Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-05-26

But once fairly settled in Manila, the White
Sisters seemed to regain all the old ascen
denoy. col. Frost had taken b &, cool
roomy house, surrounded by spacious
grounds, down in Malate and close to thu
FLASHING waters of the bay. Duties kept him
early and late at his Office in the wolled city
but every evening, after the drive and din
ner, callers came thronging in ant
Witches witcheries were called into play
to charm them into blindness and
to cover Nitas titful and Iervon.
moods, now almost painfully apparent
Frost's face was at times thunder
cloud, and army circles within the outer
circle of Manila saw plainly that all
was not harmony betwiNt that veteran
Benedict and that fragile, futtering,
baby wife. The bloom of Nita's beauty
was gone. She looked wan, white, even
haggard. She had refused to leave
Hong Kong orcom to Manila until Mar.
garet's arrival, then flew to the shelter
Of that sisterly wing. Frank Garrison
had been occupying room under the
same roof with his general, but both
general and aide-de-camp were now
much afield, 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 day
by the wife of veteran field officer.
"Merciful heaven. Mrs. Lenox, there
was no time for that except by cable.
and at four dollars word. No! 1t
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, we'll and good;
if lie doesn't-well, then I've had my
fun anyway"
But it made little difference what
Frank Garrison might think, say or dc
when Nita's need came in question. II
was for Nita that Margaret Garrison 50
suddenly quilted the Preside and has
tened tor Hawaii. 1t was for her sake
to be her counsel and protection. the
elder sister had braved refusal, Difficult
ties, criticism, even Armstrong; open
suspicion and dislike. to take that long
voyage to hostile cline. That she
braved, too, her husbands displeasure
was not matter of sufficient weight tc
merit consideration. She was there tc
help Mia; and until that hapless child
were freed from "A 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 colonels part, of his dreadful rage
at Yokohama on learning that even
there-the very hour of their arrival
when the consul came aboard with
batch of letters in his hand, he had one
for Mrs. Frost. She had barely glanced
at it's contents before she was stricken
with fit of trembling. tore it in half,
and tossed the fragments on the swift
ebbing tide, then rushed to her state.
room. There she added a postscript tc
the long letter penned to Margaret on
the voyage; and the purser, not her
husband, saw it 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 little packet was tossed
aboard the new troop ship as she spec
away, one missivc in it telling Witchie
Garrison that the man whose life had
been wrecked by her sisters enforced
desertion was already in Manila await
ing her coming, and telling her, more
over, that the packet placed in Gen
Drayton's hands contained only he1
earlier letters. In his reckless wrath
Latrobe had told her that those which
bound her to him by the most solemn
pledges, those that vowed undying love
and devotion, were still in his hands,
and that she should see him and them
when at last she reached Manila.
Three mortal weeks had the sister
been there together. and never once il
that time did Mia venture forth except
when under the escort of her black
browed husband or the protection OF
her smiling, witching, 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 quarter.
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
thought of the paucity of their mum,
bers as compared with the thousands
of fanatical natives to whom the taking
of human life was of less account than
the loss of a game chicken, and iii
whose sight assassination was "a
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 to le'
her join him. The outbreak was i'm
minent. Anyone could see the war was
sure to comc-even those who strove tc
Danish alarm and reassure an anxious
nation. And when the call to arms |
should sound, duty, honor and law
would demand each soldiers instant
answer on the bat tie line; then who was
to care for the women? The very serv
ants in each household, it was known
were in most cases regularly enrolled
in the insurgent army. The crowded
districts in the city, the nipa huts sur,
the wealthy homes in the
suburbs swarmed with Filipino soldiery
in the garb of peace. Arms and ammu
milton, both, were stored in the grea,
stone churches. Knives, bolos and eis
tolls were hidden in evpr,, honco