Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-08

unaDIe tO rSSlSt lnc temptation UT sWttSn- ing whether the magic name of Nina would open the door. It did not, but he saw Cub hand in the little note through the shutters, and ere long there came another from within. This Cub slowed in his waistcoat pocket and drove off with, and Rollins walked jealously homeward. But that evening he went through a worse experience, and it was the last blow to his budding passion for sparkling eyed Nina.
 It was nearly tattoo and dark night when Chester suddenly came in.
 Rollins, you remember my telling you I was sure some of the men had been getting liquor in from the shore down below the station and running it that way? I believe we can nab the smuggler this evening. There's boat down there now. The corporal has just told me. "
 Smuggling liquor was one of Ches- ter's horrors. He surrounded the post with q cordon of sentricS who had no higher duty apparently than that of preventing the entrance of alcohol i'll any form. He had run rcd cross'' crusade against the post traders store in the matter of light wines and small beer, claiming that only adultcratcd stuff was sold to the men and forbid ding the sale of anything stronger than pop over the traders counter. Then, when it became apparent that liquor was being brought on the reservation, he made vigorous efforts to break up the practice Colonel Maynard rather poohpOohcd the whole business. It was his theory that a man who was deter mined to have a drink might better be allowed to take an honest one, coram publico, than a smugglcd and delete riOus article, but he succumbCd to the rule that only light wines and beer" should be sold at the store and was lc nient to the poor devils who overloaded and dcrangcd their stOmachs ill cOnse- qucncc But Chester no sooner found himself ill command than he launched into the crusade with rCdoublcd energy and spent hours of the day and night trying to capture invaders of the rCScr- vation with bottle i'll their pockets. The bridge was guarded, sO was the crossing of the Cloudwatrr to the south, and so were the two roads entering from the north and west, and yet there was liquor coming i'll, and as though ito give Chester a benefit some of the men in barracks had a royal old spree on Saturday night, and the captain was sorcr headed than any of the partiCi- pants ill consequence. In some way he heard that a rowboat came up at night and landed supplies of contrahand down by the riverside out of sight and hear ing of the sentry at the railway station, and it was thithcr he hurricGly led Rol lins this Monday evening.
 They turned across the railway on reaching the bottom of the long stairs and scrambled down the rocky cmbank- mcnt on the other side, Rollins follow ing ill reluctant silence and holding his sword so that it would not rattle, but he had no faith i'll the theory of snug glers. He felt ill some vague and unsat- | isfactory way a sense of discomfort and anxiety over his captains late proceed ings, and his stcalthy descent seemed fraught with i'll omen.
 Once down ill the flItS their foot steps made no noise ill the yielding sand. and all was silence save for the clash of l the waters along the shores. Far down the river were the reflections of one or two twinki:ng lights. and cluSc under tho bank i'll the slack water q few stars were pcCping at their own images, but no boat was there, and the captain led still farther to q little corSr of willow, and there ill the shadows, sure enough, was rowbuat, with a lttl" lantern dimly burning. half hidden in th" stern.
 Not only that, but as they halted at the cdg, of the willows the captain put forth a warning hlnd and cautioned si- | lcncc. No need. Rollins str:IiuiuE rye-~ were already fixed on two figures that were standing i'll the shadows not 10 feat
 away-one that of tall, slender man,
 the other a young girl. IL was mo
 ment before Rollins could recognize
 either. but ill that moment the girl had
 turned suddenly, had thrown her arms
 about the neck of the tall young man.