Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-07-08

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! Nm less par acfpant,
of course first say: 81 am sorry
And It was their first quarrel, tbo.
Then heSfalls back upon that re-
sort, and s4ys: Il am going to the
club He sets his hat and coat and
is about toropen the door, when she
half repentA and asks him not to go,
but to- stay at home with her, at
least one Nvening in the week" But
he is either obstinate to her appeal
or. does not hear her, for he closes
the door with bang and leaves her
alone, to return, perhaps, at mid
night, perhaps at dawn. Then she
takes the usual course-throws her
self onto q lounge and cries.
He goes directly to the club. There
he meets a few of his friends, and
they sit down for a smoke prepara-
tory to the nights excitement at the
whist table. Thus they sit for per-
haps half an hour when the entrance
OF rather stout individual seems to
create quite a commotion among the
smokers
He is besieged on the right and left
to come join them in their smoke.
and Robert Langdon. wonders who
this rather stout individual who en-
joys such popularity can be.
Major Hunt, one of the n ost cap
1tal story tellers we have had for
some time" answers one OF the
friends in reply to laughing query
from Langdon. "Wait until you hear
one of his stories, and you will think
so, too"
Major, this is my friend, Lang
don." =
The Major has hardly made him
self comfortable before he is asked
to tell one OF his stories, and .aftan.a
while yields to the entreatieB OF the
crowd, and begins:
There is not an army post In m
dia, nor in the world, which has not
some little romance interviewer with
Its history. But one which 1 espe-
clally remember is one in which the
faithfulness of woman, as 1 will call
1t, played. ,such an important part as
to hx the story in my mind forever.
tswas about five years ago, at an
Indian fort, that this incident oc-
Cured. We had there young
private. never did find out exactly
where he came from, and have even
forgotten his name now. He seemed
to be an Indifferent sort of s,llow.
rarely joining the rest of the men in
their larks, and keeping pretty much
TO himself. He was handsome young
man, too, nearly six feet tall, if I re-
member correctly. 1t was his mys-
ferrous manners which made us won
ger what he did with himself during
MS spare moments-that is, when his
Time was not required by the govern
ment.
we tried in vain to find out. All
tnat we could ever learn of him was
mat ne was always in his mess-room
during these intervals, and his COM
pan1on soldiers there said: He reads
and reads all the time,' that's all.
Army life did not seem to agree with
MIN very much, and we could not see
why ne ever entered into it. Still.
mere was no one with nerve enough
10 ask the question we were anxious
10 nave answered. He was the one
mystery of the fort.
Perhaps you will wonder whv we
omcers should take any interest in a
common private, but before I have
nnlsned you will see why that was.
Wnat was also mystery to us
was how he had managed to become
"eli enough acquainted with the
quartermaster's daughter to be seen
occasionally out walking with her
her name, you must remember dis.
unctly, is Genevieve Nutle. She is
ene Deile OF the fort. I believe there
was hardly man in that fort at the
tlme who would not have stood anv
torture II she had SO wished-but
oon De alarmed, gentlemen. No
such thought would have entered that
girls mind. 'A-'''
: And then she was very haau+if,,,
inaps thls had something to do
."ltn 1t. Those among us who had
fDceh III mad special reasons for feel.
ne siate1ul to her, for as soon as she
nearo Oh case of illness she seemed
10 De on pins and needles until sbe
received consent from her father r.
nurse the SICK one, whether he was
an officer or private. In tr,tb bo,
kindness and charitablenese to 81
made adorers out Of half the mon ~
the fort, and the other half were deal
in love with her.
Nov to get down to the story
One day there came the announce