ii
S T O iry.
neither
of
o u
How
us
GRAIN
was
Has
Hanged. ARMY
SURGEON'S
into
CASH
of
the
stewards,
this
motley
RICHD.
one
uniform
become
attached to of his devotion
because
front,
arid
to
Mosby in
rear,
while
and
vaga either
the
on
dash
.
foe. a
lawless
surprising
murders
were
guerrillas
caught
of things
state
that
and
prowling
lines were liable Union anoose, and while, snared Federals by suffered
a
like
to
Assurance
Life
Equitable the
United
FINANCIAL
Assets Surplus life
other
-
liabilities the world.
over
office
in
A
Large
POSITION
had leave
Londoun for
the
the
voice
instant
I
Valley.
-"
—
un-
all
As
did while Pethemine, first meeting and then turned tent.
I
started,
major
for
short,
stopped appeared,
the
within
his
eyes'
instant
revcla-
sudden
stood
; speechless on to the packet lying then, pointing methe I said to Petherjngton, cot, I left ; , pocket-case chanically my and corne Then, it, bring along." for I inade straight turning abruptly,
tion,
on
every
Surplus
the of
is
The to
the
business
of the
is
Society
of
-
1897.)
an
valuation
than
larger
Best Test of Strength Future Bonuses.
conducted
the
on
Plan
Mutual
own my shoulder
£10,508,995
-
that
of any
I
J
all
Surplus
absence,
belongs
ate."
PERTH
G.
F.R.G.S,
H.
Johnston,
BRANCH: Edward
Chairman;
M.L.A.,
Manager.
Special
T. Hooley, S.
Representative,
J.
W.
A.
TATTERS (C/o
107
MONSTER
one
Perth.
VIEW
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CUP, 10,000 3,000 HANDICAP,
BIRTHDAY
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V.R.C.
GRAND
V-.R.C.
GRAND
25,000
at
5,000 at
5,
May
5,
run
Adelaide,
at
5,
run
.Helena
Vale,
at
5,
run
Perth,
24th
10th,
May May.
NA
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Reference,
of New
July 8th. July 15th.
&
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Sick
for
Sight-Testing
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Ironmongers &
BUILDERS'
&
GENERAL
Importers,
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Son,
(All
I
the
to
over
motioned
hangman
1
to
mutely
and
is
theyre
enemies!" is
lie
a
man
your that
war
in
"But,"
spy
can
—
stripling,
so
always?
Who
innocent
for
a
of
heart, rejoined mere be, that and outspoken
he
frank would an
your man dangerous
—
most
select
such
an
secret
important
?"
re heart quickly my.,e,ager these membered In the tent points with the major the boy was speaking a of a leave that leave of absence is, from Now Winchester was a duty. :
&
PLUMBERS
FITTTNGS,
J
Sizes),
Alston's .
For, uniform,
And
Perth.
Street,
Melbourne; Ltd., Fire Brigade Appliances.
I
as
taken
wearing.our
lines,
hand him and faint,
service
FITTINGS &
horror
with
situation.
—
GALVANISED
REQUISITES,
we
saluted
our
spy,
Perth.
351
the
he was, to stay where Petherington inner tent for a and staggered to my of heart struggle against head. "Here is said head, order," your
KNAPP,
Arcade,
sank
heart
communicating caught secretly a from the enemy, my prisoner under martial law, was, poor orderly was doom the a convicted spy, whose who had already and I, gallows, to love the engaging lad, was grown
all
8 Royal
this
suspicion,
John Pethering
with
SPECTACLEMAKERS,
AND
on
and
self.
the entered the tent, major and then stared, open-eyed, behind. over my shoulder Thinking 1 dressed of this, however, nothing, tae wound and started away.
in
within
fate.
CLARKE
re
rolls.
My
valley-roveis
was
been
was
to
Free
up
picked had
word
to the which regiment to claimed Petherington that there. was no such name
realized
that
reprisal,
for
stragglers
ton.
Wales.
South
notifying concerned in the service on
that,
regiments
arrest for guard," aforesaid, self-styled
1899.
13th,'
message Win
at
feared that the accordingly question might be a Confed erate spy, caught masquerading as a directed Union and so I was soldier, to the to turn over commander of the
29th.
Vale, April 1899.'
Immedi
"
John
It
LIST: Helena
run
my short
from
turned belong on the
PRIZE
on
a
director
medical
the detail, of the hospital, in Winchester,
man
SWAN
it,
of
Chenhall.
ALL'S
Barrack-st.,
the
chester, saying the different
M.L.A.
Esq;,
CHARLES).
J.
my were
my
during marked I read
letter
a
Opening
I
Esq.,
found
I
tent,
my
:
Policy-holders.
Forrest,
at
delivered
table,
;
if
see
.
from A.
to
Arrived
and
over glancing Petherington
quarters,
following.
the within short shrift in
here
reddened furiously, deathly pale. Confounded by the
Society
31st,
Surplus standard
.Guarantee
teenth. ed men
As
I
this
at
so
States.
(December
£49,349,231
-
it
the of the nine evening All that day trains of wound the had been into pouring the and now, late among hospital, came a captured Confederate arrivals, some from staff, general's major, in the arm. wounded This slightly was terit assigned a small by patient and the ward himself, surgeons being to attend 1 went him, myself busy, as followed, always, by iriy orderly, as he called him John Petherington, It
to the
expecteuly,
l'r.aTH.
.
and
maraudings
frequent,
S I'liEiiiT,
the
with
ing partisan troops bush-whackers skulking bonds preyed independently
promptly
gone
see
But for
'
The
had
;
such
has
he
& Co.,
j
young of a
It was a terrible time in the Shen The invading of andoah army Valley. of the North waged avowedly a war while for the South there desolation, not soldiery,, fought only the regular but also bands of guerrillas, actively of the valley. aided by the inhabitants was it Sheridan, ad On the one side, with the sword and firebrand vancing an on the with other, eager Early,
not
you ?"
now
'
the
regiment,
W1L..IAM
of
—
In
Mosby is
;
TO
ington,
to
particu attracted by his frank and larly him face, and I had made intelligent He had, indeed, given my orderly. a confused account of how he but came to be absent from his regiment, at the on the then and even front, first pressed for a day had anxiously short leave of absence— necessarily but I had refused at that busy time not these two connected suspicious in my mind, and had circumstances
is
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PURSER
128
me
army
TERMS.
PARTICULARS
You
of stray in the
crowd in
stripling
Pennsvlvania
in
eh?"
where
"
.
—
there etc. me by the provost guard a lot soldiers straggling caught streets of Winchester.
quickly youngster duty.
Then
days,
the second voice, No, sir," replied the voice of my orderly, Petherington, who evidently had lagged behind when " but probably I left the tent no, sir,
—
hospital nurses, cooks, orderlies, turned had been over
a
:
"Three don't know
.
force
working
Of
OR
said
drill
—
army
fellow,
other
any Australasia.
FURTHER
better
gives
than
in
FOR
DRILL,
and
sale
largest satisfaction
STORY.
I was a victory young the Union I on side. surgeon the finished before, had, only night the establishment of a large hasty on the outskirts field of Win hospital Two' had been chester. days only me and the for the task, for granted rout
FERTILISER
the
On the 19th of October, 1864—the memorable day of the battle of Cedar Creek, when Sheridan, riding rapidly to the turned from Winchester front, ;
AND
I feet I Before had gone twenty remembered that I had left my pocket on case of instruments the major's reached cot. I Retracing my steps, the doorway of the tent, when I heard in earnest, low conver voices within the major's, The first sation. voice,
FAVOURITE"
—
AN"
"FARMERS'
THE
Windmill.
Telephone
358.
hostile
town,
where
secret
that
Mosby's
j !
and
went
at
pleasure,
if
was
followers, in any
an
open came.
simple
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