The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-09-11

of the two great armies turned their
backs upon each other, 1t is no secret
that the majority on either side laid
down their arms with a sigh of relief,
and set about--perhaps unconsciously
the healing of the wounds four long
and bloody years of warfare had made
Col Harry Fairfax, however, was
of the minority. He sheathed his
sword, it is true, but only because one
man, &c matter how DESTROYS he may
be of doing SO, cannot carry on war
alone. He did it with reluctance, and
without abating in the smallest de-
gree his hatred for men and things
northern, or his disgust for the ideas
the name Yankee" stood for.
Nevertheless, he was a gentleman of
the Simon pure order, punctilious to
the finest point of honor, and than
whom there was no Drawer
The colonel, in spite of his misfor
tunes, was not so entirely without re-
sources as were most of his neigh
bors. His Wife possessed a small but
sure income derived from her share in
an undivided estate in England-her
hDlace-and at last, stung beyond
endurance by the petty restrictions
and annoyances that had sprung up In
Virginia with the reign of the ubiqui-
tous carpet-baggers," he announced
his intention of migrating to Mexico.
The quaint, halfSpanish, half-Mex-
lean town of San Jose-just over the
boundary line of northern Mexico
Col. Fairfax selected as the Mecca of
his pilgrimage, and to 1t he presently
departed, to establish his household
gods anew.
One day, many years after Col. Fair
fax and his household had become per-
manent fixtures in San jose there
drifted into the town certain ex-ma-
jor OF the United States army, Thomas
Elliot by name, stout, roly-poly sort
OF man, with shrewd twinkle in his
gray eyes, and wearing an empty coat
sleeye-mute but eloquent tribute to.
Longstreet's artillery fire at Gettys-
burg. With him came his son Tom.
About six weeks later there arose in
San Jose a large, oblong, ugly-looking
building, upon which divers men, who
had arrived from some mysterious
source in charge of Thomas Elliot,
worked with a faithfulness and en-
ergy hitherto supposed impossible by
the INDECENT inhabitants.
This evidence of the permanent resi-
dence i'll San Jose of two such aggres-
sive, bustling, typical representatives
of the country north of Mason and
Dixon'5 line, was as gall and worm
wood to every fiber of the colonels
being; but when, on the completion OF
the building, the colonel beheld float
ing from a tall flagstaff in the center
Of the factory yard-faunting itself in
his very face-the stars and stripes, he
felt that the time for forbearance had
come to an end H., T...- --e-
IF had a dozen of the boys in
my old regiment here,' he said, We
hemently to his daughter, on his re-
turn home, I'VE would see how long
1t would take them to pull that flag
down. They were used to that sort
of work" he concluded, with a grim,
reminiscent smile.
The colonel's daughter was his idol
for he had brought her up from very
tender years almost alone-save for
the aid of an old black nanny, who
had followed ''Marse Henry's" fortunes
Into Mexico-the girls own mother had
died shortly after her daughters birth
Being a serene, clear-headed young
woman, well used to settling perplex-
ing questions unaided, she did not
turn away her head and pass by on
the other side, when chance one day
brought her face to face with Toa
Elliot at the bedside of certain fac
tory employe who had been injured by
the breaking of shaft.
With good woman's quick intui-
ton, she OWNED instinctively the up
right. honest soul, betrayed by the eyes
of this blonde young giant with the
self-reiant, masterful ways-as tender
and plying, almost, as woman, as
he bent anxiously over the battered
Mexican on the rude bed. For the
first time in her life, q feeling of shy
admiration unlike anything that had
occurred in her previous scheme of
things, was born in Helen Fairfax's
soul
do you think Leon is very badly
hurt?" she said, as they came forth
into the sunshine together.
Young Elliot shrugged his great
shoulders. Father has telegraphed
up the line to some place or other
where there is an English doctor-he's
coming down on the afternoon train"
The girls gray eyes lighted with sud
den gladness. 1T was good of you to
send for him, she said, eagerly.