Lucknow Sentinel, 1887-03-11, Page 2A•4".,
'Maim mei' r
• eetrt are ▪ Yoe a r
• That huries the pamper, dead? '
' Then you are to fetch xny Mary-.
• Xi*. that'll:Whit the doctor Said.
' /*On See, I am poor an fren•less.,
Air laMe froha a cruet fall- • . •
An the alokness an' the medieme
Has taken our money all.
-excuse this hacking •
It "takes me plow to speak,
latairoubled with a cough. Fdr,
• Are.„both 4:3r eyes are Weak
sittin' up all night, sir,
*AATO,,ohint at death's door -
Yee, . "Yes, yes! I know I'M tedious;
toPria to bo . a :
"What • do I want? ewe wait, '
• rna eomin' to that same.
• Wliat did Mary die of?• „
rolhiliger and cold. Her 'name?* ".
?Fve 9.14•ber,451,1reterllaY tfay,y7- ,
Tit set it down for you; ;
• She died last night in my aims, sir, ,
Av:e voge alone -we tWO• •
• "An' event to ask a favor:
bed.e --
• 4,pleepereneake-eheleepillow-7froft;.sir,
Soft forher :whin head,
• X know it'stIone with the aehin'
An' all that hurted it oft,
• But eonifOrt line a bit; sir,
• If-ypu-inake-,her,-PillOW-7soft."
The_undertakfm heard him
•And silent turned away;
• But 12e madepeor Marys pillow
• With tender hands,that day.
•And -often something choked him -
t As of rising teafs-and oft , ,
. .He heard through the•to.p of tee haMteers
A: "Please-mikeseliereepilleweeoft."
•' Et . Itoine,
Under galee Colors.
JADE PDOST.
GOOd.jdar' defLt =Wain, rm ' little hill were, . as I Fe, . .t , a_
our old friend te •would, have it,
.A. NOVEL,.
Titan. the -Zulus Jolosed in upon ' the
doomed. bind, with 'a shout of "Bnlala
Umiungo !" (kill the whitemae.) ,
Out rang the postol-rihots, and fire, flew
from .the &ash of swords and assegais, and
still the little band, momentarily growing
fewer, fought.„,eneeveth laboring lireet1)..
Never did hope-foreeken•men Makeea inert
gallant stand. Still they fought, and still
they fell, one by One, and ae they fell were
st.0.01Md to desetb,i hnt.doarcell one of them
wee s there whose, death -violin 'Wee hie
beck. • , •• , -
At kat the remaining Zulus drew beck ;
they thought that it was done. •
. -13Mend:re,threee•meneyet-stoodretogether_
akhe themselves from the wee, ne which
lay about. Is they passed the y of the
:man Ernest, had killedinhis last struggle
for life, he stooped and drew the broken
'assegai front his throat. "A "memento," .
said he. The hersee, were caught withent
difficulty, and "Tho Devil" and the two
next beet animals selected. Then they
mounted, and rode tetward the top of the
ridge over Which Erni*, seeh the body
of Zehhe lying -reserve. When they were
near it Mazook goilticem and crept to the,
cried on his stomach. A Presently, to their
great relief, • he signalled to „them to
Advancer: the Zell* had Meteed on, eml tho.
valley, was deserted, • And 'So the • three
,Passed back' over the heck, that an hour,
and • ite Ulf. before. they hid crossed with
sittronecompaniorie, Who wins now all
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•1 1
upon the Very surcimit of the mound, hold -
log. six foes at bay.. The Zueo captain,
laughed aloud when he saw it,, and gave a
rapid' °whir. Thereupon the remaining
Wane ,formed tip,. and; stabbing the
wounded as they went • departed swiftly
over the dead,' after the Main body of the
imps Whielehad, now vanished round the
mountain.' • -.
. -They left the six to finish the three.
' Three hundred had come to attack
Alston's Horse; not more than one hundred
departed:: from --that attack. . The over-
powered white -mon had rendered a good
account of their foes.
The three left alive on the summit of the
• •11Vhnis.4•84krbO tOitMe hae.14 though •you Erfiel'estee. Jeremy aua the -010=89,1 bri5f11041. 5
happened.
" sargi. istioloo„irip_me..7,
' tierenoM; hOw4 Pus?.....Ts44°P.11.9°.k.!.„th,,o,.!',g1,2,:i., Ave°hm0P, alaal.noesah
think him 1 t. • ,
•
\
teoegeeied: • .. eit,rne lie°. . a.hari, jus1 aica•by , his
Oh; yon.think'rm o 'freein my way -w , ,
•efh ' revolvers Were empty; Ernest's
••. ---- e .. swor had broken off short m .he beaY 'Qef
- . - telieinyeeeeeewth7ese.killi II; OE UW3213-0411. co. uchlaa.g.mueeassfir 0.,,n.zeulsahil.-0.,-.rtroeimubyb_settlica,hrabliebis . .sword,,_tehd
1.),
'. . what misChiet you eau -I am faun, emus to . li ,
.. --PqririatiPertiwur, tannin nn,d rn . 0, e, , , Al Tegontly,F,no:ot the Mt Zulus'aodee0.Jhe
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and' . ran'ethe ,eail, et
ee e r''....e ' ' ' '!' ' ' ' mud& - the' earbitie'
'' • .., fl d d -t -...on'.. kupW wh ttpde, I aan ,
•
• . . 9._•,-;.•; avaie eta .„ )1911,4i3:utgubm.
�r, The hou�st f�llow ie as
. eleiBeeerieekealleeeol/wele.e. iAraddl, ` • le bad !,,,,vee.,
nn°1v* ' • •• clubbed eiff3 'owner dciwn-upoirthe
Zulu's
• 'It is not.Veryeften ray ace you be W ell.' 1 illto g 115 e. • " •
he sang out,
• Now; ten ice.what seamen mete 17auty can show . " Y° e
, salon 13ay 'redid .white carpet of eat fleecy 1" take that,and he. d -d nate,"
you!" Th_
talidtahrarcke4 it to pieces and both
fell
• Oh,•Yes,.mi: Frost, it is pretty, ril own. ea °ge e eoZulmueieliefile(1Za only
But its beautylou see, sire se quickly is firvnu,, E Now there were
t a j • emy But
• ..
, .And then how t e air becomes cutting anh rtthii
As webrop through the'shid and the slus o stay ; ised enly, rem yeeler a corpse uprises
' thaw! , • '
another foe. ,it is ,not e.foe, it is
I
dead
JACK FROST.. • .Mazook whe has been shamming ,
• Now, really, you 6i -rumble witfibut aeust cause, .
if rdo send the. frosts, I don't send thethawS but sud enly and most opportunely •shows
• l• Then lust think of your whxdows that charmingly Whiffed • t? be yeti much alive. Advancing
• om ehma he seahri One of eke ,etaatiokieg
When thy •tracer v X- weave, like a pPet's sweet party ,/ and kills' him. That ' hew . four.;
. •-elreeen. '. ..• • .,:-. ...,4 ; . . . . ... • ' Then heages' another .and after a. long
' • ' ' ' ' thilB, ROUSEN010*- ' .' ' .!:. ' : seruggle kills hien. too, which leaves three.
• Hilt 'the' thane .fr.ost :will cover • :my Steps yhtn
.•itiO,.the windows I will not dePY, sir, loge nice., ,• And still the two White'nien Stand back to
4anooth ice ;. -
, ., . _ . back, with .i. flashing "" !'Snealtk:elf"selntg
' • 1 ani frightened to put my foot now iwthegrohnd, breath, and noel their irivii.
• • Feeeee liege follows suit, Olio often have found. blood desPeritteand expecting death, they
' J• ACK FROBM wer,e eret a gallant art to see. Tem of the
, , ,
"1 think we have charmed lives," said
Jeremy, presently. ' • • , •
" All -gone except us two. It . can't be
chance" ,
"It is fate,' said Ereiestebrielly.- ---. --
From the top of the neck they got a view
of the ;mew -which now looked quiet and
peaceful, with.. Its white tents and its.
Union Jack fluttering as usual in the.
breeze.; , • 0
grneSt ; "Whit% Way flail We go i"
Then it was that Mazooles knowledge of
the country ,proved of the utmost service to
them. He had been brought up at a kraal
in the immediate neighborhood, and knew
every inch of the land. Avoiding the camp
altogether, he led them to the left of the
battle -field, and after two hours' ride (eke
rough country, brought theni to a ford of
the Buffalo which he was acquainted with,
. ,
Macau . before dark, and I only hope we
shall get there before the Zulus, that's all.
By Jove, here come s the storm-conee on!"
-end Jeremy jumped eff the lump of lion -
ore and began to descendthekeppee
Ernest, who bad been listfining with his
fe.ce in his hands, re's° and followed him in
'•eeeeel
Suffolk, Which We heVe neither the wit% nor
the will to dispute. It is clear to us Mitt*
under this pardon, you are totally free from
spy responsibility for the brew* of the low.,
which you perpetrated some years since
and of this it is our duty to advise yon.
Youe title to emceed et; a cleat one. •
under th
silence. As he did so, a breath of Me -co ‘.,‘ As. was only to be expee e
air from the storm -cloud, which was, now 'cirouinetances, the`htte Sir Hugh did not
right overhead, fanned. hie hot brow, and bear any feeling of geed Will toward you:
when he had gone a few yards he turned to Indeed, we do not think that we shall be •
-meet it, -awl to cast one more look at the exaggerating if we say ethat the news of •
scene. " • • ' ,, • your free pardon materially hastened hitt
It WAS the last earthly landscape he ever end. On the attainment of full age by the
sew. For at that Instant there leaped from late Hugh Ketshaw, Esq., who fell by your
the Cloud overhead a Iletoe'etreem of lagged hand, the entailed the family, estates was
light, which Streak the MASS of iron -ore on out, and only the unuesibrehouse of .Arch -
which
'
:which they had been :seated, Bleiveeed and dale -: Hall, the beirlonees, .which are
,fused it, and then ran down the side of the numerous Luta :valnableTtherein contained,
hill to the plain, Tegether with the light- and the ' deer -park; consisting of o
tie
ning there came an ,eat-Splittleg, crack of hundred and.eighty-five acres of land,
we
thunder, , e , resettled. • These OODSOCIDently ID1488 to you, .
JursmYr,.. who WAS now nearly at the and We shall' he glad .to reOfare V.3inr
hottene: of the little ..hill, staggered at the instructions cohearning them, should you.
book.- -When,lierecov4red,-he,looked_up__ loot to honer us with your confidence. The
Where Ernest had been standing, and eiidd estetea'ieaiii;—iri-ide-e-eethir--wille-ofe-the-late»-- . ---
not pee him: He ;gelled up the hill again, baronet, to a distant cousin Of. his, late ... ,- -
oallihg, him in accents , of frantic grief. wife's, James Smith, Esq., of 02 Camper-. -
There was no answer. Presently he found down Road, 'Upper Claphatn. We now
him lying On the ground, white end still, think we have put you in pcissession of all
cHAPTER, XX.Xyii. ; the fe,ots connected; with your accession to •
• tions, have the honor to remain,
It was an A.pril evening;'off the 'south ' "Your obedient eervente,
coast of England. The STM had just made ''(Signed) 'PAISLEY & PAIS' Lilt."
hP his mina, to struggle out from behind a __.„ - .6 .
that part of the world a lookbefore he baae comment. " What am I to de with Arch -
it forparticularly good -night. , • . - • dale Halleits heirlooms, and its deer -perk, . .
•"That is lucky," said a' little man ''who Congaing of one hundred and eighty-five ,!..1„••„_....L.
was, with amenity hanging on to the .bee. acres of lend, I wonder? I shall sell them, '
if I can. Mine is a pretty position; a .
baronet with abOee sixpence halfpenny per
• .1 see, my 'dear Miaam, you like to complain; remaining Zulus rue atthe giant Jeremy,
- wslieril leave for ayhile, but en oonie back one at, Ernest. •Ernest, having no effective
' °gain. "' ' • • weapon left d d • ' t
t.; , . ,• • • , ,, ' , ......_ • , ,, , o ges the assegai -thrust, , and
then closes With his :antagonist, and they
• 1 ' elie *esti,' rfIneer roll, over and over, down the hill together,
, ,', v - •f.
Sites very limier, Yet kind.to those
etrugglhig for the assegai the Zulu holds.
' Who hear her story, out; . , It snaps in two, but the bade and about
The YoUng folks think she hardlY knows eight inches of shaft remain with ,Ernest.
Hie eyes, she says, were brighter far , Ile drives it through hie enerny's throat
-. Just 'what she talks about ;.
Thanell the worlds abdve, -,
sista he dies.Then he struggles up to see
For they brought' hearer than a star • the closing scope of the drama, but.: not in
• 4 The gentle light of love. • tithe .to bele) io it. Maiboka has wounded
•
"They • must he all dead .too " said
the baronetcy, and,•awaiting your inatruc-
THE OIATFS Of' OLD ENOLiND.,
rioniemilesbeloszewhere,theekseewors werk netting of the It. el: S. OonwaY
of the massacre struggled aorosethe Cattle-yeerove-efrejonesseleole if yet -caret
ler Were drownedin attemPfhig to do so: see:them in the sunlight." •• • • . '
Foll6W-iiigetlifireefeete ethey--tievereeeweee -.Nee aceerftioglylooked through his
siegle,Zuln, for thesehad all departed in glasses agaii. .• , • 7.7''',-"-
thp other direction, and were spared the '1 Yes,", he said' 44 I. can see them
:horrors 9f9he stampede and of Fngi- diStinetly." . , • , . •
ifebileDiefteeee ' t • ; ; • ee-- "Ilee„,...whet?",,,„egkeed anotherepeesenger
.,At lest they gained: :the, farther' aide Of. Ce4eing %epee e' • ' • •-
the rivei, and were, eirindierativelly Speak.elirisDt Old England'," 'ainriered
e-Yere-sheieepieerewe-iiii-confesse • hie man. badly,. aria is following to hill/him;
-
And lief Wrinkled face,- .- .. .-, -AniejeremyeeHelmiestruck At OD Of WO
Han such A Wealth of; tehderness; Kafirs With his sword. Theblow is 'received
.• She tales of one foO long avial • '
on the. edge • of.. the ••cow-hiae • shield, and
tele needs no;youthful grace ; •
'
And hearts solar apart; • phikehalfeeeay through It, so that the hide
Slissays it seems but yesterday- holds the steel fast. Viliele it eherp twist
That ho was heather heart. • • !-••Ofthe shield the.'weapon is jerked etet of his
hand and lie ie lef , e en e S r
etiength.: Sureler he iseestel But no -with
theocie, one iii each hand, Bed, litttingmen
'Tis boa to niake her.comprehend •
' That she has told before
, Upon a friendless shore;
And bravely met his doom,
nothnig to trust. see , except : rieti
The story of a sailor's end • '
She Stiye he *Mao duty true - a Sucldeh rush he • Seizes both Zulus. by t
ve
he
• Insisting that his eyes of blue
Still guide her through the gloom.)
Perbe,ps.when we approach the shore
Where worldly journeys end,
We, too, may tell our storiee o'er
And younger ears offend; •
For age has thought limn youth apart.
And only dine ean teach
'The oho* of mind and heart . •
That ought to govern each.
as they are, swings them wide apart. Theo
with a tremendoes,,, effort he jerks their
heads together with such • awful fierce that
the/ fall senselees, and Mezcioka comes up
• an spears ,:them. • .
Thus was the fight ended.
• Breed and Jeremy seek upon the bloody
grape, gasping for breath. The firing from
the eirection Of the -camp had DOW -died
away,: and, after the -tumult, • the elioiltee
ancl the shrieks of etheedyieg; the silence
seemed deep:: It was tbe .silence , of the
dead. , • '• , •
.: %There they 19,Y, white man arid Zulu, side
ing, sale, en.Natelaccoun ,j!SOrly,
h'ey---determin •-efier_einiu'fillaniticiiis " Oh, is thee a 'Sala ilinthet fwenrie
'consultation, Melee:foe the little, epee . the,eliffe ofeold
. •
"Not Strangers There." -
-"Te'Wlioin. would heaven's doors no freely open.'
• As to a little child,
. Who stands with 'timid feet upon its :threshold,
• • eqevele and titidefiled ? ,
• And secheneone, • of late, NVA8 lowly lying, .
• . • With fast receding breath ; •
Over her face the first, last -shadow falling--;
,Shp was afraid of death I •
Her loved ones said, " Oh, do not fear to enter .
That tend so wide and fair." • ' •••'
To an their,wordsef cheer she could but answer,
• ` I do not knew them there!"
But, even as she spoke, her hands:we're lifted '
• . In sudden, sweet surprise, .• • • . •
•And the reflection of some -dawning splendor
" • • • Illinhed her Wondering eyes, • -
• " •
No longer clinging to her tender wlitehere,
•.. And darkened by their woe,.
She looked as if she saw some llved one beckon
go.
And WBB hasteto
t� Illeifomakaar;-and riddeh about , a Mile ' "Nice reihaek t 'at:10r a 'Ma who is
or BO toward it, when Bade* 'thee Zulu's going lioiree to be Married, eh?"
quickeear.---eaught ethe •-eatind of elletent But Mr. Jones had shut up his glass, and,
firing totheir right..- .wati 'their enemy Yanished aft., • , ,
the Until' corps. attacking Itorke'ri Drift. Presently he reached a deck cabin • all& „Alston's Hesse, at present encepeentetea-by
Leaving MaZeokte hold the horses, Ernest ' lightning from doing-solimself •
and • jeremy, dismounted and climbed', e
solitary, k.oppie or • hill' whioh, just there
°nipped out from the surfaciy of the plain.
It was Of an ironstone formation, and en
thesummitlay a huge flit slab of almost
pure ore. On to this they climbed, and.
leaked along the course of the river, but
could •see nothing. •• • Herkee• Drift was
hidden by a rise in the ground. All ' this
time a dense • thundercloud had been.
gathering in the direction of Iielpmakaar,
and was now, as is common . before sunset
in the Smith African aummeetteasohteaVel-
ling rapidly up itganist the Wind, "set in 11
faint rainbow as in n frame: The inn, on
the other hand,.. was sinking' toward :the
horizon, So that • his golden beams flying
acirOse a space of blue sky, impinged 'upon
the black bosom of • the olotia,i'and' were
reflected thence en Sheep.- lights and broad
shadows,. thing like .celestial spears ' and,
shields across the plains, of Zululand.
Isandhlwana's 'Mountain Was touched by
one great ray Which 'broke in • glory upon
his savage crest, and crowned:him that
clayei king of aenthilutthe battle -field o'er
which he toivered was draped in gloom. It
was a , glorious ,scene. Above; the 'wild
SX:peiese Of skybroken-uphytheming-cloudie
and tinted- ea-White:4e icith 'ler -Might- lin
reflected from the jewelled walls heaven.
Behind, the angry storm; Set in its rain
bOW frame like •ebony :in: a ring of gold. In
front,' the • rolling plain • Where •the tall
grasses waved, the broad Buffalo flashing
through it like a. silver snake, the sun-
kietsed. eacemtitiine end-theehecieeked slopes.
• It Was a glorious scene. . • Nature er,
mood "iliind 'her Of..
streamers look) across e the eartieeteni. sky,
and waved them Wildly ere they. vanished
into night's abyss... Life, • 'in ' line most
radiant :ecstasy, blazed up in varied glory
before he sank, like a, lover,' to sleep awhile
in, the "arms." of hie ,,eternal 'Mistress -
Death; . • • '
• Ernest gated epee it, and it sank to his
heart, whieli, set to, Nature's tune,
7-feitionded7over when her heeds swept the
chords. Of earth or heaven. It Sifted him
above, the, world, and !thrilled , With
indescribable eniotion;
over the infieite'spaoe•above; searching for:
the presence of a God ;• then they fell upon
Ieendhlwane,.. and marked tlie spot,:enst,
where the shaaewe were deepest;'where his
On:trades lay and gazed epee the glorious,
sky with ,eyes :that 'could mit'seeeand at
last: his spirit gave we*, end, weakened
with one -aloe and king toil and. ebstinene
he burst into a perexysin of grief. ,
"0 Jeremy," he sobbed,, "they are all
'dead, ell, adept' you and I, ..and I • feel*
coward that shouldatill live to Weep over
them. Whelieit'etaii*er, I should have let
that Zulu kill Me, but I was cowatd; and
I fought for MY life. Had I..bnt. held My.
hand for second I Shotild have gone with
Alston and the ethers., Jeremy."'
•
"Come, cohie, old, fellow, yeti . yoer,
best; and fought the eorpelike a btiek. No
man could have done more." • • •
•
"Yes, jereiny, ; but I' shoeld have' died
with them ; it was my duty , ,And•I
'de not care sheet living, and they dia.' I:
have been an unfortunate deg all ilk,'
ehot cousin, beet 'Eva, aria now I
heve. seen all nay comrades killed,: and I,
who was their leader, alone eseaped. Arid
perhaps I have not done' With my Anis-
foitiiiier, yet.; Whateeext, f Wenner ; whet
next?" • : • •• •
Ernest's distreee ,eva,e ice acute that
anniin to 'aupportraerli-eon-e-every
pretty position!" • .
jeremer
"time enough to consider pftt rider;
as 'weere on the reading lay, I may as well •
give yod, the henellt of my correspoedence
-withethe-officetecoininandiegenereelajesty's
forces Natal- and Zululand:" • • •
, " Fireyaway,"'remarked•Ernest, wearily..
e' Firet:,eletter; diteed Neweastle; ;Natal,'
27tli_january; freni your humble ecievant. to- .
°facer coinreanaing, •eto.". •
"'Sir e • • • e; •
"I have the honor -to report, by orderofLieutenant and Adjntant Kershaw,' of
by• side in the peaceable sunlight.' and iri a
vague, bewildered way, Ernest noticed that
the faess *hieh a few minutes hefoee had
looked so grim, were , Meetly smiling, new.
They had 'hissed through the ivory gates
and reached the 18,ed of smiles. How still
they all were r A little -blade and white
bird, snail as Ily froin' ant -hill to aetzhill
came and settled eipoe the . forehead of a
young fellow scarcely more thana hey,and
the enly son of his Mother, who lay quite
across two Zulus. The bird -knew why he
wee So still. Ernest had liked the hey, Mid
'knew his mother, and Vegan to Wonder as
he ley panting on the grass what she etioald
• f 1 lake -NW
entered without knocking. , •
"England is in sight,' old fellow," he
said, addressing srimebody. wholay back
smoking in a cane -chair:,
.The person addressed made a movement
as though to rise, then put up. his, hand to
e filled° that covered his eyes. •
e I forgot," lie answered With a smile;
" it will be very much insight before I can
see it. By -the -way, Jeremy," he went on,
nervously, "1 want to ask you something.These , doctors tell such lies.'" And he
remoyed the shade.' "Now, look at my
eyes, and tell.me honestly,. am I disfigured?
Are they shrunk, I mean, or got a squint,
or anything of that, sort ?"-and° Eeriest
turned 'up his dark orbs, Which except that
they had acquired that painful, expectant
look peculiar to the blind, were just as they
always had been. •
Jeremy looked- at them, first in one light,
then in:another. ' , • :
"Well," .•-'said. Ernest, impatiently, ," I
can feel that yeti are staring rne out of
'countenance." '
LU _ - • feel Nvheri she heard o ler son's
'What Rho beheld we saw not. and her reptile juet. then Mazeolues voir .brtokengt.et
• • Our hearts not yet slight share, •
But 'tl last brightsraile she whispered gladly, silence.
u a , He had beer, Stan mg s ari
• " They are not strangers them. "
1 the body Of one'edellielheit he had killed.,
• •' 9,nd eves now apostrep 11- eig it in, Zulu,.
• The Bogus Veteran. - • " my brother,' he said, " son of, my'
' osvi father with whom I used toplay whet"
Me. $fielehy Geriteel=" 'Wile:you be kind
. . .
enough. to tell me ef isu, fact that
PreSittent hes eeteedethe Pensithe ?"
OentlemareLe‘ He hes,"
e Well if this Country gots into e another
war, just count me out. • 1'l1 heVer risk my
lifeagein in the service of ,my country."
1* -Were you hint attririg tlie Nyat r
.40Wh(ete, Mgiyadht were yeti ?" '
' Waeret any eegiment.,.I. get the
theiireatieirefteet hethieg in the • Si. LaW-
rence giver during thd second day Of the
• battle of.. Oettysburg. Ah! sit; tleeeeeteeee
the thrieF3 that titea Haven't
got '..1% •siirpluS for enoa. vet,, have
yOti ?"»e»leleete Siftin0, •
•
The, /ear ‘Vish.
'Little Toaalee-L." r eomo
I was ; I always teld you that ,Siod
evere.a perfect fool with assegai, but
little thought that I shonla ever have stich
an opportunity.of _proving it to yeti.. Well,
it can't be helped duty is duty and family
tie& must give -way to . it. , Sleep well, my
brother • it WAS painful to have hi kill you
,
• I WAS.," ET t lifted himself from the green&
--veryeee-• »
•
'sketee, too, Mint ked1.4° - .•
,
generosite.)-e Vote . might le inc take
..Aitat,.. Mee • ..(eviabiog to etteeeee40
yotirsee- • ' ' ••
, '
. Little 'reclatee.--".No ; Yeti don't knew
eehee meese. • I thought eit would 1)e go'
nice -you .foieeetto affela of rite 'end :Ana
hlithO pl:O eho• lee
• —
Haelebe • gachle, replied the imper-
turbable one.. "I ein iagnosieg
the cape. There, that will '40,. . To all
appearance, your optics are as doerke as
.rinnee.e.Yoleget a_ girl to look at them, and
see whit she says." . •. : •
Ah, `Well ; that - is something , to 'be
thankful' for." •. •
Jufit then somebody - knocked at the
oalein»dOor. It was a steward.
"You sentior-meeSir Ernest?"
, "Oh, yes I remember. • Will you ,•be , so
good to find my servant? I•went him."
" Yed,:Sir Ernest."
. Ernest Moved impatiently: "Confound
that fellow with his everlasting •• „Sir
, •
haven't you :get used to your
hindle yet ?" • , •
"No, I haven't, and I wish ,it were at
. Jericho, and that teem fact. It is all your
fault, Jeremy. If you had not told that
Confoundedly garrulous little doctor, who
Went and had.the information Printed in
the .Natal Mercury, it would never :hive
come out at all. I could- hive' dropped the
title in England; but now all thee& people
know that I tien Sir Erre*, and Sir,Erneet
I shall remain for the rest of my deeeee,
"'Well, most people: Would net think that
such a dreadful misfortune:" , • _•
e Yes, they Would if: they happeeed to
shoottlie, real heir: , By -the -way, what did
the lawyeteneriee-hiseeetter•e. , As: we 'are
so neer home; I suppose I had better post
myself up. You will 'fine it in the dis-
patch -box. Read it, there's a good fellow."
Jeremy oPened the box, battered; with
many yeare of travel; and searched about
for the letter. It contaiiiea a curious col-
lection Of articles-proMineet among which
was a liaedkerehief, which had mice
belonged to Eva Ceswick e, long tress of
chestnut hair 'tied up with a .••blue ribbon;
ditto eke golden, which had come -Well, not
from Eva's tresses"; a whole, botanical eel -
lection of dead tloWers, tender souvenirs • of
goodness knows who, for, after a ivhile,
these accumulated •dried.' specimens • aid
difficult to•identify,; ,ana mane; letters and
"Very neatly put that, I think, , meere •
polated Jemmy. 6 :
"Very. Ge on:" • •
"--" that on the 22nd inst., Alston's Horse, ••
hiving received orders to elle& the flank-
ing mo-vement of the Tendi Cerpse
°Niche to try and do so. Coming to a ridge. e,
commanding the 'advance of the -Cede the -,
corps, by order a their. late comniander,
Captain Alston, dismounted .and opened
fire on. them at a distance.ef about
hundred yards; with . considerable effect.
rots: ata not, heweeekecheck the V ink, who
appeared to number between three and font •
thonsand men, so Captain Alston issued an
order to charge the enemy. This was done
with • some success. The Zulus Vest a
number of Men the corps‘ which passed
right. through theeeinemyribout ' twenty
troopers, Captain Alston and his son Roger -
Alston, who acted • as his aide -de -ea -Dip. --
Several horses: and one Or • tivo, men were
also severely wounded, Which crippled the
further movements of the corps. '
"'Lieutenant and Adjutant Kershaw, on
conmeand•of the coeps, determined '
-tteeettempteto retreat. Inthis attempt,
-A, tina-
lid the hysterical laugh of,,
shattered •nerves • at • this naive and
thoroughlY Zulu motaliziege Just thee
Jeremy rose and came up to him, no myne
a fearful' eight to see-ehte handp,' Ws face,
his clothes -were all rea ; 0,na he was bleed..
ing front 'A &it dit the few, ana (mother on
the hand.
" Come, • tithed," ht.:Baia' in a hollow
voice, '1e .must clear' ont Of -
" 'Suppose So," eitid tritest', '
. On the Plain , 't" the ''fciot , of the bill,
it,
several of ,,the hor ea: SK6tg.gititay ordivi,i?g
the gtees, till e 'cite time "'eel the itifei.iot
animal, man, : 11 a eettled his aiffeyeeceee
Among there Was Ernestls block , stallion,
"The l'evii !" il,thich. had. been wounded,
thOttiOislightl.len Me ilank,'„ -Zs-Priv-allied
toward the horeee stopping 01) their way id
Sereeny,-looking' at•him ana•seeihg that all
he he'd gone through lora beep too :much
for himetried to soothe hint, lest he should
go int!), hystericaehymuttinglieetrneermind
his valet, and givmg'.him a geed hag.
,
" LOOk,beke, 40. chap,"he said ;••• "it's no
use bothbring'. on&s head abeht these
things. VVe are jl,18t SO ATIADY feathers
blown about by wind, and Meet float
•Whete the wind blmesetue Sometimes itis
1), good wind; and Sometimes a bi‘a one, but
On the whole it is bad; arel We 'must just
make the' beet of •it, and wait, ftill it
doceeiltethitik it Worth While'', to .blow-eur
particular feathers about any mOre,a., and
then WO shall' cenie 16 the. greithd, mid eitt
till thee. Ana new *.fi must have been up
hole for mere than tie minutes, and. gieti
the Verses A bit h rest. Wriinuet.-he
--, . pashine, on • if ._Vire,„ want , to, get to lielp-
however, he failed, owing to the presence of • •
dismounted • and 'wounded men; to Abe
-detaohment_of.-a, body of about three
4,
other curiosities, •• -
. •
' lest he came to the desired dociimene
writtin in a fait clerk'whand and 7hciviiRg
shovelled back thee:001(9_0f hair, ete., began
to read it aloud , • '
•A •
0 1
hundrea--Zulueeetbeeinteecept any such
retreat; and to . the preeeeete-of-a-laTge
body of Zulus on the ferther, side. of the .
pass leading to the:valley through ewhich
such retreae, must be conducted.•
"'Under the,se circumstances he deter-
minea to fight the remainder Of the boteis to
the.-lafit,..1Landismounting them,. took •
poisessibh of . fairly advantageous pool- e
tiore •desperatehana-to-hand enconnteie
ensued. It ended in the almost total exteie .
ininatien:•of Alston's. Horse, and in that Of
the greater part of thhattacking • Zulus. •
The, names of the ' surviving membies ofe
Alston's Herse, , are -ILieutenent and
Adjutaiit Kershve ;' Sergeant-Major Jeremy
Jones; Trooper Me,zookii (the 'Airily native • '
ST. ETIIEIAMED'S COURT,
• POULTAY, 22nd january, 1879.1
" . •
wore
fightingYoeeeee' broke t
e inErnest,ts
ErnaesF,ia'ateliwleazae,
these beggars were writing to tell me that
was a baronet CASA of the 'bloody liana'
,With.a.vongeande,.eh ?" •
Sir'(began Jeremy again), "it -is our
.duty to inform you of the death, on the
1.6th of the present month, of our eateemed
client, Sir Hugh Kershaw, Bart., of. Arch -
&tole Hale; Devonshire, and ofthe con-
sequent devolution • of the batonetcy to
yourself, as only son Of tlie late Sir Illigh''S
only brother, ErnaCitershaw, Esq,
" Into ;the question ofthe _n_nhappy,
matmer Whieli you OiiiiietO 'be :aplaced. in
the ihimediatci SteceSsion it doos not
become tts to eftiet., We have before as at
this: eadreent a deity of Her IVIejesty's
pee:done greeted to you under the Tians.
vital-AMnesty_Aottnnd_foputardo&_10-n14*,
Reginald Clara:us, Esq., of DMA'S Ness, feteb him.
_
in the corps.) :
"'These ultimately effected their escape.
the 'enemy having either been all desttoyed •
or having followeil the track of ' the Undi.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Kershaw 'regrets
to have teState that in proceseof effeCting
his escape he was struck by lightning and..
blinded. ' •• • .
-"•' He estimates the total loseinflicted on
the enemy by Alston's florae at froth .• font
hundred to four hundred lied fifty Men. In
-face of .siicILdeterrained bravery as was
evinced by every ceie of his .late gallant
ecenrades; Lieutenant Ketautve feels, that it
Would be inviaious for him to mention any
particular : names. • e•eyery • mane • fought
despbetely, and died with his , face to the
enemy. Heliege to inclose it return of "the
names of those lost the licourie y of which •
he cannOtehowever, guarantee, as it is corn -
piled from Memory, the parrs of. the corps
hexing: all been loSte'lleuiting thatthe
manoeuvres:attempted by Lieutenant Ker-
shaw under somewhat difficult circum-
stances will meet. with Your approval; r .
have, etc., • ,
" order of Lieutenant Kershaw:
(Signed) " jeneux josh's, Sergeant-Major."
• (To be continued.) -
, • Hew She Iletched,
. .
. The Beaton .Courier publishes the follewe
ing, evidently tor the benefit of theeladies :
Wife (te huebena who is el -ranging hie
toilet at •the reitror)-Cen't you take me to
the opera toe -tight, dear?' Husband (de:
cisively)-NO ; I Cannot. Opera indeed
too yomtliiiik 1 mil made of money? Wife .
(after a• pause) -.-4 ttee .any need of s,
your spending so Much time brushing'your
Whiskers, dear. IleSband (turning around
-with an angry glitter in his eye). --Why.
not? Wife (smilingly) -1E100E1116e ' one
brushing is enough, and you arehandsome
enough without going to all' that. treublee
it would be hard for you to maks yourself
any hanasonier, at leeeit in My oyes, thigi,
you are natnrally, no matter Whet care yea('
'Wye to your loiletie husband, •(afters, com-
pleting hi tbilety-si'm going down 'town. .
.for awhile, By the way, Bella, on second
thOtight. I guess I can manage to get 0..
couple of opera tickets, so ,you can consider .
the going settled. Tit, too Wife (sOlils,
AttOt. hin (leps4inie)--I • thought / • Would
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