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Show i SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH BROUGHT HOME FROM MEXICO ON STRETCHER By IRVING BACHELLER well away from the fire. Jack came close and called, BI1U The sentinel stopped and faced about. December had arrived. The general Youve forgotten something,1 sad was having his first great trial in Washingtons headquarters. in a genial tone; "General, Doctor Franklin told us keeping an army about him. Terms Jack, Is it? What to and wagons hosses of enlistment were Cold to turn over the Your caution, Jack answered, with tell weather had come. Theexpiring.was undidnt He Solomon. said you," camp his pistol against the breast of his encause comfortable. of the homeus what to do with ourselves Regiments emy. "I shall have to kill you if 1L We sick lads of New knew he an twasnt necsary England were leav- call or fall to obey me. Give me you the want to enlist. ing or preparing to leave. Jack and a rifle and on ahead. When I say gee go number of young ministers In the serv"For what term? to the right, haw to the left. ice organized a campaign of persua- go Till the British are licked. So the capture was made, and on the sion and many were prevailed upon You are the kind of men I need, out way up the sentinel on shall I put you to Lut hundreds of boys who stoodJack picked said Washington. to be relieved and waiting Into my will Mr. Irons go were on scout duty. the frozen took both men Into hurrying homeward camp. with the roads. regiment of sharpshooters on the person of From documents me of told have One day Jack was sent for. He and rank of captain. You one of these Britishers It apyoung his company had captured a number of his training In Philadelphia. General that Clarke was in peared enlisted men in a skirmish. So the two friends were a brigade behind the lines of command of In army the nd began service Captain, you have done well, said which Jack had been watching and the general. I want to make a scout Washington. robbing. mother of you. In our present circumstances A letter from Jack to his When Jack delivered his report the dated July 25, 1775, Is full of the camp Its about the most important, dangerchief called him a brave lad and said: ous and difficult work there is to be jolor : "It is valuable Information you have command In done Is General Charles Lee here, especially the work which to me. Do not speak of It Let brought He Is a Solomon Blnkus undertook to do. of my regiment, he writes. me warn you, captain, that from now who There is no other In whom I should on rough, slovenly old dog of a man will they try to trap you. Perhaps, so Bartconfidence. on have us much the training seems to bark at Major look for daring entereven, may you ground. He has two or three hunting lett knows the part of the line which on of their line. that prises part and Colonel Binkus traversed. He will be dogs that live with him In his tent The general was right The young Is should which I tomorrow. out that rare of way going also a profanity gift scout ran Into a most daring and suclike you, sir, to go with him. After irlth him everywhere save at headcessful British enterprise on the twenif one shall be greatly pleased trip I quarters. tieth of January. The snow had been Today I saw these notices posted In you are capable of doing the work swept away in a warm rain end the alone. camp : had frozen bare, or it would ground redivine on were delivered and Jack Orders Punctual attendance not have been possible. Jack had got service Is required of all not on actual ported to Bartlett, an agreeable, mid to a strip of woods in a lonely bit of farmer-soldied who had been duty. near the British lines and was country on scout duty since July. They left No burning of the pope allowed. a tall tree to take observaclimbing camp together next morning an hour tions when Fifteen stripes for denying duty. he saw a movement on the uneventan had before reveille. They Ten for getting drunk. beneath him. He stopped ground Thirty-nin- e for stealing and de- ful day, mostly in wooded flats and and discovered the tree that quickly sertion. ridges, and from the latter looking was surrounded British soldiers. by into Bruteland, OneRogues are put In terror, lazy men across with a of who raised stood a with them, are energized. The quarters are kept as they caiiea the country held by the rifle, called to him: now In and then, British, and seeing only, clean, the food Is well cooked and "Irons, I will trouble you to drop plentiful supply, but the British over an enemy picket or distant camps, your pistols and come down at once. a in About midday they sat down In town are said to be getting hungry. Jack saw that he had run into an Early In August a London letter thicket together for a bite to eat and ambush. He dropped his pistols and a whispered conference. was forwarded to Jack from Phlladel came down. He had disregarded the own his He was filled with new hope Binkus! as you know, had phia. He warning of the general He should as he read these lines way of scouting, said the major. have been looking out for an ambush. Dearest Jack: I am sailing for was an Indian fighter. He liked to get A squad of five men stood about him Boston on one of the next troop ships inside the enemy lines and lie close an with rifles in hand. Among them was to join my father. So when the war watch em an mebbe hear what they Lionel his right sleeve empty. Clarke, he ends God grant It may be soon you were talking about! Now an then Weve got you at last you d d will not have far to go to find me. would surprise a British sentinel and rebel! said Clarke. Perhaps by Christmas time we may disarm him an bring him Into camp. I suppose you need some one to had his friend Jack wondered that be together. Let us both pray for swear at, Jack answered. that. . Meanwhile, I shall be happier never spoken of the capture of prisonAnd to shoot at, Clarke suggested. for being nearer you and for doing ers. "I thought that you would not care He was a modest man, said the for another match with what I can to heal the wounds made me, the young scout to am I war. this young wretched by going scout remarked as they began to move to know British He didnt want the be a nurse in a hospital. You see the away. truth is that since I met you, I like where Solomon Binkus was at work, Hereafter you will be treated like the all men better, and I shall love to be and I guess he was wise, said a rebel and not like a gentleman," I advise against taking the major. trying to relieve their sufferings. . . . Clarke answered. necesIt was a long letter hut above Is as chances that he took. It aint What do you mean? You would be caught much much of it as can claim admission to sary. I mean that you will be standing, sooner than he was. these Dages blindfolded against a wail. over That day Bartlett took Jack Wno but she could write such a That kind of a threat doesnt scare letter? Jack asked himself, and then Solomons trail and gave him the lay me, Jack answered. We have too be held it to his lips a moment. It of the land and much good advice. A men our In hands. of your many thrilled him to think that even then young man of Jacks spirit, however, she was probably In Boston. In the is apt to. have a degree of enterprise CHAPTER XV not easily con tent where he and Solomon lived when and they were both In camp, he found the trolled by advice. He had been travel In Boston Jail. scout. The night before Solomon had lng alone for three days when he felt marched under guard was Jack slept out. Now he had built a small the need of more exciting action. That into the streets of Boston. Church fire in front of the tent and lain down night he crossed the Charles river on were ringing. It was Sunday Ice in a snowstorm and captured a bells on a blanket, having delivered his re- the Young Clarke came with morning. sentinel and brought him back to port at headquarters. beyond the city limits. They the guard Margaret is in Boston, said Jack camp. had seemed to be very careless in the Soon after that the daring spirit of as soon as he entered, and then standicontrol of their prisoner. They gave ng In the firelight read the letter to the youth led him into a great adven- him every chance to make a break for on ture. It was the night of January his friend. liberty. Jack was not fooled. Thar Is a real'' genewlne, likely fifth that Jack penetrated the British I see that you want to get rid of lines in a snowstorm and got close to gal, said the scout said Jack to the young officer. me, In a strip of forest. There I wish there were some way of an outpost like to have me run a race Youd a camp fire was burning. He came reman to with the getting her, young your bullets. That is base inclose. His garments had been whitened marked. I was careful of you when gratitude. by the storm. The air was thick with we met and you do not seem to know Might as well think o goln to h 1 a were muffled in foot an back agin, said Solomon. "Since snow, his feet sat by a stump scarcely it Bunker Hill the British are like a lot of it. He I know how well you can shoot twenty feet from the fire, seeing those Clarke answered. o hornets. I run onto one of em toBut you do not in Its light, but quite invisible. There well I can shoot. how day. He fired at me an didnt hit a know he could distinctly hear the talk of the And when I learn, I want to have a thing but the air an run like a scared Britishers. It related to a proposed rabbit. Could a killed him easy but chance for my life. fair evacuation of the city by Howe. I kind o the city limits young Clarke, Beyond enjoyed seein him run. He Im weary of starving to death In who was then a captain, left them, were like chain llghtnin on a greased this place, said one of and Jack proceeded with the others. pole you hear to me. cant You keep an army with The streets were quiet indeed alIf the general will let me, Im go- them.meat or Ive eaten fish most out vegetables. deserted. There were no chiling to try spy duty and see if I can scales on me. till Im getting dren playing on the common. A crowd get into town and out again, he proRiffington says that the was Colqnel coming out of one of the churches. posed. army will leave here within a fort- In the midst of It the prisoner saw You keep out o that business, another observed. Preston and Lady Hare. They were Bald Solomon. Theys too many that night, was Important information which so near that he could have touched It know ye over In town. The two had come to the ear of the young scout. them with his hand as he passed. They Cljarkes an their friends an Colonel EngHire an his friends, an Cap. Preston, The talk was that of did not see him. He noted the name officers. were who probably lishmen an a hull passle. They know all of the church and its minister. In a We ought not to speak of those few minutes he was delivered at the bout ye. If you got snapped, theyd one of them remarked. Btan ye agin a wall an put ye out o matters aloud, badly jail a noisome, Some d d Yankee may be listening ventilated place. ibe way quick. It would be pie for the Clarkes, an the ol man Hare like the one we captured. The yard was an opening walled in He was Amhersts old scout, said by the main structure and its two wouldnt spill no tears over it Cap. He swore a blue streak and a wooden fence some fifPreston couldnt save ye, thats sartin. another. him into jafl. They wingsfeet shoved we when teen No, sir, I wont low it. Theys plenty high. There was a ragged, be treated like rebels. to' like dont rebel of rabble prisoners, old cusses fer such work. dirty want to be prisoners of war. whom was Solomon Binkus, all Nor a time Jack abandoned the Idea, They among A young man came along with his out for an but later, when Solomon failed to airing. The old scout had on his shoulder. rifle color. He held Jacks and flesh lost a from a scouting tour and "Hello, Bill I said one of the men. hand and stood for a moment without Port reached camp that he was capGoing out on pest? speaking. tured, the young man began to think I am, God help me, the youth an(TO BE CONTINUED.) of that rather romantic plan again. 1 of h a call what Id Its swered. He had grown a full beard ; his skin Good Sign of Holiday Was tanned ; his clothes were worn a night. ott close Jack by The sentinel passed When you wake up at daylight and and torn and faded. His father, who to his post. The latter crept cant go to sleep again its a sign its d visited the camp bringing a sup- ''his way and followed, gradually closing a holiday. ply of clothes for his son, had failed, away his quarry. When they wert In upon It first, to recognize him. CHAPTER XIV Continued. 14 that evening mission finished, Their called at General Solomon and jack Copyright by Irving Bachefior st . r, dle-age- spy-gla- ss - . 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