The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-10-13
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last some TALK OF MIN lOSetHeIj was
in receipt, as | think l then told you,
of a highly advantageous pension on
company, and was soon after adj
vanced to a regiment of his own. My
dear sir, | do not offer to explain this
circumstance; any more than why /
myself, who have rid at the right hand
of princes, should be fubbed off with
| a pair of colors and sent to rot in
hole at the bottom of the province.
Accustomed as l am to courts, l
cannot but feel it is no atmosphere for
a plain soldier; and | could never
hope to advance by similar means,
even could | stoop to the endeavor-
But our friend has particular apti-
tude to succeed by the means of la
dies; and if all be true that | have
heard, he enjoyed remarkable pro-
lection 1t is like this turned against
him: for when | had the honor to
shake him by the hand, he was but
newly released from the Bastile,
where he had been cast on sealed
letter; and though now released, has
both lost his regiment and his pen
sion.
my dear sir, the loyalty of plain
Irishman will ultimately succeed in
the place of craft; as | am sure a gen.
tleman of your probity will agree.
Nov, sir. the master is a man
whose genius l admire beyond express
sion, and besides he is my friend but
| thought little word of this revolu-
ton in his fortunes would not come
amiss, for in my opinion the mans
desperate. He spoke when l saw him
of trip to India (whither | am my
self in some hope of accompanying
my illustrious countryman, Mr..
Lally); but for this he would require
(as | UNDERSTOOD more money than
was readily at his command
You may have heard a military pro-
NcID, tudl IL 10 d SOOu liiilAS " MAKE
a bridge of gold to a flying enemy? /
trust you will take my meaning and |
l subscribe myself, with proper re-
spects to my Lord Durrisdeer, to his |
son, and to the beauteous Mrs. Durie, !
MY dear sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
FRANCIS BURKE"
This missive | carried at once to
Mr.. Henry; and l think there was but
the one thought between the two of
US: that it had come a week too late.
made haste to send an answer to
Colonel Burke, in which l begged him,
If he should see the master, to assure
him his next messenger would be at
tended to. But with all my haste l
vas not in time to avert what was i'm
the arrow had been drawn,
t must now fly.
| could almost doubt the power of
Providence (and certainly His Wild to
stay the issue of events; and it is a
strange thought, how many of us had
,een storing up the elements of this
catastrophe, for how long a time, and
With how blind an ignorance of what
We did.
From the coming OF the colonePs
etter, | had spyglass in my room,
'egan to drop questions to the tenant
ok, and as there was no great Sc
recy observed and the free-trade lin
ur part) went by force as much as
tealth, | had soon got together a {
of the signals in use, and {
new pretty well to an hour when any
Messenger might be expected | say
questioned the tenants; for with the
raiders themselves, desperate blades
hat went habitually armed, l could =
ever bring myself to NEEDLE will
Ugly.
uel an unhappy chance, | was an OBJ y
sct of scorn to some of these bragga- +
ocios; who had not only gratified me
18th nickname, but catching me one
light upon bypath, and being all (as .
ley would have said) somewhat
Terry, had caused me to dance for =
leir diversion. The method employed =
as that of cruelty chipping at my y
'es with naked cutlasses. shouting at
lie same time Square-Toes": and -
Tough they did me no bodily mis- .
lief, | was none the less deplorably o
fected and was indeed for several -
sys confined to my bed: scandal *
l the state of Scotland on which no y
'mment is required
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