The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
FORT FRAYNE.
By Capt. CHARLES KING, U. S. A.

CHAPT TER l--ROyle Farrar digraces himst
at West Point deserts the school and leads
wandering life, sinking lower and lower, ma
ries his employers daughter and commits
forgery II-Colon-l Farrar. father OF Royl
is killed i'm a battle with Indians lII-Roy
Farrar's younger brother viii graduates
West Point and falls l. love With Kitty Orm
by, whose brother is in love with Wills sist,
Ellis. lV-Will is made lieutenant They a
return TO Fort Fray ne, accompanied by a Gel
tain Mrs. Da Inton. VT has been reporte
that Royle Farrar is dead, but he turns up
the fort in the guise OF common soldie
under the name OF Grace. Ellis Farrar an
Jack Ormsby quarrel over Helen Daun or
VI-Helen Daunton has an interview W.T.
Jack Ormsby. in which it transpires that sh
is Royle Farrars much abused wife, WHOM
Ormsby has before be'rended. VII-Hs lei
Farrar discovers her husband
[coNTINuEDl
Tor some hours she lay there facing
her fate, shutting out all thought of her
newborn hope and joy thus summarily
blasted, seeing only, thinking only
of the peril that involved her friend.
The short winter day wore ON. The
spirits of the younger members of the
social circle seemed undimmed, for, as
stable call was sounding, she could hear
merry chat and laughter again in the
parlor below stairs. Ellis alone seemed
10 share with her mother the anxiety or
uneasiness which followed the events of
the morning. She had refused 10 Join
the little party that had gone up, as
they expressed it, ''to call ON Kitty"
She had refused partly from feeling
OF lndlsposition to .any gayety, partly
from a sisterly sympathy for Will, who,
she felt well assured, longed for an un-
interrupted half hour with his capri
clous ladylove, and partly because she
shrank from appearing in the colonel's
parlor, thereby possibly giving Ormsby
half reason to think she sought him.
Evidently the young people had had
small mercy on Will. Evidently Kitty
had lent herself not unwillingly to the
fun at his expense, for, after biting
savagely at his finger nail and tugging
furiously at his mustache, the body had
pitched angrily out Of the colonel's
house and come home for comfort, and
thither had they followed him, two or
three happier couples, and, catching
him IN the parlor, all unconscious of
Mrs. Daunton' seclusion aloft, were as
bent on coaxing him to return with
them as he, with assumption of lordly
indifference, was determined to make it
appear that he had no such desire or in
tention. He carried his point too. He
knew well enough that Kit S completely
III the plot was for the express purpose
OF teasing him. He couldn't afford to
let them see he was indignant at her or
ut them; neither could he afford to let
her see that he was not justly offended.
And right In the midst of all the babel
OF protest and laughter the doorbell
rang, and at the head of the stairs, Just
as stable call was sounding, listening
ears heard the unctuous, jovial tones of
Corporal Rorke inquiring for Captain
Leale.
Then Wills voice responded, and Will
was very distant and dignified. cap
tain Leale is not here, corporal. Have
you been to his quarters?''
Sure, went there furst, sorr, and
hey told me he was here if anywhere.
Thin, bedad, he's nowhere. "
Hes gone down to the stables al
ready perhaps, said Farrar, "and you'll
ind him there. Yonder goes the call
low. "
Il know, Mast-I know, sorr, but |
he throuble's right here, sorr. Higgins
has been took ill on guard. He was |
light out here on No 8, sorr, back of |
he quarters, and that spalpeen Graice |
5 supernumerary, and they've stint for /
lim, and the first sergeant's afraid,
orr. Z"
"What Off"
"Graice had been drinkin this morn
n. He's sober enough now, sorr, but
e's nervous, wildlike, excited, tramp
u up and down the barrack flure like
Gagged hyena, sorr. /"
Then tramping up and down the
entry post will be just the thing tor
I'M. I'LL cool him off. Put him on. 4"
VERY well, sorr. Just as the loot'n.
mt says. I'll tell the sergeant at once"
Five minutes later the parlor was de-
erted, and all was silence below. Now
least Helen Daunton could close her
res and plan and think. He was to be
laced on guard. He would be ON post
ght out here on the bluff. Then what
las to prevent her slipping out in the
nsk OF the evening, when all the others
ad gone over TO the assembly hall.
'eaking with him, pleading with him,
nrloring him to go away, anywhere
lywhere where he would not again in
runken mood endanger that poor moth
IS life by the sudden shock of his pres
ice? She would agree TO anything; she
ould follow him, slave for him, starve
18th him, be his wife or his handmade
anything to get him away-far away
ON the sunshine, the smiles, the hopes
II joys and blessings that had been
rs at old Fort Frayne.
One other plan. She had but little
oney, and in their flight much might
needed. She must obtain it, for that
ink sodden wretch would surely have I
me. go she must and would. Go he
ust and should. for any day, before
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