The Lambertville record., 1901-03-06


train brought it past our station where
It rested for Il day and then moved
on. In II dclilc II niles to the north
of us II was ambushod hy over n thou.
sand daColts and suffered II severe
misfortune There was not only II
heavy loss in killed aud wounded, but
the treasure and portion of the sup
| plies Wr.e captured and run of.
| The remnant of the train returned
to u .lI went into camp until rc-cn-
| foreementa could come up and the
bullet headed tyrannlcal Colonel KEN.
Bile, whose obstlnacy and recklcssncss
had brought about the disaster. pro
ceedcd TO make 1t rcdhot for every
body Any set Of men except British
soldiers would have mutinicd and
taken his life Raging over his de-
feat and feeling his hclplessness, he or
dered out dctnchmcnts aud command
ed them to bring in every native they
could overhaul II was well populat-
ed country. with hundreds Of loyal ma.
tlves To be picked up, but the colonel
proceeded tp look upon each aud every
one as guilty Of having had hand
In the attack on the train. More than
score were shot or hung oiihaud,
willie others were whipped nt the post
or ordered out Of the district II was
reign Of terror for three weeks, aud
the end wns II fitting one.
My own detachment one day brought
In mere boy whom we had found
covering in II thiclcl do not believe
he had the slightest knowledge Of the
ambush or took any part in IT, He was
tuld lad, whose father had been one
of the frat ones hung, aud he was so
frightened that but little could be got
out Of him The colonel hulldo2ed aud
browbcut him and finally ordered hls
execution on tic ground that he was
| spy. II was only when he knew th
he must dla that the young fellow
braced up and showed his courage, and
us he was being led away to execution
he said to the colonel.
"Sahib Colonel. | ain innocent and
you viii be punished for my death.
You may shoot me and bury my body,
but my spirit will follow you to the
grave"
Half an hour later he Wns dead, but
he was the last one to be executed.
That evening as the colonel entered the
officers mess tent for supper all Of us
noticed that he had a queer, troubled
| look on his face and that he cast fur
five glauces behind him. After bit
he tried to be jocular, but the effort
was failure. He said something
about not feeling we'll but nobody dar-
ed question him. At midnight that
night we got an explanation. The
| colonel called the sentinel into his
tent, and with white face and trem-
bling voice and the perspiration stand
ing out on hts forehead he said:
MAN, do yon see that boy sitting on
the cheat|
81 see nobody, sir" replied the senti-
mel
"He is there, l tell you! lie fol-
lowed me to mess and back, ana he
has been here in plain sight all tho
evening. Take him away"
"But there's nobody here, sir"
And there wasn't. The sentinel call
ed In two officers, who looked and
searched in vain and assured Colonel
Kemble that no boy was present. He
tried to turn it off with laugh, but In
less than u hours every man In camp
knew that the colonel was haunted by
a specter. He mado n brave effort TO
bluff 1t out, but 1t was useless. The
specter followed at his heels by day
and sat by his bedside at night, and
in week the strong. aggressive man
was becoming mental wreck. He
turned to us for pity and sympathy,