The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-18
THE MAJORS RETURN
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4Thes are9 One summ9 . Wee
Point eadd8 proposeS tame. 3 3easnea
that 4e had Seen engagea 60 three
girls in eve seasons
Boys, mere boys, chose seHows! Bus
1took ao general interest "a 3our se4
while at @e goit2 . 3ovea Shen !
went there, and when 9 Seft ! spenR hy
leave before joining sere with Che gSS
2 loved"
"And you lost ner?s
Eyes" Then, afte0 seSera5 AfRSs Dc
speak: But the story is 8o@ sac &c
tell. Her father owned agottage Aefe
For aught / know she may still De
spending Ger summers here"
1--WE have cottage and spend every
summer here If you will confide her
name to me / may be able&o tell you
something of her.
"Her name he hesitated. Was 1t
that he shrank from giving it to-
stranger? Her name is or was Mar
garet Ravens"
"How strange" said the girl after a
brief pause. Margaret Ravens is my
aunt"
He started. Her aunt! Did the
word tell him of crusty old maid or
a fat lady with children? Then his
voice trembled as he asked:
'Is she married."
EMO"
There was pause, during which the
sad sea waves rolled in, saying: 1--WE
are passing on. We are passing on"
What was your class at West
PointT' she asked.
'sLet me see," thoughtfuily. 1T was
1898 We were graduated in hurry
and sent of to Cuba
.'Then you must be in error as to
this being the anniversary of that
parting The Spanish war took place
only a decade ago."
did / say twenty years? Oh, no;
not twenty! l meant to say ten"
Soldiers are notorious for their care
lessness in small matters, especially
as to time. suppose they all expect
: to be killed and never grow old. But
this love of yours for my aunt-how
singular that you should meet me
herev'
very"
"And how fortunater
She looked into his eyes to see II he
really considered an opportunity to re-
turn to his lost love a blessing. He
: kept the secret.
"That depends he said II am but
: a battered soldier She was when we
parted not only beautiful, but wealthy.
She may have kept both beauty and
wealth."
mot her beauty Twenty years is a
long while for woman to preserve
, that
"You forget; it is only ten"
even ten years bring their changes.
, MY aunt is not beautiful She met
with an accident She wears a glass
eye"
A pause, after which he said impas-
sively, do you suppose that in an
affair of the heart any marring of a
woman's beauty could turn soldier
from his lover
"a soldier doesn't wait for a WON
ans beauty to be married or to fade
He doesn't give it time"
"You speak ironically. Am to re-
gret having confded to you a matter
nearest my hearth"
mo sympathize with you sc
heartily that am going to reunite you
with your lost love- The cottage over
there with hedge is ours Call this
! afternoon for cup of tea at 5 and
you shall see her.
What passed through his mind be
tween II and no one knows. Did he
really wish to meet one who had
: passed the freshness of youth-one
who wore glass eye? Though he
had displayed confding nature, this
secret he kept to himself He called
at s. The lady he had met in the
morning came, superbly dressed. into
the drawing room to receive him.
''Here is my aunt" she said. taking
! up a photograph album and turning t.
a picture of a girl of eighteen.
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