Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-29

unspeagapIy Keen. He remained staring
blankly at the wall, like man IN Q
trance. The trumpets and tattoo sound
ed, and still he did not go.
She had been delayed purely by an
accident. When she arrived, she was
anxious because Of the lateness OF the
hour, having heard the sounds denotlng
the closing of the camp as well as he
She implored him to leave Immediately.
No, !" he said gloomily. Il shall not
go in yet-the moment you come-I
have thought CT your coming all day. ="
bat you may be disgraced at being
after timer"
81 don't mind that. 1 should have
! disappeared from the world some time
ago if it had not been for two persons
nv beloved here and my mother in
Saarbruck. Ihate the army. lcare more
for minute of your company than for
all the promotion i'll the world
Thus he staid and talked to her and
told her interesting details of his native
place and incidents of his childhood till
she was in a simmer of distress at his
reclIessness in remaining. Il was ONLY
because she insisted on bidding him
good night and leaving the wall that he
returned to his quarters.
The next time that she saw him he
was without the stripes that had adorn-
ed his sleeve. He had been broken to
! the level of private for his lateness that
night, and as Phyllis considered herself
to be the Gauss of his disgrace her sor-
row was great. But the position was
now reversed; it was his turn to cheer
her.
Don't grieve, meme Hebliche!P he
said Il have got remedy for what
ever comes First, even supposing re-
gain my stripes, would your father al
| low you to marry noncommissloned
officer in the York hussars?"
She flushed. This practical step had
not been in her mind in relation to such
an unrealistic person as he was and Q
moments reflection was enough for it.
"My father would not-certainly would
not, y she answered unhinehingly. 1t
cannot be thought of My dear friend,
please do forget me. fear am ruin
ing you and your prospects,
''Not at ALP said he. ''You are Civ
ing this country of yours just sufficient
interest to me to make me care to keep
alive in it. If my dear land We're here
also aud my old parent, with you l
eopld be happy as l am and would do
my best as a soldier. But it is not SO.
And now listen. This is my plan That
you 90 with me to my own country and
be my wife there and live there with
my mother and me. am not Han
oyerian, as you know, though I entered
the army as such. My country is Ba
varia by right, and is at peace with
France, and if | were once in it / should
be free. "
But how get there?" she asked
Phyllis had been rather amazed than
shocked at his proposition. Her position
in her fathers house was growing irk-
some and painful in the extreme. His
parental affection seemed TO be quite
dried up, She was not a native Of the.
village, like all the joyous girls around
her, and in some way Matthaus Tina
had infected her with his own passion
ate longing for his country and mother
and home
But howg' she repeated, finding
that he did not answer. will you buy
your discharged"
All, no, - he said That's impossi-
BILE in these times. No; l came here
against my will Why should not es-
cape? Now is the time, as we shall soon
be leaving here, and might see you no
more. This is my scheme: will ask
you to meet me on the highway, two
miles off, ON some calm night next week
that may be appointed. There will be
nothing unbecoming in it or to cause
you shame. You will not fly alone with
me, for / will bring with me my de-
voted young friend Christoph, who has
lately joined the regiment, and who has
agreed to assist i'll this enterprise. We
shall have come from Weymouth har-
Dor, where we shall have examined the
boats aud found one suited to our pur-
pose. Christoph has already a chart Of
the channel, and we will then go to
Weymouth and at midnight cut the boat
from her moorings and row away round
tue point out Of sight. and by the next
morning we are on the coast Of France,
near Ch6rb0UTg. The rest is easy, for
Ihave saved money for the land journey
and can get change of clothes. [ will
write to my mother who will meet us
on the way
He added details in reply to her in
quiries, which left no doubt in Phyllis |
mind Of the feasibility Of the undertake
ing. But its magnitude almost appalled, |
her, and it is questionable if she would |
ever have gone farther in the wild ad-
venture if en- entering the house that
night her ..ther had net ;;eo,,ste,fi her in /
the most significant terms
How about the York hussars?" he
said.
They are still at the camp, but they
are soon going away, believe. "
1T is useless for you to attempt to
cloak your actions in that way. You
have been meeting one of those fellows;
you have been seen walking with him
foreign barbarians, not much better than
the French themselves l have made IN
my mlnd-don t speak word till have
done, please have made up my mind
that you shall stay here no longer while
they are ON the spot. You shall 90 to
your aunt's. -
1t was useless for her to protest that
SnQ had t,axra,. b.