Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-06-20
WARNINGS PERIL.
By Capt. Chas. King, of the U. s. Army
 Copyright by Lippincott.

Lieut.. heynOluS was SedCS1 db AAS desk at department headquarters about nine o'clock that morning when an orderly in light-battery dress dis mounted at the banquette and came up the stairs three at jump. "Capt. Cram's compliments, sir, and this is immediate" he reported, as he held forth a note. Reynolds tore it open, road it hastily through, then said: "Go and fetch mo a cab quick as you can," and disappeared in the generals room. Half an hour later he was spin ming down the levee towards the French market, and before ten o'clock was seated in the captains cabin of the big British steamer Ambassador, which had arrived at her moorings during the night. Cram and Kinsey were already there, and to them the skipper was telling his story.
 Off the Tortugas, just about as they had shaped their course for the Belize, they were hailed by the little steamer Tampa, bound from New Orleans to Havana. The sea was calm, and a boat put off from the Tampa and came alongside, and presently 8 gentleman was assisted aboard. He seemed weak from illness, but explained that he was Lieut.. Waring, of the United States artillery, had been accidentally carried off to sea, and the Ambassador was the first inward-bound ship they had sighted since crossing the bar. He would be most thankful for pas sage back to New Orleans. Capt. Baird had welcomed him with the heartiness of the British tar, and made him at home in his cabin. The lieutenant was evidently far from we'll, and seemed somewhat dazed and men tally distressed. He could give no ac- count of his mishap other than that told him by the officers of the Tampa, which had lain to when overtaken by the gale on Saturday night, and on Sunday morning when they resumed their course downstream they over hauled light sl1iff and were surprised to find a man aboard, drenched and senseless. "The left side of his face was badly bruised and discolored, even when he came to us," said Baird, land he must have been slugged and robbed, for his watch, his seal-ring and what little money he had were all gone" The second officer of the Tampa had fitted him out with clean shirt, and the steward dried his clothing as best he could, but the coat was stained and clotted with blood. Mir. Waring had slept heavily much of the way back until they passed Pilot Town. Then he was up and dressed Thursday after noon, and seemingly in better spirits, when he picked up a copy of the New Orleans Picayune which the pilot had left aboard, and was reading that, when suddenly he started to his feet with an exclamation of amaze, and, when the captain turned to see what was the matter, Waring was ghastly pale and fearfully excited by some thing he had read. He hid the paper under his coat and sprang up on deck and paced nervously to and fro for hours, and began to grow so i'll, ap- parently, that Capt. Baird was much worried. At night he begged to be put ashore at the barracks instead of going on up to town, and Baird had l become so troubled about him that he | sent his second officer in the gig with | him, landed him on the levee opposite the sally-port, and there, thanking them heartily, but declining further | assistance, Waring had hurried through the entrance into the barrack square. Mir. Royce, the second officer said there was considerable excite. ment, beating of drums and sounding of bugles, at the post, as they rowed towards the shore. He did not learn the cause. Capt. Baird was most anX ious to learn if the gentleman had safely reached his destination. Cram replied that he had, but in state bordering on delirium and unable tC | give any coherent account of himself He could tell he had been aboard the Ambassador and the Tampa, but thai | was about all.
 And then they told Baird that whar Waring probably saw was Wednesday, paper with the details of the inques on the body of Lascelles and the chair of evidence pointing to himself as the murderer. This caused honest Capt Baird to lay ten to one he wasn't, anC five to one he'd never heard of 1t till h, got the paper above Pilot Town Whereupon all three officers clappeC the Briton on the back and shook hin by the hand and begged his compan, to dinner at the barracks and at Mo reaus; and then, while Reynolds spet to the police office and Kinsey back t. Col. Brnxton, whom he represented a the interview, Cram remounted, and
 followed by the faithful Jeffers, trot
 ted up Rampant street and sent in hi
 card to Mime. Lascelles, and madame
 maid brought back reply that she wa
 still too shocked and stricken to re
 ceive visitors. So also did Mime. d'Hel
 willy deny herself, and Cram rod
 home to Nell.
 , Ut is useless" he said. "She will nc , see me-"
 "Then she shall see me-" said Mir
 Cram.
 And so n second time did Jeffel
 make the trip to town that day, tn
 time perched with folded arms in tn
 rumble of the pony-phaeton.
 And while she was gone the junic doctor was having the liveliest exper
 ence of his few years of servic
 Scorched and burned though she wa Mrs. Doyle's faculties seemed to hay
 returned with renewed acuteness an
 force. She demanded to be taken | lo- e;Ia hut fha daOk,