The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-04

1 pretending yet unresponsive to ths pain that enveloped her.
 1 "I can't see any one that I know
 here" she said listlessly. "Oh, the
 thought of what they are saying!" 1 They did not tell her that Graydon
 had enlisted as g private soldier in the
 United States army. Jane only knew 1 sinister existed.
 Cables devotion to her was beauu- ful. He could not have been more ten 1 der had she been his own daughter
 instead of his wife's imposition. Jane was ill in Pasadena for many weeks. Her depressed condition made her recovery doubtful. Ii was plain to l two persons, at least, that she did not care whether she lived or died. The
 physicians were puzzled. but no expla- nation was offered by the Cables. It
 was not until certain Chicago sojourn- CTS 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 to fashion able Pasadena. As soon as she was strong enough to endure the trip the hunted trio forsook Pasadena and fled northward
 San Francisco afforded relief fin pri- vacy. Jane's spirits began to revive There had not been nor was there ever to be any mention of that terri ble night and it's revelations. What she may have felt and suffered in se- cret could only be conjectured by those who loved her. Bansemer's name was never uttered. His fate remained un- known to her. The faraway, unhappy look in her eyes proved to them that Graydon was never out of her thoughts.
 David Gable was in Chicago when Mrs. Cable 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 Harbin had seen pleasant service at the eastern posts. where hie wife had attained a certain kind of social distinction 1n the army fast set. She was not especially enamored of the prospect ahead of her in the Phil fppfnes But the new colonel was a strict discipIinarian on and of the field. He expected to besa brigadier general if fortune and fayoritism sup ported him long enough. Mrs. Harbin could never be anything more than a 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. Harbin played cards, drank highballs, firted with the younger off, cers, got talked about with pleasing emphasis and was as happy as any subordinate could be. They had not even thought of such thing as di NOACEs ahu LAC NAoiS aAny SA1ALSICA and expressed disgust. The army's appetite for scandal is surpassed only by it's bravery h war. It is even hinted that the latter fs welcomed as loophole for the former. War brings peace.
 The arrival of the Harbins and a staff of gay young cadets fresh from the banks of the Hudson put new life into the recluses. The regiment was weeks before sailing, One of the neu- tenants was Chicago boy and an ac- quaintance of Graydon Bansemer. It 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 nila 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 8 heroine of the ordinary type. Instead she simply announced that she wanted to go as temporary member of Colonel Harbins family, to endure their hardships and to enjoy their en- thusiasms Mrs. Gable recognized the true motive, however. 1
 Her pleadings were in vain. The Harbins had lucklessiy urged Jane to join them. Telegrams flew back and forth across the continent, and David Cable came on to present his feeble objections.
 When the great transport sailed away, Jane Cable was one of her pas 1 sengers, the ward of the regiment
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