Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-11

1 e'Na t.iiih you tell ner
Chat passes from st. Louis will be forth
coming
And now, barely two weeks later,
Georgia Marshall for the second time in
ner life finds herself an inmate of an
army garrison and living a blithe ans
restful life after years of thankless toll.
She was not originally one of Mrs. Lanes
Intlmates in the home of their girlhood.
They had known each other as chill
dren, had gone to dancing school to-
Sether, but Mabel Vincent's "set" was
made up mainly from the young people
whose parents were wealthy, and Miss
MarshalPs 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.
tier mother had been taken from her
years before. She had been a loving
and devoted daughter to her sad faced
rather 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 home
In the army in the household of a rela-
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
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panlon TO his wife. This she had held
tor few years, sorely tried at times, vet
never complaining She had ample op-
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
the wife of her employer, herself a dis
tant connection. 1t was in the DAYS of
an early widowhoOd that Mrs. Lane
found herself so frequently in Miss Mar
shalls company. During the winter the
young widow had spent in the south her
mothers health was failing. and be-
tween the invalid and Miss Marshall
| there had sprung up a friendship and in
timacy 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 aloud, and 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 a new born love: the
other wage worker and fancy free-a
| firm friendship, which gained strength
with every month. 1t was to Georgia
Marshall that Mabel, sobbing with emo
| ton, had first confided the news of her
engagement to Capt. Lane, and was
amazed, yet rejoiced, at the fervor with
which her friend had received the It'd
ings. AT last!" she cried ''Oh, am
so thankful! He has loved you SO truly
so longr
And so, when from brother Reginald's
letter Mrs. Lane read the story of
Georgia Marshalls final difference with
her employers, no time was lost in de-
handing that she should come to their
army home for what Mabel termed a
good long rest. She was determined
that Georgia should have Just as good a
time, lust as much attention, lust as
many devotees rs any girl that ever
turned the heads of the bachelors of the
Eleventh. For the week preceding the
young lady's arrival she had been i'm
pulsively preparing the young fellows
for Georgia's coming and sounding her
| praises TO many listening ear Who
would not listen to those pretty lips?
| And therefore there was distinct sense
| Of disappointment among the subalterns
when that much landed damsel stepped
| from the train at the little station and
was rapturously enfolled to Mabers
| heart
Jim Wallace, who was Hearn's especial
chum, and Lay Lee declared that
the new arrival was plain as pipe stem,
except that her hands and feet were par
| ticularly slender and shapely And Mr..
| Martin, som thing of Connoisseur, de
CARED that her eyes We're the only re-
| deeming feature of her face But these
gentlemen had seen her only at the sta
ton the afternoon of her arrival after n
dusty ride; and Hearn himself, being
officer Of the guard, was not presented
until the following day That evening
however, he was her escort TO the little
gathering at the colonel's, and was far
from content that she did not second
the cordial invitation extended by Capt
and Mrs. Lane to come in and chat
a while
But now, three days after her advent,
as she comes down to the pretty break
fast room, drinking in the soft balmy
ar that floats through the open window.
Georgia Marshalls face is by no means
plain. Her eyes are deep, dark, full of
intelligence and life Her mouth is
large, but her teeth are pearly white and
beautifully regular The instant she
speaks or smiles there Is TRANSPORTATION
in her looks. and her manner is all nm
affected grace and gladness Mabel
raises her sweet face to meet the warm
good morning kiss The captain laws
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