The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-05-11

were known TO me. l nave NAV,
them known 10 YOU. y third | SuesSed
for Gilbert Stair. The other w We're
strangers,
IN WHICH My LADY HATH NO
PART.
Seeing that I had taken a mans lire
for this. the nance of looking in upon
n drinking bout, you will not wonder
that I went aghast and would have lied
for very shame had not a sudden weak
ness seized me. But IN the midst
heard q mention of my name and so
had leave. l thought, TO stay and listen.
1t was one OF the late-comers who
gave me this leave; a MAJ Well on IN
years. gvizzled and weatherbeaten; d
seasoned soldier by his look and garb.
Though his frayed shoulder-knot was
only that of n captain OF foot, twas
plain enough he ranked his comrade,
and the knight as we'll.
You say you've bagged his Cap
tain 1reton? Who may he be? Surely
not old Rogers
The same" said the baronet, short
ly. and would be filling his glass again.
He could always drink more and feel
it less than any sot l ever knew.
But how the devil came he here?
The last 1 knew Of him-'twas some
half-score years ago, though, come to
think-he was a lieutenant in the Royal
Scots"
Mine enemy nodded. $50 he was.
But afterward he cut the service and
levanted to the continent"
The q]uestioner fell into a muse; then
he laughed and clapped his leg.
'Ecod! l do remember now. There
was a damned good mess-room joke
about him. When he was in the Blues
they used to say his solemn face would
stop a merry-making. Well, after he
had been in Austria a while they told
this on him; that his tield-marshal had
him listed for a majority, and so he
was presented to the empress, But
hen Maria Theresa saw him she
shrieked and cried out. IL est lie pere
aux tetes rondes, lui-meme! LIE porter
vous dehors!' So he got but a cap
taincy after all; ha. ha! hal"
Now this was but a mess-room gibe.
as he had said, cut out of unmarried
cloth. at hat. Our Austrian Maria
ever had a better word than round
head for her soldiers But yet it
stung, and stung the more because 1
had and have the Ireton face, and that
is unbeloved by women, and glum and
curSt and solemn even when the man
behind it would be kindly. SO when
they laughed and chUckled at this Jest,
l fingered on and listened with the bet
ter grace.
What brought him overseas, Sir
Francis?" Twas not the grizzled lest
et VINO asked, but the younger officer,
ms comrade.
Falconnet smiled as one who knows
a thing and will not tell and t,,rnad 70
Gilbert Stair.
what was it, think YOU, Mr. Stairo"
he said, passing the question on.
At this they all looked to the master
of Appleby Hundred, and I looked. TOO
He was not the man l should have hit
upon in any throng &c tho 80 lnt
fathers estate; still less the man who
might be Margery's father. He had
the face of all the Stair. of Ballan-
trae without its simDla Scottisb r,,g-
gadness; a sort of weasel face if vas
with pale-grav eyes that had a +rio1,,
of shifty lodging and deenNfurron-e
about he ,,oIth ~ -. ipNeu
that spoke of indecision If was nat tie IS
him that Margery got her firm roy,d
chin or boz s9eadfses+ i. NC. Nm [ouid
She owed a father saw onir " Ia ti4is
nity. you,d saw anI ~ " ne pater-
the thin fajsetto voice ma+ohe spohe
weak chin To a b,ir me
.sT2 Danr,a Sir L,,,
whv he camaShnr shau1l hlloM not
uuayered "AnnIehy IJTrIS he
mine, T fell vpm, uis III = nine
hanped on a trae n.i+l 10 we was well
fatherin 49, ms uaihileo reptA
A la,,eb
soldiers a,eetod ~ rom the three
after wbi2nb tha - us pStuiant
otpars Mnicli me paronet enlightened the
-
AS you Know, captain John, Appleby
Eauluieu once to the rebel
Roger lreton, and Mr.. .Stair here holds
Due a c~onhscator's title. 'Tis likely the
soll 1iearo Oh n war n thought he
STOOD some chance to come into his own
again
oh, re; sure enough" quoth the
eloef OFFICER, fitting his bottle afresh.
:And then: of course he promptly
nsted with the rebels when he came?
trust Roger lreton's son for that"
MY baronet wagged mis- head assent
lngly to this. then clinched the lie in
words.
or course; we ave his commission.
he IS on Dekalb's staff, detached for
special duty"
"A spy" roared the Jester. And vet
you haven't hanged him?"
Sir Francis shrugged like any
trenchman. All in good time, my
dear Captain. There were reasons why
l. did not care to knot the rope myself.
Besides, we had a little disagreement
years agOne across tha yvofar. $780,