The Red Cloud chief., 1879-06-26

ed into his blood" he must have {
hand In this himself. A man must be
long somewhere. So he coolly inform
ed DIR. Green one day that he bad en-
listed, he was going to fight for hi,
shouldcr-strAps. GAS for my diploma
LII wait awile for that"
The Doctor told him he was mad, and
urged him at least to wait q year. Bu
much rocked John; it is . waste O
words to answer q young man except
according 10 his folly. John was ar
ardent soldier by this time. He hac
come to America TO seek bis fortune
perhaps the way to it lay along the path
Of glory.
When he came to bid lilly good-by,
she burst out crying. That settled the
question as to their n If farewell
He took her in his arms and kissed bel
repeatedly. This was decidedly wrong
decidedly imprudent, although they
were only afectiOnste, brotherly kisses,
Miss Rosie came in as he released her
"Well, Matilda Green!" she cried,
with an information that meant any thing
but well. But lilly was too heart-brO.
ken to extenuate her cOndact. She left
that to John, who said, gOod-naturedly,
you'll give me q kiss too, won't you,
Miss Rosie? Remember you may never
see me again."
And he actually kissed her too. He
wanted to put it out Of her power TO
tease poor lilly. She had been guilty
of the same improperly herself.
Poor lilly was wretched, wretched,
after he was gon But she was buOyed
up by hopes and visions. She had q
brave picture, too, of John, which he
sent her when he was made a Lieuten-
ant. oh, how proud she was when that
came! She felt that she was Lighting the
battles of her country.
She neverfOrgot that speech of JOhu's
about improving her mind. She tried
hard to do so. Her favoIite method
was the composition of letters to John,
which were lever sent, in the course OF
which she would laboriously hunt Gu,
in the dictionary nearly all the words
she wanted to use, to insure their cor
rect spelling. She also endeavOred to
find time to read snch light literature as
was contained in the weekly paper Of the
household. She read the love stories,
to be sure, with an especial zest apart
from their purpose as educators. They
struck q kindred chord.
One day John Leonard received in
camp a copy of this same paper-the
Woodbridge NeUs. 1t contained q
marked paragraph. "Good gracious!'
he said, reading it, "old Green's dead,
How fearfully student"
His particular chum, Lieutenant Phi
Ross, was standing by. This gentleman
was a cOrmorant of facts "a trait which
the thoughtless are apt to confound
with curiosity; but I contend that there
is a difference between inquisitiveness
and acQuisitiveness. MIR. Ross stretched
out his hand for the paper.
"Old GreenP Hum! ah, yes-Dr.
Green! BY Jvve! sPhilbrick Green,
formerly of Greenbrier, New York. i
knew the man. hail from Greenbriel
myself. So he has turned up again, has
he? Woodbridge, Rockland County,
Pennsylvania An excellent place t.
be buried alive in. Been in Wood.
bridge, Ell? What ever took you there?'
81 studied medicine in DIR. Green's
office. There was an excellent opening
for a country practice"
"Let me see; he had two daughters
Rosie and POsie."
"Three."
"The third was only an adopted
daughter. She accounts for my inter.
est in him. Her mother was a distan,
cousin of mine. Left a widow with
three children; utterly destitute. Sew.
ed for her living. The Greens took a
fancy to her little lilly, and offered to
take her off her hands. She agreed,
rather than let the child starve. The
Greens moved away shortly afterward.
The last time l was in Greenbrier q
run up there every summer to see my
mother) l found that my cousin had
married-a very well-tO-do man too.
Her other children had died meanwhile,
and she had set her heart on retaining
lilly. Her husband had made inqui-
ries for DR.. Green, but to no purpose.
He had made two or three moves since
leaving Greenbrier, and no one knew
where he had moved to last. My
cousin was fretting herself sick. Ican't
say that l pitied her as much as though
she had not given up her child of her
own free will. to begin with. 1t always
seemed an unmotherly thing to me.
And here l have suddenly unearthed
the grill"
LUCKILY enough for her," John
opined. "Rosie and Posie will lead
her a life of it, l dare say. They'll
have it all their " way now, and q
very unpleasant way it is, as l happen
to know"
"Had old Green, as you call him, any
money!"
"Should say he had. hope he has
left lilly her share of it. She will get
nothing by favor from those two close.
listed old maids that does not come to
her by right"
"In write to her mother this very
"And I'll write to lilly" John ad-
ded.
He wrote to the mother too; he SEEM
so anxious, as Phil siid, to have his
finger in every corner of the pie, that
Phil waived his rights of previous &C.
quaintanceship and permitted his friend
to make the disclosures to Mrs Eaton,
Phil c~ontenting himself with in
a few lines to his cousin-in-
dorsing Johns moral character i'm that
young mans own words.
Speedily came the answer. A very
i~ncoherent, agitated, short little note
from lilly, so badly penned and express
ed as to be almost illegible and unintel-
But John made out from it
that she was very unhappy, and would
hail any change with joy. Mrs. Eaton's
missive was blotted with tears. She had
evidently q talent for letter-writing, that
is, Cor the writing of letters considered
as essays. This one invoked blessings
upon Johns head. II referred to the
writer's past sorrowful life. It was q
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