| Show PUllirrlNE 6UIKE9 Graphic Story in Which CampLife Grumbling Grum-bling Marching Fighting Hospital Service Ser-vice and LoveMaking Figure c BY HARRY R ANDREAS IN LUZON LIFE Taps sounded Its peaceful notes froml 1 the plasa by the church and the fluttering flut-tering lights In the quarters obedient to Its mandates quickly disappeared I with Its last note and the whiterobed figures snugly hidden under welcofficb mosquito bars weic glad to obey the bugles commands and Go to sleep Far down the nlpa Bonbom quarter eir the bay wafted up on an almost near imperceptible breeze floated the notes ifi little Batty took up the flaln when 16 lanucl on the plaza had tin jshed Ins anuel the trumpeter as he was known by natives stood a moment on the stone flogging before the convent guardhouse looking at the huge rain ring around the almost Cull moon Then turning he looked up at the I brIghtly lighted room of the CoinS Coin-S niandante which shone In bright contrast con-trast to the dark houses all around and threw dim patches of yellov light on the shacks across the plaza Turning at last he entered the guanl room and after asking the corporal or the third relief to wake him up at 515 jic turned In on his cot and was soon 1 sleeping peacefully I I i Above everything was quiet but the J sentry on post as he walked his soil j I tary beat from the Image of the Sor 1 rouiul One to the church gate noted that the light in the Majors room shone steadily and brightly Wonder what the Majors up to tonight to-night 7 mused the gentry Bet hes I planning some blamed hike against Barboun and his gang Gawd but Im gad Im no mounted scout as Im Warned If I think they are getting enough time In to have a decent nightmare I night-mare The Majors mad too Someone has been talking to the niggers or been yappln around the canteens and the few last hikes have gone wrong Bar bouns a slippery suHalt Whos there he challenged as he camo I quickly to a port arms Friends came the low answer i Advance one friend to be recognized I recog-nized Advance friends Three officers Capt Brice and Lieu Is Ely and Ramsey talked briskly forward for-ward while Capt Day who had advanced ad-vanced waited for his brother officers to Join him when they together went through the guardhouse and Into the convent above Half an hour later the trumpeter was I called from above and as the corporal i on duty waked the sleepy figure he sat I I I up and growled Wonder what the deuce Is up now and after seizing his bugle he walked up the stairs and reported J I I re-ported J Take these orders to the respective companies first sergeant and take a I man with you when you go to the Bon bornsaid the Major quietly and see I j that you do not talk to a single native J on the way j j Yes sir The trumpeter in company with a patrol made the rounds to the quarters i quar-ters i tersIts a bloomln wonder the mounted fellows arent ordered out Theyve I been out a day and night now for a month and Just got back Wonder whats up anyway whispered the sol I dlor tothe4 > ugler 1 WcZ said that personage with the I I assurance and ftlr of wisdom all I I trumpeters have Ill bet its a hike J You sec some cussed rascal has been nigger lovhv and been splitting out about our hikes or some Idiot had been i r talking around some of these native j canteens and the gugus got next Anyway I Any-way the Majors hot and Ill bet its a hike The orders delivered they were slowly slow-ly walking back watching and commenting i com-menting on the heavy storm clouds j looming up rapidly above the mountains I j moun-tains to the west Passing G and Fs quarters they saw thc first sergeants who had cursed an1 growled on being awakened dusty roster ros-ter in hand passing from bunk to bunk 1 waking up the sleepy men with the hoarse orders Get up you and get I three days rations at the kitchen Get fifty extra rounds of new ammunition and make no noise Quick now In a short time the squads and sections sec-tions In command of corporals and sergeants ser-geants were quietly slipping down the different streets to tho several outposts out-posts At the different rendezvous they found their ofllccrs awaiting them and after the last corporal had reported I the different columns started In their j j respective directions Into the country 1 I The day broke several hours afterward after-ward gray and sullen while the rain f I which had started to make things miserable 1 mis-erable at 4 oclock was still failing in L torrents I The mounted 1 srputs happy and sur I prisoa that for once they Iad 1 been left 1ehlnd tn rest while the infantry did i the chasing merrily groomed their I faithful horses and at the command I Cease grooming feed grain they Ecampeiod eagerly for tho forage stn I bjf seized nosebags and returning Rtnipped them to the heads of the hun I I fehy whinnying horses With a yell wl1ln dismissed they scampered from the nlparoofed stable to the quarters to enjoy a sure miff C Karrlsoncookcd mess But things were not to be so I The quiet sternfaced sergeant was I sitting in Ills room trying to write a latter l while his roommate the Sir gento Pickaninny so called from his lack l of stature was mending a ripped legging with white tylngyarn and a jjlece ofwire Glad were not with the dough boys H infantrymen remarked the lit tle sergeant as he tenderly squeezed a drop of bright red blood from his finger where the wire had pricked It Iluum Me too came the preoc cupied answer Writing to her arc you 1 grinned the pickaninny Well tell her I love her just the same I All right Joe I will The big sergeant seemed to be having a deal of trouble with the letter He wrote a page and then tore It up much to the delight of the little sergeant who constantly twitted him about spoiling good paper on a girl 11000 miles awuy It was destined however that the arge J sergeant would never finish the letter to the girl I It was destined that his missive of humility and love asking that the mid I understanding which had made the last three years miserable for him and had driven him into the army should be forgiven and forgotten would never be penned and forwarded He WitS just heading another letter I IJalayan P I I when the young Lieutenant all the old 1 timers among the scouts hated so thor 1 oughly for his snobbish and knowitall ways came Into the room saying i Sergeant Buckaloo I want you and fifty men to take two days rations and be ready to start out at noon Yes sir said the sergeant respectfully respect-fully but when the Lieutenant had gone he burst out Well Ill be damned if 1 didnt expect It1 Shall Jahwrlte your letter for you while youre gone serg but the door opening again cut the pick nlnnyn sentence short and caused him In turn to say Ill be damned as the Lieutenant Lieu-tenant said Sergeant Ward youll go toowith me Ah whats that you said sergeant I 1 said sir Ill be ready said the short one steadily Oh all right I didnt just understand under-stand you the first time The big fellow grinned at Wards discomfiture dis-comfiture as he said No Joe guess youd better write my letter when you get back which sully Joe only greeted with an unappreclatlve smile At noonlhe platoon of tired troopers I was already mounted when the Lieutenant Lieu-tenant rode up the muddy street and facing the platoon received the report 1 i re-port By twos they swung Into columnand at a trot took the road toward Tuy Sian Ill bet a peseta said Ward to Buckaloo the big sergeant who merel nodded affirmatively At Tuy the Lieutenant called a halt and divided the platoon Into two columns col-umns Buckaloo you take the second column col-umn and scout well up toward Nasug bu keeping well to the west of Tuma lln Brices column Is In there Cross the Slan river then swing to the west along the and of the range till you cover Sian pueblo Then cross souht search and hold the town and valley Ill l o through the pass fr n shortcut short-cut and hold that while DayTand Ely try to drive Barboun up frpniilhe douLh 1 toward us Hes in that valleysome where Is the Dhou trail stopped up asked the sergeant Yes Ramseys coming up the beach Land L-and will hold that although Barboun would never go over there as he never could get away 1 Do they expect myself and twenty five men to hold that valley when Dar boun with 300 soldiers is trying to get through he asked in surprise I No BIlce tonight late or nearly in the morning will swing his column of eighty men In to help us lIe is only making a demonstration Tumalln way to keep Malvar away and hide our plans over in the valley Are you going to pass through sir 1 Certainly I am Never been through but its easy enough I guess Spears of this troop sir was trapped In there and I dOnt believe It I dont give a damn sergeant who got caught and who didnt and furthermore I I further-more I dont give a damn what you I believe shouted the Lieutenant in a rageVery well sir came the quiet I steady answer You can start at once I dpnt start fOI two hours yet as you have l a great deal more ground to cover than I I Very well sir Forward march I and the little cavalcade went to the north In bunches of three the scouts covered I the country following the craboo and I footpaths they knew all led to the same I place the upper ford 1 A mean drizzling rain was still falling i fall-ing but the troopers grimly pushed 1r through tho tall cane grass and under the heavy waterladen lowhanging branches oC the idespreading mango 1 trees The little platoon met at the ford without having seen anything suspicious 0 I suspi-cious Under a cane camarlne they built I fires at which they dried their clothes an best they could and fried army bacon I ba-con In their meat cans and soaked hardtack hard-tack In the grease The drizzling rain has ceased and the red glow In the western sky gave prom ise of clear weather The horses fed and the meal over the soldiers mounted and moved through the turbulent country north of the Slan river toward the west The mountains to the south In which the dreaded Sian pass lay sloped down to the very river bank there and the wary scouts gave the thicklytimbered slopes a wide berth Edging around the end of the range the sergeant again divided his small smnl force carefully scouting and scouring the country for evidences of any movIng mov-Ing troops I I Arriving again at the river at tho lower ford the band crossed the dangerous dan-gerous place and as night was rapidly falling they dashed Into Sinn on the gallop Quickly the town was searched but nothing found Thc women and children chil-dren were quietly squatting around the tiny fires cooking rice while the men were In the yards training fighting cocks Placing hit guards at Intervals across the valley from the Sian to the Ladronc j 1 ranges the sergeant unsaddled his > hoise and carefully groomed him After this he started out on foot to visit his I chain of outposts He had placed three men In a bunch In nlpa shacks and had I tho valley well covered Hope Brice gets in tonight although I blame me If I can see how hell do It in this heavy mud and clay he mused as 0 he trudged along carbine In hand That fool Lieutenant wI get shot up sure as the fates In that miserable pass but Ward is a cool one and may 0 pull them out If that whippersnapper of < shavetall gets em bulled up Having seen that his men and horses were Well covered and protected he returned re-turned to where his horse was and after telling the sentry on post to wake l hi mat about 1 oclock he laid down and using his 1 saddle for a pillow was I I soon asleep I was some time In the night that he was awakened by u strong hand shaking 0 1 shak-ing him roughly and Instinctively his j hand seized his carbine laying besldo r himSshI Sshl Listen sergeant Come out here a minute Can you hear anything any-thing whispered big Carlson who was then on post Crawling from under his saddle blanket 0 blan-ket l he went out Into the clearing surrounding < clearing rounding the house and listened Away to the southeast pointed the big Swede and the sergeant to his silent gesture turned his ear that way A faint popping noise rapid but muffled came indistinctly from out the darkness from the south Hear anything sergeant queried the Swede Somebody fighting down there a couple of miles and by Jove Its at the pass too came the whispered response 0 re-sponse Thought so myself answered Carl son sonHow I How long has It been going on Rndlker thought he heard It early In I the evening but It stopped Then I heard it two hours ago but It stopped I again and now Its been going again for fifteen minutes Didnt want to wake you up till I was sure Someone on I the right signaling sergeant Huh On the left too whispered Carlson excitedly Wake up the men right off Make no noise but saddle up Cinch em I tight briskly ordered the sergeant A moment later he was riding cau tiously to the left to answer the signal I of his guards while Burns rode to the right to find why they had signaled After answering the challenge tho I sergeant asked Did you signal Yes sir I thought I heard shoot Ing Where did you think it was Well I believe either Ely and Day or Wooten that new Llegtenant are in I a scrap Dont believe Its Day because be-cause if we could hear hfm at all we could hear em plainer 0 Well saddle up right away and I 2 Buckaloo rode to the other post where he gave the same orders In fifteen minutes the band was together to-gether again The sergeant had decided not to wait for Brice but to hasten south to see where the fighting was I it was Wooten In the pass he knew he was desperately needed while If it was Ely or Day he knew a courtmar tial awaited him for leaving his designated I desig-nated ost On a stiff trot the little bona swept i toward the pass and as they drew nearer I near-er they saw that the firing was un I I I cloubtcdly near Spears Bed as the men had named It since the annihilation 1 annihila-tion of the sergeants little band there 1 Barbouns got that damned fool I Lieutenant In therp too growled I Burns BUrs 0 I Thats what he gets for knowing it I all Not much lost if they do get him I Wont be so many fines IC they clip him one angrily whispered Ilehlhouse I Shut up you fellows angrily snarled the sergeant I Halt he whispered a moment later 1 They were near the western entrance of the gap or pass and could now plainly plain-ly see the flashes of the enemies Son I S-on the pass sides Right ahead dimly seen through tho faint light was a trench In which the I enemy were guarding the pass from the west to anticipate any rush the sol diers might make to get away Quickly the sergeant took In the sit uatlon Hard campaigning around this same spot had made the soldiers familiar fa-miliar with every rock and tree I Ten of you fellows climb that hill 1 and cut loose on the niggers in the rocks while we charge at those In the trenches 0 I Burns you take the men up the h11 I nine beside yourself Carlson and Jacobs Ja-cobs stay here with the horses We II I give you ten minutes and wll charge when you open up Burns All right sergeant Come men low l now and carefully whispered Burns 0 Burns and his men quietly slipped Into In-to the darkness to the left of the faintly defined trenehes and started to climb the mountainside Buckaloo carefully recOnnoitered each flank and the trench to his front This latter was apparently but a hea 4 of rocks hastily thrown up to guard the pass and the enemy were busily engaged en-gaged In firing up into the opening After what seemed an age to the waiting figures out ln the valley the sharp crack of the Krug was heard breaking from the mountainside In f crashing volleys followed by ringing I American cheeis Now you men together Revolvers 1 1 only Dont fire till you are on cm gritted Buckaloo his voice hard and strained Yell like sin when you start firing and push the niggers south Forward For-ward Gallop March The enemy In the trenches surprised at the new firing and shouting surprlsci mountains noVer noticed the fifteen sternfaced daredevils at their rear till th3 spitting barking revolvers pltlnr barlcng teohels were fairly burning their bodies and the snorting angry horses were trampling them down lonn Horror struck they turned and yell ing the alarm sped toward the south as an only means of escftpc The enemy in tho mountains hearing the alarms of their fleecing comrades the shouts and the firing of the Americans Amer-icans turned and matte desperately for safety thinking heavy reinforcements I had come The little band In the pass hard pressed and in sore strajts cheered like mad at the welcome sounds and cut anc ting their hobbled horses loose started In pursuit of thp enemy flying out of the trail 0 Suddenly heavy crashes of musketry wore heard at the eastern entrance of 0 the pass Wild yells burst from the Americans as they recognized the stout cheers of comrades I Who can that be called the Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Dont leo sir briskly answered an-swered the sergeant A moment later a column of Insurgents Insur-gents burst from the pass and seeing escape to the north cut off made for I the valley to the south Desperately they fought as they ran the little band of scouts harassing I them bqnd 0 t Following closely BHces column mudbespattered and bedraggled minus haversacks and blanket rolls tired to death almost but elatedwith the flush of battle rushed after the enemy v Seeing the enemy being followed they halted after covering the narrow face of the valley and throwing up small shelters Four of the Lieutenants column lay stark and dead In the pass and three more were sorely wounded Ward one of these latter the men said was the soul of the fight He It was who had i recognized the men and conducted the defense in the pass The Lieutenant thinking the pass clear and meaning to show In spite of warning that he could not go safely through had plunged Into the pass and been trapped But for Buckaloos nerve Woolens men would have been severely whipped and but for Brlces unexpected arrival arri-val at the pass both columns would have had trouble when Day and Ely sent Barboun hurtling bilck up the valley Barboun met on every side determined deter-mined to break through the pass and escape to the east Buckaloo and his men Were there when the crash came Volley after volley they poured Into the advancing columns and the enemy never any too valiant excepting when they had men at their mercy or dead men to haul broke and fled Buckaloo while standing on d rock coolly directing the fire received n Remington straight through the right chest 0 Tenderjy his men picked him up while In contrast totheir tender actions ac-tions they emitted livid words and hoarse curses at the ell luck As the day broke and the sun rising above the Alphonso range threw abroad a-broad ribbon of light into the pass and across the turbulent wet soddenval hey beyond It the tired soldiers saw a white dirty shirt tied to a gun barrel raised In lieu of a flag Barboun was taken at lastS last-S 0 In the surgical ward of a hospital In Manila lay long rows of Avhltcclad figures quiet and still 0 I was two months since the hard fighting Barboun was so neal trapped by the plans and men of the Major who I I had sent out the midnight hikes 0 Buckaloo hard hit and Ward with I a shattered leg were lying side by side In the right aisle of the long row The doctors despaired of Buckaloos life as they saw day after day their 0 treatments falling to stay the tide of deathWard death-Ward lay white and thin beside him 0 doing well enough He looked anxiously at the thin Impassive Im-passive face of the once robust and powerful sergeant and then fell back with a sigh Buckaloo was lying In a stupor on his cot and Ward was dozing dreaming dream-Ing of cool breezes and delightful yacht rides ae Long Branch when the new nurse came 0 I She was a very quiet very pale but I very pretty nurse mall and petite with her brown hair prettily done wih hall pretlr cone up and her small wellshaped head poised proudly on a dainty slender white I neck she moved quietly down the aisle smiling to the pale men in the cots I Stopping before Nos 25 and 27 she consulted a card and turning to Ward she said I Is Lime for your medicine I believe I I Joe woke with a start while Bucka loo at the sound of the voice moaned i wearily I 0 Oh youve come at last he said I I eagerly There he is beside you Wake him up I knew you would come How did you know me she asked I smilingly lour picture he answercd He was always looking ntlt I used to I I tease him about you A blush suffused her face as sho turned anxiously toward Buckaloos cot I and took his wrist to feel his pulse At the touch the long Fii figure started long ble wildly and opened his eyes Seeing the tender loving face above loving fac his burning with the rush of blood she could not keep from tlngejng her face tng nghel and neck he asp dOh God Jean Is It you really you 1 Where oyou come from and Husl dcnr she Interrupted softly You musnt talk I came over here for you iJT All for you and no one clsc As you Ulan t come to me she whispered softly you see I come to you I know you ire cross but I couldnt help it Now no to sleep It His rccovery from that day was as 0 sured ala very rapid One day as Buckaloo and Jean who was off duty were walking In the botanical park opposite the hospital the former convalescent but weak asked How did you ever find out I was here and wounded Jean Why the letter Sergt Waoli I Corgotshe said stopping In confu sionThe 0 The letter Ward wrote he queried quite a great deal puzzled Well I sho said fr got a letter from mm saying you were severely wounded and needed me badly He told me about the picture you had of me and how You WIote letters and toro them I up and how YOU called for me In yom dolrlum He dldnt wLnt me to CII I you but ou surprised it tel butyol from mc I she said demurely 0 mei Returning soon they met a short ser 1 geant down > merely f boy limping slowl the path with thc aid of a sUck I was WazI aloCa sUck I Ward old fellow I owe you thanks everything in the world You were at ways such a teasing beggar that I didnt know sarcastic you ever little no into ticed anything but what might eet turn mischief And weJean and 1 I owe everything to you Youll be best man wont you asked the I big < r > r gcant na im heized the others hiS ser I Yes Jil do that JI much for you I got 3ozi two Into this trouble l1IStlouble so Ill do that Il mUch helaugh d But hc COntinued how dOou mow this you Ycl he surprised Jt from me Jea1 I candldl candidly answered for herself clhe said with a wan though I arch smile that just smJe proves my theory of womans un rei labili SSnTSS ty unrelabHI They never can keen a sectct cIet down And the the path little fellow limped painfuly 0 |
