Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-07-27
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or hoped to discover her. He almost stopped, smiled and made a courteous salute. The end of the meeting was that they exchanged few words. She asked him what he was reading, and he readily informed her that he was re- perusing letters from his mother in Ger many. He did not get them often, he sald, and was forced to read the old ones great ntany times This was all that passed at the present interview, but others of the same kind followed.
 Phyllis used to say that his English, though not good, was quite intelligible 10 her, so that their acquaintalsce was never hlndered by difficulties of speech. Whenever the subject became too deli cate, subtle or tender for such words of English as were at his command, the eyes no doubt helped out the tongue. and, though this was later on, the lips helped out the eyes Ill short, this &C., qualntance, unguardedly made and rash enough on their part, developed and ri- pened. Like Desdemona, she pitied him and learned his history.
 His name was Matthaus Tina, and Saarbruck his native town, where his mother was still living. His age was 22, and he had already risen to the grade of corporal, though he had not long been ln the army. Phyllis used to assert that no such refined or well educated young man could have been found in the ranks of the purely English regiments, some of these foreign soldiers having rather the graceful manner and presence of our native officers than of our rank and file.
 She by degrees learned from her for eign friend a circumstance about him. self and h comrades which Phyllis would least have expected of the York hussars So far from being as gay as it's uniform, the regiment was pervaded by a dreadful melancholy, chronic home sickness, which depressed many of the men to such an extent that they could hardly attend to their drill The worst sufferers were the younger soldiers who had not been over here long. They hated England and English life, they took no interest whatever in King George and his island kingdom, and they only wish SIL bO D6 JUL Ol 1b dilll ltNtt UO SSc It d1iy more. Their bodies were here, but their hearts and minds were always far away in their dear fatherland, of which brave men and stoical as they were in many ways-they would speak with tears ill their eyes. One of the worst of the sufferers from this home woe, as he called it in his own tongue, was Mat thaus Tina, whose dreamy musing na- ture felt the gloom of exile still more intensely from the fact that he had left lonely mother at home with nobody to cheer her.
 Though Phyllis, touched by all this, and interested in his history, did not dis dain her soldiers acquaintance, she de- e1ined, according to her own account at least, to permit the young man to over step the line of mere friendship for a long while-as long indeed as she con- sidered herself likely to become the pos session of another, though it is probable that she had lost her heart to Matthaus before she was herself aware. The stone wall of necessity made anything like in- timacy difficult, and he had never ven tured to come or to ask to come inside the garden, so that all their conversation had been eoyertly conducted across this boundary.