Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-17

unresponsive-that she did not flare up in
protest at such degrading punishment for
the girl who had saved her life. He little
knew how his daughters heart was burning
within her. He never dreamed that she,
too. was suffering-torn by conflicting emo
tons. 1t was a sore thing to find that in
her benefactress lived an unsupported rival.
Just before sunset she had left him and
gone to her room to change her dress for
the evening, and Janets first swoop was
upon her brother. Once before during the ex-
citing day she had had a moment to herself
and him She had constantly famed
the flame of his belief in Bakely's gallan-
tries as even to throttle the sense of graf
itude he felt and. in spite of herself. that
she felt for that officers daring and success
full services during the campaign. She felt,
and he felt that they must dsapprove OF
Blakely-must stamp out any nascent re-
gard that Angela might cherish for him.
and to this end would never in her pres
ence admit that he had been instrumental
in the rescue of his captain, much less
his captains daughter.
Hurriedly Janet had told him what
she and Plume had seen, and left him
to ponder over it. Now she came to induce
him TO bid her tell 1t all to Angela. Now
that that other-affair-seems disproved,'
said she. she'll be thinking there's nc
reason why she shouldn't be thinking OF
him." and dejectedly the Scotchman babe
her do as seemed best. Women, he rea-
soned. could better read each others
hearts.
And so Janet had gone and had thought
to shock, and had most impressively de-
tailed what she had witnessed-I fear me
Janet scrupled not to embroider a bit, so
much is permissible to the "unco guid'
when so very much is at stake. And An
gela went on brushing out her beautiful
hair without a sign of emotion. To the
scandal of Scotch maindenhood, she seemed
unimpressed by the depravity of the pair.
To the surprise of Aunt Janet she heard
her without interruption to the uttermost
word. and then-wished to know if Aunt
Janet thought the ma jor would let her send
Matte something for supper
Whatever the girl may have thought of
this new and possible complication, she
determined that soul should read that
1t cost her a pang. She declined to discuss
it. She did what she had not done before
that day-went forth in search of Kate
Sanders. Aunt Janet was astonished that
her niece should wish to send food to that
that trollop. What would she have
thought could she have heard what passed
few moments later? In the dusk and
the cleaning Kate Sanders was in CONVEX
sation on the side veranda with a tall SER
geant of her fathers troop ASK herY'
Kate was saying. "Of course I'll ask her.
believed that Sergeant Shannon wished
Miss Angela's permission to take Punch
| out for little exercise" thing he had
never ventured to ask before, and that
Angela Wren eagerly said, Yes" Poor
Shannoni He did not know that night how
soon he would be borrowing a horse on
his own account, nor that two brave girls
would nearly cry their eyes out over it.
when they were barely on speaking terms.
OF him there came sad news but the day
after his rack-brained, Quixotic essay. In
fatuated with Elise, and believing in her
premise to marry him, he had placed his
savings in her hands. even as had Downs
and Carmody. He had heard the story of
her visiting Blakely by night, and secuted
1t. He heard, in a maze of establishment,
that she was being sent to Prescott under
guard for delivery to the civil authorities
and taking the first horse he could lay
hands on. he galloped In chase. He had
overtaken the ambulance on Cherry creek
and with moving tears she had besought
him to save her. Faithful to their trust
the guard had to interpose, but late at
night they reached Stemmer's ranch; were
met there by a relief guard sent down by
Capt. Stout; and the big sergeant who came
in charge, with special instructions from
, Stouts own lips was a new king who knew
not Joseph. and who sternly babe Shannon
keep his distance. Hot words followed, for
the trooper sergeant would stand no hec-
toring from an equal in rank. Shannon 8
heart was already lost. and now he lost his
head. He struck a fellow sergeant who
stood charged with an important duty, and
even his own comrades could not interpose
when the infantrymen threw themselves
upon the raging Irish soldier and hammered
him hard before they could subdue and