The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-07

mutiny broke out, and all hell was
loose in the country.
} We were shut up in Bhurtee, the
| regiment OF us with half battery of
3 artillery, company of Sikhs, and a lot
7 OF civilians and women-folk. There
; We're 10000 rebels round us, and they
We're as keen as set Of terriers round
a ratcage. About the second week of
3 1t our water gave out, and it was
question whether we could commune
cate with General Neill's column, which
! was was, moving up country; 1t was our
fight our way out with all the women
and children, so | volunteered to go
9 out and to warn General Neill of our
danger My offer was accepted, and I
e talked it over with Sergeant Barclay,
r who was supposed to know the ground
n better than any other man, and who
' drew up route by which / might get
II thru the rebel lines At 10 CLOCK the
d same night started off upon my jour
: ney. There were a thousand lives to
Y save, but it was of only one that I
was thinking when 1 dropped over the
: wall that night.
|, My way ran down dried-up water
e course, which we hoped would screen
me from the ,enemy's sentries; but as
walked right into to- six olu Of them i, :. who
were crouching down in the dark watt
ing for me. In an instant I was :
stunned with q blow and bound hand
and foot. But the real blow was to my
heart and not. to my head, for as 1
came to and listened to as much as /
could understand Of their talk, [ heard
enough to tell me that nv comrade, the
very man who aad arranged the way
that was to take, had betrayed me by
means OF native servant into the
hands of the enemy,
"Well, there's nc need for me to
dwell on that part of it, You know now
what James Barclay was capable of.
Bhurtee was relieved by Neill next day,
but the rebels took me away with them
in their retreat, and it was many
long year before ever 1 saw a white
face again. | was tortured and tried
to get away, and was captured and tor
tured again. You can see for yourselves
the state in which | was left. Some of
them that fled into Nepaul took me
with them, and then afterwards I was
up past Darieeling. The hill-folk up
there murdered the rebels who had me,
and became their slave for time
until | escaped; but instead of going
5 south I had to go north, until found
wandered, about for many a year, and
at last came back to the Puniaub,
where lived mostly among the natives
and picked up a living by the coniur-
ing tricks that 1 had learned. What
nse was it for me, a wretched Grip
pie, to go back to England or to make
myself known to my old ccmradesa
Even my wish for revenge would not
make me do that. I had rather that
Nancy and my old pals should think of
straight back, than see him living and
crawling with a stick like a chimpan-
zee. They never doubted that [ was
dead, and | meant that they never
should. | heard that Barclay had mar
ried Nancy, and that he was rising rap
- I6IV in the retriment h11t that did
not make me speak.
But when one gets old one has a
longing for home: For years l we been
dreaming of the bright green fields and
the hedges of England. At last | de-
. termined to see them before 1 died.
saved enough to bring me across, and
J" then I came here where the soldiers
+ are, for I know their ways and how
ct. to amuse them and so earn enough to
ng keep me-
tx. teresting,'' rs said Sherlock MI Holmes.
ng 81 have already heard of your
ct meeting with Mrs. Barclay, and
ri your your mutual recognition Salt.ona 4 fe1
lowed her home and saw thru the win
we dow an alteration between her hus.
it'll band and her, in which she doubtless
is cast his conduct to you in his teeth:
Your own feelings overcame you, and
~ you ran across the lawn and broke in
up upon them.'
81 did, sir, and at the sight of me
at he looked as [ have never seen a man
ng, look before, and over he went with his
ent head on the fender. But he was dead
no face as plain as I can read that text
it'll over the fire. The bare sight of me
In was like bullet thru his guilty
vas heart"
tie "And then9''
sat ''Then Nancy tainted, and I caught
Inn bo of no door from bor bop
i'm intending to unlock it and get help
ace But AS [ was doing it it seemed to me
,rn better to leave it alone and get away
I've for the thing might look black against
of out if I were taken. In my haste
out thrust the key into my pocket, and
nd nd dropped my stick while I was chasing
= Teddy, who had run up the curtain
r When I got him into his box, from
We which he had slipped, I was off as fast
"Who's Teddy?' asked Holmes.
g., The man leaned over and pulled uI
i'm the front of kind of hutch in thu
the corner. In an instant out there slipped
Who a; beautiful reddish brown creature
ali thin and 1.-THE, with the legs of a stoat
a long, thin nose, and pair of thu
finest red eyes that ever I saw in al
no animal s head
h ,e "It's mongoose,' I cried.
h hat "Well, some call them that, ani
Wv man. "Snake-catcher is what | cal
nei them, and Teddy is amazing quick OF
liz cchras. / have one here without tn,
li'e fangs, and Teddy catches it every nigh
to please the folk in the canteen.
"Any other point, sir?''
U.S. "Well, we may have to apply to vol
go again if Mrs. Barclay should prove t.
see be in serious trouble
is "In that case, of course, I'd com
10 forward
s'But if not, there is no object il
\ raking up this scandal against dea
man, foully as he has acted. You hav
iay' at least the satisfaction of knowin
;, that for thirty years of his life his cor
lied science bitterly reproached him for thf
had wicked deed. All, there goes Maio
my Murphy on the other side of the stree,
lore Good-by, Wood. ! want to learn if any
his thing has happened since yesterday
uck We were in time to overtake tn
It l major before he reached the corner.
my HAh, Holiness he said; g / suppos
ory you have heard that all this fuss ha
for come to nothing?''
med "What then3''
ftThe inquest is just over. The med
me cal evidence showed conclusiyely tha
my death was due to apoplexy. You see.
line was quite simple case after all.
the ooh, remarkably SUPERFICIAL sal
We Holmes, smiling. - Come, Watson,
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