Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-07-11

were two young fellows in white uni-
form, whoaturned as they sprang to the
dock and waved their jaunty caps.
.sJoin you in Aten days at 'Frisco!"
shouted the shorter of the two, gazing
upward and backward at the quartette
on the promenade deck. ooh! beg a
thousand pardons,'a he added, hastily,
as he bumped against some. slender Oh
ject, and, wheeling about to pick up
q himsy white fan, he found himself
face to face with Witchie Garrison. ker-
chief waving, beaming, smiling, throw
ing kisses innumerable to the party he
had so lately left. Thehot blood rushed
to his forehead, an angry, light to his
eyes, as she nodded, blithely, forbear-
ingly, forgivingly at him. Dear boy"
she cried, in her clear, penetrating
treble, show could you be expected to
see anyone after leaving-her?" But
Cows arm was linked in his at the very
instant and led him glowering away,
leaving her close to the edge of the
crowded dock, smiling sweetness, bless
ing and bliss upon a silent and unre-
sponsive group, and waving kerchief
and kisses to them until, far from shore,
the Doric headed out to sea.
They were nearing home again. Day
and night for nearly week the good
ship had borne them steadily onward
over sea of deepest blue, calm and un-
rufaed as the light that shone in Amy's
eyes. Hours of each twenty-four Arm
strong had been the constant compan-
ion, at first of the trio, then of the two
for Mr.. Prime had found a kindred spirit
in veteran merchant homeward bound
from China-then of one alone; for Miss
Prime had found another interest and
favor in the eyes of young tourist
paying his first visit to our shores, and
so it happened that before the voyage,
all too brief, was half over Amy Law
renee and Armstrong walked the spa
cious deck for hours alone or sat in shell
tered hooks, gazing out upon the sea.
The soft summer breezes of the first
few days had given place to keener,
chillier air. The fog ahead told of the
close proximity of the Farallones.
Heavier wraps had replaced the soft
fabrics of the Hawaiian saunterings.
But warmth and gladness, coupled with
a strange, new shyness in his presence,
were glowing in her fresh young heart.
One day she had said to him: "You have
not told me how you came to leave there
Just now" and it was a moment be-
fore he answered.
'That was the surgeons doing. They
sent me back from the front because
the wound did not properly heal, and
then ordered sea voyage until it did;
but I turn back at once from San Fran
CISCO" .- -
She was silent a few seconds. This
was unlooked-for and unwelcome news.
II thought" she said. '.at least Gov.
heard DR.. Frank say it'would be four
months before you could use that arm"
She plucked at the fringe of the heavy
shawl he had wrapped about her as she
reclined in the low steamer chair; but
the white lids yelled her eyes.
Possibly" answered Armstrong;
''but, you see, do not have to use it
much at any time. I'm all right other
wise, and there will soon be need of me-"
''More campaigning?" she anxiously
inquired, her eyes one moment uplift-
ing.
"Probably. Those fellows have no
idea of quitting" i
interval of silence. The long,
lazy, rolling swell of the Pacific had