The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-16

ing akclump. Of shell-torn bodies on the.
gravel plain. @ az 81
what are yolffor? saidITorpenhoW The.
formula of the Correspondent is that of the
fcommerrial traveller ontheroad. 81
MY own hand" said the young man,
without looking up. Have you any to-
bacco?"
Torpenhow waited till the sketch was
finished, and when he had looked at it said.
| ''What's your business here!"
''Nothing There was row, 50 I came.
I'm supposed to be doing something down at
the painting slips among the boats, or else
I'm in charge Of the condenser on one of the
water ships I've forgotten which. 2"
you've cheek enough to build a redcabt
with, said Torpenhow, and took stock of
the new acquaintance. do you always
draw like that?"
The young man produced more sketches.
Grow on a Chinese pig boat" said he, SEN
tentiously, showing them one after another
'sChief mate dirlzed by eomprador-Junk
ashore off Hakodate-Somal muleteer being
3ogged-Star shell bursting over camp at
Berbera-Slave dhow being chivied round
Taiurrah Bay-So1dier lying dead in the
moonlight outside Suakim-throat cut by
F'uzzies.' b sesu Il .f.@> t.ss
Him" said Torpenhow, 'scan't say I
care for Yerestchagin-a and water myself. b@
there is no accounting for tastes. Doing
anything now, are you!" '..'.i, ...~
mo. Amusing myself here"
Torpenhow looked at the aching desola-
ton Of the place. ''Faith, you've queer
notions of amusement Got any money!"
Enough to go on with. Look here, do
you want me to do war NoYk?"
IT don't. My syndicate Raay, though
You can draw more than little, and don't
suppose you care much what y0Q get, do
you?"
"Not this time I want my chance first
Torpenhow looked at the sketches again
and nodded. Eyes, you're right to take
your first chance when you can get it."
He rode away swiftly through the Gate of
the Two WarSl4ips, Fa43r ed across the cause
way into the town, and wired to his syndi-
cate; ''Got man here, picture work. Good
and cheap. Small arrange? VIII do letter
press with sketches" a1=sHssSn
The man on the redoubt sat swinging his
legs and nlurmuring: Il knew the chance
would come sooner or later. By God, they'll
have to sweat ffcrr it if I come through this
business alive /" .t ~ess
In the evening rorpenhow was able to an
nounce to his friend that the Central South
ern Agency was willing to take him on trial,
paying expenses for three months. ''And,
by the way, what's your name?" said Tor
penhow.
"Heldar. Do they give me free hand?"
suThey've taken you on chance. You
Justify the choice. You'd better stick to
me. I'm going up-country with a column,
and I'll do what I can for you. Give me
some of your sketches taken here, and I'll
send 'em along.n To himself he said;
That's the best bargain the Central South
ern has ever made and they got me cheaply
enough" ~> r "'~~7..
So it came to pass that, after soIne, pur
chase of horse flesh and arrangements
financial and political, Dick was made free
of the New and Honorable Fraternity, OF
war correspondents, who all possess the in
alienabler right of doing as much work as
they. can and getting as much for It as
Providence and their owners shall please
To these things. are. added in time, Il the
brother be worthy, the power otglih speech
that neither man nor wodlan can resist
when a meal. or a bed Is in question, the eye
of a horse-coper, the skill of d cook, the con
situation CT c bullock the digestion OF an
estrlcn, and an lnnn1te adapJapll4Iy to all
circumstances. But many die before. they
attain to this degree, and the past masters
in the craft appear for the most part in
dress. clothes when they ARE in England, and
thus is their glory hidden from the multi
tude. ... il s.a#
Dick followed TorpenhoW wherever the
latter's fancy chose to lead him, and be-
| tween the two they managed to accomplish
some work that almost satisfied themselves.
1t was not an easy life in any way, and
under it's influence the two were drawn very
| closely together, for they ate from the same
dish. they shared the same water bottle,
and. most binding tie of all, their mails went
/ off together 1t was Dick who managed to
make gIoriously drunk telegraph clerk ID
a palm hut far beyond the Second Cataract,
and, while the man lay in bliss on the floor,
possessed himself Of some laboriously ac-
/ ouired exclusive information, forwarded by
/ a confiding correspondent of an opposition
| syndicate, made.a careful duplicate OF the
! matter, and brought the result to Torpen-
! how, who said that '.all was fair Ia love OF
war correspondence" and built an excellent
! descriptive article from his rivals rletops
, waste of WORDS IL Was -IOFp6uAgW' wiz
but the tale of their adventures together
and apart, from Philae to the waste wilder
ness of Herawi and Moella, would fill many
/ books. They had been penned into square
side by side, in deadly fear of being shot by
|:over-excited soldiers, they had. fought WIFE
i baggage camels in the chill dawn; they nae
logged along in silence under a binding sun
on indefatigable little Egyptian horses; ano
they had foundered on the shadows OF the
I Nile when the whaleboatin which they nae
found berth chose to smite~ar hidden, rocl
and rip out half her bottom planks.
Now they were sitting on the sand bank
and the whaGeboats were bringing up the re
i nainder of the column. ',i sE# ss.a.& ..a
k'Yes.n said Torpenhow, as he. put the las
rude stitches into his over-long-nreeglectet
gear 1T has been beautiful business "5.i@
"The patch or the campaign?" said Helder
ssDon't think much of either; myself"
''You want the Euryalus broughtup above
the third Cataract. don't you! and eighty
one-ton guns at, Jal1dDl9 Now, I'm quite
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