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* THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 15TH. 1903

A CHRONICLE OF CASTLE BARFIELD AND THE CRIMEA,

DI

DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY {Author of " Joseph'a Cod" " Bainbow Gold," "Aunt Rachel " Despair's Last Journey," do)

CHAPTER IX.

(Continued.)

Poison turned and galloped brok, and since he

the stragglers.

Fo

CHAPTER X.

Here we are, fifteen months later, with Balaclays and Inkerman balind ns, and the world ringing with the story of our valour; ad something here mud there being said about the staring incapacity of our commanders audi the crase dishonesty and stupidity of our con. tractors. The army which left home in such bright array is transformed to a crowd of tagged sagabonds, and all the services are mixed together in the trenches and the camps bofore Sevastopol. Horé aro men of the Horse Artillery whose batteries have lost their horse's; nud here are cavalry-masa dismounted, whether by reason of warlike misadventure or the sheer starvation of horss-flesh. And since folks must do something for their bread in campaigning times, as at more peaceful seasons, the rules and regulations of special benches of the military service are cunt aside, and men of every erm aro working in the tranches together. A crowd of vagabonds we are to look at. to be sora; but a year of war, if you only think of it, makes a boy a veteran, and the bronzed, weather-bestes, and rugged lads of whom the army is in the main composed, have lived in au atmosphere of powder for a year past, bare gone marching and counter-marching under aint and shelf; and charging, and repalling charges; natil the imminent poril of their licas is a great deal more familiar to them than their daily bread. The part is there always, and the bread turns up with extreme #fatasss.

bad been one of the fist in the advance, he was naturally one of the last to retront. There had been a rare burst of & downhill mile or two, and his borze, unfed aud anwatered within the last twelve hours, was in need of mercy. rods the poor beast tenderly, caressing him as he wont, and looking up he was aware of an officer in staff dalform, who was rounding up There are few things that appeal more directly from man to man than the sympathy of the sound and rooted sportsman, Pokon had followed the hounds almost from the time when he could first bestride a pony: and the sight of & clan workman across had country was like wine to him at any time. This follow in the cocked hat and waying plumes was splendidly mounted, to be sure, but the going was as treacherons and difficult as it woll could be, and the borseman redo with an address and daring which was d-lightful to look at. He cared an urgent hand from three or four hundred yards away towards Poleon, who responded by a gesture indicating the route he meant to take. The lost stragglor having beeny special danger of the siege or any threatened imminent assalt, but simply and merely thus rounded up, the offles turned and reined because of the late slaughter of a pig of tender in his charger for a final look at the retrenting

age whos" sMCKARIOS had come up from the forces of the enemy; and somewhere from the Turkish camp about the witching hour of

midnight.

black middle mass of them down in the shadow of the valley there came a flash and a volley of smoke, and almost directly after words an echo ing boon of sound. The charger reared, dropped upon his haugobos, and fell over, the riders dropped with dmirable agility on one

aide and avoided the threatens ! mischief Lf the full. There wore scores of unmastered steeds racing about the valley and the npward slopes; 25 and 20, Connaught Road, Praya Cóntral,

Polagu rode for the nearest, and having secured Shipchandiers, Sailmakers. Riggers,

Commission Agent and General it, cantered up to the place where the dund Storekeepers; Solo Agents for charger lay. A round shot had ploughed its Shipowners Composition ("Gray-way clean through the noble creatura's chest

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As he spoko, th spaalected cockod-haited owner of the slaughtered charger was leaning downward, detaching something from a holster, and when he looked up in displayed the features of Major de Blacquaire.

Vail that iontent wither could have re-

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*You caught this horse rather cleverly," szîd de Bluequaire, “and I'm very much obligad to you. Of cu se, you understand what a way doesn't

so into action with a lot of money about him; that if you ask for me at head. quarters, ibis . g. Major de Blacquaire, you'll ad hof-s-nov-reigu waiting for you, You can ask my man forit."

On the Christmas Eve of fifty-five there was time of oxcitom nt in the second parallel be foro thu Malauof; and this was not beean o of

borded orond is that identical Paddy who Arnongst the war-worn, ragged, bronzed and

reckoned his uniform the livery of his degrada, tion when he first assumed it. He in as lugged Os Boy Connemara .rvester by this time, sad es tanned, as placky and as impudent in the fase of death and hardship as bo kuows how to stick, and it is be who has brought the rows which falters the spirits of the score of men

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of a shot, a splutter of carth, and then the sullen boom of the discharge came to give variation to the soone. The incifor match, however, was the a'l-absorbing contra of in- terest just then, and the scratoli on the pabble CENERAL DRAPERS, was a much more important sound than any hellow of cannon from the fort. The lucifer was barely equal to its duties, and half. dozen times it gave its feeble spark of phos. phorescent light in rain; but at last it strnok, and the blue and yellow sulphur bubbed and crackled into fiawn. The man with the news. paper was ready, and canght the fire. The wet twigs smoked pungently, and there was one beart-sinking moment when the last chauce seemed to hare vanished; but then the fire Markle up merrily, and the blaze at tuo carthen side of the trench and the silky. beaded, bronzed, unwashed faces, and the stalwart, tattered figures of the crowd, with 'a flickering changofal bright.egs.

That's all right, boys," said the Honourable Patrick Erroll, Private of Dragoons. And now, sorgsaut darlin', give me half-a-dozen rank and file and pleass God we'll have a meal for Christmas morning."

aid Sergeant Jerruso, and just as hungry

"Now, I'm jast as keen as boy one of you,“, but be very quint about the business. Paddy, and don't have a row with the Bashin, for the

Lord's sake."

frast me, sergeant." sa'd the Honourable Mr. Erroll, and name the fire whilst we're away.”

(To be continued.)

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It was near midnight, and as extreme languor of fatigue had fallen upon all men when the tattered slip of Hibernian nobility crawled up on hands and knees as as not to expose himself against the sky-line, and dropped to his own place in the trench. He dra, pod with his foot on the stomach of Sergeant Polson Jervana, who davunced his clumsiness in fair set terms, wh.ch came as pat to his lips as it he had rehearsed. them for a year.

Is that you?" said Puddy. I beg ger pardon, and be damood to you. And now will yo just listen? D'ye hear the death ory ?"

Everybody board the hath ory, filing the air from barely a third of a mile away; the scice of Fork at the last agony.

""""The Lordstone knows where it's como from, but that Mussalman crush down below has got hold of a pig. The devil a cation has bata served to them for a month past an they ought to know what hunger means be this time. But boys, the speaker went on, with a whispered emphasis, we're Christian men, I hopy, and we can't dream of allowing those poor ufidels to peril their immortal salvation by the The Major stoed drawling there, with purcating of rang food. It's eternal loss to the posed insult in word not tons and smile, and soul of a Museum in that pats a knife and fork Polson, leaning downwate, drew his desgoon's Listo ‘a griskin. 'And I'm, proposin' á work of gauntlet from the left hand, and struck hita Christian olarity, Have ye got the matagrials a ros. the fado with it.

for a fe handy.?"

"I suppose," he said, “that's fat matiny, and whilst I am about it, hore's another saniplo

of the me."

One of the mon sleepily bade him be damned and turned over in the mal in ascrap of raggad blanket; but all the rest at the bare suggestion of a mul vera eide awake.“

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The Major retreated Fehind his horse, and stood there, nimus speckless with rudignation. "I threatened you with a hiding once-befo e," said Polyon. “And yn ware curenong to ran any. I told you on the day I joined that if we ever met egon and by word or look or gee ureness from now till New Year's Day. Is there you insulted me, I would spoil that leadermeny ch nee of a fire now ?"

be back in no time with a moil of mat that ought to be good enough for this particular

Ises of yours. You can report sainst me, if A member of the hungry, harvl-bitten hand you like, and I duressy that if you do it may go owned a solitary lucifer; but was afraid that pretty hard with me. But I will let you off for tue damp bad deprived it of all sirtue. the moment with what you bay taken, and for the present I will ny good evening to you,"

He drew on is gauntlet as he spoke, sud tarned his horse's boud..

"Wait there," said de Blaqnaire. "I have just one word to say to you. You know that I 'could bave you triced to the triangle and flogged?" Polson nodied, bat said nothing, His eyes spoke for him. "You know I could have you court-martixiled and shot?"

* Like onongh,” and Poison. Major de Bloqasira wang into tho saddle CHEONG SHING. I don't care to take revenge-taat way," he

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But one man was there with a providontia scrap of newspaper. There was a moon in the frosty sky with tatters of windy cloud about it, whi h gave light enough to show the men each others' facs dia y, and they all clustored in a

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