The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17

making love to N.Y.
"You dare not say itl'' she cried.
you've had some experience of what
dare, my lady, and one thing dare
and mean to do is to stick il ont riobt
here and take my chances at Fravne
There's no other post where I'd find so
many friends at court if things 90
wrong"
"You shall not stay here if have n
buy you to go, - she cried, but she
shrank even as she spoke, as though
dreading blow, for with uplifted
hand he sprang to her side, then rough
ly, savagely, seized her slender wrist
"Who are you TO pose as guardian
angel of the Farrars? Who are Won To
say shall to me? Do you realize, nv
love, that your place in the army is not
in officers quarters, but down yonder
in laundresses' alley? By the Lord, I've
a mind
But here dark shadow fell between
him and the slender writing object Of
his brutal rage, an iron grasp was laid
in turn on the hand that SO cruelty
crushed the white wrist. A deep voice,
eloquent with wrath, controlled, vet
boiling, seemed to ring in his ears the
two words, ''Let go!' and then, releas-
ing perforce his hold ON the shrinking
startled woman, Graice writhed in fu-
rious effort to free himself from the
clinch Of Malcolm Leale, and writhed
in vain.
you've the DEVILS own grip" he
savagely Kissed through his grinding
teeth.
1--WE grip, my man, that won I
loosen till you are past doing further
mischief here, was the stern, relent-
less answer. Then, uplifting his voice,
Leale shouted for the corporal of the
guard, and at the instant the cry went
echoing over the posts of and z. The
sentry still writhed in impotent rage.
Finding his struggles futile, he once
more dashed with his tongue
Don't be too sure of that captain.
There are some kinds of hold even
your grip can't loosen"
"No insolence. You go from here to
the guardhouse as it is. -
oh the guardhouse, and you,
toe" ragged the soldier, hurting down
| the carbine. IF I'm to spend Christ
mas in limbo, I'm cursed if you shall
spend it making love to N.Y. And
here, with tigerlike bound, his free
hand brandishing glistening knife, he
lunged at the officers throat. A 1.-the
form had come leaping like panther
up the path, and even before Helen cry
had died away Crow Knife had hurled
himself between the men and the shin
| ing blade was buried out of sight.
| There was moment of furious strug-
gle, and then the sentry lay, felled like
an OK in his tracks, and Leale's foot was
| at his throat. The knife, blood stained,
had dropped in the snow. The Indian,
| his hand pressed to his side, was sway
ing slowly back as the sergeant Of the
guard with q brace of men, came run
ming to the spot.
"Take this man to the guardhouse ="
was the brief, stern order, as they lift
ed Graice, stunned and sodden, to his
feet. Then the captain turned to Grow
Knife. "Did that crazy brute strike
you? Are you hurt?" he asked, in deep
concern.
Captain, said the Indian slowly.
II believe I'm killed"
Leale sprang to support him. Other
men, running to the scene, linked their
hands and made chair and raised the
poor fellow from the ground. Garry
him gently to the hospital, lads. I'll be
! with you in q moment, said Leale, and
then he turned to where, trembling,
| terrified, Helen Daunton still stood as
though powerless to move.
"Helen-Mrs Daunton! First let me
see you home. ask no confidence, no
| explanation, but this is something III
which 1 must help you. l have guessed
the truth, have not? That man is your
brother?''
my brother, Captain Leale? God
| pity me, that man is my husband!'
For q moment not another word was
spoken. Leale had acknowledgement
-as though struck a mortal blow.
Then, in hoarse whisper, so choked and
| broken seemed his voice:
| Your husband! Your husband, Hell
| en-? Oh, my God! And l had thought
you free to be loved, as have learned
AS you have taught me-to love you. y
Captain Leale," she cried, I'm pity
say you do not believe that. Oh, hear
mel Do not turn from me, she implor-
ed, for in his misery he had averted his
face. 'You shall not think me so vile, .
she went ON desperately. "Inever knew
until today that you had learned to
care for me. Thought all that had gone
with my youth-oh, SO long agol lonly
asked of life place where l could De
| useful and safe aud where, by and by,
perhaps l could forget. l have seemed
| to myself so old and dull and sad. SO
different from the women men love that
I never dreamed it my duty to say was
not free Oh, I thought you were my
friend. My heart has been so heavy ana