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Show tm UlfE II INDIA. It ta IhMiiiI Tbel bbewt Ike CmiIiU 01 ir rviMwUn r omeere, It waa In India. Dinner was Joat fin. H I Mud In the inrearoom, and nnral Kn Ql fll.li ofllrera were rilling about the ft I Intile. Their bronted facee had the art S j but not unkindly look common among Si military Dion, Tho convertallon, at 4 1 liMt, had not been animated, and Jaat B I how then ti a lull, at th night I J 1 too hot for tniall talk. Tin major of the regiment, a. clean cut man ol fifty jyjH Ore, turned Inward hit ncit neighbor at nH dutiable, a young rulallrrn, who wat i$HJ Uanlngbnck In liltclialr with til bandi Wfl rlatpcd behind hi) li-l, (taring through Iff-HJ tin cigar tuioke at tho celling. 9KHJ The major waa tlowly looking Hie Exl nun over, from lili handmnio fan) Ban down, when, with Hidden idertneaa and RBI In a quirt, Heady role, hi- raid "Don't fSB, uioto, plente, Mr Carrutlicr. I want Ml to try an ciperlincnt with you. Don't IjfHJ moT a mtueto." "All tirht, major," nbHj replied tlio tubaltern, without even HH turning lU cyce "hadn't tlio Icart Idet HQI of moving, I nature you. What's the HI g-imer Ily tlill tlni4 all the Mlirn HH were llitenlnj In a bully epctant war HH ''Do you think," continued Urn in- HH Jor, and lib i olee trembled Jut a little, HH "do you think you ran keep ahaoliitety HH Hill for, miy, two mlnulct loaavo your HH Ufr "Are you Joking r "On tho HH contrary, movo a muacle and yon are a mM dead man. Can you etand the itraln P HH The tulevltrm barely wlilipcrcd, "Vri," HH and lilt face iacd rightly, "Ilutkr," H laid tha luajiir, addre-wlifg an Ulcer HM arrnu lie table, "ur tome of that HJU milk Into a taneer and Mil on tho H Door hrr Jmt back of me. (Icnlly, 9 tnanl gulrtl" HflJ Not a word iu tpokrn at tha otflccr KM qulitly MIul tha tauctr, walked with M It quietly around tha table an 1 let It HH down where tha major liad Indicated HW on tho floor. IJko a marble ttatuo ait HH tha young tnbaltcrn In lilt whlla Urn n HHf clothce, whila a rohra dl cajicllo, which HH had bran crawling up tha kg ol hit HH trouaan, ftlowly ralipd Iti hcail, than H) turnrd, dcurcndrd to tha floor, and njX glldxl toward tho milk. H Buddrnty tho itlcnro wu broken by HH tlio report of Uia major'i ruTotvcr, and HH tha Niaka lay dead on Uia Sour, "Thank HH you, major," Mid tha tubaltam, a tho HH two man ihook handi waraity. "lo'l HjH liavoaatMlmyldc" "Vou'ro welcome, SHV toy boy," repllnd tho aenlor, ' but you HH did your abara."3aurranclou Artfw HH liaut |