The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-10-30

s<.<s iosIerds The lhrzenl sps11 ne
furt of ifs concentrated spite. el4
swiftly still bus 70 longer raging g
when curbe6 and held BY the barrier
eata. the RJ.nca framed away 20 streW
fke telens Of the fearful storm right
and left for miles along its banks ana
to land all that was mortal OF harry
Winn, bruised, battered. Jet % placid
! I'm death that strong mems vnicss broke
when telling how they found him, rest
ing with weary head upon his arm on
the sandy E,st that lay Just beneath the
little summer h0usson the oyerhanging
bluffa lust where Laura had looked
down over the misty shadows from that
very height the morning her soldier
husband had reached his home &C re-
veiIIe and found her-wanting.
They bore her wailing home that
NIGHT, widowed and crying "Woe is
mer' Yet with what wild thoughts
lthrobbfng through her brain Who was
IL that came leaping TO her aid as she
!. felt herself again dragged under IN that
J ewirlina eddyg Whose voice was is that
rang upon her drowning earss Whose
strong srms had clasped aud sustained
her and held her head above water.
while other strong hands hauling at
j the lariat made fast about his waist,
drew them steadily to shore? Then an
gels came and ministered to her-the
wcnnen-while the men clustered ABOUT
her dripping hero, Galahad. Only for a
moment, though, for there was mon1t-
ing bareback in hot haste and thunder
ing gray at mad gallop. despite the
drenching rain, for he who had saved
the wife implorcd those who could ride
TO haste and save the husband.
All Fort Worth again went into
mourning with the setting of that woe
ful sun. 1t had borne its fill and mole
Of battle and OF sudden death.
And people resurrected Hodge S
stories later on, though Hodge himself
was readily excused. They recalled
how Channing's widow and little ones
were cared for after that officers un-
timely death in the shadows of old
Laramie peaK. They recalled Porter 6
ailing wife and the seaside soiourn,
and the old ordnance sergeant's family
burned out at Sanders 1t wasn't many
days before the lovely, dropping widow
Of poor HAIRY Winn was quite well
enough to bo sent the long journey to
the north, yet some weeks elapsed be-
fore she would consent. she said, to be
torn from her beloyed's grave. When,
gently as possible, she was told in July
that the quarters she still occupied
were needed for her husbands success
sor, she proposed to spend few weeks
with Mr.. and Mrs. Faulkner, but they
were forced to limit that visit to few
days. There was no reason why she
could not have started in June, for that
devoted mother, Mrs. Waite, had drop
ped temporarily the pursuit of senators
and representatives in congress assem-
bled and wired that she would meet
her daughter in New Orleans, and the
commanding general at san Antonio
notified her that abundant means fol
all her homeward journeyinS for sell
and nurse and baby were in his hands.
Sho thought she ought to stay until al
poor Harry's affairs were Strengthened
out, and Frazier had to say that that, too
was all attended to. Yet all the while
she seemed to think that she could not
sufficiently thank the heroic Captain
Barclay and begged to see him for thai
purpose, also to consult him day after
cay until-was there colluyion?-ht
suddenly received orders to proceed &c
san Antonio on court martial duty ant
was on his way before she knew it
before, said the Fraziers, she coald ge
ready to go with him. Nor was he thc-,
when she passed through. under Full
ler's escort, to the gulf. nor did she 81
him once again in Texas. Letters, fer
!, ventiy grateful letters. came to hin
from Washington, whittier she h3t
fitted, and where, it was reported, sh'
was to have clerSship. But when peo
, pie spoke of her to Barclay he sIaile,
} graveIy and had nothing to say. Al
her late husbands accounts were de
} clGred settled and closed within a yer,
few months, and all men knew by th;,
, time whose hand it was that had liftet
} the burden, yet Laura Waite had los
] the last vestige Of her power wher
Galbraith Parclay was concerned.
, Long before the fall set in Barcla
returned to his rost Of duty, eagerl
/ welcomed by officers and men, excep
, the Faugh-a-Ballaghs. Somebody ha
sent from San Antonio q marble bead