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was furious ana the captain uhllOSOphlC.
81 told you so, NJ riar, " he was unfeol-
ing enough to say dozen times day
until she flew to the Stannards for sym.
patty.
1t seemed to Miss Leroy that whether
these families got settled or not the
fouds never would be, and yet in less
than ten days even the young married
couples were snugly slowed away.
Smiles and sunshine met her on every
side. Tho men, who looked like hairy
monsters at first, had shaved their
boards and donncd their neatly fitting
uniforms. The band played every after
noon. Paradcs were fine, guard mount.
ing "lOvcly.' The little dinners and
suppcrs and dances were Just as Jolly,
friendly and delightful as could posi-
bly, be. Many of the young matruns
were charming companions Several Of
TIE young officers danced divinely, all
Of them rode we'll, and none of them
thought anything of coming banging at
the hall door ut any hour of the day Co
ask Mrs Mainwaring to come and do
this or Miss Leroy to come and see that.
house rs though il were one big family,
and before the 10th OF November camo
Miss Leroy found herself completely
carried away by tho life and swing and
movement that seemed to characterized
everything that went on in the old reei-
ment, She was on the plCasanteSt of
terms with M2sdamos Ray, TrusCOtt and
Blake, She found her aunt tireless as u
hostess. She admired the colonel and
his accomplished wife She "took' to
Mrs, Stanuard from the start and Won
dcred why Mrs, Mainwaring didn't en-
thusc over her rs everybody else did.
She liked bluff old Stannard and most
Of the officers thoroughly, and so, blithe,
busy, "On the go, as they said, from
morn till late at night, she had well
nigh ceased to think of the shock she
had sustained on the night Of the COLI
sion or to speculate about the tall young
gentleman who had restored her to con-
sciuusncsa and to whom she had not re-
stored the handkerchief and flask, when
the 10th Of November came. and with
it her birthday, Il new sensation and an
excitement at the fort.
The recruits brought to Ransom by
Lieutenant hawson were for distribute
ton to those troops Of the regiment
most in need of new blood, and, as luck
would have it, these We're all Of the
battalion at Fort Fred Winthrop an
outlying post close to the now crowded
reservation Of the Sioux Thither had
Anterior ordered BaWson without de-
lay Of day, partly bccauso recruits
were needed. Int mainly because the
liuatenant showed symptoms OF an on
coming attack Of a hibulous character,
ard AthortGn would have none CT that
in his glIrisUn. RaW,on Vas ordered
northwaYd forthwith and marched with
his Johnny kUWs at dawn next day
and, except for the voice of one crying
i'll the wilderness that the party had
looted the groggery of Laramie Pete at
the Dry Fork Of the Ska, nothing more
was heard of them till they joined at
| Winthrop, none the worse for their
| wintry march. Ray had looked over the
array and decided that he could afford
II wait and pick for himself. Sergeant
EearnCy had gone back to the recruiting
depot. The rogimental adjutant had
bapu desionatod ns rpcruitino o4icov nt
tbo station and had disdninfnIIv rnioct.
od one after another half a dozen soedv
looking tramps, when one day, perhaps
the fifth after their arrival at the post,
fine sernoaut noior n,t his Handsome
baod into tho office foIloynd il in c,ro.
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