The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-07-13

beside the rude coucn ON wnlcn ne L..
slept so peacefully.
'Now are you ready to return to hos
pital and proper subjection?" asked
Miss Harvey laughingly. 1T is high
time. What could have tempted you
to climb to that high point?"
"Why, it's the first chance I've had
of look around" was the answer.
This is an awfully strong spot for a
place of refuge. You are safe here,
safer than anywhere between Yuma
and Tucson, now that the former pos
SCISSORS are scattered. But did you hear
what took Wing Off"
"No, he didn't stop to explain mat
tiers. He simply dashed away without
even a saddle. Something l must
look after, was all he vouchsafed to
say"
"Well, tho men just in tell me the
paymaster's safe was spirited off. Con-
found that little green box of green
backs! Some shrewd packer among
Morales people whisked it out of the
wagon and onto burro, and now we
are all keen to get it back. OF course
/ can't sleep again until we know.
Some of our people are coming slowly
up the valley, and Wing went on down
to meet Them"
But all the time he talked so airily
with the elder sister, Ruth stood watch
ing him with suspicious eyes.
Mr.. Drummond, please do not go, I"
she broke forth. You have no right
to-now." And James, the dissembler,
found himself trapped.
go 1 must, Ruthie," he said, with
sudden change of manner. Il know
you will not blame me or detain when
1 tell you, as feel forced to tell you
| now, that Sergeant Wing is hurt. His
horse has fallen with him far out on
the desert. I'll be back very soon"
Then with sudden impulsive move
ment he bent, kissed her forehead and
! turned as suddenly away.
When the sisters looked into each
others eyes C moment later, one face
was blushing like the dawn, the other
was pallid with q new and deep anx-
iety.
| And now We, too, must follow Wing.
He was q total stranger, it is to be re-
membered, to the regiment when, after
its years of battling in the Army of the
Potomac, it was sent into exile on the
far Pacific coast and speedily lost to
sight in the deserts of Arizona. The
| type of noncommissioned officer most
familiar to the rank and file as we'll as to
their superiors was the old fashioned
"plains raised" "disciplin furst and
rayson afterward' class of which Feeny
was so prominent an exponent. Brave
to rashness and faithful to the very
death, they had reason to look for re-
spect and appreciation. They were
men whose only education was that
picked up in the camps and campaigns
of tho famous old regiments to which,
when mere recruits, they had been as
signed. They were invaluable in the
army and would have been utterly mis-
Judged and out of their element any.
where else. That "book learning" an6
soldering could ever go hand in hand
no man in the old dragons would ever
have believed for an instant Sucl
scholars as had drifted into the rank:
were, as a rule, irreclaimable drunk
ards, lost to any chance of redemption
at home, and only tolerated in the serv
ice in the rough old days because O.
their meek and accomplishing perform
ance of long hours of extra duty in thu
troop or regimental offices when, theil
whisky and their money alike exhaust
ed, they humbly went back to thei,
desks, asking only to live in the hop'