The Elk Mountain pilot., 1920-09-30

| Jack satisfies himself of its truth and
waits to meet De Lapp. The latter laughs
/ at Jacks threat of what Horscroft will
| do when he learns Of the affair.
| CHAPTER X.-Arising next morning,
| Jack makes the discovery that De Lapp
! and Edie have gone He sees them in
small boat on their way to the vessel he
had noticed the day before. A note left
| by De Lapp informs them that his real
| name II De Lssac, colonel of a regiment
\ OF the French Guard. Horscroft returns
! with his diploma and learning Edie's
treachery swsars to pursue and kill De
/ Lissac. Major Elliott informs them of
| Napoleon's escape from Elba. Horscroft
and Jack 30 with him to enlist In his
! regiment. Or f 81
[ CHAPTER xI.-The three are with
/ weilinston,s army on their way to the
| hsld OF Watsrloo.
| At first 1 thought that the cuirassiers
I had run away in the smoke. but they
| were not men who did that very cas-
| lily. Their horses had swervsd at our
volley, and they had raced past our
square and taken the fire Of the two
other ones beyond. Then they broke
through hedge, and coming on regi-
ment OF Hanoyerians who were in line.
they treated them as they would have
treated US IL we had not been SO quick,
and cut them to pieces In an instant.
1t was dreadful to see the big Germans
running and screaming, while the
cuirassiers stood up In their stirrups
to have better sweep for their long,
heavy swords, and cut and stabbed
without mercy. I do not believe that
hundred men of that regiment were.
left alive, and the Frenchmen came
back across our front, shouting at us
and waving their weapons, which we're
crimson down to the hits. This they
did to draw our fire, but the colonel
was too old a soldier, for we could
have done little harm at the distance.
and they would have been among us
before we could reload.
These horsemen got behind the ridge
on our right again, and we knew very
well that If we opened up from the
squares they would be down upon us
ir twinkle. On the other hand, 1t
| was hard to bide as we were, for they
had passed the word to a battery of
twelve guns which formed up few
hundred yards away from us, but out
of our sight. sending their balls just
over the brow and down into the midst
of us. which is called a plunging fire.
And one of their gunners ran up to
the top of the slope and stuck a hand
spike into the wet earth. to give them
a guide, under the very muzzles of the
whole brigade. none Of whom fired
shot at him. each leaving him to the
other. Ensign Samson, who was the
youngest subaltern In the regiment.
ran out from the square and pulled
down the handspike, but quick as
| jack after minnow lancer came dy-
ing over the ridge. and he made such
| thrust from behind that not only his
| point but his pennon. too. came out be-
tween the second and third buttons of
the lads tunic. "T1eleni Helen" ne
shouted. and fell dead on his face.
while the lancer, blown half to pieces
with musket balls. toppIed over beside
him. still holding on to his weapon. SO
they lay together with that dreadful
bond still connecting them.
But when. the battery opened there
was no time for us 10 think of any.
thing else. A square is very good
way Of meeting horseman. hut there
Is no worse one Of taking a cannon.
ball. so we soon learned when they
began to cut red seams through us
until our ears were weary of the slosh
and splash when hard iron met living
| flesh and blood. After ten minutes
| OF 1t we moved our square n hundred
| PAGES to the right. but we left an
other square behind us. for a hundred
and twenty men and seven officers
showed where we had been standing.
Then the guns found US again. and we
tried to open out into line. but in an
instant the horsemen-Iancers they
were this time-were upon US from
over the brae. l tell you we were glad
to hear the thud Of their hoofs. for
we knew that that must stop the can
non for minute. and give us a chance |
Of hitting back. And we hit back |
pretty hard, too, that time. for we were |
cold and vicious and savage. and l..
for one, felt that l cared no more for |
the horsemen than II they had been |
SO many sheep on Corriemuir. One
gets past being afraid or thinking of |
ones own skin after while. and you
just feel that you want to make some
one pay for all you have gone through.
We took our change out of the iancers !
that time. for they had no breastplstes
to shield them. and we cleared seventy |
of them out nf their saddles at vol
ley. Maybe II We could have seen sew
enty mothers weeping for their lads
we should not have felt so pleased /
over it, but then men are just brutes
when they are fighting. and have as
much thought as two bull-pups when
they've got one another by the throt-
tie.
Then the colonel did a wise stroke,