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BRIE1bStIE A. Romance of' Hit w AMERICAN Figlilincr onMieBalllefiehlT of UINCI KaeavaiOHT. m-a- w CHAPTER II. e stopped, ustonlshed nt the way Major took his suKKostlon. How 1 begun to stutter, paced the Inilde l the tent for some moments, mutter ; to himself, mid then swung round n his heel, facing the lleutennnt. ;.mm! (Jod, no. Wnllnee! Whatever tlmt Infernal Idea Into your head?" i expioueii. isee Here, now I inure t w'll enough to talk this thing over tight. Some day I'M tell you why or proposal Is Impossible." That's all very well. Major. 1 don't pw what you mean, but If you don't ip my proposition you know what ki can ao. id quiie wen enougn to ln to what's worrying you. Dig It II" V'l haven't time, Wallace. There's He stragglers to be sorted out. Not It much ran he done tonight, I sup n Sometime I'll tell you " Hie swung round on his heel and de for the entrunce, stopped nud re- rned. "I lUppoM I'd better tell you now," exclaimed. "I had thought it might ias well not to tell you ever. You ti't happen to know who this child's h.T was that man In the tent?" fWhut do you mean, Major? Home iIit caught by a bullet, I suppose.' ninmpton !" suid Major Howurd, ily. leutcnnnt Wallace sat bolt upright the bed and stared at the other In izcincnt. man who sold our mobilization 0 Spain?" !)' whispered, con- Mu i'i a sudden terror for the child. li.- major DOdded, "It'r yeurs we wonted together in thu war " he answered, "and, frankly, 1 I !i luce. ) oil uouldli I . weald yon, :ift, r the work that had don) One of the ,o -d dum-dum.e. But you didn't did you?" to ' o i arse from hts pocki t, rued It and shook out three told ces into bis band, "That was oa a about the body," he said. "And ired at the Other In Amasement. f were some papers not the ones wanted, hut enough to Identify It Has Hampton all right." went to the tent door and looked "Here, Johnson I" he called. Be negro servant appeared almost kntaneousl within the opening stood to attention. foiihl y use three gold pieces. on';" Inquired Major Howard. I ell, Mih, don't know as I'd ob- replled the negro, grinning. pari of a sum that was paid In American soldier for betraying Hintry." sh. I. oid. no. Major!" answered pen. men do what you think best with negro looked at the gold coins hand, stepped outside the tent. ung his arm. The pieces fell Jungle grass far beyond the cii- pmeiit. Major Howard stiloii iiio after them and went back to Wnllneu villi unl iinrlirhl on the lie noticed, wllli a certain grim- of spirit, that one of the llculcn- haiiils rested on the child s ruir fell, Wallace?" he asked. s dnmnable." fe can't exactly make his child .egimental pet, can we? we wee silent, id the J ARMY .. , M, , nut down on (ho edge .of the tied ;' Hide him. "I hud order to watch for him," he MM. "lie was to imve been hanged Ms soon ns we cimiured Hantlaim. That's why he was Baking for the jungle, lie whs detected and allowed U) escape with his life, but he had been working as u Spanish Bgsnj stnee lie wn drummed out of America. His career ende.l at the luckiest moment lor Um, lie seems to have had. the one redeeming quality of affection for the child, though If he had had u par ticle of unselllshness In hlra he would hnve left her behind hlra. 1 suppose she was the only thing he had in his wretched life." "Of cotirse there's no palliation." suggested Wallace. "Hut the man may have been born good and gone downhill." "He was born rotten," answered the Major, "lie sold his country to puy IiIh gambling debts. Cuba was about the only place that would hold him. I Imagine. And to think that swine m once in our regiment I Sorry 1 had to tell you, Wallace I" lie hesitated a while; Wallace had not moved; bur the child at his side stirred and breathed heavily. The major's lists clenched. "I'm tr.lm.' to I"' Just to the dead." he nid. "Bui : fee that a thousand years of hell wouldn't ntone for that crime. Wallace.1 Mark Wallace looked up. "I'm not sure that 1 know all the facta about the ease, Major," he suid. "The facts are that It was no sudden act of fear r tejnptaUon, hut calculat ed, cold-blooded deliberation. We knew at llle wir otllce thai there was a leakage, it had been trrfced i" the mobilisation division, where Kollorman and l wire working. HSvcn we were under Buspli Ion for at. in if narrowed down to Hampton an other. "Wallace, h a months w re wor time I've ever spent. Hamptoa whs my lies; friend, and Kellenmin's, too. We speci on him bad to. "Weil, j. m know what happened, more or leas. There was a woman go- between, as there generally is a Bne looking young woman, little more than it girl, named Hilda Mnr.-hetm. One of those French-Herman AlsaMans, Wallace. Kellcnmiu got some bold on her, and she confessed. The COM against Hampton was absolutely proven. "There wasn t any trial. The rellow could have la on shut up for a good many years; be had Cost his conntrjf millions; he ought to have been hanged. Bui be was quietly 1 1 h and allowed to disappear. Maybe it was i fool I ii move bu( shame pretty badly and waut get it. i Fnmpftin wa I let 4 understani etjon try forever. Oh, yes, he assumed the Innocent air quite dramatically. Borne of the war office people believed in him until the damning documents were laid before them. And he was still somehow in touch with things. Wallace, and the leakages went on afterward. That's why we had orders to hang him as soon as Santiago was taken. He did the kind est thing he could have done to him self when he got In the way of that sniper's bullet "I'll tell you who the child's mother was, Wallace, because I was unfortu nate enough to know her. She was a Mlas Rennle, Miss Marjorln Itennle, of a Baltimore family-line people. and, of course, with a tradition like that, she believed in the scoundrel ab solutely. She came to me twice. Thn first time was before the Informal trial held by the department. She begged me to believe he was innocent anil (he victim of a trap. I wouldn't even lis ten. You know, when a man has te run down his friend he bus to harden his heart. "She came to me again, after Hamp ton was broken. She told me I had played falsa to my best friend and that I'd suffer for II to the lust day of my life. I've never forgotten that in terview, and you can guess how It made me mad to hang Hampton when we learned that he was still keeping up the game from his exile in Cubs, He must have gol ipille a number of confidential papers out of the war of fice. Thai's about all." "It's enough." said Wallace. "The girl married him, then?" "Ho much wo learned And also that she died later. You see, we've been pretty close on the fellow's track I ho last COOple of years ever since the war became a probability, In fact. Most of the Officers In the regiment lire since that time, but 1 guess they all knew something, and kept it quiet, like you." Wallace nodded. "I fancy there's good deal of feeling," he said. "Quite a good deal." said the major, I dsste. "And I guess you'll agree witn ass tJast this makes, tt- , let's as. IH tie dlflicult to adopt his child offi cially?" "Yen mean the T( i-ieiiihrnnre would bo too blttt r?" "I mean that thai position Is the one and only position thai she Is dis annulled from holding, by reason of birth.' "Still," urged Wallace, "It. Isn't In the blood. The mother wiih decent. Why should that baby be tarnished with he fathers treachery?" "It's Written In the Hood Book " began the major. "And there's something else about coals of lire, too, Major, which came as a sort of revision of the old law. It's Just what we ought to do, because it's the only way to adjust the mat ter." "Adjust It? Adjust what?" cried the Major, with sudden passion. "The whole of that hellish business, Major. The man was once an olllcer of the Seventieth. He's dead and his crimes have died with him. We want to forget that such a thing could hnve happened, and the only way Is to leave him to (lod's Judgment and to cast out nil bitterness from our hearts. You quoted Scripture to mo well, I gave you the answer from the same Hook. Lei death bring oblivion to the mini's memory,' lie's left us the child. .Start here. Start fresh. I have the right to the kid, but what you have told me makes me feel strongly that there's a Providence In this affair, and I'll lend "her to you mark that word, Major! on that condition or none." Major Howard pulled at his mus tache in agitation. "You don't really mean It, Wullace?" he asked. "1 do. If you want me to let you take her till the war's over " "It means forgiving that black guard." "It means forgetting hlra and letting the Judge Judge." "It goes against every Instinct. I'd bring her up away from the regimental life. Besides, there are the others." "Who else knOWSr" "W'i II, of course, nobody else knows who the dead man was. The colonel will have tO know. Hut he. needn't kBOW we've adopted the child, lie's going BoUth lifter Hie war. However, I'm afraid KeMerroan knows. He rec ognlsed what was left oj the face, or suspected somehow, I could tell from his manner." - "I don't see any overwhelming dif ficulty In that. You can trust Keller mun?" The major nodded, and It occurred to Wallace Ihiii be would rather trust any of me officers thou KeUerrann. He had conceived a prejudice against him which he could in. I have explained. "And Hampton's name was erased from ihe old mess list" Wnllnee con tinned Tin- major, who bad been pulling at che and thinking deeply, came to hi dl I I ion. "Well; I'll take her on those fawns, Wallace," be said. "The fellow was a laid loi, but as you say, there may lie no reason why this llttlS animal should suffer for his sins. The mother was decent, and there may be something In Ihut Id -a of a vicarious restitution. I'll agree, Wallace, If you'll let me take over the charge or her tin the war's ended. We'll Ciller her oil the mess book and settle n fictitious parentage on her afterward, and may she never know her father's history. By the time he's old enough to understand a mas. e.,i duties, flirt v,Hh the lieutenants, and plead for the drunl . maybe we'll have forgotten it ourselves. Good' light, my bo i are of your ,l i ii l In Ihnt milk and hls- aii imii a couple i i ol naphtha , . and p porcel iii tub with silver trimmings, for you to make n start on her in the morning," He glanced at the sleeping child, took .Mark's hand and went quickly OUt of the lent. Under the sky he stood -dill tor a few moments. "The d d scoundrel!" he mut tered. At that Instant his alert ear heard what the sentry, posted some distance uwny, hud failed to catch the rustling of some moving figure In the dense Jungle grass ut the edge of the camp. The major remained perfectly mo tionless, except for his right hand, which was swiftly withdrawing his re volver from Its case. Suddenly he was transformed Into action. He leaped between the two last tents of the line, to see a man confront him for an In stant. In the llgnt of the quarter moon the major could not distinguish how tin- Intruder wus dressed. It was evident however, that DO had been prowling outside the tent which held Wallace and the child. "Halt!" shouted the major and the sentry together, and, as the man drop ped Into the grass, the rlfto and revol ver rung out simultaneously. The sentry, shouting to the guard, came running UP, The major nud he searched the spol, but they found no hodj. "One of I hose d d Cuban sneak- thlevos!" muttered Major Howard as he replaced his revolver In Its case. And In- hurried away to look alter his no u. CHAPTER III. Several years Inter Captain Mark Wnllnee descended from a street car and walked up Ihe grounds of a very select young ladles' boarding school In Westchester county, New York, kept by two maiden ladles. I altering the colonial portico, the captain rang tho hell and asked to see .Miss Howard, live minutes afterward, having satis- j lied ihe lady principal that he stood In the avuncular relation to her charge, ' and was a man of blameless life, he met Kleanor in the reception room. Jt was some years Since he had seen i hey. Tbe erlmv Utile waif of the San- lingo battlefield hdd shot up Into a hII in. long legged schoolgirl, with brown hnlr tied back with u ribbon, and a face Hint already r.howed the promise i.l lieatil v . The girl hurried forward as If ex pecting ail embrace, realized Murk's Intention, ami cheeked herself quickly and held out both hands. "Hear tjntfO Mark I" she exclaimed, "I've been looking forward to you ever since I got your Idler telling mo that you were coining Knst" "Well, It's nice to be appreciated like that," said Mark, laughing. "I couldn't quite persuade myself that It was true, and that I should really ace you at last. And you're not In the least like your photograph," "Homelier, Kleanor?" "No, but different Older very much older. You musl be awfully old quite tliirl.v, I should say." "Nearly." admitted Mark, wondering whether Ihe long years In the West, wllh the sweltering beat and arduous service, bad really aged him prema turely, Mark bad had mi influence to secure him anything better than ll bonier post. He often wondered why he hud not gone Into civil life, like so many of his class, and amassed a CMS potency in the first booming years oi the twentieth century. Something In the blood, perhaps, had held him to the army life, which he loved so much In principle and hated so much In practice. He was not far short of thirty; he had nothing but his meager puy ; no ties but u married sister In Chicago and the girl In the boarding school, who filled so great a purt of his thoughts, so disproportion ate a share. For until thnt day he had only seen her once since he picked her up In tho Jungle, and she had been too young to retain the memory of the meeting in Major Howard's home. "I expected a young man, but I'm Just ns pleased to, see you,' said Kleiinor. "1 don't like very young men." Mark received her amends with amusement, and they sat down side by side upon the sofa, and were soon deep In conversation. Murk Icunad ull The Major Could Not DiBtlrnjuJsh How the Intruder Was Droned. snoot hei school and her friends, Phe was very nappy there ami would re gret not going back at toe end ol the holidays. However, .Major and Mrs. Howard had only placed her there tor a few months While they went on a vh'lt to the West. "1 always felt that you nre really my guardian, evi If you did give me up to Major Howard, jjuld Kleiinor. "But 1 have only lent you," said Mark. "I couldn't very well take care of you when 1 was sent to Texas. And It has always been understood that you belong to me 1 mean, thut 1 am your guardian, Kleanor." "I know," she said. "And you write me such splendid letters, with such good advice In them." "Which you don't follow." "Indeed I do," said the girl, eagerly. "Only sometimes It Is Jnst a little out of date. Uncle Mark." "In what particular?" Inquired Mark, beginning to feel a little like a prig In the presence of this self-possessed young person. It Is so easy to assume Ihe task of adviser from a dis tance, but difficult to retain the role face to face. "Well, when you wrote me last year to remember not to be pert and for ward, like modern children. Uncle Mark. I'ertness comes at seven or eight. One Isn't pert at twelveat least, nol In the way you meant. They cull It Ill-bred, then." "I suppose I didn't realize how big you were getting," said Mark penitent ly. "But you can't teilnk how glad I um to see you, anyway." "It's a shame sticking you for years out In that horrible desert," said the girl. "I wish, Uncle Mark, you hadn't stayed In the army ufter tho war." "Why, my dear?" "Because then you could huve gone Into business In New York, like Cap tain Murray and Captain Crawford." "I've been thinking about as much myself, Kleiinor. But I guess the army got hold of me." "Hut they haven't treated you right ly, Uncle Mark. They haven't promot ed you for years, and they hnve lomrvd etl inrts of oWsurs over vonr .whqft.tfisi ,wM.M, nenrt. Major Howard was saying so only before he left for Alaska. But, of course, he's out of favor, and he wouldn't have any Influence, anywny. It's years since he was In the army." "1 suppose I'm a buck numhar, my dear. Some of us have to be. Per haps I'll get my chance. I'm not thir ty yet, you know, and thirty Isn't con sidered awfully old In thn army. At least, It Isn't the retiring age." "Don't be so nbsurd. Uncle Mark I You don't look an old man at all. It wns Just that your photograph wan taken so long ago, and I didn't reflect that you must hnve changed." "And If ever nnother war comes I'm sure my experience will count for a lot. And I'll probably hnve command over Captain Murrny and Captain Crawford If ever the National Hunrd Is called on for serious work. And then you'll have your function as our mascot, you know." He was surprised at the girl's sud den responsiveness to his words. She grew very serious. "I've often thought about that. Un cle Mark," she answered. "Hut, of course, It may never hup pcn." "I suppose not. But If ever It does I mean to try to be what yon meant me to be when you made that condi tion to the major. Ilow I wish bow I wish" "Yes, my dear?" "That we knew who my father was. Sometimes I think he was only an American planter, perhaps, who lived In Cuba and wns forced to flee when the war began. And then again I dream that he may have been a brave soldier who was trying to serve his country by going Into the Spanish lines In disguise, and I hope that I may be worthy of him." "You don't remember anything, Kleanor?" "Yes, Uncle Mark. I'm sure I do and yet I've thought so much about It thai I'm not sure how much of It Is' memory and how much Is Just child's inventions. I'crhaps 1 invented all of m ' mbS lit'' ri W Wilt "g -i ' ' f ill 7nw7 ; vmm 1 UtteTfca ML J "I Know That She Was My Mother. It, and made mysell believe I rcmem bered It And yet i am sure part oi II Is memory. " "What do yon remember?" askoo Mark rather leai tally. (To be continued i , vimrd'eie, !h Hark of EngU.n0. 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