Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-21
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And, as this was the longest speech
Turnbull had ever heard from Loring's
lips, except his arraignment of Nevins
before the court, the colonel pondered
over it not a little. He took the letter
and read it when an hour later the Idaho
was blowing her lazy way southwark
through dull and leaden sea:
I'm not the first man to be fooled by a slip
of a girl Loring-wrote Blake-it isn't the
first time that woman has got the better OF
me, and it may not be the last. But the
chagrin and misery feel is not because l have
suffered so much but because you have, and
all through my fault. l suppose you know the
general has ordered me relieved and sent back
tony company as no longer worthy to be called
s. cavalryman. All the same, one of these
days 1 mean TO get a transfer. My legs are too
long for the doughboys anyhow Meantime
with all meekness I'll bear my burden de-
serve it. But you'll believe when say it
isn't the punishment, the humiliation, this has
cost me that so weighs upon me now; 1t Is the
thought of your loss and your prostration.
One of these days l may find means to show
you how much feel 1t. just now have only
n hint. Last year at this time my most cher
ished possession was my new spring style SIO
Amidon. a silk hat is out of place in Ari-
iona as n sunShade in Sitka, yet my striker
has lust unpacked it and asked, with a grin on
his COMPOUNDED mug. 'What'u l be dom wild
this sorf' L znowl Sole leather hatboX and
ALL it goes, by blackboard to your address at
division headquarters. Our heads about
of the same caliber- The main difference is
that yours seems loaded. The Alta says silk
hats are now worn on sunny mornings sport
mine for me- though 1T be of the vintage of
bygone year. l shall not show my face in civ
iiZation till | have lived down my shame. so
now for two years at least OF Yuma and the
consolation to be derived from the solitary
study of philosophy and Shakespeare. Yours
in meeknesS of spirit, GERALD BLAKE.
2. S.-They say that Sanchos brothers real
name is Escalante. If ever you come across
one of that race keep your eyes peeled.
Another day and the pillows of the
gulf were breaking under the Idaho's
counter and kissing sternward in snowy
foam, answering the rush of a strong
southwest wind. 1t was late at evening
when the black hull went Keeling in to-
ward the lights of Guaymas and the
massive anchor, with prOdigiOus splash,
diyed for the sandy bottom, but late as
it was the shore boats and lighters came
pulling to the gangway stairs, and mer-
chants, clerks and customs officers nim
bly, scrambled up the side, and then fol-
lowed a number Of passengers, cigarette
smoking and cackling about the swarm
ing deck, and Turnbull and the engineer
hung over the rail and watched for the
promised boatload of beauty, and pres
emily it came Two or three small boats
were rowed alongside, and there were
glimpses of shrouded forms and there
were sounds of joyous laughter and MUIR
INJURED gallantries and dark eyed, dark
skinned caballeros, and the growing
injunctions of presumably paterfamil-
las. And presently the ladderIike stairs
were cleared and, one after another,
woman after woman was assisted up
the narrow way and came sailing into
the zone of light from the polished re.
Electors, elder women first, then slender,
sparkling eyed damsels, whose white
teeth cleaned as they chatted with their
escorts. Two undeniably attractive
Spanish looking girls were objects of
most assiduous care. Then came third,
younger, mere slip of maid, with but
single cavalier, a grim, grizzled, stern
looking Mexican, who glanced sharply
about as he set foot on the solid deck,
and then, without a word Loring's
hand was placed on the colonel's arm,
and the lieutenant's eyes said, Look T.
for as the girls face was turned for an
instant toward them there stood reveal
ed the dusky little maid of the ella.
Blake's siren-Pancha.