ANovelette
By J. S.Winter
AUTHOR OF“CAVALRY LIFE” AND “REGIMENTALLEGENDS”
ILLUSTRATED
Books you may holdreadily in your hand are the most useful, afterall
Dr.Johnson
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS,PUBLISHERS
1885
“Let’s go and have a look at it.” | |
Bootles, proud of his new accomplishment, lifted the childawkwardly in his arms. | |
“I can’t condemn that helpless thing to theworkhouse.” | |
Mignon’s own–illustration. | |
Mrs. Gray rose and went close to him, laying her hand uponhis arm. | |
But Lacy was already on the ground, and caught Miss Mignonout of harm’s way. | |
“What a lot of medals you’ve got!” | |
In another moment they had drawn up at the great gothicdoorway. | |
Lacy was occupied in making desperate love to the Russianlady. | |
Then with one imploring backward look she went away andleft him alone. | |
He dropped into a chair and took her in his arms. | |
The swarming crowd round the other was watching a moreexciting race than that which they had just witnessed. | |
A race between life and death. | |
Bootles watched them—the two things he loved best onearth. |
It was considerably after midnightwhen one of three officers seated at a whist-table in themess-room of the Cavalry Barracks at Idleminster, where theScarlet Lancers were quartered, called out, “Bootles, comeand take a hand—there’s