The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-01-18

married at last"
stone for WINS lonely grave IN the
little cemetery. Somebody had secured
for his widow that olerkship III the
treasury department, which within an.
other year she left to wed veteran i'd.
mirer Of her mother to the unappeasa-
bic wrath Of that we'll preserved matron
and the secret joy Of 'Manda Frazier,
who thought that now perhaps the eyes
Of Galahad would open to her own
many charms Of mind and person. Yet
they did not Somebody in childish,
sprawling hand was writing letters
every week to the doughboy trooper,
who by that time had the best drilled
company at Worth, owing. said the
Faugh-a Ballaghs, when forced to admit
tho fact. to Brayton's abilities and to
an Irish sergeant. Barclays weekly
mail was bigger than that Of anybody
else except the commanding officer,
whose missives, however, were mainly
official, and the number Of letters penned
in feminine or childish hands seemed,
like Galahad's godchildren, ever on the
increase. Mrs. Blythe came back from
Leave BONNER than ever and blissful be-
You'd compare in the possession Of secrets
she could not share with even her old.
est cronies, yet that leaked out in ways
no man could hope to stop. Ned Law.
renoe's children were well, happy,
thriving-little Jim at Barclays home
with other godsons, two or three,
where widowed sister cared for them
AZ for her own, 80 said Mrs Blythe
when fairly oornered, while Ada was at
a famous old Connecticut school not far
from the Barclay homestead. %.
Good heayensr' said Blythe one day
in late October. "These women have
powers Of divination that would be
priceless at police headquarters Why,
they'v got hold Of facts I thought only
Mrs. Blythe and ! knsw-faots that
Barclay would have kept concealed
from every one, but that We simply
can't deny"
And 80, little by little. the details Of
some at least of Galahad's benefactions
became known, though no man knew
how many more were held in reserve.
For three long years he lived his sim.
pie, studious, dutiful life at Worth, q
man the soldiers and their wives and
children learned to love and look up to
as their model Of all that was kind and
humane (they we'll nigh worshiped him
at Christmas times)-a man his brother
officers Of the better class honored as
friend and comrade, worth their whole
trust and esteem, and from the armor
Of whose reserve and tolerance the
shafts Of the envious and malicious
glanced harmless into empty air.
There were women, old and young,
who thought him lacking in more ways
than one. The Frsziers said not much,
but looked unutterHble things when
they went north on leave and people
asked for Galahad. It was family ira
dition that he had treated 'Manda very
badly-that 10, mamma said as much,
but the elder sister had views of her
own not entirely in harmony with those
Of her beloved parent. 'Manda herself
found consolation by marrying in the
army not two years later, and her hus-
band thinks to this very day that Bar
clay, with all his wealth, secretly en-
vies him his treasure, though admitting
in those lucid intervals to which so
many lords are subject that perhaps
Barclay wasn't 60 confoundedly I'M
lucky after all. II was at their quarters
some years later still, at far distant
post, that in the course Of an evenings
call, in company with his host, Lieu
tenant Colonel Brooks, the chronicler
of portion at least Of this episode Of
old time army life, was favored with
the most important facts Of all.
"What do you think" said the stout
possessor Of Mrs. 'Manda's matured and
charms as he came bustling
in with The Army and Navy in his
hand, "Galahad Barclays married at
last Here it is, ITO Ada, only daughter
of the late Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
-th U. s. cavalry"
ada Lawrenoei That child"
screamed madam, with eyes and drawl
expansive. "Well, Of alp
But others, vino have seen her in her
happy wifehood, declare that Ada Law. !
renee grew up to be one Of the loveliest
Of the lovely girls that married in the
they are legion.
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