The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-10-27

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looked for. He had gone most of his
journey, taking every precaution, and
creeping step by step with stealth.
Just on the third morning, when the
fourth would have carried him through,
he had lost his horse and found him.
self close to the enemy's outposts. He
tried to pass them when night had fall
en-, but on foot it had proved hopeless;
he was overtaken and caught.
The dispatches were in his boot, but
it did not take long to find them. He
had given himself up, in his thoughts,
before they took them out. He knew
the end Of it, even before the short
trial, whose justice he could not dis
pute nor protest against. 1t was the
rule of war, and he acknowledged it.
There was no special hardship in his
case. Only the sense of disappoint-
ment, of failure, rushed over him like
a flood of bitterness. He had had his
chance and missed it. Now all hope
was over. He should never win Ur-
sula back or clear his name. He had
time enough to think it all over as he
lay in the rough prison where he was
hastily placed. There was a guard
mounted, but small need for it-he
was in the very middle of the camp,
and there was no smallest hope of
escape. Even if he could creep away
unobserved, what would that serve
him? He would be taken again before
he could get half a mile away He
would die, and it might even never be
known what had become of him; he
would not fall in action, a hero, but
perish by the doom of. "a spy.
= He sat on the rough wooden box
which was all the camp afforded by
Way :snat
dog-Without any comfort to tighten
it. He had said to himself, in the first
bitterness of his disgrace, that death
would be welcome, but now that it
came and stared him in the face he
could not welcome it.
He was young still. The quick fire
that ran through his veins had not
thinned and chilled down to zero point.
It still cried to him of the sweetness
of living, even if it were in an altered
life. Ursula, he dared hardly to let
himself think of her-his sweetheart,
his wife who was to have been. And
yet he could not keep his thoughts
from her; her face rose before him as
vividly as if he could see it smiling at
him in reality from the corner of the
hut where he gazed and gazed.
Ursula, away In England, with a
heart that waited patiently and faith
fully, as she had promised it would
wait. Ursula, the dearest and the
sweetest, his one and only love- A
long, long breath came like a groan,
but he checked it in haste as he heard.
It might come to the ear of the sentry
and make him think he minded-that
he was afraid!
The sun was just setting; he could
see it through the little narrow win
dow, with it's dusty pane: The whole
sky was one flood of purple and gold
and crimson-a glory such as cold
English skies can never know. He
stared at it with a heart that had a
strange yearning in 1.-THE last sum
:set,he should ever see. He was to die
tomorrow morning at the sun-risng.
Odd to think he would never watch
the: evening sunlight again!
All day long, over the rolling green
OF the grass country, man had been
riding-his face that way He had
passed clumps of shrub, dark against
the paler green about them, and barren
rock, jutting up, bare and stern and
gaunt, against the sky: He had come
with the, slow, regular pace Of the man
who has the end of his business we'll
before him, and does not hasten to
meet that end.
AS he came in sight of the camp,
where the huts long built were
hemmed in by new tents, and the hast
ily-built defenses that circles the
whole, he drew rein, and halted for a
moment to look down on the place
from the rising ground above it.. He
was tired, apparently, for he moved in
the saddle as if to find ease after long
travel, and he had a. weary look in his
handsome face -, -.
He moved again, and a man sprang
out from the group Of bushes his
rife pointed, his head alert. '"Who
goes? Friend or foe?"" rang the quick
challenge. The horsen1an gave a pass
word, and the rifle lowered. ! - ~ =. :.
lis Van Beer anywhere about here?
want to get to- him. ~. 5s-4.E E il ..*s :
Down in the camp. He has just
come come back from "a days scouting.
You'll find him at the school house. 4
rhesman 4lll| maj was staring hard at5the one
on=theS y: horse Wit a. Kind ofs amaze
tsinS his
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