INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX he'll have meT" Tie had brooded so and pulling the trigger," and that the did to draw'our fire, but the »*olur.ftI poleon's~ last great effort to crush us. mlsKers silence a battery. Just drive muCh on his wrong, had poor Jim, that man could not fall, because he was so was. too old a soldier, for we could There were but two more hours of (hose fellows out of that, Adams." 1 really believe It had turned his head, THE wedged in the crowd but I saw a truve done little harm at the distance, light and If we could hold our own Then first I knew what a devil's for he had a glare in his eyes as he horrid blotch upon the cloth, and a thin for those, all would be well. Starved and they would have been among us thrill runs through a man when ho Is spoke that was hardly human. He and weary and spent, we prayed that curl of smoke from it, as if it had 'before we could reload. given a bit of fighting to do. Up to GREAT was always a man that took even a taken fire. Then I found myself we might have strength to load and These horsemen got behind the t'Jdge now we had just lain and been killed, little thing to heart, and since Edie thrown up against two big Frenchmen, stab and fire while a man of us stood on our right again, and we kyjew very which Is file weariest kind of work. had left him I am sure that he was no and so squeezed together, the three of ibe upon his feet. well that If we opened up froto Now It was our turn, and, my word, SHADOW longer his own master. us, that we could not raise a weapon. His cannon could do us no great squares they would be down upon us we were ready for It. Cp we Jumped, It was at this time that we saw two harm now, for we were on our faces, One of them, a fellow with a very in a twinkle. On the other hand, it the whole brigade. In a four-deep line, single fights which they tell me were and In an instant we could turn into a large nose, got his hand up to my was hard to bide as we were, for they and rushed at the cornfield as hard as common enough in the battles of old, huddle of bayonets if his horse came throat, and I felt that I was a chicken had passed the word to a battery of we could tear. The skirmishers snap before men were trained in masses. By down again. But behind the thunder in his grasp. "Rendez-vous, coquin, twelve guns which formed np few ped at us as we came, and then awa.v As we lay In the hollow, two horsemen A.CONAN DOYLE of the guns there arose a sharper, rendez-vous!" said he, and then suddenly hundred yards away from ns, bot out they bolted like corn-crakes, their came spurring along the ridge In shriller noise, whirring and rattling, doubled up with a scream, for of our sight, sending their haj's .lust heads down, their hacks rounded, and front of us, riding as hard as hoof the wildest, jauntiest, most stirrihg some one had stabbed him in the bowels over the hrow and down Into the midst their muskets at the trail. Half of could rattle. The first was an English kind of sound. with a bayonet. There was very of us. which is called a plunging fire. them got away, but we caught up the Aatfcsrsf dragoon, his face right down on his "It's the pas-de-charge!" cried an little firing after the first sputter, but And one of their gunners ran up to others, the officer first, for he was a horse's mane, with a French cuirassier, officer. "They mean business this there was the crash of butt against the top of the slope and stuck a bandspike very fat man who could not run fast. an old, gray-headed fellow, thundering time." barrel, the short cries of stricken men, into the wet earth, to give them It gave me quite a turn when I saw behind him on a big, black mare. Our —And as he spoke we saw a strange and the roaring of the officers. And a guide, under the very muzzles of the Rob Stewart on my right stick his IflHIItlHlHIHUtlHWr. chaps set up a hooting as they came thing. A Frenchman, dressed as an then, suddenly, they began to give whole brigade, none of whom fired a bayonet Into the man's broad back and COBM Copyright by A. Doyl*. flying on, for it seemed a shame to see officer of hussars, came galloping toward ground, slowly, sullenly, step by step, shot at him, each leaving hliu to the heard hlin howl like a lost soul. There an Englishman run like that but as us on a little bay horse. He but still to give ground. Ah, it was other. Kuslgn Samson, who the was no quarter In that field, and It WHS they swept across our front we saw was screeching "Vive le Roil Vive le worth all we had gone through, the SYNOPSIS. youngest subaltern iu the regiment, was butt or point for nil of them. The where the trouble lay. The dragoon Roi!" at the pitch of his lungs, which thrill of that moment, when we felt rau out from the square and pulled nien's blood was aflame, and little wonder, had dropped his sword and was unarmed, CHAPTER I.—Writing lone after ths was as much as to say that he was that they were going to break. There down the hKiidspike, but quick as a for those wasps had been stinging events described, Jack Caider, Scottish while the other was pressing a deserter, since we were for the king was one Frenchman before me, a all morning without our being able Jack after a minnow a lancer came flying farmer, telle how. In his childhood, the him so close that he could not get a and they for the emperor. As he sharp-faced, dark-eyed man, who was fear of Invasion by Napoleon, at that so much as see them. over the ridge, and he made such weapon. At last, stung maybe by our passed us he roared out in English: loading and firing as quietly as If he time complete master of Europe, had a thrust from behind that not only his And now, as we broke through the hooting, he made up his mind to chance Slipped the British nation. Following a were at practice, dwelling upon his "The Guard is coming! The Guard point but his pennon, too, came out between farther edge of the cornfield we got false alarm that the French had landed, it. His eye fell on a lance beside a Is coming!" and so vanished away to aim, and looking round first to try and the second and third buttons of In front of the smoke, and there was Jim Horscroft. the son, youth of doctor's dead Frenchman, so he swerved his the ^rear like a leaf blown before a pick off an officer. I remember that fifteen, with his father over the lad's tunic. "Helen 1 Helen I" he Quarrels the whole French army In position be horse to let the other pass, and hopping struck me that to kill so cool a man as Joining the army, and from that incident storm. At the same Instant up there shouted, and fell dead ou his face, fore us, with only two meadows and off cleverly enough, he gripped lifelong friendship begins between the that would be a good service, and I rode an aide-de-camp with the reddest while the lancer, blown half to pieces a narrow lane between us. We set up boys. hold of it. But the other was too face that ever I saw upon mortal man. rushed at him, and drove my bayonet with musket bulls, toppled over beside a yell as we saw them, and away we tricky for him, and was on him like^ into him. He turned as I struck him, "You must stop 'em, or we are CHAPTER II.—When Jack la eighteen him, still holding on to his weapon, so should have gone, slap at them. If we a shot. The dragoon thrust up with his father's brother dies and his daughter, and fired full into my face, and the done," he cried to General Adams, so they lay together with that dreadful had been left to ourselves, for silly Edie, seventeen years old, eomes to the lance, but the other turned and bullet left a weal across my cheek that all our company could hear him. bond still connecting them. young soldiers never think that harm live with her uncle. Attractive personally. sliced him through the shoulder-blade. which will mark me to my dying day. "How is it going?" asked the general. Intensely romantic, and seemingly feeling can come to them until It Is there In But when the battery opened there It waa all done In an instant, and the I tripped over him as he fell, and, little sorrow for her father's death, the their midst But the Duke had cantered was no time for us to think of anything Frenchman cantered his horse up the girl is something of a pussle to th^ two others tumbling over me, I was his horse beside us as we advanced, "Two weak squadrons left out of six else. A square. Is a very good simple folk of the Calder home. brae, showing his teeth at us over half smothered In the heap. When at and now he roared something regiments of heavies," said he, and began way of meeting a horseman, but there his shoulder like a snarling dog. last I struggled out and cleared my CHAPTER III.—Edie makes a plaything to the general, and the officers all to laugh like a man whose nerves is no worse one of taking a cannon That was one to them, but we scored eyes, which were full of powder, I saw of Jack's affections, and though always rode In front of our line, holding out are overstrung. ball, so we soon learned when they somewhat in awe of her, a feeling one for us presently. They had pushed that the column had fairly broken, their arms for us to stop. There was "Perhaps you would care to Join of deep love for his cousin develops In began to cut red seams through us, forward a skirmish-line whose fire was and was shredding into groups of men a blowing of bugles, a pushing and a the boy's heart Edie reproaches him for In our advance. Pray consider yourself until our ears were weary of the slosh toward the batteries on our right and who were either running for their lives, staying at home In idleness while his shoving, with the sergeants cursing quite one of us," said the general, and splash when hard Iron met living left rather than on us, but we sent out back to back, In a vain attempt country is at war. Stung by her words, or fighting and digging us with their halberta, bowing and smiling as if he were asking flesh and blood. After ten minutes he declares his Intention of Joining the two companies of the Ninety-fifth to to check the brigade, which was and In less time than It takes me to army at once, but she persuades him to him to a dish of tea. ot it we moved our square a hundred keep them in check. It was strange still sweeping onward. My face felt write it there was the brigade in srtay. He tells her he loves her and she paces to the right, but we left another "I shall have much pleasure," said to hear the crackling kind of noise that as if a red-hot Iron had been laid apparently returns his affection. three neat little squares, all bristling the other, taking off his hat, and a square behind us, for a hundred they made, for both sides were using across it, but I had the use of my with bayonets and in echelon, as they and twenty men and seven officers moment afterward our three regiments CHAPTER IV.—Jim Horscroft returns the rifle. An officer stood among the limbs so, jumping over the litter of call It, so that each could fire across from Edinburgh, where he is studying showed where we had been standing. closed up and the brigade advanced in French skirmishers, a tall, lean man dead and mangled men. I scampered medicine. Jack tells his chum of his engagement the face of the other. Then the guns found us again, and we four lines over the hollow where we with a mantle over his shoulders, and after my regiment, and fell in upon to Edie, believing the girl Is It was the saving of us, as even so tried to open out Into line, but In an had lain in square, and out beyond as our fellows came forward he ran sincere. Some days later he witnesses an the right flank. young a soldier as I was could very Instant the horsemen—lancers they the point whence we had seen the unmistakable display of affection between out midway between the two parties Old Major Elliott was here, limping easily see. And we had none too Edie and Jim and reproaches his friend. were this time—were upon us from French army. and stood as a fencer would, with his along, for his horse had been shot, but Jim tells him Edie has promised to marry much time, either. There was a low, over the brae. I tell you we were glad There was little of it to be seen sword up and his head back. I can him. she laughing at the idea of her engagement none the worse In himself. He saw rolling hill on our right flank, and to hear the thud of their hoofs, for now, only the red belching of the guns to Jack. The two seek the girl see him now, with his lowered eyelids. me come up, and nodded, but it was from behind this there came a sound and she declares only fondness for Jack we knew that that must stop the cannon flashing quickly out of the cloud-bank, and the kind of sneer that he had too busy a time for words. The brigade like nothing on this earth so much but love for Jim. for a minute, and give us a chance and the black figures, stooping, straining, upon his face. On this the subaltern was still advancing, but the general as the beat of the waves on Berwick of hitting back. And we bit back mopping, sponging, working like of the Rifles, who was a fine wellgrown CHAPTER V. —Jack, though deeply rode !n front of me, with his-chin coast when the wind blows from the pretty hard, too, that time, for we were hurt, accepts the situation. News of the devils and at devilish work. But lad, ran forward and drove full upon his shoulder, looking back at the east The earth was all shaking with downfall of Napoleon and the end of the cold and vicious and savage, and l£ through the cloud that rattle and whir tilt at him with one of the queer, British position. that dull, roaring sound, and the air war reach the country. Walking along for one, felt that I cared no more for rose louder and louder, with a deepmouthed crooked swords that the riflemen carry. the coast, Jim and Calder witness the "There is no general advance," said was full of it. "Steady, Seventy-first, the horsemen than if they had been shouting and the stamping They came together like two rams, for of landing of a stranger from a small boat he. "But I'm not going back." for God's sake, steady!" shrieked the so many sheep on Corriemulr. One He Is completely exhausted and In a dying thousands of feet. Then there came a each ran at the other, and down they "The duke of Wellington has won a voice of our colonel" behind us, but in condition. They revive him and gets past being afraid or thinking of broad black blur through the haze, tumbled at the shock, but the Frenchman front was nothing but the green, gentle great victory," .cried the aide-de-camp against Jim's advice Jack- takes him to one's own skin after a while, and you which darkened and darkened, until was below. Our man broke his the Calder home, where he remains as a slope of the grassland, all mottled in a solemn voice, and then, his feelings Just feel that you want to make some we could see that it was a hundred sword short off. and took the other's guest. He gives his name as Bonaventure with daisies and dandelion. getting the better of him, he de Lapp and is evidently a man of one pay for all you have gone through. men abreast, marching swiftly toward blade through his left arm, but he And then suddenly, over the curve, added, "If the fool would only distinction. We took ^ur change out of the lancers us, with high fur hats upon their heads was the stronger man. and he managed push on!"—which set us all lauding we saw eight hundred brass helmets that time, for they had no breastplates and a gleam of brasswork over their to let the life out of his enemy CHAPTER VI.—De Lapp's fine manners in the flank company. rise up, all in a moment, each with a to shield them, and we cleared seventy with the jagged stump of his blade. I brows. And behind that hundred came and dtoriea of adventure greatly attract But now anyone could see that the long tag of horsehair flying from Its of them out of their saddles at volley. Sirs. Calder and Edie and he is "at another hundred, and behind that another. thought that the French skirmishers French army was breaking up. The home" at once, causing vague disquietude Maybe if we could have seen seventy and so on. colling and writhing would have shot him down, but not a" crest, and then eight hundred fierce to columns and squadrons which had Jack and open disgust to Jim. He ""t of the cannon-smoke, like a monstrous mothers weeping for their lads brown faces, all pushed forward, and sends a letter addressed to the king ot stood so squarely all day were now all trigger was drawn, and he got back we should not have felt so pleased Sweden, and Jack naturally wonders glaring out from between the ears of snake, until there seemed to be to his company with one sword through what manner of man he has Introduced over it, but then men are just brutes ragged at the edges, and where there as many horses. There was an InstRnt no end to the mighty column. In front to his arm and half another In his hand. his home. when they are fighting, and have as had been thick fringes of skirmishers of gleaming breastplates, waving ran a spray of skirmishers and behind much thought as two bull-pups when in front there were now a spray of CHAPTER VII.—Major Elliott, neighbor swords, tossing manes, fierce red nostrils them the drummers, and up they CHAPTER XIII. they've got one another by the throttle. stragglers in the rear. The Guard and close friend of the Calders and opening and shutting, and hoofs all came together at a kind of tripping Jhn Horscroft. recognizes De Lapp as a .thinned out In front of us as we pawing the air before us, and then step, with the officers clustering French officer he has met In 8pain. and The End of the Storm. pushed on, and we found twelve guns Then the colonel did a wise stroke, down came the line of muskets, and thickly at the sides and waving their the two seem to reach some sort of understanding. Of all the things that seem strange looking us In the face, but we were for he reckoned that this would stave Horscroft goes back to Edinburgh our bullets smacked up against their swords and cheering. There were a In that great'ftattle, now that I look over them In a moment and 1 saw our to resume studies. He Is to hlB armor like the clatter of a hailstorm off the cavalry for five minutes, so he dozen mounted men. too, at their front, back upon It there was nothing tha^ marry Edie as soon as he has his diploma. youngest subaltern, next to him who wheeled us into line and got us back upon a window. I fired with the rest, all shouting together, and one with his was queerer than the way In which It had been killed by the lancer, scribbling into a deeper hollow, out of reach| and then rammed down another charge hat held aloft upon his sword-point. I acted on my comrades. For some took great "71's" with a lump of of the guns, before they could as fast as 1 could, staring out through CHAPTER VIII.—Jim is expected back say again that no men upon this earth as though It had been their dally from Edinburgh within a day or two, and chalk upon them, like the schoolboy open again. This gave us time to the smoke in front of me. where 1 could have fought more manfully than meat, without question or change, and Jack has a strong suspicion that Edie Is he was. It was at that moment breathe, and we wanted It, too, for could see some long, thin thing, which the French did upon that day. not overanxious to meet him. Walking others pattered out prayers from the the regiment had been melting away we heard a noise of cheering behind flapped slowly backward and forward. with her, they notice and admire a small It was wonderful to see them, for, first gun-fire to the last and others us, and saw the whole British army like an icicle In the sun. But bad vessel standing off shore. Returning to A bugle sounded for us to as they came onward, they got ahead again cursed and swore in a way that the house, Edie finds a letter In the garden, flood over the crest of the ridge, and as it was for us, it was a deal worse^ cease firing, and a whiff of wind came of their own guns, so that they had was creepy to listen to. There was which she claims Is for her. Jack come pouring down upon the remains for some of the others. The whole, to clear the curtain from In front of no longer any help from them, while accuses her of clandestine correspondence one, my own left-hand mate, Mike of their enemies. The guns, too, came of the Dutch-Belgians were cut off by us, and then we could see what had with De Lapp, and Edie tells him they got In front of the two batteries Threadlngham, who kept telling about bounding and rattling forward, and this time helter skelter, fifteen thousand the Frenchman is her husband. happened. which bad been on either side of us his maiden aunt, Sarah, and how she our light cavalry—as much as was left of them, and there were great I had expected to find half that regiment all day. Every gun had their range had left the money which had been CHAPTER IX.—Astounded by the news. of It—kept pace with our brigade upon gaps left In our line, through whichthe of horse lying on the ground to a foot, and we saw long red lines Jack satisfies himself of Its truth and promised to him to a home for the children LAPP. the right There was no battle after French cavalry rode as pleased waits to meet De The latter laughs but whether it was that their breastplates scored right down the dark column as of drowned sailors. Again and that The advance went on without a at Jack's threat of what Horscroft will them best. Then the French guns had had shielded them, or whether, It advanced. So near were they, and again he told me this story, and yet, do when he learns of the affair. check, until our army stood lined up been too many and too good for ours, being young and a little shaken at so closely did they march, that every when the battle was over, he took his on the very ground which the French and our heavy horse had been cut to CHAPTER X.—Arising next morning. their coming, we had fired high, our shot plowed through ten flies of them, oath that he had never opened his had held in the morning. Their guns bits,'so that things were none too Jack makes the discovery that De Lapp volley had done no very great harm. and yet they closed up, and came on lips all day. As to me, I cannot say were ours, their foot were rabble, and Edie have gone. He sees them in a merry with us. On the other hand, About thirty horses lay about, three of with a swing and dash that was fine whether I spoke or not but I know small boat on their way to the vessel he spread over the face of the country, Hougoumont, a blood-soaked ruin, was them together within ten yards of to see. Their head was turned straight had noticed the day before. A note left, that my mind and my memory were and their gallant cavalry alone was still ours, and every British regiment by De Lapp Informs them that his real me, the middle one right on Us back, for ourselves, while the Ninety-fifth clearer than I can ever remember able to preserve some sort of order, was firm, though, to tell the honest name Is De Llssac, colonel of a regiment with its four legs In the air, and it overlapped them on one side and the them, and I was thinking all the time of the French Ouard. Horscroft returns and to draw off unbroken from the truth, as a man is bound to do, there fifty-second on the other. was one of these that 1 had seen flapping about the old folks at home, and about with his diploma and learning Edie's field. Then at last, just as the night were a sprinkling of red coats among through the smoke. Then there I shall always think that, If we had treachery swears to pursue and kill De cousin Edie with her saucy, dancing began to gather, our weary and starving the blue ones who made for the rear. Llssac. Major Elliott Informs them of were eight or ten dead men, and about waited so, the Guard would have eyes, and De Lissac with his cat's men were able to let the Prussians But these were lads and stragglers, Napoleon's escape from Elba. Horscroft as many wounded, sitting dazedly on broken us, for how could a four-deep whiskers, and all the doings at West and Jack go with him to enlist in hlr take the job over, and to stack their the faint hearts that are "found everywhere, the grass for the most part, though line stand against such a column? But Inch which had ended by bringing us regiment. arms upon the ground that they had and I say again that no regiment one was shouting "Vive I'Bmpereur!" at that moment Colburne, the colonel here on the plains of Belgium as a won. That was as much as I saw or flinched. It was little we could of the Fifty-second, swung his right alone In a lull "of the "to the at the top of his voice. Another fellow firing" cockshot for two hundred and fifty can tell you about the battle of Waterloo, see of the battle, but a man would be flank around so as to bring It on the who had been shot In the thigh— side gate of Hougoumont, and. he cannon. except that I ate a two-pound rye blind not to know that all the fields a great, black-must ached chap he was, side of the column, which brought the beat upon It, screaming to his men to During all this time the roaring of loaf for my supper that night, with as behind us were covered with flying too—leaned his back against his dead Frenchmen to a halt Their front line come after him. For five minutes he those guns had been something dreadful much salt meat as they would let me men. But then, though we on the horse, and, picking up his carbine, was forty paces from us at the moment, stood there, strolling about In front of to listen to, but now they suddenly have, and a good pitcher of red Wine, right wing knew nothing of it, the fired as coolly as If he had been shooting and we had a good look at them. the gun-barrels which spared him, but died away, though it was like the lull until I had to bore a new hole at the Prussians had begun to show, and Napoleon for a prize, and hit Angus Myres, It was funny to me to remember that at last a Brunswick skirmisher In the in a thunder-storm when one feels end of my belt and then it fitted me had set twenty thousand of his who was only two feet from mo, right I had always thought of Frenchmen as orchard flicked out his brain with a that a worse crash Is coming hard at as tight as a hoop to a barrel. After men to face them, which made up for through the forehead. Then he out small men, for there was not one of rifle-shot. And he was only one of the fringe of it. There was still a that I lay down In the straw, where oui's that had bolted, and left us much with his hand to get another carbine, that first company who could not have many, for all day, when they did not mighty noise on the distant wing, the rest of my company were sprawling, as we began. That was all dark to us, picked me up as If I had been a child, come in masses they came In twos and that lay near, but before he could where the Prussians were pushing and in less than a minute I was however, and there was a time when reach it big Hodgson, who waa the and their great hats made them look threes, with as brave a face as If the their way onward, but that was two in a dead sleep. the French horsemen had flooded in pivot-man of the grenadier company, taller yet. They were hard, wizened, whole army was at their heels. miles away. The other batteries, both between us and the rest of the army, ran out and passed hla bayenet wiry fellows, too, with fierce, puckered So we lay all morning looking down French and English, were silent, and that we thought we were the only (To be continued) through his throat, which was a pity, eyes and bristling mustaches—old soldiers at the fight at Hougoumont but soon the smoke cleared so that the armies brigade left standing, and had set for he seemed to be a wy toe man. who had fought and fought week the Duke saw that there was nothing could see a little of each other. It was our teeth with the Intention of selling in, week out for many a year. And to fear upon his right, and so he began At first I thought that the cuirassiers a dreary sight along our ridge, for Wanted—Large contract for sawing our lives as dearly as we could. then, as I stood with a finger upon to use us in another way. The had run away in the smoke, but they there seemed to be just a few scattered lumber this winter. Have portable At that time it was between four the trigger, waiting for the word to French had pushed their skirmishers were not men who that knots of red, and the lines of did 7 and five in the afternoon, and we had fire, my eye fell upon the mounted officer, mill of ten thousand feet capacity. green where the German legion stood, past the farm, and they lay among ily. Their horses had at our swerved had nothing to eat the most of us, with his hat upon his sword, and Enquire 'of M. L. Miller, Ericsburg, the young corn In front of us, popping volley, and they had raced part our while the masses of the' French appeared since the night before, and were ot I saw that it was De Lissac. at the gunners, so that three pieces square and taken the fire the two to be as thick as ever, though, Minn., Box 16. 2tp soaked with rain into the bargain. It I saw It, and Jim did, too. I heard out of six on ottr left were lying with other ones beyond. Then they broke of course, we knew that they must had drizzled, off and on all day, but for a shout and saw him rush forward their men strewed In the mud all through a hedge, and coming on a regiment have lost many thousands In these attacks. the last few hours we had not had a madly at the French column. And, round them. But the Duke had his of Hanoverians who were in line, We heard a great cheering and *1022 A DAY! thought to spare either upon the eyes everywhere, and up lie galloped they treated them as they would have shouting from among them, and then as quick as a thought the whole weather or our hunger. Now we began at that moment, a thin, dark, wiry treated us if we had not been so quick, suddenly all their batteries opened together brigade took their cue from him, officers to look around and tighten our man, with very bright eyes, a hooked and cut them to pieces In an Instant. with a roar which made the din and all, and flung themselves to Aggressive Women waistbelts, and ask who was hit, and of the earlier part seem nothing in upon the Guard In front, while our nose, and a big cockade on his cap. It was dreadful to see the big Germans who was spared. I was glad to see comrades charged them on the flanks. There were a dozen officers at his running and screaming, while the comparison. It might well be twice as Yes!—and even more to thoee Jim, with his face all blackened with We had been waiting for the order, heels, all merry as If It were a foxhunt cuirassiers stood up In their stirrups loud, for. every battery was twice as AS who have the abiUty to go out powder, standing on my right rear, among their friends and others but of the dozen thero was not to have a better sweep for their long, near, being moved right up to pointblank and they all thought now that it had and put over a commodity that leaning on his fire-lock. He saw me heavy swords, and cut and stabbed range, with huge masses of horse been given but, you may take my one left In the evening. is a friend to every woman in looking at him, and shouted out to If "the world. I you have the word for it Jim Horscroft was the without mercy. I do not believe that between and behind them to guard "Warm work, Adams," said he as ability to sell a product that know If I were hurt a hundred men of that regiment were them from attack. real leader of the brigade when we he rode up. will net you real money, write "All right, Jim." I answered. NATIONAL SEILIW ASSOCIATION left alive, and the Frenchmen came charged the Old Guard. "Very warm, yonr grace," said our When that devil's roar burst upon back across our front, shouting at us "I fear I'm here on a wild-goose our ears there was not a man down general. God knows what happened during KB MM MUM ST.PML.WMES0TA and waving their weapons, which were chase," said he gloomily, "but It's not to the drummer-boys who did not understand "But we can outstay them at It, 1 that mad five minutes. I remember over yeC By God. I'll hayfi blip or crimson down to the hilt*. This they what it meant It was Ear putting my musket against a blue-coajt, think 1 Tut tut we cannot let sklr