The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1891-07-16

shape, the DlteONJ curve OF her rcd
lips, took him by storm. The lovely.
unreasoning. wiiIful creature. torn bv
a passion of love and grief ali for him.
shook his strong soul to ats centre.
What man ever resisted such over
whelming passion. or Thought it fool
ish when he was its object? Tom
Creighton's soul blazed in his ewes as
he held that tinv figure closer to his
breast.
~ promise he said
So he went and she STAYED. The
fortunes of war befell him; but in
battle he seemed TO dodge the bullets
that rained upon him, manfullv as he
fought for he felt WAS imploring
eyes upon him. Creighton luck"
was the lest OF the decimated regi-
ment; but no man charged him with |
cowardice. The thrill and splendor OF |
this new life had swept off his con-
servatism; the war justified itself by |
its dash and valor. He rejoiced in the
clangor of trumpets, the roar OF it's
guns, the rush of its charges; and
when the miasma OF the marshes
where he lay encamped defed and
scared his flesh with fever, when he
lay half-conscious Tor many week IN
the hospital, the will to live, the in
tent to keep his word to viva
saved him. The nurses wondered to
hear but two words IN the low NUT
ter of his delirium: 81 PROMISE
promisel" but those words were his
talisman.
Once in the field he became wonder
OF alertness; hairbreadth escapes
seemed to be his forte. One day,
when the battalion were entrenchlng
themselves, and the commanding
general, weary with the march, had
dismounted and thrown himself under
tree fora moments rest, Col; Creiglh-
ton-for he had been pfomoted-dash-
ed up on his black mare and saluted.
General, he said, shall ride out
beyond the lines and reconnoltre the
lay Of the landY'
"Do SO" said Gen. b., springing up;
"and | will go with you"
AS they both trotted past the IN
trenchments colonel IN command
called out TO them;
"Ihe evening Is not iar OIL 10 no0
risk your lie, general
The general smiled and looked at
Creighton, who laughed; and on they
went. Soon the pickets were passed,
but no enemy was sighted, and, led
on by the beauty of the way, as a de-
sire to grasp the situation, they trot-
ted fast down a wood road, turned a
= short corner, and behold twenty or
thirty men, picket guard, or, rather,
p a reconnaissance OF the foe. Quicker
? than a lightning flash, no pause tc
think, no word said, except that u
promise, branded on MS INWARD eau
creighton SABRE nasneu iroli ~, ~
sheatn; ana Whlrling IL rounu n''
head, he looked over ms shoulder "i'
I. shouted. Forward oharge.
= And putting spurs TO ms morse iiey
u forward, the general instantly SECOND
. ing his ruse ana close peslue nm
I rushed upon the suaro'eu eneiiiy NY WV +I'
e He'd like sheep. once OUT OF sigho III
"a two men turned ana ran tiieir no '',' sc,
10 the iihes' puO .iieI e"no ina'ieeu
e saved a general TO ohe ar'iy anu
/ erto viva.
. So it was i'll the prison where score
;, of men died of untold agones; for
10 those dreadful depths Tom Crlegto
u lived. When his heart and flesh faile
It he seemed to see WAS upturnet
. woful face, and he said to hlmsel
y 81 promise" with fresh strength eac
ie time; for he had learned faith IN HIN
self At last the war was over; bl
d. thoroughly welded to a soldiers III
y and because a proverb among men IL
er courage and quick resource, he Wa
transferred to the ranks OF thereguls
90 army, given a furlong OF SIX month