News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-02-28


they and the station master handcuffed
him securely. As soon as the mail bag
was slipped, he began expressing his
opinions, and the head constable said:
without doubt this is the soldier Eng
lishman we required. Listen to the
sbusel" Then Golightly asked the sta
ton master what the this and the that
the proceedings meant. The station
master told him he was "Private John
Binkle of the - regiment, feet g
inches, fair hair. gray eyes and dissi-
pated appearance, no marks on the
body" who had deserted fortnight
ago. Golightly began explaining at
great length, and the more he explained
the less the station master believed him.
He said that no lieutenant could look
such a ruffian as did Golightly, and
that his instructions were to send his
capture under proper escort to Cmrlt-
sar. Golightly was feeling very damp
and uncomfortable, and the language
he used was not fit for publication,
even in an expurgated form. The four
constables saw him safe to Umritsar in
an intermediate compartment, and
he spent the four hour journey in abus-
ing them as fluently as his knowledge
of the vernaculars allowed.
At Umritsar he was bundled out on
the platform into the arms of corporal
and two men of the - regiment. Go
lightly drew himself up and tried to
carry off matters jauntily. He did not
feel too jaunty in handouts, with four
constables behind him and the blood
from the cut on his forehead stiffening
on his left cheek. The corporal was not
jocular either. Golightly got as far as,
This is a very absurd mistake, my
men, when the corporal told him to
''stow his lip and come along. Go
lightly did not want to come along. He
desired to stop and explain. He ex-
planned very well indeed until the cor
poral cut in with You a OFFICER It's
the like of you as brings disgrace on
the likes of us. Bloomin fine OFFICER
you arel | know your regiment. The
'Rogues' March is the quickstep where
you come from You're black shame
to the service.
Golightly kept his temper and began
explaining all over again from the be-
ginning Then he was marched out Of
the rain into the refreshment room and
told not to make a qualified fool of
himself The men were going to run
him up to Fort Govindghar And ''run-
ming up is a performance almost as
undignified as the Frog March. -
Golightly was nearly hysterical with
rage and the chill and the mistake and
the handouts and the headache that
the cut On his forehead had given him.
He really laid himself out to express
what was in his mind. When he had
quite finished and his throat was feel
ing dry, one of the men said, 'I've
card few beggars in the click blind,
stiff and crack on bit, but I've never
card any one to touch this ere 'orfi-
Ger. " They were not angry with him.
They rather admired him. They had
some beer at the Tefreshment room and
'ffered Golightly some, too, because he
mad "swore won 'erful. They asked
him to tell them all about the adven-
lures of Private John Binkle while he
was loose on the countryside, and that
made Golightly wilder than ever. If he
| had kept his wits about him. he would
have kept qniet until an officer came,
I but he attempted to run
| Now, the butt of Martini in the
small of your back hurts great deal,
| nj .,,,l,n1 Irhn1yi fan
easily when two men are jerking at
your collar
Golightly rose from the floor feeling
very sick and giddy, with his shirt rip.
| ped open all down his breast and nearly
all down his back He yielded to his
luck, and at that point the down train
from Lahore came in carrying one OF
Golightly's majors.
This is the majors evidence in full
There was the sound of a scuffle il
the second class refreshment room, so
went in and saw the most villainou'
loafer that ever set eyes on. His boot'
and breeches were plastered with muC
and beer stains He wore a muddy
white dun9hill sort of thing ON his hea(
and it hung dow2 in slips on his shoul
ders which were good deal scratched
He was half in and half out of shir
as nearly in two pieces as it could be
and he was begging the guard to lool
at the name on the tail of it. AS he ha(
rucked the shirt all over his head,
couldn' at first see who he was, but
fancied that he was man in the frs
stage Of d. 7. from the way he swor'
while he wrestled with his rags. WheI
he turned round, and had made allow
ances for a lump as big as a pork pi,
over one eye and some green war pain
on the face and some violet stripes
round the neck, saw that it was Go
lightly. He was very glad to see me,
said the major, "and he hoped woult
not tell the mess about it | didn't, bn
you can, if you like, now that Golightl!
has gone home. :"
Golightly spent the greater part o
that summer in trying to get the cor
poral and the two soldiers tried b.
court martial for arresting an "office
and gentleman They were, o
course, very sorry for their error. Blu
Che tale leaked into the regimental car
teen and thence ran about the province