Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1901 — How They Met. [ARTICLE]

How They Met.

Bennet Burleigh, the English war correspondent, Is authority for the following strange story: One day last autumn two officers, newly arrived from different parts of up-country, met at Cape Town. Rather lonely and a good deal bored, they scraped acquaintance and found one another agreeable. When the dinner-hour came they agreed to dine together. The keen edge of appetites having been taken off by a good dinner, the senior officer became a trifle mbre expansive. ) “Do you know,” said he, \ niJtoer like you, and there’s something about you that seems familiar, as if we lmd met before. I am Mnj. S. of the-r-” There was an unrehearsed scene as the two khnkl-clad wnrrlors sprang to their feet and pounded each other on the. back—which Is the Briton’s way of falling on the neck and weeping. They had not met for years, and the baby brother had meantime sprouted Into a tall youth with an Incipient mustache.