The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-08


could be. 1t had never occurred TO
her that he could obtain permission to
go except by transport. 1t had not
seemed possible that he would take her
with him. You should have known,
said he, that even if l had had to go
by transport you would have gone by
the Empress of India. 1t is only sixty
hours from Manila to Hongkong, and l
could have Joined you soon after your
arrival AS it is shall see you safely
established there-I have letters to GER
tain prominent English people-then
shall 20 over to join the fleet when it
arrives in Manila bay
That night she wrote long and des-
perately TO Margaret: He swore he
/ would follow me wherever we went I'M
til 1 granted him the interview. You
know how he logged me in Washing
ton. followed me TO Denver, and any
moment he may address me here. T.
will not let me return to you. He in
sists on my going to Hongkong, where
he can occasionally join me. But Roll
lin holds those letters over me like a
whip, and declares that he will give
them into Frost's hands unless l see
him whenever he presents himself. You
made me swear to Frost l never cared
a stray for my darling that was. oh,
/ God, how 1 loved him, And if these
/ letters ever reach the man to whom you
i have sold me, he would treat me as he
would a dog, even if he doesn't kill me.
Meg-Meg-you must help me, for 1 live
| in terror"
And that she lived in terror was true,
some women We're quick to see. Never
would she go anywhere, even along the
corridor. alone. II the colonel could not
come to luncheon she was served in
their rooms. If she had to go calling or
shopping it was in a carriage, and al
ways with some army woman whom
she could persuade to go with her.
One day, just before their intended
/ departure, she drove out paying parting
4 calls. 1t was quite late when the car
/ rage drew up at the Market street en-
trance, the nearest to their elevator.
| The door boy sprang across the side
I walk to open the carriage, and as she
stepped wearily out. a. tall young man,
] erect and slender. dressed in a dark
travelling. suit, fairly conf onted her,
raised his derby and said: You can
give me ten minutes now. Mrs F4ost.
Be good enough to take my arm
Bowling her head she strove to dodge
by, but it was useless. Again he con-
fronted her. Piteously she looked up
into his pale. stern face, and c asped
her hands. 'Oh. Rollin," she cried,
give me my letters. i DIE not-see
You. Have mercy and down again
Slt MSIl III d SEIlSelGSS nGdp II lIlS
stone. Colonel and Mrs. Frost d d not
sail with the Empress of India. Bran
fever set in, and for three weeks the
patient never left the hotel Frost MADE
his Wife's dangerous illness the bass
of an application to be relieved from
the Manila detail, but, knowing well il
would be late summer before the troops
could be assembled there in sufficient
force to occupy the city, and that his
clerks and books had gone by trans
port with the second expedition in June
the war department compromised on a
permission to delay. By the time the
fourth expedition was ready To start
there was no further excuse: more
over. the doctors declared the sea voy
age was just what Mrs. Frost needed
and again their stateroOm was engages
by the Empress line and. though weak
and languid, Mrs. Frost was able to ap-
pear in the dining room. Meanwhile a
vast amount of work was Saddled on
the department to which Frost was at
tached, and daily he was called upon
to aid the local officials or be in consul
tation with the commanding general.
This would have left Mrs. Frost 20 the
ministrations of her nurse alone, but
for the loving kindness of army women
in the hotel They lowered about her
room, taking turns in spending the
afternoon with her, or the FFeninS, for
it was speedily apparent that she had |
a nervous dread of being left by her |
self, "or even with her husband said |
the most observing. Already it had /
been whispered that despite his assid |
uous care and devotion during her i'll /
ness, something serious was amiss. |
Everybody had heard of the adventure (
which had preceded her alarming i'll 4
ness. Everybody knew that she had |
been accosted and confronted by d |
strange young man, at sight of whom |
she had pleaded piteously a minute,
and then tainted dead away. BY this /
time too, there were or had been nearly !
a dozen of the graduating class in town
classmates of Roliin Latrobe-their
much loved Pat" and speedily the
story was told of his devotion to her
when she was Nita Terriss of their
correspondence, of their engagement to
be married on his graduation, which, in
strict confidence. he had impaired to
his roommate, who kept it inviolate un-
til after her sudden union with Colo
mel Frost and poor Pats equally !
sudden disappearance. Everybody, /,
Frost included. knew that the young
man who had accOsted her must be La
trobe. and Frost by this time knew that
il must have been he who caused her
shock at the Arlington. He ragged in
his jealous heart. He employed detect +
ives 10 find the fellow. swearing he
would have him arrested. He became
morose and gloomy. for all the arts by
which Mrs. Garrison persuaded him
that Nita looked up to him with adj
and reverence that would
speedily develop into wifely love, were
now proved to be Vaccinations. He
knew that Nita feared him. shrank
from him and was very far from low
ing him. and he believed that despite
her denials and fears and protestations
she loved young Latrobe. He wrote an
grily, reproachfully TO Margaret, who,
now that her fish was hooked, did not
greatly exert herself TO soothe or reas-
sure him. That he could ever use VIC
lence to one so sweet anG fragile as
Mia she would not believe for an in
slant Then the nurse, still retained,
heard bitter words from the colonel as
one morning she came to the door with
Mrs. Frost's breakfast, and while she
paused. uncertain about entering at
such a time. he rushed angrily forth
and nearly collided with her Mrs. Frost
was in tears when the nurse finally en-
tered. and the breakfast was left un-
touched.
Late that afternoon. just after the
various trunks and boxes of the Frosts
that were to so by the transport were
packed and ready, and Mrs. Frost.
boxing stronger at last, though still
fragile. almost ethereal, was returning +
from a drive with one of her friends.
The attention of the two ladies was
lrawn to a crowd gathering rapidly on
he sidewalk not far from the Baldwin
hotel There was no shouting no COM.
notion, nothing but the idle curiosity
If men and boys, for a young soldier,
4 handsome. slender, dark-eyed. dark