The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-06-23

o. THESE, Win Il uelIry, AT tne corner or
the plazl, seemed to be meeting house
OF some kind, possibly the pro teinporc
substitute for the county courthouse,
thought Lambert, for the center of the
square was still heaped with charred
and blackened beams and bricks where
once the courthouse stood
As for the camp or quarters OF his
future comrades and associates, Lam
bert could see nothing that in the least
lcsemblcd military station, and, do
What he conlA, the hoy found it 'mpos'
.ibla to down the family heartsick,
tomesick feeling that speedily took DOS.
session Of him. A dog would Lave been
welcome as companion, but there was
not even a stray dog. For moment
Lambert thought of arousing the negro
but after one glance at the wide, red
cavern Of his mouth and the emptied
flask lying close to the frowzy head, he
decided in favor of the mule.
A short walk brought him to the side
of the PROSTATE creature, and long
pull induced his muleship to stagger to
his feet. but in his struggles be snapped
the old headstall, and the remnant of
the bit and bride dropped into the dust.
1t was not until the vagrant stood erect
that Lambert discovered from the U.
s. brand that he was, or had been, gov
ernment property. The saddle, too,
turned out to be one of the old-fash-
ioned, black-skirted, pgskin McClel-
lans, so familiar during the war days.
AS the mule seemed only l.alf awake and
unaware as yet of his freedom Lambert
first essayed to reset the saddle (Which
he submitted without objection, and
then to replace the bride, to which he
would not submit at all, but with low
cred front and meuacing hoof turned
him about and logged over to where
some wisps of hay lay scattered in
front of shanty labeled Post Office. y
Tor ten minutes Lambert exercised his
, arts in vain effort to recapturc that
mule, and then, in sheer disgust, threw
the bride on the sidewalk, picked uD an
? abandoned half brick, and let the mule
lave it IN the flank. He merely twitched
his scraggy hide, raised one instant tbs
nearmost hoof, but never lifted his
head. The brute was hungry from l0ne
fasting, and did not mean TO be dis
: turbed, and Lambert, WHO had eater
nothing since the previous day, was
: presently in full sympathy. Once more
he looked around in search of some
human being, and found himself con
, fronting a citizen in shirt sleeves and
. tangled head of hair, who, leaning GU
, Of a sccond-story window wasneyerthe
less not 20 feet away. For momen
:, each reg ,rded the other without word
. Then the native spoke:
>, "What We tryin' to do?"
\ 81 was trying to catch that mule"
- "Want him f'r anything?"
"No; only found him tangled in hi
reins, and he got away after loose
Y him"
;, The native regarded the newcome
i curiously. Lambert had slung hi
blue cape over the hltchlng rail durln
his brief pursuit of the ungratefr
= Least and his ncat-ftting suit of twee
e1 vas something new to Tugaloo eyes
u So was the iaunty drab derby.
9 "You don't b'long roun' yere, do you
s. queried Tugaloo next.
d 81 don't; and the Lord knows don
d want to. and I'd he Glad to find son
Is way of getting myself and my trun
e yonder, out 10 camp. Can you Hugge
II any?"
D. "We-ell, you might walk. Don't recl
W on your trunk kin, though. Knew Il
lie way?"
1t "No"
IL "Foller the track down thar pieC
J an you'll come to path along Il