Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 December 1894 — Page 7

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CHAPTER XVL

A winter of unusual severity was that which followed upon the heels of a

immer campaign that had been full of excitement for Tintop and the regiment. Once more, however, the spirit of social gayety was abroad, and the Christmas holidays were merry with many a charming function. Hops, Germans, dinners and luncheon-parties* theatricals, minstrels and soldier balls, day after day and night after night, were in full career at Ransom, While dense and blinding snow-storms blocked the roads and soon succeeded in making the trip from fort to town more of a venture than the winter passage of the Atlantio. Starting from town with sunshine and sleigh-bells, one might encounter storm and tempest before half the distance was traversed. December, though sharply cold, had been bright and beautiful until about the 15th then came the succession of blizzards that cut communication almost entirely and caused a wail of dismay from the shopkeepers of Butte, most of whom had laid in goodly stores of toys and trinkets for the delectation of their best customers, the people out at the fort. The stage had to be taken off, and for days the mails fvere carried to and fro in saddle. The doctors, senior and junior, found plenty to do at the fort and little to tempt them elsewhere, so their visits to Morgan became infrequent. There was just one man at the post whom no gale could daunt, no storm could conquer, and that was Schramm.

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Every one knew that Morgan was slowly growing feebler. "He ought to have gone to the Hot Springs long ago," said the doctor, "but now it is Ux late." He could not stand the jourfci without, finecinl

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weather was bitter, the little house oold and draughty, fuel was horribly expensive, and there was the veteran dragoon, a helpless cripple,, looking death in the face and imploring him yet a little while to hold his hand, not that the broken-spirited soldier might recover his strength—he was past all that—but that he might linger on even In labor and sorrow, that with his annuity ho might save his children from utter destitution. Hours he sat In loneliness, for it was impossible, save at rare intervals, for his old comrades to reach him now. He wondered how Connie oould sing so happily about the house. Surely she and Bertha, the middle-aged maid-of-all-work, had accomplished wonders with the little sum he oould devote to household expenses. Lot and Billy looked hearty and rosy and well-fed and clothed when they came tumbling noisily in from school. Connie's sweet face and slender form were rounded. The dark olrclos under the big brown eyes were gone. Ilore he was, hardly daring to eat, thinking how soon they might bo loft without bite, sup or cent Yet Connie smiled and sang, and was picking up little household words and phrases in German, and blushingly accosted Schramm in his native tongue when Schramm came, as he rarely failed to come, twice, thrice, or oftener during the week, to pay his respects to tjw gnadige Fraulein, and to see what he could do for the Herr IUttmeistcr, •who, ever since the day of the Thorntons' coming, had vainly protested against the further use of the name Schramm, had insisted that the time had come for the German sergeant to drop his punctilious observance of the

{teas all to no purpose. Schramm forbade. "I left my name with my past when I came to enlist in this army." *«aid he. "1 had to win a future for •lyself, and so took my mothers name

then the proffered forgiveness and ©conciliation, there were so many .Suspicions that the Thorntons were »spiled with questions they oould not al"together dodge. Everyone knew by this time Schramm had money in olenty, and that it was deposited in a

KJerman bank to the east "Yes," said lornton, "that was his mother's forie, which had become his own but the colonel refused to tell more, saying he soldier had a perfect right to serve hut his time as Schramm and nothing i*lse. Everybody saw, however, the i*ourtesy and distinct!cm with which The Thorntons, father and son, treated

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accommodations, and those were things he could not, and Uncle Sam would not, pay for. Knowing that he would have nothing to leave, and deeming him near dissolution, his creditors were hounding him again. If he lived, .the fifty dollars per month would grad,jually pay them off, but if he died

there was nothing hence the renewed couldn't have his horses olamor for immediate settlement. The ridden all over creation, and Schramm must walk thereafter or hire a coach and-four. Schramm never by word or sign showed irritation. He received the blunt, ill-natured reply with silent salute. He hired Curran's buggy, and' then, an evening or two thereafter^ just before stables, came loping back from Butte on a splendid bay, Lieut.

tleferenco due all superior officers, and and well all take seats." But when he had informed Connie that he should be heard the price Tintop retracted. "We addressed as IIerr von Rhetz but it can't stand the figure—that is, I can't,

Meantime. Call me by that so long as seats in the so-called parquet, and just wear the blue." Indeed, he couldn't bear to have the gnadige Fraulein ad-[ hlross him as "sergeant" at all. He gald that from the first he loved to watch her lips as she struggled with the combination that finally gave utr iterance to a Sch-r-r-ramm. There could be no question that he loved to watch her lips, no matter what she might be

Baying, and small blame to him either. But out at Ransom Schramm was becoming a notability In earnest, Despite his plea to Col. Thornton to keep secret as yet the story of his difference with his stem old father, his •otiremcnt from the German service, -his practical banishment from home,

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cross-grained subaltern who sneered at him. Schramm's box was kept in the vault of the First national now, where the cashier and other officials would fain have treated him with greater deference than they showed his officers, had Schramm permitted it, He would never enter the bank when an officer was there, and. should one happen in, even the veriest cub in the whole garrison, Schramm would spring back from the counter and stand attention and at salute, never presuming to oome forward again until the shoulder straps had vanished. This naturally gave umbrage to the public, which, very properly, preferred moneyed sergeants to mortgaged subs, but no one at the post could truthfully say that Schramm Qver in the faintest way failed in the respect and deference due his superiors in grade.

On the other hand, there were those who saw that Schramm's new captain was taking frequent opportunity to treat the young German with scant courtesy it was apparent from the moment of the return of the troop from the field. They had already begun the homeward march when Schramm was ordered by Tintop to await their return to headquarters, but Capt. Braggdeclaredthat Schramm had shirked his duty with the troop. The medal of honor awarded him was presented by Tintop and pinned on Schramm's breast in presence of the whole command, and Bragg sneered at the colonel's commendatory remarks and sneered again in Thornton's presence as the troop marched in from parade. Perry was already disgusted with having to serve longer in troop, but no transfer could be obtained. Schramm's duties in barracks and stables were most scrupulously performed, but never to the extent of winning expression of satisfaction from Bragg. Schramm rarely asked to be excused from duty, but often put in for a pass to go to town. There was no good reason for refusing so good a man, so Bragg growled and grumbled, and

Edward's favorite horse, which that officer Had vainly asked three Hundred for when he needed money to go east on sick leave, and failing to obtain his price had lent him to the Empire stables in town. Schramm, it transpired, had bought the entire "outfit," equipments and all, but had the bridle and housings stored and -replaced by modest black leather and dark blue blanket. Bragg forbade his keeping bis horse in the troop stables, and Schramm, flushing slightly, replied, with the utmost self-command and respect, that he could not presume to think of such a thing. Mr. Curran had kindly consented to take charge of his horse in his private stable, where Schramm, you may depend upon it, paid roundly for forage and grooming. Then it next transpired that Schramm had named his new acquisition "Rand," and, hs Rand, in his capacity as inspector general had frequently rapped Bragg over the knuckles, this gave greater offense to Bragg. Then a famous opera company, crossing the continent, struck a blizzard and were snow bound In a special car at Butte. There was a big hall with a fair-sized stage in town. The owner urged a performance, and the manager agreed to give "Faust" on a guarantee that took tfye owner's breath away. He braved the drifts.' however, and galloped out to the fort and told his story. "Go ahead," said Tintop. "You shall have the band,

and few of my officers can." Nevertheless the owner found means to give the front row of the gallery, all around, at a reduced rate, and there the fort contingent looked down on the two-dollar

before the overture began in marched forty sergeants, cavalry, infantry and staff from Ransom, cftch man ituhis nattiest dress uniform, and took possession of the rows of chairs reserved for them, and after the opera was over did these non-commissioned officers adjourn to Conway's, where another bountiful supper was spread in his Wg room, and then back to the fort in the dawn of the frosty morning to the tune of soldier sons and merry sleigh bells. "Schramm's stag party" was the talk of the post for a week thereafter. Bragg thought it an outrage that enlisted men should be allowed to sit in public entertainment in presence of their betters. Tintop. on the contrary, said be was proud to see so many of his men intelligent, soldierly, and so thor» oughly capable of appreciating such music and such a company. As for the opera people and the local manager, they were enraptured. Connie, yon mar be sure, waa there to see. She and her friend Miss Franzen had been brought thither and taken home in a carriage from the Empire, and invited and escorted by the principal of the public school, to whom, it transpired later, tickets as well as instructions had been sent beforehand, and waa just about this time, just before Christmas, that somebody started the new naipo. for th$ b|ue-ey$£l Prussian,

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and Schramm, to his manifest concern, waa hailed as "Sergt, Crqasus," The «now blockade was Such that many children at the fort lost their faith in Santa Glaus, lie who rode the snow-drifts and the storm waa barred at Ransom, yet seemed to swoop in force oil Morgan's fireside. Brand new sleds were there for Lot and Billy, and another doll, and such stacks of furniture and boxes of leaden soldiers, besides valuables of more practical sort, All those, together with fruits and can* dies to be stuffed in their worn stockings, had been smuggled in through

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TflE JMKPAJL Qlf HQKOn AWABDED SCHRAMM WAS PRESENTED BY TINTOP^1 the kitchen and the connivance of Bertha, and with them were some costly books, Schramm's gifts to his honored oaptain and brown-eyed Connie. He dared not offer half what his heart longed to lay before them. They had a Christmas dinner, too, that Bertha swore was her own production and inspiration. They had remembrances from the fort that Schramm "packed" in on horseback. Perry Thornton and others had by no means forgotten them,' and Schramm had blushingly called upon such kind friends to say he should be only too glad to carry in anything they might wish to send. There was no lack of Christmas cheer, even where one heart was so heavy as poor Morgan's, and no one was allowed to dream how very much of all this holiday feasting w^s due to Schramm. And so all through the long hard winter, patient and reserved, assiduous in every duty at the fort, yet finding frequent opportunity of visiting his friends in Butte, Schramm held his way. Old Hinkel was made an ordnance sergeant along in March, and with his wife and olive-branches took departure for a far southern post, Schramm seeing them to the train and receiving tearful warmth of blessing from the honest fraa by way of goodby, and in April the doctors made more frequent trips to town, for Morgan rallied but little with the lengthening days. It was evident that no bill of relief could bring lasting benefit here.

But, despite pain and hopelessness, Morgan clung to life with great determination. Live he must for the babies' sakes, he said, and once more now his days were brightened by visits from old friends, once more in the sunny afternoon Perry Thornton dropped in for checkers and campaigns or to show anew picture of his lady love, Connie sometimes sitting contentedly by, but generally busying herself with Bertha about the house. And then, just a^was sure tb happen, came the order for summer's work. "Away to the Big Horn!*' Baid the colonel, as he reined up one day at Morgan's open door, catching Schramm in the act of blocking out a flower-garden for Lot and Billy. And that evening bofor6 parade tne regimental adjutant, seaied at his desk, was surprised by a visit from Sergt. 8chramm, who begged of that influential officer a few moments' interview. "Young man," said Tintop to his staff officer, as he espied the latter tripping around from the olu broom just before the first call, "that's the third time I've seen you coming out of Curran's since four o'clock." To which Gray promptly replied: "Yes, sir. You see, last week yOu remarked upon my going in there so o*ten that I thought it time to reverse the process." And this afforded the colonel the opportunity of giving Gray the good raking down he deserved, and, just as Gray had hoped and planned, brought out the reaction that always followed an outburst. That evening Tintop came over to the office to "make it up," and then, when the skies were cleared, Gray broached the subject of Schramm's Interview. It seems he wanted a fortnight's furlough to go to New York and other points on urgent personal business, and had reason to know that Bragg would forward the application disapproved and Bragg did. Bragg's indorsement read: "This young soldier has been the recipient of so many indulgences already as to seriously impair his usefulness as a sergeant. He succeeded in evading field duty with the troop last fell, and seeks to shirk it again. For a man not yet two years in service, he has been promoted over older and more deserving men so rapidly as to turn his head." And Tintop considered the whole thing a reflection on him as regimental commander, and so sent for Bragg and so told him, and said, furthermore, that if Bragg didn't like Schramm and could find one man in the whole regiment who was willing to tranfer to D, now that Bragg waa its captain, he would be glad to order an exchange and this gave Bragg the opening he hoped for and a chance to reply that, so far from wanting to get Schramm oat, his remarks were conclusive proof that he was only striving to keep him In. It was hot shot, give and take, for ten minutes, a warfare in which it must be owned that Tintop rejoiced even though he did not excel, and it ended in his ordering Bragg to leave the office and coming to, all in a towering rage, to ask Gray if he ever in all his life knew such a cantankerous ass as Bragg— "unless it's me for letting him rob my fur the wrong way.** Gray said that he didn*t like to draw invidious comparisons bat Schramm got the fur* lough, waa back at Ransom in teodaya, and caught the regiment before camped in sight of Cloud Peak. Be £§d a long eonferqnce with Bertha

(ore he left, awf Els gpod-by Ic h{^ captain and Connie was very brief. The day after ha left there drove up to the Boor a low-wheeled phaeton that Connie instantly recognized as Mrs. Am* ary's. Mrs. Amory was the wife of one of fche officers of the Eleventh* who» V?ith her children, had gone back to visit their Kentucky home as soon as the regiment was ordered away, leaving the phaeton for sale. Bertha came in with a note addressed te Schramm peculiar cramped and precise hand "Will not tUe gracious Miss Morgan do me the very great honor of lbs oocaaloum 6*erolaing of the horse &RAcarriage which iQiwt be left at the Empire stable during the summer without other use. The groom will call aaoh morning for tbs orders of the gnadige Fraulein, whose acceptance will muob honor and deeply oblige both 'Band,* at her service, and the graoiou* lady's most bumble and grateful "SCHRAMM."

And when the doctor happened In and found Connie with tear-brimmed eyes and saw through the situation at a glanoe, hp said it was an inspiration. On those smooth, hard roads, in that toWi couch-like, soft-rolling carriage they could give her father air, sunshine, a sight of the distant mountains, a look at the old fort, an occasional visit to the now neglected grave. Conitance took "Rand" (to a preliminary spin, and found him, as was to be expected, perfectly bridlewise and reliable, and between Dr. Frenoh and Bertha the dear old daddy was presently bundled in by her Bide, and the only mar to the exquisite joy and harmony of that sunshiny morning waa the indignant howl of Billy-boy on their simultaneous return, he from school, the elders from their blissful drive.

And now frequently in the fair June weather they came bowling out to the garrison, Morgan contentedly reclining hi the phaeton and ohattingwith old friends among the infantry offioers, vvhile Constance ran in to see Mrs. Woods and other lady friends who had been so kind toner in their dark days, and of tea they drove to the neglected cemetery, ana th® mother's grave, adoraea now vyith simple headstone, was put in ordeV, ported and trimmed, and often dectyed with wild flowers. But there was greater surprise in order. A letter frpm Aunt Lottie said their uncle had business requiring a visit toj the far west, and that she would come with hlttL And they came, and spent two days in Butte, and Aunt Lottie urged her brother-in-law to make an

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"THAT'S THE THIRD TIME I'VE KBKHT YOU COMING OUT OF CTTRBAN'8." effort and move to the east, for Connie's face was a fortune. "She will fall in love with^and marry some penniless officer if she stays here," said the experienced woman of the world, and was aghast when Morgan calmly answered that he hoped she would, if the man was of the right sort, as only in the army had they found friends in the ^ys of their sorest need. As for himself, he looked forward to the time when he oould be laid away by Carrie's Bide. All he prayed for was that his children might not be left destitute. Already, indeed, two young gentlemen at the post, subalterns of Rhett's batr talion, were noticed casting sheep's eyes at Connie's lovely face, and were beginning to be assiduous callers at the little house In town, but Copstance seemed to have no thought for any man but father. Aunt Lot went east again with distinct sense of defeat, but her husband took matters less to heart. The doctor had assured them that the long journey was hardly possible, and that Morgan would do fairly well until winter again set in, and then: "Should anything happen, Connie," he said, "you must come to us."

But Connie's reply was politely indifferent Something did happen late that autumn, and Connie did not go. fes CHAPTER XVU.

Letters came only at rare intervals and by roundabout and devious ways from the command in the Big Horn, but early in September there was news of Interest, Sergt. Maj. Hunter, covered with service, chevrons and scars, took his honorable discharge and final papers and went into department headquarters as clerk. Tintop and Gray had-talked the probabilities over and were fully prepared. To the wrath of Bragg, the grumbling of a few who disapproved of giving first prize to a two-year-old trooper, and yet who would equally have criticised any appointment Gray could have made, but to the outspoken satisfaction of nine-tenths of the regiment, Sergt. Schramm was named sergeant major, the senior non-oommisaioned officer of the Eleventh. Modestly he accepted, for already his colonel and other offi* cers had bidden him look even higher. "You are on the road to a commission,'* said Perry Thornton, when the German came to tell him of the ofi sergeant majorahip and to beg the Her* lieutenant's kind advice. "I only wish the commission might eome in time for you to staad up with me. Congratulate me, Rhetaq the wedding is to be in December."

One chilly October afternoon Connie had driven Mrs. Woods into tovf^ after a brief visit to the fort. Daddy ailing again since the frost set in. and beginning to house himself still more. She bad left her friend at Mra, Whaling's, and, turning "Rand"* about, was spinning up the main street their home at the westward town, when, striding along in front of her, slender, erect* in the moat immaoulate of

arnTa natty Blue unfform7 she caught sight of a well-known form, in an instant had reined up at the curb, and her glad voice, eager and joyous, rang with the old name, |fp "Schramm! Why, wheif—h«w diu you get here?" she cried, throwing down the reins .and holding forth her slender hand. The street waa full of people, and who that saw could fail to note the sudden flash of delight In the face of the soldier addressed? Instantly he whirled about, sprang to the curb, and was on the point of clasping the proffered hand, when as suddenly he seemed to remember, straightened up instantly, raised the forage-cap from his curly blond head, and answered, respect, homage, admiration in his fine blue eyes: "Only this morning, gnadige Fraulein. The adjutant and I were sent in by way of Green rivejr The regiment is marching home," "Oh, father will be so gladt Have you time—can you run up to see him now?" "Assuredly, Miss Morgan* I vaa pn my way there." "That's simply lovely. Come, let me drive you now. You can inpgine what pleasure 'Rand' has given u» all." And, edging back to the right side of the phaeton, she eagerly made room for him beside her. Schramm flushed to his very eyes. "Oh, gnadige Fraulein, I thank you, but I could not. I will come-—Par-don! I must stop on the way. Please drive on, Miss Morgan. It cannot be that I should drive with an officer's daughter." And, seeing rebellion in her eyes, he abruptly turned and strode away. He reached the little home only five minutes behind her, but the next day and the next "Rand" stood unused in the stable. "It's your own doing, Schramm," she said, with flashing eyes, when at last he meekly came to ask why she would no longer honor him by driving his horse and phaeton. "If there's any military Impropriety In my driving you, there's every impropriety in my driving your horse and phaeton." And argument was useless. She refused to enter it again. This was the first break. T1K came a second. On three occaqio the within the ten days after his ythe one the sergeant major, calling to fared his captain and the fair .. that the inLieut. Renshaw, a very

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oring infantryman, seated parlor, Once it was Renshaw who opened the door. At Bight of him the soldier had become rigid, like a inter. His Inquiries were made on occasion with hand at salute, and

poin' this he faoed about and left at once, but Constance pursued and caught him at the gate, and Renshaw, watching from the window, saw him at attention, punctilious as ever, and saw that Constance was pleading. She was flushed and ready to cry when she came back. Schramm came seldom now, and Renshaw more frequently, and the third winter opened in chill and gloom.

Thornton came to say good-by lust before Thanksgiving, ana went blissfully away to his wedding, leaving Renshaw haunting the invalid's room and swearing to himself at Connie's ceaseless household duties. He began to realize that she was aotually striving to avoid him, and so did Morgan. One night Morgan called her to him and gently, fondly begun to plead with her. "He has asked my oonsent, Constance. He Is a gentleman. He loves—•• But she would hear no more, and with a burst of tears fled to her room. Poor Renshaw was told that Constance oould not listen to any proposal she would not leave daddy. "But daddy must soon leave her," the father urged again, "and then what lis to become of you ana Lot and Billy? Renshaw said he would only be too glad—" But here the slender white Eand was placed on his

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further words were impossible. "J f* He took it sorelv to heart, did Renshaw, and he said some ill-advised and peppery things the day of Mrs. Fenton's tin-wedding reception when waltzing with Connie down the long hall. "If nothing but a German baron will suit, why, I suppose you can have him but the least the fellow can do is to wait till he gets his commission, and not be—"

But he never finished. With one low cry of: "OJh, shame, Mr. Renshaw!" she tore away from him and into the dressroom. 't was just dark that evening when the ambulance from the post landed her at their door, and Mrs. Whaling who had matron!zed the little party of town girls, drove on with her brood. Connie stole, as usual, to her father's side to bend and kin* him and murmur some fond inquiry. But pent-up indignation, the strain and misery of the long ride during which she had been compelled to listen to brainless sallies and congratulations on Renshaw's devotion.

SOB tAY SOBBIJrO OX HIS BRKAifc.„ J'"': all proved too much for her. No sooner did the feel the father's arms around her than her girlish strength gave way, and she lay robbing on his breast. There was the sound of a rasping chair, of eome one striving to hurry from the room, but she did not hear. "He—he dared to speak of Schramm!" she cried, "of Schramm, who—who is truer gentleman—truer hero—than any —any—any officer they've got.**

And the,#hadovrv iorm atriving to find means of exit from the tiiny den in ^whieh-.r^oliiukl thet iitfalift and his 'olasping, flbbbtog 6hild «4s that of

Sergt. Maj. Schramm, who, all unnoticed and nnseen by her, waa thus be-

Senshaw's hapless outburst had"proved his own undoing and swept away thai last barrier to his rival's approach* "The least he can do is to wait till het gets his* commission," indeed! AfteiJ Connie's outburst it wius more than mor* fcal man could do to wait at all*

L'ESfVOl.

It seems very long ago, that bit* ter winter in the heart of the Rockies* yet one of the old regiment, enjoyingj witH his wife and children the firstt blissful teste of foreign travel, stoodj one exquisite summer morning on th« forward deck of the oddly-modele^ "dampfer" that was churning the blue4 brown flood of the Rhine, and thus r©«f plied to the query of his better half: "Know her? Why, you'll know herj instantly. Connie can never grow old. Yes, rounded indeed is the sweet facejof the woman standing with her sol4 dierly husband dose to the railing ofl the landing under the beautiful, vine*) clad heights ahead, her soft brown eyesl fixed in eagerness upon the approach4 ing steamer. The slender form wi knew In the shabby old black serge almost majestic in its proportions now,) yet how fair and sweet and smiling is the dear, bonny face once so piteouslyi sad amid the snows of far-away Ransom! Happy wife and mother—i&ral Idol of her soldier-husbaj^j^ h' land the "gnadige Fraulein"

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in distant America long, speedily found her wa of the old retainers club met with home to which, evening. Mrn. James the stern old fsMrs Frank McKeen were s. and thoughts the club. Very .elaborate son, he bor% were served. *4,

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jjpgn.g eunday in the city with Miss Cora faithful of north Thirteenth street. had,Vhn G. Shryer came over from his fnftinois farm Wednesday to see his rela-

tive, Mrs. Selena Fetter Royle, in "Friends." Mrs. Royle is also a relative of Col. W. E. McLean and Mrs. Sarah E. O'Boyle.

Miss Catharine Frederichs, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ilet H. Fredericks, of north Eleventh street, will entertain her friends with a party next Tuesday evening, in honor of her fourth birthday.

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hioh he is inordinately vain, a\Q inuine American enthusiasm 1 itles of "my brother-in-law, the I fwho laughs at his stories, cha about his duels, quizzes him as Bcientific attainments (for Billy, known, is going back to America 'fall to offer his services to capital las an expert mining engineer, and jfor the first year a salary of five tho sand dollars will do) but Herr Gri bays his debts and provides his pocke money, and the only secrets Conni floes not share are those concerning her hopeful brother and his affairs. jfor Connie herself, she is happy as thi ears are long, happy as even an arayf yea gir 1 deserves to be.

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