The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22

low IN the Eleventh 1OrCnW1th. On, you
shouldn't see anything of her, sir! I'd
take good care of that. But" with sud-
den change of tone and manner,
wouldn't it be lovely, Fred?"
wouldn't what be lovely::" this pro-
round dissembler asks, though he knows
exactly what she is thinking.
"Why, to have her come and live with
us and marry in the regiment.
"She isn't very pretty" said the cap
tain doubtfully, but with the tact of a
Talleyrand ssTho boys might not adj
mire her when Mrs. Lane was along
side"
"Now, Fred!' exclaims Mistress Ma
bel, provoked and pleased at once.
'You know her eyes are glorious"
Hum! Passably-when animated"
"When isn't she animated? She al
ways enters into everything so heartily
She's SO full of fun and life. Why, she
would make the tdeal army wife, Fred
That girl can do anything"
"Then why condemn her to marrying
in the army, Mabel?'
But this question madam declines to
answer. She comes quickly around the
table, and with her arms about his neck
nestles her soft cheek against his bronzed
and weather beaten iowl, burrows under
the heavy mustache with her rosy lips,
and kisses him lovingly.
''Say l may, Fred" she whispers coax
ingly.
You may, dozen times over. 1
think l rather like it, he laughs, his
eyes beaming with delight.
''You stupid boy!" She is shaking
him now. ''Say I may write and tell
her to come right away. Reginald can
bring her as far as Kansas City as well
as not.
She'll spoil our tete-a-tetes."
''She won't. She'll be having her own
before she is here week. Besides, you're
getting tired of them already" She says
this, of course, to be contradicted, and is
promptly gratifed.
The trumpet is sounding first call"
and the captain is compelled to CO. ''Do
as you like, my darling" he gladly an.
swers. ''Any friend of yours is well
come, and-I think you might tell her
that passes from st. Louis will be forth
coming"
And now, barely two weeks later,
Georgia Marshall for the second time in
her life finds herself an inmate of an
..rmy garrison and living q 1.-the and
restful life after years of thankless toll,
She was not originally one of Mrs. Lanes
intimates in the home of their girlhood.
They had known each other as chill
dren, had gone to dancing school to-
gether but Mabel Vincent's set was
made up mainly from the young people
whose parents were wealthy, and Miss
Marshall's father had had to struggle
hard for the wherewithal to keep the
wolf from the door" She was only II
when compelled to shift for herself
Her mother had been taken from hel
years before She had been a loving
and devoted daughter to her sad faced
father, and had comforted and blessed
the humble home to which he had been
} forced to retire after some disaster
which had involved his savings. AND
here she worked and studied, and here
she gave herself up to the task of cheer
ing his declining years until the feeble
thread of his weary life snapped sudden
ly asunder and she was alone.
For few months she found a home
in the army in the household of a rela
tive stationed at the barracks near al
hand. But, being determined to launch
out for herself, she had sought the posi-
ton of teacher to the younger children
: of wealthy manufacturer and of com
panion to his wife This she had heli
for Il few years, sorely tried at times, ye
never complaining. She had ample op
portunity ut least to read, to study an(
!, to estimate, character. Indeed it wa:
her keen perceptions that brought abou
; the final rupture between herself ant
the wife of her employer, herself a dis
tant connection. 1t was in the days O
an early widowhood that Mrs. Lam
found herself SO frequently in Miss Mar
shalls company. During the winter tn
= young widow had spent in the south he
= mothers health was failing, and be
!, tween the invalid and Miss Marshal
= there had sprung up a friendship and in
:, timacy for which the daughter at thu
time could hardly account.
! But when letter after letter came, tell
:. ing how the girl managed to run owe
almost every day and spend an hour o
two reading aloud, and then when Mrs
= Vincent began to intrust much of he
y correspondence to these willing hands
. Mabel had LEANED to understand hoy
2 unselfsh was her devotion; and after he
s, mothers death there arose between thes
y two young women-the one widowed
y yet cherishing q new born love; til
;. other g wage worker and fancy free
!, firm friendship, which gained strengt
: with every month. 1t was to Georgi
. = Marshall that Mabel. sobbing with emo
u ton, had first confded the news of he
# engagement to Capt. Lane, and wa
n amazed, yet rejoiced, at the fervor wit
4 which her friend had received the tic
n ings. cat last!' she cried. ooh, al
4 SO thankful! He has loved you so trul
3 so long,
n And so, when from brother Reginald
IF letter Mrs. Lane read the story {
a Georgia Marshall's final difference wit
> her employers, no time was lost in d,
! handing that she should come to the
# army home for what Mabel termed
10 good long rest. She was determine
# that Georgia should have just as good
o. time, Just as much attention, Just
Ie many devotees as any girl that eve
= turned the heads of the bachelors of I'll
j. Eleventh. For the week preceding tt
"a. young lady's arrival she had been in
"a pulsively preparing the young fellow
= for Georoia'S coming and sounding hi