Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-01-19

~ erty of asking the right to
81 reproduce, and so here they
are given with some slight
change of name, but with no
0HohSe or circumstances
FIRST Lieutenant Robert Emmett Kayanaugh
was pacing up and down his narrow quarters
IN Fort Grady, Michigan, holding a telegram
III MS hand. He had read it twenty times,
puI at every second turn in his nervous walk
ne ledo IL again. The telegram was dated
CnIcago, and this is what it said Leave
thursday for Florida. Uncle Frank i'll. Stay
indefinite. Norah Desmond"
Lieutenant Bob Kavanaugh and Norah Des-
mond were engaged. They were to be mar
rled as soon as few accommodating superior
officers would consent to be killed off or die
IN their beds and thereby give Bob a chance
TO write captain instead of lieutenant before
his name on official papers The young officer
had fixed the limit Of his waiting at about
year.
''Norahs going to Florida" he muttered to
himself Il haven't seen her for three weeks
and won't see her for six months to come
Uncle Frank Is one of the kind who never
dies and never gets well, and Norah'l stay
down there until the old man is willing to let
her 60 She's more of a sticker for duty than
Ola Mugs, the commanding officer, and that's
saying lot He won't give me a leave I've
had too many. Great Winfield Scott but I
goes"
And Lieutenant Robert Emmett Kavanaugh
sighed.
kavanaugh couldn't keep anything to him
self, and in five minutes he was telling his
woes to Captain Percy Lanyard of the arti
lery corps. Brace up Kavanaugh," said Ian
yard; Mugs is going to send general pris
oner through Chicago to Fort Sherman to
stand trial. He was going to send a sergeant
In charge 1t isn't very pleasant duty but
you'll volunteer 7 will
you and you can stop off your way back
from Sherman-it is only few miles from
Chicago-and your blue-eyed Norah be-
fore she gets on the Florida limited"
Twelve hours from that time Bob Kava
naugh was sitting in the smoking car of Chi
cago bound train, with a big Colt revolver
strapped around him and an enlisted man,
with a downcast look sitting alongside Of him.
Bob Kavanaugh had soft nearr. The soldier
at his side had seen eight years Of service and
had never been in trouble before. He had
assaulted the "top" sergeant, serious offense
in the army, may go without saying.
Cheer up Spencer" said the lieutenant:
you've been good soldier, I know and
I don't think 1t will go very hard with you
six months at the most-and then you'll be
restored to duty
81 hit him, all right, lieutenant" answered
Private James Spencer "and he deserved it Il
ever a man did, but you can't do such things
in the army, matter what the top says to
YOU and so I am good for two years and a
'bobtaiP discharge. It's tough. i never saw
the inside of the mill before in my eight
years service except when I guard"
Part of freight train went into ditch
ahead of the Fort Grady passenger train.
Kavanaugh and his prisoner were delayed five
hours The lieutenant fumed and said things
under his breath. Finally the way was cleared
and the train ran on to Chicago. 1t was Thurs
leave for Florida. 1t utterly impossible
for the officer to get his prisoner to Fort Sher-
man and to return in time to say good-py 10
his fancee
Kavanaugh and his charged stepped from
the train into the Chicago depot Boos heart
was sore. ST must see her. ne SAID 10 nini-
Golf .T can't stand it for six months. Al
that instant he saw at the depot cigar stand
making a purchase Jack Bacon, Chicago cluo
man and an intimate friend. Navanaugh hur-
ried his charge over toward the young Ieho"'
"Jack old man, glad to see you. 1ou hare a..
hour or two to spare. know you nave LIN
COW no" and with that the lieutenant graooeo
f say $50 Inv the arm motioned his prisoner
80 von ahead. and the three went on a nan
to+ into the office of a hotel across Tue
stroot Kavanaugh threw 81 bill before tue
c,erk and ordered a room he huliieu
os+ornded Bacon and the prisoner ih'o 'n0
anartment on the second noor- .,o 90
.'Iack" said kaVanauSh III go
,,o, love me. watch this man. mus
Norab desmond She's off to Florioa IA, 80
+hja orn and don't fail me" ana WIN 10
E.irs+ lieutenant Robert Emmett ha , hn,sd
ahnyad q revolver into JACK bacon u, anS
bnIted through the door. out OF tne me- ~ a
49, - trolley car. In twenty minutes ne , mas
1,i+b Norab desmond, who was IN Tue IT,.
WIN M last hours of preparation for ner fio'
lud Up .o,tv minutes more the dooroeii Oh 'ns
aot ronr violently. The maid opehe so,-,, he
IN hin9seIf .Bob," he yelled, your pIiso .ha
Sitnned He kicked open aool n .n ord
ss SKIP loom and jumped onto low r0tl h dn1
1rN tito the alley. 1 took shoe a Icon
hI rtn missed. and when got down ne was
gone" ;rto a chair, his face
BOD se~orah" he said, this means couar
pale and dismissal for me unie ss avlect
mar Tho fellow. It's clean case o. Mnsrs
cS' S,+v w awful neglect of duty, ana onu " ns
~ u love me any too Well any - am
o US', dear If l don't get him. anu rhat I'll
Kicked out of the army Con though Hn I'd try
N Sn can't even dig ditch 1nou .his wont
Uiuinglv enough for you, n .. tna train to
wnllnsy I'm off but I'll be at the u a. tho