Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-11-06
way stood the girl, watching them

lway stood the girl, watching them
With wide eyes, silently.
l lowered about them, with drawn
sword, resolved that. honor or no honor,
this man should not escape, but re-
strained more by my instructive re-
spect for Curtis standards than by any
sense of chivalry from taking active
part. So in my bewilderment and with
the misery of this episode in my heart
did not fail to see late how Hazetine
as he twisted about, gradually APP
preached the big trees, nor guess his
purpose, until on q sudden he made
two lunges and then, turning tail like
any cur, darted in under them, and
hidden by the darkness made off. ]
fired both my pistols at him, but he was
gone And then turned on Curtis:
Now you see what your miserable
honor has done for u.s." I cried.
1T but shows him the greater das-
tard."
But what good does that do, since
our idiotic standard has let the man
go? 7 will be fine reason to give to
our general. And do YOU perchance
realize that neither your life nor mine
is worth penny from now on?"
The coward!" cried Curtis quietly
as he sheathed his sword. Who could
nave lIlOu6IlI he MOuIO So run from u
fair fight? Fear not, mani" he added
hastily. as made gesture Of disgust
for by that 1 was beyond words. "Feal
not! He is not worth a thought. When
next meet him I'll crush him like q
worm"
~ cannot understand you, man,
cried 1, bitterly. Il cannot talk of it
Let US GO, in Gods name, from this
place" And we did.
Mistress Philipse would not speak TIC
me, nor look at me. And as l stepped
to her side, placing her between hel
brother and myself, she crossed III
front of him to the farther side. In al
that walk back she vouchsafed not 8
word neither to me nor to him, and
nothing happened as we walked on ir
silence. except that we came upon Ac-
ton stationed some distance below
brought there by Curtis when he haG
arrived in the city and decided to fol
low us at once, fearing an ambuscade
So we came to old st. Paul's church
yard, hard by which | judge Philipse
lived, and as Acton and l walked or
in silence, / saw hNr cling to her new.
found brother, and heard her sob ant
beSeech him to stay, not to leave her
And as we passed out of earshot
could hear her crying softly: "Oh, Rob
Rob dear, why is it all so strange ant
/ wrong, my brother dear.
Soon he was by us again, alone, will
the same cool, calm face, that now tt
us, Acton and me, had a deep ant
dreadful meaning in it's forever sombe
and sad lines. Then we came to lowe
Broadway, and to No 2, where he lDad'
us all enter; for, he said, we should b,
found at Mrs Hodges, and there tn
old half-ruined house was now fire.
from suspicion and deserted There W.
/ lay for the rest of the night. / coul'
not sleep. for my anger at the man
escape soon faded before the wretched
ness and misery that fate and her lacl
of belief In me had brought upon ms
1 cared little whether we We're tallel
OR not, for with this evening and da.
hope and promise of the future died.
1t was not true love that could doub
QUICKLY. And. God forgive ME for fl
in my hope.essness / told myself tina
she was not what / had come to believ
her. And then, as / looked back upo
it, l Logan to see that. feeling as sh
did against the American cause, an
Knowing what | was in the city for, sll
might We'll think / had taken advant
/ age of her situation to draw my mar
And | put my head in my hands, as
| sat there in the darkness, and erie
like any baby for the very wretched
ness of it all, for the loss of SO man
fair hopes. for the end of day-elreal
that | had thought a reality.