Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-01-02
right, 1899. by F. Tennyson Neely.l

Gray manages to secure duty as officer OF
the guard. that he may have an opportu-
nifty to have an interview with Morton.
CHAPTER W.-Preparations are made
for sending part OF command to Philippines.
For some reasons Red Cross officials wish
ttheir, tables, where they have been lunch
form directly under the side Of the trans
port, but the officer Of the guard has orders
to allow no one to intrude on that space.
of Red Gross official accomplishes the end
by scrawltng note to the officer The
colonel Of the regiment about to leave ar
space occupied, Joining Armstrong at this
moment he shows him Mrs. Garrison's note.
Armstrong turns sharply to where, Mrs.
Armstrong now learns MS an MI important pack.
age has been taken from Gen. Drayton's
tent. The night before an important grIs-
9ene a o Morton . had ESCAPED SC, and Billy
rest.
CHAPTER vII.-Board of officers, con-
vened by Canker. investigates escape Of
guardhouse to street is discovered. cankef
places q sentry oyer Gray's tent, intending
TO hold him for prisoners. escape.
to he SUMMER y II Msea stass bssSE
tiers" lMrs. Garrison and Nita Terrisl
were the sensation at West Point. Mrs.
attentions Of Young Lat s a cadet Who
was shortly to graduate, insisting she
must marry money. A card Is handed Mrs.
Garrtson-"Mr. Gouveneur Prime
into mad infatuation for Mrs. Garrison,
though she was married and several years
his senior. He had been abroad for a
letter about this time from Latrobe Intend
ed for Mia fell into Mrs. Garrison's hands,
and to break up what was already an en-
later o9 Ma co Frost
this announcement Latrobe suddenly dis
appeared. Now. too, Mr.. Prime, learning
hn s0n ang1t to
home. Months later Mr.. Prime got word
Of his sons enlistment and traced him to
San Francisco. but without finding him.
And so began the second period of
Gouverneur Primes thralldom. A
young civilian at the Point has few
opportunities at any time, but when
the lady of his love is a belle in" the
corps, be would much better take d
Ieng ocean voyage than be where he
could hear and see, and live in daily
torment. One comfort came to him
when he could not be with Mrs. Gar.
rison (who naiyely explained that
Sow was such q dear boy and they
were such stanchI Friends, real com
rades, you know. He had early made
the acquaintance Of Pat Latrobe, and
there was bond of sympathy between
them which was none the less strong
because, on Primes side, 1t could Meth.
er be admitted nor alluded to-that
they were desperately in love with the
sisters, and it was not long before it
began to dawn on Prime that pretty
Nita was playing double game-that
| even while assuring her guardian sister
that she had only a mild interest in
Latrobe, she was really losing or had
lost her heart to him, and in every way
/ in her power was striving to conceal
the fact from Margaret, and yet meet
her lover at hours when she thought it
possible to do so without discovery
AS the friendship strengthened be.
tween himself and Latrobe they began
using him as Cupid's postman, and
many little notes and some big ones
/ found their way to and from the Fourth
division of cadet barracks. Mrs. Frank
was only moderately kind to her civil
| ian adorer then, granting him only one
| dance at each hop, and going much
Will OlACk 1llC1l, put tAlV ddhSC w ds
worth seeing. Primes was the only
black "claw-hammer'' in the room, and
therefore conspicuous, and cadets-who
know good thing when they see it
and many pretty girl partner would
draw aside to watch the perfection OF
their step and the exquisite ease with
which they seemed to float through
space, circling and reversing and wind
ing among the other dancers, he ever
alert, watchful, uick as a cat and
1.-THE and strong a. o panther-she all
yielding, lissome, airy grace, That dance
was "Gov" Primes reward, and almost
only reward, for hours of impatient
waiting. Other women, charming and
pretty and better women, would glad.
ly have been his partners. Some two
or three whom he met at the hotel even
intimated as much. But not until Lady
| Garrison told him he must-to protect
her from soapdal-did he ask another
| to dance. AT last came the end of the
summers encampment, the return OF
| the corps to barracks and studies, one
blissful week in which he was enabled
| to spend several uninterrupted hours
each day at her side, and then a
cataclysm. A letter intended only for
| Nita's hands fell into those of her sis.
ter. 1t was bulky. 1t was from La.
trobe. She hesitated only q moment
then, with determination in her eyes
| opened and read-all. Two days after
Mia was whisked away to New York
and within another week, leaving two
1 most disconsolate SWANS on the Hud.
4 son, the sisters. one of them bathed in
tears, went spinning away to the west
/ where Frank Garrison was on duty al
department headquarters. Prime was
permitted to write once fortnight Che
sent a yolume), and Latrobe forbidden
but already the poor boy owned a thick
packet of precious missiyes, all breath.
ing fond love and promising utter con.
stancy though she had to wait for him
for years. For month Mia would
hardly speak to her sister, but in Dc
tober there were lovely drives, picnics
and gayeties of all kinds. There were
attractive young officers and assidu.
GUS old ones, and among these latter
was Frost, with his handsome gray
mpstsshe and disttnauishsd bearing