The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-29

I services of Americans-when it an
nounces itself able to fight it's own
| fght-jus- for the sake of being within
| range of guns. to scent the battle from
afar-you will leave me"
Margaret" interrupted Rob sudden
ly, as he paced the gravel walk in FROM
of her, Just stop to think! Ever since
fathers death I've been virtually the
head of the family. I've stuck close to
the office. the banks and the corpora
items in which our family was inter-
| ested, and all the time there has been
ringing in my ear that call to be up
and away-a primitive call, if you will,
cut it has throbbed through my brain
until it has seemed some lays as If
should go mad for a free life and for
action. For the week before left New
York I worked night and day to get
| things in shape so ] could go, to leave
I everything so that the girls would not
have to think for themselves before 1
| re turned"
"Then you had fully decided to go
before you saw me. You never even
wrote me about it,
81 thought I could talk it over with
you better than 1 could write and ex-
plain"
when does To-Hari leave?" Her
voice was even, almost hard.
"He arrives in San Francisco the
last of this week. We expect to sail
| the first of next"
Margaret reached out, as if to hold
him back, then she suddenly leaned
| back in feigned indifference.
81 want you to go with me, Mar
| garrett" he continued slowly. Think
what a honeymoon it would be, across
the Pacific, few weeks in Toxic"
And then you would leave me
alone!"
There is a delightful American col
| ony in Toxic, and the diplomatic corps
I asked your father before l left New
York, and he was quite willing. He
seemed to understand just how 1 feel"
"Probably Men usually do under
stand each other, but they certainly
do not understand women. America
is quite good enough for me, and I've
no Quixotic blood in my veins" She
rose and smoothed down her tennis
skirt with elaborate care.
Rob rose also, white to his lips.
"Then you mean that you will not
marry me now and go with me as far
as Tokio?"
MY dear boy" she said with an air
of patronage that struck him dumb,
"the idea is absurd! Never was such
a honeymoon proposed to woman. 1
shall return to New York with mother
the day after you sail, and while you
are tagging the JAPANESE ARMY we Will
| be in Europe. Heavens! Think of
those horrid New York papers: 'Ro-
mantle parting of society belle and her
| fiance, who goes as special correspond
ent of The Planet with the Japanese
army Young millionaire dazzles ORR
entails by his munifcent gifts to Red
Cross work No on second consider
alton, I think 1 had better not wait
until you sail I hate notoriety."
A mighty wave of color serged over
Rob's face then, receding, left him
very white and stern.
81 have made a mistake in approach
ing you so abruptly, Margaret. Along
with my unfortunate Quixotic ideas, as
/ you call them, l possess also a blunt
ness of speech which has evidently
prevented my making you see just
what your answer has meant to me.
You are making it very hard for me.
! Perhaps you would rather-rather con-
slider yourself free-when l go?''
! NO" replied Margaret slowly, and
looking over his head to the mountains.
when a Van Orm gives her word she