The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-18
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son in the village to whom the likeness
was not shown. and though she pro-
teSsed perfect Indifference concerning it
she would cheerfully have parted with
her best Sunday hat to secure a peep.
Her hints and cajoIeries were in vain;
Mrs. Welsh guarded her treasure ieal-
ousIy from the girl who had 'druy her
poor buoy to be a sojer'
When at last the following autumn
NANNY returned ON his first furIough the
scarlet tunic made the village green quite
cheerful and proved 4 center of attrac-
ton to the children and youths. Emily
Jane, whose faithless sergeant. after
having correspondent with her for some
months, had finally married another girl.
took to walking up and down street when
that vivid spot of color was anywhere
within sight, but the smart recruit was
apparently more proof against her
charms than the ploughboy. for Nanny.
though his eyes followed her wistfulIy.
made no overtures of reconciliation and
sat quite square in church without let
ting his looks wander in her direction
During the year that interviewed be-
tween his first and second term of fur
Tough, Emily Jane discovered that Man
niwel was more to her than CHARGE ever
had been, or could be. She resolved that
she would make an effort to recover the
affection which she had priced not in the
having and when the young man again
appeared in the village, this time with a
stripe on his sleeve, she went boldly up
to him, holding out her hand Nanny
gravely saluted, looked at the hand, but
did not offer to take it. Won't you let
bygones be bygOnes as you once said,
and be friends with me again? she asked
TREMENDOUSLY. No, miss, I can't be friends
with you'-he had dropped his dialect for
the regular barrack accent 4 can't be
friends hut IF
out with YOU And SO the old sweet
bondage began once more, but this time
with a difference. Now it was Emily
Jane who pressed for marriage and he
who hung back saying he must get his
colonePs leave, and that he wanted to win
step before he took a wife, for I go
to school regular and am trying to read
and write a bit better, so as I can get on
to be a sergeant by-and-by.' The less
compliant she found him. the more
Emly's love increased, as is the way
with women, so that when the order came
for him to proceed on draft to India
where the other battalion was stationed,
the pain of parting seemed more than
she could bear. They walked down to
the station with him she and his mother
but the girl could not trust herself to say
farewell before strangers, so at the s+ile
in the last field she stopped, kissing her
lover again and again, and cIinging to
him, until in his anxiety lest he should
miss the last train and blot that clean
sheet of which he was so proud, he put
her gently aside and FASTENED away down
the road. At the corner he turned, but
he could only Just make out the little
figure under the trees, for his eyes were
dim; there was the flicker of white
handkerchief, the watcher at the stile
saw a red one waved in reply, then the
scarlet tunic vanished round the bend.
and with it Emily James best hope Of
happiness.
The first letter, with it's strange post
mark, with Private Welsh's number and
his company officers initials on the en-
velope was an event in her life TO
think O. that bit O. paper comm all them
hundreds an hundreds o miles acrass
the sea! IT'S a wunner as e vent mil
deed wi the damp, bein' so long on the
water remarked Mrs. Greenaway to a
neighbor who had dropped in for a Cos
sip. Read I'm out gal, theirs nothen but
wOt ARA body med year. Thus adjured
Emily cleared her throat and began, Dere
emily, i hops this fiends you WELL AS it
leaves me at Present. likes Over here
very Well; ali the men is black there is