Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-11-29
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ant little affairs in
\NT which neither one
nor the other will
give in or acknowledge being in the
wrong, but thinks it the duty of the
other, equally blameless participant,
of course, to first say, II am sorry"
And it was their first quarrel, too.
Then he falls back on the old re-
sort and says, 81 am going to the
club" He gets his hat and coat and
is about to open the door to step out
when she half repents and asks him
not to go, but to stay at home with
her, sat least one evening in the week. ="
But he is either obstinate to her ap-
peal or does not hear her, for he closes
the door with bang and leaves her
alone, to return, perhaps at midnight,
perhaps at dawn. Then she takes the
usual course, throws herself on a
lounge and cries.
He goes directly to the club. There
he meet few of his friends and they
sit down for smoke. Thus they sit
for perhaps half an hour, when the
entrance of q rather fat individual
seems to create quite oommotion
among the smokers. He is besieged
on the right and left to come and join
them in their smoke and Robert Lang
don wonders who this rather stout in
II 1o
can be. 'Maior Hunt, one of the
most capital story tellers we have had
for some time" answers one of his
friends. in reply to a laughing query
from Langdon. "Wait until you hear
one of his stories; you will think SO,
too"
"Major, this is my friend Lang
don."
The Major has hardly made himself
comfortable before he is asked to to
tell one of his stories, and after a
while yields to the entreaties of the
crowd and begins:
''There is not an army post in the
country, or in the world, which has
not some little romance interviewer in
Its history. But one which I espe-
pecially remember is one in which
the faithfulness of woman, as l will
call it, played such an important part
as to fix the story in my mind for
ever.
'It was about five years ago, at a
Western fort, that this incident hap
pened. We had there young private
who came, 1 believe, from the some
where. Inever did find out exactly
forgotten his name now. He seemed
to be an Indifferent sort of fellow,
rarely joining the rest of the men in
their larks, and keeping pretty much
to himself. He was a handsom,
young man, too, nearly six feet
tall, if I remember correctly. 1t was
his mysterious manners which made us
wonder what he did with himself dur
ing his spare moments-that is, when
his time was not required by Uncle
Sam. We tried in vain to find out.
All that we could ever learn of him
was that he was always IN his mess
room during these intervals, and his
companion privates there said, He
reads and reads all the time, that's
all. Army life did not seem to agree
with him very much and we could not
see why he ever entered into it. Still
there was no one in the fort with
nerve enough to ask him the questions
we were SO anxious to have answered.
He wns the one mystery of the fort.
Perhaps you will wonder why we Off
GERS should take any interest in q
common private, but before am
through you will see who that was.
"What was also mystery to us was
how he had managed to become we'll
enough acquainted with the quarter
masters daughter to be seen occasion
ally out walking with her. Her name,
you must remember distinctly, is
Genevieve Hutle. She was the belle
of the fort. do not believe to this
day that there was hardly man in
that fort at that time who would not
have stood even Indian torture if she
had so wished-but don't be alarmed,
gentlemen. No such thought would
ever have entered that girls mind.
And then she was very beautiful. Per-
haps this had something to do with it.
Those among us who had been sick
had especial reasons for feeling CRATE
ful to her. for as soon as she heard OF
case of sickness she seemed to be on
pins and needles until she received
consent from her father to nurse the
sick one, whether he was officer or
private. In truth, her kindness and
charitableness to all made adorers ont
of half the men in the fort, and the
other half were dead in lovo with her.
"Now to get down to the story. One
day there camo the announcement
that the Indians had gone on the war