The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-29

of, said the colonel. 1T was a mai
called Whippett did that. A splendid
chap he is, too: you really ought t.
know him.
THE papers said you did it," persist
ed the widow.
THAT was a confusion in the names
Jemmett and Whippett. Whippett sale
nothing about it, but it was corrected
as soon as possible"
II don't see that Jemmett and Whip
petit sound at all alike" protested the
widow.
mo, but on the Geographic code they
are much the same"
How stupid Of these horrid neWspa-
pers!" the widow calculated disgusted-
| ly
well, it really. was not so stupid
the colonel argued. For it might in, c
sense, have been L, instead of Whppett
that did it,"
How do you 'nean?" asked the wild
ow sharply.
well, you see" replied the colonel, a
tritle nerVously, "All Pindah, where was
Ben Williamson, who had to be relieved
was at the apex of an isosceleS triangle
Of which line drawn between Fort
Dutferin, where Whippett was, and
Fort Nicholson Where ] was, would
have been the base"
THAT conveys no idea to me-" re-
turned the widow pettishly. Cant you
use plain English?''
Il mean to convey" said the colonel
desperately. that Whippett and were
equidistant from Ben Williamson, and
! 4 - II al- 49, Al =
dash for him
And why were you not the one to do
it?" queried the widow
You know never was a dashing fell
low" answered the colonel humbly.
You don't mean to say you were
afraid?" sho said, after a little while.
The colonel nodded his head II was
afraid
She waited yet awhile before deliver
ing what she meant to be taunt Il
cannot understand why you did not fol-
low your fathers profession"
Il had not brains enough for it," he
said simply. Besides / am attached
to my own trade--so attached that do
another year"
What happens them" she asked,
without interest.
II shall be retired he told her. "The
age clause falls heavily on man like
me, who has never had a chance to dis
tineuish himself
Il thought you had Whippett's
chance she cut at him.
For a moment he stared at her stu
pldly; then said without bitterness, but
reprovingly as father to a child: II
sec you have not understood me. You
have perhaps forgotten that your hus-
bands nickname for me was The Duty
Soldier. -
Yes" she retorted, without Weighing
her words, land be defined it as one who
is afraid of God and Man, and for his
Own Skin
Her teeth closed on her tongue az she
said the last word for Colonel Jemmett
arose and shook himself. Il SEQ that
my call has been an intrusion on you; I
shall not repeat the indiscretion Good
bye a
Good bye!" she repeated mechanical
~, and touched the bell. She felt pow
erless to detain him, but looked visit
fully at the door when it had closed be-
hind him
Ten days later she had letter from
him bearing the Southampton post
mark. Il am leaving for the Tlrah," he
said. ito command a brigade. II I bad
done what you wished in the Black
Mountains / should save risked the lives
of Ave thousand men, women and chill
dren. | was afraid to do this Perhaps
in this new business T NAV he able tn
present the Duty Soldier in better
light-at least, in one which you can
see"
After all, he can be ironical," the !
widow said and wondered if he could |
escape retirement. She thought she
might write to him.
Colonel local Major GeneraD Jem- |
NETT received the widows letter the |
of the day his brigade was to |
attack the enemy's position 1t was the !
first battle in which he found himself |
his own commander, and such n time is |
not the best for reading a woman's-
a beloved woman's-letter. |
He was duty soldier, and though the
touch of it burned his fingers, he put 1t |
N his left breast pocket unopened
1t was good he thought, to have her |
writing next his heart; but he almost |
himself for thinking about |
t at all Things were not going so we'll |
II this campaign that any man could |
ifford consideration OF hiu private at |
'airs. One, by name Winter. he who !
commanded the brigade at the other
side of the big hill yonder, by thinking