The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01

guardian sister that She had only
mild interest in Latrobe. she was really
losing or had lost her heart to him. and
in every way I'M her power was striving
10 conceal the fact from Margaret. and
Yet meet her lover att hours when she
thought i'll possible to do 50 wsthouL
discovery. AS the friendship Strength
ened between himself and Latrobe they
began using him as Cupid's postman.
ana many little notes. and some big one
found their way I'd and from the Fourth
division Of cadet barracks. Mrs. Frank
was only moderately Kind to her
civilian adoreT then. granting him
only one dance at each hop, and going
much with other men, but that dance
was worth seeing. Primes was the
Eonly black Claw hammer in the rooms
and therefore conspicuous and cadets
who know good thing when they see
Stand many a pretty girl partner.
would draw aside to watch the perfec-
4 ton Of their step and the exquisite ease
with which they seTnedA To float through
Espaces circIing and reversing and Wind
| ing among the other dancers. he ever
alert watchfuI: quick as a cat and
Ehthe and strong as a panther-she all
yielding lissome airy grace. That dance
was GOV Primes reward. and almost
only reward for hours OF impatient
k waiting. Other women. charming and
4 pretty and better women. would gladly
( have been his partners. Some two or
three whom he had met ait the hotel
even intimated as much. But not until
Lady Garrison told him he must-to
i protect her from scandaI-did he ask
4 another to dance. At last came the end
\ Of the summers encampment, the re-
turn of the corps TO barracks and stu
dies, one bllssfuI week in which he was
| enabled to spend several uninterrupted
| hours each day at her side. and then u
EcatacIysm. A letter intended only for
| Nita's hands fell into those Of her sis
I ter. IT was bulky. 1t was from La
| trobe. She hesitated only a moment.
| then, with determination in her eyes,
opened and Tead-all. Two days after
Nita was whiSked away to New York.
/ and. within another week. leaving two
most disconsolate SWANS on the
| Hudson. the sisters, one of them bathed
| in tears. went spinning. away to the
west, where Frank Garrison was on
duty at department headquarters
Prime was permitted to write once q
fortnight The sent a T0lumel, and La
trobe forbidden, but already the poor
boy owned a thick packet of precious
imissives. all breathing fond love and
promising utter coustancy, though she
had to wait for him for years. For q
month Nita would hardly speak to her
sister, but in October there were lovely
drives nj enics and gayaties of all kinds.
There were attractive young officers
and assiduous old ones. and among
these latter was Frost. with his hand
some gray mustIcne and distinguished
bearing, and that air of conscious sue
cess and possession which some men
know so we'll how to assume, even when
their chances are Simmer than nay
Iady's hand. The sisteTly breach was
healed before that beautiful month
was over. Frost dfned at the Garrf-
sons' four times week and drove Miss
Nita behind his handsome bays every
Iday or two. In November there was
am announcement that called forth
score of congratulations around head
quarters, and in January the wedding
cards went all over the UniOTf-SOme 90
West Point, but to LatTobe, who had
been looking i'll and anxious FOR SIX
weeks said his classmates. ana IaHIlhS
off fearfully in his studies, SAID MS pro-
fessors, only a brief note, incloSing MS
letters and begging for hers AT re-
veiIle next morning there was no cap
tain to. receive the report OF roll Coli
from the first sergeant Of company b.
ssWhere's Latrobe?' sleepIly asked the
oflcer of the day of the cadet first Ileu-
tenant 81 DIN know, was the answer
end to the amaze of Latr0be's ROOM
sleep right after taps the might before.
they found evidence that FAT
had left the post. He had not even
Ennade down his bedding. His cadet uni
| forms were all there, but suit OF
/ civilian clothes, usually In snug
! package I'D the chimney. that had neen
| used several times running 1T 20 the
\ hotel after taps in August, was m9Ws
/ like it's owner. missing. After three
DAYS waiting and fTuitless search, the
/ st1perintendent wired Latr0bes UncEe
and best friend, old General DTaytor,
and that was the last seen or heard Gt
pat" In the spring and ahead or time
his class was graduated without MIN.
for the war with Spain was on. In the
spring an frate and long-tried father
was upbraiding another only SON ZOE
i persistent failures at college CION
Prime will get the sack. not the sheep-
skin" prOphesied his fellows And then
Z somehow. somewhere the father heaFq
it was a married woman with WhOHi
his boy was so deeply IN love- aila
there were bitter. bitter words ON both
! sides-sO bitter that when at last ne
dung himself out Of his fathers study
Csnv Prime went straight to Mildred $
room silently kissed her and walked
ont of the house. This was in April
/ The next heard of him he had enlisted
for the war and was gone to San Fran
cisco with his regiment with the pros
meet of service in the Philippines
ahead of him, but that was full four
months after his disappearance
Thither. late in July the father fol-
lowed, bringing Mildred with him and
the reader knows the rest.
(To be COntinued)