San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-20

III they catch yos in their lines it is
hanging business"
"Blaze away, Scrammel" said his
general; You always have some am
bush or other in your head"
Lady Brothertoft's niger, the butler,
is up here with the latest news from be
low have just been ont to speak to
him"
What, Scrammel!' says Livingston.
soto voce. "A billet-doux' from the
fair Lucy"
LA plus belle personne en- Amerique~
Radiere signs.
you don't except the mother?' Liv-
inGstou inquired; "that mature, mag
nifcent Amazon"
No" replied the Frenchman, labori-
ously building, brick by brick, Gallo
American sentence. THE mother of
the daughtare is too much in the Ladie
Macquebeth. | figure to myself
poniard, enormous sharpe, in her fine
ouhite hand, and at my heart. seem
to see her poot ze-pardon! the poison in
the basin-the bowl-the gobbelit. /
say Radiere, care myself! 1t is dame
who knows to stab Mais, Mees Lucie!
All, c'est autre chosew
Come, Scrammelw Putnam said i'm
patiently; I'VE are waiting for your
news.
THE niger stole away on some bust
ness of his own, which he is mysterious
about; but he tells me that his mistress
consoled herself at once for our retire
ment from Peekskill after we lost the
forts. She had some of her friends from
the British ships and ClintOn's army at
her house as soon as we were gone"
{ j believe she is as dangerous a Tory
as lives in all Westchester," said the
general. She ought to be put in Sc
curity."
What. after all those dinners of hers
we have eaten, general?' says Living
ston.
Il wish the dinners were out of me
and had never been in me-" Old Put re-
Joined sheepishly. I'm afraid we used
to talk too much after her Madeira"
The council was evidently of that
opinion, as a look whisking about the
circle testified.
The old niger tells me-" he was say
ing, that Sir Henry Clinton and his ad-
Jutant spent the night after Forts Gin
ton and Montgomery were taken quietly
at Brothertoft manor house"
"Well," said the general, "then they
had better night than we had, run
ming away through the Highlands. We
can't protect our friends. If the enemy
have only made themselves welcome
at the manor house instead of burning
it for its hospitality to us, madam is
lucky"
'She seems to have made her new
guests welcome. The niger thinks she
knew they were coming"
by George!-by Congress! l mean, ("
says Put, wincing, IF ever get back to
Peekskill"-
"She seems to think, according to her
buffers story, that you are never to
come back" Scrammel struck in.
IF that is all the news you have to
tell, by way Of keeping our spirits up,
you might as well have been silent, sirr'
growls Putnam.
"It's not ALL" Scrammel resumed.
1.-The niger thinks they are getting up
some new expedition. But whether they
do or not the adjutant don't go. He is
TO stay some days at the manor"
Lord Rawdon, isn't it?" Put asked.
We'll, he is gentleman and a fine fell
low-not one of those arrogant, insolent
dogs that rile us So"
mot Rawdon. He was to be. But
Major Kerr got the appointment by
family influence"
"Kurr! c'est CHEN, nest ce pas?'
whispered Radiere to Livingston.
Yes" returned the captain; "and
this Kerr is sad dog. He bit Scram.
mel once badly at cards in New York
before the war. Scrammel don't for.
give. He hates Kerr, and means to bite
back. Hear him snarl now"
The Honorable Major Kerr" Scram