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THE CARROLL TREE PRESS. CARROLLTON, CARROLL 0 ''XTKTTY, GEEOROTA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 191«
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Mark Wallace, a young
officer In tho United States army, is
bounded at the battle of Santiago. While
wandering alone in tho Jungle he romea
across a dead man in a hut outside of
which a little girl is playing. When he
Is reBCUod, he takes the girl to the hospi
tal and announces his Intention of adopt
ing her.
CHAPTER II.
Ho stopped, Astonished fit the way
the Mujor took his suggestion. How
ard began to stutter, pneed the inside
of the tent for some moments, mutter
ing to himself, nnd then swung round
upon Ids heel, facing the lieutenant.
"(food God, no, Wallace I Whatever
put that infernal Idea into your head?”
hi* exploded. ‘‘See here, now! You^o
not well* enough to tnlk this thing over
tonight. Some day I’ll tell you why
your proposal Is impossible.”
"That's all very well, Major. T don't
know what you mean, hut If you don't
Ski* my proposition you know what
you eun do. I’m quite well enough to
listen to what's worrying you. Dig It
out 1”
“I haven’t time, Wallace. There's
these stragglers to lie sorted out. 'Not
that much can lie done tonight, I sup
pose. Sometime I’ll tell you—”
lie swung round on Ids heel and
made for the entrance, stopped and re
turned.
“I suppose I’d better tell you now,”
in* exclaimed. “I had thought It might
he as well not to tell you ever. You
don’t happen to know who this child's
father was—that man In the tent?”
“Wlmt do you mean, Major? Some
settlor caught by a biiliet, I suppose.”
"Hampton!” said Major Howard,
grimly.
Lieutenant Wallace sat holt upright
on tin* bed and stared at the other in
amazement.
“The man who sold our mobilization
plans to Spain?" hi* whispered, <‘vn-
soIiiuk of a sudden terror for the child.
The major nodded. "It’s years
since we worked together In tho war
’odlei*,” he answered, "and, frankly, I
didn’t know tin* face. You wouldn’t
have, would you, after tho work that
tho bullet had done? One of those
d d dum-dums. But—you didn’t
see this, did you?"
He took a parse from his pocket,
opened it and shook out three gold
Pi eces Into Ids hand. "That was on a
belt about the body," ho said. “And
Stared at the Other In Amazement.
there were some papers—not the ones
we wanted, but enough to Identify
him. It was Hampton all right."
He went tw the tent door nnd looked
out. “Here, Johnson !” he called.
The negro servant appeared almost
Instantaneously within the opening
and stood to attention.
“Could you use three gold pieces,
Johnson?" Inquired Major Howard.
“Well, suh, 1 don't know as I'd ob
ject,” replied the negro, grinning.
“It’s purt of a sum tliut was paid
to an American soldier for betraying
Ills country"
"Oh, Lord, no, Major!” answered
Johnson.
“Then do what you think best with
these.”
The negro looked at the gold coins
in his hand, stepped outside the tout
and swung his -arm. The pieces fell
in the jungle grass far beyond the en-
Major Howard shied the
ant’s hands rested on the child's fair
hair.
"Well, Wallace?” he asked.
“It’s damnable."
"We can’t exactly make his child
the reglmigital pet, can wo?"
Wallace was silent, and the Major
sat down on the edge of the bed be
side him.
“I had orders to watch for him," he
said. “He was to have been Imaged
as soon ns we captured Santiago.
That’s why he was making for tHo
jungle. He was detected nnd allowed
to escape with his life, but he had
been working as a Spanish agent since
he was drummed out of America. Ills
career ended at the luckiest moment
for him. He seems to have lmd the
one redeeming quality of affection for
‘.lie child, though if he had had a par
ticle of unselfishness in him he would
have left her behind him. I suppose
she was the only thing he had In his
wretched life.”
"Of course there’s no palliation,”
suggested Wallace. "Hut the man
may have becnl born good and—gone
downhill.”
"He was born rotten," answered the
Major, "lie sold his country to pay
Ills guniDHrig debts. Cuba was about
the only place that would hold him, I
Imagine. And to think that swine was
once in our regiment! Sorry I had to
tell you, Wallace 1”
He hesitated a while; Wallace had
not moved; but the child at his side
stirred and breathed heavily. Tho
major's fists clenched.
"I'm trying to he Just to the dead,”
ho said. ’’Iiut 1 feel that a thousand
years of hell wouldn’t atone for that
erltnc, Wallace."
Mark Wallace looked up, “I'm not
sure that I ki.*>w all the facts about
Hit- cast*, Maji ho said.
"The facts are that It was no sudden
act of fear or temptation, but calculat
ed, cold-blooded deliberation. We
knew at the war office that there was
a leakage. It had been traced to the
mobilization division, where Kcllcrmun
and 1 were working. Evon we were
under suspicion for a time. Then It
narrowed down to Hampton uud an
other.
“Wallace, those months were the
worst time I’ve ever spent. Hampton
was my best friend, nnd Kellerman’s,
too. We spied on him—had to.
“Well, you know wlmt happened,
more or U*ss. There was a woman go-
between, as there generally Is—a fine-
looklr.g young woman, little more than
n girl, named Hilda Morsholm. One
of those French-German Alsatians,
Wallace. Kellerman got some hold on
her, and she confessed. The easo
against Hampton was absolutely
proven,
"There wasn’t any trial. The fellow
could have been shut up for a good
many years; he had cost his country
millions; he ought to have been
hanged. But he was quietly cashiered
and allowed to disappear. Maybe It
was a foolish move, but, we felt the
shame pretty badly and wanted to for
ged It. Hampton whs let go, on tlie
understanding that he leave the couu
try forever. Oh. yes, he assumed the
Innocent air quite dramatically. Soiuo
of the war odlce people believed In him
uutll the damning documents were laid
before them.
“And he was still somehow In touch
with things, Wallace, and the lenkages
went on afterward. That's why we
had orders to hang him ns soon ns
Santiago wns 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
Miss Rennie, Miss Marjorie Rennie,
of a Baltimore family—line people
and, of course, with h tradition like
that, she believed In the scoundrel ab
solutely. She came to me twice. The
tlrst time was before the Informal trial
held by the department. She begged
me to believe he was innocent and the
victim of a trap. I wouldn't even Us
teu. You know, when a man has to
run down his friend he lias to harde
his heart-
“She came to me again, after Hanip
ton was broken. She told me I hud
played false to my best friend and
that I’d suffer for it to the last 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 Cuba.
He must have got quite a number of
confidential papers out of the war of
fice. That’s about all."
“It's enough," said Wallace. "The
girl married him, then?"
"So much we learned. And also that
she dleil later. You see, we've been
are since that time, but } guess they
IU’ know something, and kept It quiet,
like you."
Wallace nodded. "I fnney there’s a
good deni of feeling,” he said.
"Quite a good deal,” said the major,
dryly. “And I guess you’ll agree with
me that this makes It—let’s say, a lit
tle difficult to adopt his child offi
cially?"
"You mean the »eraembranc« would
be too bitter?"
"I mean that that position Is the
one nnd only position that she Is dis
qualified from holdlug, by reason of
birth."
“Still,” urged Wallace, "It Isn’t In
11*) blood. The mother wus decent.
Why should that baby be tarnlDhed
with her father’s treachery?"
“It’s written In the Good Book—’’
began the major.
"And there’s something else nbout
onls of fire, too. Major, which came
as a sort of revision of tho old law.
Jt’s Just what we ought to do, because
It’s the only way to adjust the mat
ter.”
"Adjust It? Adjust wlmt?” cried
the Major, with sudden passion.
“The whole of that hellish business,
Major. The man wns once nn officer
f the Seventieth. He’s dead and his
crimes have died With him. We want
to forget that such a thing e<nild have
happened, nnd the only way Is to leave
him to God’s judgment and to cast
out nil bitterness from our hearts,
foil quoted Scripture to mo—well, I
gave you the answer, front the $nme
Book. Let death bring oblivion to the
man's memory. He’s left us the child.
Start here. Start fresh. I have the
right to the kid, hut what you have
told me makes me feel strongly that
there’s a Providence in this affair,
nnd I’ll lend her to you—mark that
word, Major!—on that condition or
none."
Major Howard pulled at his mus-
tnche in agitation. "You don’t really
mean It, Wallace?” he asked.
“I do. If 'you want me to let you
take her till the war’s over—”
"It means forgiving that black
guard.’’
“It means forgetting him nnd 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 knows?”
"Well, of course, nobody else knows
who the dead man was. The colonel
have to know. But ho needn’t
know we’ve adopted the child. He’s
going South after the war." However,
I’m afraid Kellerman knows. He rec
ognized what was left of tho face, or
suspected somehow. I could tell from
Ills manner."
“I don’t see any overwhelming dif
ficulty in that. You can trust Keller-
mun?”
The major nodded, and It occurred
to Wallace that he would rather trust
any of the officers than Kellerman. He
had conceived a prejudice against him
which he could not have explained.
"And Hamilton’s name was erased
from the old mess list," Wallace con
tinued.
The major, who hml been pulling nt
his mustache and thinking deeply,
came to his decision.
"Well, I’ll take her on those terms,
Wallace,” he said. "The fellow wus a
had lot, but, as you say, there niny he
trimmings, for you to make a slart on
her in the morning."
He glanced nt tho sleeping child,
took Mark’s hand nnd went quickly
out of the tent. Under the sky he
stood still for a few moments.
“The d d scoundrel I" he mut
tered.
At that Instant his nlert ear heard
what the sentry, posted some distance
away, had fnlled to catch—the rustling
of some moving figure In the dense
jungle grass nt 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 lenped
between the two last tents of the line,
to see a ninn confront him for nn ln-
The Major Could Not Distinguish How
the Intruder Was Dressed.
slnnt. In the light of the quarter-
moon the major could not distinguish
hov. he Intruder was dressed. It wns
evident, however, that lie lind been
prowling outside the tent which held
Wallace and the child.
“Haiti” shouted tfle major and the
sentry together, nnd, as the man drop
ped Into the grass, the rifle and revol
ver rang out simultaneously.
The sentry, shouting to tho gunrd,
came running up. The major and he
searched the spot, but they found no
body.
"One of those d d Cuban snenk-
thieves!” muttered Mujor Howard as
he replaced his revolver In Its ease.
And lie hurried away to look after his
men.
CARROLLTON, ROUTE 2
Denr Free Press:
Newt llallnrd, Ids beautiful wife,
I Virginia, and his two fine boys, VVil-
liaih Newton and .lames Woodrow,
no reason why this little nnlmal should j spent a few days here, where they have
suffer for Ills sins. The mothor was | so many friends, recently, going bank
decent, nnd there may be something in j on Sunday to Camp MeLcllnu, where
that Idea of a vicarious restitution. ,|„. v are ioented at the present time
I’ll agree, Wallace, if you’ll let me take , Wt , nre glad to rcad in t , nch dav * s
over the charge of her till the war’s ’
ended. We’ll enter her on the mess
hook and settle a fictitious parentage
on her afterward, and may she never
know her father’s history. By ttie time
she’s old enough to understand a mas
cot’s duties, dirt with the licutcnunts,
and plead for the drunks, maybe we’ll
have forgotten It ourselves. Good
night, my hoy. Take care of your
wound. I’ll send In that milk and bis
cuit and a couple of cakes of naphtha
soup, and a porcelain tub with silver
(To be continued.)
THE DEVIL AND THE KAISER
ltig Sparks flew from old Satan’s eyes,
“What’s this 1 hoar?’’ said he.
“They say that when the Kaiser dies
lie’ll be consigned to me.
"Old Hell to me is mighty dear
Tlu* place is mighty fine;
But if they send THAT gay down here.
Believe me, 1 ’ll resign.
“My boys would all get sore, L fear,
I’m sure they would rebel—
The Kaiser cannot enter here—
For he would corrupt Hell!
“I’ll stand for murderers and crooks,
And 1 will not disown
That l have here upon mv books
The worst thugs ever known.
“Our company is none too swell,
Vile beasts we don’t reject— .
But keep the Kaiser out of hell
Wo have SOME self-respect!”
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news that tho Haas nre being pressed
book and a glorious peaeemuy soon be
anticipated; but not till tho Huns are
completely quelled and their leader put
in safe keeping, where he can no longer
ho a menace to the safety and prosper
ity of the world, if the right thing is to
be done.
Mrs. Bettie Johnson brought joy and
sunshine to the little old home on the
river by a short visit on Saturday last,
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Barnes nnd chit
dren gave us a pleasant visit one even
ing last week, staying til] bedtime.
Mr. and Mrs. Gem-go Caldwell and
Miss Eunice, near and indispensable
neighbors, had a very interesting letter
from their brave son, Paul Caldwell,
who is in the U. 8. navy. Let his in
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We understand that while here Newt
Ballard received a* phone that Camp
MeLcllnu is quarantined on account of
the influenza, and so left Yirgie and
the boys iu Carrollton till the malady
subsides somewhat in Camp McLellan
and Anniston. Jack Frost, we pre
sume, will soon come and relieve the
situation to some extent, in the hope
of J. W. B.
Olin Lee Bird departed this life yes
terday at 11 a. ni., October 20th, 1918.
His wife, Addie, died on the 12th o!
October, 191S, at ti p. m. -8 days be
fore his death. He was a good eitizeu
and will be much missed by his many
frinds. He will be buried today, Mon
I day, I suppose, though of course, at
this writing, 1 do not know. He was, I
think, a member of the M. P. church
He had two sisters, one of whom, Mrs.
Mary Jane Handley, survives him.
Peace to his soul! .T. \V. B.
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