Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-07-26

you: hey, Frcdi Gad ! don't know
whether can stand this sort Of thing, af-
ter our years OF campaigning And the
lieutenant looked dubiously around upon
the dark and dingy walls and windows.
Suppose we say Thursday evening, cap
tain,n suggested Mr.. Withers; ''and I'll
have lust q few friends TO meet you two
army gentlemen"
81 shall be very happy, Mr. Withcrs."
Good! That's the talk, Fred" heartily
shouted the lieutenant, bringing his hand
down with a resounding whack between
Lanes shoulder blades. NOW we are Off
Come along. Amos" And the cousins dis
appeared down the dark stairway and
popped into the carriage.
mot n very demonstrative man, your
friend, the captain, but seems 10 be solid,"
was Mr.. withers' remark.
ooh, yes lie is about M solid AZ they
make them" answered Noel, airily. Lane
has his faults, like most men. II is only
those who really know him, who have been
associated with him for years, and whom
he trusts and likes, that are his friends.
Now, I'd go through fire and water for
him, and he would for me--but Of course
yen wouldn't think IL, to see his perfectly
conventional society manner this morning.
II had left you down at the foot Of the
stairs and had stolen up on tiptoe and gone
over and put my arms round his neck you
would probably have found us hugging
each other and dancing about that room
like couple of grizzly bears when you came
up, and the moment he caught sight of
you be would have blushed crimson and
got behind his ice screen in a second. You
just ought To have seen him the night we
met each other with our detachments down
near Guadalupe Canyon when we were
hunting Geronimo. Some id fool OF n
ranchman had met him and said / was
killed in the little affair we had with the
Apache rear guard. Why, was perfectly
amazed at the emotion he showed. Ever
since then I've sworn 10y Fred Lane;
though, of course, he has traits that wish
he could get rid Of"
"Good officer, isn't hef'
"Ye--es, Lane isn't half n bad soldier.
or course IL remains to bc seen what sort
of captain he will make. He has only just
got his troop"
"But mean he--wcll-is brave man;
has shown up well in these Indian fights
you were telling ms about
"H'mi" answered Noel, with quiet lit
tie chucklc. "If he wasn't, you bet he
wouldn't have been all these years In the
Eleventh. a shirk of any kind is just the
one thing we won't stand. Why, Amos,
when old jim Blazer was our colonel dur
ing those years of tho Sioux and Cheyenne
aud Nez Pcrce wars he ran two men out Of
the regiment simply because they managed
to get out of field duty two successive
years. Oh, mol Lanes all right as sol
dier or he wouldn't bc wearing the crossed
sabers OF the Eleventh"
Mr. Wthers listened to these tales Of ths
dOingS and savings OF the regiment with
great interest Lane might have been
here dozen years. SAID he To himself,
ana n" one IN our community would have
known ahythihB at an about the dangers
ms cohirades ana no hau encountered IN
tnu'r iioh'ier service its only when some
reliow IKE Noei comes To us that we learn
awning Whatever OF our army ana its
doihgs'
he TOOK ms cousin TO the great molding
works OF which he was the sole head and
proprietor, anu presented MS foremen ana
his clerks to the captain, and told them
Oh nus career IN the indian wars on tho
iroitier' ana theh upon change, anu
prouuiy ihtrouuccd my cousin, capt.
Noci, W 'he ihhSnntes oi 'he queen City;
ana, 'hough NOT one out OF dozen was In
thc least degree interested IN the captain
or cared gram oi wheat what the army
had done or was doing ON the frontier, nj
most every man hhd time to stop and
shake hands cordially with the handsome
oihcer, ior AMOS Nlthers was sald To DE
man whose check Tor round million
would pe phid at sight, and anybody
VINO was 'lrst COUSIN 10 that amount OF
spot cash was worth stopping 10 chat
"''n' even III tne MIDST OF the ll'enest
tussie tWiNt pun ana Dear on the 1oor OF
.he 'hahlper OF commerce. tai, gray
haired gentleman, with slight stoop to
MS SHOULDERS ana rather hred, anxious
eyes, VINO listened hcrvously To the shouts
from !he PIT ana scanned eagerly the
iittle teieRraphic slips thrust INTO his hand
pS scurrylnB messenger boys, was intro
uuced as Mr, vincent, ana Mr. Vincent in
CURED II Noel Knew Lleut.-or, rather,
'apt'-lane
Know Fred Lane! He is the best friend
hh'e III the World, was the enthusiastic
answer, ana one OF the best men that ever
lived
An! I'm giad 10 know you-glad to
know what you say. The caNain Is a con
s'ant VISITOR at our house, great friend OF
ours III iact. An! excuse me u moment
ANA Mr' vincent seized u certain well
known broker 10y the arm and murInured
some eager inquiries IN ms ear, to which
the other listened with ill'disguised impa-
tlence
Nthers ana, OF course, the captain"
were the center OF cordial-not to say Oh
upon the moor, ana the secretary presently
came To them with the compliments of the
president and card admitting Capt. Cor
don Noel to the iloor Of the chamber at any
time during business hours, which that
officer most gracefully acknowledged, and
then went on replying to the questions of
his new friends about the strange regions
through which he had secuted and fought
and the characteristics of the Indian tribes
with whom he had been brought in con
tact And by the time Cousin Amos de-
clared they must go To the club for luncheon