New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-27

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&ICA09 ment but l. Dunos, sometime
OSIA j Colonel IN the army of France,
G1H have known many of your coun-
SM sSSNN tTymen, and best of all Captain
AeAGSA Frederic BrOwnee. Once l told
~ ~ you how / first met him, tanned
&I@ 10 young fellow IN a prlvates uni
form, and how after had IN
vaded the German lines and robbed them of their last
dirigble, he given his commission with us 70
become member, in time of my own regiment.
You don't know all that meant You can't APP
pTeCiate that 1t as great regiment ever rode
In a fOTlOrn cause and charged gay to meet grim
and certain death; that the army talked OF IT. that
and this with due mOdesty-we Captains Three were
al a part of its history and that BrOwnee gained
his place but 10 add fame its annals. Aye, he was
worthy That affair at POissy, the exploit outside
OF StraSbuTg the episode OF the spy at the crossing
OF the Lore, and-Oh, we'll a score of other places
never tried 10 pry into his confidence after that
hrst night when ! learned that he once had been
Captain IN your American army and had lett II for
womans sake. A man may not speak a wOmans
name even TO his COmTade when II involves affair
of the heart but last learned the story from his
own hps after l. ms Colonel had proved worthy OF 1t
j think he told It 10 me because IN the gage of war
life Is uncertain and he wanted some 70 know. in
case his snuffed is the candle by desert
wind, that his way had been hard one and not with
out unjust travail.
He graduated from that fine academy of yours
that West Point which has set a standard that de
mandS that officer shall be a gentleman in all that
both titles imply. l don't fancy that he was what
you Americans call a gOOdy gOOdy IN his class for
his later Teckessness would show that his blood ran
hot and that his spirit was bold. presume that like
many of French youth have done, he
sObered and steaded down when his Government
gave him his commission and sent him out 10 be
example and 10 command other men. He admitted
10 me that as Second Lieutenant he still some
what uncurbed; but proudly asserted that when he
became First he had learned to check his temper.
When he became Captain at a very young age his
responsibilities weighed upon him and he began TO
make amends for all youthful and exploits by
entering into the work at hand with hearty deter
minatOn TO give his best of brains and effort his
service.
IN course of time when peace came over your Coun-
try, he was sent back 20 the Philippines TO take
part IN the upbulding of those islands. You should
be familiar with all that done there. / am not:
tor, as YOU know, l was then in Agiers where the
worlds progress came 20 in nothing more than
Tumors and the very events of Paris diSOinted
tales. either utterly incredible sadly distorted
My Captain was proud of his work and Of the men
under him. He wanted 10 achieve something. And
ms ambitions We're spurred, those of SO MANY
young men, by the meeting with a girl. a Mile Ger
trude Sutherland. / gathered from all know of the
story that she was the daughter of a Judge who had
been sent out there reconstruct the laws of those
turbulent isles and that she attracted much attention
from the men OF Brownelle's age ANYWAY She at
tTacted him.
He had much TO commend him He had breeding
and. moreover had inherited enough of the worlds
goods 10 make his pay a secondary consideration
nave told you that even when FIRST knew him he
was good 20 look upon and that was after hardship
and vicissitude had scanned his face and taken M,
boyish enthusiasm from his eyes. All he must have,
been handsome young blade when first he met and
paid court to herr
But the ways Of women and Fate are beyond com,
prehensOn. Perhaps | should not say that. for
after all ] am better acquainted with Fate / have
had small time TO devote to those other misresses of
destiny.
There was another sutton in her train who e,
amoured the heart of Miss Sutherland and I have a
mental picture of him given me low Rrownell. that
nght when lying al the foot of grassy slope behind