Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-07-25


Dr. Carey continued smoking
watching the brilliant consultations
set In the sparkling heights or the
tropical heavens. He said nothing
When Major Tracy sent the letter to
his wife In Manila next day. Or. Carey,
&c the last minute. asked permission
to send q letter himself The guard
who set out with the message could
not fail To note that the majors and
the doctors went to the same woman.
Things went well for the FIRST fort
night after the little woman" Ms the
major called her affectioRately. ar
rived In Maion. There was something
very enjoyable In riding through the
quaint growths Of the Orient every
morning with one of the officers as a
companion and with an armed escort
close at hand tn case there happened
10 be danger lurking In the deeps OF
the bamboo thickets. There was the
convent. too. where the native women
did drawn work In pino cloth and
woven the shifting colors Of the sun.
shine into silks Of exquisite beauty on
handmade looms. The MONDAY
siesta was usually followed by visit
20 the market place. where the native
children played. and where the most
ferocious devils, In the gulse Of most
humble and obsequsnous natives, came
to buy and sell. And not least was
the soldiers hospital 10 which she
sent the chino coolies with fruit and
eocoanutsA
But there came a day when all these
things ceased to interest. A desper-
ate Irritation with Or. Carey. begun In
Manila under stress of the same bore
dom Of things in general. was. I'M
known to the major, renewed: the let
! ter he'd referred to the possibility. For
/ a time the major remained in blissful
| ignorance. but the hour for enlighten-
| Ing came at last Awaking from his
| siesta earlier than usual. he walked
into his little house and looked out
through the small. square shells that
4 did duty as window panes on the
] farther end; he was Just In time TO
see Or. Carey take leave OF his wife
in the manner peculiar TO relatives,
4 lovers and husbands.
The next. day the little brown men
came down from the hills of the north.
/ The major left his wife to return TO
Manila with Captain Manson and a
heavy escort He did not bid her good
by AS soon as she had gone. he or
dered an advance OF two companies,
DR. Carey accompanied the one under
his command.
The two rode out to make a recon.
Nuisance beyond the rice paddles TO q
point where a rise or land had them
from the view of the company They
were no sooner out of sight. than the
major addressed his companion
grimly.
There's no use arguing. doctor
and presume you won't care to when
you know I've learned at last what
has for some time past been common
talk with the battalion. You're mar
enough to understand me, / take it2'
Major Tracy drew his revolver 81
he concluded.
"Yes?" Intercepted the doctor. 60
ahead"
Shall 1t be ten or twenty pacesf'
ITO oblige you. I'll say fifteen.
responded the doctor. smiling as II II
u U0& at AAC LASaNGAs
The two men stood back to bacl
and began to walk forward Tht
major counted the PAGES aloud.
I'VE win turn and fire at the fii
teenth." he said
At the thirteenth, DR.. Carey wheele'
about quickly, raising his Remington
to fire at the back of the unsuspectinl
man. At the same instant there wa
puff of smoke from the bambo
thicket, followed by another and an
other The doctor fell.
For a moment, regardless Of tn
soft patter of bullets all about hin
the major stood above the fallen forr
of DIR Carey. ut has saved me tn
trouble" he unused. Then he leape
/. quickly to the shelter of a rice dix
until a detail of skirmishers came q
double quick around the hillock, caui
Ing the little brown men. leaving thel
dead and wounded behind thine. I
make off as quickly az they had conn
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