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,VOL. XXVIH. NO. 19. CHICAGO, lLL.,
SATURDAY, MAY 12.
riiiAYiiiiRD’S LAST FIGHT.
On the Battle field in South Afriqu--A Strange
e Meeting of Estranged Hearts---Turning
< L to the‘ Right. .L 6
By 1V'OI.I.A1V ((>‘A.S'I‘1n1E:ZI1V’QC‘.K!.‘ ‘ , , '
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it me almost d'ark‘a3 xxamgag v c., n:’ gt, 3 (‘)1 far aw
rlgarette and strollerlte-wards 'the 09- ‘
e
r days he went about his duties with all
the lite and feeling well-nigh nrusbe
of him.
Then he made a, big ertort, and, being 3
“E1. 5 y man at strong will-pawer. slowly forced the
A heavy amp splashed on the lighted end 199"": “mien 9 sxound down the ‘=51
, m, E gu- ,, remaining tragments Into ashes. The lat
vi7,"” he - rnutiered. Om
K smiling (‘ ntempluou "What a Silly Old
mash I'm growing. Getting superstitious in
my old age. Maynard, ". C., of! 2 First
Punjab, turning era '1’. Lord! aw the
fella S In Caicu ta. would laugh, if they
knew Major Maynard, sceptic rid general
unbeiieve I lh eff: Cy of all gs be-
ya the ha of B, revolver, ha begun
Weighing probabilities like any old ind)’
peerinlg into the bottum at her tea-cup. But
sun. w --
Maynard shlvered slightly, but not with
nrrow. .
' tomorrow’! prospective battle would
erhapa Hnally settle the aspect of the war
a n h B
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A dw
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n
2 last person
whom the curious lnqulrer would have dared
lo as . -
It wins the old story or a husband and
wife boih possessing unusually Mrong and
‘gm is tel" he put away into the aepuinhre or the
past and over wrote the
[wig row-another
chzun of events which led to .‘Ia)'nlrd's
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Maynard returned one day.
woman etirne.
were punctuated “llh bluer tours of
man. en route (or England. he said or did
nothing extraordinary‘ He merely sat him-
:Itieti.:tr;:,‘1v;uaIg he Zfialr in
the nu. . t.-..i..‘i . L . 1 ,.
en > OJerhe;zd‘Ihe sky ‘With persistent effon Ma hard eventually‘
had blatchyhnd ering the :half succeeded; t, though uperiiciall un-
% and two or three drops at raln sp1ash- ‘umedv "1 NOW had 80 5 Mme d99P‘Yv and
Iwllltuice.
Bombay
n e e ar to arnv xac An-
mg. The 5 were latched and blurred
and all C untleciphs nbl ut he can
trivod to detach a llassibnate reiteration 0
her unzaiterin love tar him and 5. vitirul
o 5. 91:16 Maynard‘; ar>
‘ VVPII. steadily hewalked across the room
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3
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c
dealh hovering in
old (‘unL'9ntratloII of Will seemed in Alwy-
“I have fought my last fight. Renle,” he whispered. "we'll go home together.”
lance, and thoughts long repressed rose and
brain without hindrance‘
“Ina! had become of her, after all’! he
Eurpzed through his
wondered. 'Was sh de
a , or:
suddenly Maynard pulled himsei! up with
' he had reached the
the base
A start on ndmg that
rxtreme and or the camp. where
Dllnl was situated
h
K?:l(ll(-"he in the darkness around him.
e
ow. protracted moans or the wounded Immediate work rrwindied. as the previous
1900.
Long’ are the train had reached
horror the
- he
--Great 5&1!" he muttered, hoarsely, and
c s e.
when Maynard reacheli his tent he man).
we or tour uni hospital tents loomed up
an
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