Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-11-20

chunn 80. sendeavor TO see her. ia. tell
her st his desperate straits. to I'M
Splore her to exert influence to get him
vpardoned, and, in order that she might
know that his envoy was duly accred-
3lteb he sent Willard his chief treas
ure, that little cartc-de-yisite, topeth-
er with a few imploring lines.
Then not word came from willard
Tor three mortal weeks, but Fosters
daily visits to the bank were at last
rewarded by a dispatch from home
bidding him return at tonce by first
steamer, sending him abundant means
and assuring him all would be well.
And when the news of his own MUIR
der was published in the Hong-Kong
papers, without the faintest intima-
ton to the officials of the bank as to
his Intentions, he was homeward
bound and never heard a word of it
all until recognized by an officer
aboard the Queen us the Coptic float
ed into Honolulu harbor. There he
was arrested and turned back.
Among ''Billy Benton's'' few effects
no letters, no such picture, had been
found, nothing, in fact, to connect
him with Foster. Col. Brent knew
what had become of the carte-de=vis-
ite, but how happened it in other
hands than those of Benton? That,
too, was not long to be a mystery.
One day in late December forlorn-
looking fellow begged a drink of the
bartender at the Alhambra on the
Escolta-said he was out of money,
deserted by his friends, and took occa-
sion to remind the dispenser of fluid
refrcshment that a. few weeks ago
when he had funds and friends both he
had spent many a dollar there. The
bartender waved him away.
cave, give the Teller drink" said
boys in blue, in the largeness of their
nature and the language of the ranks.
"What'll you take, Johnny? Have one
with u.s." and one of the managers
fastened over and whispered to some
of the fanncl-shirted squad, but to
no purpose.
The "boys" were bent on benevo-
lence, and "beat" though he might be,
the gaunt stranger was made vel
come, shared their meat and drink,
and, growing speedily confidential in
his cups, told them that he could tell
a tale some folks would pay we'll 20
hear, and then proceeded to stiffen out
in fit.
This brought to mind the event on
the Bagumbayan, and somebody said
If wa G sstho Como foJ1or ;f ~ ~, ~, -, =,
fit," and it wouldn't do to leave him
there. They took him along in their
cab and across to their barracks by
the Puente Colgante, and doctor
ministered to him, for it was plain the
poor fellow was in sore plight, and a
few days later a story worth the tell
ing was going the rounds. The good
chaplain of the Californians had heard
his partial confession and urged him
to tell the whole truth, and that night
the last vestige of the crumbling case
against Gerard Stuyvesant came tum-
bling to earth, and Connolly, from the
Quartet de Meisic, nearly ran his
sturdy legs off to find FarnRam and
tell him the tale.
my real name,'' said the broken
man, "is of no consequence to any
body. 1 soldiered nearly ten years ago
in the Seventh cavalry, but that fight
at Wounded Knee was too much for
my nerve, and the boys made life a
burden to me afterwards. took on
in another regiment after I skipped
from the Seventh, but luck was
against me. We were sent to Fort
Meade, and there was a gambler in
Deadwood, Sackett by name, who had