The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-21

try He turned and looked back to the valley again.
The fire embers out: there chilly mist
along the bed, and the voices of the knhr
drivers had hised "The transports in; that's one bless
ing. he thought. His struck something that ratified
He sooped down and picked up 1t was little paste
board box yellow color and made to initiate wood FIBRE
There something printed it in German The boy
what 1t was, he had seen hundreds OF them
the little which the Mauser cartridges in clips OF
five packed So the Beers had been there! Oh yes
he rememberedof courseit here that they had the
skirmsh ten days when poor old Jack Leonard OF
the numbering. well-ntentioned M. H.. was ptpped
through both lungs. There might be something more
about The and then Strengthened himself
and bent again
There in little patch between two big rocks
were the marks horses hoofs Small, unshod hoofs!
He of scout TO know If they were fresh
or no-but had they got there? Nothing but goat
could have climbed hill the he had come Then
suddenly he saw he in path a tortuous, narrow
path the bouders but kept
base sheer stone wall that rose above
it. Next questionwhere did this silly foolish path lead
= to? Must go somewhere, he thought Il see; its
short cut into the nek''
odd,' said the sub aloud. So he followed 1t
fer perhaps two hundred yards.
Now he remembered having noticed ever since he had
the kopie from afar. jagged, brown ine' lke
split cleft that ran down It's sde from the crest
way to the middle.
The path led to the bottom jagged brown line
well. never, thought the sub as he stumbled aohs
when to the place where the tral aiter ..
double rock turned sharp to the left ne STOOD
and whistled The brown line not crack 1t was
the opening into pass that almost divided the
hill in two path led steep and straight to me
very top 1t very but he could patch OF
white light rising like cloud way up on the rim.
.lIere's a co. he thought. What if?-" lie turned
and looked over his the valley"Gad I'll risk
1T. get up and back before relief So he Went up
the steep incline sometimes on ms hands ana Knees ou.
going what in him. In less than iVe minutes
he clambered centre of the patch of light and
he saw things The narrow pass was only a
the kopje side that led down TO the lower ope's
The top of the kopje quite fiat and the houlders were
not 50 big as down below. But he soon forgot nearby
things in looking all around him he had me
strange sense of unrety that feels upon suddenly
coming into the vantage spot or a pahora'I. ~,
looked quite artificial and yet it made him dizzy. In ms
Imagination where the foreground elae
and a bs pantes se IS ku hS fa s
closer to see hew it Hl5 moved nohng
walked over where he could look down on ing
s sf ss sysFytsHs
spgrt Of af an and then he knew
W shs aeaTS things hsnns the
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big stones on side. The mans PACK was ture a.
nn he vas waving hand as II Waiting some ono 70
him.. % ~ IL 80, WHEN bc moved n little (keep-
ing Well ont of sght enough 70 lft his helmet Wei
rs Back F sad a aa
y haf circle was men! Shaggy nnkenpt men on
Some We're dismountng others
Mere Going Up slope in the direction OF the beck
their rifles held like deerstalIers', balanced
II aY az fesf
q Tan q se s ssu he rashed iS @
he had assembled. ,,,a., .,o,. ~ -, i, !, ,othor
.ryac;.er!n There answered Lee Metford from
;,ere down the slope he plunged into the open
there ripped out voey from the kopje overhead Pal-
there you where the devil! you therel
own voice "sergeant Where's Nh Malon?- Halt those
men--hring them back here
s.Crdersf atc--slr. 49,, " y, ss55aS
"I,ring EN- back, I'm giving ordcrs'
Eyes. Sir away went the sergeant down the hill ~
a few helated members of tho outpost We're hurred!y
getting into their snssone man vas tying IN the ends
and merely the trace Of lett Tho sub thought or
those small Ssha pointed stones.,,5 !,
can Remember q massage VI lie was pointing MS
/ finger at the kneelng man. $500
6ss.sYesa sir
path--here- NO the top am going Up thera-sehd