The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-16

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love your
a rather quaint little body, and-other
things of which nobody suspected
him. or perhaps this story would new
er have been written.
hut to return to Stella.
Now" she said, IF it was Major
LansauWne. | could understand your
championship, whereas the Lascelles
Icy eady, Cousin Jane, where can
yuur eyes be-"
Amos rs she spoke the door opened
Hnd "Alaior Lansdowne" was an
iipMced then Capt. Freke," and a
few moments later Mr.. Lascelles."
he last conner was relegated to
AIRS. ogilvies tender mercies. Appar-
entity Stella was too much occupied
with her other guests to have a word
to spare. and the little man sat beside
Mrs. Osilvie. slipped his tea and
talked.
Presently he rose to go.
This is long good-by." he said,
very gravely; you know we are or.
dered to the front-to-morrow l go
north to see my people. and on Thurs
day we sail"
Mrs. Ogilvie saw Stella's face grow
deadly pale; she saw, too, that young
LaScelles had noted it, and that he
glanced toward Major Lansdowne.
do believe me-" he said in his quiet
gentle way, that if l can shield him
for your sake in any way it shall be
done"
An expression of complete bewilder.
ment on Stellas face, noted by Mrs.
Ogilvie. was quite lost upon young
Lascelles, whose eyes seemed sudden.
ly to have grown curiously dim.
Across the bare brown veldt soli-
tary horseman made his way. "Rath-
er a good horse" he had said, which
was hardly doing the animal justice.
1t was the tleetest i'll the regiment and
had won many a race before young
Lascelles had bought it.
Inside his coat lay the dispatches,
which, did they ever reach their des-
tination, would save the lives of hun
dreds of his fellow soldiers
Just then an agonizing pain in his
hand, another near his head, where a
bullet grazed his ear and sent the
warm blood over his face turned him
sick and faint
Every moment he seemed more and
more to lose control over his limbs,
but he clutched his horses name with
one hand aud guided it with the other,
pulled himself together with a SUI
premc effort of will, and at last rode
into N. He tainted as somebody
helped him off his horse, but his work
was done.
In her pretty drawing-room at Ex-
minister sat Mrs. Ogilvie and Stella.
The morning papers had just arrived
and they had rushed to open them.
Stella suddenly laid down the paper
and burst into tears.
Mrs. Ogilvie crossed the room. and
put a pair of very kindly, motherly
arms round the sobbing girl.
what is it, child" she whispered.
Stella pointed to name in the list
of the seriously wounded" 1t was
that Of Lieut.. Lascelles, of the Sew
enth Regiment
Mrs. Ogilvie's eyes held a question
which Stella answered. Il love him."
she said, land have loved him for
agesand now he will never know"
Never know That was not Mrs.
Ogilvie's idea at all-and the next pas
senger ship to ''the 'front.' carried the
two ladies on board, bound for GER
tain town in South Africa, where q
hero lay wounded, but mercifully not
unto DEATH"
What passed at that first meeting
who can tell? How Stella went into
that hospital ward and he, seeing her
coming, could hardly believe the evil
dence of his own eyes.
II have come" she said simply,
Just to tell you that | love you, that
have loved you all along, and that
| can't live without you"
The Rursing sister is wont to declare
that it was mysterious thing the
rapidity of Mr.. Jascelles's recovery
dating from that visit, and soon af-
ter he was invalided home on sick
leave.
During the time he was in England
there came day when England's
Queen distributed to her bravest sol
diers some little iron crosses with the
words For valor' thereon, and the
one whom she specially singled out
to speak to him words no man would
care to forget so long as he lived was
no other than little I.ascelles "the
Duffer of the ment"--London
Morning Leader
rarrIes ana ram.
It is a curious fact, we'll known.
however, to weather experts-that
heavy firing will generally cause rain,
even though the sky was clear before
hand. At Waterloo rain came down
in torrents. So 1t did in several Of
the big battles of the civil war-Get.
tysburg, for example. The tremend.
GUS conclusion shakes the little gIo-
bules which are always present In
visible In the atmosphere together,
and so brings them down.
MIanan Than Nl~n