The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-28

is no time for tomfoolery of that kind.
Besides, you forget the coloners orders
not 10 blab the affair to any one. You
viii best show your zeal by going back
10 barracks and checking the amount of
ball cartridge in your charge. BY com
pairing the result with the musketry ser
geant's register of every shot fired on
the ranges il may be possible TO trace
the cartridges that were used. There
must be a least three short somewhere.
At any rate, that will be a more sensible
way of going to work than questioning
a native impOstor. whose first task will
be TO handy Il Earbled account of the
case about the baZaars"
Il didna mean heckling the body. or
confidin' ouything To him. sir" replied
Ferguson ruefully. IT should only ask
him 10 show me what | most desire 10
see-Same as he showed me my aud
mithers face i'm a pool of ink in his hand
a while agone. Mayhap this time ]
should behold the daftie who did this
delIS Wark. / viii make a return Of
receipts from magazine and ammunition
IN stock and bring them with the mus
kerry registers. sir" added the sergeant
quickly. noting the growing Impotence
on his officers face.
Let me have them by noon" said
Frazer shortly; and Ferguson. seeing
that the interview was at an end. salut-
ed and retired with knitted brows. The
captain and lieutenant watched him
striding away across the parade ground.
and il was not till he had passed far
beyond hearing that Dalzcll broke ST
lence.
Il suppose YOU were right" he said.
TO put damper on his ardor i'm that
direction; but, do You know I have have
sort of feelIng-I won go to the
length of calling il a observation-disclosures
perhaps this fellow Rajab might after
all put us on the right Scent%''
Frazer stared at his subaltern i'm as
PUNISHMENT. You don't mean TO tell
me. Stuart that YOU believe in magic
and such like" he exclaimed
No" said The other. Il do not: AMI
yet the mOtivc-not the which
sets me hankcring after This Surati as
troioger's acquaintance is pretty nearly
the same, 1 expect AS that which makes
the sergeant SO keen on consulting him.
] mean that Ferguson has absolute faith
in the lads Of q company, and win Gluten
a any straw rather than try of his own
initiative TO fasteu suspicion on any one
of them That is precisely my case.
suggested just now that native mischief
might somehow be at the bottom OF the
attempt on Macleod. | do not believe i'm
Raiab AIS magic, but I know that If he
y as cunning and omniSCiont as the ma
iority of the raScals of his profession. IL
is just on tho cards that he may hold
the key OF the situation. The mere fact,
too. Of finding n native Of that class on
a friendly footing i'm the barracks seems
Ia me. under the circumstances, to be
itself worthy of Investigation"
What do You proposs, them asked
Frazer.
With Your leave" replied Dalzell. 81
should like 10 be with Ferguson at the
interview which IL is very plain our OBJ
stinatc old friend means having with
RaJab tomorrow night. II I can work
il so as To be myself unseen by the ma
tive. 50 much the better, and at any
rate my presence would be a guarantee
that The cOloncls wish for secrecy was
respected
Have it your own way" said Frazer.
Il think you viii waste your time; but
I cannot see any harm in the idea. And
now we had better tub. and go and get
some breakfast at mess"