Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-20

y one of the new draft. You've a good pair of shoulders. Go onI"
 He turned to go. ouless stepped aft< CT him, very white, and said something in low voice.
 ''Hey, whayP Whatl Ortheris"-the voice dropped. I saw Ortheris salute, say something and stand at attention.
 ''Dismiss," said Brander, curtly. The men were dismissed. Fl can't make this out. You say"-he nodded at Ou- less, who said something again. orther- is stood still, the torn flap of his tunic falling nearly to his waist-belt. He had, as Brander said, good pair of shoul- ders, and prided himself on the fit of his tunic.
 Beg y pardon, sir," I heard him: say, ''but I think Lieut. Ou1ess has been in the sun too long. He don't quite re- member things, sir. I come on p'rade with a bit of a rip. and it spread, sir, through porting arms, as I have said, sir"
 Brander looked from one face to the! other, and suppose drew his own con-! clusions, for he told Oruheris to go with; the other men who were hocking back to barracks. Then he spoke to Ouless: and went away, leaving the boy in the middle of'the parade-ground fumbling; with his sword-knot.
 He looked up, saw me lying on the gun, and came to me biting the back of his gloved forehnger, so completely: thrown off his balance that he had not sense enough to keep his trouble to him. self.
 'I say, you saw that, suppose?" He terlzed his head back to the square where the dust left by the departing men was settling down in white cir cles.
 "I did," answered, for I was not feeling polite.
 "What the devil ought to do?" He bit his finger again. ''I told Brander what had done. hit him."
 'I'm perfectly aware of that" I said, gotten it already"
 "Ye-es; but I'm dashed if I know what ought to do. Exchange into an other company, suppose. I can't ask the man to exchange, suppose. Hey?"
 The suggestion showed the glimmer-' ings of proper sense, but he should not have come to me or anyone else for help. It was his own affair, and told him so.
  talk of the possibilities of being cash tered. At this point the spirit moved me, on behalf of the unavenged Orther-, is, to paint him a beautiful word-picture of his insignifcance in the scheme of creation. He had a papa and a mamma seven thousand miles away, and per haps some friends. They would feel his disgrace, but no one else would care one penny. He would be only Lieut.. Ouless of the old regiment dismissed the queens service for conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman. The com mander in chief who would confirm the orders of the court martial would not know who he was; his mess would not spealksof him, he would return to Bombay if he had money enough to go home, more alone than when he had come out. Finally-I rounded the sketch with pre- cision-he was only one tiny dab of red in the vast gray field of the Indian em- pire. He must work this crisis out alone, and no one could help him and no one cared lthis was untrue because cared immensely, he had spoken the truth to Brander on the spot) whether he pulled through it or did not pull | through it. At last his face set and his | figure stiffened.
 Thanks, that's quite enough. don't want to hear any more," he said, in a dry, grating volce, and went to his own l quarters.
 Brander spoke to me afterwards and asked me some absurd questions as to whether had seen Ouless cut the coat off Ortheris' back. knew that jagged silver of silver would do its work well, l I,,,4T f0 STonr0co n PrandaP the completeness, the wonderful com pleteness, of my disassociation from that drill. began to tell him all about my dreams for the new territorial army in India, and he left me.
 l l could not see Ortheris for some days, but was told that when he re- turned to his fellows he had told the story of the blow in vivid language. Samuelson, the Jew, then asserted that it was not good enough to live in a regi- ment where you were drilled of your feet and knocked about like dog. The and exactly tallied with Ortheris' ex- pressed opinions. Yet Ortheris had called Samuelson an unmentionable Jew, had accused him of kicking worn- en on the head in London and howl | AhS uhAC1 LhC S113 hSN AAGotAOA AAAAAAS 0S O bantam hustles a barn-door cock, from one end of the barracz-room to the oth- CT and finally had heaved every single article in Samuelson's valise and bed ding roll into the veranda and the out dirt, kicking Samuelson every time that the bewildered creature stopped to pick anything up. My informant could not account for this inconsistency, but ii seemed to me that Ortheris was work
 ing of his temper.
 Mulvaney had heard the story in hos. pitaL First his face clouded, then he spat and then he laughed. suggested that he had better return to active duty,
 but he saw it in another light and told
 me that Ortheris was quite capable of
 looking after himself and his own af- l R.s a