The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-05-15

uulhDef OF young ministers in the Serv
Ice organized a campaign of persua
sion and many were prevailed upon
to %re-enllst. But hundreds of bow
were hurrying homeward on the frozen
roads.
One day Jack was sent for. He and
his company had captured a number OF
men in a skirmish.
Captain, you have done WELL" said
the general. II want to make a scout
of you. In our present circumstance
it's about the most important, danger
u and difficult work there is to be
done here, especially the work which
Solomon Binkus undertook 10 do.
Their is no other in whom l should
have so much confidence. Major Bart
lett knows the part Of the line which
Colonel Binkus traversed. He will be
going out that way tomorrow. I should
like you, sir, to go with him. After
one trip 1 shall be greatly pleased If
you are capable of doing the work
alone"
Orders were delivered and Jack re-
ported to Bartlett, an agreeable, mid
dle-aged farmer-soldier, who had been
on scout duty since July. They left
camp together next morning an hour
before reveille. They had an ~unevent-
full day, mostly in wooded flats and
ridges, and from the latter looking
across with a spy-glass into Bruteland,
as they called the country held by the
British, and seeing only, now and then,
an enemy picket or distant camps.
About midday they sat down ii a
thicket together for a bite to eat and
a whispered conference.
"Binkus, az you know, had his own
way of scouting" said the major. "He
was an Indian fighter. He liked to get
inside the enemy lines and lie close an
watch EN- an mebbe hear what they
were talking about. Now an then he
would surprise a British sentinel and
disarm him an bring him into camp"
Jack wondered that his friend had
never spoken of the capture Of prison
ers.
HE was a modest man." said the
young scout.
"He didn't want the British to know
where Solomon Binkus was at work,
and 1 guess he was WISE" said the
"I advise against taking the
chances that he took. It amt neces-
sary. You would be caught much
ooner than he was"
That day Bartlett took Jack over
Solomon's trail and gave him the lay
of the land and much good advice. A
young man of Jacks spirit, however,
is apt to have a degree of enterprise
and se~lf-confidence not easily con-
trolled by advice. He had been travel
ing alone for three days when he felt
the need of more exciting action. That
he crossed the Charles river on
the ice in a snowstorm and captured a
sentinel and brought him back to
camp.
Soon after that the daring spirit of
the youth led him into a great adven-
ture. 1t was on the night of January
fifth that Jack penetrated the British
in a snowstorm and got close to
IN outpost in a strip of forest. There
1 camp fire was burning. He came
His garments had been whitened
)y the storm. The air was thick with
NOW, his feet were muffled in a foot
# 1t. He sat by a stump scarcely
wenty feet from the fire, seeing those
n it's light, but quite invisible. There
lie could distinctly hear the talk of the
1t related to a proposed
evacuation of the city by Howe.
I'm weary of starving to death In
God-forsaken place." said n of
"You can't keep an army with
ut meat or vegetables. I've eaten fish
i'll I'm getting scales on me-"
Colonel R%ifington says that the
rmy will leave here within a fort
ight," another observed.
1t was important information which
ad come to the ear of the young scout.
he talk was that of well-bred Eng
shmen who were probably officers.
"We ought not to speak of those
aloud one Of them remarked.
Some id Yankee may be listening
the n we captured"
He was Amherst's old scout" said
mother. "He wore a blue streak
hen we showed him into Jail. They
ont like to be treated like rebels.
hey want to be prisoners of war"
A young man came along with his
file on his shoulder.
Hello, Bill" said one of the men.
Going out on post?"
81 am, God help me-" the youth an
vered. TITS what I'd call a hi of
night"
The sentinel passed close by Jack on
s way to his post. The latter crept
way and followed, gradually closing
upon his quarry. When they were
ell away from the fire, Jack came
ose and called, "Billw
The sentinel stopped and faced
,out.
you've forgotten something said
-ck, in a genial tone.
what is it?'