Arizona republican., 1902-08-03

soIlt Has d ldlI JlSAiOIIp pQl NdH- not tell the color of her eyes, for l did | not look at her closely
 Its Sallie." replied Willie joyously | in a tone of conviction. Where am ! ?" was his next question.
 Don't you know" she asked He | shook his head
 You are in a hospital in Brooklyn l and you were brought here two weeks | ago from Cuba
 Willie opened his eyes in astonish- | ment. and wanted to ask several more | questions, but she forbid him talking any more for the present, and smooth ing his pillow left him, but in a happy frame of mind. for the knowledge that Sallie was there was the best tonic for him. When the ward surgeon visited him later he looked at Willie critically and said. Hello, young man; l see that you are alive at last, and what is more you will not die this time. though you have had a hard siege of it.'
 Sallie did not call again until the next day. and Willie's face lighted up with joy when she entered the ward. The nurse saw her and said some thing that caused the blood to mount in her face. and the crimson had not ulSdpp6dISu Nilell SIl1 TGuCuGu tlle sue of Willie.
 After the greetings were over, Willie asked her to tell him how she knew he was there.
 T will tell you briefly" she answered When no letters came to me from you l began to worry. I heard nothing of you for some time after you landed in Cuba, but I read a very glowing ac- | of ba h,n hI-I and your friend Blinkie, or Howard, in saving the life of drowning man when the expedition was landing It was then that I knew how proud I | was I was of my soldier boy" She di- gressed for the moment and continued archly: II did not know how much 1
 really cared for you until then.
 Then came the news of the battle
 of Las Guasimas, and the reports were
 very contradictory. It was first said
 that the Rough Riders had been en- l tirely annihilated. but happily the re- port was immediately contradicted. Then there was a long silence, broken at last by the news of the battle of San Juan hill. Among the list of the missing was your name. l was in great
 distress and finally thought of your friend Blinkie. and wrote him for con- firmation of the news of your disap- pearance. He answered at once and
 told me everything from the time of
 your leaving the American camp to go
 on mission to the Spanish camp. He
 related how you had been rescued from
 the Spaniards by Cuban girl named
 Marcella and her brother. and finally
 how you had been wounded after your
 brave deed in cutting a way through
 
 men had fallen in attempting the feat.
 Do you know that you are famous?"
 she asked. and without waiting for a
 reply continued: your bravery in cut
 ting the wires has been published in
 nearly every paper in the county, to-
 gether with your heroism in the camp , of the enemy. Your friends Marcella
 and Blinkie also come in for their
 share of praise. and Marcella's s work in , the hospital was eulogized all over the . country. She is in the city now and I have brought you a paper containing . an interview with her on the Cuban , question and also history of her life
 Well. 1 will go back to my story. l she said. When I learned that you 7 had been sent to New York I per- suaded papa to allow me to come here to visit an aunt that I have not seen | since l was a child. Papa granted : me permission to come, and when 5 reached New York. the first thing did after visiting my aunt was to be- l gin the search for you. I visited every 2 hospital in New York and was abou l to despair of finding you when l thought to write to the war department ! concerning you. I stated that you hat
 been wounded and had been sent hers 3 in hospital ship.
 Tn a few days I received an answer stating that you were in this hospital l came here, but you were in. a delr- ! ium and the surgeons candidly told m, | that you would not recover.
 Now you know all about it. so tel me something of yourself
 V He told her everything from the tim, Il he had last written to her, and wheI
 he came to the point where he haC |, jumped overheard to save the drownin. man he asked her if she knew who i e was that he and Binkie had saved Q She replied in the negative, when h, a said that it was their common enemy 6 Morris, she evinced her astonishmen = and said Blinke had not told her O e that in his letter.
 l. II wonder what became of the trait $ or?, Willie said. The last time I say $ him he was lyin wounded in the fiel, e hospital at San Juan
 Why, don't you know" asked Salli t. in astonishment. Why he was kille, l. in the hospital the day before .-ol Y. were taken away. He was shot b. Il sharpshooters located in the trees nea
 the hospital
 .e Willie was silent for a minute, the d he said: He has passed out of ou e lives an I guess We will leave hin . rest"
 st After that Sallie visited the hospita
 often and at each visit she found Vii v lie steadily improving.
 V, One day about ten days after his re Il turn to consciousness smart lookin n soldier with d beautiful woman wit IS dark eyes and hair to match ehtere Il the hospital anl inquired for Willie l- They entered the ward and Willie
 looking up. saw approaching him hi - o1d COmr16a Rlipl-ia u-itl, tho