The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-17


=oriRInss, which species 81 crime was
not bereft Of virtue ia frontier eyes.
They were known to the trade by the
names OF Stein and Writ, and their
intimacy with Lacy and certain en-
ployes Of the quartermaster depart
ment had attracted Rand's attention to
them months before the robbery.
Hearing of their absence from town,
he traced them to the agency, thence
to the range beyond, and found that
the date of their return that way corr
responded exactly with that of Thorn
toms fight: Young Stearns had at last
made coherent sta tement. Promising
to give his luckless father his share as
soon as they got back within sight of
that harbor of refuge, but plying him
with liquor all the time, these men
rode to Fossil creek in company, then
gave their doing guide the slip and
dashed rapidly ahead. Being aware of
the Indian outbreak, they probably
studied the country with their glasses
and saw the commotion among the dis
tant war parties and so lodged into
| the range away from the road, and by
! a wide detour got safely in, while their
hapless guide, following in drunken
pursuit, ran foul of tho Sioux, was
chased and killed. Wisely they hid such
of the money as they did not need at
the moment, and kept away from head
| quarters and Lacy awhile until the an
nouncement in the papers that the
crime had been definitely fixed on the
soldiers Schultz and Schramm gave
them courage to unearth their plumber
ind fetch it nearer home. Not that
they intended to divide with Lacy by
any means-he was in their tolls now,
and could be further bled but to hold
him with mingled threat and promise.
! And all the time Rand was weaving his
web about them. The more coherent
statements of the half-wittell son, now
being restored to such intellect as he
possessed, had given ample clew, and
the arrest of Lacy at Ransom was the
result of a dispatch to Rand that his
confederates had been bounced upon
! the previous night at Kankton with
over ten Thousand dollars of the stolen
money in their possession. So long as
they did net peach, however, Lacy was
Istill safe, and he played the indignant
and wro4ged and faithful servant, and
played 1t well, for just six weeks; then
"Dux femina facti'--the woman who
was aeaeier-by the nose-of the traun-
viraSe, :and the recipient Of much of
their stolen plunder. was also arrested
when OH the wing to the east, and~she
conldn't keep a secret; her circumstan-
tial confession OF the whole business
i from beginning 10 end, made when
i hoping to win exemption for herself,
ended the battle. Then Lacy,s own
/ hand penned his parting words and
i freed his sharne-striclxen soul
4 LIT was u we'll planned job" said
Rand, Ion Lacy;s part at least, but it
had it's leak SO long as there was a.
woman in it,
1 AND now. as his evidence was 10
longer needed, Sergt. Schram1n had
No further business at either Butte or
Ransom. 'tBut you don't want to go
hack that long distance Alone said
i Nak Tiatop- I'VE can assign you to
duty here until your troop comes home
/ next month" And to the adjutant's in
finite surprise, Schranm eagerly as
sented.
! October went, and keener winds from
the mountain-gorges and fercer
;twinges in Morgan's legs reminded them
that winter was at hand. Often now the
pest surgeon found means Cd ride over
to Butte and see the failing soldier,
and many a day Officers tr their wives
eentrived to visit town and dropped in
to: see Connie and offer aid and comfort
to her father, bl1t Connie declared she
needed no help. She had aR excellent
! servant now, German woman whom
! Mrs Hinhel brought to her, who cook
ed and washed and did almost every
thing for 50 small "a sum that w hen the
amount was mentioned fear nae
there were women who were sore
ly tempted 10 offer the paragon twice
IFS much to gait the Mprgans and come
to them, but they deserved TIE more
honor that they promptly dismissed the
! unworthy thought. connie said Mrs.
Hinkea, too WAS kind and useful in
making things for the children anu
| Miss f,ranzen of the public school,
who lived in the next block, took such
| interest in Lot and Billy and taught
! them SO much. Why, they would
really be in clover, were poor father
only better. And then one evening
when Schramm had ridden into town
and left his horse at the Empire and
had come promptly around to see the
| Herr Rittmeister, he was amazed to
find tall, gray-mustached, soldierly
man seated by the captains side, while
there-right by Connie-in civilian
dress stood a tall, slender young fell
low, at sight Of whom the sorgeant's
eyes clouded, and he would have re-
tired, but was too late, for with one leap
Perry Thornton had him by the hand.
'schramm. by all that's glorious!
Father, look here!" And before the
Prussian ex-hussar could realize it, g.
veteran colonel of dragons was wiring
ing one of his hands, while the lieu
tenant clasped the other. Nor would
they or the Morgans let him go.
II have letter from Berlin which
am charged to give you, Herr Won