The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-17

The cry OF a fend rang out into the glim-
mering dawn outside above the noise ard
strife-Dost Mahomed's voice. / think Then
a rush of footsteps overhead, and Willie's
glad cry from the stairs:
"Bluejacketsl Bluejackets, They are
tearing up the hill"
At that moTent the door fell in with
loud crash. afdusky figure appeared in the
aperture with troop in his rear. Fred ana
Hampden darted to the opening, / turned
blind and sick for an instant as / saw the
brave fellows rush on to their death in this
way.
Again that inhuman yell: the cry of
savage worsted in the very moment of vic
tory. Dost Mahomed was calling off his
men: They took to their heels and flew in
all 6-.'>stions Through the open door we
saw troop of British seamen advancing
witt rush. led by a broad-shouldered
young officer. the gray dawn shining on
their cutlasses 1 shall never forget the
ringing cheer with which they greeted us
a spent company of bleeding men.
"All mere chance that We happened to
get here just in the nick of time" sail
Lieutenant Campbell.
Two minutes longer and we should ali
have been dead men," replied I'm Gods
mercy. how have you been sent to our
aid?'
1--WE belong to H. NJ S. Tiger. We came
in shore to get water and the men who
were landed for the purpose heard firing.
and sent off word to the captain. who dis
patched me to see what was up. / am
afraid those fellows have given you a hot
time"
. A hot time indeed. We were all more or
less wounded; even Willie had torn his
hands with the jagged edges of the tin box
in his vigorous efforts to hurl it down upon
Ithe heads Of the rebels.
The lieutenant placed men in charge of
the station and carried US all off with him
&c the ship that we might make full re-
Fort to the captain, and have our wounds
properly seen to by the ships surgeon.
We all obtained speedy promotion for
that nights work, and was summoned to
headquarters. The lads took almost
fearful leave of me. Hampden wrung my
hand in silence.
AS the vessel steamed out into the Ara
han sea, stood aft and gazed wistfully
LANDMARKS. The sun cleaned whitley upon
a marble cross beneath a group of palms.
tifdl IHdrkeu the idSt TeSllHS place. VI the
remains of poor Jack Welby.
As soon as business would permit after 1
reached London, went down to see Squire
Welby and Rose to convey certain posses
sions that had belonged to Jack, and TO
give them the last painful particulars. 1
had, of course, been in communication with
them by letter, and they had had time to
become somewhat resigned to their loss.
To my surprise L found that Jacks death
would make all the difference in the world
f! to me. AS / was by no means inclined to
| relinquish the idea of marrying Rose, the
| squire insisted upon my leaving the tels
graph service, and settling down with
| them, taking Jacks place as far as possi
| BILE.
| Although I had spoken freely to all Of
| anything that could give comfort, told no
| one but Rose of how Hampden and l had
| seen Jack on the evening of the attack.
LAS he could not explain 1t in any other
way, Hampden insisted that our vision of
| him must have been hallucinatory. New
| ertheless. / saw him, Rose. 1 saw him as
certainly as 1 ever saw anything in my
life, although Hampden says it is quite iT-
Icssible that he could have been alive at
the time"
Rose nestled up to me, her head on my
| shoulder, her soft cheek close to mine.
II have no doubt that you saw him, dear
| boy. His soul was free, and he could come
| to YOU" Then she added, softly. Dear.
| dear Jack! He knew that could not live
Unless l had either him or you. and ne
wanted you to get back to the station
where you would be comparatively safe :"
| Although 1 must admit that Roses ex-
| PLANTATION of the mysterious occurrence L
| have related is not one which generally
| &C mmends itself to reason, it better meets
| the facts of the case than does Hampden's.