The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1899-09-14

broad lowlands tbs torrent spent the
fury Of its concentrated spite, and,
swiftly still, but no longer raging as
when curbed and held by the barrier
gate, the Blanca foamed away to strew
the tokens Of the fearful storm right
and left for miles along its banks and
to land all that was mortal of Harry
VIM, bruised, battered, yet so placid
in death that strong mems voices broke
when telling how they found him, rest.
ing with weary head upon his arm on
the sandy fiat that lay just beneath the
little summer house on the overhanging
bluffs, just where Laura had looked
down over the misty shadows from that
very height the morning her soldier
husband had reached his home at re.
veille and found her-wanting
They bore her wailing home that
night. widowed and crying, "Woe is
mel Yet with what wild thoughts
throbbing through her brain. Who was
it that came leaping to her aid as she
felt herself again dragged under in that
swirllng eddy? Whose voice was it that
rang upon her drowning ears: Whose
strong arms had clasped and sustained
her and held her head above water,
while other strong hands, hauling at
the lariat made fast about his waist:
drew them steadily to shore? Then an
gels came and ministered to her-the
women-while the men clustered about
her dripping hero, Galahad, Only for a
moment, though, for there was mount.
ing bareback in hot haste and thunder
ing away at mad gallop, despite the
drenching rain, for he who had saved
the wife implored those who could ride
to haste and save the husband.
All Fort Worth again went into
mourning with the setting of that woe
full sun. 1t had borne it's fill and more
Of battle and of sudden DEATH
And people resurrected Hodges
stories later on, though Hodge himself
was readily excused. They recalled
how Channing's widow and little ones
were cared for after that officers un-
timely death in the shadows of old
Laramie peak. They recalled Porter's
ailing wife and the seaside sojourn,
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burned out at Sanders. It wasn' t many
days before the lovely, dropping widow
Of poor Harry VIM was quite we'll
enough to be sent the long journey to
the north, yet some weeks elapsed be-
fore she would consent, she said, to be
torn from her beloved's grave. When,
gently as possible, she was told in July
| no Il
were needed for her husbands success
sor, she proposed to spend few weeks
with MIR. and Mrs. Faulkner, but they
were forced to limit that visit to few
days. There was no reason why she
could not have started in June, for that
devoted mother, Mrs. Waite, had drop
ped temporarily the pursuit Of senators
and representatives in congress assem-.
bled and wired that she would meet
her daughter in New Orleans, aud the
commanding general at San Antonio
/ notified her that abundant means fo1
all her homeward journeying for self
and nurse and baby were in his hands.
; She thought she ought to stay until all
poor Harry's affairs were Strengthened
out, and Frazier had to say that that, too
was all attended to- Yet all the while
she seemed to think that she could not
sufficiently thank the heroic Captain
Barclay and begged to see him for that
) purpose, also to consult him day after
day until-was there collusion?- he
, suddenly received orders to proceed tc
San Antonio on court martial duty anc
was On his way before she knew it
r before said the Fraziers, she could ge
l ready to go with him. Nor was he there
e when she passed through, under Full
: ler's escort, to the gulf, nor did she Sc,
! him once again in Texas. Letters fer
2 vently grateful letters, came to hin
/ from Washington, whittier she ha(
i. fitted, and where, it was reported, sh'
was to have clerkship. But when PEG
e pie spoke Of her to Barclay he smiled
Q gravely and had nothing to say. AL
l her late husbands accounts were de
q clared settled and closed within yer.
! few months, and all men knew by tina
o time whose hand it was that had lifte<
Q the burden, yet Laura Waite had los
' the last vestige Of her power wher
f Galbraith Barclay was concerned.
Q Long before the fall set in Barcla,
f returned to his post Of duty, eagerl.
a welcomed by officers and men, excep
9 the Faugh-a-Ballaghs Somebody ha>
! sent from San Antonio marble head