Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-16
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sci, major? Is this the party that sailed Oh
the Endymion?'
Wondering more Winn answered yes,
and Mr.. Seward glanced significantly at the
President. Then, as though unwilling to
confess to anxiety, I'VE hear OF certain
southern people who are also passengers
for the benefit of their health. They nave
doubtless met before"
Half an hour later when driven care1uily
over to the hospital in springy carriage,
Winn limped slowly, apprehensiveiy, TOWARD
Ingra hams bed, and was surprised 10 see
him family smiling. Two feminine forms
were only just vanishing through the north.
ward doorway "They asked for you,
whispered Rex YEARLY. Miss Langdon
and her sister. They said they had been
here before, but 1 couldn't remember. In
graham seemed rather more bored than
benefited. He was still so languid and inert,
so Indifferent to all about him. so urgent
with inquiry as to people at home Wlnn
knew he was yet too weak to be told the
entire truth still too weak to bear the
shock of reading such letter as that to
Garden, still too near the danger point TO
stand the test of hearing that those whom
he had loved and served had gone utterly
out of his life, leaving him in his ex-
tremity without so much as word of pity,
of sympathy, or sorrow or farewell. Winn
looked into the haggard, hungry eyes that
sought his face with such piteous appeal,
and lied as best he could.
Eyes, old boy" said he, Il had one letter
full of interest in you. but fuller of concern.
nj J Raynor, it said, had been so pros
trated that writing was impossible, and
Garden has heard from them. They were
going to try a sea voyage to tone her up.
Get well now and leave that other business
to me. What about Durham? oh, he's gone
with them He has to take care of the old
man, you know" With that, declaring the
doctor was signaling to him perhaps the
one true thing he had said, VIM broke
away to the north piazza
There stood the surgeon in charge and
with him, in the dim light of the gas lamp,
the two ladies who so lately had been at
Ingraham'S bedSide-the two girls who,
with their mother had appeared for the
first time before his eyes the day the Presi-
dent had visited the hospital There was
the sweet, smiling face into which the
wounded officer had gaZed as he lay band
aged practically bound and helpless-the
face of Alice Langdon. Winn needed no
reminder She had thrown aside the great,
soft broad brimmed. circular hat of straw.
and it hung by its ribbons before her like
some suspended shield. Her light, lustrous
hair, ripping away on each side from the
part at the middle. was brushed back in
heavy rolls about the tiny ears and then,
gathered in a beaded net, hung low at the
be- ok of the neck. John Winn thought and
most men called her. beautiful: and ier
lovely. girlish face: her dark hazel eyes,
with their heavy, arChing brows and firing
ing lashes. the soft bloom of her rounded
cheeks and the really bewitching curves of
Eer mouth-all justified the claim. lie
looked upon her with soldiers eye" that
told no little of the fervent admra ton IN
his soul. and she saw and colored deeply:
and half withdrew the timidly extended
HAND
The elder it was who broke the silence
and explained:
'Fergiye us Mai. Vim. but DR.. Dallas
feared we might disturb his patients and
thought best to beckon you here. We
heard--mother heard-that you had met
kinsman of ours-at least we so regard