The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29
THE YOUNG ATHLETE WHTRLED THE sTALwART REGULAR,

ed to the Importantly OF a devoted wife
j was eursing the folly that led him tc
let her join him. The outbreak was i'm.
minent. Any one could see the war was
/ sure to come-even those who strove
to Danish alarm and reassure an
anxious nation. And when the call to
arms should sound. duty, honor and
law would demand each soldiers in
slant answer on the battle line, then
! who was to care for the women? The
very servants in each household, it was
1 known. were in most cases regularly
4 enrolled in the insurgent army The
! crowded districts in the city. the nipa
/ huts surrounding the wealthy homes
in the suburbs swarmed with Filipino
/ Soldlery in the garb of peace. Arms
and ammunition, both, were stored in
! the great stone churches. Knives
bolos and pistols were hidden in every
house. Through the clergy. in some
! instances, and foreign residents ir
! others, the statement was set afioat
| that every officers residence was
mapped and marked, that the Tagals
were told off by name-so many for
each house in proportion to the number
| OF american inmates-and day after
| day-awaiting the signal for their
| bloody work, those native deyotees
greeted with servile bows and studied
the habits of the officers they were de-
signated to fall upon in their sleep and
stay without mercy. Even women and
children were not TO be spared; and
many woman, hearing this grewsome
story, trembled in her terror. For a
time, in dread of this new peril. Nita
Frost almost forgot the other; but not
so Margaret. She scoffed and secuted
the runor of Filipino outbreak. She
( laughed at Frost. who all too evidently
believed in it, and was in hourly trepi-
dation. He begged that the guard al
his quarters might be doubled, and was
totally unnerved when told it might
even have TO be reduced Not so Mrs
crank. She made friends with the stall.
WarC sergeant commanding: ALWAYS
had hot coffee and sandwiches ready
Tor the midnight relief; made il point
to learn the name of each successive
non-commissioned officer in charge. and
had winsome smile and word for the
sentries as she passed. 1t wasn't Fill
plno aggression that she feared. The
men wondered why she should so lr-
gently bid them see that no strangers
-Americans-wer allowed within the
massive gates. There were tramps.
even in Manila, she said. When the Sis
tiers drove, their natty little Filipino
team flashed through the lanes and
streets at top speed, the springy Vic
toria bounding at their heels to the i'm
mlnent peril of the cockaded hats of
the dusky coach and footman, if not
even TO the seats of those trim. white
coated. big-buttoned. top-booted. i'm
passive little Spanish bred servitors
The carriage stopped only at certain
designated points, and only then when
a group OF officers stood ready TO greet
them Not once had they been nenaced
by any one nor approached by any man
even family resembling poor Latrobe:
and Witchie Garrison was beginning to
take heart and look upon that threaten
ing letter as mad piece Of bluff
When one Day the unexpected happened
The men of the house. Frost and Gar
rison We're accustomed when the lat
ter was at home. to breakfast together
quite early. Then the colonel would
drive off to the AyuEtamiento in the
walled city, and Frank would mount
his pony and ride away to his long
days duties. Later the sisters would
have their leisurely breakfast secure in
the protection of the guard. would give
their Chinaman chef his orders for the
cay and send him off to make such
purchases as We're possible in the now
scanty market Then reading, writing.
receiving callel of their own sex
would fill up til morning. There would
be a brief sieSta after luncheon. an
hour or so on the broad veranda over
looking the sparkling bay, then dress
and the inevitable drive. OF Arm
strong thev had seen nothing. heard
next to nothing He was busy with his
men over toward East Pace. OF Billy
Gray of late they had seen rather too
much. On one pretext after another
he was now forever coming to the
house and Witchie was beginning to
wish that Canker had had his way
but Canker had failed dismally. The,