The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-26

| 20 on. Ocal!'
Id like you to deliver when-when-
when I've gone down there"
'kyaaston, l don't like to ask you
this-but, man and boy. I've known
the army for fifty years, and | know
! that an officer doesn't get chance to
put by any money. We're your peo,
pie army people,
Yes Why?"
rs your sister dependent upon Won
in any way"
None Of your business, Mr. UPTON"
! said the young7ter No one need he
concerned in this matter but Won and
me We played the game lost. and
! mean TO pay.
There was no mistaking the tears
in III" I'D mans eyes as he looked
steadily at his opponent.
! know, he said slowly. fiddli,c
with the pack, though his nandc
shook 81 know won't insult YOU
by Offering TO trade places with you.
You have answered my question, boy.
II 1t Is any small comfort to you, YOU
can rest assured that your sister shall
be provided Ior Where're YOU
goin'?'
TO my room a moment. III sec
YOU when | come back.
To Kynaston as he passed out o.
the great main room the world seemed
awhiri The game was fair enough.
but ho had not counted on his nervous
system failing him.
IL IS one thing to contemplate death
as a possibility; it is one thing even
to contemplate it as a certainty at the
end o! a specified time. but to gamble
life away as If 1t were dollar was
something that the cavalryman was
not prepared for
lie would pay-of course ne would
pay, Just as he knew in his heart of
hearts that old Upton would have paid
had he lost. But to save his soul Ky-
naston could not help rejecting that.
had the end been different, he might
have had his chance at winning Doro-
thy.
Wen. it would not take long. II
would be over in twenty.four hours
unless-a horrible thought came to
him-those men below, whose prison
er he would be in two hours, were
savages in the rough; sayages with
the blood-lust fairly reused and in
famed by defeat
He had heard tales of torture among
the prisoners that he had seen at No
gales-horrible tales!
The thought of having to go with
20
unnerved him for a moment, but he
realized his own limitations, and he
knew that in that last moment he
would betray himself. So down he sat
at the table and wrote two short
notes; one to his colonel, In which he
explained the whole affair and the 9TH
er to the oister that lived in a quiet
little Maryland town among the placid
back eddies of the eastern shore.
Kynaston, his notes written, filed
the clip of the automatic and slipped
1t into his bootleg. where its fiat frame
would be most likely to lie undetected.
moment later Upton came into
the room. His face was gray with
suppressed feeling and his gaunt frame
showed unmistakable suffering. In the
Few minutes that had passed since
Kynaston had left him the whole trag-
edy OF the next twenty-four hours had
been brought home to him.
Il can't let you go. boy" he said
hoarsely. I'VE had better take our
chance. Bring your men on over across
the border"
The appeal was almost overwhelm-
ing in its intensity.
Don't you know that 1t means your
!ife?"
Il know. But II means war IL I
do; and, Upton, as God is my Judge,
I cannot start war that will involve
the country to save my own skin.
You see that, don't your"
Upton licked his dry lips.
"When-when-do you mean to
ieave?" he asked.
Right now"
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