San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-28

bursting into tears. But he felt that to
cry before native, excepting only his
mothers ayah, would be an infamy greater
than any mutiny. Moreover he as future
colonel OF t." One Hundred and Ninety
fifth, had th"t grim regiment at his back
Are vow C-"inc; TO carry us away?" said
Wee Willie WinEie, very blancheti and I'M
comfortable
Yes, my little Sahib Bahadur." said the
tallest of the men, land eat you after
ward"
That is child's talk" said Wee Willie
Wrinkle Men do not eat men,"
\ yell of laughter interrupted him, but
he went on lirnly: And if you do carry
us away, | tell you that all my regiment
will come up in day and kill you all with
out leaving one. Who will take my mes
sage to The Col. SGhib?"
Speech in any vernacular - and Wee
Willie Winkie had a colloquial acquaint-
| ance with thrGe-was easy to the boy who
could not yet manage his "r's" and this"
Alright
Another man Joined the conference, cry
| ing: "Oh, foolish men! What ills babe
| says is true RE is the hearts heart of
those white troops. For the sake of peace
let them go both, for if he be taken the
regiment will break loose and gut the val
ley Our villages are in the valley. and we
will not escape. That regiment are devils.
They broke hhoda Yar's breast bone with
| kicks when he Jried to take the rifles, and
| if we touch this child they will fire and
rape and plumber for a month, till nothing
remains. Better to send a man hack to
| take the message and get reward. say
| that this child is their god, and that they
| will spare none of us, nor our women, il
we harm him."
1t was Din Mahommed, the dismissed
groom of the colonel, who made the diver
sion, and an angry and heated discussion
followed. Wee Willie Wrinkle, standing
over Miss Allardyce, waited the upshot.
Surely his ''wegiment," his own "wegi-
ment," would not desert him il they knew
of his extremity.
The riderless pony brought the news to
the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth, though
there had been CONSERVATION in the colo
uel's household for an hour before. The
little beast came in through the parade
ground in front Of the main barracks,
where the men were settling down to play
spoil-fve till the afternoon. Devlin, the
color sergeant of + company, glanced at
| the empty saddle and tumbled through
the barrack rooms kicking up each room
corporal as he passed. "Up, We beggarsl
| There something happened to the colo
| nel's son." he shouted.
He couldn't fall off! S'elp me, e couldn't
| fall Off" blubbered drummer boy go
| and hunt acrost the river. He's over there
| if he's anywhere. an maybe those Pathans
| have got i'm. For the love % Gawd, don't
look for I'm IN the nullahs! let's go over
| the river"
"Thcrc'S sense in Mott yet" said Devlin-
"E company, double out to the river
| sharp"
So + company, in its shirt sleeves main
| IT, doubled for the dear life, and in the rear
| tcilCd the porSpiring sergeant, adjuriDg il
| to double yet faster The cantoument was
| alive with the men OfS the One Hundred
| and Ninety fifth hunting for Wee Willie
| Wrinkle, and the colonel finally overlook f.
company, far too exhausted to swear,
struggling IN the pebbles of the river bed.
Up the hill under which Wee Willie
Wrinkles Bad Men We're discussing the
wisdom Of carrying off the child and the
girl, Il lookout fired two shots
What have ! saids" shouted Din Ma
hommcd. There is the warning! The
pulton are out already and are coming
across the plain! Get away! Let us not be
seen with the boy"
The men waited for an instant, and then,
as another shot was fired, withdrew into
the hills, silently rs they had appeared.
''The wcigment is coming said Wee
Willie Winkie confidently to Miss Altar
dyce "and it all wight. Don't cwy"
Ienceded the advice himself, for ten min
Utes later when his father came up he was
wceDing bitterly. with his head in Miss Az
larlycr's lap.
And the men of the One Hundred and
Nincty-fnh carried him home with shouts
and %cioicings; aud Copy who had rid
den a horse into a lathpr, met him, and, to
his intense disgust, kissed him onenly in
the presence Of The men.
But there was no balm for his dignity.
His father u.eurnl him that not only would
the breaking of arrest be COndoned. but
that the good cuuluct badge would be re
stored rs soon H- his mother could sew it.
on his blouse sleeve Miss Allardyce had
told the colonel Il story that made him
proHd OF his son.
"Shr hc,ougrd to You. Copy" slM Wee
Willie WjuEje, Indicating Miss Alardyte
with a grimy f0refn@er. II knew she
didn't Ought TO 20 uCwOSs We wiver. and |
knew yr wo..mcnt would come to me il
sent Jack homo.'
'N'ou are a hero. Winkie," said Copy
"a pUkka hero
II don't know wh"t vat meausr said
We Willie Wrinkle, but you mustn't call
me Wjuki" any no more. I'm Percival
William Wirams" RI
And in 9 is n'anncr dill Wee Willie
Wink:ceutcr into hiamanhood. Rudyard
Kipline.