The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-07-04

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 a
strange young man, at sight of whom
she had pleaded piteously minute
and then tainted dead away. BY this
time, too, there were or had been near
ly 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 Mia 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 tc Margaret, who, now that hel
fish was hooked, did not greatly exert
herself to soothe or reassure him
That he could ever use violence TO ont
so sweet and fragile as Mia she would
not believe for an instant. Then tn,
nurse, still retained, heard bitter words
from the colonel as one morning sh,
came to the door with Mrs. Frost,
breakfast, and while she paused, uncer
tain about entering at such time, ht
rushed angrily forth and nearly col
lided with her. Mrs. Frost was il
tears when the nurse finally entered
and the breakfast was left untouched.
Late that afternoon, just after the
various trunks and boxes of the Frost:
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
a drive with one of her friends, the at
tention of the two ladies was drawn to &
crowd gathering rapidly on the side
walk not far from the Baldwin hotel
There was no shouting, no commotion
nothing but the idle curiosity of mel
and boys, for young soldier, hand
some, slender, dark-eyed, darkroom
plexioned fellow of 81 or 90, had beer
arrested by a patrol and there they
stood, the sergeant and his two sol
diers fully armed and equipped, tn,
hapless captive with his arms half filled
with bundles, and over the heads o.
the little throng the ladies could SCI
that he was pleading earnestly will
his captors, and that the sergeant
though looking sympathetic and fan
from unkind, was shaking his head
Mrs. Frost, listless and little fatigued
had witnessed too many such scenes il
former days of garrison life to take any
interest in the proceeding "Hov
stupid these people are!" she irritabl,
exclaimed; running like mad anc
blockading the streets to see soldier
arrested for absence from camp with
out 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,"
Languidly and with something very