Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-10-04
A Ill RICHMOND had surrendered to
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A LII RICHMOND had surrendered to
n Gen. Humidity and his torrid solar
army The excessive heat had driven
all. but those to whom fate had been
unkinti. to shelter from the fiery lances
of old Sol.
At Gray Manse the members of the
family had sought comfort in the cool
er air on the wide, vine powered piazza
and the serving people might be
found seeking the same solace in the
grove back Of the cook house. The
evening papers were filled with ac-
counts of victims Of the invaders fury
anG told of the hospitals filled with
persons "overcome by the heat"
But Madam Grey and her daughter,
Janet. We're more concerned about the
dispatches from Mexico. yellow
Jack was raging along the gulf coast.
The latest news reported that the viii
lagos along the lula river had been al
most wiped out Of existence. The tenn
porary hospitals flying the yellow
flag" at Panuco were overcrowGeG.
Physicians were not plenty and We're
but the natives.
The newspaper correspondent wrote
that no news had been received for two
weeks from the outlying plantations
and that it was feared that the plant
ers had succumbe0 to the yellow
plague.
AS Janet Grey read the dispatches to
her mother her face whitencG and in
the Tightening lines about her mouth
Madam Grey thought she read the
birth Of some new resolve which no OPP
position could weaken.
Then as he soft moonli CHIT illum;ncd
the younger woInan's face, and in that
pale light there seemed something al
most divine in the inspiration rhat
shone from within the beng of her
sweet southern beauty. she broke the
silence: "Mother, l must 90 to him.
The mothers answer came softly. re-
signedly, but With no reproach: at
once. love- Poor JACKIE Then two
pairs Of hands became as one anG the
pa e moon peeping between the leaves
wondered at two women weeping in
eacn others arms
Next morning among the passengers
on the fast express flying swiftly
southwark was a young woman who
might be 25 anl! whose sweet. SAD face
contrastet! strangely with the air of
eager impatience which envelopeG her
A grip at her feet bore the initials u
g." Sixty miles an hour seemed slow to
Janet.
Five years before Janet Grey. an
only daughter, had been a student in
the New York training school for
nurses. Not because she needed! pro
fession. she told herself but because
she wished to be able to be useful. 1t
y was hobby, firmly rooted hobby. of
young woman who was to be some
Cay owner of some of the finest land in
! Virginia.
So when Jack Masters. a childhood
playmate and he son of an OLD family
friend, sought her love anG twice asked
her TO become his wife. she. though she
was very fond OF him. haG twice nut
him OFT and had refused to consider
matrimony as serious possibility UNI
til she had won her diploma as a
trained nurse
Furthermore, she haG limited to Jack
that she was not sure of his, constancy
and that she had doubts about his bust
ness ability; for it was common prop
erty that, though Jack haG inherited a
most desira bic estate. the young gen
tleman had not cone all that might be
expected of him as landed proprie-
tor. and that Masters hall was not the
hall of the old time.
Madam Grey had enlisted under his
standard and had fought nobiy for
him; but Janet remained firm in her
resolve, as she usually Cid. She said
that if he was of the same mind when
she had completed her four years
training as a nurse he might again
seek to win her. She would hear no
more on the subject until then.
In d fit of what he considered right
eous Indignation at this decree. Jacl,
sod out Masters hall, purchased cot
fee plantation near the banks of the
Tula river in Mexico, and had taker
Rl:mself OFF. Before his departure he
Mad broken taboo, and had agar
sought to win Miss Grey from her reso
luton, but she remained obdurate. II,
left vowing to prove himself a man O
business, and that he would return il
five years, and would then carry he,
OF. whether she would or not.
Five years. because that time wa!
needed to put his new purchase in til.
best paying condition; also yea:
longer than Janets aboo, because tn,
young man sought to outGo her in tn.
matter of obstinacy. Somehow he fed
sure that Janet loved him, at any ia t.
she loved no one else.
Letters passed to and fro trequentl,
during the first four years. Youn!
Masters always sent his love and re