The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-12-15

"How DOES FAPA SEEM TO TAKE IT Now?"
then followed, unhampercd even by
his arch enemy, FitZroy, who slipped
away to the stables three minutes after
the close of the conference But he
was not even there when, along in the
spring, Mr.. and Mrs. Rawdon came
out for a visit to DIR. Mayhem. Like
Rawdon, he had received his dis
charge. Unlike Rawdon, there was
serious objection to his reenlistment.
Even Snafiie dare not take him on"
again.
1t was not until mid-May that the
bodies of the missing were found save
that of Cary. Cary, who, having been
given up for lost, turned up most I'M
expectedly the very day that Fitzroy,
applicant for re-enlistment, was sum-
marily turned down. But Cary came
not of his own voltion. He marched
with file OF the guard. Cary's story
was simple enough. Rawdon and
Lowndes had hardly got away on the
train when Sergeant Stowell and his
party came searching. Cary hid. He
was still half drunk. Some one told
him of Kelly's arrest and charged him
with that and with running off the
Fosters sleigh. He dared not face
the music. He forgot his precious mis-
sive to Dora Mayhem until next day.
Then the storm held him. Not until
the fire night did he summon up cour-
l. 10 hnI AnrNaN
left and could buy no more liquor. He
stole into Lanier's back door to return
the civilian suit and recover the caval-
~ blouse and trousers left hanging in
Rafferty's room. He could hear the
lieutenant moving about overhead. He
had to strike light. He struck sew
eral matches, found the clothes, slip
ped out OF the ''cits'' and into his own.
He was cold and numb. He knew
there was liquor on the sideboard in
the middle room. The craze was on
him, and he risked II. He struck more
matches and threw the burning stumps
to the floor, drank his fill, then STUN
bled away, intending to give himself
up to his first sergeant for absence
without leave. Back round by way of
the store and the east front he went
but before he could reach the bar
racks came the appalling cry of fire
Lanier's quarters-his doing beyond
doubt, and now, in dismay and terror,
he fled from the post. Poor Cary had
Ianier to plead for him before his trial.
but three months hard labor was the
least the law would allow
BY this time, too, another wedding
was announced as near at hand. Only
two days did Mr.. Arnold and Aunt Ag-
mes allow Miriam in which to prepare
for the homeward journey, but it is
safe TO say that in that brief time their
views of frontier life and people had
undergone marked amendment, for
they had found an old eNpounder of
their faith in the post chaplain for one
thing and many surprising facts as TO
officers, men and Indians for another.
There came a bright wintry afternoon
at the flag end of the year when the |
station platform held a lively little as
sembly waiting for the eaStbound ex-
press. The colonel and his wife were |
there, the former by no means the |
warrior of the elders imag !
nation. The STANDARDS had come in, |
and the Sumters, Kate and Dad Ennis
the chaplain. and both doctors, and all 1
these surrounded the brother and sister |
and held them in CHEEKY converse, while
Bob and Miriam sauntered, self cen
tered, away.
Lanier's eyes were glowing as he
drew her to his heart and gazed down
into the depths of those uplifted to his.
'"That brute of a train has been late
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