The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-06

.n,rd Of the pay that he could get In
I'm
civil life.
..Nriss Won can call me any kind or
t,.,,+a Won want to. but when it comes 10
the CAPTAIN I'm bound to speak up. Drule
is II? I'm known him to walk when ne
was sicker'n his horse. I'm seen MIN sleep
oold and give his blanket to one OF ms
men. But he didn't sayit loud enough III
the whole camp to hear here you d, g.
old man. take my blanket! He JUST salt :
higgins, take this blanket. Iha' iia
re wae horn to it. And I'm thinking
it's a good thing some or us was WI" W
it or thered be no order.
Having delivered himself Of this little
lecture. the sergeant pointed straight ior
the cantain's office, where 1t happened
that that very brutal officer was In the
midst of letter making still anotner at
temnt to get two brave men, whose lives
he knew depended upon 1t, started lot
home on the next transport.
pixies been filling Miss Dodswortn up
with CUFF and she takes his part ne
reported. "She called me brute anu
wouldn't listen to my advice. overheard
her saw she was going to give him cham
pagne.'
osupposing she did give him cham
pagne?"
'SToo much who's the seat of his trouble
anyway. 'Twould set him off"
"And maybe he would forget tnat SICK
leg and we would have indisputable evil
dence of his shamming:'
"Mebbe. Yes, sir
"Well let the matter stand.
Then the captain picked up duplicat
ing pad and sent this note marked copy
to Miss Dodsworth:
pike is suffering from alcoholism ano'
&c mo linUprRT SVTnnA-
thy shown to him will be derogatory TO
discipline / trust that you will realize
the bad effect of questioning the SER
geant's authority before the men,"
1t merely increased the receivers vexa-
ton. Instead of going to the Luneta be-
fore dinner she went to the commissary.
As there were no pint bottles in stock
she got quart bottle of champagne.
When she gave a glass to Pike he SAID
il was life 90 him, only he was so weak
that It had little effect. Eventually, he
wheeded three glasses out OF her.
'I'n come to see you the first thing in
the morning." she said. BE of good hear.
I'm going to see the general about your
case myself
II she could have seen how ravenously
his eve followed the bottle as she took
IL out of the ward it would not have
prepared her, but 1t would certainly have
prepared the sergeant, for what followed.
AT one o'clock in the morning she was
awakened by a noise at her window. She
sprang up and looked to see, ghoulish in
expression by the light Of the match he
had Just struck Pixies face.
Come to get the rest of that cham
payne, my angel" he said, in maudlin
voice.
The idea OF calling upon her had not
occurred to him until, after crawling cat
like in the shadows. to avoid the sentries.
TO the officers kitchen, he had reinforced
his Imagination with a pint of sherry.
Miss Dodsworth who was alone in her
quarters, called to him Historically to
leave her window BY way of reply he
began to crawl in. She ran to the door
and out Of IT, not knowing where she
would 80 70 escape from this beast at
that hour when the streets we're desert
ed. until she saw that there was still a
light IN the ONCE OF the bloody military
tyrant who held sway over Military Hos
pital Number /.
He was interrupted in writing q report
by the appearance OF a young woman in
paJamas and a state OF terror, Who cried