The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-04-11


hind those walls; Il win CONS 70 ma
me tomorrow, ss
In vain l reasoned. In xain IchAaed,
and 1t last thought It best TO humor
him and then he said to me:
Med, you are my most intimate
friend NmonE ~ b1Y1 f6re Nent
You 70 do something for me Wfiehp 4
have fallen in the snow. / wear
around my neck q gold chain with .
portrait suspended to it. and little
golden image Of La Madonna The
portrait Is that OF the daughter Of old
Nicholas Sterelle. OF Douai. II had
not been here should have been mar
ried TO her by now. When ! am dead
/ want you to take this chain, this
locket, this image TO her, and say that
=Maxime died thinking only Of her,
praying with his last breath for her
In the hope OF seeing her hereafter
Listen q moment; We parted terribly.
The war, as you know. broke out sud-
denly; and | was ordered by telegraph
to the front without having moment
In which 70 write TO Marie. II hap
pencd thus: ] was at Arjenton when
zIreeeised the stelegram@and rushed
the same evening to Douai to say good
bye to her. / arrived tired and i'll,
and before taking myself TO see her=H
entered the restaurant OF Pierre Lar
req, TO take a bite to eat There / met
Pierre Dufoure, who has for years
been endeavoring to supplant me in
the esteem 81 Marie. He asked me
how 1t was that was there and l told
him that / had been ordered to the
war and that had come to say good
bye" to Marie. He would not believe
1t and tool, out OF my pocket the tel
egram / had received from Paris to
show him. At the same time ] acct
dentalIy took out her last letter to me;
as he saw II IT, a lock Of jealousy came
over his face, but he said nothing, and
presently rose and went out My meal
at an end, started for the home OF
my sweetheart, but just as l turned up
q narrow street which | always used
as short cut in going TO her, felt a
violent blow upon the head and re-
membefed no more. vz,-i ' 'sg.sa
"WhensI. came to myself the little
money | had ins1my pocket, my watch
and all my papers, including the tel
egram and Marie's, letter, had been
stolen = doubtless the thief, having
noticed that my clothes were. of the
latest Partisan cut, imagined that
was worth robbing | came to myself
seated in the corner OF smoking-car
In train going in the direction OF l
knew not where 1t was an hour or
more before the train stopped. ~-.T Then,
feeling sick and giddy, asked how it
was Icame there and where 1 was GO
Ing. The guard said that a tall, fair
man had carried me in his arms into
the station, had taken for me ticket
to Paris, towards which the train was
now fastening, and put me under the
care Of the guard, saying that it was
important that should be in Paris in
the morning, but that had been hurt
in some drunken brawl. / was too
stupefied- say any thing. arrived
at Paris and botook myself imme-
diately to the Office OF La France, re-
ceived my Instructions and my baggage
and half an hour later was on my way
to Nisch. Two hours after that you
met me and that is al .==s=== -7=e
-. Z have writtenr<to% Marie4-sinceI
have been in the field, but. I can not
tell whether my letters have got
through the. Servian lines. could
not, as you American correspondents
do, send them to be posted by the edit
or OF my paper. Promise me that
You will carry my message, my friend,
and now let us go in and try to Sleep
EARLY nextlday they began to bonn
bard us from Tirnoya A war CORE
spondent's fist duty is to his paper.
Ne Is its property, and therefore he
has nosright to waste himself unneces-
sarily;i diseretien1s,= therefore, the
better part of valor, and speaking for
myself, whenever the plan is feasible,
| get into tree and behind good
thick limb had done this to-day
and my horse stood underneath. his
long cavalry bride hitched over my
foot as it swung from my perch.
Maxine -Durand had followed my ex-
ample and sat in the fork of tree
about twenty yards away, chanting
some little French song or other as he
made notes OF the action that was go
ing on before our eyes. Presently a
shell scared over my head at a dis
lance of about fifty yards and almost
Immediately afterwards three or four
rifle bullets whistled through the
branches OF the tree in which was
sitting. 1t occurred to. me that this
was unseemly, and, stopping only to
light d cigar, l let myself drop into
my saddle and prepared to seek some
more sheltered spot, shouting as Izdid
so my intention to Maxine. He pre-
pared to follow my example and as he
saw me light my cigar he shouted:
give me one; ! have been trying to
light cigarette all the morning, but
it is so windy I can't do it have
wasted all my matches"
gave him a cigar and as had a
spring hint.wheel and steel and used
a scrap OF finder, called him OYER to
me and handed him the apparatus.
As the tiint-wheef rcvotyed and pro-
duced light shower of sparks, my
horse reared and danced away about
half a dozen yards. and there stayed
waiting until Maxine got a light As