The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-19
HOW JEVONS SCORED
By DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY.

growing value He was getting 10 be a
better fellow day by day, and in campaign
| ing times, the gentle and the simple are
curiously alert to this sort of change. which
is much more common than the ignorant
could possibly imagine But Jevons was
among Adcock's nurses, and, as fate ar
ranged il, Jevons was invariably dirty and
/ disordered whenever he called to see Adj
cock. Adcock had been transferred to a
camp near Pretoria, and at this time all
| the decayed and sick engines (which repre-
scented some fifty per cent. of the locomo-
tive power at the disposal of the British
army were. so to speak, put into hospital
| there and Jevons was their doctor. From
about 5 o'clock in the morning until
or at night he labored; and since he was
/ very rarely content with anything short of
an interior examination. he was from the
rising of the sun to the going down of the
same pretty generally thick with oil and
/ coal dust. He was always under this dis
| guise when he visited Adcock, who. being
fretful with fever, was particularly riled
when ne found himself addressed in terms
of equality by a person to whom he could
not possibly have spoken within fifty miles
Of home.
81 say, Adcock, old chap said the
friendly coal-and-oil-smeared man, on one
occasion, slipping a coal-and-oil-
canvas sleeve beneath the invalid's head,
and the words, the accent, and the gesture
were not forgiven until the time of Jevons
| revenge came around.
Jones' said Adcock. turning to his
batman, ''give this man five shillings, and
| tell him not to come again"
4 Rx.A I0lI ~, \. tc
own waistcoat-pocket handed the same to
Jevons, who also grinned, and, insoiently
patting the patient on the head, said, ia
ia, old boy!' and departed.
| Many weeks afterwards Lieutenant Ad-
| cock found an opportunity for the retrieval
of reputation which had not so far been
too favored. Two British guns were in
very serious trouble at the edge of a spruit
| and half a dozen Dutch maxims were
pumping fire and lead at their defenders
| Adcock saw his chance, got two or three
dozen Of his men together and fetched the
| imperiled guns into safety, being himself
for the second time rather badly wounded
| Then, when he had half recovered, the au-
thorities sent him home.
A man who has been captured and freed
who has twice been hit under creditable
| circumstances, and who has suffered from
| enteric on a particularly hard march, may
be fairly said to have seen something of the
rougher face Of war; and British men and
women are proverbially kind to those who
have had this sort of experience in their
| service. SO it befell that when Major Ad-
cock come home with three degrees of pro-
| motion to his name, there was a general
| disposition on the part of the men of his
| county to give him dinners, and a not less
| pronounced disposition on the part of the
| ladies' Of the county to marry him out OF
hand. For some weeks he was interesting
| as a hero and an invalid; but in the course
Of time other heroes and invalids came
home, and Adcock began to feel that after
| all his achievements he was bit Of a non
entity. Had this idea occurred to him two
| years before. it would have brought him
| pain, but now, after his war experience, tC
| discover that al his very best he was only
one Of crowd afforded him a pleasure OF
| a quiet kind, because he had more than
begun to realize that he was an English
| man, and, by that fact alone, a person to
| be taken into consideration anywhere. He
had fought and bled for his country. Once
he had bled by bullet wound, once by q
bayonet wound. and once on account of a
broken bottle and on each occasion the loss
of blood had brought gain of wisdom.
Lady Adcock, a vain and fat old woman
| who was, after all, his mother, fused
| around him from the moment of his landing
at Southampton until his final deposit in the
| room which had been for a whole year re.
| served for him in the new mansion in the
Vale of Trent. And when Adcock began tC
get really better after his long attack OF
| enteric, his wound, and the tiresome sea
| voyage. her ladyship told him one thing.
You must 60. SAM she said, land cal
| upon our neighbor, Lord Erlscote. We
have met him once or twicS-in society,
| the mother added, in an - almost awe
| stricken voice. You know the Erlscotes
They were very poor for years. but a rich
grandfather of the present earl died some
| where out In California, and left him mil.
lions-rnany millions-whether of dollars OF
| pounds sterling, L can't tell you. Blu,
money in any case more than heart could
| WISH The old earl is dead, and all his sons
| are dead. except the youngest, who has
| come into the title, after a career i'm the
| Transvaal. You must have met the hon.
| orable Mr.. Jevons, he then was, in the
course of your campaign. And I'm any case
you are fellow campaisner, and you
| ought to go and see him. / understand that
he is to get married shortly. He was
| brought over by the news of his fathers
death and his elder brother breaking his
neck in the hunting field, and he wAsn't
anybody year ago. and now he's peer
OF the realm with millions. And we've 60,
to know him. You might drive over tc
Erlscote Castle and leave a Card
| ssErlscota aaid the y,o Tor sc o,rv bo1 I,
| a dozen miles away. I'll walk. It'll do me
good; and I'll start this minute, IL you'll
rouse up Jones and tell him to bring the
trap along to pick me up in case l should
fall tired
You shan't go. SAM" said her ladyship
1T was wicked and cruel of me 10 suggest
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