Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-13

CG.FtT CNCOTt. "I Wiu button q. ." cd her by. and then Alico Rcnwick again stood erect and looked anxiersly but quickly hack.
 Captain Armitagc is not fin sight, and we ought not to leave him. Ho may not find it easy tn climb to that plat form. she said.
 ''Armitagr? Oh. ho'n come on all right" answered the hattcryman. with easy assurance. ''Mayhc ho hns gone round by the r,ad. Even If he hasn't, I've sCcn him mako that in ono jump many time. He's m hctive old buffer for his years -
 ''But his wound may provo too much for that jump now. An, thUre he comes, v sh" answered, with evident rr- lief. and just at the moment, t"o the forage cap of the tall soldier rose slow ly into view som" distanc" up he track, and he came walking slowly down the sharp Curv" toward the platform. the same sharp CurN" continuing on out of sight behind him-bChind tho high and rocky bluff.
 He's taken the long way up " said tho gunner. Well, shnll we go onY''
 Not yet" she said. with eyes thnt wcro glowing strangely and a voice that trcmbled. Her checks. too. wcrC paling. 'A1r. Stuart, I'm sure heard the roar of train echoed back from the other side"
 Nonsense, Miss Rcnwickl There's no train either way for two hours yet. "
 But she had bogun to edge her way back toward the platform. and hc could not but follow. Looking across tho in- tcrvcning space. n rocky hollow 20 feet in depth. ho could scc that the captain had reached the platform and xns seek ing for n good plnc' to step up: then that he lifted his right foot and placed 1t on tho planking and with his cnnc and the stiff, wounded loft leg strovc to push himself on. Had thCrc been hand to help him. all would have been easy enough, but thcrr was mono. and tho plan would not work. Absorbed in his efforts. he could not sec Stuart. Hc did not see that Miss RCnwick had left her companions and was rCtraCing her steps to get hack to the platform. He heard Il sudden dull roar from tho rocks across tn" stream. then Il sharp. shrill whistle just around the bluif My God, train, and that man there alone, helpless. de- serted! stuart gave a shout of agony, BaCk-rull back over the bank!"
 Armitagc glanced around. dvtcrmin- rd. gave one mighty effort, the iron fer rul,tl stick slipped on the icy track, and down he went. prone between the glis. tcuing rails even as the black, vomiting monster came laundering round the bend. Ho had struck his head upon the iron and was stunned, not sensolcss, but scrambled to his hands and knees and strovc to crawl away. Even as he did so he heard a shrick of anguish in his ears, and with one wild leap Alice Ren- wick came flying from the platform in tho vcry face of advancing death. and tho next instant, her arm clasped about his neck, his strong arms tightly clasp ing her. they wcrc lying side by side, bruised, stunned, but safe. in a wei coming snuwdrift half way down the hithcr bank.
 When Stuart reached the scene us soon as tho engine and some wrccking cars had thundcrcd by, he looked down upon n picture that dispclled any lin gcring doubt in his mind Armitage. clasping Queen Alice to his heart. was half rising from the blessed mantle oi the snow, and she, her head upon his ' brOau snOulutF, "'hS S4hAAAhS AhAhtAy uk into his face. Then the glorious cyos closed in n deathlikc swoon.
 
 Fort Siblcy had its sharc of sensations that cvcntful year. Its crowning tri. umph in the one that followed was the wedding in tho early spring. Of sll the lovely women therc assembled tho bride by common consent stood unrivalcd- Queen Alice indeed Therc was soma | difFsrsnca nf op;n;o,, or,nnuy onthoriti..