The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-11-15
CHAPTER Xv.-CoNrINUED.

CHAPTER XV.-CoNrNUED.
Despite his temporary escape, cir
eumstances and the civil authorities
(now become decidedly military had
thrown him into still further asso-
citation with the woman whom he
would have SO gladly shunned-the
importunate Miss Perkins. He had
taken turn around the block-and
refuge in the English club-until he
thought her disposed of at home and
his carriage returned. He had come
across the little equipage, trundling
search of him, had dined without ap-
petite and smoked without relish,
striving to forget that odious wom-
ans hints and aspersions, aimed ev-
identity at the Rays, and had gone
to his own room ITO write when a
corporal appeared with a request
from the captain in charge of the
police guard of Ermita to step down
to the Office.
1t was much after nine then and
the excitement caused by the alarm
was about over, the troops going
back to barracks and presumably to
bed. The captain apologized for call
ing on him that late in the evening,
but told him man recognized as
Murray, deserter from the cavalry,
was secreted somewhere in the neigh
borhood, and it was reported that he
(Stuyvesant) could give valuable in
formation concerning him. Stuyve-
SAINT could and did, and in the midst
of it in came Miss Perkins. flushed,
eager and demanding to know if that
villain was yet caught-"and if not,
why not?"
Then she caught sight, of Stuyve-
SAINT and precipitated herself upon
him. That man Murray had hate
fully deceived her and imposed upon
her goodness, she declared. She had
done everything to help him at the
Presidio. and he had promised her a
saPer signed by all the boys asking
hat the p D. AS be recognized as
he organization the soldiers favored,
ind showed her petition he had
trawn up and was getting signatures
10 by the hundreds. That paper
would have insured their being rec
ognized by the government instead
of those purse-proud Red Cross peo-
pie. and then he had wickedly de-
serted. after-after-and Stuyvesant
could scarcely keep a straight face
getting $50 from her and a ring that
he was going to wear always until he
came back from Manila-an officer
Oh. he was smart one, smooth
one! All that inside of three days
after he got to the Presidio, and then
was arrested, and then, next thing
she knew, he had fled-petition,
money. ring and all.
Another soldier told her the sig
natures were bogus. And that very
night she had recognized him. spite
of his beard. and at sight Of her he
had cut and run ("Well he might"
thought stuyvesant). And then Miss
Perkins yielded to the strain of over
taxed nerves and had to be conducted
home.
She lived but a block or two away,
and it was Stuyvesant who had to
play escort. The air, unluckily, re-
vived her, and at the gateway she
turned and had this to add to her
previous statements:
"You think the Ray people your
friends, lieutenant. and I'm not the
kind of woman to see a worthy young
man trified with. You've been go
ing there every day and everybody
knows it. and knows that you were
sent away to Ioilo in hopes of break
ing You of it. That girls promised
in marriage to that young man who's
got himself into such scrape all on
her account He's here-followed
her here to marry her. and il he's
found he's liable to be shot. Oh, you
can believe or not, just as you please,
but never say didn't try to give you
fair warming. Know? Why. know
much more about what's going on
here than your generals do. have
friends everywhere among the boys: