Connecticut western news., 1896-02-20

later she looSs sadly down on one stand. ing beside the crumpled remains of the other.
 The two horses are still grazing peace fully on opposite sides of the rocks.
 reused myself from my musings and took up the dead mans rife. It was Martini Henry. After appropriating its cartridge, knocked out the block axis pin and threw the block away, so that 1t might no longer be of use to an ene- my. And then thought toreplenish my own ammunition from the enemy's store and turned again to the corpse.
 felt reluctance to touch the poor limp thing, but his haversack wa3 part ly underneath him and had to be got out. That done, I drew tho cold hands down 10 the sides and straightened. out the legs, but could not go so far as to turn the body on its back-I feared to see the face. In the haversack 1 found besides the cartridges Bible and some rusks and "biltong" (sun dried meat). The cray 'ngs of hunger were reawaken- ed by the sight of food and was soon munching away at my newly acquired supply, while I still stood in kind of fascination over the body of my victim.
 How strange to be eating the food pre- pared for enc who had DO need for it Tn be tasting the flavor, which somehow did not altogether like. that possibly he would have been tasting now had not all power of taste suddenly gone out of him foreverl Then his Bible lying there reminded me that we were both practi- cally of the same belief. Two Christians, whose religion told them to love one an- other, meeting in the midst of heat hen land-strangers to each other on earth, but brothers in spirit We meet-to greet each other with peace and good will? No, but without even word of anger one to kill the other.
 And great remorse cumes over me What right had I to take his life? By killing him, in what torrent of grief and ruin may not have involved wife and bairns? Did not fire before there was need for it? In vain I tell myself that had I not killed him be would have gathered me.
 All feeling of animosity is drowned in that of pity. At any rate if his com- rades find him they shall know that we "Rooi -batches" bear no grudge, but have some good feeling in us. May it help to dispose them more peaceably to- ward usl
 So, after O very short meal, stow the ammunition and the remainder of the food into my pocket Then 1 drag the body from where it lies, leaving only black, shining blotch among the stones, into shallow cleft between the rocks Here turn it on to its back and see the pale, dead face, the paler for the contrast with its black beard in the clear moonlight. close the glassy, staring eyes and compose the limbs in their narrow bed. and then, with large powders. overbridge the grave and fill up every crevice well with stones. Little now is left to do. On the highest rock, just above the grave, I build a cairn of stones, in which 1 firmly plant the rife upright I take Lis Bible, which has writingin its cover that may tell his name, and fasten it, inside his hat, to the muzzle of the rife, and to the cleaning rod tie my handkerchief, to serve at once as q scare to beasts and an attracting sign to men. And then turn and leave the spot. a.--..-
 I reached Standerton all safely with my two horses soon after daybreak and delivered my dispatches When emptied my pockets, daylight showed me that what was left of the hiltop2 and rusk was all besmeared with blood.