The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-09

| residence Of which no was not informed.
Sergt Evans placed very little conf ience
ia his sub0rdir .te, but be certainly, der
/ those circumstances, did no. think the doctor
/ could make any preparations for departure
/ without its coming 10 his knowled xe. he
had no reason TO suppose that the doctor
had any intention Of leaving, and, as we
know, was now continuing his investigation
more from curiosity than from any oellet
that he was gagged in felOnlouS pursuits
Phybbs breast was torn with conflicting
emotions, suppose the police should prove
right after all, aud after his escape the doc
tor should turn out TO be felon who,
through her connivance, had shipped through
their fingers. What would Dick say 10 her
He would declare that his chance had come,
that the opportunity OF giving valuable IN
formation to his superiors had been his, az
that, thanks to her keeping what she knew
to herself, he had missed 1t. Then what did
this hurried departure mean! III the doctor
was carrying on an intrigue, and had NJ
ally made up his mind T. run away with the
lady of the roses, he certainly would not
take his daughter with hlm-no, she sup
posed the police must be right. women con-
stantly stood in the dock along with men,
the lady of the roses was prs badly only
confederate in crime, she was sorry for her
master, but she had public duty to per-
form. And then came the practical part of
the argument, that if she failed to do it,
LICK NOElQ give u6i d pIb0I1 uolNA
Yes she would ask for leave to go out for
an hour that evening. slip down and see
Dick aud tell him v hat she knew.
Something occurred in the afternoon
which entirely changed Pollys resolve, and
that was the arrival of the Crimean mail.
bringing letter for Miss Phybbs, care If
Dr. Lynden, etc, etc, and as she looked at
it, Polly recognized her brothers. calig-
raphy. 1t was not very often she heard
from him. for, although Peter was an ex-
pert penman, soldiers in the field have not
much facility for letter writing. Ii Polly
had not been quite as anxious as the young
ladies, she had certainly felt very uneasy
and uncomfortable when news came Of
desperate fighting in the Chersonese. She
was fond of her brother, and a housemaid
and her mistress feel pretty much alike on
these occasions. She had not heard from
him since the 8th of September, but res
garded him as safe, as his name did not
figure among the returns of the til on
that day.
Miss Lynden was naturally of a reticeut
disposition. and in the agony of her own grief
had never told Polly what she had learnt
from Byng's letter. Miss PhibDs felt salts
fed that her brother was safe, but she had
no idea that he owed his life to anything but
the fortune of war. Peters letter had told
her the whole story.
1t is not worth producing, but the follow
ing extract will give Private Phyb idea
Of his share in the day.
well, Polly. you see, I've been shot at a
good deal in the trenches since Pve been
out, but this was my first go in at the
Rooshuns, real hand-to- hand, and if don't
know what real fighting is now, | never
shall. Some of the old soldiers said it was
as hot as ever they seed it. 1t was just
| about midday when we got the order to go
| and take the Redan. [ made up my mind
| to stick close to the captain. He had been
| very good to me ever since | came out and
| as l reckoned we were all hound to be
| killed, l thought we might as we'll be killed
| together. How we got across the open |
don't know. Men went down like skittles
! but somehow nothing touched the captain
| and me- and the next | know was we were
In the ditch of the Redan, and the captain
| going up the ladder like a squirrel. Well
| we blundered up the ladder after him as
best we could; he must have cleared the
| way a bit for us, for know | had time to
| get down into the work before | was hand
to-hand with the Rooshuns. We was at it
hammer and tongs then for l don't know
| how long; every now and then we'd stop
| for BIZ, and then go at it again worse
, than ever; but, you see, they kept on get
ting more men, and we didn't, aud so we
was bound TO be licked il the end. After
we had been fighting for ever so long, they
made great rnsh My foot slipped, down
| went, and it would have been all over
with me then and there if the captain
hadn't cut in and fought the lot of 'em
while got up again.
"Well, | can't tell you much moro about
it. They were too many for us. The last
l saw of the captain he was in the middle
of a lot of Rooshuns fighting like a mad
man. 1t amt no @use, Polly, saying
ought to have gone back and helped him; l
couldn't, mono of us could; they drove us
back aud bundled US over the parapet neck
and crop, and very lucky for those that
were bundled over the parapet. those that
were not were killed and wounded. heard
the adjutant say it was bad enough but
we'd got out of it cheap considering, but
the worst of it is, we can hear nothing OF
Capt, Fleming. They can't find him dead
or alive, and think he must be a prisoner,
though it's very odd none of the officers
have heard from him.
PLEASE give my duty to Miss LINDEN
and say if it hadn't been for the note she
gave me, l should never have written you
this"
The perusal of this letter caused a COM
plete reversal of Polly's plans. How could
she hand the father over to the police, whe Il
the daughters lover had saved her brothers.
hfel AS it seemed to Polly, at her young
mistress intervsntio No. 1t was a sore
struggle but if Dick should upbraid her on
/ tn5 one WndO, gu JL6 OVueT ,SDOlIu sue
say to her brother if it should turn out that
her treschery had delivered DR.. Lynden to
the clutches of the lava
The first thing Miss Phybbs did was to
rush breathlessly to the drawing room, and
with flushed face pour forth her gratitude
to her young mistress for the note she had
given her, then TO place her brothers letter
III Miss Lynden's hand, and then suosida
into helpless confusion as the thought
flashed across her that the latter carried nc
comfort t. her mistress, but only recalled
her sorrow to her mind. Nellie flushed O
little as she remembered how she had for
gotten to tell Polly all this before But the
two ladies really were much interested in
the account Private Phybbs gave of the as
slult on the Redan, although it was not
exactly news to them.
Dismissed with few kindly words Polly
had no longer any doubt Of the course she
should pursue. She would not lift finger
in the interests of the police. II DR.. Lyn.
den had urgent reasons for getting out OF
the way she most certainly would not mar
his plans. She could only hope. for his own
sake, that the police were mistaken, but she
should require neither bonnet nor shawl
that evening.
TO BE CONTINUED.