Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1899-12-15
CHAPTER XVIII,

The long wait for the coming of the
big transports with the regulars was
over. For the first time in history
America was sending her soldiery past
the pyramids and through the Indian
sea, landing them, after 40 days and
nights of voyaging, upon the low, fiat
shores that hem Manila bay, and SHOW
ing them out to the hostile front be
fore their sea-legs could reach the
swing and stride of the marching step;
yet, to all appearance, as unconcernedly
at home as though they mad been cam
paigning in the Philippines since the
date of their enlistment. This, to be
sure, in the case of more than half
their number, would have given them
scant time in which to look about them,
since raw recruits were more numerous
than seasoned men. But no matter
what may be his lack of drill or prep
aration the average Anglo-SaXon never
seems to know the time when he doesn't
know how to fight. So, with all the
easy assurance of veteran, our Yankee
'Tommies" wriggled into ttleir blanket
rolls and trudged away to the posts
assigned them; and once more the army
assumed the aggressive.
There were changes in the compost
ton of the forces even before the move
began. The dudes and the "toughs"
parted company; and the former, with
Stanley Armstrong once more riding
silent at their head. joined forces with
Stewards riddled regiment up the rail-
way toward .Malolos. Col. Frost had
succeeded in convincing the surgeons
that he would be as much out of place
as his name itself in such cline and
climate, and was in daily expectation
of an order home. Billy Gray. mending
only slowly, had been sent to Corregi-
dor, where the bracing breezes of the
China sea drove their tonic forces
through his lungs and veins, and the
family rising hue of coming health
back into his hollow cheeks. The boy
had been harder hit than seemed the
case at first, said the fellows of the
tenth; but the wise young surgeon
of the Second reserve" and a grave
faced colonel of infantry could have
told of causes little dreamed of in the
regiment-were either given to telling
the half of what he knew
That something most unusual had oc-
CURED in the room of Mr.. Gray the day
that the sad-faeed, kind old general Wis
tied the hospital at least half dozen
patients could have told; for an at
tendant went running for one of the
women nurses, and the doctor himself
hurried to the scene. 1t was on his
arm that, half an hour later. Mrs. Gar
rison slowly descended the stairs. her
fimsy white veil down, and silently
bowed her thanks and adieux as the
doctor closed the door of her carriage
and nodded to the little coachman. 1t
was the doctor who suggested to Col
Frost that Manila air was not conducive
to his wife's recovery and recommend
ed Nagasaki as the place for her re-
cuperation until he could join her and
take her home. The Esmerelda bore
the White sisters over HongKong way
within week; and they left without
flourish of trumpet, with hardly the
fiutter of handkerchief; for, since the
battle of the 9Th of February, neither
had been seen upon the Luneta. Their
women friends were very few; the men
they knew were mainly at the front
The story got out somehow that Garri-
son had asked to be relieved from fur
ther duty as aid-de-camp and returned
to duty with his regiment, and that
Drayton would not have it. The gen
erals manner toward that hard-work-
ing staff officer. though often preoccu-
pied as of old, grew even kinder He
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