The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-08

that there was any danger from
Apaches.
Just as he expected, both girls were
eagerly awaiting him at tho entrance 70
the cave. His reyolvers were In there
beside the rude couch on which he hau
slept 81 peacefully. - 81
4 s.Nsw are you ready terotrrntofo
pital and: prsper subieetto'Is~ ASKED
Miss Harvey laughngly. 1T is hlga
time. What could have tempted you
TO climb to that high point :''--
"Why, it's the Gyst chance I've had
of a look around. was the answer
This is an awfully strong spot for
place of refuge. You are safe here,
safer than anywhere between Yuma
and Tucson, now that the former pos
SCISSORS are scattered. But dad you near
what took Wing OFF,"
/"No, he didn't stop TO explain mat
ters. He simply dashed away without
even a saddle. Something | must
look after, was all he vouchsafed to
say"
"well, the men just in tell mo the
paymaster's safe was spirited OIL. Con-
found that little green box of green
backs! Somo shrewd packer among
Morales people whisked it out OF the
wagon and onto a burro, and now we
are all keen to get il back. OF course
I can't sleep again until we know.
Some of our people are coming slowly
up the valley, and Wing went on down
to meet them.
But all the time he talked so airily
with the elder sister. Ruth stood watch
ing him with suspicious eyes.
"Mr. Drummond, please do not go,
she broke forth. "You have no right
to-now." And James, the dissembier,
found himself trappeds
"Go / must, Ruthie, he said, with
sudden change of manner know
YOU will not blame me or detain when
I tell you. as | feel forced TO tell you
now, that Sergeant Wing is hurt. His
horse has fallen with him far out on
the desert. I'll be back very soon.
Then with sudden impulsive move.
ment he bent, kissed her forehead and
turned as suddenly away.
When the sisters looked into each
others eyes moment later, one face
was blushing like the dawn. the other
was palhd With new and deep anx-
iety.
And now we, too, must follow Wing.
He was n total stranger, 1t is to be re-
membered. to the regiment when, after
its years of battling in the Army OF the
Potomac, it was sent into exile on the
sfar Pacific coast and speedily lost to
sight in the deserts OF Arizona. The
type OF noncommissioned officer most
familiar TO the rank and file as well as to
their superiors was the old fashioned
"plains raised, :" "disciplin furst and
rayson afterward" class Of which Feeny
WAS SO prominent An exponent. Brave
to rashness and faithful to the very
death, they had reason 10 look for re-
spect and appreciation. They wer
men whose only education was tina
picked up in the camps and campaign
of the famous old regiments to which
when mere recruits, they had been as
!; signed. They were invaluable in tn
army and would have been utterly mis-
judged and out of their element any
where else. That "book learning" an
, soldering could ever go hand in han
no man in the old dragons would eve
, have believed for an instant. Sue
; scholars as had drifted into the rank
, were, as a rule, irreclaimable drunk
! ards, lost to any chance of redemptio
at home, and only tolerated in the serN
, ice in the rough old days because {
their meek and uncomplainirg perform
ance of long hours of extra duty in tf
troop or regimental Offices when, the
? whisky and their money alike exhaus
: ed, they humbly went back to the
, desks, asking only to live in the hoI
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