The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-08-08
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Major, slowly, taking her bright face
between his two kindly old hands,
sit means that my daughter has
gone"
"Gone where. daddyp" said she, af.
ter one glance at him, for she felt what
was coming.
"Over to the enemy" returned the
Major.
Then, MS they went arm in arm into
the library, he added:
dorothy, Dorothy, to thiEk Of
you deserting at this time"
"But I'm not deserting dear, I'm
not !" she cried
Then she asked, slowly:
"What--what did he say2'
Nothing" replied the Major,
shortly; che wasn't soldier enough
for that, so he wrote it,"
at was not because he wasn't sol
dier enough, papa, but because he
didn't have time. Aud now you call
him a coward-and--and he's up to
whore those wicked miners are, and
he may be-killed-"
But the rest was unfinished, for the
tears had welled up into the pretty
eyes, and the next minute the contrite
Major was apologies and declarations
of better behavior in the future.
"He isn't coward, daddy" mur.
INJURED Dorothy from the depths of
the Majors shoulder, where she had
taken refuge again, Sand"
"My dear child, | didnt Say he
was, demonstrated the harassed old
soldier; "and you mustn't cry any
more"
But all through supper, though she
chatted and laughed so brightly, the
Majors old heart was still n trihe
sore, for he kept saying to himself:
"Only half her love is mine, and the
rest belongs to n Governors Guard !"
That night, after the evening had
worn away and the daughter OF the
house had gone to bed, the Major
climbed the stairs, when he heard II
patter of small bare feet coming along
the entry, and the next moment
white-robed little figure stood beside
him.
"You aren't angry with me, are
Iyou, daddy dear?' she. asked, hugging
him lovingly, "and you won't feel
badly about it, will you?"
"Of course ] won't" replied the
Major, laughingly, "but run back to
bel, my dear girl, or you'll catch
cold. or course, you couldn't expect
me TO feel very gay" he added again,
"when I'm about to lose a daughter
now could you?'
"But you aren't she answered
quickly; you're going to find II son
Tom says SO himself"
Two days later the Guards were in
the city again. The night they
reached the mines an attack had been
made upon them by the desperate strik-
ers, and though they were taken by sur
prise, their officers had not lost their
heads. Using row of salt bags rs
breastworks, they received the charge
and repulsed the enemy. Then the
Guard had captured fifteen OF their
principal men, driven the rest back to
their homes, and waited until the Sec
ond Regiment arrived on the scene to
relieve them. The latter having APP
peared at last, the Guards were or
dered home with their prisoners. The
papers were, of course, full of the
story of the fight, and the fact that
Lieutenant Holloway was mentioned
rs one OF the most efficient ard col
lected officers there, did not tend to
harden the Major against his would
be son-n law. He had also received
a painful, though not serious wound,
in his left arm from the knife of
murderously inclined miner, which
necessitated his carrying the arm in n
sling.
Later in the day all sorts of rumors
began to fly about tho town concern
ing the injured feelings of the miners
in regard to the Imprisonment of their
ringleaders, and as night came on, the
report that they would come to the
city in force and endeavor to take
their men from the Jail was gaining
ground every minute.
"That is nonsense, plain and sim.
ple," said the Captain of tho Guards
when approached by n newspaper man
on the subject "The miners have
had dose they will not soon forget.
The only danger the city now stands
in is from men out of work, who are
more desperate by hunger aud want,
and who will take to robbing if they
cannot find any other way to live"
And that very night the Captains
words were proven.
The Major and Dorothy had been to
the theater and were returning
home. The night was warm and soft.
and the moon shone so bright and
clear that the old soldier aud his pret-
ty daughter walked on another square
before going in to enjoy the night,
The Major was about to say something
about the stiffness of it all, when from
behind them there came light tread,
and the next moment, without the