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enlisted about year before. He had
been educated in military school,
and the mechanism of drill seemed
second nature to him.
He remembered as he escorted the
refugees through the chaparral that
there was situation in grand OPP
era which was not SO very different
from the one in which he found him
self. He wondered if Carmen were
beautiful as the Cuban girl who
picked her way among the fallen
branches and the stone which lay in
their pathway. Then he tried to con-
vince himself that he knew a girl in
Harlem who was far more So The
more he advanced this proposition to
himself the more was he convin ed
that it was utterly untenable.
.'Senor," said the girl, you are
kind. You are-our valiant knight -
Teddy wilkins youth often caused
him to speak hastily. He glanced at
the young woman's mother, and, be-
ing convinced by her look of entire
stolidity that the duenna did not I'M
derstand English, he remarked, in a
low and supposedly tender voice. II
wish that you would say my instead
of our senorita. L should be happy
if you did,
The young woman laughed, and
then checked herself.
''Ah, senor," she said, 81 have left
those behind who were dear to me.
think only of being reunited to
them"
Let me go in search of them,'' ex-
claimed the young sergeant. Il will
go everywhere to find them in order
to win every smile from you
'HSenor," responded the young wo-
man. there is nothing in our Span
IL, i IL
You are indeed, a Sir Gaiahad. They
came with US and were frightened
from us. Ihave no doubt that they
succeeded in also placing themselves
in the protection of los Americanos.
Such is my earnest hope"
The girl stepped back in coquet-
fish way so that the young sergeant
might walk beside her. The more he
talked with her the more he was con-
WINGED that she was hiding a great
sorrow. There were lines in the clas-
steal foreheadwhich showed that the
young woman was more worried
about the safety of those whom she
had left behind than she would tell
even the sympathetic sergeant.
Sergt. Virgins as he walked along
felt a violent attack of jealousy.
Your sweetheart, perhaps?" he sug-
gestcd. The girl shook her head.
RIds, SShOI, sic Seiiu, hO1 So II
it were long ago. it might be. Per-
haps we viii meet again. she added,
just before he went away
You give me great hope" replied
Teddy Wilkins eff l can ever be OF
service to you, no matter where you
may be, you let me know"
The girl smiled and said that she
would never forget him. The young
sergeant touched his cap and with
one last, lingering glance he went his
way He was so preOccupied on the
way back that the soldiers with him
exchanged sly winks and assumed eX-
pressions intended to be exceedingly
lovelorn.
Sergt. Theodore Wilkins found lit
tie time that night to think of the fair
senorita. The Spaniards advanced and
it took all the vigor of the exhaust
ed volunteersto hold them in check.
Yet even when the Mausers filled the
air with wierd songs there came to
Teddy Wilkins the vision of a face
framed in dark hair and the sound
of voice which was musical and
low.
Days of hard fighting followed and
when it was all over Sergt- Theodore
wilkins went in search of her who
had called him Sir Galahad. He
found her. too, within the protection
of the American lines. sheltered by
the Red Cross, and happy because she
had been reunited by her own-her
husband and four children.-New
York Herald.