Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-23

Perry ths night OF his firse witt, and
now they deemed lt best 10 keen within.
Everything Indicated that Perry had eot
70 the scene just In time TO prevent
bloody and desperate fracas, foe The few
ranch people who appeared wsrs still
guivsring with excitsmsnt and dread.
Even was almost too much agitated 70
speaks
/ "0o 10 Mr.. Maitland % soon a. ron
can, doctor; this has given him . fearful
shaking up Mrs. Cowan is having
room made ready for Mr.. Perry. Ali
here's young Cowan now. Rsadyr he
IAN ready. Mother says carry the
gentleman right In. She wants you to
come too" he added. in q lower tone, to
6ergt. 0wynne. but the latter made no
reply.
And 20. borne In the arms Of several
Of his men, Lieut.. Perry was carried
across the intervening space and into the
main building. When he recovered con-
sciousness, a. the morning Light came
through the eastern windows, he found
himself lying in white curtained bed In
strange room, with strange yet kind
and motherly face bending over him,
and his captain smiling down into his
wondering eyes.
"You are coming round all right, old
fellow" he heard Stryker say. "Ill call
the doctor now; he wanted to see you a.
soon q you walked"
And then Quin came In and said q few
CHEEKY words, and bade him lie still and
worry about nothing. The row was over.
thanks to him, and he and poor Nolan
were the only victims; but it had been .
great shock to Mr.. Maitland and rem.
dered his condition critical.
Perry listened In silence, asking no
questions. For the time being he could
think Of nothing but Nolan's loss. It was
guch cruel fate to be killed by those he
came to save.
All that day he lay there, DOING and
thinking alternately. He wondered at
the tenderness and devotion with which
the kind old Englishwoman nursed him
and seemed to anticipate his every want.
Quin came in towards evening and
dressed his wound, which now began to
be feverish and painful. He heard his
colonel's voice In the hallway. too, and
heard him say to the doctor that some
body at Rossiter was eager to come down
and take care Of him. "Boshi" said the
blunt surgeon; "rve far better nurse
here-and a reserve to fall back upon
that will be worth new life to him."
And, weak and feverish though he was,
Perry's heart thrilled within him; he
wondered II it could mean Gladys. Two
days more he lay there, the fever skill
fully controlled by the doctors ministra.
tions, and the pain Of his wound sub
dued by Mrs. Cowan's cooling bandages
and applications. But there was a burn
ing fever in his heart that utterly re-
fused to 60 down. He strained his ears
listening for the sound of her voice or
the pit-a-pat of her foot fall in the corri-
dor. At last he mustered courage and
asked for her, and Mrs. Cowan smiled:
"Miss Maitland has been here three
times to inquire how you were; but 1t
was while you were sleeping. Mr.. Perry,
and she rarely leaves her fathers bed.
side. He is very i'll, and seems to be
growing weaker every day. l don't
know what we would have done II we
had not found DR.. Quin here; he has
pulled him through two or three bad
seizures during the past year."
"Where had you known the doctor be-
fore? asked Perry, with an eager light
in his eyes.
"Nowhere; but 1t was as though one
OF his own kith and kin had suddenly
made his appearance here to welcome
Mr.. Maitland. The doctor is first cousin
Of Mrs. Maitlands; she was from Ire
land, and 1t was from her family that
the ranch was named. Lord Dunraven
Is of the peerage Of Ireland, you know"
added Mrs. Cowan, with the cheerful
confidence Of the Englishwoman that
every person of any education or stand
ing must be familiar with the pages of
Debrett.
"Hnw should know anythiau ehont
ity" laughed Perry. He felt in merry
mood; another page in his volume Of sus-
picion and dread was being torn away,
and Quin's relations with the household
were turning out to be such rs made
him an object of lively interest, not Of
jealous doubt.
Then came tho callers from the garri-
son. 1t tseemed as though all Of sudden
the blockade had been raised and that no
people were SO warmly welcomed at
Dunraven as the very ones who had been
especially prescribed. Mr.. Maitland,
kweak and i'll as he was, had asked to be
allowed to see Col Brainard on the occa-
sion of that officers second visit; Stryker,
>Dana, Graham and Parke had all been
allowed to come up and see Perry few
moments, but Mrs. Cowan was vigilant
and remorseless, would allow them only
brief interview, and, with smiling de-
termination, checked her patient when
he attempted to talk. The third day OF
his Imprisonment DR.. Quin came scowl-
ing in along in the afternoon, naanifestly
annoyed about something, and said few
words in low tone to Mrs. Cowan, and
that usually equable matron futtered
away down stairs in evident excitement.
Its Mrs. Belknap," explained the
doctor, in answer to Perry's inquiring
look. "She has ridden down here with
Dana and sent her card up to Gladys
who can't bear the sight of her; don't
know why; intuition, suppose"
Presently Mrs. Cowan reappeared
miss Gladys has asked to be excused, q;
she does not wish to leave her father al
this moment; and the lady would like te
come up and see Mr.. Perry"
"Tell her nor said Quin, savagely.
No-here: I'll go myself" And dowr
went the doughty medical officer, ant
straightway the rumbling tones Of hi
harsh voice were heard below: the wordl
were indistinguishable, but Mrs. Cowani
face indicated that there was something
in the sound that gave her comfort. Sht
stood at the window watching the pai
as they rode away.
"Miss Gladys shuddered when she hat