Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-05

ARCHIBALD FORBES.
my eye. yet with certain clateness OF
mien ] sacked him that night. aud lc
said hp didn't care, and he was
not assumed of himself Next
morning us / was rising he rushed into
the tent. kuclt down. clUsppd my knees.
and bcdewcd my ankles with his tears
OF course. / rcinstated him ! couldn't
do without him. aud ! think De- knew IT,
but / had yielded TOO easily. An
drras had established ~ precedent IL"
insisted in u quiet, positive manner ON
accompanying mr To every Subsequent
battle. and / had to consent ulwuys
taking his pledge that hc would obey the
iniucuons ! might lay upon him Aud.
AS a mnttcr of course, he punctuly
aud invariably violated that pledge Whrt
the crisis of the fighting was drawing To
hrad, aud just when this 'p"uce-al-
nuy-rricr" man could not control the
blood thirst that was purchug him. .
HOW ANDREAS FOOLED THE
TURKS.
one never knows how events are to
fuli out II happened that tins rcSnlu-
ton uu the part uI Audtras TO accom-
pauy me into the fights once nasurrdlE
saved my life. Ii was ON the day of
DWnis the last battle fought 10y the
In the early part of the day there
was u good deal of scattered woodland
fighting iu front of the cutronchrd
line. which they abandoned when the
Turks came ON In earnest NndronS
and | were among the trees trying tu
mud position from which something
was tu be- seen, when all of u 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-tor
the Turks took no prisoners, their
..t... V.VugIt.A hDfttr "a 4IunuIfNT
first and then abnormnlly 90 nuuatc-
when suddenly Audrcus dashed I'm
among my Cuptors, shouting aloud IN %
language which | took 10 be- Turkish
since he beloved "Encndi' MS ne
pointed to me. lie had thrown away
his bilycocll and substituted a fcl,
which lac nftcrward told me hc always
carried In case of accidents. and In one
hand no waved a dingy piece of p0rch-
mcut with a seal dangling from II,
which / assumed was some obsolete iir-
man,
Tho result was truly amazing, and
the scene hud some real humur IN II.
with profound snlnums the Turks un-
handed me, helped me To mount 0nd as
] rode on ut tangent with AndreHS AT
my horses head. called after me what
sounded like friendly lUrcwells,
When We were back among the nus
slams / don't remember seeing much
of the Servians later on that day An
drcas explained thut ne had pnssed
himself for the Turkish drUgomnn of a
British correspondent whom the l'ud-
shah delighted to honor ana that,
uftor expressing a burning desire 20 de-
file the graves of their collective tc-
male ancestry, he had assured my cap
tors that they might count themselves
ns dpnd men III they did not immediate
ly release me- To his rcndy-witted
conduct / undoubtedly owe the ability
10 write now this record of man of
curiuusly complicated nature
When the campaign ended with the
Scryian defeat at Djunis, Andrews went
bnck to his headwnitership at the
Scrbische Krone In Belgrade. Before
lenyiug the capital | had the honor at
hcing present at his nuptials, eerc-
muny the ameuity of which was some
what disturbed 10y the violent incursi"n
into thc sacred ediice of sundry ladies',
| NIL claiming To have prior claims on the
| bridegroom of the hour. They were,
| however. placated, and subsequently
| joined the marriage feast in the glent
arbor behind the Krone. Andrews
| faithfully pre- missed to come 10 me Ia
! the ends of the earth on receipt ct a
! telegram II | should require his ser
| vices and he were alive.
| MY SECOND CAMPAIGN WITH
ANDRl2AS.
! Next spring the Russo-Iurldsh war
| nlhkt Out NAlu ] iNAAlNA NANiNNNA ia
| time TO see the first Cossack cross the
| Pruth. | had telegpphed 90 Andrews
| from England TO meet me- at BaZuiS, ON
/ the Dunuhe below Belgrade. BuEaiS is
! the place whore the railway uacd to
| end aud whore we took steamers FOR the
! lower Danube
Andrcns was duly ON hand, ready and
! scrviccubc ms of Old, IA little mltor
! and a trihc more consequential than
! when we had last parted. lie was, Al
| possible, rather mos al home In Buch.
| Arrest than he had boon iu Bolgpldc, and
recommended me TO hrohts hotol' ~
comparison with which the charges of
the brunswick in New York are inhni'
tesim0l
lie bought my wagon and team, he
! found riding horses when they wore
said 10 be- unproouruhle, he constructed a
most ingenious tent of which the wagon
| was, so TO speak, the roOf-trep he laid
IN stores, arranged for relays of court
ers, aud furnished me with coachmnu
/ in the person of q ROumuuinn dew, who
he one day owned was q distant courec-
tuu. and whose leading attribute NNs
Tint ne could survive MORT sleep than
any other human being / have even
known,
We took the field auspcously, Mr.
Frederick Nilliers. the war artist OF
The London Graphic being my cam
puigning comNde. Thus early
disVernpd slight Htt ln tue lnlt
Andrews did not like Nilliers, which
showed hs bad tuste. or rather perhaps
the narrowness of his capacity of az
lection; and I fear Nilliers did not much
like Andrews, whom lac thought too Ia
ndliar This was true, and IL was my
faults but really IL WIS with dimeulN
that ] could bring myself TO treat An
dreas as a ser,put. He was more, In my
estimGton, In the nature OF the conhden
tiAl major-domO, and 90 me he was simply
invaluable, Williers had 10 chew bic
moustache and glover discontentcdly al
Andrews
! had some good couriers for the CON
yeyance OF dispatches back across th,
Danube 10 Eucharist whence every
thing WAS telegiaphed TO London, bui
they wero essentially talrwenthel
men, The casual courier may BE- alert
LOYAL ana frnstworthy he may be relies
on % try his honest best hut IL Is MOI
10 De expected Of him thar he vii