Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1889-09-04


red to her bg now. When | am dead
| want YOU TO take this chain, this
lock e, this imago to her, and say thai
Ajax mo died thinking only OF her,
praying with his last breath for her
in the hope Of seeing her hereafter.
Listen moment; we parted terribly.
The war, a you know, broke out sat
denly; and | was rdere1 by te egraph
to the If mt without having moment
in which to write TO Mare. IL hap-
pe1ed thus: was at Arjenton when
| rec lived the telegram ana | rusaad
the same evening to d ,uai tp sa7 good
6ye TO her | arrived tired and i'll,
and before taking myself to ses her l
entered tue Restaurant Of Pierre Lar
raz, totaae a bite to eat. There | met
Pierre Dufoure, who has for Years
been endeayoring to supp,ant me in
the teom of Marie. lie asked me
how il was that | was there and l tod
him that I had been ordered to the
war and that had come to say good
bye to Marie. He would not believe
it and | to k out of my pocket the tel
egram l had received from Paris TO
show him. At the same time | acci-
dental.y took Q Ii her last letter to IN =;
| rs he saw it, a lootz of jealousy cane
over his face but he said nothing, and
! presently roe and went out. My meal
ri al eni, | s'afasd for the home of
M sweetheart, b 1t juyt as / turned up
Il narrow street hich l always used
as short cut in going To her, | felt
! violent blow upon the head and re-
| mem erred no more.
when I came to myself the little
money l haa in my pocket, my watch
ana all my papers, including the tel
eeram ana DIarie's letter, had been
! stolen - doubtless The thief, having
noticed that my clothes we're of the
| l4test Parisian Gus, imagined that |
was worth robbin .. / elfne to myself
! seated ia ths corner OF a smolling-cur
! in train going in the direction of
| knew not Wi 40. 1t was an hour or
more before the train stopped, Then.
| feeling sick and giddy, asked how it
! was came there and whe was go.
Ing. lie guard said that q tall, fair
man had carried me ia his arms into
/ the station, had taken for me q tickc.
| to PAS. towards which the train was
now hast9ninT, and put me under the
care OF the guard, saying that it was
/ important that [ should b. in Paris in
the morning, but that had been hurt
in some 4 unien brawL l was toe
stupetied to say any thing. arrived
at Paris and botook myself imlne-
| diately To tho Office of La France, re-
eeived my in 'tructions an my baggage
and hat an hour later was on my way
to Nj ch. Two hours after thaa you
met me and that is all.
II have written to Mar'9 since
have been in tho tie d. but | can no
tel whether my lette 5 have 60
through The servian lines. | coulG
a t, as you American correspondents
do, send them to be posted by the edit
or OF ny paper. Promise mo tia
I joii will Car y my message, aay friend,
AMI now let u so ia and try 10 sleep.
Eur y next day they begun TO bonn
hard as from 3irnoga 4 war cor G.
| ,pJndent's asst duty is 90 his paper.
he IS It's property. and therefore he
has no rjga5 ts, w;ts5e himself aanecos-
saF,ir; discr tics Is. therefore. the
better part Of vaior, and speaking for
! myself. w6cnever tho plan is feasible.
get into a tFee saJ behind u good
lhick iignb. I bad done this to-duy
and nay horse stood underneath, his
I icng cavalry bride hitched over ray
! {0cL as 1t swung from ray perch.
Maxine iluraad had followed my ex-
ample aa9 sat in the fork OF q tree
go nt twenty yards a YRy. chanting
| sBgn l,tt g FrencS song or other ;ss he
made mates Of the ac;ion that was go-
ing on Before our eyes. Pre- emily o
/ shell scared over my head at 9. dis
taace OF about f'ty yards and almost
! Immediately afterwards three or four
'iie bullets whist ed through the
branches OF the tree in which was
sitting. It occurred to mo that this
was unseemly. and, stopping only to
ight a cigar, let myself drop into
my saddle and prepared to seek some
more sheltered spot, shouting 80 I did
SO roy intention to MAXINE. lie pre-
pared TO follow my example, and as he
saw me light my cigar he shoe.ed.
Give me one; / have been trying to
liaht cigarette all the morning. but