The National tribune., 1904-06-02

tinued. addressing the Adjutant, who in
stinctively moved hack. took of his cap as
did 81 and Shorty theirs and looked al the
spot as one sanctihed. "IIe stood right
dar, and talked 10 US culluhd folks like a
messenger from On High. | shall nebber
forgit his face. 1t shined wild de light OBJ
God. as Moses's did, when he come down
from de Mount. 1t was nigh his last
words. lie was takin' leave OBJ de world
an turning back TO heabben. De awful
fire had seemed like de day of Judgment.
an he came 10 Us right after, an den went
back to his God"
Tears came into the old negro's eyes, his
words We're broken. and his frame shook.
Say. old man. We take back all We said
about those mules" said Shorty, yisibly
affected. as they all were by the negro's
deep feeling for their idol. Them mules
are the finest in the country. and III knock
any man head off who says they amt. We
don't want nothing better"
i ike to stay in this place a straight
week. said the Adjutant. Il can't see all
that want TO see in less than that time
IT brings the whole of our past history
right before one. and makes him feel its
reality. But L suppose We ought to go
out and see some more of the city. / want
particularly to go over 10 Hollywood Gene
terry. where President Monroe is buried. IL
- SAID to be the finest cemetery in the
South. 1t is patriotic duty 10 visit the
graves of our Presidents. We can come
back here after dinner. Driver take us
down that street. there past Libby Prison,
and out to Hollywood
As they reentered the carriage the clear
sliVery notes OF a bugle foated up from the
lowlands through the leaves of the trees
ana re-echoed from the tall walls of the
capitol There was A CAV, fresh conf
dent familiar Tilt 10 il that struck them
all. They caught their breath and looked
al one another.
Il declare. if didn't know that the
2ooth Ind. was down in North Carolina,
somewhere. | should say that that was our
bugia. and Joshie sounding the assembly"
said the Adjutant. mo boy in the world
can put as much heart into a bugle as
JoShie. He's as slim as n match. III Won tied
string around his shoulders it'd slim clear
10 ms toes without touching but some
where he holds wind enough 10 make his
ntsie ring out above every other one in
the army"
Yes. and he can make his bugle talk as
nobody else can" added ST. I've heard
lots of boys from other regiments saw the
same thing
Great Jehosphat. how We have cussed
and loved that little rascal" remarked
Shorty 'u
The girls were getting disturbed All
the thoughts of peaceful pursuits which
they had been sedulously cultivatinp in
their husbands minds were vanishing be-
tore those familiar bugle notes. The mems
nostriis were swelling. and their faces tax
ing on different expression.
The carriage went down the main straet
toward Libby and at a word halted bv tho
vacant space IN which a regiment was COM
ing INTO line with the well-ordered swift
ness or veterans for some review or in
spection. "
Looks like Western regiment sa;d
the Adjutant. Can Sherman's Army have
reached here already? Go down a little
further driver
AS the carriage halted about the CENTER
OF the FORMING regiment. there were wells
OF rec1gn'tion from hundreds of throats.
Hello. there's the Adjutant!"
And 81 Klegg."
Shorty. too"
.Jee-whiz. just look at their out6t-
treat snakes. where'd they dig up that
lust look at them mule ghosts"
bng?" peeh rod
-, Why don't you take of their hides and
Is that one of them South CaroIipev
carriages that you've brung alongg'
was forming the line.
Silence In the ranks. there" he com.
iiiahaed IN his thin. wheezy voice. "Atten-
Browning" ' ooP''
The Adjutant could stand II no longer
- 'oheu up MS coat, jumped out of
Tue carriage. and running up to his suc-
cessor. commanded:
Give me that sword. Bob Wilson. At
.chtion battalion Right dress Straight
en- mp there. What in the worlds the mat
ter with you fellows?" nc A'o''
Before the girls realized what was han
pening II and Shorty were among the fla
e closer OF 20: Q. and the whole line of tha
z.bth Ind. Strengthened out with the odd'
time precision INC o'u
Ito be continued.)