New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1903-10-14

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Murray, contrary to his disposition,
for once refused to join the jolly
party of adventures going from the.
ship for an excursion into the in
terror. The big fellow was lovesick
and wished he was out of the serv-
ice. The service just now was the,
only barrier between him and his.
The future now held nothing save.
hikes, continual hikes into the dense
insect-ridden jungles after the ellu-.
sive insurrecto-but then stray
Mauser ball might pass his way and
terminate it all. Then transport
would be named in his honor and the
nation for which he had died would
remember him gratefully for time
and then forget just as Dorothy
would forget also. Strange what d
hutter woman can make in the
hearts of the brave; but love be-
seemeth all men, weak or strong
Murray, in his dark hours, which
were many at this period, said that
the congressman would never sue
coed in having him sent on the Ber-
lin detail as he had hoped. If, as the
congressman said, the president had
promised such favor, the executive
would forget it as the captain fell
into oblivion in the hills of the east.
| The drawing room element of man
i kind i'll New York, or the colonel.
would press their demands, and Do
rothy, in his absence, might forget
her promises. Their engagement
seemed SO quick and phantom-like to
him; she might think him joking and
playing with her heart, as is done
SO often, seemingly for practice,
among the sexes in society. If not
that she might despair of his return
and, in her dependency, give herself
awsy, and then, ali, then-then there
was more whisky sour and another
cigarette.
This sort of lamentation was suffer-
ed by Murray for nearly a month, at
the end of which time he had arrived
in the Division of the Philippines for
duty and found himself sole ruler of
Bacour, little city of nipa huts far
into the interior of Cebu. Gel Cap
tain," as the over-polite and PREACHER
/; GUS natives would say, was monarch
of all his eyes and field glasses sur
veyed; but still the captain was far
from being happy man. -
Military rule prevailed throughout:
the archipelago and Murray, COM
handing the district in which he was
posted, was a sovereign, kind and
just, but proud and formal, with.
nothing save plain, white casa for a
palace and a bamboo chair for a,
throne.
In view Of his long and distasteful
voyage two mails had arrived in the
islands via San Francisco since his
departure from New York, the last
of which brought him crushing
letter from Dorothy. Crushing be-
cause that sensible little woman had
taken righteous offense at the writer's
ungrounded suppositions. He was
mistaken in her nature. His love-lorn
epistles, written while enroute, had
insinuated that she was frivolous;
and tickle, incapable of making an
agreement to keep in sacred trust and
his apprehensions were an insult to
her womanliness and she desired an
apology. =
Murray read her indignant rebukes
and denials; her censure for his
foolish fancies, and then he called
down the wrath of God, and damned
his actions until the primitive furni-
ture in the dingy office assumed a
look of askance and the candle
fickered to such an extent that the
sentry outside thought it must have
gone out.
At the first reading the captains
heart was full of regret as he fingered
tenderly over the remembrances of
the one at home. He could see her
tonight in his minds eye, laughing
and gay and looking sweeter and
fresher in a soft gown of light gauze
and comely design than the hours
struck off by an old sun dial in a
summer garden.
He pondered and then the heart
rebelled. He said she could have
looked over his jealous fears had she
but appreciated his conditions, Jeal-
ousy like his was only the scale de.
fning the weight of his love. Doro-
thys letter made him heartsore and
heavy-laden, just as his letters had
made her. The captains mind was
bathed in acrimony and he decided
to break the engagement if that were
possible and thereby show her of
| what stuff and grey matter he was
| composed. He would strive for
greater honors in the service; he
would not only strive but he would
! win them After all the service was
dear to him and in his beloved call.
| ing he would ascend and stop at moth
| ing short of stars. He would make
Miss Seaton Insignificant and she
would be compelled to look upon him
as man of mark. Not only this but
he would make love to some one else
and when Dorothy came shat in
hand" to crave pardon and the return
of his love, and the continuance of
their betrothal, he would calmly APP