Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-05

what was she matter, when I found
myself all enveloped in window shades
(they having selected that pleasing
moment to unwind after having raped
me awake.
Capt. Mckay assured me that made
use of various strong expressions as
struggled to free myself. After the
closest scrutiny, we could discover no
trace of any attempt having been made
to enter our room by the windows, but
sundry movings about overhead led US
to conclude our pyramid had received
it's overthrow from jars from that quar-
ter.
'Morn, walked by the circling hours,
with rosy hand" had scarcely unbarred
the gates of light when l felt something
more vigorous than a rosy hand hold
of my shoulder, and opening my eyes
l saw the Captains face pale and dis
tracted in front of mine and heard him
say in a voice trembling with emotion:
''The bag is goner'
'It cannot bev' I cried, springing up
in a frenzy of fear. But diligea- search
could not reveal it's hiding place, There
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one door, the washstand and bureau be-
fore the other two, undisturbed! The
dust on the window lee ges and sash
seemed to prove that no one, not even
the chambermaid, had interfered with
them for some time.
LET us get dressed and notify the
authorities of our loss," cried the Cap
tain in a hoarse whisper.
Both of us started to obey this sug-
gestion and made such speed as we
could, considering our oft-repeated ten
dencies to stop and search in probable
and improbable hooks for the lost.
saw Capt. Mckay pulling out the draw
er in the bamboo whatnot, large enough
to hold a writing pad with few pen
ellis; while flew with boot half-pulled
on to search the top shelf in the closet.
81 have looked there six timesv' the
Captain called out. 81 shall be forever
disgraced," he added with groan.
"And our brave boys, what will they
do for their payr' said feebly-my i'm
becility showing itself in my alluding
to such a painful view of the subject
when the Captain was so overcome.
do you think l shall allow them to
lose a cent? he asked, almost fercely.
mo, sir! have 81 900 in the bank and
I'll use every bit of my pay and forfeit
my pension to"
Rap-a-tap-tap, came a summons to
open the door, beforo which the heavy
mahogany bed stood as an impenetra-
BILE fortification. l, with boot number
one on and number two half on, and the
Captain, with one arm in his vest, has
tened to remove the obstruction with
as little noise as possible, feeling we
would rather not have it known how
much we had barricaded. Several more
raps came before we were ready, but
at length we opened the door and in the
dimness of a dark morning we saw a
hall boy with jug of water in one
hand.
I took the water, while the Captain
said in an excited tone: "Boy, run
down quickly and tell the hotel clerk
to come up here! Why don't you start ?''
he asked, impatiently.
Eyes, I'm going, mister, but fust let
me ak We if this here is yourn?'' At
that he held up his other hand and
there we beheld the old, shabby, but in
estimably precious bag!
The Captain nearly swooned with
joy, while had presence of mind to
tell the boy not to send up the clerk
and to give him sum of money that
made him whistle all the way down the
hall The boy explained that he picked
up the bag just outside our door. Then
we remembered when the lock of the
door had proved refractory, the Cap
tain had set it there, but neither of us
had noticed that it was not picked up
again. Blessed be shabbiness! we
agreed, if it could accomplish the re-
markabIe feat of preserving the sum
of 100000 in the hallway of hotel SO
many hours.
When the Captain and 1 had suffi-
ciently recovered from falling on each
others necks and weeping tears of joy
over the recovery of our treasure, the
Captain said: Il can trust you not to
tell this, am sure, for if you do, and it
should reach the Generals ears, it
would mean the loss of my commits
sion"
That is the reason have waited until
this time before giving the public this
episode of the war-Orange Judd
Farmer.