The Princeton union., 1900-10-11

~ 1hoD-A. OCTOBER 4 ]
got It before, and where you'd better
get IT before it's too late;" these
We're words said to him that very
morning, in tones so low that none
but he could hear; yet they were
ringing in his head nowsIike the boom
OF some tolling bell. Time was when
he had taken government money and
turned it into handsome profit
through the brokers of San Francisco
and Chicago But, as Mr.. John Oak
hurst remarked: There's only one
thing certain about luck. and that
IS It's bound to change" and change
It had, and left him face to face with
calamity and dishonor. Where was
he to raise the ten thousand dollars
that must be sent to the post quar-
termaster at Warrior Gap? The end
OF the fiscal year was close at hand.
lie dare not further divert funds from
one appropriation to cover shortages
IN another. He could borrow from
the banks, with a good indorser, but
what indorser was there good enough
but John Folsom ?-the last man now
whom he could bear to have suspect
that he was in straits. Folsom was
reported to be worth two hundred
thousand dollars, and that lovely girl
would inherit half his fortune. There
lived within his circle no man, no
woman in whose esteem Burleigh so
blundered at the start. Damn that
cub who dared to lecture him on the
evils of poker! Was a boy lieutenant
to shame him before officers of the
generals staff and expect to go un-
whipped? Was that butt-headed SUBJ
altern to be the means of running his
prospects right here and now when he
stood so sorely in need of aid? Was
the devil himself in league against
him, that that boys sister should turn
out to be the closest friend old Fol-
SONS daughter ever had-a girl to
whom father and daughter both were
devoted, and through her were doubt
less interested in the very man he
had been plotting to pull down? Bur-
leigh savagely ground his teeth to-
gether
GO and hurry that buggy" he or
dered, as he crushed the sheet of pa
per on which he had been nervously
figuring. Then, springing up, he be-
gan pacing his Office with impatient
stride. A clerk glanced quickly up
from his desk. watched him one mo-
ment with attentive eye, and looked
significantly at his neighbor. "Old
mans getting worse ratified every
day." was the comment, as the crash
OF wheels through loose gravel an
nounced the coming of the buggy,
and Burleigh fastened out, labored
into his seat, and took the whip and
reins. The blooded mare in the
shafts darted forward at the in
slant, but he gathered and drew her
IN, the nervous creature almost set
tling on her launches
Say to Capt. Newhall when he gets
bacA-that I'll see him this evening"
called Bur1eigh over his shoulder.
Now, damn you, go-if you want
to!' and the lash fell on the glisten-
ing, quivering flank, and with her
head pointed for the hard, open prai-
RE, the pretty creature sped like mad
over the smooth roadway and whirled
The light buggy out past the scattered
wooden tenements of the exterior
limits Of the frontier town-the tall
white staff, tipped by it's patch of
color Tapping in the mountain breeze,
and the dingy wooden buildings on
The distant bluff whirling into view
as he spun around the corner where
The village lost itself in the prairie:
and there, long reaches ahead of him,
Just winding up the ascent to the
post was a stylish team and trap.
John Folsom and the girls had taken
In early start and got ahead of him.
Old Stevens was up and about as
Solsom's carriage drove swiftly
through the garrison and passed |
straight out by the northeast gate.
I'll be back to see you in moment"
shouted the old driver smilelesslv. as |
le shot by the lonely colonel, going,
'epers in hand, to his office, and Stew
ms we'll knew he was in for trouble.
Already the story was blazing about
he post that nothing but the timely
Lrrival of Dean and his men had
aved Folsom's ranch, and Folsom's
'eople. Already the men, wondering
nd indignant at their young leaders
rrest, were shouting over the suffers
ar their peans in his praise, and their
enunciation Of his treatment. Over
ne meeting of sister and brother at
ne latter's little tent let us draw a
ell He stepped forth in a moment
nd bade his other visitors welcome,
hook hands eagerly with Loomis and
rged, their coming in, but he never
assed from under the awning or
n.y." and Folsom we'll knew the
easOn.
Jump out, daughter" he said to
'appoose,. and Loomis assisted her
alight and led her straight up to
Jean, and for the first time in those
"o years the ex-cadet captain and
he whilom little schoolgirl with the
eavy braids of hair looked into each
tner's eyes, and in Deans there was
maze, and at least :momentary de-
Qht.s He still IvOro bis Eol1 ,,;-, .-l