Evening journal., 1892-08-16

"She seems to think, according to her /
buffers story, that You are never to /
come back. Scrammel struck in.
IF that is all the news you have to /
tell, by way Of keeping our spirits up,
you might rs well have been silent, sir!"
Yrowls Putnam.
Its not ALL" Scrammel resumed.
The niger thinks they are getting up
some new expedition. But whether they
do OF not the adjutant don't 60 He is
to stay some days at the manor
Lord Rawdon, isn't it?' Put asked
We'll. he is a gentleman and fine fell
low--not one of those arrogant, insolent
dogs that rifle US So"
"Not Rawdon. He was TO be. But
Major Kerr got the appointment by
family influence"
"Kurr c'est CHEN, nest ce past"
whispered Radiere TO Livingston.
yes" returned the captain; land
this Kerr is sad dog He bit Scram-
mel once badly at cards in New York
before the war Scrammel don't for
give He hates Kerr, and means to bite
back Hear him snarl noww
1.-The Honorable Major Kerr" Scram-
mel continued, third son Of the Earl of
Bendigh, adjutant general to Clinton's
forces, fellow who hatesus and abuses
us and maltreats our prisoners, but an
officer Of importance, is staying and 20
stay several days, the only guest, at
Brothertoft manor house. Let me see;
it can't be more than twenty miles
away"
He marked his words aud glanced
scout the circle. His eyes rested upon
Livingston last.
"Ohow says that gentleman. II be-
gin 10 comprehend. You mean to use
the Brothertoft major donlo as Colonel
Barton did his man Prince at Newport.
Woollyhead's skull is TO butt through
Kerrs bedroom door at dead of night.
Then enter Scrammel, puts pistol to
his captive's temple and marches him
off 10 Fishllll. Bravol Belle idee, Test
ce pas, mon colonelg'
"Magnifiquew rcjoined Radiere. ~
felicit thee of it, my Scaramelle."
"Now, boysr says Put, this begins
TO sound like business. We need some
important fellow, like Kerr, taken pris-
oner and brought here, 70 keep our spir-
its up. The things easy enough and
safe enough If l was twenty years
younger, general or no general. I'd
make a dash to cut him out. Who vol
unteers to capture the adjutant"
81 remember myself" said Radiere
/ gravely, "of a billet, very short. very
sharp, which our chief wrote to Sir
Clinton lately. 1t was Of one Edmund
Palmer, taken-so this billet said-as
one espy, condemned as one espy and
hanged as espy. Sir Clinton waits to
answer that little billet. But do not
wish TO read in his response the name O.
one Of my young friends taken as espy
and hanged"
"Why does not Scrammel execute
scrammel's plant" asked Livingston.
81 cannot be spared" the aid-de
camp responded.
"Oh, yes, never mind meT cried thu
general. "Skerrett, here, can fiji you
place; or Humphreys can stop writing
doggerel and do double duty"
Scrammel evidently was not eager t.
leave a vacancy, or to gag his brothe
aid-de-camp's muse.
"Why don't you volunteer yourself
Livingston" he said. "You know tr'
country and the house, and seemed to b,
well up in the method Of Prescotts cap
ture at Newport"
Il have not my reputation TO make,
said the other haughtily. Indeed hi
/ ,n,l-1ore ,,l.,.lr woo ,,~r11 1-,,n,rr,, ttDr
I'm desperately lazy" which was equal
ly n notorious fact.
In the present quandary all eyes turned
to Peter Skerrett
General. " said he, az seem to be tn
only unattached officer present Moth
ing can be done now about my mission
do not love to be idle. Allow me +
volunteer in this service if you think j
important
Old Put began to look grave. "Yoi
risk your life If they catch you il
their lines it is hanging business"
} Il knew this morning" thought tn
major, "that l should make fool o
myself before night. havew
mo danger, general, he said aloud
1--WE got the lSnaclg Of this work. / Xix
it better than the decapitation part @
my trade"
= "Ah, Skerrett" Livingston says, 90
= don't feel so lazy as l did. Take m
with you. ! know this country b
p leagues and by inches"
mo, Harry. General Putnam cannc
spare his punster. One officer is enough
3 | shall take Jierck Dewitt for my aiC
a de-camp He knows the Brothcrtol
e manor country"
q Empty Jierck Of rum, cork him an
D green seal him, mouth and nose, an
l there cannot be a better man."
e "Since you will go, you must say
! Put. by the way, if you want
stanch, steady man. take Sergeant Lin
coin. He somehow knows this countr
T as if he had crept over it from the cri
die Where is that negro of Lad
+ Brothertoft's. Scrammelg'
8 81 left him talking 70 Lincoln. MajC
8 Skerrett win easily find him."
: Me was my wiggy friend" though
e Skerrett.
n Don't fail to bag Kerr says Lii
t ingston. "He wants Yankee educi
ton. So does all England"