The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-05-11

departure, she drove out paying part
carriage drew up at the Market street
entrance, the nearest to their elevator.
The door boy sprang across the side
walk to open the carriage, and as she
stepped YEARLY out tall young man,
erect and slender, dressed in a dark
travelling suit, fairly confronted her,
raised his derby and said: You can
give me ten minutes now, Mrs. Frost.
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
in his pale, stern face and clasped her
hands. "Oh, Rollin," she cried, ''give
me my letters. 1 dare not-see you.
Have mercy" and down again she
went in senseless heap upon the stone.
Col. and Mrs. Frost did not sail with the
Empress of India. BrainEfever set in
and for three weeks the patient never
left the hotel. FIasf made his wife's
dangerous illness the basis of an appli-
cation to be- relieved from the Manila
detail, but, knowing well it 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 transport with
the second expedition in June, the war
department compromised on permits
sion to delay. By the time the fourth
expedition was ready to start there
was no further excuse; moreover, the
doctors declared the sea voyage was
just what Mrs. Frost needed, and again
their stateroom was engaged by the
Empress line, and, though weak and
languid, Mrs. Frost was able to appear
in the diningroom. Meanwhile a vast
amount of work was saddled on the de-,
partment to which Frost was attached,
and daily he was called upon to aid
the local officials or be in consultation
with the commanding general. This
would have left Mrs. Frost to the min
istrations 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 evening. for
it was speedily apparent that she yfhad
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 ill
ness. Everybody knew that she had
been accosted and confronted by a
/ strange young man, at sight of whom
ha hoJ n1ao ~
and then tainted dead away. BY this
time, too, there were or had been near
~ dozen of the graduating class in
town-classmates of Rollin Latrobe-
their much loved Pat" and speedily
the story was told of his devotion to
her when she was Mia 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
until after her sudden union with COL
Frost, and poor PATS equally sudden
disappearance. Everybody, Frost in
cluded, knew that the young man who
had accosted her must be Latrobe, and
Frost by this time knew that it must
have been he who caused her shock at
the Arlington. He ragged in his jealous
heart He employed detectives to 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 Mia
looked up to him with admiration and
reverence. that would speedily develop
into wifely hove, were now proved to
obc Vaccinations. He knew that Nita
feared him, shrank from him and was
very far from loving him. and he be-
lieved that despite her deniais and
tears and protestations she loved young
Latrobe. He wrote angrily, reproach-
fully to Margaret, who, 0now that her |
fish was hooked, did not greatly exert 1
herself to soothe or reassure him. |
That he could ever use violence to one
so sweet and fragile as Nita she would |
not believe for an instant. Then the |
nurse. still retained, heard bitter words !
from the colonel as one morning she |
came to o the door with Mrs. Frost's |
breakfast, and while she paused, uncer- !
tain about entering ut such time, he |
rushed angrily forth and nearly col |
ided with her. Mrs. Frost was in |
tears when the nurse finally entered
and the breakfast was left untouched
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