The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-02-12

party tlaC was ,Soin6 w ;Vi'n
patches, and the result was that ne
had adventures enough to All a book
The party got through alive, bpt every
man Of them was wounded, including
Jones' who made the last forty miles
HE found Templeton fiat on DIS
back and raving with fever in a quaint
century old church that had been turn-
ed into a hospital. The surgeon IN
charge told Jones that 1t was prac.
tically all over; the man was as goou
as dead. Will he be conscious again !!
asko. Jones. And the surgeon SAID
that Il was possible. ---
"'Whenyis it likely to happen
"'Heaven knows, answered the sur
geon,
"Ill wait said Jones' And ne sat
down on the foot of the bed. OF course
they tried to take him away, but ne
wouldn't 90, and as everybody was
pretty busy he was presently torgo'
ten.
"Templeton raved and tossed, ana
he said some things that might 60 to
a feeling mans heart, considering 'ne
circumstances, but he mentioned III
name. About 8, o'clock he became
quiet, and from that hour till morn
ing he seemed to be sinking down "
death. Then he stirred and half ralsea
himself. 80,
"Hello, Jones, said he. Where dla
you come from?'
"Tve got a letter for you, George
was the reply. 1T came after you
left
"Give it to me-, said Templeton'
extending a weak, thin hand.
"He took the letter and raised 1t to
his breast as he sank back against the
pillow. Jones waited, but Templeton
did not move. He lay there smlllng'
with the letter on his breast The man
was dead.
"'This is a valentine that some one
has sent to him from home, SAID
Jones when the surgeon came !
think we ought to bury it with him.
allow do you know what 1t ISL!
asked the surgeon.
Zones could not answer.
awe ought to open it, said the doc
tor, in order to communicate with
the writer. Some one might want 10
know that he got It.
HE took the envelope out OF the
dead mans hand and opened 1T AFTER
some hesitation.
"Dear George he said in a WINS
per. Mail this to Frank Jones II you
know where he is, and never tell him
who sent it, don't know how to ad'
dress him, but you can find out
"That,s mine said Jones in q
dream.
"The doctor put the Enclosure into
his hands. 1t was in a separate en-
velope, unaddressed.
"This is a friendly letter from a
mighty fine girl, said the doctor ia
like to take something Of this KIM
with me when | CO.
HE put it back into Its envelope
and laid 1t inside the rough WOODEN
shirt which was the dead mans gar
ment.
ale has delivered your message
little GIRL said he, and he'll never tell
who sent it.
$50 that's the whole story. Jones
has come back to this country, and ne
has that valentine-a pretty card VIII
a little love verse on it, but not 9
scrap of writing. He doesn't know
who sent 1t, but If he did think ne
would find that girl. feel quite sure
that he would find that girl"
mot bad, as such things Co." sale
Breck, rising, "but conventional"
Conventional bel beg your par
don," said |. "Why, the thing is true
I don't see. that that helps 1t any,
replied Brock. However, that
neither here nor there. I'm hard up
and IL a valentine story's what you
want I'll go home and see what cal
do for you. BY the way, it wasn't lem
pleton's girl, Of course%
1.-THE one who sent the valentine
Certainly not" replied. when Jone
got back to this country he looked u
Templetons affairs a bit to Sc
whether he could do anything for hi
family and that sort Of thing, and n
happened to discover that the girl 10
whose letter he had waited was reall
waiting for him-waiting, as | hav
faith to believe, very near that rud
church in Luzon where the man close
his eyes so happily to open the eye
Of his soul next moment in her pre-
ence."
"You mean she had died. sal
, Brock.
precisely" replied. r
"And Jones hasn't found the on
| girl who remembered him upon tn
fat side Of the world?"
'"No," said !, "but he WILL :,
Breck lighted another Of his dead
. cigarette. ..
"why can't l write this thing Il
!. you?" he inquired.
mot for your life, my FRIEND said
' "why not?" he demanded
q because am JONES'" said !, ar
! 4 ~ notfer 10 sacredly co