San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-22

shouldn't see anything of her, SRI &c
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-
found disssmbler 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. The boys might rot I'd
mire her when Mrs. Lane was along
side"
Now, Fred!" exc!aims 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 ideal 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 necl;
nestles her soft cheek against his bronzed
and weather beaten iowl, burrows under
'i22 heavy lnustache with her rosy lips.
and kisses him lovingly
Say may. Fred" she whispers coax
ingly.
You may, dozen times over.
think | rather like it, he laughs, his
eyes beaming with delight.
You stupid boy" She is shaking
him now. Say | may write and tell
her to come right away. Reginald can
bring her as far as Kansas City as well
rs not.
Shell 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 go. $40
as you ike, my darling" he gladly ar
swers. Any friend of yours is well
come, and think you might tell her
that passes from st. Louis will be forth
coming"
And row, barely two weeks later.
Georgia Marshall for the second time in
her life finds herself an inmate Of an
army garrison and living a blithe and
resttul 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 Vincents ''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 whorewithal to keep the
wolf from the door" She was only II
when compelled to shift for herself.
Her mother had been taken from her
years before. she had been loving
and devoted daughter to her sad faced
father, and had comforted and blessed
the humble home 10 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 ana she was alone.
For few months she found home
in the army in the household of a rcla-
tive stationed at the barracks near at
hand. But, being determined to launch
out for herself, she had sought the posi-
ton Of teacher to the younger children
OF a wealthy manufacturer and of COM
paniOn to his wife. This she had held
for few years, sorely tried at times, yet
never complaining She had ample OPP
portunity at least to read, to study and
to estimate character. Indeed it was
her keen perceptions that brought about
the final rupture between herself and
tn wife Of her employer. herself 4 dis
TAFT connections 1t was il the days of
81 early widUWMC2l that Mrs Lane
fc.nd herself so frequently in Miss Mar
SHALL; co2lyGny. During the winter the
Young willow had spent i'll the south her
mothers health was failing, and be
tween the invalid and Miss Marshall
there Ind sprung up Il friendship and in
tima.y for which the daughter at the
time could hardly account
But when letter AFTER letter came. tell
ing how the girl managed to run over
almost every day and spend an hour or
two reading alcud, ana then when Mrs.
Vincent began to intrust much of her
correspondence to these willing hands,
Mabel had learned to understand how
unselfish was her devotion; and after her
mothers death there arose between these
two young women-the one widowed.
yet cherishing new bora lows. the