El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-29
Continued from yesterday
CHAPTER VII.

"NOB." said Mr.. Ennis. saunter
ing in TO his comrades bed
side the following morning
I'm instructed to pay you q
kiss" Lanier's bandaged head spun
on the pillow He had but one girl in
his mind.
u "Wh-who?" he demanded.
Ennis threw his head back and
laughed Nine times out of ten when
a fellow is asked. Will you take it now
or wait till you get it" he's wise to
take it now. If I'm any Judge I
should say you'd better wait till you
can get it. which may be in less than
q week"
Ennis. if you can quit being an
ass long enough to tell me what you
mean and where you've been I'll thank
you If you can't wish you'd get
out. Ugashe" concluded Bob. with g
Lose into Apache and the pillow.
We'll. it probably isn't just the kiss
you were thinking of-no more was
/ when 1 got it-but, Robert, my son
and fellow soldier, it's my recorded
conviction that the most enviable
member Of the regiment this day Of
our Lord is your twin trooper friend
Rawdon. 1 saw him off on his wed
ding tour, and he didn't have on your
clothes"
Lanier's head popped up in an in
slant, the one visible eye all eager in
terest- Where were they married?
When did they get of? Was Lowndes
there" were the questions that flew
from his lips
Arena On Ne. 6. Don't know"
was the categorical answer. Raw
don brought the parson out from
Omaha, and the Osborns gave her
away. OF Lowndes I've seen nothing
since the night you staked him at
Laramie. and what I've heard Of him
you refused to listen to. OF that cal
low specimen Of the effete and ultra
refined Back Bay district you've long
since had my opinion He's too good
and gentle for this western world of
ours, Bob. and be and his shuddering
kinsfolk suffer too much by contami-
nation
"Oh, shut up, dadi His people did
wire him that his mother was desper-
ateiy i'll They merely wanted to get
him away from the campaign. He'd
been gambling, the pesky little fool,
with some Of the Rawhide crowd. was
all out of cash and dared not tell his
guardian That's all there was to It
Soon's he gets his money he'll square
perhaps he had. since
Rawdon had enough TO marry on
Lowndes owed him ten times what he
owed me. reckon"
To them, thus engrossed in confiden-
tial chat, there suddenly entered thes
two doctors. BLACK Bill" the inspector,
had given notice that he must needs
have speech with the culprit, If that
bandaged, blistered and unprincipled
young man were in condition to see
him. "Black BIZ" and his host had
been having a night Of It. Button was
In high fettle over the amazingly truth
full and unlocked for articles in the
Mail and as eager to know and re-
ward their author as he had been to
apprehend and punish the earlier de-
tractor Button had begun to "wab-
ble," as Bill expressed it, in his spleen
against Lanier until so suddenly
"braced" by the truculent stand of
Captain Snaffle, whose half drunken
words the previous night were by this
time known all over the post.
The matter was now in the hands of
Colonel Riggs. however. and it was his
to determine what further action to
take. Snaff1e had named as his witness
Sergeant Fitzroy, Private Kelly (who.
though drunk on duty, had not been
so drunk, said Snaf11e and Fitzroy, that
he could not recognize an officer when
he saw him). and the third witness. to
the amaze Of Barker and the derision
Of Ennis when told of it, was no less
a person than poor Tom Rafferty,.
Lanier's own striker and hitherto