The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-16

and there, face downward upon the
bed, lay his friend and comrade War
ing. moaning like one in the delirium
of fever.
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Lieut.. Reynolds was seated at his
desk at department headquarters
about nine o'clock that morning when
an orderly in ight-battery dress dis
mounted at the banquette and came
up the stairs three at a jump. capt.
Grams compliments, sir, and this is
Immediate" he reported, as he held
forth note. Reynolds tore it open,
read it hastily through, then said:
go and fetch me cab quick as you
can," and disappeared in the generals
room. Half an hour later he was spin
ming down the lcvee towards the
French market. and before ten o'clock
was seated in the captains cabin of
the big British steamer Ambassador,
which had arrived at her moorings
during the night. Cram and Kinsey
were already there, and to them the
skipper was telling his story.
Of the Tortugas, just about as they
had shaped their course for the Belize,
they were hailed by the little steamer
Tampa, bound from New Orleans to
Havana. The sea was calm. and 4
boat pat off from the Tampa and came
alongside, and presently a gentleman
was assisted aboard. He seemed weak
from illness, but explained that he
Il of nj
States artillery, had been accidentally
carried off to sea, and the Ambassador
was the first inward-bound ship they
had sighted since crossing the bar.
He would be most thankful for pas
sage back to New Orleans. Capt.
Baird had welcomed him with the
heartiness of the British tar, and
made him at home in his cabin. The
lieutenant was evidently far from well,
and seemed somewhat dazed and men,
tally distressed. lie could give no ac-
count of his mishap other than that
told him by the officers of the Tampa,
which had lain to when overtakcn by
the gale on Saturday night, and on
Sunday morning when they resumed
hauled a light sl1iff and were surprised
to find man aboard, drcnched and
senseless. 1.-The left side of his face
was badly bruised and discolored, even
when he came to us" said Baird, "and
he must have been slugged and robbed,
for his watch, his scal-ring and what
little money he had were all gone"
- hn l,oA
fitted him out with a clean shirt, and
the steward dried his clothing as best
he could, but the coat was stained and
clotted with blood. Mr.. Warning had
slept heavily much of the way back
until they passed Pilot Town. Then
he was up and dressed Thursday after
noon. and seemingly in better spirits,
when he picked up copy of the New
Orleans Picayune which the pilot had
left aboard, and was reading that,
when suddenly he started to his feet
with an exclamation of amaze, and,
when the captain turned to see what
was the matter, Warning was CHASTITY
pale and fcarfully excited by some
thing he had read. He hid the paper
under his coat and sprang up on deck
and paced ncrvously to and fro for
hours, and began to grow so i'll, ap-
parently, that Capt. Baird was much
worried. At night he begged to be
put ashore at the barracks instead of
going on up to town, and Baird had
become SO troubled about him that he
sent his second officer in the gig with
1. L. 20
the sally-port, and there, thanking
them heartily, but declining further
assistance, Waring had hurried
through the entrance into the barrack
square. Mr.. Royce, the second officer,
said there wSs considerable excite
ment. beating of drums and sounding
of bugles. at the post, as they rowed
towards the shore. He did not learn
the cause. Capt. Baird was most anx-
ious to learn if the gentleman had
safely reached his destination. Cram
replied that he had, but in state
bordering on delirium and unable to
give any coherent account of himself.
He could tell he had been aboard the
Ambassador and the Tampa, but that
was about all.
And then they told Baird that what
Warning probably saw was Wednesdays
paper with the details of the inquest
on the body of Lascelles and the chain
of evidence pointing to himself as the
murderer. This caused honest Capt.
Baird to lay ten to one he wasn't, and
five to one he'd never heard of it till he
got the paper above Pilot Town.
Whereupon all three officers clapped
the Briton on the back and shook him
by the hand and begged his company
to dinner at the barracks and at Mo-
reau's; and then, while Reynolds sped
to the police Office and Kinsey back to
Col. Braxton, whom he represented at
the interview, Cram remounted, and,
followed by the faithful LETTERS, trot
ted up Rampant street and sent in his
card to Mime. Lascelles, and madame's
maid brought back reply that she was
still too shocked and stricken to re-
ceive visitors. So also did Mime. d'Her-
Willy deny herself, and Cram rode
home to Nell.
lro BE coxTHuED.J