St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-11-26

could be done. A baby held tho fo,t
AS Craig listened to the ocoo,,tI /"
the fight he tried hard not 70 onn ,a' VI
but he could not keep the CLEAN o ort
his eyes, and as l pictured Cr wa. VI
dashing back the crowd thronptn@ ' n
barricade till he was brought dovSn tHe
the chair Craig laughed gently ard W
MS hand on Graeme's knee and ~ put
went on to describe my agony , 49,
ldaho's fingers were gradually noo "l,le
the knife his face grew pale and lug
eyes grew wide with horror N HlS
"Baptiste here did the business,
SAID, and the little Frenchman noda.i
complacently and said: '''eu
Oats me for sure"
by the way, how is your footqY 81,
ed Graeme. ask
He's fuss rate. OATS what Won at,
-one bite of-Of-dat leel bees 1I I%L
dere; you put your finger dere, he's nae
dere. What you call him?" "0'
"Flea!" l suggested.
oul! cried Baptiste. Oats one
bite of flea" o"e
Il was thankful I was undnr a..
barrels" l replied, smiling. 'u'
"Oui! OATS max me YER mad
Jump and swear mos awful bad noe.
pardon me, Msieu Craig, heh?v
But Craig only smiled at him rou,..
sadly. ''"VI
1T was awfully risky he soid -
Graeme, land it was hardly worth i
They'll get more whisky, and anvrar
the league is gone"
"Well," said Graeme, with a. SIGH ~
satisfaction, sit is not quite sncb
one sided affair as it was"
And we could say nothing in ron,r
for we could hear Nixon snoring in tbo
next room, and no one had heard of
Billy, and there were others Of ho
league that we knew were even nov,
down at Slayins. 1t was thought hos,
that all should remain in Mr. Craio,s
shack, not knowing what might han.
pen, and so we lay where We corId
and we needed none to sing Ms to
sleep
When I awoke, stiff and sore. it was
to find breakfast ready and old man
Nelson in charge. As we were seated
Craig came in, and saw that he was
not the man of the night before His
courage had come back; his face was
quiet and his eye clear He was his
own man again.
"Geordie has been out all night. but
has failed to find Billy" he announced
quietly.
We did not talk much. Graeme and
l worried with our broken bones. and
the others suffered from a general
morning depression. But after break
fast, as the men were beginning to
move, Craig took down his Bible. and
saying, wait few minutes. men,"
be read slowly. in his beautiful clear
voice, that psalm for all fighters
God is our refuge and strength"
and so on to the noble words:
1.-THE Lord of Hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge"
How the mighty words pulled us to-
5ether, lifted us till we grew ASHAMED
If our ignoble rage ard of our isnoble
iepressionl
And then Craig prayed in simple,
words. There was &C.
Of failure but l knew
lie was thinking chiefly of himself;
here was gratitude, and that was for
he men about him, and felt my face
'urn with shame; there was a petition
or help, and we all thought of Nixon
md Billy and the men Weakening from
heir debauch at Slayin's this pure.
fright morning. Then he asked that
We might be made faithful and worthy
# God, whose battle it was. Then We
ii stood up and shook hands with him
n silence, and every man knew coy
nant was being made. But none saw
lis meeting with Nixon, He sent us all
way before that.
Nothing was heard Of the destruction
f the hotel stock in trade. Unpleasant
ucstions would certainly be asked
nd the proprietor decided to let bad
lone. On the point of responsibility
he success Of the ball was not con-
picuous, but the antleague men were
Ontent if not jublant
Billy Breen was found by Geordie
lite in the afternoon in his own old
nd deserted shack, breathing heavily
oyered up in his filthy, moldering bed
Iothes, with a half empty bottle Of
'hisky at his side. Geordie's grief and
lge were beyond even his Scotch con-
'ol. He spoke few words, but these
ere of such concentrated vehemence
nat no one felt the need of AbeS as
stance in vocabulary.
Poor Billy! We carried him to Mrs.
LaVor's home, put him in warm
ath, rolled him in blankets and gave
i'm little sips of hot water, then of
OF milk and coffee, as | had seen 4
ever doctor in the hospital treat 4
mllar case of nerve and heart de-
'ession. But the already weakened
stem could not recover from the aW'
II shock of the exposure following the
eDauch, and on Sunday afternoon we
w that his heart was failing fast
II day the miners had been dropping
to inquire after him, for Billy had
zen great favorite in other days,
Id the attention of the town had been
lmiringly centered upon his fight OF