Arizona republican., 1905-04-16

a fight he'll be the hero in my piece
 in the paper. and the man that gives
 away the snap ain't square with Com
 pany \. Here's three cheers for Ad- meh Drake, the hero of Company N." he said. When they pulled out, people
 were cheering them and they were cheering me. It heartened me up con
 siderably or else I couldn't have stood
 to see them sliding past Telegraph
 Hill into the stream and me not there with them.
 First l was for writing to Susie and
 telling her ali about it. but l just
 couldn't. I put 1t off, saying that I'd
 go back and tell her about it myself, l and l went to incoming around camp like Q ghost. And then along came a copy of the Leader that settled it. All about the big feed that they gave the , regiment at Honolulu and how Ad- neh Drake had responded for the men of Company N. Captain Fletcher was getting in his deadly work It said that I was justly popular and my en- gagement to one of Striped Rocks 1 fairest daughters was whispered. It treated me like I was running for i Congress on the Leader ticket. I began to wonder if l saw a way to Susie.
 After they got to the islands, I drag ged the cascOs through the surf and
 rescued squad of Company N from ] drowning. All that was in the Leader | The night they scrapped in front of the town, I stood and cheered on the detachment when they faItered before the foe. After they got to Manila and did nothing but lay around, Captain Fletcher had me rescue a man from a
 fire
 After that, I began to get next to | myself, knowing that I'd have done best to stop it 2t the start and go straight back to Striped Rock I'd been darn fool to put it off so long. | Now could never go back and face the joshing. I wrote the captain let ter about t and he never paid any at tention, instead of that he sent me back
 a bunch of her letters. Knowing how things stood, what l was doing and what she thought I was doing, I could hardly open them They made me feel as small as bUClIshOt in a barrel. They hinted about being proud of me-and prayed that I'd come home aIiVe-and l knew, in spite of being ashamed, that had her.
 Next thing the natives got off the reservation. There's where Captain Fletcher went clean, plumb loco. One day the Leader came out with circus scare heads about the Hero of Pago Bridge" They printed my biography, and a picture of me. It didn't look like me- but it was nice picture. I'd broke through a whitening fire and carried a Kansas lieutenant across to
 safety after he had been helplessly wounded-and never turned a hair.
 What was I doing all that time? Laying pretty low. I was afraid to leave town because I wanted to keep an eye on the Leader which was com ing regularly to the Public Library, and afraid to get a regular daylight job for fear that somebody from Strip ed Rock would come along and see me. I was nearly busted when I ran into old Dr. Morgan, the Indian Root Spe- cialist. He gave me Q job as his out side man. All I had to do was to hang around watching fo~ ~ic'ZlOOking strays from the country. You know the lay. I told them how Dr Morgan had cured me of the same lingering disease, and how T was Q well man. thanks to his
 secrets babying them along kind of easy until they went to the doctor. He did the rest, and collected 25 per cent.
 Striped Rock acted as though I was the mayor They named their new | boulevard Drake Wa- Come Fourth of July. they set me up alongside of
 Lincoln They talked about running
 me for the Assembly. Then came an other bunch of her Ietters-I had an swered the last lot that Cap sent. mailed them all the way to the Phil l ippines to be forwarded just to gain time-they were heaven mixed with | Eel.