Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-17
CHAPTER IX.


 Vinton's fleet reached Manila. 4 third expedition had coaled at Hon olulu and gone on its way. More transports were coming, and stil there fingered in this lovely land O. sun and fingered 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 Q: the Kanaka boatboy. supplementins the young officers stentorian shou1 for the police, had brought two o1 three Hawaiian star, bearers and clut wielders to the scene of that fierce and well-nigh fatal struggle. All they found was the gallant victim writh ing in pain upon the dock, his hanc pressed to his side and covered witl the blood that poured from his wounds.
 It was half an hour before sur geon reached them, rowed in with the general from the Vanguard. By that time consciousness had fled, 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 the 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 bunkers, 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 fotil1a 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 SUD- planted by the stars and stripes of their new hope and aspirations. He was sitting up, languid, 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 q quizzical grin on his genial face, informed his patient that some Red Cross nurses were with the com mand, and that two very nice-looking 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 share of the glory he felt sure await ed his comrades at Manila, Stuyve- sant 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 point upon it, MT. Stuy- vesant said he didn't wish to be bothered" and this was practically the reply that reached two very ear- nest, kind-hearted young women. for the attendant, scenting the possible loss of big fee if he should be sup planted by superior attractions, com municated the invalids 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 nc+~r r-re a-I '+e yc-rtie, blinds