San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-31

nose tnar All was pam sanlng, Danny
breezes. sun kissed wavelets, ETC., just
when nothing should have stood in the
way of Mr. Hearn's rejoicing with all his
heart, and just when the course of his
true love ought to have been smooth and
sweet, the very impof perversity seemed
to have suddenly developed in Georgia
Marshall's breast, and she who had done
so much to clear his name of "the clouds
that lc gered over" it, and had for two
weeks been the young soldiers most val
ued friend and ally, now most unaccount-
ably held aloof and fairly Stunned his so
ciety. She met him only in crowd. She
simply would not meet him alone On one
pretext or another she avoided him, and
poor Hearn, wounded, utterly unable to
account for this sudden change, utterly
incapable of fathoming woman's within,
was now plunged in the depths of dis
tress exceeding that from which he had
| Just emerged. She had rescued him
from the tolls only to plunge him into
worse ENHANCEMENT.
1t was the fourth day after the ad
journment of the court when Maj. Ken
yon came to Mr.. Hearn's rooms with
! telegram Just received from division
headquarters, and found that young gen
tleman dejectedly reading a long letter
in the handwriting of Judge Hearn, his
father. Kenyon had grown to know it
well. Released from arrest, lad! That
means you can go and join the regiment
as soon as you like. What does the
judge say now"
"Read that page was the answer, as
Hearn placed the letter in the majors
hand. And with knitted brows Kenyon
read as follows:
"And now again urge upon you. my
son, the step SO earnestly counseled in
my last. Maj. Kenyon's telegram just
received says that your acquittal is as
sured and that your vindication is tri-
umphant. This felt would be the case.
But what PREPARATION have you for the
wrongs and insults heaped upon you by
the northern press? What proportion of
the people who have had you portrayed
to them as a low bully, drunken brute,
and a swindler will ever know the con-
trary? What paper that has vilifed you
will have the decency or the courage,
now that it knows the truth, to make
the faintest amends? Not one. -. .i.
"The time has come for you now to
quit at once and for all profession
which the people Of the north SO little
and SO persistently decry. i
am aging fast, and shall be glad to have
your strong arm to lean upon, A year
or two in my Office will fit you for the
bar. Meantime you can have nearly |
double the income that the government
pays you, and when am gone all have,
practically, will be yours. Come back |
to us, my boy; come to the mother, the |
father, and the people who love you;
come home to us who know and need
you; You are not wanted where you are" |
For some time Maj. Kenyon stood in
silence. AT last, seeing that he was sx-
pected to express his opinion, he slowly |
spoke: ... l..... .r
Il feared that that first letter would |
come, and might have known that this
would follow. When will you answer
>"Not just yet. must think it over
Not-not until after tonight, anyway"
That evening Mrs. Morris insisted
upon everybody's coming to her house
''to celebrate" The news that Hearn
had been released by Geographic orders
was all over the post in half an hour, and
that he would start to rejoin the regi-
ment in the field was of course a fore
gone conclusion. Only, said that all i'm
portant parsonage referred to generally
as "everybody"-only he will probably
want to delay a little while on Miss Mar
shalls account, for if they are not al
ready engaged it is solely her fault. Any
one can see he is utterly in love with her, /
Once in while Everybody" makes a
This time Everybody was
right. No one more thor
oughly than HeaTn himself knew how
utterly he was in love with Georgia
Marshall, and nobody but Kenyon knew
that, yielding to the plea in his fathers
letter, Hearn might not return to the
regiment at all.
1t was joyous gathering at the Nor
rises, and yet there had been singular
conversion at the Lanes before Mabel
could induce her friend to go at all.
"Mr. Hearn will certainly come and
ask to be your escort, said Mabel the
moment Mrs. Morris was gone. How
can you say no."
HE will ask you, Mabel, as / shall
not be visible, and you must accept. If
you will walk over there and back with
Mr.. Hearn, I will go; otherwise l shall
have splitting headache and be confined |
to my room.