Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-09-27
CHAPTER TX.


Vinton's fleet reached Manila. A
third expedition had coaled at Hon
olulu and gone on its way. More
transports were coming, and still
there fingered in this lovely land of
sun and fiowers-lingered for a time
'twixt life and death-Vinton's strick-
en- aid-de-camp, Lieut.. Stuyvesant.
Of his brutal antagonist no trace
had been found. The shrill cries of
the Kanaka boatboy, supplementing
the young officers stentOrian shout
for the police, had brought two or
three Hawaiian star bearers and club
wielders to the scene of that fierce
and well-nigh fatal struggle All they
found was the gallant victim with
ing in pain upon the dock, his hand
pressed to his side and covered with
the blood that poured from his
wounds.
It was half an hour before a sur
geon. reached them, rowed in with the
general from the Vanguard. By that
time consciousness had fed, and,
through loss of the vital fluid, Stuy
vesant's pulse was well-nigh gone.
They bore him to the Royal Hawaiian,
where a cool and comfortable room
could be had, and there, early on the
following morning, and to the care
of local physicians, the general was
compelled to leave him.
With the brakeman to aid them,
the police searched every nook and
corner of che Miowera, and without
result. Murray, alias Spence, alias
Sackett, fugitive from justice, could
not be aboard that ship unless he
had burrowed beneath the coal in the
bunl1ers, in which event the stokers
promised he should be shoveled into
the furnace as soon as discovered.
Every sailors lodging house in the
town was ransacked, but to no pur-
pose. Murray could not be found.
For a fortnight Stuyvesant's fate
was in doubt. Officers of the third
expedition could carry with them to-
Manila only the hope that he might
recover. Not until the ships of the
fourth f1otilla were sighted was the
doctor able to say that the chances
were now decidedly in his favor.
He was lifted into reclining chair
the day of the flag raising-that pa
thetic ceremony in which. through
tear-dimmed eyes, the people saw
their old and much-loved emblem sup
planted by the stars and stripes of
their new hope and aspirations. He
was sitting up, 1anguid, pallid and
grievously thin, when the tidings
reached him that the transport with
six troops of the -th cavalry, among
others, had arrived, and the doctor,
with a quizzical grin on his genial
face, informed his patient that some
Red Cross nurses were with the COM
mand, and that two very nice-lool<ing
young women, in their official caps.
aprons and badges, were at that mo-
ment inquiring at the office if they
could not see the invalid officer and
be of some service to him.
Sore in body and spirit, wrathful
at the fate that robbed him of a
share of the glory he felt sure await
ed his comrades at Manila, Stuyve-
SAINT was in no humor for a joke, and
plainly showed it. He gave it dis
tinctly to be understood that he need
| ed no coddling of any kind and pre-
ferred not to see the ladies, no mat
ter what they belonged to. Not to
put too fine a point upon it, Mr.. Stuy-
vesant said he didn't swish to be
bothered and this was practically
the reply that reached two very ear
nest, kind-hearted young women, for
the attendant. seeming the possible
loss of a big fee if he should be sup
planted by superior attractions, COM
municated the invalid's exact words
to the Red Cross nurses, and they
went back, wounded, to their ship
Stuyvesant's room was on the
ground floor in one of the outlying
cottages and its Venetian blinds
opened on the broad and breezy
veranda. It was far more quiet and
retired than apartments in the main
building, the rooms overhead being
vacant and the occupants of that
which adjoined his having left for
San Francisco within a day or two of
his coming
SCI feel too forlorp to see anybody
was his explanation to the doctor.
$50 don't let anybody in." But sew
| eral officers from the transport got
leave to come ashore and take quar-
tiers at the Hawaiian. The rooms
| above had to be given to them, and
| their resounding footsteps made him
| vince.
There's two ladies TO take this