Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-06-22


when isl'o $40 &ua-ateo' She AZ
ways enters into everything SO heafulS'
She's so full OF fun Gnd life. why, she
would make the ide"l army wife, freq.
That girl can do anything.
Then why condemn her to marrying
in the army, 1IaoeE"
But this question madam declines To
answer. She comes quickly around inc
table. and with her arms about his neck
nestles her soft cheek against his bronzed
and weather beaten Jowl, burrows under
the heavy mustache with her rosy lips.
and kisses him lovingly.
Say may, Fred, she whispers coax
ingly.
You may, dozen times over
think | rather like it. he laughs, MS
eyes beaming with delight.
You stupid boy She Is shaking
him now. "Say [ may write and tell
her to come right away. Reginald can
bring her as far as Kansas City AS well
as not.
She'll spoil our tete-a-tetes.
"She won't. She'll be having her own
before she - here week. Besides, you're
getting tired of them already" She says
this. of course, to be &C ntradicted, and Is
promptly gratitied.
The trumpet is sounding first call,
and the captain is compelled to go. 10
as you like, my darling he gladly an
swers. ANY friend of yours is wei
come. and think you might tell her
that passes from st. Louis will be forth
coming.
And now. barely two weeks later,
Georgia Marshall for the second time III
her life finds herself an inmate OF an
army garrison and living blithe an
restful life after years of thankless toll
She was not originally one Of Mrs. Lane
intimates in the home of their glrlhood.
They had known each other as chill
dren had gone TO dancing school to-
gether. but Mabel Nincents set was
made up mainly from the young people
whose parents were wealthy. and MISS
Marshall's father had had to struggle
hard for the WHEREIN thal to keep the
wolf from the door. She was only II
when compelled to shift for herself.
Her mother bad been taken from her
years before. She had been loving
and devoted daughter to her sad faced
father. 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
" asunder and she WAS alone.
For IL few months she found home
in the army IN the household of rcla-
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 tn" Younger children
of a wealthy manufacturer and of com
panion to his wife This she had held
for IA few years, sorely tried at times, yet
never complaining. She had ample OPP
portunity at least to read. TO study anC
to estimate character. Indeed it was
her keen perceptions that brought about
the final rupture between herself ami
the wife of her employer, herself n 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.