Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 December 1894 — Page 8

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which followed upon the heels of a

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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, vvhile dense and blinding snow-storms •locked the roads and soon succeeded making the trip from fort to town more of a venture than the winter passage of the Atlantic. Starting from town with sunshine and sleigh-bells, one might encounter storm and tempBst 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 lople out at the fort. The stage had taken off, and for days the mails Rrere carried to and fro in saddle. The doctors, senior and junior, found Plenty

Cc'bo

to do at the fort and little to impt them elsewhere, so their visits

olamor for immediate settlement. The

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 aU 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, Bave at rare Intervals, for his old comrades to reach him now. He wondered how Connie could 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

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could devote to household expenses. Lot and Billy looked hearty and rosy and weU-fed and olothed |when they came tumbling noisily in from school. Connie's sweet face and slender form were rounded. The dark circles under the big brown eyes were gone. Here he was, hardly daring to eat, thinking how soon they might bo left without bite, sup or cent. Yet Connie smiled and sang, and was picking up little household words and phrases in German, and blushingly ac-

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erenee with his stem old father, Ma tirement from the German service, this practical banishment from home, a»d then the proffered forgiveness and leooncillation, there were so many suspicions that the Thorntons were

%jmtk Schramm had money In olenty, and that it was deposited In a \3erman bank In the east. •'Yea,* said Thornton, "that was his mother's for/•nine, which had beoome his own but he colonel refused to tell more, saying he soldier had a perfect right to serve rat his time as Schramm and nothing *lae. Everybody saw, however, the xmrtesy and distlnotioaa with which lie Thorntons, father and son, treated jim—Perry, In fact, waxing hot and ranting to fight _jn IH-ijpnditioned,

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©V C^PF. C.HAAT.ET KINC» U.S.A.

BY

J. B. UPPIWCOTT CO..

CHAPTER XVL

A winter of unusual severity was that

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to Morgan became infrequent. There presented by Tintop and pinned on was just one man at the post whom no

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gale could daunt, no storm could conquer, and that was Schramm. 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 too late." He could not stand the joii{without, floeewl att""'1,Tits and 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, ^Ihe fifty dollars per month would gradually pay them off, but if he died Bragg growled and there was nothing hence the renewed

SPBCUI. ABUWOIMIH

cr0ss-grained

subaltern who sneered

him. Schramm's bos was kept to

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 come 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

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 grumbled, and

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costed Schramm in his native tongue ofrense to Bragg. Then a famous tvhen Schramm came, as he rarely failed to come, twice, thrice, or oftener during the week, to pay his respects to t^e gnadige Fraulein, and to see what could do for the Herr Rittmeister, 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 deference due all superior officers, and had informed Connie that he should be addressed as Herr von Hhets but it Was all to no purpose. Schramm forbade. "I left my name with my past when I came to enlist In this army," 4&id he. "1 had to win a future for lyself, and so took my mother's name meantime. Call me by that so long as wear t.ho blue." Indeed, he couldn't

bear to hate the gnadige Fraulein ad- forty sergeants, cavalry, Infantry and dress him as "sergeant" at all. He said that from the first he loved to watch her lips as she struggled with the combination that finally gave utterance to a Sch-r-r-ramm. There could be no question that he loved to watch her lips, no matter what she might be saying, and small blame to him either.

But out at Ransom Schramm waa becoming a notability in earnest. pit© his plea to Col. Thornton to

keep

secret as yet the story of his dif-

plled with questions they could not al- oughly capable of appreciating such ither dodge. Everyone knew by music and such a oomp&ny. As for the opera people and the local manager, they were enraptured. Connie, yon may be mire, was there to see. She and her friend Miss Franxen had been brought thither and taken home in a carriage from the Empire, and invited and escorted by the principal of the

ldn't have his horses

ridden an over creation,

must wa

and Schramm

ik thereafter or hire a coach

_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. 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 aU, but had the bridle and housings stored and oteplaced by modest black leather and dark blue blanket. Bragg forbade his keeping his 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

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 the 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 we'll all take seats." But when he heard the price Tintop retracted. "We can't stand the figure—that is, I can't, and few of my officers can." Nevertheless the owner found mentis 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 seats in the so-called parquet, and just before the overture began in marched

staff from Ransom, e&ch man io*his 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 big 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 he waa proud to see so many of his men intelligent, soldierly, and so thor-

Eiter,

ublfe school, to whom, it transpired tickets as well as instructions

had been sent beforehand, and it just about this time, just before Christmas, that somebody started the new nag& for the b]ne-er$g Prussian,

and Schramm, to his manifest concern, was hailed as "Sergt. Croesus," The snow blockade was such that many children at the fort lost their faith in Santa Clans. He who rode the snow-drifts and the storm was barred at Ransom, yet seemed to swoop in force on Morgan's fireside. Brand new sleds were there for Lot and Billy»

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THE MEDALI OF HONOR AWARDED SCHRAMM WAS PRESENTED BT TINTOP. the kitchen and the connivance of Bertha, and with them were some costly books, Schramm's gifts to his honored captain 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 aU 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 fran 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 to happen, came the order for summer's work. "Away to the Big Horn!'' said the colonel, as he reined up one day at Morgan's open door, catching Schramm in the act of blocking out a flower-gar^eu for Lot and Billy. And that evening o?for6 parade the regi mental adjutant, seated at his desk, was surprised by a visit from Sergt. Schramm, 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 clubroom just before the first caU, "that's the third time I've seen you ooming out of Curran's since four o'clock." To which Gray promptly replied: "Yes, sir. You see, last weeic you remarked upon my going in there so o'teu 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 recipientof so many Indulgences already as to seriously impair his usefulness as a sergeant. He succeeded in evading field duty with the troop last fall, 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 oommander, 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 was 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 out, 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 Tin top rejoiced even though he did not excel, and It ended in his ordering Bragg to leave the office and ooming in, 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 rub my fur the wrong way." Gray said that he didn't like to draw invidious comparisons bat Schramm got the fur* lough, was back at Ransom in ten daya, and caught the regiment before it camped In sight of Cloud Peak. He

TERRE HA DTK SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, DECEMBER 1,1894.

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another doll, and such stacks of furniture and boxes of leaden soldiers, besides valuables of more practical sort. All these, together with fruits and can* dies to be stuffed in their worn stockings, had been smuggled in through

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tore he left, an? his good-by to ESTcaptain and Connie was very brief. The day after he left there drove up to the 3oor a low-wheeled phaeton that Connie instantly recognized as Mrs. Amory's. Mrs. Amory was the wife of one of the officers of the Eleventh, who, with her children, had gone back to risit their Kentucky home as soon as the regiment was ordered away, leaving the phaeton for sale. Bertha came In with a note addressed tet Schramm's peculiar cramped and precise hand ""Will not the gracious Miss Morgan do me tbe very great honor of the occasional exercising of tbe horse aad carriage which must be (eft at tbe Empire stable during the summer without other use. The groom will call eaoh morning for the orders of the gnadige Fraulein, whose acceptance will much honor and deeply oblige both •Rand,' at her service, and the gracious lady's most bumble and grateful

"SCHRAMM."

And when the doctor nappened in and found Connie with tear-brimmed eyes and saw through the situation at a glance, he said it was an inspiration. On those smooth, hard roads, in that low, oouch-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. Constance took "Rand" ftn a preliminary spin, and found him, as was to be expected, perfectly bridle wise and reliable, and between Dr. French and Bertha the dear old daddy was presently bundled in by her side, and the only mar to the exquisite joy and harmony of that sunshiny morning waa the indignant howl of BiUy-boy on their simultaneous return, he from school, the elders from their blissful drive.

And now frequently in the fair June weather they eame bowling out to the garrison, Morgan oontentedly reolining in the phaeton and ohat tin g^ with ola friends amon. while Constant Woods and othe: been so kind to and often they cemetery, an a

adorne

"THAT'S THE THIRD TIME

I'VE

SEENYOTJ

COMING OUT OF CTJRRAN'S."

effort and move to "the east, for Connie's face was a fortune. "She wiU fall in love witl#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 fyys of their sorest need. As for himself, he looked forward to the time when he could be laid away by Carrie's side fr All he prayed for was that his ohildren might not be left destitute. Already, indeed, two young gentlemen at the post, subalterns of Rhett's battalion, 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.

CHAPTER XVIL

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-commissioned officer of the Eleventh. Modestly he accepted, for already his colonel and other officers had bidden him look even higher. "Yon are on the road to a commission," said Perry Thornton, when the young German came to tell him of the offered sergeant majorship and to beg the Herr lieutenant's kind advice. "I only wish the commission might come in time for yon to stand up with me. Congratulate me, Rhetif the wedding Is to be In December."

One chilly October afternoon Connie had driven Mrs. Woods Into town after a brief visit to the fori. Daddy was ailing again since the froet aetin, and beginning to house himself still more, 89MS had left her friend at Mrs. Whaling's, and, turning "Rand" abotiti, was spinning up the main street towapdp their home at the westward *kirt of town, when, striding along in innt of her, slender, erect, in the most tmmaonlftte erf yellow stripes and ^bevron«

ancTa natty Blue uniform^ 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 tbe old name. "Schramm! Why, when—how did you get here?" she cried, throwing down the reins .and holding forth her slender hand. The street was 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 river. The rejgiment is marching home."|J, "Oh, father wiU be so glad! Have you time—-can you ran up to see him now?" "Assuredly, Miss Morgan. I was on my way there."

,4That's

the Infantry officers, ran in to see Mrs. lady friends who had ner in their dark'days, drove to the neglected

the mother's grave,

JJOW \yitn pimple headstone,

was put in ordeV, United and trimmed, and often decked with wild flowers. But therfc was greater surprise in order. A letter from Aunt Lottie said their uncle had business requiring a visit toj the far west, tod that she would come with him. And they came, and spent two days in Butte, and Aunt Lottie urged her brother-in-law to make an

Soung

simply lovely." Come, let me

drive you now. You can't imagine what pleasure 'Rand' has given us 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 Pardon! 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 hoarse and phaeton." And argument wai Viseless. She refused to enter il again ^This was the first break. Th~ came a m^ond. On three occas1 within the^jn days after his the sergeant n^ajor, calling to fared his captaimsnd the fanLieut. Renshaw, very

infantrymari?"£oated In

ttle parlor. Once it was Renshaw who opened the door. At sight of him the Boldier had become rigid, like a

Inter. His Inquiries were made on occasion with hand at salute, and 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. Sohramm came seldom now, and Renshaw more frequently, and the third winter opened in chill and gloom.

poin' this

Thornton oame to say good-by just before Thanksgiving, and went blissfully away to his wedding, leaving Renshaw haunting the invalid's room and swearing to nimself at Connie's ceaseless household duties. He began to realize that she was actually striving to avoid him, and so did Morgan. One night Morgan called her to him and gently, fondly began to plead with her. "He has asked my consent, Constance. He is a gentleman. He loves—" feut she would hear no more, and with a burst of tears fled to her room. Poor Renshaw was told that Constance could not listen to any proposal she would not leave daddy. "But daddy must soon leave her," the father urged again, "and then what iis to become of you ana Lot and Billy?' Renshaw said he would only be too glad—" But here the slender white hand was placed on his mouth, and further words were impossible..

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 wiU 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: "Oh, shame, Mr. Renshaw!" she tore away from Him and into the dress-ing-room

It was just dark that evening when the ambulance from the post landed her at their door, and Mrs. Whaling who had matronized the little party of town girls, drove on with her brood. Connie stole, as usual, to her father's side to bend and kiss 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 LAY

soBsnra oar

HIS BBEAST.

all proved too much for her. No sooner did die feel: the father's arms around her than her girlish strength gave way, and she lay sobbing on his breast. There was the sound of a rasping ohair, of some 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 trner gentleman—truer hero—then any —•any—any officer they've got."

Aoi the jshadowy form striving to find me&ns of exit from the tiny den In ,which r^ciined .the? intalld *»od his elisping. Sobbing fchild was that of Sergt. Maj. Schramm, who, all unnoticed and unseen by her, was thus be-

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ftenshaw's hapless outburst had"proved his own undoing and swept away the» last barrier to his rival's approach^ "The least he can do is to wait till hei gets his* commission," indeed! Aftex^ Connie's outburst it was more than moiv tal man could do to wait at all.

l'ENVOI.

It seems very long ago, that bit-i ter winter in the heart of the Rockies^ yet one of the old regiment, enjoyinflj witB his wife and children the first* blissful taste of foreign travel, stood! one exquisite summer morning on thej forward deck of the oddly-modeledj "dampfer" that was churning the blue-l brown flood of the Rhine, and thus re4 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 face) of the woman standing with her sol4 dierly husband close to the railing of} the landing under the beautiful, vine-1 clad heights ahead, her soft brown eyesl fixed in eagerness upon the approach4 Log steamer. The slender form wi knew in the shabby old black serge almost majestic in its proportions nowJ yet how fair and sweet and smiling ia the dear, bonny face once so piteouslyt sad amid the snows of far-away Ransom! Happy wife and mother— idol of her soldier-husbar-*ishr the "gnadige Fraulein" in distant America long speedily found her wn of the old retainers home to which,

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the stern old fs' and thoughts son, he bore last volley head as tb had praye without dren's faithf' had 1 ful1 fr

and all-ruu._ !berg, where he sporw. monocle, a straggly muslte-^ me ridiculous slashing scarsA^Cfr ^rhich he is inordinately vain, aw'1 genuine American enthusiasm 1* ties of "my brother-in-law, the fwho laughs at his stories, chai about his duels, quizzes him as scientific attainments (for Billy, known, is going back to America1 fall to offer his services to capital^ las an expert mining engineer, and for the first year a salary of five tho\ isand dollars will do) but Herr Gr ays his debts and provides his pocket oney, and the only secrets Connie lioes not share are those concerningj VI her hopeful brother and his affairs. Aa far Connie herself, she is happy as the1 years are long, happy as even an army girl deserves to be.

THE END.

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