Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-01-02

take her with him. you should have
known" said he, "that even if had had
to go by transport, you would have
gone by the Empress of India. It's only
60 hours from Manila to Hong-Kong,
and could have Joined you soon after
your arrival. AS it is I shall see you
safely established there-I have letters
to certain prominent English people
then shall go over to join the feet when
1t arrives in Manila bay"
That night she wrote long and des-
perately 10 Margaret. HE swore he
would follow me wherever we went I'M
til granted him the interview. You
know how he logged me in Washington,
followed me to Denver, and any mo-
ment he, may address me here. +, will
not let me return to you. He insists on
my going to Hong-Kong. where he can
occasionally join me. But Rollin holds
those letters over me like a whip, and
declares that he will give them into
Frost's hands unless I see him when
ever he presents himself. You made
me swear to Frost never cared straw
for my darling that was. o God, how
I loved him! and if these letters ever
reach the man to whom you have sold
me, he would treat me as he would
dog, even if he doesn't kill me. Meg
| Meg-you must help me, for live in
! terror"
And that she lived in terror was true,
| some women We're quick to see. Never
would she go anywhere, even along the
| corridor, alone. If the colonel could
not come to luncheon she was served
in their rooms. If she had to go calling
or shopping it was in carriage and
always with some army woman whom
she could persuade. to go with her.
One DAY. just before their intended
departure, she drove out paying part
ing calls. 1t was quite late when the
carriage drew up at the Market street
entrance, the nearest to their elevator.
The door boy sprang across the side
walk to open the carriage, and as she
stepped YEARLY out tall young man,
erect and slender, dressed in dark
travelling suit, fairly confronted her,
| raised his derby and said: you can
give me ten minutes now, Mrs. Frost.
Be good enough to take my arm"
Bowling her head she strove to dodge
by, but it was useless. Again he con-
fronted her. Piteously she looked up
in his pale, stern face and elasped her
hands. "Oh, Rellin." she cried, "give
me my letters, / dare not-see you.
Have mercy" and down again she
went in senseless heap upon the stone.
Col. and Mrs. Frost did not sail with the
Empress of India. Brain fever set in
and for three weeks the patient never
left the hotel. Frost made his wife's
dangerous illness the basis of an appli-
cation to be relieved from the Manila
detail, but, knowing well it would be
late summer before the troops could
be assembled there in sufficient force
to occupy the city, and that his clerks
and books had gone by transport with
the second expedition in June, the war
department compromised on a permits
sion to delay, BY the time the fourth
expedition was ready to start there
was no further excuse; moreover, the
doctors declared the sea voyage was
just what Mrs. Frost needed, and again
their stateroom was engaged by the
Empress line, and, though weak and
languid, Mrs. Frost was able to appear
In the diningroom. Meanwhile vast
amount of work was saddled on the de-
partment to which Frost was attached
and daily he was called upon to aid
the local officials or be in consultation
with the commanding general This
would have left Mrs. Frost to the min.
istrations of her nurse alone, but for
the loving kindness of army women in
the hotel. They lowered about her
room, taking turns in spending the
afternoon with her, or the evening, for
it was speedily apparent that she had
n nervous dread of being left by her
self, "or even with her husband" saie
the most observing, Already it had
been whispered that despite his assid.
uous care and devotion during her i'll
ness, something serious was amiss
Everybody had heard of The adventure
which had preceded her alarming i'll
ness: Everybody knew that she had
been accosted and confronted by q
strange young man. at sight of whom