Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-05-25
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#Bv CAPTAIN CHARLES KING
eopy1tght, 1894, by J. B. Lippincott Col
A1II.-CONTINUED.


NIu.-CoNT1NUED.
You could, easily, but you don't want
sosor you would have given me my cap
long ago"
Oh!" and the jaunty kept went
spinning into the darkness of the night,
nd the little lady stamped in fury at
her own blunder. 'Talle your cap, and
go'
well" said Lambert, with provoke
ing GOODNESS, "if I'm to follow my cap
atshasn't gone towards camp at all. 1t
fee1ns-excuse me if come back for
light-it seems to have dropped close to
That cid arbor of yours among the rose
bushes, where you sit in the summer
moonlit evenings. Suppose we leave it
AS an excuse for me to drop around
next time you go there"
But now she seized candle and went
boun ding down the steps. \ moments
search among the bushes, and she found
1t-also him, for he calmly followed.
There's your cap" she said, land
5awnduh's the gate!'
0 He looked up in affected pain and
5s. ESTABLISHMENT.
.# why, Miss Katesie!-I supposed you
were simply acting on my suggestion,
and we were going to have such lovely
: time at the bower. That's why I fol-
lowed"
ooh. All should like to tay-uh your
tongue, out. You know All hate the
very ground you stand on"
The gloom in his face gave way in
stantly to radiant JOY. You do?-
really?" he cried. "Oh, never hoped
for that! I thought you loved every
inch of this ugly old state and that
never could coax you to leave it. Do
you really hate it 500"
But now, fairly beside herself with
her little feet seeming to fly up the
worn old steps that groancd and creaked
under any other touch. He stood gaz-
ing after her moment, the teasing,
+ merry smile still lowering about his
81 lips, then picked up the cap she had
Is hurled to earth, and walked blithely
away.
B Not ten yards from the gate came
Corp. Cunningham on the run. Capt.
Close desired to see the lieutenant at
once. 4 negro stood by the campfire
in front OF Closes tent, trembling from
either fear or excitement or both, his
sss#soId Rasmus, who was eagerly jabbering
" ito the company commander.
ss do you know anything bout this,
1ieuterant?" asked Close. ''These
R flarlies say there's been big row over
towards Vernon, and that Walton
4 Scroggs is among the killed.
0 NV.
81 The first Christmas young fellow
assAapends in the army is one he is apt 70
What he did in years be-
lore. or of what nature were the festivi
tiles in those that followed, may, iE
Isfcourse of time, become but vague and
sSsEhadowy pictures before the minds
sseye. After something like 20 years of
iservice as a commissioned officer Mr..
1Iambert was heard to say that never,
even when a homesick plebe at West
3 Point, had he passed SO forlorn 4
as that which immedi-
ately succeeded his graduation.
khower upon the bare and dripping
woods and sodden fields; the roads
were deep IN mud; camp, of which he
once more commander, was wet
and cold and cherries; in the adjoining
Efent Law his senior officer grooming on
he'd of pain, hands and face blistered
Eaxd bandaged, hair and eyebrows gone.
while over across the way a pile OF
u scorched and blackened timbers, a
couple Of brick chimneys, and the stone
{ foundation were all that were left of
Walton Hail.
The story brought in of the big row
at Vernon. though exaggerated, had
been sufficiently confirmed in the
course: of an hour or SO that wintry
evening of Lambert's last visit to the
homestead, to warrant his being or
s 11ered thither with half the company
To support the civil authorities in re-
storing peace Close reported the
& situation by telegraph to department
headnuarters, and the action taken by
him. his dispatch reaching the general
1,nmnanding the next day an hour or
q after that official had been ordered
@rom Washington to send full particu-
u 1.rs of the disturbance in his bailiWick,
/ Tar the federal officials in the south and
The partisans of both sides of the POI
4 1itical questions at issue had worked
The night wires for all they were worth,
& ma the early morning papers were
1urid with details Of the tragic out
q ~ midnight when Lambert