Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-07-12
Tennvson Neely.l

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moods, now almost painfully apparent.
Frost's face was at times a thunder
cloud, and army circles within the outer
circle Of Manila saw plainly that all
was not harmony betWiXt that veteran
Benedict ard that fragile, futtering,
baby wife. The bloom Of Nita's beauty
was gone She looked wan. white. even
lacCard. She had refused 10 leave
Hong-Kong orcome TO Manila until Mar
garet's arrival, then flew TO The shelter
OF that sisterly wing. Frank Garrison
had been occupying a room under the
same roof with his general, but both
general and aide-de-camp were now
much afeld, and Frank spent far more
days and nights along the line of block
houses than he did at home. The com
ing of his wife was unannounced and
utterly unlocked for. Did | consult
my husband" she exclaimed in sur
prise, when asked the question one cay
by the wife of a veteran field officer.
"Merciful heaven, Mrs. Lenox, there
was no time for that except by cable,
and at four dollars a word. No, If
any doubt of what Frank Garrison will
say or do exists in my mind | go and
do the thing at once, then the doubt is
settled. If he approve, well and good;
| if he doesn't-weIl, then I've had my
| fun anyway"
But it made little difference what
| Frank Garrison might think, say or do
when Nita's need came in question. 1t
was for Mia that Margaret Garrison so
suddenly quilted the Preside and has
tened to Hawaii. II was for her sake,
to be her counsel and protection, the
| elder sister had braved refusal. difficult
ties, criticism, even Armstrong's open
suspicion and dislike. to take that long
voyage TO a hostile cline. That She
bravcd, too, her husbands displeasure
was not matter of sufficient weight TO
merit consideration. She was there to
help Mia; 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 a
batch of letters in his hand. he had one
for Mrs. Frost She had barely glanced
at its contents before she was stricken
with a fit of trembling. tore il 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 il 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 a little packet was tossed
aboard the new troop ship as she sped
away, one mssive i'm il telling Witche
Garrison that the man whose life had
been wrecked by her sisters enforced
descrtian was already in Manila await
ing her coming, and telling her. more
over, that the packet placed in Gen.
Draytons hands contained only her
earlier letters. In his reckless wrath
Iatrobc had told her that those which
bound her 10 him by the most solemn
pledges, those that vowed undNing love
and devotion. We're still in his hands,
and that She should see him and them
when at last She reached Manila.
Three mortal weeks had the sisters
been there together. and never once in
that time did Mia venture forth except
when under the escort of her black
10 i'm, 80
her smiling. witehing. yet vigilant Mar
garet. Never once had their house been
| approached by anyone who bore resem-
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
| thoug8 OF the paucity of their num-
\ beers rs compared with the thousands
of fanatical natives to whom the taking
o. human life was OF less account than
| the loss Of a game chicken. and in
| whose sight assassination was Il
Virtue when it rid one of a foe. Already
many officers Who had weakly yielded
| To the importantly OF devoted wife
WAS cursing the folly that led him 10 let
her join HIM. The outbreak was inn
minent anyone could see the war was
sure 10 eone-even those who strove TO
Danish alarm and reassure an anxious
nation. AUD when the call 10 arms
should sound. duty. honor and law
would demand each soldiers instant
answer on the battle line: then who was
to care for the women? The very serv-
ants in each household. il was known,
were in most cases regularly enrolled
in the inSurcent army. The crowded
districts in the city, the nipa huts sur
rounding thc wealthy homes in the
suburbs sWdrmed With Filipino Soldiery
in the garh 81 peace. Arms and ammu-
milton both. We're stored in the great
stone churches Knives. bolos and pis-
tois were hidden in every house.
/ Through rhc clergy. It'll some instances.
ANA foreign residents lin others. the