Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1900-01-12

uous care and devotion during her ill
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 a
strange young man, at sight of whom
she had pleaded piteously a minute
and then tainted dead away. BY this
time, too, there were Or had been near
ly a dozen of the graduating class in
town-classmates of Rollin Latrobe-
their much loved pat" and speedily
the story was told of his devotion to
her when she was Nita Terriss, of their
correspondence, of their engagement
to be married on his graduation, which
in strict confidence he had impaired
to his roommate, who kept it inviolate
until after her sudden union with Col.
Frost, and poor PATS equally sudden
disappearance. Everybody, Frost in
cluded, knew that the young man who
had accosted her must be Latrobe, and
Frost by this time knew that it must
have been he who caused her shock at
the Arlington. He ragged in his jealous
heart. He employed detectives to find
the fellow, swearing he would have
him arrested. He became morose and
gloomy, for all the arts by which Mrs.
Garrison persuaded him that Nita
looked up to him with admiration and
reverence, that would speedily develop
into wifely love, were now proved to
be Vaccinations. He knew that Nita
feared him, shrank from him and was
very far from loving him, and he be-
lieved that despite her denials and
tears and protestations she loved young
Latrobe. He wrote angrily, reproach-
fully to Margaret, who, now that her
fish was hooked, did not greatly exert
herself to soothe or reassure him.
That he could ever use violence to one
SO sweet and fragile as Nita she would
not believe for an instant. Then the
nurse, still retained, heard bitter words
from the colonel as one morning she
came to the door with Mrs. Frost's
breakfast, and while she paused, uncer-
tain about entering at such a time, he
rushed angrily forth and nearly cod
ided with her. Mrs. Frost was in
tears when the nurse finally entered,
and the breakfast was left untouched.
Late that afternoon, just after the
various trunks and boxes of the Frosts
that were to go by the transport were
packed and ready, and Mrs Frost, look
ing stronger at last, though still frag-
lie, almost ethereal, was returning from
q drive with one of her friends, the at
tention of the two ladies was drawn to a
crowd gathering rapidly IN the side
walk not far from the Baldwin hotel.
There was no shouting, no commotion,
nothing but the idle curiosity Of men
and boys, for a young soldier, a hand
some, slender, dark-eyed, darkroom
plexioned fellow of 21 or %, had been
arrested by a patrol and there they
stood, the sergeant and his two SOL
diers fully armed and equipped, the
hapless captive with his arms half filed
with bundles, and over the heads of
the little throng the ladies could see
that he was pleading earnestly with
his captors, and that the sergeant,
though looking sympathetic and far
from unkind, was shaking his head.
Mrs. Frost, listless and a little fatigued,
had witnessed too many such scenes in
former days of garrison life to take any
interest in the proceeding. How
stupid these people are!" she irritably
exclaimed; running like mad and
blockading the streets to see a soldier
arrested for absence from camp with
out a pass. Shan't we drive on?"
"Oh-just one moment, please. Mrs.
Frost. he has such a nice face-a, gen.
tleman's face, and he seems so troubled.
Do look at It'll"
Languidly and with something very
like a pout. Mrs. Frost turned her face