The Bottineau courant., 1912-06-14

But, Harry, you wouldn't desert
me now-abandon me to my fate?"
We'll, 1t isn't exactly like abandon
ment, seeing that you could go homo
to your father and mother in q taxi.
cab"
She stared at him In horror.
80 you don't want me for your
wife! You've changed your mindl
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. I want you more than
anything else on earth, but I'm q
soldier, dearie, 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 II 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 1t a trade, beloved, it's
the noblest profession IN all the
world, and you're the noblest soldier
that ever was, and In a year or two
you'll be the biggest general in the
army"
He could not afford to shatter such
a 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 II
as basis for argument.
"Then, dearest, you must help me
to Qo my duty" -,-,->~ ..s---y4~,...>
She clasped his upper arm as II II
were an altar and she an Iphigenia
about to be sacrificed to save thd
army. And she murmured with utter
iheroism:
" 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.
1tude. Then he said, matter-of-factly:
We'll see how much time we have
when we get to-whatever the name
of that street is"
The car. jolted and walled on it's
way like an old drifting rocking
schair. The motorman vas In no hur.
ry. The passengers seemed to have
no occasion for haste. Somebody got
on or got of at almost every corner,
and paused for conversation while
the car waited patiently. But eventu.
ally the conductor put his head in and
drawled:
"Hayl Here's where you get on
at."
They hastened to debark and found
themselves In narrow, gaudily.lightr
I'd 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 grimly
asked how long 1t 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
gxeen car to Wexford avenoo-there's
usually taxicab or two standin'
there" ,
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
During this tsnss Journey the giEl