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

TO venture IhCo Cnelr borders! W nat would
Copy say if anything happened to herr If
the COLLINS ran off with her as they did
with Curdie's princess? She must at all
hazards be turned back
The house was still. Wee Willie Wrinkle
reflected for moment on the very terrible
wrath of his father; and then-broke his
arrest! Ii WAS crime unspeakable. The
low sun threw his shadow, very large and
very black, ON the trim garden paths as he
went down to the stables and ordered his
pony. # seemed to him in the hush of the
dawn that all the big world had been bid
den to stand still and look at Wee Willie
Winkie, guilty Of mutiny. The drowsy
groom handed him his mount, and since
the one great sin made all others insignifi-
cant, Wee Willie Wrinkle said that he was
going to ride over to Copy Sahib, and
went out at a foot pace, stepping on the
soft mold of the flower borders.
The devastating track of the ponv's feet
was the last misdeed that cut him off from
all sympathy of humanity He turned into
the road, leaned forward and rode as fast
as the pony could put foot to the ground in
the direction of the river.
But the liveliest of twenty-five ponies
can do little against the longer CATER of a
Waller. Miss Allardyce was far ahead, had
passed through the crops, beyond the police
post when all the guards We're asleep, and
her mount was scattering the pebbles of
the river bed as Wee Willie Winkie left the
cantonment and British India behind him.
Bowed forward and still fogging, Wee
Willie Wrinkle shot into Afghan territory.
and could just see Miss Allardyce, black
speck Pickering across the stony plain.
The reason of her wandering was simple
enough. Copy, in tone of too hastily
assumed authority, had told her over night
that she must not ride out by the river.
And she had gone to prove her own spirit
and teach Copy a lesson.
Almost at the foot of the inhospitable
hills Wee Willie Wrinkle saw the Waller
blunder and come down heavily. Miss
Allardyce struggled clear, but her ankle
had been severely twisted, and she could
not stand. Having thus demonstrated her
spirit, she wept copiOusly, and was sur
prised by the apparitiOn of white, wide
eyed child in khaki, on a nearly spent pony.
care you badly, badly hurted?" shouted
Wee Willie Wrinkle. as soon as he was
within range. "You didn't ought to be
here"
Il don't know" said Miss Allardyce
ruefully, ignoring the reprOof. Good Gra-
cious, child what are you doing hereE"
You said you was going acwOsS We
wiver," painted Wee Willie Wrinkle, throw
ing himself off his pony. "And nobody
not even Coppy-must go acwoss We wiver,
and | came after you ever so hard, but you
wouldn't stop, and now you've hurried
yourself. and Copy will he angwy wiv
me- and-Tve bwoken my awwest! I've
bwOken my awwcst"
The future colonel of the One Hundred
and Ninety-fifth sat down and sobbed. In
spite of the pain in her ankle the girl was
moved
Have You ridden all the way from the
environments, little man? What for?"
You belonged to Copy. Copy told
me sou walled Wee Willie Winkie discon-
solately. II saw him kissing you, and he
said he was fonder of you van Bell or We
Butcha or me, And 50 came. You must
get mp and come back. You didn't ought
to be here. Wis is a bad place, and I've
bwOkcn my awwest."
II can't move, Wrinkle" said Miss Altar
dycc, with a groan. I've hurt my foot
What shall dos'
She showed n readiness to weep afreSh,
which steadied Wee Willie Winkie, who
had been brought up to believe that tears
were the depth of unmanliness Still, when
one is as great a sinneras Wee Willie Win
kie, even a man may be permitted to break
down
Wrinkle" said Miss Allardyce, "when
you've rested little ride back and tell
them to send out something to carry me
back in"
The child sat still for a little time and
Miss Allardyce closed her eyes; the pain
was nearly making her faint. She was
reused by Wee Willie Winkie tying up the
reins on his pony's neck and setting it free
with q vicious cut of his whip that made it
whicEcr. The little animal headed toward
the cautonments.
"Oh, Wrinkle, What are you doing"
Hush said Wee Willie Wrinkle "Nere's
man coming--One of We bad men must
stay wiz you. My ftver says man must
always look after II girl. Jack will go home,
and ven vey'll come and look for us Watts
why let him 20.
Not one man. but two or three had APP
peared from behind the rocks of the hills,
and the heart Of Wee Willie Wrinkle sank
within him, for Just in this manner were
the COLLINS wont to steal ont and veX Cur
dies soul. Thus had they played in Cur
dies garden. h" had seen the picIure, and
thus they had frightened the princess
nurse. He heard them talking to each
other, and recognized with JOY the bastard
Pushto nat he had picked mp from one of
his fathers grOOms lately dismissed Peo-
pie who spoke that tongue could not be the
bad men. They were only natives afteral
They came up to, the powders on which
Miss Allardyrr's horse had blundcrcd.
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