The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-13


was not until certain Chicago sojourn-
ers generously spread the news that
the cause of her breakdown became
apparent TO the good doctors. Before
many days the girl who SAT- wan and .
diStrait upon the flower shaded piazza
was an object OF curiosity 10 fashion /
able Pasadena. As soon as she was
strong enough to endure the trip the /
hunted trio forsook Pasadena and fed .
northward
San Francisco afforded relief in pri |
vacy. James spirits began TO revive. |
There had not been nor was there /
ever 10 be any mention OF that terri |
bic night and its revelations. What
she may have felt and suffered I'm Sc
cret could only be conjectured by those
who loved her. Bansemer's name was
never uttered. His fate remained IN
known TO her. The PARKWAY, unhappy
look in her eyes proved to them that
Graydon was never out OF her
thoughts.
David Cable was in Chicago when
Mrs. Gable received word from her
sister. once Kate Coleman. that she
soon would reach San Francisco with
her husband, bound for the Philip
pines. Kate was the wife of West
Pointer who had achieved the rank OF
colonel in the volunteers by virtue of
political necessity. His regiment had
been ordered to the islands. and she
was accompanying him with their
daughter. a girl OF sixteen.
Colonel Hardin had seen pleasant
service at the eastern posts. where his
wife had attained a certain kind of
social distinction in the army fast set.
She was not especially enamored OF
the prospect ahead OF her in the Phil
ippines. But the new colonel was a
strict disciplinarian on and off the
field. He expected to be brigadier
general If fortune and favoritism sup.
ported him long enough. Mrs. Hardin
, could never be anything more than
private in the ranks. so far as his es-
timation of distinction was concerned.
His daughter, Ethel, had, by means of
no uncertain favoritism, advanced
| few points ahead of her mother and
might have ranked as sergeant in the
family corps.
Mrs. Hardin played cards, drank
| highballs, flirted with the younger Off
! GERS, got talked about with pleasing
emphasis and was as happy as any
subordinate could be. They had not
! even thought of such thing as d.
vorce, and the whole army wondered
and expressed disgust. The army's
appetite for scandal is surpassed only
! by its bravery in war. 1t is even
limited that the latter is welcomed as a
| 1oophole for the former. War brings
peace.
The arrival of the Harbins and n
staff of gay young cadets fresh from
the banks of the Hudson put new life
into the recluses. The regiment was
to remain at the Preside for several
weeks before sailing One OF the lieu
tenants was a Chicago boy and an ac-
quaintance of Graydon Bansemer. 1t
was from him that Jane learned that
her sweetheart was a soldier in the
service, doubtless now in LuZon.
A week before the sailing of Colonel
Harbin's transport Jane suddenly an
nounced that she had but one desire
on earth. and that was to go TO Ma
Mia with her aunt She did not pre-
sent her plea with the usual claim
that she wanted TO be of service to her
country. She was not asking TO go
out as a heroine of the ordinary type.
Instead she simply announced that she
wanted to go as a temporary member
of Colonel Harbin's family. to endure
their hardships and to enjoy their en-
thusiasms. Mrs. Gable recognized the
true motive, however
Her pleadings We're in vain. The
Ia
join them. kilograms few back and
forth across the continent, and David
Cable came on to present his feeble
objections.
When the great transport sailed
: away, Jane Gable was one OF her pas
sengers. the ward of the regiment.
"Its just for little while. dad" she
said wistfully at the dock; "a few
months I'll think of you every minute
I'm away"
The blood of the man in the service
was calling to her. The ocean was be
tween them. The longing to be neal
him, to tread the same soil. had con
quered in the eternal battle of love
After all. no matter how the end wa'
attained, she was a creature of life
brought into the world to love and Il
be loved. She put the past behind be
and began TO build a new future
future in which the alteration Of Gray
don Bansemer was the foundation
The hope that makes all human aver
ages was at the work OF reconstruc
ton; youth was the builder. Th'
months of destruction had not left ;
hopeless ruin as the heritage of deac
impulses.
The world grew brighter as the shil
forged westward. Each day sen
o warmer blood into her veins and
: deeper light into her eyes. The new
: life was not inspired by the longing Il
y be his wife. but to see him again an,
d to comfort him. She would be n
T., mans wife.
: At last one hot, soft morning il
3 early July the great transport slippe'
! past Corregidor and turned its nos
e across Manila bay. past Cavite. 20
ward the anchorage which ended til
v long voyage. The city Of Manila la.
e stretched out before them-Manila. tn
/ new American capital
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