The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-02-23

the Turks which might well hay,
struck terror into their marrow.
Andreas came into camp at nigh
very streaky with powder stains
minus the lobe Of one ear. yet with ;
certain elateness Of mien. [ sacked
him that night, and he said he didut
care, and that he was not ashamed o
himself. Next morning as [ was ris
ing he rushed into the tent. knel
down, clasped my knees and bedeweC
my ankles w.thstears. OF course | re
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hi u, and [ think he knew it.
But | had yielded too easily. An
dreas had established a precedent. H.
insisted in a quiet positive manner OF
accompanying me to every subsequent
battle, ana | Il. d t. consent away.
taking his pledge that he would obey
theinjunctions [ might lay upon him.
And as matter of course, he pune
tually and invariably violated that
pledge when the crisis Of the fighting
was drawing TO head, and just when
this peace at any price" man could
not control the bloodthirst that was
parching him.
One never knows how events are to
fall out. 1t happened that this reso
luton on the part Of Andreas to ac-
company me into the fights once as
suredly saved my life. It vas on the
day Of Diunis, the last battle fought
by the Seryians.
In the early part OF the day there
was good deal of scattered wood
land fighting in front Of the entrench-
ed line, which they abandoned when
the Turks came on in earnest. An
dreas and were among the trees try
ing to tind a position from which
something was to be seen when ali Of
a sudden [, who was in advance,
pumped right into the center Of a
small scouting party OF Turks They
tore me out OF the saddle, and [ had
given myself up for lost-for the
Turks took no prisoners, their cheer
ful practice being to slaughter first
and then abnormally TO mutilate-
when suddenly Andreas dashed in
among my captor5. shouting aloud in
a language which / took to be Turk
lsh, since he beloved ''Efendi" as he
pointed to me- He had thrown away
his billycock and substituted a fez,
which he afterwards told me he al
ways carried. in case Of accidents, and
in one hand he waved dingy piece
OF parchment with a seal dangling
from it, which | assumed was some
obsolete tirman.
The result was truly amazing and
the scene had some real hum0r it.
With profound salaams the Turks un.
handed me, helped me to mount. and
as l rode off at a tangent With Andreas
at my norse's head called after me
= hat sounded like friendly farewells.
When we were back among the Rus
SLAMS | don on'tremember seeing much OF
the Seryians later on that day-An
dreas explained that he had passed
himself for the Turkish dragoman Of a
British correspondent whom the pa
dishah delighted to honor and that.
after expressing a burning desire to
defile the graves Of their collective fc-
male ancestry, he had assured my cap
tors tha they might count themselye7
as deaf men if they did not immedi
ately release me. To his ready witted
conduct [ undoubtedly owe the ability
to write now this record Of man OF
complicated nature
When the campaign ended with the
Seryian defeat at Djunis, AndreaS
went back to his hoadwaitership at
the Serbische Krone in Belgrade.
Before leaving the capital [ Lad
the honor of being present at his
a ceremony the amenity
Of which was somewhat disturbed
by the violent incursiOn into the
sacred cdiiice of sundry ladies, all
to have prior claims on the
bridegroom of the hour They were
however, placated, and subsequently
joined the marriage feast IN the great
arbor behind the Krone Andrea9
faithfully promised to come to me to
the ends of the earth on receipt of
telegram if | should require his ser
vices and he were alive.
Next spring the Russo-Turkish war
broke out, and | hurried eastward in
time to see the first Cossack cross the
Pruth. | had telegraphed to Andreas
from England to meet me at Bazais,
on the Danube below Belgrade. Ba-
zais is the place where the railway
used to end and where we took steam
er for the lower Danube
Andreas was duly on hand, ready
and serviceable, as of old. little fat
ter and tritie more consequential
than when we had last parted He
was if possible rather more at home in
Bucharest than he had been in Bel
grade and recommended me to Brofft's
hotel, in comparison with which the
charges of the Brunswick Of New York
are intinitesimal.
He bought my wagon and team. he
found riding horses when they were
said to be unprOcurable, he construct
ed most ingenious tent of which the
wagon was, so to speak, the roof tree
he laid IN stores, arranged for relays of
couuer3, and furnished me with a
coachman in the person of ROuman-
ian Jew, who he one day owned was a
distant connection. and whose leading
attribute was that he could survive
more sleep than any other human
being | have ever known.
We took the field auspiciously. Mr..
Frederick NiIliers, the war artist OF
the London Graphic, being my cam
paigning comrade. Thus early | dis
cerned a slight rift in the lutte. An
dreas did not like YilIiers, which show
ed his bad taste, or rather. perhaps,
the narrOwness of his capacity of affec-
ton; and | fear Nilhers did not much
like Andreas, whom he thought too
familiar. This was true, and il was
my fault; but really it was with diff
Guilty that | could bring myself to treat
Andreas as a servant. He was more
in more in my estimation. in the ma
ture of the confidential major domo
and to me he was simply Invaluable.
Nilliers had to chew his musfanha and