Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-12-13
copyrighted. 1900. by the J.,B. Lppincots Col
CHAPTER XIX.-CoNr1NuEp.

CHAPTER XIX.-CONTINUED.
Despite Drayton's cable from Ma
anila that the Identification of the re-
2mains was not conclusive to him, at
Aeast, Mrs. Foster was convinced that
Ihe murdered lad was her only boy,
and all because of that heartless
dirt, that designing-that demoniac
sarmy girl who had bewitched him
and then brought his blood upon her
own head.
eff it wasn't Walter who lies there
Slain by assassin rival. the innocent
victim of that creatures hideous van
ETY., would I not have heard from
him? Do you suppose my blessed
boy, would not instantly have cabled
10; tell me he was alive if he wasn't
.Gead?" And, indeed, that was hard
question to answer,
And to the remains of Private VIII
bard Benton, that had been viewed by
many genuinely sorrowing comrade
and slowed away with solemn mill
cary honors in vault at Pace ceme-
saery. were sealed up as. best they
could do it at Manila, and, though I'M
convinced as to their identity despite
the convictions of others in author
dty, the commanding general yielded
s4e cables from the war departmeD
and ordered their shipment to San
francisco. They were out of sight
of all signals from Corregidor when
&1artindale's cable came suggesting
search for Private Benton Willard.
Aenobia Perkins shifted contemptu-
~ously and scoffed Indignantly when
sold that the doubling Thomases
~svere gaining ground and numbers,
shat though Mr.. Stuyvesant might be
sorought to trial for killing a man, 1t
~vould not be for killing Foster until
Enore was ascertained regarding the
sactual victim. Private Connolly, re-
covered from his fever, was forever
Bunting up Farnham, the brakeman,
and devising schemes for the capture
.eof that blackguard Murray. Day and
E1ight, he maintained that Murray
'Svas the man who had accosted Clarke
and Hunter at the battery, that it
-svas probably he who, with his pals,
iarad waylaid and robbed the lone re-
-cruit returning from his quest in
East Pace, that it was he who must
Aave struggled with him before firing
she fatal shot; but not trace of
Murray or his sailor mates could the
eSecret service agents find, and mat
szers were in this most unsatisfactory
estate when at the end of November
scame the Queen of. the Fleet, dis
patched several weeks before to fetch
she troops s'sidetracked" at Honolulu,
JUST as the commanding general and
His chief surgeon were in consu1ta-
vsion as to what on earth to do with
xepobia Perkins-the woman had be-
aconte public nuisance. -
any viii because I'm an indispensable
SritHess," said she to the saturnine
'adiutant general beyond whom She
'1ever now succeeded in passing. She
was volubly berating him, to his
grim amusement, when the lattice
doors from the corridor swung open
and two officers entered.
For nearly two minutes they stood
waiting for a break in her tempest l.
Gus flow Of words. but as none came
che senior irhpatiently stepped for
ward and the adjutant general, look
ing up. sprang from his chair just as
euthe chief himself came hurrying out
} from the sanctum sanetorum and
greeted the newcomers with cordial
~ ciasping hands. The lady too had
risen.
SRSLs l. Sndii nave 10 you
gentlemen" said she, "for my bust
aaess won't keep if you propose to
keep me. 1 want to know right here
aud now, Gen. Drayton, whether Tn
10 get my pay or not; if not, I dou't
propose to wait another day in Ma
soits, and you ecan get out Of the
sscrape the. best way you know how
No one here but me could swear that
young man Foster was dead. and you
Anow it,
you've sworn TO what isn't. SO
sxnadame,s interposed the new arrival
piacidiy. Here's THAT young mar
Fosteri" and as he spoke the lattice
doors again swung open, and, very
gale, tall youth in civilian dress
svas ushered in. at sight of whom
SLaj. Farquhar fairly shouted.
How'd I get him?" said the new
eomer five minutes later. 'Founi
: ain aboard the Coptic when she met
sns as ,sve were pulling out from
Honolulu He was going back to tn