The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-30
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Our Daily Short Stories
AN EXPATRIATE FOR LOVE.
BY H. S. CANFIELD.
copyright. 1901. by Authors Syndicate,

but if you love me you will come
with me-"
Il love you, Senior Drake, but it is
on the other side of the world, and
your people would laugh at your
wife"
Il have no people. and if I had you
would still be everything to me-"
Stay here with me. Senior Drake.
1t is my country and my people know
you"
He took her in his arms. With the
soft feel of her cheek against his, he
thought rapidly but not clearly. A
bugle blew and he turned toward
camp, his strong arm about her waist
lifting her lightly now and then clear
of the broken ground.
There came to this village 20
friendly Filipinos. They wore calico
shirts, white cotton trousers, sandals
ing farm laborers and said that work
was hard to find because the country
had been torn up by war. They were,
OF course, unarmed, and were dis
posed to be sociable. The sergeant
had been two years in the Philippines
and told them to keep away from
camp. He assured them of his knowl-
edge that there was no harm in
them, but their distance was better
Keep hangin' around, Billy" he
said to their head man, whose name
was Emilio Chrisiano Trinidad Fran
cisco Flores de Garcia, an you'll hear
something go off,"
Emilio smiled deprecatingly, bowed
and moved his followers to the far end
of the village. Himself, however, devel-
oped marked liking for Juana. He
spent good deal of time in or near to
the Mayors hut and hid himself from
the sergeant with much skill. Because
he admired native beauty strenuously
Drake stopped him one day in the sin
gle street, grasped him by the calico
shirt, turned him swiftly about and
kicked him violently. Juana, peering
through the cabin cracks, saw this and
was troubled.
A week later the private was on
night post rs yards from the cabin.
The sergeant was a good deal of a
martinez and had not relaxed disci-
pline, although he was ten days march
from headquarters. Drake leaned on
his rifle and thought-not of Emilio,
who was seldom in his head, nor OF
the close of the war, about which he
cared nothing, but of Juana and the
warm kiss she had given him not two
hours before. The moon was below the
horizon, the stars were dimmed by a
haze and the mountain doomed darkly
and shapeleslsy. Through underground
which stopped five yards from him a
dark form wormed its way like a
snake. His post was carelessly chosen
because there was no trouble in the
air and never had been in that neigh
borhood. Two bats circling aimlessly
about noticed the form and swerved
toward ii and away from 1t. They no.
ticed another form moving parallel
with Ii and twenty feet away. Neither
made any noise, nor did group of
other forms which lay huddled in the
very heart of the growth. The bats,
circling aimlessly, observed that the
second form made better speed, reach
ed the edge of the brush and was
crouched The first form in due time
gained the edge of the clearing,
Strengthened to it's full hight instantly
and then leaped forward. 1t held long
knife in it's hand. One spring outward
and the second form was behind it, 1t
was shorter and slighter but a heavy
club was whirled in air and CAM
down. The first form sprawled with
a shattered skull Drake. with his back
to the underground, wheeled to see
Emilio kicking vainly on the grass and
to feel his own knees embraced by
Juana.
No words were necessary. To fire
the Krag- Jorgensen, snatch her up
and break toward the cabin was the
work of an instant. His comrades in
pajamas, rifles cooked. met him ten
feet from the door, surging outward
Whitish figures with mistaken con-
fidence burst from the thicket looking
for a dead sentinel. A sharp, biting
rattle, and three of them pitched face
forward. A second later the others
were hidden.
"senor Drake Juana whispered
you will stay with me now?"
Since, so far as / know, there is
no woman in America who would kill
a man for me-" he answered, II stay
here"
This happened last summer. Cor
roborative details, garnished with sol
der talk, may be had from any re-
turned members of the Sixty-fifth.
They will tell you, too, that marry
ing live mayors daughter and grow
ing tobacco for living are better
than looking for work in the United
States.