Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-18


are on hand, you can just depend that
every good market horse Of the classes
they handle, will bring his full value.
Prices may be lower. but It 10 because
they are lower in all eastern markets.
southern horses sold a shade better
than In recent sales. One thing you
can depend on--No matter what sort
of horse you have from weanling
colt to horse that is "of age" you
can bring him to these sales and turn
him into Dollars, Just so he brings
commission or better.
MORRIS WILLIAMS,
OttumWa, Iowa.
he crossed to the mess. The April wea-
ther was anticipating India's most
wearing heat. But only vaguely he not
ed the ominous lead-colored sky, with
it's promise of dust storms. The green
of England filled his vision Since
the days in the hospital his thoughts
had required necessarily to Diana A
picture In an illustrated paper. picked
up in his ward, showed him Miss
Diana Marjoribanks as beautiful
young girl--little Diana no longer.
There was the same Madonna face,
child he had left had promised to be-
He hardly cared to admit to himself
how much the picture had stirred
him.
When he entered the mess he found
the men in groups, absorbed In their
letters. Singleton and Dunlap both
called to him.
There are two for you, jim"
7 oft op%a III
When he first left England, several
these he had answered. He never
seldom
"Dinningfold." He saw the familiar
old postmark. 1t was from Lady Eliza
beth, then. Boyishly he fingered its
ample thickness 1t was good of her
to write such budget he thought, as
he tore it open. The chatter Of
ears as the men read their letters.
God! Breese Is dead--dropped down
quite suddenly at the club" Singleton
letter he was reading.
His words were almost drowned by
an eager, exulting cry. Half the fell
".
He was usually SO quiet Tonight
puppy.
I've come into the money he STAN
mered.
Every one knew that Farninsbys
uncle had been an old reprobate and
that Dick had had close pinch on
his meagre allowance. They also knew
that pretty girl was waiting for him
al home. A buzz Of congratulations
followed. But Jim took no part in
them. He was reading his aunt's let
ter.
-. We are so sorry that you won't
be home in time for the wedding.
Diana and Henry are to be married.
1t will be. London wedding. Diana
has grown into beautiful girl and
will make a worthy wife for Henry
and charming mistress of Maudley
Towers.
AS he read, the page became dane
ing mass Of hieroglyphics. The men
were beginning to light their cigar
cites and pipes as they called bits of
new to one another from the English
papers. He tried hard to make tho
strange letters shape themselves and
form words He reread them. Diana
and Henry are to be married." He
turned the page con the Goth Of
April" it said To-day was the I'd of
May
Several of the men started for the
polo-fields Some one called, Whats
your news, WYnlegate?" He forgot
to answer. He@erushed the letter in
his hand and left the mess. Mechani-
cally he put the unopened letter from
headquarters, with the news of his
brilliant reward, in his pocket. Across
the polo-fields he could see the heavy
atmosphere gathering in great clouds.
dust-storm was nursing It's immin-
ent wrath
1t all seemed far away from the
Fairies Corner.
CHAPTER v.
Since the day in his mess when jim
read the news of Diana's approaching
marriage to Henry, he had been i'm
mersed in strange dreariness of
feeling and curious indifference to
the homewardbound journey Night
after night he stood aldne on the for.
ward deck of the Crocodile, bound
from Bombay for England, and heard
the soldiers singing their ca,ap-sengs,
their strong. roush voices growing
tender as the, I, their COO .ney bal
lads go But they reused no res
ponsi.~ echo in JIM watching the
Southern Cross in the sky, his
thoughts often drifted back to the
seven years of fighting with their sun
scorched days of fatigue and danger,
full of work that drained body and
brain. He almost wished that he were
returning to them
One night at Ismailia the pendulum
of his emotions swung back from this
indifference to the first hours of Joy
that he had experienced when he re-
ceived the news that his regiment was
Qrdered haclt Tho CHR, 10