The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-08

Gilvray. "Divil step will l go. Let
me that sowed the storm take the
whirlwind"-and he threw out his
chest.
What is it you come here for?" she
asked, with meaning.
yourself an the mOckin' bird in yer
voice." he answered.
"Then that is enough she said;
"yOu come for me, l go for you. Get
ir."
A moment afterward, taking advan-
tage Of the obscured moon, they We're
carried out on the current diagonally
down the stream, and came quickly to
that point on the shore where an Eng
lish picket was placed. They had
scarcely touched the shore when the
click of a musket was heard, nad a
"Qui-va-la?" came from the thicket.
McGilvray gave the password, and
presently he was on the bank saluting
the sentry he had left three hours be-
fore.
"Malbrouk sen va ten guerre!" said
the girl, again, with a gay insolence,
and pushed the boat out into the
stream.
"A minnit A minnit, me darlin',"
said McGilvray.
Keep your promise" came back
softly.
"Ah, come back wan minnit!"
"A flirt!" said the sentry.
you will pay for that" said the girl
to the sentry with quick anger do
you love me, Irishman?" she added, to
McGilvray.
II do! Aw wurra, wurra, do" said
| McGilvray.
Then you come and get me by re
! front door of ze city" said she, and a
couple of quick strokes sent her canoe
out into the dusky middle of the stream
and she was soon lost to view.
Jaw, the loilIe o that! Aw, the foine
av her--aw, the tip-top lass o. the wide
wOrld!" said he.
you're a fool, an there'll be trouble
from this" said the sentry.
And SC there was trouble, for two
| hours later the sentry was found dead;
picked off by a bullet from the othe!
shore when he showed himself in the
moonlight; and from that hour al
friendliness between the pickets of the
English and the French ceased on the
| MOntmOTenci.
But the one witness to McGilvray's
adventure was dead and that was why
no man knew wherefore it was that
McGllvray took an oath to drink NJ
more till they captured Quebec.
From May to September McGilVraS
| kept to his resolution. But for all thai
time he never saw the tip-top lass o
the wide world" A time came, how,
ever, when McGilvray's last state was
worse than his llrst, and that was the
evening before the day Quebec was
taken A dozen prisoners had been cap
tured in a sortie from the Isle of Or
leans to the mouth of the st. Charlie!
river. Among these prisoners was tn,
grinninS sergeant who had captured
McGilvray and then released him
Two strange things happened. TIL,
big, grinning sergeant escaped from
captivity the same night, and McGn
Vray, as a non-com said, "got bln,
drunk"
This is one explanation of the tw
things. McGilvray had assisted tn
grinning sergeant to escape The othe
explanation belongs to the end of tn
story. In any case, McGilvray "go
blind drunk" and "was going large
through the camp. The end Of it wa
that he was arrested for assisting
prisoner to escape and for being drum
and disorderly. The band of An
struther's regiment boarded II. NJ. S
"Leostan" without him, to proceed u
the river stealthily with the rest of tn
heet to Cap Rouge, from whence tn
last great effort of the heroic Wolfe I
effect landing was to be made Me
Gilvray' still intoxicated but intelli