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$50. t::...s,G cI.nIa,.e w1ruIn doors. sea;
ed him by the still glowing. stove ia th,
front room and struck light. In les
than minute Mrs. Stannard, too, hat
Joined them. her kind blue eyes fil,et
with tender pity and sorrow. Pool
motherless Dora had no lack Of friend
ly counsel and fond. womanly sympa
thy when once she could be brought tc
lay her burden there. And now. witt
his gray hairs bowed in sorrow to the
dust, poor Mayhem had come to tell
his piteous tale. Ever since young
Rawdon had gone with the paymaster
she had been fitful and nervous. Ever
since their coming to Gushing four
weeks agone she had been watching.
waiting, listening, often weeping, and
when letters came for her with the
poStmark of Fetterman or Laramie.
Red Cloud or the cantonment in the
hills he could not but note her fever
isl eagerness and her instant escape to
her own room to read her treasure
alone. oh. yes; he knew they must be
IL,
knew there was good stuff in him, and
he could not bear that fellow Fitzroy.
who was military loan shark, man
who fattened on the needs or weak.
nesses of his comrades
But-God! He had never looked for
this. Oh, where had she gone? And
why? He had found her at home and
In tears after the fire. Then that aft
ernoon, some time, somehow, she got
a message or letter and then kissed
him and said she would be better In
bed. At II O'Clock old Chloe's sobbing
aroused him. Dora had disappeared.
They lost no time. those men Of the
held and the frontier. Stannard was
dressed and out in twenty minutes.
Had she fled to join anybody? was
the question that racked so many a
heart, for, with the possible excep-
ton Of gentle Mrs. Stannard. the girl
had made no confidant.
1t was this, full fifteen minutes aft
err Lieutenant Field and two Of his
men had trotted off to town, that
started old Stannard and big Jim En-.
mis- down the valley from the veteri-
narian's. through "Sudstown," where
girls and women We're budding and
whispering at the news. They came
to the long cavalry stables, standing
gable ends to the north, like so many
companies In close column, and at the
sixth of these, farthest from the bluff
wbereon stood the barracks and quar-
ters, they stopped and banged at the
door. No answer, even when the sen
try came to their aid and hammered
with the butt of his carbine
I'll have him OUT said the cor
poral of the guard and ran round to
the south end and presently came
back triumphant He had reused the
two orderies. The burly major STROBE
In, big Jim Ennis at his heels The
sergeant's door flew open before them
The room was empty. Fitzroy and
Fitzroy's furs were gone. Nor was
that all. Two empty stalls stood close
AZ hand
II thought So" said he. then graD..
the nearest orderly by the coat col
lar. who took Lieutenant Fosters
sleigh and team" demanded he, "and
how long ago?"
Sergeant Fitzroy, SIR" came the
answer, with doleful whine. 'just
before the third relief, at half past
H."
'No time to see the colonel now"
said Ennis. "Major Stannard. I've got
to gallop into town. but Il dozen men.
If need be, should trail that sleigh"
$50 it, boy" was the instant an
swer. "and I'm behind YOU"