Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-29
AN ARMY PORTIA.
By CHARLES KING, o. s. A.,
author Of THE COlOncrS Daughter" "THs
Deserter, - From the Ranks" Dun
TdUeH RdaCh," "TtUO Soldiers"

TUOCH LAhtCVi IUO DDtutGIS,
copyright, 1890, by J. B. Lippncott Company
Philadelphia and published by special Arrange
ment with themJ
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 hogan to intrust much of her
correspondence to these willing hands,
Mabel had learned to understand how
unselfsh was her devotion: and after her
mothers death there arose between these
two young wOmen-the one widowed,
vet cherishing 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 confded the news of her
engagement 10 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
50 thankful. He has loved you SO truly
so long
And so. when from brother Reginald's
letter Mrs. Lane read the story OF
Georgia MMshall's final difference with
her employers, no time was lost i'll de-
handing that she should come to their
army home for what Mabel termed Il
good long rest. She was determined
that Georgia should have Just as good a
time, Just as much attention, just as
many devotees as any girl that ever
turned the heads of the bachelors OF the
Eleventh. For the week preceding the
Young Iadys arrival she had been i'm
pulsively preparing the young fellows
for Georgia's coming and sounding her
praises TO many a listening ear. Who
would not listen to those pretty lips:
And therefore there was distinct sense
of disappointment among the subalterns
when that much lauded damsel stepped
from the train at the little station and
was rapturously EMBODIED to Mabels
heart.
Jim Wallace who was Hearn'S especial
chum. and Lazy" Lee declared that
the new arrival was plain as Il pipe stem,
except that her hands and feet were par
ticularly slender and shapely. And Mr.
Martin, something of IL cOnnOisseur, de
:lared ;hat her eyes We're the only re-
leeming feature Of her face. But these
gentlemen had seen her only at the sta
ton the afternoon of her arrival after a
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
,,+ +In for
from content that she did not second
the cordial invitation extended by Capt
and Mrs. Lane TO come in and chat
while.
But now, three days after her advent,
as she comes down to the pretty break
fast room. drinking in the soft balny
mir that floats through the open window,
Georgia MarShall's face is by no means
plain. Her eyes are deep, dark, full of
intelligence and life. Her mouth is
large, but Der teeth are pearly white and
beautifully regular. The instant she
speaks or smiles there Is TRANSFORMATION
in her looks, and her manner is all I'M
affected grace and gladness Mabel
raises her sweet face to meet the warm
good morning kiss The captain lays
down the letter he is coming over and
the perpleXed expression vanishes as he
cordially greets her:
well, and how did the heroine of
Fort Ryan rest last night"
For every one, it seems, is talking of
her pluck and promptitude-of the odd
ity of the thing that she, new arrival,
should have been the only one to hear
the brief colloquy between that I'M
known ruffian and the corporal of the
guard. that she should have been the
first to reach and succor the still sense
less soldier. Brent