Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-07

axe off your shoes and stockings and pad
& lie your feet in the water"
That would be refreshing" the girl said.
My feet are aching dreadfully. Now
please tell me all that has happened; how
| you came to be here"
Sitting beside her, Ronald told her of
everything, from the time when his party
arrived and beat off the natives attacking
| the wagons.
"How can thank you enough?" she said,
when he had finished. "To think that you
have done ali this for me-"
| Never mind about thanks, Miss Arm
strong; we are not out of the wood yet, our
dangers are only half over, and if it were
not that trust to the cunning of our good
friend Kreta and his Fingoes should have
| very little hope of getting out Of this mess.
l think that 1t is just beginning to get light;
/ can Just make out the outlines OF the
trunks of the trees, which is more than I
| could do before. 1 will go and ask Kreta
i, what he is going to do, and by the time L
come back perhaps you had better get your
shoes on again, and be ready for start. I
don't suppose we shall go far. but no doubt
| he will find some sort of hiding-place."
Kreta, in fact, was just giving instructions
to his men.
ave are going out in different directions
to look for some place to lie up to-day" he
said. "In the morning they search all about
the woods. We must get into shelter before
it is light enough for the men on the hill
tops to see down through the trees. You
stop here, quiet. In half an hour we come
back again. There is plenty time; they no
find out yet that woman gone"
In few minutes Mary Armstrong Joined
Ronald.
"How do you feel now?' he asked.
ga III the fraehar opd baffar Ior L.
she said; "but really don't think 1 could
walk very far, my feet are very much blis-
tered. l don't see why they should be so
bad; we have only gone about "a miles each
day, and / always considered that could
walk 20 miles without much difficulty"
SIT makes all the difference how you walk,
Miss Armstrong. No doubt, if you had
been in good spirits, and with pleasant
party, you could have walked 80 miles in
two days, although that is certainly long dis
tance for woman; but depressed and almost
despairing, as you were. it told upon you gen.
orally; and doubtless You rather dragged your
feet along than walked"
Il don't want to think about it." the girl said,
with shudder. 1T seems to have been an
awful dream. Some day will tell you about
it; but cannot now"
Here are some mealies and some cold meat
We each brought a weeks supply with us when
We left the wagons. l am sure that you viii be
all the better for eating something"
y U IL.
the girl assented; Il have hardly eaten mouth
full since that morning"
81 am hungry myself" Ronald said; 81 was
too anxious yesterday to do justice to my
food"
~ feel very much better now," the girl said
when she had finished. Il believe was faint
from want of food before, although did not
think of it. / am sure could go on walking
now. 1t was not the pain that stopped me- but
simply because / didn't feel as If could lift
my foot from the ground. And there is one
thing want to say: wish you would not call
stiff, when you are running such terrible risks
call you Harry. / think heard you tell NV
father your name was Harry Blunt"
THAT IS the name enlisted under, It is not
my own name; men very seldom enlist under
their own Names"
"Why not?' she asked In surprise.
Partly, suppose because a good many OF
us got into scrapes before We enlisted, and don't
care for our friends to be able to trace u.s."
II am sure you never got into . sSrape," the
girl said. looking up into RoDald's face.
II got into very bad scrspe," Ronald an
swered, "a scrape that has sp0ilt my whole life;
but we will not talk about that But / would
rather, IL you don't mind. that you should call
me by my own name now we are together. Ii
we get out Of this shall be Sergeant Blunt
again, but should like you to call me Ronald
now"
.Konald," tns,girI said. 'that sounds Scot
tish."
= am not Scotch, nor so far as know 10
there any Scotch blood in my veins, bus the