The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-01-11
GIFT ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE Story q ss @s4t'e Var
BY r. X. Mitchell.


married ana lived under one rooftrcc
Some shook their heads that u widow
'of bnt few months should marry
but older persons approved Of the plan.
aud the pair We're made one
And now 10 return TO the soldier tv.
ing on the battlefield. who had a..
cepted his comrades last drink The
same rescue party who had succored
his wounded comrade. thinking him
dead. passed on Another party. &C
companed by n medical officer. came.
and the surgeon. placing his ear over
tho soldiers heart. found that IL
still beat lie ordered restorative
aud the man removed 10 hospital
There the soldier was revived, aud
when he had come To- u condition TO he
questioned. an officer who was taking
tho names or the wounded asked his
name
The soldier hesitated A fsraway
look was in his eyes. but the officer
had no time 10 heed ".
Your name" he repeated imps-
tiently.
'"AuguSt Helm
The officer passed on. not knowing
that the patient had not given the
name thai belonged to him
Helm, rs be appeared on the hospital
list lay for weeks lowering between
life and death. Al last pale and ENACT
sted, hc was discharged. not, only from
the hospital but from the army. and
tottered toward his home. ON the
road he fell in with another discharg
cd soldier limping along with his foot
and head bound NJ, and the two jour
noved together
Il am going home, said the man 10
Helm. Ito my dear wife. I have done
my duty 10y my country and have
earned n reunion with her I love"
II. too, au Going home. Ia iud-I OF,
rcct-my wife with former lover,
have doubtless been reported among
the dead. siuae gave n false name at
the hospital"
And what viii you do il you find
the case rs YOU expect -
tod kuows," replied Helm
When their paths separated the sol
dicr said Ia Helm: "Goodby I hope
that YOU viii find that your wife has
loyed Won AMI remained true Ia you"
"Gocdby," was the reply II am pre-
pared for the worst"
will You Kill him:'
~ dou't know"
Helm tOtcred on, stopping NJ times
ny thc way Ia gather little strength
az perhaps because lac dreaded 70 know
what hr f"Jr"d. lie could not hut cury
his co'uradc Who had gone on 10 the
womau of vhu>c affections he had no
doubt Mud 50 one evening as dusk
was falling hc approached the village
wherein vas his humc. He waited on
he outskirts until the inhabitants were
all Within doors. theri went on and,
coming To his own house. looked in
through window
4 cheerful tire blazed on the hearth.
but thcrC Wa no Que in the room
Presently woman entered 4 cold
hill Camc over the Watchers heart. for
here was no sign OF mourning in her
lppare' She put soIuc logs OF the Ere.
hen drew an easy chair up before H.
Ica,ing her apartment, she presently
'eturned. her hand on the arm II p
nau walking 10y means OF crutchcs.
The soldier without uttered a stined
'ry,
The manned mau was he who had
given him his last drinb-ibc drink he
vas mad for, the drink that saved hir
lie
Recently u ship arrived NJ au Amer
an port on whose passenger list vas
he name of August Helm. IN Monte.
legro lives his wife. who s,lpposcs him
Lead Neither size nor TIE man she he
inves to 10 her legal husband know
nat they owe their happness 10 the
sacrifice ~ = little brandy IN the field
Il battle