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A 5\iiTina story of AI-MY [Copyright, v' CHAPTER I.—Billy Gray, young college Rtndent, secures a lieutenant's commission on breaking out of Spanish-American war. He meets a Mr. Prime, Miss Prime and Miss Amy Lawrence. CHAPTER II.—After a conference In his official tent, Gen. Drayton Joins a gay company in his personal tent—Mrs. Gar rison doing tho honors as hostess. "With every assurance that the prod igal should be produced forthwith and restored to the paternal bosom," de claimed Mrs. Garrison, melodramatic ally, and would have ranted on, never noting the flush of pain and embarrass ment that almost instantly appeared in the faces of Miss Lawrence and her dark-eyed eastern cousin, nor seeing the warning in her husband's eyes but at the moment the tent flap was thrown back and held open to admit a tall, gray-haired civilian whose silk hat was uplifted as he entered in courteous rec ognition of the group, despite the dis tress that was betrayed in the pallor of his face and the instant glance of his dark eyes toward the slender girl, who stepped eagerly forward. Mrs. Gar rison, turning quickly, saw, and with swift, agile movement sprang to one side. The general slowly struggled up from his easy chair. Reaching her CatheWs side Miss Prime laid her hand u^on his arm, looking fondly and anxiously into his face. A soldierly, middle-aged officer, in dripping forage cap and rain coat, stepped quickly in and lowered the flap. "Did you find him, father?" was Miss Prime's low-toned, faltering question. "We found—the soldier referred to Col. Armstrong has been most kind but it wasn't your brother at all, my child CHAPTER m. A day had dawned on the Presidio Heights as brilliant as its predecessor had been dismal. A soft south wind had kept the fogs of the Pacific far out to sea and cleared the summer sky of every wisp of vapor. The sun of early August shone hot and strong upon tEe sandy wastes between the western lim its of the division camps and the foamy strand beneath the low bluffs, and beat upon the canvas homes of the rejoicing soldiery, slacking cloth and cordage so that the trim tent lines had become broken and jagged, thereby setting the teeth of "Old Squeers" on edge as he gazed grimly from under the brimof his unsightly felt hat and called for his one faithful henchman, the orderly. Even his adjutant could not condone the regi mental commander's objectionable traits, for a crustier old villain of a vet eran lived not in the line of the army. "Ould Canker" the troopers had dubbed bim during the few year3 he had served in the cavalry, transplanted from a foot regiment at the time of the reorganiza tion, so-called, of the army in '71 but a few years of mounted duty in Arizona and later in the Sioux country had sick ened him of cavalry life and he gladly accepted chance to transfer baclfio the infantry. Now, 20 years after, risen by degrees to the grade of lieuten ant-colonel, he found himself in com mund of a famous old regiment of regu lars, whose colonel had donned the stars of a general officer of volunteers, and the pet name—save the mark—of cav alry days had given place to the unflat tering sobriquet derived from that hor ror of boyish readers—the ill-favored schoolmaster of Dothcboys hall. He had come to the —teenth with a halo of condemnation from the regiment in which he had served as major and won his baleful name, and "the boys" of his command soon learned to like him even less than those who had dubbed him "Squeers," because, as they explained, there wasn't any privilege or pleasure he would not "do the boys" out of if he possibly could. Gordon had promptly tendered his resignation as regimental adjutant when his beloved colonel left the post to report for duty in the army destined for Cuba, but Lieut.-Col. Can ker declined to accept it, and fairly told Gordon that, as he hadn't a friend among the subalterns, there was no one else to take it. Then, too, the colonel himself added a word or two and settled the matter. A big review had been ordered for the morning. An entire brigade of sturdy volunteers was already forming and marching out by battalions to their regimental parades, the men showing in their easy stride and elastic carriage the effects of two months' hard drill and gradually increasing discipline. The regulars were still out in the park, hid den by the dense foliage and busy with their company drills. The adjutantand clerk were at their papers in the big office tent, and only the sentries, the sick and the special duty men remained about the body of camp. There was no one, said Private Noonan to himself, as he paced the pathway in front of the colonel's tent, after having scrupulous ly saluted him on his appearance: "No wan fur theould man to whack at, bar rin* it's me," but even Canker could find nothing to "whack at" in this vet eran soldier who had served in the ranks since the days of the great war and had borne the messages of such men as Sheridan, Thomas and McPher son when Canker himself was sweating under Lis knapsack and musket. Like most men, even most objectionable inen, Canker had some redeeming fea tures, and that was one of them—he had been a private soldier, and a brave one, too, and was proud of it. But life had little sunshine in it for one of his warped, ill-conditioned na ture. There was a profound conviction in the minds of the company officers that the mere sight of happiness or con tent in the face of a subordinate was more than enough to set Canker's wits to work to wipe it out. There was no doubt whatever in the minds of the subalterns that the main reason why Squeers was so manifestly "down on" Billy Gray was the almost indestruct ible expression of good nature, jollity and enthusiasm that had shown in the little fellow's face ever since he joined the regiment. "If we call the old man Squeers we should dub Billy Mark Tap ley," said Gordon one daj', when the lad had laughed off the effect of an un usually acrimonious rasping over a trivial error in the guard report book. "He's no end kind when a fellow's in a fix," said Gray, in explanation, "and all the time he was soaking me I was think ing how he btood by Jimmy Carson in his scrape"—a serious scrape it was, too, for young Carson, detailed to escort certain prisoners to Alcatraz and in Crusted with certain funds to be turned Life in The PHlitym 1899. SYNOPSIS. by F. Tennyson Ntely.] over to the chief quartermaster of the department, had unaccountably fallen into a deep sleep aboard the train and awoke to find both funds and prisoners gone. Explanations were useless. The commanding general would listen to no excuse a court-martial was ordered, and a very worthy young officer's mili tary career seemed about to close under a cloud, when "Old Canker" threw himself into the breach. He had long suspected the sergeant who had ac companied the party in immediate command of the little guard. He hated the commanding general with all his soul, and how it came about no one could thoroughly explain, but one day Canker turned up with indubitable proof that the sergeant was the thief— that he was bribed to bring about the escape of the prisoners, and that he had drugged the fresh spring water he brought in to the young officer after the burning heat of the desert was left behind in the dead of the summer night. Canker even recovered most of the stolen money, for there was a woman in the case, and she had safely stowed it away. Carson was cleared and Canker triumphant. "See what the man can do when his sense of justice is aroused, said the optimists of the army. "Justice be blowed," answered the cynics. "He never would have raised his finger to help Carson but for the joy of proving the general unjust, and a regimental pet, the sergeant—a thief." Yet Gray reverted to this episode as explanation of his tolerance of Canker's harshness and thereby gave rise to a rejoinder from the lips of a veteran compuny commander that many a fel low was destined to recall before the regiment was two months older: "In order to settle it, somebody's got to find his life or his commission in jeopardy. Maybe it'll be you, Billy, and I'm betting you won't find Squeers a guardian angel." Yet on this sunshiny summer morn ing, with hope and sunshine and con fidence in his handsome, boyish face, Lieut. Gray came bounding up to the presence of the regimental commander as though that sour-visaged soldier were an indulgent uncle who could not say him nay. A stylish open carriage in which were two remarkably pretty girls and a gray-haired, slender gen tleman, had reined up in the street opposite the entrance to the row of officers' tents and Canker had ripped out his watch, with an ugly frown on his forehead, for three of his compa nies had just marched in from drill ind three of their young lieutenants, on the instant of dismissal, had made straight for the vehicle and he half hoped to find they had lopped off a minute or so of the allotted hour. The sound of merry laughter seemed to grate on his ears. The sight of Gray's beaming face seemed to deepen the gloom in his own. Instinctively he knew the youngster had come to ask a favor and he stood ready to refuse. "Colonel, I'd like mightily to go over and see that review this morning, sir: and Mr. Prime is good enough to offer me a seat in his carriage. May I go, sir?" "Yq^i can't go anywhere, sir, with the tents of your company in that disgrace ful condition. Just look at them, sir! as ragged as a wash line on a windy day." And Canker scowled angrily at the young fellow standing squarely at attention before him. "I know that, colonel, but the sun did that while we were out at drill, and the men will straighten everything in ten minutes. I'll give the order now, sir." And Billy looked as though refusal were out of the question. "You'll stay and see it done, sir, ond when it's done—to my satisfaction— will be time enough to ask for favors. Mr. Gordon, send word to the company commanders I wish to see them here at once." continued the senior officer, whirling on his heel and terminating the interview by so doing. It was in Gray's mind for a brief minute to fol low and plead. He had made it tell many a time with an obstinate universi ty don, but he knew the carriage was waiting—the carriage load watching, and deep down in his heart there was keen disappointment. He would have given a big slice of his monthly pay to go with that particular party and occupy the seat opposite Amy Lawrence and gaze his fill at her fair face. He well-nigh hated Squeers as he hurried away to hail his first sergeant and give the necessary orders before daring to return to the carriage and report his failure. His bright blue eyes were clouded and his face flushed with vex ation, for he saw that the rearmost regiment was even now filing into the Presidio reservation afar off to the north, and that no time was to be lost if his friends were to see the review. The distant measured boom of guns told that the general in whose honor the ceremony was ordered was already approaching the spot, and away over the rolling uplands toward the Golden Gate a cavalry escort rode into view. Billy ground his teeth. "Run and tell them I cannot get leave," he called to a fellow sub. "Squeers has set me to It thrilled him with anew and struge delight work straightening up camp. Turn out the company, sergeantl Brace the tent cords and align tents," and a mourn ful wave of his forage cap was the only greeting he dare trust himself to give, as after a few minutes of fruitless wait ing, the vacant seat was given to an other officer and the carriage rolled rapidly away. A second or two it was hidden from his sight behind the large wall tents along the line of fence, then •hot into full view again as ha stood -.1 v.' .' at the end of the company street look ing eagerly for its reappearance. And then occurred a little thing that was destined to live in his memory for many a day, and that thrilled him with a new and strange delight. He had never been of the so-called "spooney" set at the varsity. Pretty girls galore there were about that famous institute, and he had danced at many a student party and romped through many a reel, but the nearest he had ever come to something more than a mere jolly friendship for a girl was the regard in which he held his partner in the "mixed doubles," but that was all on account of her ex uberant health, spirits, general come liness of face and form, and exquisite skill in tennis. But this day a new and eager longing was eating at his heart a strange, dull pang seemed to seize upon it as he noted in a flash that the seat that was to have been his was occupied by an officer many years his senior, a man he knew only by sight and an enviable reputation, a man whose soldierly, clean-cut face never turned an instant, for his eyes were fixed upon a lovely picture on the op posite seat—Amy Lawrence bending eagerly forward and gazing with her beautiful eyes alight with sympathy, interest and frank liking in search of the sorely disappointed young officer. "There he is!" she cried, though too far away for him to hear, and then, with no more thought of coquetry than a kitten, •with no more motive in the world than that of conveying to him an idea of her sorrow, her sympathy, her perhaps pardonable and exagger ated indignation at what she deemed an act of tyranny on the part of hiscom mander, with only an instant in which to convey it all—her sweet face flushed and her eyes flamed with the light of her girlish enthusiasm—in that instant she had kissed her hand to him, and then Col. Armstrong, turning sudden ly and sharply to see who could be the object of interest so absorbing, caught one flitting glimpse of Billy Gray lift ing his cap in quick acknowledgment, and the words that were on the tip of Armstrong's tongue the moment be fore were withheld for a more auspi cious occasion—and it did not come too soon. It was only four days after that in itial meeting in the general's tent the foggy evening of the girl's first visit to camp, but both in city and on the tented field there had been several oc casions on which the colonel had been in conference with Mr. Prime and in company with the young ladies. Junior officers had monopolized the time and attention of the latter, but Armstrong was a close observer and a man who loved all that was strong, high-minded and true in his own sex, and that was pure and sweet and win some in woman. A keen soldier, he had spent many years in active service, most of them in the hardy, eventful and vig orous life on the Indian frontier. He had been conspicuous in more than one stirring campaign against the red war riors of the plains, had won his medal of honor before his first promotion, and his captaincy by brevet for daring conduct in action long antedated the right to wear the double bars of that grade. He had seen much of the world, at home and abroad had traveled much, read much, thought much, but these were things of less concern to many a woman in our much married army than the question as to whether he had ever loved much. Certain it was he had never married, but that didn't settle it. Many a man loves, said they, without getting married, forgetful of the other side of the proposition ad vanced by horrid regimental cynics, that many men marry without getting loved. Armstrong would not have proved an easy man to question on that, or indeed on any other subject which he considered personal to himself, Even in his own regiment in the reg* ular service he had long been looked upon as an exclusive sort of fellow— a man who had no intimates and not many companions, yet, officers and sol diers, he held the respect and esteem of the entire command, even of those whom he kept at a distance, and few are the regiments in which there are not one or two charcters who are not best seen and studied through a binoc ular. Without being sympathetic, said his critics, Armstrong was "square," but his critics had scant means of know ing whether he was sympathetic or not. lie was a steadfast fellow, an un swerving, uncompromising sort of man, a man who would never have done for a diplomat, and could never have been elected to office. But he was truthful just, and as the English officer reluct antly said of Lucan, whom he hated: "Yes—damn him—he is brave." The men whom he did not seem to like in the army and who disliked him according ly, were compelled to admit, to them selves at least, that their reasons were comprised in the above-recorded, re grettable, but unmistakable fact—ho didn't like them. Another trait, unpop ular, was that he knew when and how to say no. He smoked too much, per haps, and talked too little for those who would use his words as witnesses against him. He never gambled, he rarely drank, he never lent nor bor rowed. He was a bachelor, yet would never join a "mess," but kept house himself and usually had some favored comrade living with him. He was 40 and did not look 35. He was tall, erect athletic, hardy and graceful in build and his face was one of the best to be seen in many a line of officers at parade. His eyes were steel gray and clear and penetrating, his features clear-cut, al most too delicately cut, thought some of the best friends he had among the men. His hair was brown, sprinkled liberally with silver his mouth, an ad mirable mouth in every way, was shaded and half-hidden by a long, drooping mustache to which, some men thought and some women said, bis tapering white fingers paid too much attention, but I doubt if a knowledge of this criticism would have led to the faintest alteration in the habit. Gen erally the expression of Armstrong's face was grave, and, on duty a trifle stern and not ten people in the world were aware what humor could twinkle in the clear, keen eyes, or twitch about the corners of that mobile mouth. There were no five who knew the ten derness that lay in hiding there, for Armstrong had few living kindred and they were men. There lived not, as he drove this glorious August morning to the breezy uplands beyond the camps, one woman who could say she had seen those eyes of Armstrong's melt and glow with love. As for Amy Lawrence, she was not dreaming of such a thing. She was not even looking at him. Her thoughts at the moment were drifting back to that usually light-hearted boy who stood gazing so disconsolately after them as they drove away, her eyes were intent upon an approaching group that presently reclaimed her wandering thoughts. Coming up Point Lobos avenue strode a party of four—all soldiers. One of these, wild-eyed, bareheaded, dishev eled, his clothing torn, his wrists lashed behind him, walked between two armed guards. The fourth, a sergeant, fol lowed at their heels. Miss Lawrence had just time to note that the downoaat face waa dark and oval and r*fla«d» when it was suddenly uplifted at Bound of the whirring carriage wheels. A light of recognition, almost of terror, flashed across it, and with one bound the prisoner sprang from between his guards, dove almost under the noses of •he startled team, and darted through the wide open doorway of a corner sa •oon. He was out of sight in a second. TO UK CONTINUED. How's This! 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Our Winter Suitings have arrived, and thost desiring GOOD AND 8TYLI6H cause of disease can us ually be traced to the lmperiect aotion ol the millions of pores of the homan body. A bath in accordance with scientific require ments is the best preventative and remedy known. The methods employ ed by me are the most scientific, ever invented or discovered for dispelling disease. Results tell the story. Give me a trial. This is the Oonant system of baths. A competent lady attendant in charge of the ladiesdepartment. L, ml MANAOKR.: Felt Boots. S Snag Proof Overs ARCTICS. MITTENS, UNDER WEAR, ETC. We are better prepared' than ever to supply your wants in the above goods Prices away down. F. M. FOLEY RYAN, IOWA. J. E. DAVIS, Manchester, la., Main St., North of Court House. M0NEY...T?ODAY"...5VO I am making first-class (arm loans at 5 and 6 per cent., with privi leges. ill tea ••V-we 'f (CITY HALL BLOCK.) We have on hand all kinds of SUITS" Should not tail tu call and examine our stock. Our \t Suits Overcoats N are admirable in fabric and in fit, in winsom neea and in workman ship, Nearly a quarter of a century in business in Manchester ought to be a guarantee of our com petency and qualifica tions to give satisfac tion. .... You are invited to in spect our stock and get our prices. L. & A. WOLFF. ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY Notice in Inventive Age Book "Howtoobtaln Paten ta" •Vi. '"i -"O TRADE-MARKS AND COPYRL&H _OBTA)NE0