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Cay ; + = ‘‘-Yes;” came in a firm tone from the pallid lips. nam I a deserter, a renegade or the guilty man ou would have made me?” ‘¢ Thank God! now I can find happiness in the love of my child, your sister’s c sir,” and the sergeant turned to Herbert Hillary, the yl more than a Texan, who answered, me! ' AndI shall find in Si niece, for she shall be a sister to me— Ha! the Jackal—I mean your brother, is dead.” The head of the crime-stained man had sud- denly fallen back, and his eyes had become fixed in the stare of death. For a moment a deathlike silence reigned, and then a slender form crept from the k- ness at the back t of the cave, and threw herself in the arms of her father. : ‘‘Father, forgive bim now, for he is your own kindred, and he is dead. ‘* He was wicked, I know, and I sought him in my run back to the fort, believing him to be you, for you are so much alike, and he cursed me and my poor mother, but I forgive him now. ** And I, too, forgive him, Sibyl,” and kneel- ing, the ser t placed his hand upon the up- turned forehead of his brother. “Sylvester, and I, too, ask you to forgive me, for I doubted you; but the scales have fal- len from my eyes, and I will atone all in my ower for the wrong done you,” and Colonel ldred’s voice trembled as he spoke, and one by one the others came forward, and a smile of Joy came over the face of the sergeant, when he elt he was no longer looked upon as a dis- honored man. In the cavern where he fell Moline Sylvester, the Jackal chief, was buried, and then the party set forth for the garrison, where they were welcomed with wild hurrahs by the soldiers, to whom Buckskin Mose, who went on ahead with dispatches, had retailed the en- tire news to most willing ears, and made Her- bert Hillary, the Texan, the hero of heroes, and at the same time did not neglect to throw in a kind word for the sergeant, that won for him a warm reception from his companions in arms, who felt ashamed of their doubts of him. CHAPTER XLIV. WEAK AND WICKED. It was the day after the arrival of Colonel Eldred and his command in the garrison, and - that officer was seated in his private office med- itating complacently over the renown he would win, not to of promotion, for having so Geroagnty ended the outlaw and Indian war upon rder. Presently a knock came at the door, and Her- bert were € long known as Gold Spur, The Gentleman from Texas, entered. *‘ Well, my friend, I am delighted to see you and if they have men like you in your State, shall always go out of oy way to meet a Gen- tleman from Texas; but be seated, and tell me how I can serve you.” rei ee for a vac athe Colonel ae say to you that though the nt and Jac have been annihilated on the pend and in the mountains, there is one in this garrison I deem it my duty to tell you is a most person.” i crate you surprise me, Hillary; who is e “Tt is a woman, not a man, sir.” “T am ! a woman in this garrison, pt: Fs military family, a snake in the grass ‘* Yes, colonel, she is just that, where her sis- ter was an angel.” ‘* A strange kindred.” * True, sir, yet such was the case, as her sister was my wife.’ ‘“* Your wife?” ‘Yes, whom Moline Sylvester, then known as the Prairie Serpent of Texas, killed with our child one night in robbing my house when I was absent. ‘The woman I refer to made gold her idol, and knowing that I had a large sum of money in the house, she pletted with this guerrilla chic to rob me a _— br booty with him. was in the house the night of the rob- Dery, but my wife was a brave woman, and resisted, shooting two of the outlaws, and for it ~~ was “ea down, and another shot killed our e girl. ‘‘Tbis the treacherous sister had not bar- gained for, and she refused to touch the gold and the Prairie Serpent got it all. ‘“Thromgh a long attack of fever, brought on by her own act of treachery, I nursed the . rei Gold Spur, the Gentleman from Texas. “* But she continued her wildlife, ran through with her fortune, and only lately finding out where her husband was, visited him, for she has her eye upon a wealthy young officer.” ‘** But she is already married.” “That is nothing to her; she will marry again, for her husband is known as her brother, and he dare not say to the contrary if she says nay.” is Great God! you refer to Lieutenant Em- merson and Mrs. Conrad,” said the colonel in a w r. ‘“< do, sir.” “Poor boy; he seems a good fellow.” ‘‘ And is, only she has wrecked his life, and made him sin about that will, yet he got none of the riches, so I beg you not to betray bim in this matter.” “] will not, for I like Emmerson; but she must go.” ‘* Assuredly, for she was the spy, here in the garrison, of the Jackal chief.” ‘‘Good heavens! I will arrest her—” ‘* No, colonel, only send for her, and let me bid her go.” The colonel did send for the widow, and she swept into the room, in all her queenly beauty. «Madam, whatever Mr. Herbert Hillary says to you I indorse,” he said, sternly, and the widow turned pale. ‘*T have only to say, Clarice, that you go at once from this garrison, and if I hear of you again in public life, and I shall watch for you, I shall arrest you for bigamy and murder, both which charges I can prove. ‘‘There is a train starting East in the morn- ing, so take that, and mind you, not an unkind word to the poor boy whose life you made wretched: go!’ Without a word, but as livid as a corpse, the wonran left the room, and too proud to live in —— with crime pressing her conscience own, one month after she was found dead in her room in a hotel and her own hand had taken her life. CONCLUSION. Kind reader, the ruins alone stand of the old frontier garrison, and yet the t remains ninthe memory of many who there in the scenes of long ago. In that garrison there were three weddings, esere in indissoluble bonds Esther Gerard to the colonel commandant, thereby making her the sweet mother-in-law of Herbert vy; once known as Gold Spur, The Gentleman from Texas, who married Edna Eldred, and a more thorough love-match was never made. The other couple who consented to journey mn, Ae a rugged pathway together, was Ca tain Riley Rockwell, and Siby!, and he won the everlasting enmity of the young officers for stealing from them, as they called it, the idol of the garrison, better known as the Child of the Regiment. 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