The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

back in a minute" Picking up his hat
he stepped out
Private Bits blood CONCEALED. If
only he could get out to the fellowsi
They would lick him. but that was
ecstasy compared to the cooler" IL
was not far to the door, John had not
yet come in. He arose steaIthiIy, cast
ing look of infinite pathos at what
remained of the beans-then with
sudden idea, snatched up the two
picked eggs. Slipping 10 his knees he
scuttled out on all fours. Once out he
flew down the passageway. kids" he
painted, kids, rum" But he soon per-
eeived with terrified dismay that no
kids were there. He sped wildly on
As he emerged from between the build
ing an inquiring freciled nose thrust
cautiously out from the interior of
barrel 1t was the Captain.
Come on, come on Private Bill i'm
piored. They're accountable cop
He's goin' to throw me in, He'll pull
all of US! Come on, come on,''
They halted not until they reached
the creek a half mile from town, on
the other side from where Belle and
William sOjOurned.
When it seemed that they were safe
| they sank down under a cottonwood
and Private Bill ere hearts were slowed
down and breaths could be regained TO
| form reVilements. automatically pre-
sented his fellows with the two picked
| eggs, crushed, smeary, but ambrosiaIly
tempting to two famished youngsters.
Il wisht ! could a-saved you some OF
the pie he regretted touchingly; but
he was Iookin' n had to eat it,"
Instead OF acknowledging apprecia-
| ton of this, they only shifted. How.
| ever they accepted the eggs with sui
len. though alacritous, cOndescension-
and chastised him not.
They huddled fearfully together IN
the silence and the dark They we're
afraid to talk With superstitious
dread they stared dumbly out into the
awful black loneliness.
But nature asserted itself. and before
long head began nid-nOdding against
the Captains shoulder Private Bill
was cherumically sleeping the sleep OF
the full-stomached. Strangely enough
the Captain laid him very gently down
on the grass. Then, Let's lay down,
| too. he whispered TO the Aid de Camp
There amt nowhere to 60"
1t was a restless night. The wind
had risen and the sky clouded. Two
pairs of wide-open eyes watched the
clouds drift. Two pairs OF wide-open
ears strained TO the uncanny night
sounds. Two small hearts qu!vered
little minds struggled with the old
enigmas of life and death and destiny
The captains thoughts kept return
ing to his mother There was a terrible
fear at his heart that she might be
dead. He remembered that when Tom
Saunders ran off, she said that it would
kill her if il we're a boy Of hers. He
had known she would be scared. but
he had never thought about it in the
dark before. And. after ALL fathers
did lots of nice things for bOys-there
was that real watch he had gotten last
Christmas, and he went to all the
shows.
Midnight passed. Bill slept The
de-camp-intimately known in
private life as "Shanghai''-lay silent
and unstirring. A panic of terror seized
the captain at the loneliness.
"Shang" he breathed sepulchrally.
'Wha-at?" came sepulchraIly back.
You asleep"
NO; are you?"
mo: say. don't the wind make fun
ny noises in the jack oaks?'
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