The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-04-13

to be her counsel and protection, the
elder sister had braved refusal, difficult
ties, criticism, even Armstrong; open
suspicion and dislike, to take that long
voyage TO hostile cline. That she
braved, too, her husbands displeasure
was not matter of sufficient weight to
merit consideration. She was there to
help Nita; and until that hapless child
were freed from peril that, ever
threatening, seemed sapping her very
life, Margaret Garrison meant to stay.
For the letter that came by way of
Honolulu had told the elder sister of
increasing jealousy and suspicion on
the colonel's part, of his dreadful rage
at Yokohama on learning that even
there-the very hour of their arrival
when the consul came aboard with
batch of letters in his hand, he had one
for Mrs. Frost. She had barely glanced
at it's contents before she was stricken
with n 1T of trembling, tore II in half,
and tossed the fragments on the swift
ebbing tide, then rushed to her state
room. There she added postscript to
the long letter penned to Margaret on
the voyage; and the purser, not her
husband, saw it safely started on the
Gaelic, leaving for San Francisco via
Honolulu that very day. That letter
beat the ordinary mail, for the Queen
was heading seward, even as the Gaze
lie came steaming in the coral-guarded
harbor, and little packet was tossed
aboard the new troop ship as she sped
away, one missive in il telling Witchie
Garrison that the man whose life had
been wrecked by her sisters enforced
desertion was already in Manila await
ing her coming, and telling her, more
over, that the packet placed in Gen.
Drayton's hands contained only her
earlier letters. In his reckless wrath
Latrobe had told her that those which
bound her to him by the most solemn
pledges, those that vowed undying love
and devotion, were still in his hands,
and that she should see him and them
when ut last she reached Manila.
Three mortal weeks had the sisters
been there together, and never once in
that time did Nita venture forth except
when under the escort of her black
browed husband or the protection of
her smiling, witching, yet vigilant Mar
garet. Never once had their house been
approached by anyone who bore resern-
blance to the dreaded lover All along
the Gale Real, where were the quarters
of many officers, little guards of regu-
lars were stationed for black rumors
of Filipino uprising came with every
few days, and some mems hearts were
failing them for fear when they
thought of the paucity of their num-
bers as compared with the thousands
of fanatical natives to whom the taking
of human life was of less account than
the loss of n game chicken, and in
whose sight assassination was a
virtue when it rid one of q foe. Already
many officers who had weakly yielded
to the importantly of a devoted wife
was cursing the folly that led him to let
her join him. Tho outbreak was i'm
minent. Anyone 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 instant
hlbhtI vi pulNlt llllt1 bDtu W no W US
to care for the women? The very serv-
ants in each household, IL was known,
were in most cases regularly enrolled
In the insurgent army. The crowded
districts in the city, the nipa huts sur
rounding the wealthy homes in the
suburbs swarmed with Filipino soldiery
in the garb of peace. Arms and ammu-
nitinp hnth 81 In,
stone churches. Knives, bolos and pis-
tolls were hidden in every house.
Through the clergy, in some instances,
and foreign residents in others, the
statement was set ailoat that every
American officers residenceNNas mapped
and marked, that the Tagals were told
of by namc-so many for each house in
proportion to the number of American
inmates-and day after day, awaiting
the signal for their bloody work, were
native devotees greeted with scrvile
bows and studied the habits of the Of
| ficcrs they were designated 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 time, in dread of this new
peril, Nita Frost almost forgot the
other; but not so Margaret. She
scoffcd and secuted the rumor of Fill
| ipino outbreak. She laughed at Frost,
who all too evidently believed in ii and
was in hourly trepidation. He begged
that the guard at his quarters might be
doubled, and was totally unnerved
when told ii might even have to be re-
duced. Not so Mrs. Frank. She made
friends with the stalwart sergeant
commanding; always had hot coffee
and sandwiches ready for the midnight
relief; made IL a point TO learn the
name OF each successive non-commis-
stoned officer in charge, and had a win
some smile and word for the sentries as
fhe passed. 1t wasn't Filipino agrees
I on that she feared The men won