The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-03-16

to town. The corporal saw her 20, sc
did the hospital steward and the man Of
all work, sweeping out the store, and SC
did the lone sentry. pacing bis post
along the row Of storehouses, and such
thing had never before been heard of
at Russell. Maloney, it seems, had rid.
den out on a borrowed horse and had
FASTENED back with his answer the mo-
ment the bewildered noncommissioned
officer let him go. What no one of these
men could understand was how it hap.
pened that one so fair and delicate as
! Miss Baird should have to take that
lonely walk instead of being sent in By
someone of the several vehi les owned
among the officers families. What they
did not dream was chat Of all the wom-
en- in the crowded garrison not ono of
their number at that moment felt so
friendless, go utterly alone in the world,
as Nathalie Baird.
At 8 O'Clock Mrs. Stannard had re.
ceived brief line by the hands Of Mrs
Barry's maid 1t merely said, Come
to me for moment as soon as you can,"
and Mrs Stannard lost no time.
She found her invalid friend and
neighbor pallid, distressed aud alone.
Her eyes must have asked for Nathalie,
for Mrs. Barry, without word, handed
her q little note, and, opening, Mrs
Stannard read:
am called away by summons that cannot
1x,s al r.. .aA i
ing, and has sent for me After this you know
why ought never to return to your roof
The shame Of 1t all oyerpowers me, and yet
cannot do less for him than am doing, and
cannot. must not, tell you why. Tonight-to
morrow-you shall hear fl ON inc, and then let
me go home and let me be forgotten. Your
heartbroken NATHALIE
"What can we do?" was Mrs Stan
nard S exclamation after the monetary
stupefaction seemed to have passed.
MAY not get the doctor and drive
after her with him?"
Gould you? Will your" asked Mrs
Barry, almost weeping. "Ah. ] knew
you would Send first for him, and then
I'll tell you all / know"
But as luck would have it the little
doctor had his bands full this fateful
morning. The only practitioner left at
the post, it was but natural that half
the laundresses' children should be |
down with various infantile maladies
and that officers row should find itself
in urgent need Of his services. Mean
time there had come many caller to
the Barrys' door-women like Mrs Ray
and Mrs. Freeman, full of sympathy
and sorrow; others, like Mrs. Turner
and Mrs Raymond, inspired by rage
Of curiosity yelled beneath the conven-
Of kind inquiries. Mrs.
Barry could see no one at first, but
yielded to Mrs Freeman's importuni-
ties, and she, too with Mrs Ray, was
taken into confidence 1t was nearly
half past 10 when at last the doctor
drove up with the post surgeons team
and double seated carriage, and just al
Mrs. Stannard was being handed in and
numbers Of interested spectators were
looking on up and down the row there
into garrison on scrub of a
pony youngster who used to earn a
livelihood in those days car
rying travellers hand luggage, running
errands and doing odd jobs around the
few hotels and many tarrooms, and be
had note for Mrs. Barry addressed in
small and tremulous hand.
They took it in to her at once, and she
opened It,
1t was brief, piteous, yet almost i'm
perative demand for $50 to be sent to
1er by the bearer ...
The doctor shook his head. Mrs.
looked grave. but Mrs. Barry
never hesitated. cts the last thing she
would ever have done had it not been
ITALY necessary" The bills were
placed in an envelope with few lines
,egging her to be ready to see Mrs.
3tannard and the doctor and return with
hem without fail if by that time she
lad finished what had to be done, and
he ragged Mercury trotted away with
he message clutched in dingy hand
II Russell wondering the while
Half an hour later the DOCTOR leaving
lrs. STANDARD with the carriage at the
ostoffice, strolIed quietly around to the
lnpire and asked to see the proprietor.
10 wasn't in, Maloney then. He'd just
one out and wouldn't be back Then
,uld they tell him where no could find {
Ialoney? No, they'd no idea where l.
ed gone. Evidently information was
cking at the Empire, but {. happy
fought occurred to the doctor Hauni-
rs was just across tho way, and to l
annifin's no went, feeling well assured .
at the rivalry between tho establish :.
ents would prompt some one at the i
tier to tell what might DO detrimental q
the other, and ho was right. "There 5
I'd been drunken row at the Empire II !,
to last night" said Hannifn, "be- n
zen toughs that wouldn't be allowed =
a respectable saloon like this, for in
lnco." Two fellows wsre badly cut, ! u u
d othors were wanted by the city I p
lrshal, but Hannifin could only tell AZ 4,
at man called Boston was mixed up ::
it and had been slashed by somebody r.
70, and that it was claimed that the :,
lole gang were strangers in Chey.
he, only two Of them having been
IN there before last night, Then the
ctor asked if any of Boston's people E
d been seen, and they hadn't. So far L
Hannifn knew Boston had no friends
relatives, nor could he tell where he
s now in hiding, Even the police
lat there was Of them, didn't know