THE GIRL’S OWNPAPER
Vol. XX.—No. 1002.]
[Price One Penny.
MARCH 11, 1899.
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“OUR HERO.”
EASTER EGGS.
ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.
OUR PUZZLE POEM REPORT: IN PERILOUS TIMES.
THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS.
LESSONS FROM NATURE.
VARIETIES.
HIS GREAT REWARD.
CHRONICLES OF AN ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN RANCH.
THINGS IN SEASON, IN MARKET AND KITCHEN.
HIGH-CLASS SWEETMEATS.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
AN EMBROIDERED PIANOFORTE BACK.
A YOUTHFUL PIANIST.
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“OUR HERO.”
A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WAR NINETY YEARS AGO.
By AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the Dower House,” etc.
CHAPTER XXIV.
A BARRED WINDOW.
ow the nextfortnightpassed,Roy neverafterwardscould recall.Hewas sickand dazedwith theshock he hadhad, grievingfor WillPeirce, andall but hopeless.He had ceased tocare for food, and,though he sleptmuch, passinghours at a time inheavy doze, it wasnot the kind of sleepto rest him. Lifeat this time seemedawfully hard to live.Sometimes he envied little Will.
The Colonel, who had spoken to himthat day, spoke to him again often whenthey met in the yard; and Roy wasgrateful, but he could not rouse himself.He had lost all interest in what went onaround him. He hated the yard, and healways kept as far as possible from thespot where that terrible exposure hadtaken place.
His one longing was to know howthe other poor boys in the hospital were;but accounts in that direction wereuncertain and not to be relied upon.
About a fortnight later, one coldafternoon, he was leaning against thewall at the further end, hardly thinking,only drearily enduring. He bec