The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-03-12

the lines. There's a squadron of cavalry scouting out in this section somewhere, and if don't get word to 'em it's ali up with us'
 Bill said, All right captain I've got the man. and, raising his voice, he called Jim Douglas, come here'
 Jim came over. He was nice-looking boy tail and clean-cut and when the captain asked him # he'd go he just said he'd try and do his best That's all there was about it. As soon as it got dark he shook hands with the captain, waved his hand to us and with so long, boys slipped into the water
 ~Boys, that bad night. We cut the cinches and got the sadd1e-b1ankets off the horses for the wounded. I bundled up the captain and made him as comfortable as I could but he burning with fever and got off his head. He thought he heard the girl calling to him, and he tossed off the blan- kets and tried to get out of the trench find her Sgot him quiet after a wI1c but he sgasn't rfobt and kept babbling away about her until he had me nearly crazy. He had some of her letters in his pocket, and nothing would do but he must read 'en Of course, we didn't dare strike light and I had the dickens time talking him out of it. Finally he dropped asleep, and guess dozed too, for af1 of a sudden Brought up standing every hair of my head on end and the cold chi1ls chasing one another up and down my back It seemed as # every redskin in that yelling at the top ot his voice. and the squaws were sfrieLiDg some thing awful
 After a while they let up little and started beating the tom-toms, singing awaX for dear life and every once in while breaking out Unto blood curd1ing ye11s.
 last helped the captain raise himself little so he could get good look at 'em, and he says Boys were up against 1t; but there's just thing ze'vs got to do-give 'em hell and die like men,
 We cheered him to the echo; and then all of a sudden he says:
 Brown may be crazy. bat I'm sure heard cavalry bugle.'
 We all listened, and presently Bill Futile 1 shouted:
 Look the Injuns, boysp
 "And, enough there they were riding of bv tens and twenties hard as their ponies could carry ern- In less time than it takes to tell it te were gone, and then knew the captain was right for down the wind the clear notes of buefe
 'Oh, boys, have you any idea how we felt? We eheered and danced around and hugged one another and we criedl Yes, did-actual1y cried; and then, around distant hazy point came the yellow legs swinging out they charged down the valley
 Major White of the captains chums vzaN in l command, and he the first over As he svt,n0 out of the saddle he spied the captain and it 65d my heart good to that meeting The first thing the major did to dig up bundle of letters from his saddle pockets.
 Here, Bob,' he says, as he carried them over to him, I've been hunting for you for two weeks trying to get chance to deliver your mail Brown will open the letters for you'
 Well I opened the packet and shufHed 'en1 over and there big as life what was hoping for letter from the girl So opeAed that first and couldn't help just taking little squnt at the head ing It started Forgive me, darling Bob'
 The capt7in just took one good look at those words @-4s1 IA with if it was more than AA ----, bear he pressed the letter close to him Is eyes c-osed and his lips moved like he was praying, and tiptoed away soft as I could and left him."