The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-01

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| He bathcd his comrades head.
| stores and supplies into the far terri
! tory. but took little out Gold being tine
| monetary standard OF California at the
| time. IL cost captain a months pay
| 10 take a two weeks voyage. The gov
| ernment paid the way into the territory
In the case OF officers going under orders.
and once landed there. a man speeoliy
| found himself too poor 10 think OF re-
| turning. Therefore was the stout mariner
| who commanded the Idaho more than
| surprised 10 find two army officers on his
| scanty passenger list. Turnbull he had
| met before. Loring was a strangre.
Make yourselves comfortable. gentle
| men,, said he. You practically own the
ship till we get to Guaymas There we
| pick up some Mexican families going to
| Frisco and two mighty pretty girls"
Who are they?" asked Turnbull Ian
guidly as he sat on the upper deck. heels
| lifted on the taffrail. gazing out over an
apparently limitless plain. half dim vista
OF far spreading sand, half OF star dotted.
| 1aw1ess sa1t water, The smoke or his cigar
curling lazlly aloft as the black hull rode
at anchor.
Daughters OF old Roman de la Cruz,
for two that / know OF. and some cousin
of theirs, / believe. They came aboard
on our up trip. The old man likes our
] tap OF champagne and doesn't care what
1t costs. He has more ready cash than
any Mexican / know. You're a married
man. colonel. but how about the lieuten-
| ant here?'
| Loring, still pallid and listless, smiled
| feebly and shook his head.
We'll. here's your chance young man."
| said the bluff salt, unconscious OF giving
offence. mo time like a voyage for
ring 81 he. rtxIe
on. You ought TO capture one OF EN-
before were half way TO the Golden Gate
They rate EN- at $500. 900 apiece Don't
know how long II takes a soldier to win
a prize like that but give a sailor such
a show and she'd strike her colors before
we sight St Lucas. II you don't care
| for ducats and only want beauty, there's
that little cousin. She can sing and play
| your soul away, give her half a chance
and good guitar
Who's she?" quered Turnbull bal
| ancing his half smoked cigar
between the fingers. as he blew fra
| grant cloud TO the cloudless vault above.
! Didn't get the family name-Pancha
they called her. slip " a 16-year-old,
going to school perhaps" and the cap
tain turned away 10 answer a question
| from his steward. leaving the two sol
diers looking intently at each other with
new interest In their eyes
| destroyer was lb-year-Old
| Pancha, wasn't she7" asked the colonel
In a low tone. He had had no mercy
whatever on Blake and was outspoken In
condemnation of what he called his idiocy
Loring was silent a moment then he
drew letter from an inner pocket. II
had come with Turnbull-the last newr
from Arizona. Read that when you've
time. colonel said he. Perhaps had
you been In Blake's place at his age
you'd have forgotten everything but the
stage and the fight, as he did. / think
should"
And as this was the longest speech
Turnbull hao ever heard from Lorings
lips. except his arraignment OF Nevns be-
fore the court. the colonel pondered over
IL not a little. lie took the letter and read
IL when an hour later the Idaho was
plowing her lazy way southwark through
a dull and leaden sea:
I'm not the first man 10 be fooled by a
slip OF a girl. Loring-wrote Blake--it
Isn't the first time that woman has got
the better OF me, and II may not be the
last. But the chagrin and misery feel is
not because have suffered so much. but
because you have. and all through my
fault. | suppose you know the general has
ordered me relieved and sent back TO my
company as no longer worthy 20 be call
ed a cavaryman. All the same. one OF
these days | mean 10 get a transfer NV
legs are too long for the doughboys any
how. Meantime with all meekness I'll
bear my burden. | deserve IT, But you'll
believe me when | say IL isn't the pun
ishment the humiliation. this has cost
me that so weighs upon me now. ~ is the
thought OF your loss and your prostra-
tion. one OF these days | may find means
TO show you how much feel IL. Just now
have only hint. Last year at this time
my most cherished possession was my
new spring style $40 Amidon A silk hat
Is as out of place IN Arizona as a sun
shade In S'tka, yet my striker has Just
unpacked Il and asked. with a grin on his
confounded mug. "What'll be doin wild
this. sor?" ! know! Sole leather hatbox
and all. u goes. by blackboard. 20 your ad-
dress at division headquarters our heads
are about OF the same caliber The main
difference r. that yours seems loaded The
Alta saws silk hats are now worn on
sunny mornings Sport mine for me,
| though ~ be Of the vintage OF a byEone
year. ] shall not show my face I'm civ
r ilization till have lived down my shame.
So now for two years at least OF Yuma
and the consolation 90 be derived from
the solitary study Of philosophy and
Shakespeare. Yours I'm meekness OF spir-
H. GERALD BLAKE.
y. S.-They say that Sancho's brothers
real name Is Escalante. IL ever you
come across one OF that race. keep your
eyes peeled.
Another day and the biilows of the gulf
were breaking under the Idaho's counter
and hifsing sternward I'm snowy foam.
answering the rush OF a strong southwest
wind. IL was late az evening when the
black hull went reeling In toward the
lights Of Guaymas and the massive an
chor, with prodigious splash. dived for