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THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JULY 28, 1914.
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It was at the officers' mess one hot
summer night in Camp Sutro.
The lie was given so unexpectedly
that a rattle not unlike that of mus
ketry ran round the table as we set
our untasted glasses on the board.
I was at General Delmar's right, and
I remember how the saber scar crept
out on his face the old scar which I
had not noticed for years. Across the
table, through the haze of tobacco
smoke, Colonel Gray's fierce eyes
glanced, and his flushed face con
trasted oddly with that of the gen
eral. It was the junior officer who spoke
first.
He was a curious chap this Col
onel Gray from the West. He al
ways appeared to be laboring under
suppressed excitement, while In action
he was cold and calculating.
MI am, of course, ready to give you
satisfaction, General Delmar," he said.
It was a full moment before the gen
eral replied, his cold, blue eyes mean
while sweeping the table.
"Fortunately, w are all gentlemen."
he said. "This insures discretion and
sets our minds entirely at rest as to
any unpleasant notoriety. Y.oi may
go," nodding to the stewards, - who
stood about the room, mouth agape.
After they had retired he continued:
"Since Colonel Gray has been so good
as to leave the arrangements to me, I
will, with his permission, waive the
formality of seconds. I have an idea
which I am sure will appeal to his love
of adventure, and will, I think, not
only satisfy honor, furnish an inter
esting study, and yet avoid the court
martialing of the survivors for viola
ting the regulations against dueling.
"In fact, I am so thoroughly con
vinced of Colonel Gray's personal cour
age," concluded the general with a
graceful gesture, "that I believe there
will be no survivor. Gentlemen, may
I hope that you will accompany me
for a short walk?"
With a great deal of curiosity and
some trepidation, we filed out Into the
night, preceded by the tall, thin form
of the old general.
The path taken by General Delmar
led us to an old shanty in a corner of
the drill-field; arrived there, he lighted
a tin lantern which hung by the door,
and led the way within, where was
nothing save a few kegs of blasting
powder, belonging to the engineer
corps, and some tools.
One of the kegs the general rolled
to the center of the room, placing a
couple of boxes beside it. He then
carefully loosened the plug in the keg
and inserted a fuse, winding the other
end about the middle of the candle
which he removed from the lantern.
Sticking the candle into an empty
bottle, he set it on the keg, nnd turned
toward Colonel Gray, who lied been
watching the proceedings with great
Interest, and who seatptf himplf In
reply to a courteous gesture 01 his op
ponent The general sat down also, and con
tinued in a pleasant, conversational
tone: "I think you understand my
idea, Colonel Gray? Unless this can
dle is extinguished before it burns
down to the fuse, the keg of powder
Is going to ignite. One of us two mus:
blow the candle out within, say, tin
next twenty minutes. It will not be
nie, Colonel Gray!"
Gray threw his head back ami
laughed.
"Splendid, my dear general, splen
did!" he exclaimed. "Wp will have a
grand final blowout together!"
"Harris," sa id the general to the
genial cavalry major, "just keep these
papers, will you? And my watch. And
toast us good and plenty tomorrow
night," he added, handing Harris a
roll of bills.
"Can I be of service to you, Colonel
Gray?" asked Harris.
"Not a sou on me," he smiled. "Not
even a scrap of paper except a bill
from my tailor!"
"Now, gentlemen," said the general
"I thank you for your attentions, and
shall ask but one further favor; that
you return to the mess-roorn and await
the explosion. Then come and search
for-let us say, the survivor. Good
night nnd good-by!"
Solemnly enough we bade them
both adieu and departed, secretly re
lieved to get away from the vicinity
of that cursed candle and fuse ar
rangement. It was exactly nine when we sat
down again at table, and for at least
five minutes no one spoke. This was
a long pause for the officers' mess at
amp Sutro.
At laat flesh and blood could stand
it no longer. Burly Captain Jones ;
who hud been pulling away at a huge, j
cnlighted cigar, blurted cut: "Three
to two on the general!" !
"Shame!" cried one or two; but
there were several takers, and we
grasped eagerly at the relief to our I
uerves. The captain's wacer was inv !
ered quickly enough by the western
men, and after that even niomy pre
vailed.
"hr-i frrne one noted that it was
only gpveu minutes past nine. One
rr two were certain the deck had
stopped; and nothing would convinc-
them but a personal inspection of the j
pendulum.
At a quarter past the tension In
creased. The explosion was due at
any time now. Wragge and the West
Fointer drank whisky in alarming
quantities, and most of us smoked
like chimneys. Then the explosion
occurred.
We were Just as startled aa if we
had not been expecting it. For a full
minute no one had the courage to
make a first move, and even as we
lingered, eyeing one another shame
facedly, the door opened, and, framed
in the blackness, appeared the hag
gard faces of Delmar and Gray, and
with them was Captain Sage of the
engineers.
It was the general who spoke first.
"We have come back!" he an
nounced definitely.
"What is this a hoax?" demanded
Captain Jones savagely.
"No," responded the general, plac
ing his hand affectionately on his late
opponent's shoulder, "but I have found
a man! A hero!"
"Nonsense!" growled Gray. "You
were a fool to come baok to the
shanty!"
"Sir!" exclaimed the old general.
"Your language demands an apology!
I hold you personally responsible!"
"Cut it out!" demanded Harris in
disgust. "Since you refused to be ex
ploded like gentlemen, at least ex
plain to us how you came to patch it
up between you!"
"It was this way," said Gray, help
ing himself to Scotch. "We had sat
there perhaps five minutes after you
left, and I was trying to blow double
rings, when I happened to glance at
the candle."
Here young Wragge uttered an of
fensive word but subsided as Gray
turned his eyes upon him.
"Prom the candle my eyes traveled
naturally to the general; and what do
you suppose? He was apparently sound
asleep! Asleep, gentlemen!"
He paused, that the full effect of his
words might be felt.
"Now, he was, of course, within his
rights In sleeping, but I did not pro
pose to keep any lonesome vigil, and
besides, I was unjust enough to fancy
that he might be shamming. So I
leaned over the keg and shook his
arm. He had fainted away."
"My old heart trouble," sighed the
general. "Always comes on when I
am especially anxious to keep awake.
What a chance I missed! But what
do you suppose this glorious fellow
did?" he demanded.
"What any decent man would do, of
course!" responded Gray. "What could
I do? I was sheer murder to sit there
and let him be blown to atoms, abso
lutely helpless, when a breath of his
might have extinguished"
"Do you mean to insinuate that I
would have blown out that candle?"
stormed Delmar. "Why, man, yon in
sult me in a way I cannot overlook. I
must hold you personally " !
"I insinuate nothing," interrupted
Gray. "But your condition violated
the ethics of the code. It left all the
responsibility on my shoulders; I had
a right to let myself be blown up, but 1
not to see an unconscious third party
foully murdered!"
"Third party!"
"Yes third party! Directly you
went fltty, you cease to be a partici
pant. You could not have blown out
the candle, and I would not. So"
tnrnlng to us "I hauled him outside."
"Yes, he did, confound him," grum
bled the general, casting an affection
ate but irritable glance upon Gray.
"But that was nothing, gentlemen he
went back!"
"Of course I went back, you helpless
old idiot!"
"And he ran back," wheezed Del
mar, looking at him with a sort of
wonder In his eyes.
"Ran back?" some one Interrogated.
"Had to," said Gray. "Candle most
burned down to fuse; afraid I might
be too late."
"It was I who almost too late," said
the general, shaking his white head.
"What did you go back, too?" de
manded Harris.
"He laid me on my bark in the
grass." explained Delmar, "and the
dew revived me. When I opened my
eyes I thought I had been blown there
by the powder. Then I saw that I
was all together, so I started up and
made for the light in the shanty. There
was Just an eighth of an inch of can
dle left when I arrived, and there sat
this fool, smoking a cigarette and
humming that detestable ditty every
one forgot ages ago."
"He means 'There'll Be a Hot Time
in the Old Town Tonight,' " explained
Gray In an Injured tone.
"I demanded an explanation." con
tinued the general, "and he told me,
and said how glad he was I had come
back, as it was lonesome, and besides,
he knew how bad I would feel to miss
It all. The fuse was beginning to
sputter, and I seated myself just in
time to enjoy the climax."
"They both cut and run!" quoth
Jones, disgustedly. "All bets are off!"
"Captain Jones, I never have been
so grossly Insulted In my life," said
General Delmar Indignantly. "I shall
hold you personally and immediately
responsible "
"Well, how came you here, then?"
"I can explain that to your satisfac
tion, I think." spoke up Captain Sage.
"You are the most bloodthirsty crew
I ever met. If there were not cooler
heads "among the sappers than in this
polyglot crowd, the service would have
lost two of the most courageous
courageous asses I ever heard of.
"I chanced to be crossing the drill
field, and noticed the light burning In
our powder-shanty, which is, of course,
strictly against the regulations. When
I looked in, there sat these idiots, as
cheerful as if they were at tea, while
the fuse was Just sizzling.
i grasped the situation and the
fuse simultaneously and that's all
except that I must have left a spark.
In my hurry, and the engineering corps
is shy one keg of powderl"
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