The sun., 1892-10-23
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49,, May, Go blast my. soul on tho DAY do.
Where .! have they gone,to?,
TO France. should iudgc."
His name was De LApp. thnk2"
His real name Is Do I.issac. and he ia no
less than Colonel in bones iinnrls.",r
we r%as hS wn"1a {. Vets T." in Paris likely That is
n.,i. nIMo,I po,% !. shouted. Father! father.
His knees had given way fnr an instant. but
ho was himself again before the old man came
rnnFFips FaRss II El,S swsHe" sHe .s,'Iei s"ii lie.
father. pressing, it upon him. "It viii give
He caught hold of Tie bottle. anl sent It ny-
ing oyer the garden hedge.
get" said lie; am I'M goins % 70 % rsmc.nbcr." " :" '''
Nav God forgive you FOR sinfu' waste"
cried my father anmi.
his Afaiesty's infantry" said old MAJOR Elliott.
putting his head over the ho,!En. =" could
hut 1t ia something Now to have n whole bottle
whiz past my ear i3ut what Is nmiss. that
yGH a" s"Na %irSs GaH dS ff I mutS t I M wo
down; stood leaning against tho ,lo,rrost:
nd h, finished. tor he was fond both o. Jim and
"Tut riilt tutm said he 81 fc,r.d son,othi,c y,
the kind nver, since that business of the rrcl-
tower; It's the way with the French. rhey
can't leave the women alone. But ut lenst DO
But It no lime now to think Of our own little
trou bles. with all Europe in n roar again. and
another twenty years war before us as ltko
What dye mean ?" asked
Why. man. Napoleon's back from Elba. his
troops have ilocked to him. and Louis has run
Tor his liie. The news was in Berwick this
Great Lord. cried my father Then the
weary business Ia all to do over again"
Aye. We thought we We're our from tho
o odsre s from s '"G5s Low ms'G"s1Gn
and 1t is thought that the Emperor will eal;
out first on that side. Well. it's, "A lad wind
news news Tint Int I'm to Join the seventy-:lrst rs
this. for ], knew how it ha1 lain on his mind
TINT he should be a cripple. with no pat to
and we shall TO over youder in II month. and
in Paris. maybe. before another one is over"
cried jim ra horscro sn' Pm WI" not fS" TO" rra"d a'Hd
essrrYa sE mnsket il you will put me in front OF
prdsT rS pFSMps Mso to haSn Ds
Lisssnc: where where the Emperor Is he will be-
tell %u US 81 fpHm HIM i"0 man. S"0 wna' can you
There Is no better officer in the French
that he would have heen a Marshal. but he
preterred to stay at the Emperor's elbow. l
srnt WITH T to speas abcut our wtn
lle was with sonlt then. knew him again
him." said horscroft. with The old dour look
on his tace.
And then at that instant. as stood there. It
was sndhenly driven home to me how po"rani
purposeless u life l should lead while this
crippled friend OF ours and, the companion Of
my boyhood were away in the fore front of tho
storm. Quick as II flash my resolution was
taken.
"Ill come with you. too Major" cried.
Jock. jock said my father. wrinGine his
hauds.
Jim said nothing. hut he mt his arm half
ii IN yaI mo hn lIn,n
shona and he hourishei his cane in the air.
NY word but / ! shall have two good re.
NJ time to 10 lost. so YOU must both be ready
for the evening coach"
And this was what a single day brought
about and yet years pass away so often with
out n change. Just think o! the alteration IN
thnt twenty-four hours. DO Lissac was gone
Edie was gone. Napoleon had escaped. Wnr
had broken out. lin liorscro!t had lost cvery
thing. and he and wers setting out to iighs
against tho French. 1t was all like n dream.
until trnmred off to the coach tnnt evening.
AMI looked back at tho gray farm Stealing.
and at the two littlc. dark figures mother
with her face sunk in her Shetland shawl. and
my father. waving his drover's stick to hcarten
me upon my way.
(IO be coninuedJ