The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29

J keeping Billy Gray at respectful dis
lance. He sought her side day after
day, to Armstrong; mild amaze. as
has been said: and when he could moi
be with her was moody, even fierce anc
ugly tempered-he whose disposition
! had been the sunniest in all that gray
shivery, dripping sojourn at the Sar
Francisco camp.
! But once fairly settled in Manila, the
! White Sisters seemed to regain all the
/ old ascendency. Colonel Frost had tax
| en- a big, cool, roomy house, surrounded
! by spacious grounds down in Matate,
and close TO the FLASHING waters Of the
bay Duties kept him early and late at
! his office in the walled city: burt every
! evening, after the drive and dinner,
! callers came thronging in, and all
! Witches Witcheries We're called into
play to charm them into blindness and
! to cover Nita'S fitful and nervous
moods, now almost painfully apparent
I Frosts face was at times thunder
cloud, and army circles within the out
er circle of Manila saw plainly that ali
was not harmony betwiXt that veteran
! Benedict and that fragile, huttering
baby wife. The bloom of Nitas beauty
was gone. She looked wan, white, even
haggard. She had refused to leave
]
Margaret's arrival. ard then flew to the
shelter of that sisterly wing. Frank
Garrison had been occupying a room
under the same roof with his general
but both general and afde-de-camp
were now much afield, and Frank spent
far more days and nights along the
line of blOckhouses thar he did at nome
The coming of his wife was unannounc-
ed and utterly unlocked for. did I
~ ,~l1sa
surprise, when asked the question one
day by the wife of a veteran field Off
GER "Merciful heaven, Mrs. LenoX,
there was no time for that except by
cable, and at 81 a word. No. If any
doubt of what Frank Garrison will say
or do exists in my mind, / go and do
the thing at once, then the doubt is
settled If he approve, well and good;
if he doesn' t-well, then I've had my
fun anyway"
But 1T made little difference what
Frank Garrison might think. say or do
when Nita's need came in question. 1t
was for Nita that Margaret Garrison
so suddenly quilted the Preside and
FASTENED to Hawaii. 1t was for her
sake, to be her counsel and protection,
the elder sister had braved refusal,
difficulties, criticism, even Armstrong;
open suspicion and dislike, to take that
she braved, too, her husbands dispieas-
ure was not matter Of sufficient
weight to merit consideration. She was
there to help Mia; AMI until that hap
less child were freed from a peril that,
ever threatening, seemed sapping her
very life, Margaret Garrison meant TO
stay.
For the letter that came by way of
Honolulu had told the elder sister of
increasing Jealousy and suspicion on
the colonel's part. of his dreadful rage
at Yokohama, on learning that even
there-the very hour of their arrival
when the consul came aboard with
batch of letters in his hand, he had one
for Mrs. Frost. She had barely glanced
at its contents before she was stricken
with "a fit of trembling, tore it in half,
and tossed the fragments on the swift
ebbing tide, then rushed to her state
room. There she added a postscript to
the long letter penned to Margaret on
the voyage; and the purseI, not her
husband. saw it safely started on the
Gaelic, leaving for San Francisco via
Hololuiu that very day. THAI letter
beat the ordinary mail, for the Queen
was heading seawarG, even as the Gaze
lie came steaFning in the coral guarded
harbor. and a little packet was tossed
aboard the new troop ship as she sped
away. one misSiVe in it telling Witchie
Garrison that the man whose life had
been wrecked by her sisters enforced
desertiOn was already in Manila await
ing her coming. and telling her. more
over, that the packet placed in General
Drayton's hands contained only her
earlier letters. In his reckless wrath,
Latrobe had told her that those which
bound her 10 him by the most solemn
pledges, those that vowed undying love
and devotion, were still in his hands,