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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1920-06-10, Page 6w Worth Eery Cent 0•. its Cosa. lack, Greene r Mixed o a o Scaled Packets Only. Never Sold its. ; mils;. \Vlicn Moon Went own A Page From the Unwritten History of England's Fight for India Tells How the Valiant Spirit of "The Black Horse Troop" Flanged Highest When Perils Multiplied. By HOMER J. COUNCILOR. PART III. ing made for retiring. One by one We were well aware that with sun -1 these lights disappeared, leaving fin - down n- close watch would be plaec,l ; ally grly that in the reception hall on on our ever;• trove. Iliomerts counted the second floor. A number of our for hours gory. Our plan, so far sue- paper troopers remained on duty - cessful, would fail utterly unless we• there for nearly an hour. Then they, were able to maintain a normal ap-; too, turned in, leaving the palace in pearanee about the quarters. Closing utter darkness, i the gates, we barred them but lightly i The moon was sin,..ng rapidly. A in order that they should not ,;rope aI little more and it would be gone. And serious hindrance when the attack; then—what? Already it seemed we finally came, thereby determining; could hear the rustle of the bushes ourselves the avenue by which our as the murderous band gathered out- erenxies would probably approach. side the wall. Silently we joined Wil - This done, I directed Sika to start' liams and with him made our way the fires previously prepared in- he cautiously to the stable, keeping well various wings of the palace. Smoke; within cover. Here we worked rapidly curling lazily upward from all the but silently. chimneys gave a general appearance! In keeping with our plans fifteen of complete oceupan:y. Meanwhile horses had been retained in the Will:a.aas, having cared for the horses,' stables. During the evening our own busied himself in preparing for the mounts had been saddled, while the night. Piling all the contents of our', others had been fastened by their little magazine together he opened one! picket lines in pairs. We now ste- ed the Iarger cases of blasting powder tioned these five abreast in company and leading from this ran a heavy; formation just inside the open double train of powder out through the half- - doors. In this formation the central closed door into the stable. ! horse in the front row was my own, While daylight lasted we purposely' that in the second row Sake s, and spent much of our time in the open,! the back row 'Williams's. Bebore climb - the sad alternating cur appearance whenever fin lin'irstr etiorsoale I whispered my possible to give the impression from' a distance of large numbers. In this' "hen I signal, Saka, you blow the Saks was a :.order. Quick as a bash,' charge. At the first note of this, nimble as a mountain goat, he would �''illiamns, you light your torch and taunter slowly indoors from -the vard throw it into the powder train. When and appear alms: t in.tantip on one of , the Iast note of the charge is sounded the upper balconies in a costume so dig your spurs deep, hold the lead, radically changed as to deceive any horses on either side well in and fol - casual observer. low me, shouting at the top of your As night carne on the candles were • voices. I will ride directly for the lighted in all the rooms on the lower bleat gates. floor, and. following our usual custom ; Should I not make the gates do not wait for nxe, but ride on. Then the curta"ns closely drawn. The moon, you reach the outside, if I am not low in the south, left the court side with you,follow your own judgment." of the dwelling in deep shadows, but) L!i fozen tillages we sat on our lighted every nook and corner of thej•torsos; not a sound was to be -heard outer wall. In this we were extremely! save for the occasional stamping of fortunate, since. far from needing a Ithe impatient animals. A heavy; black number of sentries, one man sanding mantle was swiftly falling about us. deep in the gloom could command a The moon es -as gone! view of every possible point of attack. ; How we longed for a noise, a shout, Early in the evening an irregular a sound of any sort to break the op - shadow had made its appearance on pressive tenseness. Seconds were the top of the wall at the west corner; hours; minutes were eons of eternity. but w th the crack of Williams's car-' A hundred times I cursed myself bine the form had convulsed and dis- for my wild plan. Disjointed thoughts appeared. While we knew that the chased each other through nay brain. trees in the outer garden harbored Why had I divided the party—what if hundreds of eyes eagerly spying upon we should fail—two mien and a boy— us, yet we also knew that following poor Saka—why had I chosen the this experience none of these natives • youngest—how proud his mother had would again needlessly risk his life been, when she first saw hint in his by crossing the moonlit way. ; uniform -and now—Mrs. Reynolds To theist it was not a game of and her children—my promise to Rey-, chance; it was a simple matter of . nolds as he lay dying. waiting until their prey might be Other days and other places, peo-i bagged with little cost. To us it was' pled with faces long since Iost in a sacred duty to keep them in that memory, passed in lightning review. waiting attitude until their prey Odd how it gets you—the vast silence, should have escaped. 'Viewed from the fathomless expanses of night and the garden, the place was a great, the waiting—worst of all the waiting, black mass, except for the regular' At last the spell was broken. Faint - patches of light shining through the ly from the distance came the muffled drawn curtains. sound of drains, a weird rhythm which Realizing that the only method by' once heard was never to be forgotten. which they could now judge our. Under its spell the days at C,awnpor strength was by watching the ehadows and Lucknow and Bithur, with all reflected upon the curtains, I deter- t their horror and suffering, came rush - mined to people the entire lower floor! ing back. • of the palace. Securing some light' I could hear again the pent-up sob - but tough paper, I cut a number of bang of grief-stricken women, the sup - paper dolls much like those with which pressed groans of dying men, the you have seen little girls playing. I. noise and roar of battle, the clash of Assisted by Saka, I fastened each, hand-to-hand combat. The same un - of these to a solid base. Placing the' tamed beast that in those days sought lights low upon the tables we ranged, to destroy all of western life and these between the lights and the win-; civipeat;on was crouched ready to dows in such a'manner as to create a, spring upon u"s, series of shadows, having every ap-; • Emerging from the, impenetrable pearance of being produced by men-; blackness overhanging the garden hers of our troops walls an irregular shadow glided e-. _eta.. movement of the -e paler, stealthily across the open court to- decoys caused by drafts or the coca- ward the outer gates. Thi was Menai l- sionai beading of the paper gave a' lowed iu * anotheit and another. The Most natural animation to the she drums were drawing closer, Their Yews on the curtains. So real did death rattle grew Wieder and louder. they appear that Williams, then on j The hinges of the gates creaked guard duty, rushed indoors thin:long, slightly, They were opening ethene. that in seine WOocif enemies acrd, Other .shadow's Were gloving across gained an entrance and we were in' the court toward the palace. Suddenly Beed of help. Playing this Punch the form of a. giant Sepoy loomed up and -Judy game the time slipped rapid- In the stable doorway, so close that ly away. and before we could realize: his outstretched hand Would have it IO o'clock had come and gone. torched the horse's nose. His naked "It is bedtime, Saks," I said, hand-' body glistened even in that dim light. Ing him two paper dolls upon which Ii His eyes gleamed Batlike in the dark- -had been working for some minutes /less. A swift stroke with my sabre he. rcrumpled silently and • cru ed to the earth "If you will take Mrs.Iic�vllglcls andp Gertrude upstai to their room and The grounds were alive with moving care for those tet the upper- end of the forms. Glancing toward the palace hall. I will attend to all of the men' I saw them crawling like ants up the oeeu ayitn ; the lower End," ; stonework to the first and second hal- Grraclr,ally the 1'ghts on the lower comes, From the upper balcony Baine. finer sem?. ionlaceci by those on the a guttural note like the hooting of a upF r . "om To all- outward apps r great owl. It ryas the sound for which ✓~a. .; :I.o usual preparations were be -1 they had been waiting, All restraint was cast aside. With blood -curdling shouts they. swarmed madly forward, Like surging waves .their cries were naught up and echoed back by those still outside the grounds, Full toned • the drums were beating at the gates. Notwithstanding the experiences of a dozen campaigns my heart pounded at the walls of my breast until I felt it would soon disclose our hiding place. The moment had come! Leaning back, I touched Saka upon the leg with my sabre. A second later the clarion notes of the charge cut the air, The Hindu rabble stopped in their tracks petrified. Their cries died out. There was a breathless pause. The flame of Williams's torch flared up. I saw it flying through the air; heard the sputter and hiss of the powder as the fuse ignited. The bugle ceased. Digging our spurs savagely into our horses' sides we plunged into the openshouting like liberated, demons. Straight into the mass of humanity we thundered. The horses, large in the daylight, loomed like gigantic monsters in the gloom. Shrieking with terror, our .adver- saries ran in every direction, falling over each other in their frantic efforts to remove themselves from the path of the terrible destruction which was sweeping over them. - The cries of pain of those less fortunate mingled with the wails of fear. All that physical facts lacked, frenzied superstition and imagination supplied. The rout was complete. Dashing toward the open gates we had scarcely cleared the walls when a terrific explosion shook the ground. . The next few seconds can never be described. They have left only a mud- dled impression upon my mind. Em- erging from the thoroughly terrified throng, through a rain of stone and Mortar, we galloped into the market place. Circling the lower portion of the town we came out on the cross- country road. Reaching the stockade we halted briefly. A hurried survey sat:sfled us that the troop was gone. Returning to the road we, too, headed southward and rode out into the jungle darkness. (The End.) 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H•---, really, I don't mind it nearly so much as some people might. I took care of •my own pony when I was a little. girl." "Well, you don't have to take care of these doniestia animals,'' he said decidedly. After two days I began to think the captain had forgotten, but the kind- ness of madame and the smiles of her engaging son, aged four years, made the atmosphere more bearable. On the third day, however, while I was tossing a medicine ball with some of my boys, the captain appeared ,sudden- ly and announced that I was to move. Of course, I could _only thank him and obey orders, so I climbed into the waiting camionetto and, escorted by a detail cf four men, drove to my billet. Two of the men took down the electric lights and wires, wuich they had put in for me, and the other two, as they said, mobilized my equipment. They looked at my family photographs, glanced iuto my few books and tried on nay Bothe helmets. When the youngest was helping ane force my things into a small wardrobe trunk, he exclaimed, "0 sis, let's see that!" „See what, Harry?" "Why, that fluffy -ruffles gown." I tock out my one bit of finery, a dinner frock that I had been ill-advis- ed enough to bring to Prance. His sharp young eyes had tliscorered it in the very back et my trunk. I shook it out and held it up, and even the men who were working on the electric wires stopped long enough to look at it. "0 boy, but doesn't that little dress remind ane of house and my best girl!" exclaimed Harry. "I'Il say it's some rag." said Bili: "Say, sister, won't you wear it for us? We'd love to see you all dolled up in it." "It's against the rule for me to wear civie.s, but maybe I can dress up just for furs sometime," I answered as I replaced the gown and went on with my hasty packing. An hcur and five minutes after I re- ceived the captain's orders, my belong- ings were settled in my new billet and I was back in the recreation room at camp. But that evening, when my guard of honor took me to my new billet, for I was never permitted to return from my nightly duty alone, one of the men said a little shyly, "13111 Jenks told ine you had an awfully pretty dress. Would it be too much trouble to show it to Shorty and me?" "No, indeed, Red," I replied. "Come in and take a look at my gorgeosity." They accepted my invitation, and T laughingly took the dinner frock from my trunk; but they examined it with serious admiration, and Red ,brought sudden tears to my eyes when he touched the fabric gently and said his mother used to wear soft, silky things. I knew that Red's another had died since he m They wereleft hothee. first of many who asked to see any "party dross." Even- ing after evening I displayed it to the boys who brought me home, but I never had • the courage to exchange even for a few minutes nay warm, stout uniform for Georgette crape, and. so I did not keep my half -promise to masquerade in it eometime. It has never been worn. The skirt is too wide for the present fashions and. the bodice needs altering. I look at it reproachfully, thinking that it must be made over before, it has seen service. Then with gratitude I remem- ber how many dear lads enjoyed see- ing it, and how many precious memo- ries of gay times at home in "real life" were invoked by its frivolous folds, and how many happy anticipations of good, times to come apres la guerre were builded on the airy structure of its lace and chiffon, and I feel that it has served nobly arter all and de- serves an honorable discharge. 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