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

loyal and trustworthy; he may be re
lied on to try his honest best, but it is
not to be expected of him that he will
greatly dare and count his life but as
dross whenever his incentive to enter
prise Is merely filthy lucre.
But [ could trust Andreas to
dare and to endure-to overcome OBJ
stacles. and, if man could, to get
there where in the base quarters in
Bucharest the amanuenses were wait
ing to copy out III round hand for the
foreign telegraphist the rapid script
OF the correspondent scribbling for life
in the saddle or the cleft of a corn
manding tree while the shells were
Whlstllng past.
| We missed Andreas dreadfully when
he was gone-even Nilliers, who liked
good cooking. owned to thinking it
long ere his return. For in addition
to his other virtues Andreas was a
capital cook. 1t is true that his course
lad habit of arriving at long and un-
certain intervals After a dish of pun
| gent stew. no other viands appearing
10 loom in the near future, NIlllers
nd myself would betake ourselves to
smoking, and perhaps on quiet day
would lapse into slumber. EOm this
'e would be aroused by Andreas to
| )artake Of a second course Of roast
hicken, the bird having been alive
| nd unconscious Of its impending fate
| when the first course had been served
No man is perfect, and as regarded
Andreas there We're some petty spots
On the sum. He had, for instance, d
mana for the purchase of irrelevant
poultry and for accommodating the
fowls in our wagon, tied by the legs.
against the day Of starvation, which
he always, but causelessly, apprehend
ed. 1 do not suppose any reader has
ever had any experience Of domestic
poultry as bed-fellows. and may eau
ton him earnestly against making any
such experiment.
do not know whether it Is detrac
Jion from Andreas' worth to mention
that another characteristic Of his was
the habit OF awakening Us in the still
watches OF the night for the purpose
Of imparting his views ON recondite
/
But how trivial were such peccadil-
loes IN man who was so resOlute not
to be beaten in getting my dispatch to
the telegraph wire that once. when
three pontoons OF the bridge across
the Danube were sunk he crossed the
gap hand over hand by the hand rope
5loshing down with the current as the
slack OF the rope gave to his weight.
Andreas became quite an institution
III the Russian camp. When Ignatieb
the ears intimate, the great diplom
atlst who has now curiously tizzied
out, would honor Us by partaking
sometimes OF afternoon tea in cur tent,
he would call Andreas by his name and
call him "Molodetz'' the Russian ior
brave fellow" In the Servian cam
palgn nochtourOT had got him the
Iakavo cross, which Andreas sp0rteC
with great pride and lgnatieff used
to tell INN that the t9ar was seriously
thinking Of comforting on him the
cross Of st. George. badinage which
Andreas took III dead earnest
After the long strain Of the dasper-
ate bat futile attack made by the Rus
slams iii Pleyna in the early part Of the
September Of the war | fell a victim
to the malarial fevea Of the lower Dan
ube and had to be invalided back to
Bucharest. The illness grew upOn
me, and my condition became very
serious. u orthy Andreas nursed me
With great tenderness and aSsiduity ii
the lodgings to which | had been
brought, since they would not accept
fever patient at Brofft's.
After some days Of wretcbedness T |
became delirious, and of course, lost
consciousness; my last recollection was
of Andreas wetting my parched lipa
with lemonade. When [ recovered
my senses and looked out feebly, there
was nobody in the room. How long | |
had been unconscious { had TO idea |
| lay there in a half stupor till evening.
unable from weakness to sImmOn anv
assistance. In the dusk came the
English doctor who was attending me
Where is Andreas?" he asked. /
could not tell him. He was here last
night" he said; you have been delir-
Gus for seven days" The woman Of
the house was summoned. She had
not seen Audreas since the previous
night, but, busy about her own domes-
tic affairs, see had no suspicion until
she entered the room that Andreas
was not with me still.
Andreas never returned 1t ap-
peared he had taken away all his be
,ongings. One day when gradually
mending | put my hand under the
pillow with the intent to find nv
watch, which was an heirloom. and
wind it up. [ could find no watch. |
No more could [ find the bag of du-
cats which was along with the watch
before | lost my senses. Search was
made throughout the room without
success, and, with whatever reluctance
to believe a thing 50 utterly unlikely. |
couldnot refrain from the convic-
ton that Andreas must have carried
off both money and watch
When | had TO leave the Plevna
front my colleagues temporarily took
charge of my field equipment. But
had brought back to Bucharest my
best riding horse and during my i'll
| ness he had been standing at livery
in the stables of the English Tramway
company. Determining now on the
melancholy necessity OF selling All
animal which had on many hard
day and many long night served me
so staunchly; | drove to the stables
aud instructed the manager to sell my
horse. Your horse he exclaimed
in evident surprise. Your horse was
sold weeks ago. Your man Andreas
came here with a message that we
We're to dispose of it, and | sold it the
next day to Gen Todleben, on his way
through Bucharest to take the com
/ mand before Plevna. Il fetched
a good price, 1O5 ducata-more than
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