Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-12-19

her boys safety, the proud news Of his
spirited and soldierly behavior. If Fen
ton could have seen her emotion when
from Wayne and Will she learned the
whole story, he would have found his
trials easier to bear.
He had gone, however, to department
headquarters, and there his accusers
were missing. Not one remained to face
him, and when called upon to substan-
tiate their statements, as they had ca
gerly declared their readiness to do, one
and all, they had business elsewhere.
The chief conspirators had achieved in
part at least the ends for which they
were striving, a row with Big Roads
band that would enable them to get
square with White Wolf, Pretty Bear
and the other alleged assailants Of Pete
Boland, replenish their stock Of ponies
and other spoils of Indian war and
double the price of forage, and, though
the alleged murderers escaped them and
the village in great part fell into the
hands of the Twelfth and Fenton came
back from headquarters vindicated
man, still they had given him and his
regiment far more trouble than the reg
iment had ever caused them, so honors
were more than easy. We've learned
the old man not to monkey with the
cowboy again"
There was a sweet, womanly, CRATE
full note awaiting the colonel when, aft
er an absence Ut fortnight, he return
ed to Frayne, but the Farrars were
gone. The doctor had said they could
not too soon move Ellis, once she could
be moved at all, to southern California,
and, with months leave in his pocket,
thither had Will escorted them, Kitty
going, too, as q matter Of course. Jack
Ormsby came west once more to meet
Malcolm Leale and to tenderly conduct
him, sightless and suffering, to New
York, and Fenton felt that vengeance
indeed had been wrought by Thorpe and
that the Lord had been with the Phil
istines across the stream, for the light
had gone out of his life, and smiles and
sunshine seemed to have vanished from
Fort Frayne. Will came back in Feb
ruary and threw himself enthusiastical.
ly into his duties with his troop, and
Wayne went incoming night after night
to the colcnel's fireside,, and Terry
Rorke, crippled with rheumatic twinge
about an old bullet hole, was limping
and growing about the post, and Fen
ton prayed for the coming Of spring and
sunshine and June and roses, for Kitty
had still another freak-she would be
married only from under the shadow of
the flag and Uncle Fenton's roof. With
Ellis better, but still not we'll, the Far
rars and Kitty had taken the Sunset
route from Monterey to New Orleans
the end of March and reached Gotham
just as the buds were opening in the
park, and Wayne, east on leave on
some mysterious mission, called to vel.
come them home and to say that Orms-
by was to sail at once with Malcolm
Leale, who was TO 60 to Germany to
consult an eminent oculist, and Ellis
lost the color which was futtering in
her cheeks when they hove in sight of
the familiar landmarks Of the beautiful
harbor, and Helen Daunton strove to
conquer her own disappointment that
she might comfort the poor girl, who,
since the tragic night Of her brothers
death, had neither seen nor heard from
the lover she had rebuffed and wronged,
even though here and now she had writ
ten, admitting her sin against him and
humbly yet confidently asking his for
giveness. That was Thursday night, and
there was ample time, but he sailed on
Saturday with never word.