The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-30
..Y'betr said the returned hero.

''Y'betr' said the returned hero.
/ And was your arm lost at Santiago
! Was it a shell? Or was it cut off with
a machete? Did you kill the Spaniard
who done it? Did it hurt? Why didn't
/ you die? VIII you let me see the
stump"
Say. sonny" said the soldier, calmly
sitting down on the sand and pocketing
the dime. rs this a courtmartial?
What do you want to know so many
things for?"
Because you're a hero cried Robert
Henry, with great enthusiasm. My
papa says all the regulars are heroes.
even if they haven't votes. He says
nothing's too good for you, and he said
he couldn't find it in his heart to refuse
you anything. And Aunt RObina cried
in the sugar basin and said she couldn't
either. She said she really felt She
loved you all. every one. She said she
always jaimed the militarie, anyhow,
and now she adOres them. So do 1, and
so does Ethelinda. Ethelinda's my Sis
ter, but she don't know much yet. I'm
a regular, too; I'm going to West
Point. Say, show us your stump, please,
won't you?"
The soldier looked very attentively
at the children with his one eye and
winked so quantity that Ethelinda
cried:
20. you funny manr'
Then the soldier looked out to sea
and smiled with great bonhommie, and
then he ierked his thumb at the house
behind them and said:
PA and ma to homer"
Pa sin the city and Aunt Robina' S
reading poetry in the pine wood" said
Robert Henry. Tell US about Santi-
ago"
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er? All to homer" the soldier asked,
gently.
John, do you mean? He's in the viii
lage. Why? Won't you show me your
stump"
Cook, nurse. chambermaid. govern
ess? All to homer"
Haven't got any governess or nurse.
Cook and Sally's hanging out washing
The soldier seemed sadly rneditative
bewilderment of his sympathetic new
friends, burst into tears.
Mama" he howled Softly, 20 ma
ma! Where is your wandering boy to-
night? Take me, please, take me to
mamai"
Ethelindas tender heart melted at
this. and she sobbed for pity.
20. say" said Robert Henry, much
startled. Il didn't know soldiers cried.
1 guess you're pretty sick. amt your
I'm a stranger, and l want to be
took in said the soldier. I'm an or
phan and I'm all alone in a crewel, I'M
grateful world, all because I'm not
volunteer, and have no vote! Would
you please take me to mama at your
very earliest convenience"
"Oh, know" said Robert Henry, his
face clearing of its perpleXity and be-
coming purple with righteous wrath.
IT'S just what my papa said. The reg
ulars aren't getting justice. he said, he
did, and the volunteers are being petted
and coddled. Never you mind. You're
a hero, you are. for my papa said so at
breakfast, and he said nothing was too
good for you, didn't he. Ethelinda?"
"'Ess," said Ethelinda, and patted |
the soldiers back with womanly 4
warmth. an he said you could have /
anything you want for being so brave. /
and Aunt Robina cried and said she |
adored you. Shall l bring herr"
NO" said the soldier abruptly, and 4
then sank weakly back. "Oh. my poor
legs. I've walked $40 miles without a
thing to eati'
Good graciousi" cried Robert Henry.
THE ideal" cried Ethelinda, who at
1nce felt it her duty to assume Aunt
manner.
wait here a minutei' they both
,ried, and rushed off to the house The
soldier raised himself slowly up looked
;arefully round, winked, and lay at
.ase. Almost instantly the children
we're back from a raid on the larder.
staggering under their loads. They bore
napkin and knife and silver fork and