The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-09-29

| with the bayolet.
1.-THE children of the white devil''
had conquered once again. 1t could
not last, however. The enemy had
shown more holiness than hitherto,
the cartridges were woefully less, and
fresh attack was clearly impend-
ing.
The lieutenant's heart sank within
him, and yet he spoke few words
of praise and encouragement to his
men. His speech was never ended.
Distant but distinct there rang out
bugle-call, and then from the green
depths around came the rafting
crash of fusillade and the constant
pop, pop, pop of the ubiquitous
Maxim.
Fort Mutt was relieved.
1 splendid, my dear boy!" said n
major of the line 20 minutes later.
you have done capitally, and If i
can manage it you'll have the D.S.O.,
for you deserve it if anyone does.
Now take a pull at this"
Perhaps he guessed that the lieu
tenant was on the verge of disgracing
his manhood.
Three weeks had come and gone,
just half as long as the ordeal at
Fort Mutt had lasted, and the reliev-
ing column was cutting it's arduous
way through the dense bush to yet
another isolated post whose fate
hung in the balance.
The lieutenant had been offered his
chance to return to the coast or to
accompany the expedition, and, like
a boy, he had chosen the latter
alternative. His feeling of malaise-
those shivers down his spine, that
dragging pain, slight, but never alb
sent from his left side-should have
warned him. The surgeon did so;
but the lieutenant merely laughed
and lied to him, and threw dust in
his eyes, for the surgeon was wound
ed and scarcely so keen at a diagno-
sis as was his wont. So the lieuten-
ant journeyed with the rest, and was
wild with delight at having four
white men to talk to and something
decent to eat, while the fizz of soda
water was as the FLASHING of foun'
tains in his ears. His spirits were
high, and his head just little
swelled with success. He began to
talk big, and was somewhat of q
nuisance with his tales of how 81
; thought this" and how II did that
but his fellow-officers pardoned much
and smiled grimly. 1t was one thing
|, they told him, to fight from cover
and quite another to face death in
the open; and the lieutenant was of.
Tended and sulked, and wondered why
his head swan, and why he started
at every sudden noise from beyond
the double wall of creeper-clad trees
which hemmed in the long, snake
; like, crawling column.
He grew snappish and irritable, and
was no pleasant companion. The
others, who did not know him well
put him down as a conceited young
ass. for their test of illness was ap
petite, and the lieutenant ate lik,
horse They did not know thai
, after each meal he was sick as {
dog. The malaria, peculiar and in
sidious form, fastened upon him slow
ly; for his body had been healthy
and he was young and sober, but III
, grip was none the less sure. Hi.
poisoned blood reacted on his brain
! and as he stumbled forward he would
start at the sight of snake, ant
peer fearfully into the green screer
, behind him, where, had he but known
, /, it, glided the naked foe. At last tn,
column received sudden check
Without warning, just as its heat
debouched from the long gloomy
lane into an open space leading t.
a sluggish stream crossed by a mar
row bridge, heavy fire was opened
upon it both in front and on tn,
: TANKS. Men fell rapidly, but there
: was no graphing with the enemy
in their beloved jungle. The bridg,
must be carried and the cluster o
, mud huts beyond it captured. TIL,
major glanced about him. His senior
: officer was down, shot in the leg
. and the surgeon was already getting
a tourniquet upon his femoral Tn,
next in command was far in tn,
I rear, Dul the iieutcHdnt was ClOs'
at hand.
! take couple of dozen men ant
, clear the bridge" shouted the ma jor
q The lieutenant looked at him ant
looked at the bridge. fiimsy thing
of cane and creepers. swept by I
: hot fire from the low mud wall, abov,
, which cropped up the domed roof
, of the native huts. The brown rive
drifted sullenly beneath it. The al
:, was full of death: men were becom
. ing confused; it was no time to lin
4 ger. Mechanically the lieutenant sa
luted; but he made no move. he is
> sued no order.
9 Instead he crotlched little, and hi
;. hands shook, while his yellow lip
n went white.
do you hear me, lieutenant?
roared his commanding officer
: "Take that bridge, and at once. sir"
e Still the ping ping went on, min
4 gled now and then with dull, sicken
d ing thuds and the cry of men in pain
e or the horrid gurgle which bloo'
e makes in the threats of those VIII
die.