The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12


cuse for rendering a resignation. But /
when feel and know that am far more
soldier than can ever be anything else,
it all the more convinces me that nv
efforts belong now and for lifetime to
the nation that trained me and that I
have sworn to serve.
1.-THE dear ones at home know me best. |
it is true. The class in whose supposed
interests l hsse been so unjustly assailed,
it is also true, is very different from that
in which we move. But, in the broad
light of soldiers duty, neither the love
OF the one nor the unreasoning hate of
the other should swerve me- The hard
est knocks q soldier has to bear come
sometimes from the very men whom he
is sworn to defend. You would not
have me yield because of o singing
wound or two, nor would I be worthy of
your name if I faltered now. 1t is my
belief that, despite apparent apathy,
there is still north or south place in
the hearts of the people for every soldier
who seeks faithfully to serve them, and
in that faith-God helping mel shall
IOIiOW IllS Oll lloS5 10 Tie emu.
by Jupiteri' said Kenyon, as he
sprang to his feet and strobe e1citedly
up and down the room, ''isn't that
enough to make one damn the liberty of
the press, to think that month ago it
was holding up that fine fellow for
everything that was low and contempti-
BILE! Miss Marshall, if were Why,
she's gone!"
'Just stepped into the dining room a
moment" said Mrs. Lane promptly,
though her eyes were trimming. CHOW,
isn't that Mr.. Hearn all over?''
But Georgia Marshall had not gone
J into the dining room. Mabel found her
over at the end of the veranda gazing at
the distant night lights across the dark
and silent valley.
September came, and the Eleventh
would soon be on its homeward march.
Letters to the regiment made frequent
mention of old Kenyon's devotion to
Miss Marshall, and even Hearn had to
hear occasional bits of conversation that
told him that in quitting Ryan he had
abandoned the field to q rival But
when orders reached them there was
other news: Miss Marshall was to re-
turn to the east at once despite every
plea" wrote Mabel, ''she persists in it.,
and adamant is no more yielding than
is her determination. 1 am utterly
heartbroken, but cannot prevent it..
She has been making arrangements for
a new position of some kind for the last
six weeks, and she will leave before the
regiment gets back"
And when the Eleventh came march
ing into Ryan late in the month, and a
host of tanned and bearded troopers
rode in behind the band on its dancing
grays, Georgia Marshall had vanished
from the scene.
Presently Kenyon took long leave
and disappeared. Having it out with
his newspaper friends in Chicago" was
Martins suggestion. But the next thing
heard of him he had turned up in Gin
cinnati and Mabel knew well what that
meant, and waited with bated breath.
For month there came no further news
and then he was reported at st. Angus
tine, more Grabbed than ever.
"Then he, too, has been rejected" said
Mabel. And she was right. Kenyon
did not rejoin until long after the Christ
mas holidays.
Old Blauvelt by this time had been
sent before the retiring board, which
recommended him for permanent shelly
ing, and he was still on leave until the
needed vacancy should occur. Hearn
meantime remained in command of his
troop, no longer encountered by the
presence of Trooper Welsh, who had
been formally ''sent to Leavenworth. y
Corp. Brent had won his sergeant's
chevrons, and was looking forward to
examination for promotion.
Everything was going blithely at the
post, but for the sadness that seemed tc
have clouded one young soldiers life
and for the anxious look on MabA Laneh
face when Portia was asked for, as
Portia often was. Teaching children
all the fall and winter was telling Oh
her." wrote an old school friend, and
when April came she was reported i'll
though her own letters made no mention
of it. The family would move to theil
country seat in week, and she would
be so glad, she said, to see the trees anG
birds again.
The fret of May had come. TIT
, lovely suburbs of bustling city wer,
J shrouded in the richest, freshest green
, The sweet breath of the early summer
laden with the perfume of lilac ant
, honeysuckle and of myriad blossoms
was signing through the foliage of ;
park of grand old trees and ripping tn
, surface of grassy lawn. Robin ant
, bluebird, oriole and crested woodpecke
! flashed and fitted through the sunshine
+ now splashing in the basin of the fount
, ain, now chasing each other in chatter
. ing glee through the slanting light ant
shadow. The drone of beetle and hun
, of dragon fly fell soothingly on tn
drowsy ear.
;, The little knot of Jerseys browsing i
the paddock down the eastward slop
huddled together sleepily in a shade
. corner. The tennis court was deserted
a the mallets lay sprawled about tn
croquet ground, and a pair of Maltes
kittens that had been scampering abou
= playing hide and seek among the curran
= bushes, seemed at last overcome by tn
), dangerous spell in which all nature wa
hushed, and with the confidence of XII
y tenhood proceeded to Chamber into th
4 slowly swinging hammock, hung we
:. = back in the shade, wherein was reclinin
: tie one human being visible in the Ell
- tire picture-a tall girl with big dar
u eyes and wealth of somber braids {
= hair-a girl whose soft cheeks were a