Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-07-03


that's come over US ALL" he con-
cluded.
Aren't you afraid to have her come
out here?" objected Captain Manson.
THE little brown devils are most
dangerous when things appear most
quiet on the surface"
81 guess they'll leave US alone until
the rainy season." replied Major Tracy
easily. Were in such force that l
don't apprehend any trouble before
then, but I'll have her return to
Manila before that sets in. even If we
aren't ordered back there ourselves by
that time"
DR.. Carey continued smoking,
watching the brilliant consultations
set in the sparkling heights of the
tropical heavens. He said nothing.
When Major Tracy sent the letter to
his wife in Manila next day, DR.. Carey,
at the last minute, asked permission
to send a 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 we'll for the first fort
night. after the little woman" as the
major called her affectionately, ar
rived in Majon. There was something
very enjoyable in riding through the
quaint growths of the Orient every
morning with one of the officers as
companion and with an armed escort
close at hand in case there happened
to be danger lurking in the deeps OF
the bamboo thickets. There was the
convent, too, where the native women
did drawn work in Pine 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
to the market place. where the native
children played, and where the most
ferocious devils, in the guise OF most
humble and obsequinous natives, came
to buy and SELL And not least was
the soldiers hospital to which she
sent the chino coolies with fruit and
cocoanuts.
But there came day when all these
things ceased to interest. A desper-
ate Irritation with DR.. Carey, begun in
Manila under stress of the same bore
dom of things in general, was, un-
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
did duty as window panes on the
farther end; he was just In time to
see DR.. Carey take leave of his wife
in the manner peculiar to relatives,
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.
DIR. Carey accompanied the one under
his command.
The two rode out to make recon-
Nuisance beyond the rice paddles to a
point where a rise of 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 man
enough to understand NEIL take it?"
Major Tracy drew his revolver as
he concluded.
"Yes?" Intercepted the doctor go
ahead"
Shall it be ten OF twenty paces?"
ITO oblige you, I'll say fifteen
responded the doctor, smiling as If in
box at the theater.
The two men stood back to back
and began to walk forward. The
major counted the PAGES aloud.
1--WE will turn and fire at the hf-
teenth," he said.
At the thirteenth, Dr. Carey wheeled
about quickly, raising his Remington
to fire at the back of the unsuspecting
man. At the same instant there was
pun Of smoke from the bamboo
thicket, followed by another and an
other. The doctor fell.
For a moment. regardless Of the
soft patter of bullets all about him,
the major stood above the fallen form
OF DR.. Carey. "It'has saved me the
trouble" he unused. Then he leaped
quickly to the shelter of rice dixie
until detail of skirmishers came at
double quick around the hillock, caus-
ing the little brown men, leaving their
dead and wounded behind thine, to
make off as quickly as they had come.