Show 0 the condemned sentinel A COLD P stormy ormy night light in ln tho the month of march lo 10 7 mareb DIAN IVil d Lefe lefebore bire with the thoua lukatia aud french troops hold bid invested Dantz dantzle lo the city wan waa aith n ich seventeen thousand russian and boldien and cheze together with lilt tanty or thirty vi oil armed citi CAI presented nearly double the force lich could cound bo be to tho the so thoro there it as aa nood need of cf the utmost M N liti lanco ou on tho the part of tho the for a de berato sortie from the ibo garrison garr uon made unaware might prove calla at midnight jerome dubou Dubo iBM I 1 an upon one of the th most moitt important posts poeta in the advance lutt lut v of pillets ets it being upon a narrow strip of land raised raided above tho lie farally faals flat called the of ning fling for fioro them an hour bo be paced hla his lone a area bent beat without bearing moro moris MR than the iho maimore of the antl and the tha driving ol of tho the rain at length another round 0 d broko broke apon his hia ear car jio stopped and L s n boned and presently he be called 11 1 hoa has there the only answer wan a moaning meaning sound pound lie iio called again and this time ho he heard beard liko like the bo cry of a chili child mid and pretty soon an object camo calvin before hint out front from tho the darkness with wilh a quick emphatic movement he be brought hia in to tho the charge arel and ordered tho the intruder to halt morcy 1 cried the childish voice dont liholt m im dodt DOD t you ton know mo me 11 remains I 1 cried jerome cle rating bj piece Isi Is it tyint you dear clear child yes yea mid and you are good jerome ob m ill 3 on olt como come and holp mainda come film boboia is da ding ing I 1 it aoa as certainly a little girl only eight scars caia old daughter of labette Vil nuit haut a sergeant in jeromea Jerome 1 0 oun a re regiment i and wa iva with tile tho army in tile capacity of nurse 11 why how is this thia ray my child eaid aid jerome taking inking tho the little ono one bythe by abo arm 11 Is hat bat Is it about your mother I 1 it oh good cool J howo you yoa can hour bear bet auw hark I 1 the sentinel bout his hid car but could hear beor aly xit ilia anid lud and tho the rain aamina liin mi ja is in fit tho the dreadful mud paid aid the chat child and is dying she Is not for olt oh I 1 can bear hor ayi ng 11 by jerome gathered from Natalio abai abut her father had bad taken her bar out with LIM him ili tho the morning and that in iii the evening when the storm camo came on her mother camo came aft after erber her the sergeant had bad offered to send a man lack back to the camp with hla his u wife afe but she ebo preferred to alone feeling sure euro that nho should meet trouble the way how coor bad become d dark ark and tests ond and she ebo bad lost tho the path mid and wan WAD dered oil off tile edge of the morass where here pho nho had muck eunk into tho the soft mud oh ob good jeromo jerome cried the little one i tile tho maus hand ca chui n t you licar lear her hart she w aiu III ilia die is if you do not dot como coma and lp tc r A at t thab h at moment the sentinel fancied be ikani the nail all of the unfortunate woman IN ft bat should ho he dot do liset lieota tie tho the good lie ibo beautiful the tenderhearted tender teader he hearted arbod Ll nelt WM was in da danger ngor and it m na as it in I 1 LN bis power to live her it was not in but bui heart to I 1 niah lilt lou the of III chili iio could go and to lis hia rest post without dotto datoo tools tiou at ou all elects lie bo could not refuse t icv it pleader civo iva mo me your land natalio natalia ill go gc to ri ith you vi ivah ih a cry of joy the c hild child prang to the ml liners side aide nud and when pho bho had bad secured lii hand bond alto hurried borne d lint him etc along toward thu chico phico where rho bho lad had left her mother li 11 seemed a long distance to jeromo and once i ho he stopped as aj though ito ho would anra bac back it ile did not fear death but ho he feared dus dif honor bur 1 hark I 1 uttered the iha child tile tho soldier luit ened and plainly heard tho the voice of suffering the woman calling 1 for help lie ho no longer ciago oo 00 ho han baa to id through the thea storm tonn and found lizotte sunk to her bar arapi arm pita ts all tho the olt fortunately a tuft of gram had acon w ethin her bar reah by m lich she aho ila bad kept her latin acau above the iho filia fall sriv d it waa no cary mutter to extricate be her or from the miry pot pit itt as tho workman lad bad to bo be Acry i cry careful that li h tm did not loo bw fooling at length t gocr oenar alto wait wa drawn forth and ami J jorome 0 led her tarda hu bin post 11 I 1 lem cos I 1 g macd jeromo jerome trembling f from fair load to foot who comes there 11 repeated tile iho voice jorome board beard ilia iho click of A loot and know knew that another bentina hod bad been stationed at ai the ibo pout poet lio he hold left the ibo to re hot land lad como come 1 anhilo hilo lie ho vi VOM I 1 with tho the counte counterman ruge I 1 I 1 ho he nil an a cred to tho the sew new hen sentinel bentinck bent tinel ire ho ordered to ad advance vancle and uben ll 11 bad given the iho countersign lie ho found himself in ia tho the presence of the iho officer of ilia iho gurd in n a few hurried words ho he told hut him story and had tho the officer licon been alone he bo vol il hac bae allowed tho the matter to remain chero he u wan lint thoro there acro others prea pro sent and ou d whon whan ordered to fe cie up ilia hla musket ron jakot lit ho obeyed without a murmur and RO no camp acted tho the oft cincer leer ho he was wad put 1 ut in ill irons ou on the following momma jerome duboin of waa VIA brought before it A court martial undo ca charge of f having deserted hia bin poet hobt lie H confred con feed 41 that ho ana as guilty and then WM was granted lint him to tell lis hirt own omi story ll itaho and ui in a few word woran hut but the iho court could do nothing but pass pam tho the uce ol ili death 1 but the members M thereof all mi mind a petition that jeromo bubola might bo be pardoned and this petition u as out boot to tho the general of tho the brigade and t through h ra bl lim him to ia alio 11 a general gan cral of at alio lit a division d lor W 0 cd ly L y w whom n it wab re on dented and gent up lit t to 0 tho the marbal lefebvre was waa kind an and d to im in 1 diEre to lo a fault but ho be could not nob overlook so GO grave au an error ni an that m aich lad boon committed by dubois fl iho 1110 or lit acro do stiven given to tho the sentinel wore very simple 27 and I 1 foro moil of very necessity WM wall tho the order forbidding him to leave him post until properly Ordin ved to a cortum the iho safety of tile M late army anny epou tile shoulders of each sentinel and especially IX Chilly upon tile thoai who at elocre I 1 doted bentert the lies 1114 of alio ill emeny 1 I am ALI gorry sold tho the gray holled old inner an lio ito folded tip tell ili alio I and handed it to the iho u talio too ha pro sent odit it I 1 am anro that amna no congo and I 1 ot at a great wrong was waa dyna uc ile ducr lint bo be win doieg lic hc ran mn tho the alak ho be wan waa detected ho bis latu tried i abid it con condemned condon damned mod lio he must suat cintr kir lilt ahey lefebvre iblas if ho tho mul condemned nod t no not I 1 the iho cried quickly should I 1 ace lint him anil and to adorf I 1 might portion turn ali anil that not bo dono let lint him dio tul that them sands may has raved med the lime fiyod for tile cu cution of do da bom was tile tho morning tho illy of bin bih cival ibn or of the alth ith mado made known to mm him 0 and d ho he wait not at nil lilt disappointed he 11 Idin no ed no ono one and I 1 u go starry that lie ho bila bal nut ohad upon open t alio 1 b ft t lidela I 1 bole t tried 0 bolt to 0 bo be n good goi gope to ito ho mid III I 1 to 0 his hin ca cepl n ni 1 feel th bat t I 1 IRS ano done n no unicio bournie I 1 11 tant 1111 11 a baalu upon P in my jr name damo th tho 0 laplain vip tain took liin ilia hand and page to into film naino should bo be held ld in be respect tou Torti sold irl evening pierre V it a to t in with fib ill hn oi in afo L 0 and child wore ca bitted to the pro n r TV T n MIU anse a it t aich jerome wi w lu 14 si shully hava displeased vita A ith as a his bis if ft 4 stirs n ero cro al reidy 1 w rought up to 1 et a pitch tho almot almost him bull hat bat hn he braced fur the finlan few and would lavo have it like it hero here hud had not little italio natalio in ili tho onge of her loio late nud and gratitude thrown upon ilia bosom bonom and offered to id do in hr big stand chiq tipped the iho brim cut cup ond and big hi fears flowed freely pierre and dirotto knew not nob AV what hat to do they i tt lilt and they poni preyed and they would guld rac kne willingly died for tho the nabla follow fellow who n lie hoci il licon bron thus condemned laatt in tho ilia opening ting camo a companion who it le he lived would could at some timo finite return to Jere jeremee mem bo hooda borne forit aint tile condemned thought of bin widowed ad mother and ho he sent her A of to too a and do then ho he thought of A brother and sister anil and finally ho be thought of one a bright eva c vl maid alwo ciuc clad cot stood atoot upon tho the banks of the iho adise outs eliom ho be had loved tooth nith a lovo love nuch as only great hearts can fact oh ob iny illy deaf clear friend lie he cried bowl bobinc I 1 hia upon hie clasped handa 1 younce you not tell thorn thern a falsehood but if tho the thing 14 it pon biblo let ick them believe that I 1 foil in fit brit brittia tio ilia his compRA pompa moa ini that lie ho would to do nil all lie ho could tied atoil it the truth troth could not bo be kept hack back it should bo be no HO told lold that ili name of dubose should nol dot bear du dimco graco in tho the minila bundi of those he bad lovail lna ilia in other bajis da bombi came dull oud and gloomy with driving ale 0 t and snow and nt fit an early hour J crome dubois was led kd forth to meet ilia hia title tile the place oc it execution had boa loan been fixed open it A lot barren spot the seal sea and thither his hia division va boing marched to witness the fearful I 1 they hod had gained not moro more than ban half ilia iho tile tho second round of game bamo str Angot commotion broke upon tho ilia 1 u I antry nir birba and nd very shortly oil an aid de dc camp came das dehing ng to tho the tilde of the general of the ibe pried with a cry A aortic I 1 A sortie I 1 tho the enemy tire are out nut in force let this thing bo be stay bt cycil coll iho file bl arldon directs that you face about kud advances upon tho the in on in fondant nil all was changed la in that ah won nod and the iho n rig ado General who bad command commA tid forth his bi orders for a abo gloom waa di ch and nil with wilo abod hearts the soldiers from tho the thoughts of tho ilia of a bravo brave coin comrade rado to thoughts at 0 the enemy abbat coball wo iva do etith vt RIO ill tho a priti prisoner onor I 1 ahkee the sergeant who he had bad charge ot of the gun r d land ic ad lim him back to the camp 11 replied the cap taki direction was cry simple Bi but tho this execution thereof WM was not to to bo on no ao wy omy for for hardly had bad tile the word wordia escaped tho the captain III 11 I 1 a it hen a of Pric atilan cavalry r cimo them the littion h lit ision jion is as quickly formed into fear f on r bollow juares qu arca ares hilo tho the bruard that flint lidd held r myc lj e of the iho prisoner found themselves 0 s go d to floe J jn 1 hrman x cried JOYOUS CIA m aa 1 bona and let too tile dio liken like n soldier 1 I ho se fc ergeant quickly cut tho the cords coals that it ar nl bin linx ell cleoa ooin behind lam kiiru a and nil taboa il hed di tho the point where bin oun oa company WM wan stationed the aaltio of 0 inual eirl had lit and the iho w iiii nert baidy finly to break tho the iara i iari of fr treat jerome dubois I 1 11 LI I 1 about him for some omo weapon with ith laici I 1 loot to alcot hin ir anil P presently resent ly ho he MV a i apramian offic cir not far off in in hm it addle M A though ho he had boon bounded 11 ih a 1 quick bound he be reached tho the spot allot A url el pulled tho the dying officer from hia bin pont bent 11 I 1 ioto into tho the empty griddle dubois was waa fully desolo ad to all sell his bis life on tint day sell it in behalf of france I 1 anil loot ell it OVA dearly as possible but be aran not needed inhere ho be was ito ile know knew that the could not break those hollow ito ho he rode a ny thinking to join tile tho french cavalry tooth aliona ho he could rush into tho the deepest olinger danger sup Sap poin tant the be h must bo be upon tho the ho he rode hu horac in and v aco ho he neachea it ib ho he found that LIS ho hall had not been inno taken upon a slight alight im in incisco towards it agelas virg tho the enemy hid bad planted eted ft a battory battery of heavy guns gina supported by uy wo regiments of infantry jantry ic and already vi lith shot abot and allot hurricane damage had bad been done lefebvre rodo rode tip shortly after the iho battery had opened and I 1 ory cry quickly anajo up tip ilia na mind that it meudt bo be taken tot nt nil an taco that battory battery lie ho aid to a colonel of cavalry as lie ho dabbed 1 l arild the day i a a oun 11 dubois heard tho the order bud aud saw sho no lie comity hero a darisch barcly bud to bo tho the finia at tho the fated battery lio lie kept tw on near to the iho leader afta im ho halt tho the ill dir lone tanco had boon gained ulten from tho the fiill 2 came a 0 storm of iron th ill it t sloughed ploughed hed into the lanly of tho the french tile the coinner fell hia big hotly body literally lit trally torra torn to pieces by a baliell that exploded agair t it hia is boolen tho the point upon tho the peninsula now deac reached bad by tho the head bend of tho the assaulting party aa not anoro than a hundred arda wido aid and it was literally a pith path of death an ili tho the firo fire from tho the tieh a henry heavy puns guns was turned apan it tho the colonel had fauci and very soon eoon three officers beut don donn no leaving tho the advance without A leader tho the way was becoming blocked up with ties deal men and bend hont hanm and allot tho the head of tho column Ha vered war islar shot from his cle elevated rated place saw aw this that nod lis hu heart throbbed painfully if that columb arcs routed and tho the russian Ruf isian infantry charged acter the peninsula the result might bo be but res I 1 A man in tile tho uniform of 1 a I private mounted upon a pou c erful honio borne caparison a d in ili the trappings trapping of n r if officer cor ain v ith late bare head bead and a boht go abro ibre A 1 ril I nin in hla his hind to tin th front at cond aud urges tho the COIll column mot foru aril ili hi words word fire ricrdo anil lila his look h daunta i 11 por for franco france and for I 1 ahi horseman cries tho ilia euord ord aloft out and pointing painting towards the battery 11 the Mare marthal liall I 1 still ill wool weep if wo we lose loo ills dy day 1 the bravo troopers thus oil led by one b bo a feared not to ol 01 dach h forward in hero the abt hadt it fell thickest gave an ans cring shout anil passed on coring little fur for tile rim or of death so BO long no aa they lind had a 1 I idy dy le leua cd or to lo follow hoping bibat ho be might isako tile battery boll cry and job courting doriath floit li ace it 11 dubois spurred on finally the broo troop came upon tho the battery with irresistible force it was waa not in aba power of lie hie ca imanta to the iho shock schack rod and tho the in fantry that thab coma camo to their support urr away tile chaff tho the bittor we quickly captured |