Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-23

then become teetotaler was nothing
short OF prima fncic evidence OF moral
depruyity.
THERE'S something behind il all, fell
lers," said Corporal Murphy. land j
mean 20 keep an eye ON him from THIS
out. If he don't drink next payday look
out for him He's n professional gam
bier laying for your hard-earned green
And so. while the seniors among the
sergeants were becoming the associates.
if not intimates, of this fine looking
trooper, the mass Of the regiment or
rather the little detachment thereof sta
toned az Lowell looked upon Bland with
the We of suspicion. There was one SCI.
geant who repudiated him entirely, and
WHO Openly prOfesscd his disbelief In
Hands account Of himself, and that was
Feeny "IIe may have testimonials from
all Texas" said he holly, but I've no
use for that sort of credentials. Who
can vouch for his comlngs aud gOings here
abouts before he joined usF think
Murphy Is right and II ! was stationed
at Lowell and belonged 70 his troop you
bet I'd watch him close.
Now, in all the command IL would have
been a hard matter 90 md soldier NJ
whose favor appearances were so unanl.
mously allied. Tall, erect sinewy, aud
active, he rode OF walked with an easy
grace that none could fail 10 mark HIS
features were fine and clear cut; his eyes
"A dark hazel with heavy curling lnshes
and hushy, low-archcd hrows' his com
plexion. naturally dark, was bronzcd boy
sun and sand-stOrm 10 a hue almost hc1'
icnn. lie shaved clean all but the
heavy moustache that dropped over his
firm lips, and the sprinklng OF gray
about the brows, temples, nnd moustache
was most becoming 20 his peculiar slEie'
snls hn
descriptive book of his company referred
10 simply a. sabre scar on right Jaw
hui IL deserved mention more extended
for the whitish streak ran Ike groove
from lust below the ear tip Ia the angle
of The square, rcsolute chin. lt looked
as though in some desperate fray mad
sweep had been made with Vengetul
blade straight for the Jugular, anu, J9sl
,nislup that had laid open the jaw Tor
nm four inches But" SAID Fecney,
s.,yhat could be have been doing, ana iu
what position could he have been, Atung
az standing. to get a sabre stroke like thatf
Where was his guardt A bowie knife
Now and there the suggestion coded
Rut II was the SCARED side
az Blands oldierly face that
yonng Lieutenant Drummond VAS
10 closely studyine as tney
81. ont info the stnrit Arizona night.
tbis apparently frank open-hearled
trooper. and had found himself more
than once specnlaung as 20 bis real past
moi the past of his Imagination or q hl'
tssv on-hand description. BY uiis tmei
~ narfect silence save for the occasional
nlipk of canteen, the gurgle OF ne I'M
nriscned water. or once in While tue
rlick Of iron-shod hoOf, the troop WAS
marching N shadowy column Of iwoa
,reu ami beyond the falda and over lhe
olnost dead level of the plain. Far
sbe,d the beacon still blazsd brightly
ana beckOued them on. IL was time TOT
,.S.,geaat" said Drummond, send .
o.,s,orsl asd four men forward. LEI
tbs,n snread ouf across the front and
teeo three or four hundred yar1s ahead
~ n Better take hose with ~ fresh
~, hsrses. AZ I want them 60 scout thor
,,.,..ly and 10 be on the alert for ne
ss'ntest sound ANY q our men who
kuow this valley weA