Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-10-28

To carry back. Yet he has not been
known /" mention tie matter Why?
When every enc talked he cas- silent.
Through whose influence: This was
something 10 find ont.
Sixth. Though at the time the hene-
diction was pr"!l"unCc'l every one was
In Il state "f alarm except the bride. II
was noticed that She gave IN involun-
tary rccoil when Lcr bridegroom stoop-
cd for the customary kiss. Why:
Were the lines of her last farewell
that moment II sudden realization of
her lack of love:
Seventh She did not go again up
| stairs. but very soon fed from the
house with the rest of the bridal party.
Petty facts all. but possibly more
significant than appeared. l made up
my mind To find the boy who brought
the bouquet and also the one who car
vied back h.'r message.
But here SURPRISE il not Il check,
awaited ne Tie florists boy had left
| his place, and 10 one could tell where
he had gone Neither could | find the
turly haired waiter at Rauchers. He
lad left also but II was to join the vol
! untecrs at San Antonio.
Was there meaning in this coinci-
! dence? | resolved to know. Visiting
| the former hauntS of both boys, l fail
ell to come upon any evidence Of an
understanding between them or of
their having shown any special inter
est in the Jeffrey tragedy. Both seem
ed to have been strangely reticent In
regard to the florists boy showing
stupidity and the waiter such satl.fac-
| ton in his prospective soldering that
no other topic wis deemed worthy his
| attention. The latter had n sister. and
! she could not say enough of the de-
! light her brother had shown ut the
| prospect OF riding Il horse again and
| Of fighting in such good company. He
| had had SOME experience as Il cowboy
| before coming to Washington, and
| from the moment war WIS declared
| had expressed his intention of joining
the recruits for Cuba as soon as he
| could see her so provided for tnat his
| death would not rob her Of proper sup
port How this had come about she
did not know. Three weeks before he
had been in despair over the faint pros
pect Of doing what he wished. Then,
suddenly and without any explanation
| Of how the change had come about, he
had rushed In upon her with the news
that he was going 10 enlist in a COM
pany made UP Of broncho busters and
| rough riders from the west. that she
need not worry about herself or about
him, for he had just put $500 to
her account in bank. and that as for
himself he possessed a charmed life
and was immune, as she we'll knew,
and need fear bullets no more than
the fever BY this he meant that he
had had yellow fever years before In
Louisiana and that ball which had
once been fired at him had gone clean
through his body without taking his
life.
What was the date of the evening
on which he told you he had placed
money in bank for your
april %"
Two days after the Jeffrey-Moore
wedding!
Convinced now that his departure
from town was something more than
n coincidence, l pursued my inquiries
and found that he had been received,
just rs she had said. into the First vol
unteer corps under Colonel Wood. This
required influence. Whose was the in
fuence? 1t took me some time to find
out. but after many and various at
tempts, most Of which ended In fall
ure, l succeeded in learning that the
man who had worked and obtained
for him a place in this favored corps
was Francis Jeffrey.
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