The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-04-26

Wing folds and replaces his letter, q
happy light in his brave blue eyes.
AL well. Paquita says that Harvey
has captured the entire household. and
that Grandpa Harvey is his abiect
slave. There isn't anything in Chicago
too good for that 2-year-old They've
had them rhotoed together-the kid on
his grandfather shoulder. .
Aren't you afraid his Arizona uncle
will be jealous for his own boy sake ?'
laughs Drummond.
II don't believe Ned would begrudge
Fanny anything the old man might feel
for her or for hers. He is generosity
itself toward his sisters. and surely
could never have found warmer friend
-out of the army. You know how he
stood by me. y
Il know, and it was most gratifying
mot but that feel sure you would
have won without his aid. The old man
simply couldn't quite be reconciled to
| her marrying in the army and living
in Arizona.
"A strange land for honeymoon GER
tainly-yet where and when was there
a happier? Do you remember how the
Apaches jumped the Verde blackboard
the very week after we were married p
And you spent half of the honey
moon scouting the Tonic basin!
should say so! What with courtsh1p
| in robbers cave, marriage in cav
airy camp and wedding tour in sad
die, you had unique experience, Wing,
but-you deserved her, And Drum
mond turns and grips his comrades
| hand.
Wing is silent moment. His eyes
are wistfully searching the elders half
averted face.
Jim, you told me awhile ago of your
sisters approaching marriage. Are
you not going on?''
"Yes. 1t will be early in October.
She's blissfully happy, is Puss, and
he's very substantial, solid sort of a
fellow. I'm we'll content, at last, that
her future is assured"
And you are free agent practical
~. Isn't it time we heard of your own
+
old man?''
Times gone by. reckon, laughs
Drummond, yet not merrily. 1--we
had too much to think of-too much
responsibility-and probably have lost
my chance
| Wing looks as though he wanted
nightly to say something, but conquers
his impulse.
October is long way off, he final
~ remarks. and thought you might
find earlier opportunity of going east.
| Now that Ned has entire charge of the
business IN Arizona the old gentleman
takes life easier. The winter in Cuba
did him lot of good, and Fan writes
that he seems SO happy now, having his
two girls and his little grandson under
the same roof with his sister and Ter
children. What a reunion after all
these years.
Where are they living in Chicago?"
"You would know better than l, for
| think of it'll have never been east
of the Missouri since my babyhood,
answers Wing. Fan writes that her
aunt has lovely house on what they
call the North Side-near the great
waterworks at the lake front.
II know the neighborhood we'll,
says Drummond. Chicago is as ia
miliar to me as San Francisco was to
you. ONLY have no roof to call my
own anywhere, and as soon as Puss is
married shall not have a relative or
friend on earth who is not much more
deeply interested in somebody else.
And the senior lieutenant is lying on
his back now. blinking up at the rapid
ly scudding clouds. Presently he pulls
the broad brim of his campaign hat
down over his eyes, What do you
hear from your mother, Wing?''
Nothing new. Bless the dear old
ladyl You should have seen her hap
piness in Harvey. She could hardly
bear to let the little fellow out of her
arms, and how she cried and chung to
him when we parted at the Oakland
wharf! Poor little mother! She has
never given up the hope of seeing that
scapegrace Of an uncle of mine again. :"
HAS she ever heard how he tried to
murder his nephew" queries Drum
mond grimly.
Never. Nor have we the faintest
trace of him since the break up Of the
old Morales gang at Fronteras. They
went all to pieces after their encounter
with you and q troop. What chain
of disasters! Lost their leaders and
three of their best men, lost their rem
devious at Moreno's, lost horses and
mules-for what our men didn't get
the Apacbes did-and won absolutely
nothing except the "a hour possession
of a safe they hadn't time to open.
Whereas 1 got my commission and my
wife; Feeny, honorable wounds and
mention and the chevrons of first SER
geant; Costigan got his sergeant's
stripes and the medal of honor, Murphy
his sergeantcy, Walsh and Latham med
ais and corporalships, and the only fell
low who didn't get blessed thing but
scars.was the commanding lieutenant
your worthy self thanks to wiseacres