The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-07

Redmond ran up debts with amazing
rapidity and of amazing size. staggering
about and ruff1ing 1t with the best of
the town until he almost began to be-
lieye that he was what he pretended
10 be.
Mrs. Barry, who had been immensely
proud of her son for his part in the duel.
wrote off to him as soon as she heard
that the affair was a sham, but as she
addressed him in his own name and he
inquired at the post IN his assumed one
he did not get the letter. Redmond be-
ing young then and not having mastered.
as he subsequently did, the art OF living
splendidly upon nothing a year, at length
found the bailiffs hot after him and to
escape prison enlisted as a private SOL
der In a regiment just starting off to
the wars writing .his mother g. dutiful
letter from the transport on which he
sailed. On that transport was one of
the officers who had been at Castle Brady
when Redmond had his duel and he told
the boy the truth of the matter. Redmond
was, furious and wanted nothing so much
as to return to his doting parent. But
~ was lOb AaA-y lo was GuA1SlGQ anu
was In for it.
How he hated the discipline, the coarse
fare, the routine work of army lifei His
only consolation was in fighting his way
up to the bully OF the regiment, and
so it came about that a better soldier in
battle and a worse one in camp than Red
mond Barry did not exist In the allied
armies TbncA fIa dow ~
gen and NIinden, when the Great Fred
rick was fighting the Swedes, the Rus
slams, the Saxons, the Austrians, and the
French and England were helping him
the days of the Seven Years war-and
soon after his command reached the con-
tinent Master Redmond saw fighting a.
plenty and distinguished himself In ac-
ton, especially upon one occasion when.
having shot a Saxon colonel, he rushed
out between the two armies and rifled
the dead mans pockets under fire. He
was advanced to be a corporal eventually,
but that was as far as he could get and
loathing his present life he intended to
seize the first opportunity to leave 1t.
That opportunity came after the battle
u HdIDuTS, III WHICH fdk0uudHl OF
Fakenham, a boy lieutenant of Red
mond's regiment, had the misfortune to
be severely wounded by the side of the
hero of this story. Shots came from
many directions in the heat of an en-
gagement-and Mr.. Fakenham had once
threatened Mr.. Redmond Barry with a
Gaming. The lieutenant was not fatally
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was pretty badly scared and offered five
guineas to be carried Into the town hard
by Redmond and another soldier took
the boy in a cloak and managed to
transport him to a house of decent APP
pearance in the town, where he was put
to bed and a surgeon summoned AS
Redmond was walking back to camp with
the reward IN his pocket, his fellow-sol-
died in most unreasonable manner de-
manded one-half of it. Redmond threw
him one guinea, told him that was
enough, and was walking haughtily on
when the ungrateful fellow, stepping be-
hind, brought the corporal a whack over
the head with the butt of his musket
which stretched the heir of the Barrys
senseless, after which he proceeded to
rifle his pockets.
When Redmond came to himself he had
Just enough life left to drag himself back
to the house where he had left Lieu
tenant Fakenham, and was there put to
bed In cot in the same room with his
officer. The corporal quickly recovered,
but was kept by the lieutenant as an
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marched on. taking with 1t the English
surgeon who had been ministering to the
wounded men, Redmond saw his oppor-
tunity. He convinced the German doctor
who succeeded the British surgeon in
attendance on Fakenham that he, Red
mond, was the lieutenant and the man
upstairs was the corporal, rendered
crazy by the blow he had received and
imagining himself an officer.
In this he was aided by the fair Ros-
chen his hosts daughter, to whom he had
laid siege and who had capitulated at dis
cretion-or through want of 1t. Ordering
horse which he had selected from a
dealer to be brought to the door Redmond
arrayed himself in one of Fakenhams
uniforms and appeared at. the bedside Of
the wonnded youth You gweat scoun-
drel," cried Fakenham, you mutinous
dogl III have you logged at the head
of the regiment What do you mean by
putting on my wegimentals?" II am pro-
noted" said Redmond. "and I intend
to have your purse and papers. No noise
or you are dead man." And quickly and
skillfully gaggng and binding the bewil-
dered youth Mr.. Barry possessed himself
of what he needed, paid for the horse at
the door like the high minded gentleman
he was and rode off as Lieutenant Faken-
ham of Fakenham recovered from his
wounds and on his way to rejoin his regi-
ment
But somehow Redmond's horse, instead
of proceeding toward the army, turned off
some distance out of the town and made
toward the domains of the Elector OF
Saxony. And he would have reached that
sanctuary, too. had 1t not happened that
he fell in with one of those crimps which
Old Fritz employed to kidnap men all
over Europe. The Great Frederick fought
his battles with armies replenished with
soldiers stolen from his allies and his
enemies impartially. Any good physical
specimen was fish for his net.
The officer who Joined Redmond on the
road got the unsuspecting Irish lad to
boasting, put to him many questions
about the English court and the
English aristocracy which Redmond an
swered promptly at length, though in
a manner which xvou1d have asfonisbad