The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-11

banks OF the MeuFe. The hostile cavalr
y MoS 8 6 %1iocssa tpe .eS s M Io Sers s s%p SnfP
recalled. IL took the Trench some time to eros
and take part In tho chief theatre Of event
,Xensittaft. whose plain civilian. attire wa
oddly at variance with the handsome uni
ERGl M siS Mees q ne sea sspHt Ta Stt SeSe1 n e sasESet
order by q mixed brigade OF Eouaves and ehus
As The active and gallant Erenchmsn syep,
and over the crest Of a .%treeless aultvatee
.sThings nre going almost too we'll" hi
When my brave conntrymen arc. well. han.
died they are incomparable. eoldlcrs,"' 10
nEs 81 i Ss' % SlTfi%adE knows %sssrs shn o. BE But Ee we mrs,
leave nothing TO chance. ] wonder how Dau
Difs & ~ b Il Pr rss ~ RI ,,.,,oh,s c,m. an ON.
Tho field telegraph is laid from Bar-le-
Dus TO the river. This message has Just come
He produced an envelope from the pocket Of
ms sa9SfS r %aIsa Ond bs jerome eeSS. eagerly 'ore 1t
An, caught, between KreuZDach, and tho
Gerpnn main body. Fear that position e nm
propose falling bacE on Verdun. Hope this
will suit your plans. Cannot communicate d.
rect, SO have sent this via Verdpn and Bor;;|e-
"Som de Dieul what's the msttery's cried
The @itiiiomnMSIIrae2'ss psItor was due to hopeless;
anger, He could not trust himself to speak,
R ss,6 silently ona handed the slip q pa, paper to hS
the devoted troops OF France pressing on to
needless butchery;
short-sighted resolve.
Whateyer the cost the verdun column
sections Of the Rmperor's Se army SHe II a tEn i
ton we're effected all would be lost. The
French superiority in the main attack ESpnld
corps before' them toward Fresnes and Tie
that made, for defeat. rs Kreuznach, marching
along the line Of the Mouse, must take them in
.No!hinE could save ,Vansittart's troops from
t TSa" It@ost d tss NSo,e q ae q s0np aTm St M RoTEs S at
right wing at Commercy on the south. leaving
1Gsr Sspn i SAFELY pe en- 1SdI up Pli r. ESef n until
1t was . bitter rebuff in the moment Of APP
parent triumph, and II was well that, Jerome
pous but weil-meaning little General. His
words must have cut Daubisson to the quick.
and de l BEEet0n' tho t10' c %Ss s9yeeclh aisnrs With NJ niger sytsr
50 curious That rs R%sertorce asked jerome
to Gen. Daqbisson personally"
"S S3Ge R Rs RI eft Bia EGS9bS Due at oncep"
Just said 'Sacre' kinder pleased like,
s s&2s tSat SG fSaf foF vd re a S tSst i Eoa ES SSuI ISGsi s Sa,
49, ~ -,
You ! y, aTs Ante certain he read my ~instruo-
Every word. boss. He didn't skip. q, line.
He said ,AI-a-right' to me twice: an, i was
head and thought as how he oughter gev me
sometin' In writipp' to bring back" ,o,. :,
their eG c Brs1Sn; Sho b saFssSis S: the purp0r' OF
1T NAV still be possible, to catch him with
try" He mechanically pulled out his watch
q message to pass through the field telegraph.
be transmitted from Bar-le7ppc to Verdpn
oh.it is hard. ;hardT and he clenched his hands
together in the impotence Of his despair.
Arizona Jim had never before seen his mas
emit he knew that ali had gone wen. and he
was quite at a loss to guess the cause Of
was connected with Daubisson. II the latter
could be reached, before z o'clock the threat,
faiiS dsPs ssrt @lS9' there be ev ,Tas that ae the ?e' ce@l
Guilty; 10 col, t. , Low vo,o0 ,or rm
to use neV his dsr own nI phrase aa a was %9skeereds BY Van.
sittart's misery. Il flgger it out that Gen.
us the crow dies.
We'll, what OF it?'"
I've Just sWgopped horses, an I can reach
#fnpossible. Jim. There are thousands of
the sf sRs% Bil Ret sir' BUT Us t faS e eonild stop a reei-
ment easier than:one man who was in a hurry
MY friend. do not temp, me. You would
tie S show 10y He %s sis PGSeIfSf asfssSti q you
9TH u Piiiy- door to e't the Old boy, an III clap It
into 1T. his fist TIN In twenty-five minutes or know
It was a gamblers chance. and the mil
~lionaire took It. This is what he wrote:
You must hold back Kreuznach until the
last man has fired the last cartridge. Pay no
haah m nnarationa nv GarmAn main h0dv
you hold out 9ntfi 10 o'cioeF and Prevent
do not. the cause Of France Is LOST.
yiansittart CAV, the precious little missive
Jim; II Daubisson, does not get that mes
sage. the game is ended"
..f R5ses sI s%iIed ain rcd dsne up Wiz E%u ysP'" he cried.
Then he galloped down the hill on his north
No man ever yet undertook a more daring
mission. Although he skirted the, fighting
line. he no sooner came within sight Of the
rode HsEge out f to cut h ina4 Off 'A That was was e GHlslS
what Bates wanted; HIS chief danger. t9 his
G Tsceed n1ba Sllle lay would On aniIa aR either RPs' himself 1asilT or his Sis
charger low. and then farewell to his hopes of
success; "a As lit it vas, when PHFsu rs by hCEse-
man officer ordering a volley to be fred at
he rode straight toward them. Believing they
had to deal with u lunatic. Tor. Of course. he
wore no UNIFORM, UIley barely JTOClou on 10
meet him. and were hugely surprised when he
swerved, of at twenty PAGES distance and shot
two of them in passing.
His object was to gain a small wood. appar-
emily unoccupied. on the crest OF the slope up
which he was now travelling. and his four
pursuers, enraged at the turn taken by events.
pressed bit and spur in a furious chase after
him.
With lances at rest and shouting fierce
threats; awe-inspiring by mere reason Of their
polysyllabic profanity. the troopers thought
they could hunt him down within 200 yards.
But he was better mounted than they. and
could have distanced them had not a fanciful
notion suddenly seized him. At first he re-
jected 1t with a sense OF scorpEy. But the sight
streaming back along the road leading from
the Mouse TO Troyon. made him sensible Of the
moral certainty OF capture or death should he
attempt TO ride through It's scattered columns
in his present Ruise.
For Bates could fight in no other costume
than the flannel shirt, riding breaches. boots
and s00mhrero Of a cowboy; and HIS strange per
Continent t.s that OF his master. Such a fig
urc could not fail. to attract attention, and the