New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1912-05-01
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1T begins to look a great deal Xix,
It"
But. Harry, you wouldn't deser
me abandon me to my fate?"
We'll, it isn't exactly like abandon
ment, seeing that you could go home
to your father and mother in taxi
cab"
She stared at him in horror.
so you don't want me for your
wife! You've changed your mind
You're tired OF me already! Only an
hour together, and you're sick Of your
bargain! You're anxious to get rid OF
me! YOU"
"Oh, honey. want you more thar
anything else on earth, but I'm a
soldier, dearie, a mere lieutenant in
the regular army, and I'm the slave
Of the government. I've gone through
West Point, and they won't let me re.
sign respectfully and If did, we'd
starve. They wouldn't accept my
resignation, but they'd be willing to
courtmartial me and dismiss me from
the service in disgrace. Then you
wouldn't want to marry me-and 1
shouldn't have any way OF supporting
you If you did. only know one
trade, and that's soldering"
Don't call it trade, beloved, it's
the noblest profession IN all the
world, and you're the noblest soldier
that ever was, and in year or two
you'll be the biggest general in the
army" ...
He could not afford to shatter such
q devout Illusion or quench the light
Of faith In those beloved and loving
eyes He tacitly admitted his ability
to be promoted commander-in-chief in
q year or two. He allowed that gilt.
tering possibility to remain, used it
as basis for argument. .... A..
Then, dearest, you must help me
to do my duty
were an altar and she an Iphigenia
about to be sacrificed to save the
army. And she murmured with utter
heroism:
Il will! Do what you like with
mel"
He squeezed her hand between his
biceps and his ribs and accepted the
Offering in look drenched with graf.
itude. Then he said, matter-of-factIy:
We'll see how much time We have
when we get to-whatever the name
of that street Isl
The car jolted and walled on Its
way like an old drifting rocking
chair. The motorman was In no hur.
~. The passengers seemed to have
no occasion for haste. Somebody got
on or got off at almost every corner,
and paused for conversation while
the car waited patiently. But eventu.
ally the conductor put his head In and
drawled: ........... ... i.
''Hay! Here's where you get Oh
1T"
They fastened to debark and found
themselves in narrow, gaudily-light-
cd region where they saw lordly
Observation-Disclosures, profound schol-
ar In Chicago streets. He Informed
them that the minister's street lay
far back along the path they had
come; they should have taken car
In the opposite direction, transferred
at some remote center, descended at
some unheard-of street, walked three
blocks one way and four another, and
there they would have been.
Mallory looked at his watch, and
Marjorie's hopes dropped like
wrecked aeroplane, COR he grimIy
asked how long it would take them to
reach the railroad station.
well, you'd ought to make 1t in
forty minutes" the transfer agent
said-and added. cynically, III the car
makes schedule
"Good Lord, the train starts in
twenty minutes!"
well, tell you-take this here
green car to Wexford avenoo-there's
a taxicab or two standin'
HERE"
=: THANK you. Hop on, Marjorie."
Marjorie hoped on, and they sat
down, Mallory with eyes and thoughts
On nothing but the watch he kept In
his hand ,s
During this tense Journey the girl
perfected her soul with graceful
marJyrQOm. "
I'LL go to the train with you. Har-
~, and then you can send ME home
In a taxicab."
Her neither lip trembled and her
eyes were filmed, but they were brave, {
and her voice was so tender that it u
wooed his mind from his watch. He 5
yazed at her, and found her so dear, {
30 devoted and so pitifully exquisite, ..
hat he was almost overcome by an -.
impulse to gather her into his arms u
here and then, Indifferent to the i'm
Mediate passengers or to his far-ofr .,
superiors. An hour ago they '
we're young lovers in all the Tilt and L
brill OF elopement. She had chung to
lin in the cleaning of their taxicab, q
Is it sped like genie at their within d
o the place where the minister q
vould unite their hands and raise his u
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