Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-06-07

~ I'LL Aouk anu "lAoihb UP ny us
sertation on Billy Rays pretty
daughter and "wally" Fosters in
fatuation. Farquhar said 1t was the
general belief that Maidie liked Wal
ly mighty we'll and would marry him
were he only in the army. And Stuy-
vesant wondered how it was, in all
the years he had known Farquhar
and envied him his being a West
Pointer and in the cavalry, he had
never really discovered what bore,
what wearisome ass, Farquhar
could be.
Then just as Miss Ray was report
ed sitting up and soon to be able to
"see her friends"-with what smiling
significance did Mrs. Brent SO assure
him!-whaS should Stuyvesant's gen
eral do but select Stuyvesant himself
to go on voyage of discovery to
Iloilo and beyond. The commanding
general wanted competent officer
who spoke Spanish TO make certain
line Of investigation. He consulted
Vinton. Vinton thought another voy-
age the very thing for stuyvesant,
and SO suggested his name.
1t sent the luckless Gothamite
away just at the time Of all others
he most wished to remain. When he
returned, within a dozen days, the
first thing was to submit his written
report. already prepared aboard
ship. The next was to report him
self in person at Col. Brent's. to be
| asked into the presence of the girl
he loved and longed to see, and, as
has been told, ushered out almost
Immediately, self-detailed, in search
of Sandy.
He had found the lad easily
enough, but not so the man with the
At, whom, for reasons of his own
and from what he had seen and
heard, Stuyvesant was most anxious
to overtake. His carriage whirled
him rapidly past the parade ground
and over to the First ReServe hos
pital. whittier he thought the victim
had been borne, but no civilian, with
or without Ats. had recently been adj
United.
Inquiry among convalescent pa
TENTS and soldiers along the road
without resulted at last in his find
ing one of the party that carried the
stricken man from the field. He had
come to, said the volunteer, before
they had gone quarter of mile, had
soused his head in water at a
hydrant, rested minute, offered
them a quarter for their trouble,
buttoned up the light coat that had
been torn open in his struggle, and
nervously but positively declared
himself all right and vastly obliged,
had then hailed passing carromatta,
and been whisked away across the
moat and drawbridge into the old
city. There all trace was lost OF
him.
Baffled and troubled. Stuyvesant or.
dered his goodman to take him to
the Luneta. The crowd had disap-
peared. The carriages were nearly
all departed. The lights were twink
ling here and there all over the
placid bay. 1t was still nearly an
hour to dinner-time at the generals
mess, and he wiahed to be alone to
think over matters, to hear the sooth.
ing plash and murmur of the little
waves, and Stuyvesant vowed in his
wrath and vexation that Satan him.
self must be managing his affairs
for, over and above the longed-fol
melody Of the rhythmic waters, he wa.
hailed by the buzz-saw stridencies OF
Miss Perkins, whose first words gave
the lie to themselves.
"Tm all out of breath, and so het
up runnin' after you can't talk, but
l was just bound to see you, an I've
been to your house so often the sol
diers laugh at me. Those young mer
haven't any sense of decency or re
spect, but I'll teach 'em, and yo,
see they'll sing another song. Wher,
can we sit DOWN." continued the lady
her words chasing each Others heel
in her breathless haste. These lazy
worthless Spanish officers take ever,
seat along here. Why, here! YOU
carriage will do, an I've got thou
sand things to say!" ("Heaven b,
merciful," groaned stuyvesant to him
self) II saw you driving, and l tolt
my cabman to catch you If he had t,
fog the hide off his horse. Come
aren't you-don't you want to 81
DOWN. do, anyhow! There's n
comfort in my cab. Here, I'll dismis
1t now. You can just drop me on tn
way home, you know. I'm Twin,
down the Gale Real few blocks thi
| side of you. All the soldiers kno,
me, and II they had their say
wouldn't be the stuck-up Red Cros
that's flirting with doctors and livin
high on the dainties our folks sen
over. The boys are all right. tt
your generals that have ignored tn
P. D. AS, and I'll show em presen,
ly what miss they've made. Wal
till the papers get the letters I hav
written. But, say"-("And this is tn
woman thought might be literary!
moaned Stuyvesant as he meekly 70
lowed to the little open carriage ane
with SILVER, assisted his angula
visitor to a seat.)
y Key she shouted, "A Ike!
cochero! No quiere mas hoy. Me-
nanal Ocho! Sabe, cocheroP Ocho
Now on'tchewbe-what's late j
their lingo, anyhow? 'Tisn't tardy,
know; that's afternoon. Tardeeo
Thank you. Now-well, just sit dow
first, lieutenant. You see we kno,
how to address officers by their titles
if the Red Cross don't. I'd teach 'el
to Mister me if was an officer. Nov
what I want to see you about first