tell for
some hours. Certainly no fracture, and, as the
patient seems TO be healthy young man with
a pretty solid constitution, he may pull through
with nothing worse than a brain fever. It'll
make him more comfortable and help bring
him around, if some of you will get basin Of
water and give his face and hands good wash
ing"
Jasmin fastened to the stewardess for the
necessary materials for the ablution, and was
Joined on her way back by the portly matron,
who was rapidly recovering FROM the semi
comatOse condition she was thrown into by the
first attack on the boat, and becoming again
her own opinOnated and voluble self. The
two assisted the doctor in bringing back
Gannaway's fugitive senses but their work
lasted late into the evening before such
progress was made as would justify the
doctor in announcing that the young man
might now be put to bed and the remainder of
the restoration left to Nature. Jasmin at first
declared that she would sit up with him and
give him his medicine at regular intervals
But the trying events of the day had reached
the limits of even her power of endurance, and
her exhaustion was so evident that the old doc
tor ordered her percmptorily to bed, whittier
she went, pausing only to give Barnard a very
listless and sleepy Good night"
"Im afraid you've lost your young lady
nurse, Charlie" said Grimsted earlier in the
evening. "I'll have to take her place"
Barnard murmured his thanks, but did not
seem overjoyed at the exchange. He was be-
ing devoured by the fires of jealousy, and at
one moment was praying fervently that Grim
sted's blow would prove fatal TO Gannaway, and
the next condemnng himself for such unmanly
and unsoldier-like feeling.
Officers of the gunboat came on board to in
spect the boat, and learned of Gannaway's pres
ence. They permitted him to remain, Barnard
becoming responsible for him, and promising,
if he recovered, to deliver him to the proper
officers at Cincinnati.
The next morning the boat was found to be
plowing her way up the river as usual. Gan
naway lay in stupor.
He'll not get entirely over that rap on his
Uranium this many-a-day,' said the doctor to
Jasmin. "He ought to be taken to his home, if
that is possible, and be given very good care"
They were standing by the sofa upon which
Barnard was lying.
Jasmin hesitated few minutes celebrating.
"Tll take him home with me to Sourmash,"
she said at last. AZ find that Mrs Sutton here
(referring to the portly matron, who smiled
fatty at the reference,) lives in Jessamine
County too. She'll 90 with me, l know. Mrs.
Sutton was only too happy to have the oppor-
tunity of associating with a lady of such
superior social station.) Well take him off with
us at Covington, and get him home without
much trouble"
"a weeks nursing at homc," said the doctor,
twill be worth months in the hospital, where
he will be more likely to die than live. Other
wise, that conclusion of the brain that he's
suffering from will probably develop meningitis,
aud then his shroud might as well be made"
That's what I've been arguing with Char
lie" put in Grimsted. al want to take him
home with me. Jane III bring him around in
one-tenth the time that those hospital doctors
can"
The thought that was surging through Bar
nard's mind was passionate longing for some
scheme by which Gannaway might be handed
over to Jane to be nursed back to health. while
he recuperated on SOurmaSh Plantation under
Jasmin's tender care. He was on the point of
suggesting the fitness Of James being delegated
to repair the damage her husband had done,
but he could not frame any proposition that
was not likely to make him appear mean and