The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-23

| me. and-Ive bwoken my aWWeSt! I've
bwoken my awwest"
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 Wrinkle discon-
solately II saw him kissing you, and be
said he was fonder of yOu van Bell or We
Butcha or me- And so came. You must
| get I'D and come back. You didn't ought
to be here. Wis is a bad place, and I've
bwoken my awwest.
Il can't move Wrinkle" said Miss Altar
dyce, with groan. I've hurt my foot.
What. shall / dos'
She showed a readiness to weep afresh,
which steadied Wee Willie W1nkie. who
had been brought up 20 believe that tears
were thedepth of unmanIness. Still, when
one is as great a sinner as Wee Willie Win
kie, even 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"
]
| 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 a vicious cut of his whip that made it
! whicller The little animal headed toward
| the environments.
"Oh, Winkiei What are you doing"
Hush said Wee Willie Wrinkle. "Vere's
] IF val
| stay wiz YOU Ny faver says a man must
always look after girl. Jack will go home,
| and ven vey'll come and look for US. Watts
why let him 60"
Not one man. but two or three he'd ap-
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 out and vex Cur
| dies soul. Thus had they played in Cur
dies garden, be had seen the picture, and
thus they had frightened the princess
nurse He heard them talking to each
| other, and recognized with Joy the bastard
Pushto that he had picked up from one of
his fathers grooms lately dismissed Peo-
pie who spoke that tongue could not be the
bad men. They were only natives after all.
They came up to the powders on which
Miss Allardyces horse had blundered.
Then rose from the rock Wee Willie
Winkie, child of the dominant race, aged
6%, and said briefly and emphatically,
"Jaor' The pony had crossed the river
bed.
The men laughed, and laughter from ma
tives was one thing Wee Willie Winkie
could not tolerate. He asked them what
they wanted, and why they did not depart.
Other men with most evil faces and crook
eel stocked guns crept out Of the shadows
of the hills, till soon Wee Willie Winkie
was face to face with an audience some
twenty strong. Miss Allardyce screamed.
"Who are you?" said one of the men.
81 am the Col. Sahid's son, and my or
der is that you 90 at once You black
men are frightening the Miss Sahib. One
of you mast run into cantonments and
take the news that the Miss Sahib has hurt
herself. and that the colonel's son is here
with her."
Put your feet into the trap" was the
laughing reply. Hear this boys speech"'
''Say that / sent you'll, the colonel's son.
They Will give you money
"What is the use of this talk? Take up
the child and the girl. and we can at least
ask for the ransom. Ours are the villages
on the heights" said voice in the back
ground.
These were the Bad Men-worse than
goblins-and it needed all Wee Willie
Wrinkles training to prevent him from
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 the One Hundred and Ninety
fifth had that grim regiment at his back.
care you going to carry us away" said
Wee Willie Wrinkle, very blanched and I'M
comfortable.
eyes, my little Sahib Bahadur," said the
.allest of the men, land eat you after
ward"
THAT is childs talk" said Wee Willie
Winkie. Men do not eat men"
A yell of laughter interrupted him, but
he went on firmly: 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. Sahib?"
Speech in any vernacular - and Wee
willie Wrinkle had colioquial acquaint-
ance with three-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 this babe
says is true. He 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 Khoda Vars breast bone with
kicks when he tried 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 back to
take the message and get reward. i say
that this child is their god, and that they
will spare none of Us, nor our women, if
we harm him"
II 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-
mems" would not desert him if they knew
of MS extremity
The riderless pony brought the news to
the One Hundred and Ninety-fifth, though
there had been CONSERVATION in the colo
nel'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 70 play
spoil-five till the afternoon. Deylin, the
color sergeant Of F company. glanced at
the empty saddle and tumbled through
the barrack rooms, kicking up each room
corporal as he passed. Up, We beggsrsl
There's something happened to the colo
nel's son. he shouted.
l. -. 4 ] -