| HOW REDDY GAINED HIS COMMISSION. |
| AT THE SEA-SIDE. |
| GREAT MEN'S SONS. |
| OAKLEIGH. |
| THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG OF IT. |
| MAY BE SO. |
| THE PUDDING STICK |
| ON BOARD THE ARK. |
| INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORT |
| STAMPS |
| BICYCLING |
| THE CAMERA CLUB |
Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers. All Rights Reserved.
| PUBLISHED WEEKLY. | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1895. | FIVE CENTS A COPY. |
| VOL. XVI.—NO. 828. | TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. |
HOW REDDY GAINED HIS COMMISSION.
BY CAPTAIN CHARLES A. CURTIS, U.S.A.
Part I.
Guard-mounting was over. The commanding officer in the Adjutant's officewas occupied with the daily routine business of a frontier post. Attables near him sat the Post-Adjutant, the acting Sergeant-Major, and asoldier clerk, writing and making up the semi-weekly mail for thepost-office beyond the neighboring river.
Upon a bench outside the door, serving his tour as office orderly,lounged a boy musician. He leaned listlessly against the wall of thebuilding, apparently oblivious to the grandeur of the views around him.To the south, across an undulating plain, seventy miles away, were thetwin Spanish Peaks. To the west, the Cuerno Verde range let itself downto the plain by a succession of lesser elevations, terminating inrounded foot-hills, forty miles distant. Eighty miles to the northwestthe forest and granite clad form of Pikes Peak towered in majesty.
The fort was occupied by a troop of cavalry and a company of infantry,the Captain of the infantry being in command. This officer was nowattaching his signature to various military documen