The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-11-24

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from the room, but she did not hear.
'sHe-he dared to speak of Schramm!"
she cried, :'of Schramm. who-who is
truer gentleman-truer hero-than any
-any-any officer they've got.
And the shadowy form striving to
ind means of exit from the tiny den in
which reclined the invalid and his
clasping, sobbing child was that of
Sergt. Maj. Schramm, who, all unno-
ticed and unseen by her, was thus be-
come the nearer of his own Projections.
Renshaw's hapless outburst had proved
his own undoing and swept away the
last barrier to his rivals approach
THE least he can do is to wait till he
gets his commission" indeed! After
Connie outburst it was more than NOR
tai man could do to wait at all.
I'ENvoI
1t seems very long ago, that bit
ter winter in the heart Of the Rockies,
yet one of the old regiment, enjoying
with his wife and children the first
blissful taste Of foreign travel, stood
one exquisite summer morning on the
forward deck of the oddly-modeled
''dampfer" that was churning the blue
brown Acod Of the Rhine, and thus re-
piled to the query of his better half:
know her? Why, you'll know her
instantly. Connie can never grow old.'
Yes, rounded indeed is the sweet face
OF the woman standing with her sol
dierly husband close to the railing of
| ~, In f,,f
clad heights ahead, her soft brown eyes
fixed in eagerness upon the approach
ing steamer. The slender form we
knew in the shabby old black serge is
almost majestic in its proportions now,
yet how fair and sweet and smiling is
the DEAR loonny face once SO piteously
sad amid the SHOWS of far-away Ran
som! Happy wife and mother-the
idol Of her soldier-husband' heart
the ''gnadige Fraulein" whom he won
in distant America long years ago had
speedily found her way into the love
of the old retainers Of the ancestral
home to which, summoned to succeed
the stern old father whose last words
and thoughts were for his banished
son, he bore her SO soon after the
last volley was fred over Morgan's
head as they laid him. away as he
had prayed, by Carries side. He died
without lingering fear for the chill
dren's future, one hand clasped in
faithful Schramm's. The cornn1ission
had indeed been rendered, but grace
fully, courteously declined because Of
family duties at his old home In this
ia bled Rhineland. Again he wears the
uniform Of his famous corps, all the
better officer for his experience IN the
American cavalry. Already Lottie had
cut a wide swath among the bachelor
subalterns of the hussars before finally
bestowing heart and hand and a
Schram1n- provided dot upon a totally
different party, though an e1ninently
sound one Already Billy has won dis
tinction las a skylarker and schlager
and all-round scapegrace) at Heidel-
berg, where he sports a yellow cap and
a lnonocle, straggly n1ustache, and
some ridiculous slashing sears, of all of
which he is Unfortunately vain, aud with
genuine American enthusiasm he pratt
ties Of my hrother-in-l law. the baron,"
who laughs at his stories. chaffs him
about his duels, quizzes him as to his
scientific attain1nents (for Billy, be it
known. is going back to America this
fall to Offer his services to capitalists
as an expert mining engineer, and says
for the first year a salary CT FIVE thou
sand dollars Will do); but Herr Graf
pays his debts and provides his pocket
money, and the only secrets Connie
does not share are those concerning
her hopeful brother and his affairs. AS
for Connie herself, she is happy as the
years are long, happy as even au army
girl deserves to be.
THE END.