Arizona silver belt., 1894-07-21
A DECEPTION.

 men-ol-war lying in the harbor we wero sending landing parties ashore
 As chief surgeon on board was busy below with the poor fellows who lay suffering unspeakable agonies with com pressed lips and white haggard faces
 Bending down with my assistants over the prostrate body of young mid. dy, did not hear footsteps approaching and started when some one laid his hand on my shoulder It was Leutenant Harold Patterson
 Garter, old man, " he said as stood up and wiped my hands, this rough work has niggered me bit I've got nasty knock here, see?" He lifted up his left arm painfully with his right hand, and 1 then saw that the dark blue cloth was torn and stained and stiff with con. gealed blood.
 Bit of a small shell, he continued, with easy carclesSncs2 ''i want you to doctor it up bit, for I've got to go ashore with Toaser.
 TeGscr was his gun. IL was a light machine gun a capital weapon for square or retreat work Patterson wasa perfect child with his gun, He treated it as If it were one of his greatest friends on earth
 There's going to be some sport on the other side of those batteries, l can assure you, he said, pointing with his thumb through the porthole toward the land
 Old Teaser's going to make things hum round there a bit, or she going for old iron when we get back, Candidly, Carter, did you ever see a gun like her? Did you ever see piece of metal pump bullets like she doest Lord, I'd stick against dead wall and buck up 900 bowling niggors with her single hand ed 1"
 When had fixed him up, we went on deck Tho hot air between the bulk heads made me feel sick aud dizzy, and l wondered at government like ours taking it into their heads to send out women as nmscs among tho wounded
 Out in the ofling could see the trais- port that was bringing the soldieIe and the women.
 The advent of the women was con. founded nuisance. told Harold So.
 ''Fie, doctor, he said T should never have thought it of youl shame on you for speaking of the ladies in that disreSpectful way Why, the little dears, they Il be the means of bringing round the fellows lot more quickly than you and your crew could ever hope to. Throc cheers for Che ladies say. '
 And as he raised his cap aud waved it round his curly head felt that there was a soft placo iu his heart for women in general by reason of the fact that one of them far back in England was sigh. ing for her bronzed and handsome lover, who was just now so enthusiastically chanlpioning their cause.
 But although l had been in his com pany for at least three weeks he had never once mentioned to- the name of the girl was now convinced was respon. sible for this ontborsi of yehemence.
 His wound did not prevent his taking his place in the pinnace. Teaser was there in the bow, carefully wrapped in yellow tarpaplin.
 watched them take her ashore and saw through my glasses how carefully and tenderly he superinteded her ma nipulation until at length the whole bat tery disappeared from sight through a breach in the Notifications.
 A couple of hours later the big trans, port arrived. She brought out two regi- ments aud half dozen voluntary nurses.
 One of them came to our ship. fear the reception I gave her wasu [ Q very cordial one, but didn want her there at all and expressed my annoyance in my actions.
 The expression of the face, tanned by exposure during the voyage, was firm aud intellectual, and there was look of businosslike suayity about her man. ner that we doctors always admire ill any one. But time alone would show her worth.
 h the cool of the evening had the sick brought up on deck. There were few serious eases, and for these 1 could l do no more than had already done
 Nurse sat reading by one of them. She had remarkably clear and well bal anced voice, and 1 could sec tho poor fel- | lows on either side straining their eafs to catch the sweet sounds that had been foreign to them for so long.
 l leaned over the bulwarks and | watched landing parties returning to | their respective ships l could see a cou- plo of the men of our boat impatiently | walking up and down the beach, while | the others stood with boathooks keeping l the pinnace 8 few yards out and off the bottom.
 Then through the breach 20 yards above them came the remainder of our party. They were walking slowly and carrying some of their number. l could | not see the gun.
 When they came alongside, the two | wounded were handed up Ono was seaman. He was taken below. The other came up
 His face and part of his body was cov- cred with a blood stained cloth, but saw | the legs and the sturdy arms, and big lump came up in my throat. As turn | ed 70 follow them down below one of 1 the men said to me in Q hoarse whisper:
 Gun burst, sir. For God sake don't ] say he's goingr'
 They loved him, ali these men did He bad been like a brother to them.
 lSnelt by thesi of the boy--he was only a boy. He still breathed, though slightly, but cruel sight! he was blind, i aud his once handsome face was horri- bly, dishgured
 He raised his hand slowly and felt my arm and carried the fingers up to i my face, Ibent down tocateh the words | which fell from his moving lips
 ''Ah, Carter, old fellow, I'm back you--you see Lew-trick of--Teaser 1 Wasntit? Thouaat sho might have had