Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-06

Harry" he said, II am going perhaps to my
death If do not come back, will you care for herr
Yes, answered the other and stepped forward.
Without. another word Warner. laid her-she had
tainted again and was passve-into his arms. For
moment he stood looking down at her white face.
Then STOPPING down he kissed, not the lips now, but
the forehead, and whispered softly, Good by, sweet
hearth turned and went quickly from the room.
When Harry and l had restored her more
to consciousness and we three had joined the Others
at the outposts, he had gone In the black silence
of the night we stood about and waited. Dmly we
could make out the fading fires of the enemy's
camp, dimly could see the black space into which
he had gone.
Then suddenly there flash, roar, and
the murmur of many waters. He had saved us!
But for himself? The flash of flame that shot
jaggedly up toward the skies showed us to him as
he ran for outposts and safety. Then came sharp
cutting cracks of rifles and the soft patter of bullets
The explosion had set fire to timber. and
all at it burst into blaze that made the night
bright day. 1t showed him to us, still long
way off, but coming fast; but it showed him to the
At last him stumble and fall forward upon
his face. Then he lay quite still All about him
could the dust fly the bullets hit the earth.
Marion reeled she this and would have
fallen if had not caught her. And as held her in
my Harry leaned over her.
Il love you, Marion, he said, and you love him:
so | will bring him back to you
That all, and having said it he turned and
made dash toward the fallen Almost at
the enemy and turned their fire upon him;
but he did not waver. Careless of the bullets that
sang about his head, he steadily until he
reached the dead mans side, and had taken him
in his arms.
Then he turned and started back toward
All! that brave sight, to see him there in that
circle of the red light of the brilliant fire which left
the dark background of the tropic foliage darker
and blacker than it before, carrying his friend
to safety at the cost of his life!-it would
surely cost him that. That awful rain of bullets
poured thicker and thicker about his head, and
and knew that he had been hit But he
steadily on-came on until he laid his friend, not
wounded but only bruised and senseless from his
fall, at the feet of the woman he loved Then he
pitched forward across him, dead.
And as he did SO the Colonel gave great cry and
stumbled forward.
Major Black caught him in his arms. You
should not grieve, but be proud | heard him say;
he his fathers SON.
-, And it was of that night I was
thinking l stood there in that jost
EesA@ ling throng 1t all back again
Suddenly I dropped her hand, and as
l did SO l knew that that act brought
her back from the memory.
Your husband?" l asked.
He is coming toward now, she said
| turned and looked behind me. Captain Warner
he a Lieutenant no longer-was working his
way through the crowd to where stood, and
upon his arm leaned Colonel Eustis-od and feeble
now, but look of calmer contentment his face.
Suddenly he raised his head and his eyes met
Mrs. Warmers, and then | knew. If he had lost
much, he had surely found much, too; for in
the eyes of the woman who stood beside
there such wealth of tenderness as many
never hope to see