Telegram-herald., 1890-02-10


so4taa4-t a.eke8 a rs flaag
fru.ge work q ee.l-a ,..3 and Is .-.sN-,
luI l1ls tllae I.ree lal.4e 4NaA, l.s sc-
cus.3lasd solitude Fe.s tre5eu ~ IS
~ riders aal d4r.l.g black sle 4
dogs. al rovieE ue- ,hssara o--ce l-ers
and already urelstlng tie slope He
should have turned away easts -lle and
r4len across country 20 J0ln then lut
down here ia the valley. only = short
distance away, aosoroed IL watching
t4e hunting par.y s-I Mr. Even on =
nawing ANA excited bay Whaseyer
GOODNESS MS rider lai tl iesi az th.s dis
coyers. il ~4s not shared by Aolzl ke
pricked up his ears and hailed Ais fol-
low quadrupsd with cordial and ua4f-
fected pleasure. a neigh that the k-4s --sh
bre1 horse VS. 80 utterly Uniusllar Us u
wnirl about md answer with c.rre-
spending warmth. EWen caught g.. his
heavy Derby ..nd ieFke4 IL oA las auileE
head with au air II mingled embarrass-
meat and clylity, replacing Il with
similarly spAsmodic haste. Perry coohy,
but with "a certain easy grace, raised hiS
forage cap IA response u the salat4,ion,
aud then, seeing tle manager stA. ,ok-
ing at him as though hs wanted ~ say
something aud did not know how 10 be-
gin. gave Nolan his head and rode down
10 short hailing distance.
I'VE meet Oh neutral ground oar here,
Mr. Even. / suppose your exclusive
employer over yonder can hardly pro-
l. II
his healIhE And, though he meant 10
be distant. Perry found himself smiling
at the OddiJy or the situation.
DO YOU know, was just thinking
about YOU. answered Even, "and won
dering whether you were with that party
down yonder: The old gentleman is
better. thanks. He had two pretty bad
nights. but Is coming around slowly"
And Miss Maitland-how Is she2'
Rather seedy She has had a good
deal OF care and vexation of late, l fancy,
and this IS 40 place for a young girl.
anyhow
"Well, you have some appreciation of
the true character OF Dunraven % q resi-
dence, aft ALL" answerry Perry. Now,
if YOU can give me any good reason why
she should live in this utterly out-of-the-
way place YOU viii lift a weight from
my mind.
"Oh, they don't live here, you know"
| spoke Even, hurriedly. "She comes
here only when her father does. 1t IS
her own doing. She goes with him
everywhere, and VIII not leave him.
She's all he has, don't YOU know
Il don't know anything about it.
You Dunraven people seem averse 70
any expression Of interest or courtesy
from your fellowmen. but I'm free to
say | should like 10 know what on earth
there is in American cavalrymen 10
make them such objects Of aversion 10
your master: and | would be glad 10
know how it is such 4 girl as that is
dragged into such hole as yonder. "
Even sat in silence a moment, study
Ing the young fellows face.
"You deserve better welcome there"
he presently answered, 'and l don't
know that | can DO better than 10 tell
YOU the truth-what l know of it. And
let me tel YOU that if the old man knew
Of my speaking of it TO any one, I'd lose
the most lucrative bat least attractive
place l ever had. DO You sce;"
Then perhaps you had better not tell
me. ! Go not care 10 pry into secrets"
"Oh, this is no secret. 1t was That that
drove him here; everybody knew it in
England. You were mighty shabbily
treated at the ranch. and you requited it
By preventing what would have been a
bloody row, and by lending rs a helping
hand. Even the old man recognizes
that: ana / think he'd be glad 10 say 80
-o you, ana see Won. II you were not just
what YOU area cavalry officer
why, what on earth can we have
done: If any OF orr cloth have wroneod
Mr. Maitland in any way. it is our risht
| to know it and take 1t M"
1t wasn't your cloth, Old fellow"
said Even. thawing visialy. "but it was
the cavalry all the same taat broke his
heart aad liis pride, aE made his life
the wreck it is, and drove him from his
home stunning The sight oi his follow
men. all these years -exiling her. too, in
the prime Of her Young life Mr Perry
there are only three or four Of MS at
Dunrayen who know the story. hut we
have only sympathy and pity-no blame
for him, though Le IS the harac
master ever served.
"How did it hafpen:" asked Perry.
All through his son. There had been
more Of them. but there was only the
one -Archie-whcn the LaG-ers were
ordered to South Africa. I. was a
young tor. only t.. they tel me. and he
had Just been gazcttel to his cornetcy
Tie old man was all wrapped 10 in MIN.
for If the three BOYS tho eldest lad died
only the mont before toe regiment was
ordered on foreign service and the Sec
oui bad been billed in la'ia Bo-h
those tFo v'o were gone had made
themselves famous among thpir COM
rads hy t1e.r fca-iezsu~ss and high
character, and the oli man. of course.
could NOS ask Archie % quit tie service
inst whom orders for DANCE tus Gut7
came. The boy went O. ;te Nape with
Dis corps. oud got into the thicS ~ the
Zulu war just at The time of the masses
ere of the Twenty fourth al Isandlwhana
and the fight az Bor6es Drift I was
a home thea, and aH England Vas
q1i-aung with grief over such needless
netHce as was made n thaI regiment.
ana All ready 80 fal do-7a and worship
,l.h fellows as Cha~d and Hro head.
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