Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-08

-Leary, who was Oh post on No. 8.
He felt sure that something was wrong
felt sure that it was due to his night
visit-and his first impulse was to find
his mother and confide the truth to her.
he longed to see her again, and if harm
had been done to make himself known
and explain everything. Having no
duties to detain him, he got a pass to
visit town and permission to be gone a
day or more. On Saturday evening he
ran down to Sablon, drove over, as Cap
tain Armitage had already told them,
and peering in his mothers room saw
her, still up, though in her nightdress.
He never dreamed Of the colonel's being
out and watching. He had secuted"
all those trees, and no one was nigh.
Then he softly called. She heard and
was coming to him, when again came
fierce attack. He had all soldiers
reverence for the person of the colonel
and would never have harmed him had
he known twas he. 1t was the night
watchman that had grappled with him,
he supposed, and he had no compuno-
tions in sending him to grass. Then he
fed again, knowing that he had only
made bad worse, walked all that night
to the station next north Of Sablon-a
big town, where the early morning
train always stopped-and by 10 on
Sunday morning he was in uniform
again and off with his regimental com
rades under orders to haste to their sta
tion-there was trouble with the In
dians at Spirit Rock, and the --th
were held in readiness. From beneath
his scouting shirt he drew fiat packet,
an Indian case, which he carefully un-
rolled, and there in its folds of wrap
pings was the lovely directoire photo
graph.
Whose, then, was the one that Sloat
had seen in Jerrold room? 1t was this
that Armitage had gone forward to de-
termine, and he found his sad eyed
lieutenant with the skirmishers.
':Jerrold," said he,- with softeued
manner, "a strange thing is brought to
Light this morning, and I lose no time
in telling you. The man who was seen
at Maynard's quarters, coming from
Miss Renwick's room, was her own
brother and the colonel's .stepscn- He
was the man who took the photograph
from. Mrs. Maynard's room and has
proved it this very day, this very
hour" Jerrold glanced up in sudden
surprise. "He is with us now, and only
one thing remains, which you can clear
up. We are going into action, and I
may not get through, nor you, nor
who knows who. Willyou tell us now
how you came by your copy Of that
photograph"
For answer Jerrold fumbled In his
pocket q moment and drew forth two
letters
IT wrote these last night, and it was
my intention to see that you had them
before it grew very hot One is ad.
dressed to you, the other to Miss Beau.
bien. You had better take them now, "
he said wearily. There may be no
time to talk after this. Send hers after
it's over, and don't read yours until
them"
"Why, don't understand this exact
ly," said Armitage, puzzled. Cant
you tell me about the picture?"
mo. I promised not to while I lived,
but it's the simplest matter in the
world, and no one at the colonel's had
a hand in it. They never saw this one
that I got to show Sloat. It is burned
now. I said twas given me. That
was hardly the truth. have paid for
it dearly enough"
"And this note explains it?'
eyes You can read it tomorrow.
TO BE CONTINUED.