The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-12

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after Fleming. u c1uuseleI aim not &c
sraak lint he nas the best If II now. Let
| -trs from home Aes. we've al glad 70 Re.
tgerl-ab. very = al no doubt, most II US,
hut dau..tell me Hugh wouldn't give UP al.
his e:r--s from home, aud the IS hole cor
resoo1tsnca Of the regiment = boot Tor
that one letter he's exueC ing from Ne4.
Ivudea I hope the young u Ill come
through all sale. ami after last night 1t
does seem as il providence was watching
es1eelAliy over him. ] fancy he was right
~. u take my advice
AID il one M snt jll ge from Hugh's face
as b. PASSED lew minutes later WIN an
open letter in MS hand, Byng was right IN
his conclusion,
Few things could have been more harass-
ing to @ romantic and imaginative young
woman II those days than to discover tia:
,ha h,.i Jet her heart 70 out Of her keeping
before she was aware 4 II, u be uncertain
Nhe.l.r her feelings W r. IecIDrocatsd or
not, AM that Should the man wac had won
har affections sail for the east without max
ing auv awowal was hard.
Frances Smerd3 IN was in this position,
and all Nell Lynden's burs: Of girish conf
deaces about her love dream were gall and
worm wood to her friend, "Detests0le
gush, =" Frances Snsrioa called Il and re-
venged herself by saying tie most spltefll
things Of the regiment collectively, which
were intended 20 be repeated Tor the benefit
Of the one individual y no was the object of
both her love and her hate. But when
with the sprlngtlme, came the news thaethe
fighting had begun again, and also that the
regiment tad reached the Crimea, Frances
Sme-don's heart began to quail and soften.
She could not speak bitterly of men she had
known we'll but short time ago, and tho
flash Of whose lives she might see an
uounced in any morning paper There was
one man she hated, there was one man she
declare she would never speak to again.
h could not have been blind to her love.
He must have despised II, she would never.
never, never-and then this inconsistent
young lady would burst into a flood of
tears, AMI only wish she could write a long
letter TO him.
III be had only given me some excuse be-
fore he left" she moaned, but l suppose
even if he was seriously wounded it would
be an awful thing for me to write to him.
AS for Nell, | could box her ears, could,
for gushing TO me about her love when she
knows I'm so unhappy"
Now this was exactly what Miss Lyuden
did not know. Her own love affair had
probably prevented her noticing her
friends weakness, though women seldom
succeed in keeping each other in the dark on
such points Men, as a rule, are slow 70
recognize a leaning in their favor. 1t
might be that, but whether from policy or
from a mistaken estimate of his chances,
Tom Byng sailed for the east without utter
ing word to Frances Smerdon that could
be CO strued into anything more than adj
miration. But what did puzzle Miss Lynn
den much was the change that had come
over her friend. 1t was the one girhsh
friendship, remember, she had ever made,
and that Frances should not sympathize aud
rejoice with her in the tioOd-tide of her first
love grieved the girl sorely She so crayed
for woman's sympathy In her passionate
dream, for some one to talk with CT her hopes.
of her fears-and women had TOO many of
those latter to battle WITH in love born in
such troublous times,
She could lot understand it-Frances
seemed to have changed completely. she
was witty and sarcastic about things gem
orally; she laughed at Nell about her
'spoonisnness;' told her she could not hope
to keep her soldier wrapped in cotton wool
when shot and shell were flying about and
that she needn't be afraid, IL was pea 1eful
regiment, and all would be over before they
got there. Angry though they made her,
Nell felt that there was a hardness and bic
terness in Frapces letters that had no
genuine ring in it and then, much to her
amazement, Miss Snerdon's letters suddenly
completely altered in tone. and her inquiries
after the til became both courteous and
pressing.
AS we know, whether the man she loves is
in danger, or whether he is merely passing a
lively winter in a pleasant place, make "a
good deal of difference in the expression of
a womans sentiments under Miss Smerdon7s
peculiar circumstances.
The camp was rich in "shavesN that
bright spring weather. Men seemed to
have shaken off the torpidity of the winter,
both mentally and bodily, and. wondrous
we're the runors of what the Fl ench were
dong, and we were going TO do, and even
what tie Russians might be expected to do.
Men began to move about amongst the
lines, and the half-starved garrows OF
ponies, that had passed the winter in PAIN
fully roiling with such Injuries as their
masters could lay hold of between
Balaklava aud the front, waxed fat in the
ribs and sleep in the coat Barley was
plentiful, aud they no longer stood SILVER
ing at their picket pegs, with their quarters
turned to the cold blasts of the Steppes
Enterprising settlers erected stores on the
way TO the front. and sweet champagne, du
blous brandy, aud all descriptions OF time.
delicacies became no longer scarce, anc
we're 60 be had on comparatively reasonabl,
terms.
A few days after the taking of tn
Quarries a group of officers might hav
been seen louugi.g on the WoronZoff rCa,
JUS at tire pc MT where three or four track
| 1t would have been absurd to descrlb
them as anything more-branched off tn,
main road IN various directions across th,
| plateau, sufficiently confusing, except to th
initiated. Take the one to the right, for in
stance, and an hour or two's easy ridin
!
! Of Inkermann, and eventuate in your Ger
tainly getting inside SeDastopol befor
morning as prisoner. The laughing kno
| of officers were OF all branches of tue ser
vice, but there were a good many of tn
| til among them. a fresh regiment baC
arrived at Balaklava that morning and wa
TO march up to the front that afternoon.
Nov the regiment in question was what
termed a sister corps of the til, which be
ing interpreted means taat the two corp
had been quartered, or as the soldiers tern
it lain together" 10 several places, aud tina
| the officers and men had cordially fratel
nized and knew eacn other well. The men
as g rule, showed their qualification g
meeting BY be ng slightly the worse 70
| liquor, late for tattoo, and eXchaugin
! forage caps. than which latter nvsteriou
ceremony none are SO significant Of friend
ship and good will In the eyes Of the Britis
soldier. The officers usually celebrate,
their reunion by an interchange Of dinner;
in which they would sing the old songs, an
| prolong the festivities far into the night
| Moreover, as it was known that the sam
regiment had a draft Of te til at
tached 20 it, the latter had sent their drum
and flies to meet the newcomers at thl
point il the road, and from thence play Their
into camp
Not much Of band you know" sal