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j Romance oi' the AMERICAN ARMY Fighting on the FKAINCI2 '-..Wie-dS- "Well, Uncle Murk, ,y first connect ed Memories lire 01 fctaJOf Howards home, of course. And 1 have 11 very vivid Impression of belnK brought Into 1 the dinliiR room mid toasted at thut dinner which the Major nave to the officers after the war. Hut before all that 1 seem to hnve memories, as If they were pictures." "What Is the first thing you remem ber r "I see a woman lytug In u bed la a strunge room. Her face Is whiter than uny face I have known; a man sits be side her, with his head in his hand, and, though death has no meaning for me, 1 am afraid, for 1 know that she was my mother." "Was this In Cuba. Eleanorr "I don't know, but I think so. Uncle Mark, because I remember running to the window and seeing a great palm tree outside, with spreading branches. And there are other cities, and we seem to go from place to place, always watching for somebody, and yet, as It were, hiding from people. 1 know we Hvold people, but it is an Instinct only that tells me so. "And again I am with my father In the Jungle. I don't know how we got there, but I see the trees all around me, and I am afraid. We walk on and on. and sometimes he carries me, and we sleep under the trees and ure drenched with rain. I am so tired and thirsty. But we go on and on, and when we stop we And a little hut, und I am afraid no longer." "And then?" asked Mark in agita tion. "I remember nothing. I suppose the hullet that killed my father must have struck him while he was In the hut, hut I have no picture In my mind at all." Ifarh mumbled something to con ceal Ins a citation. "And do you r m mber dm coming and picking y.m up " be asked. She shook her head regretfully. "I don't remember anything else," she answered. "Nothing until that dinner in the major's house." She linked her ariii through his und looked at him earntMh. "Uncle Mark, It make- me unhappy some times to think that I have no memory, no cear memory of my parents. I am .-ure that some day all this mystery will be cleared up. Don't you hope so?" "Yes," answered Mark, miserably. He had always wondered what the child would be like. Howard's hulf vearly letters had always assumed too much for granted. Mu'rk had practi cally relinquished Kleanor to the Ma jor, and he had neer learned anything abont her that he bad really wanted to know. Be had noi imagined the pri ons, nigh-strunc Idealistic girl he now law. lie knew that the ore of her rather lit honor, 11' ever it came about, would shock her into a revulsion of feeling that trould ba fatal to the true development of her character. He had often wished that he had not iressod that Idea of Ihe regimental mascot upon the major. It hud been lorn in a mind attuned to the victory t that bloody day ; In normal mo ments he would never have enter tained It. Yet Major Howard had been more impressed than be bad ad mitted to Mark. The idea had spread through the mind of the other officers. There was never a Guard din- I ner but Eleanor was solemnly toasted, j though she was not permitted to be j present, and somehow the child haoV lecome a symbol In the minds of these : plain men In business and professional life who spent two weeks in camp I each year. After the war Murk had gone to the regulars; but he was still In touch with the officers of the Heventleth, end ! be knew that, if ever war came, he could obtain an appointment to It. "I am sure that my father will prove to have been a brave soldier," said Eleanor, clasping her hands eagerly. "And sometimes," she continued, "I think thut there mu-i have been a grOat mystery ObOOl him." "Why?" demanded Murk, startled. "Hecaiise of the man who watches for inc." "Watches for you? It is imagina tion, Eleanor," She shook her hi ad. "I've seen hlui ilnee or four lime-," answered the girl. "He walls at places that we pel when we go out together. And lie watches me then, though be never ut ti uipls to speuk to me." "And you've lold Miss Harper?" "No, Uncle Murk. She would think I was hysterical," unswered the girl, shrewdly. Mark could see that, but be was certain (hut It wus hysteria, that the i 'leu had come to the child us the re sult of brooding over the mystery of her parentage. The entrance of the lady principal put an end lo their con versation. Mark rose reluctantly. His visit hud been all too brief, and it :; Battlefields of "-"' mignt tie years DevON lie saw tne girt again. "Weii. Bleangr, this is nu rcvolr," lie said, "l'erhaps for years." niic it'oi.t ii at nun in stmiieii uiiirin. "You are not coming hack before you leave for the West, Uncle Murk?" she asked. "They won't ullow me the time. I have to go tO Washington tomorrow, 1 and then back to Texas." She returned no answer, but went I with him to the house door, and turned I and faced him there, nulling at the in pels of his coat. "Send me n new photograph, Cap tain Mark,' she said. "I'm not going to call you I'm la .Mark any more. " "An older one? ' asked Murk, laugh ing, though he hnd a strange sinking ut his heart. This child epitomised home to him, and he hud been home less since boyhood. "You must forgive me," she said, I nttte wlsti....y. "Captain Mnrk there's something I wunt awfully to say to you, hut it takes u lot of rour- j age." she added. "Tell me Just the same," answered ' Murk. "You know, my dear, 1 w ant ! you to have everything you wish for.; And If Major Howard won't give It to. you, you just let me know. He has a sinned the HqnoilllhiTUj for your up bringing, and I'm going lo have the fun of giving you pleasure." "It's something that Major Howard can't give me, Cnptuln Muik." "Can I?" "Yes," she said In a low voice, pull-: Ing al his coat, and suddenly raising her eyes to his. Mark Wallace saw the , soul of a mature woman look out of the eyes of the child. "When I'm old er and have put my hair up. and wear long dresses when I'm eighteen, say. I 1 want you to marry me. Captain Mark." She was gOSM In u flash, rte alomr the corridor. while Mark Wal lace stood dumfounded al the door, . uw fainter she hurried Into the r il the Misses tiaryera' School for Bclecl Ifoung Ladies. Marl, wont down !h" walk like man dreaming. II was absurd ; It was. perhaps, characteristic of the girl's agi ami temperament ; and yet. In spue of the absurdity. Captain Mark Wallace felt lis If he had suddenly regained the grimy little ihlld whom lie had found upon the hillside In front of Suntlugo, and lost again. As he reached the gate he saw a man watching him from the bead of the road. Something of furtlveness In the inan's posture made linn wheel sharply round; then lie remembered Eleanor's words and started In haste toward him I '.ill the man shambled oir at a quick gall and nheti Marii reached the bend ho couid see no body, i CHaPTF.R IV. - And Hie years passed, and Marl. Wallace grew grayer and older, and more set ami dispirited, with long al ternating Intervals of resignation, when be took life as he found II und was satisfied. Hut he always came , out of these Info brief periods of un rest, with the sense thut he had awak ened from some lethargy (hat was damning his soul ss the alkali und the j winds of the plains had seamed his fuce and taken Ihe last particle of his youth away. Now In Texas, now In Arizona, now In some lonely border post In the ; freezing Northwest, he remained a cup I tain. He had no friends In Washing- j ton. In time In Ions I line he would reach his majority, no doubl, to be re Moved soon after, and waddle, with """ '! majors of his own age, Into ornate clubs in army centers noi tptlie so fur removed from civilization. He looked upon this prospect with Ironical patience, and now und then asked himself the unanswerable question why lie had remained In the army. Klcaiior was grown up and domiciled permanently in Colooel Howard's town bouse, and her letters had grown more Infrequent and perfunctory, until their arrival became a quarterly aiiaii In stead "f a monthly SVOSt, and HOI al ways that, either. And by and by the feeling PUBIS over Mark that II ever he were lo see her again there would remain no com mon link between them, from doubl Ing bis future he bad come to doubl himself. He doubt ed whether the des ert life bad not bluiilcil 1:1 in. blunted Ills finer Instincts, '" made him unlit for social life- certainly rendered him unfit for the guardianship of a young girl. Ibtl that lie bad rellmnilsbed to Col onel Howard- grudgingly bill iincom- promisingly. Never In any of his lei- , ters did be lnt forward Ihe shadow j of his former claim Then, swiftly, and unexpectedly, chance turned and brckoucd him. , It came In Ihe form, of it letter rrom Colonel Howard, the first In two years. Howard had, hi t.to past, repeatedly tried lo Induce Muik lo lake advantage of opportunities thai he had put before 1 1 1 1 1 1 . hut Mirk had ret used stubbornly. until the Major h-'l rlc;i him up In disgust. Howard did not Know, and Murk did mil himself understand, the ; underlying Idea In Ills own mind, the sense of subdued rancor against the man who had robbed him of Eleanor, coupled with the sense of sacrifice, that he might withdraw all his claims on the child. Now, however, Howard made one more attempt. "I want you to think this proposi tion over as quickly ns possible." he wrote, "not for my sake or yours, hut because votir duly Is lo take the Jtih. With war with h rumny In plain view lo Ihe Initialed, there are great things ""Xloliu; In Washington, and I've been offered my old peat at the mobfUaatlofl department, which has been enlarged beyond all knowledge. Your work In the West II hettir known than you think. Wallace, and we want you here, Wire If you can, ni.d ;ie by the llrst train. This Is ofltclnl, so don't wait for divisional notification, which may take days." The letter reached Mark In one of his periods of helpless despondency. Impulsively he wired beck, accepting, regretted us fonn as the message hud been dispatched, but packed his suit case, turned over the command to the senior lieutenant, and took the train for Washington. As he went Enst the yearn seemei! to fail from him like a dream. It was n frozen labyrinth in which he leemed to ha' been wandering; he seemed to come to himself with u consciousness of years wasted, but of years of action lll'.ei e. Coiouel Howard gated curiously at him ns he rose from his desk In the wyr office and grasped Ids hands. "I sluuild never have known you, Wallace," he said. What he was thinking was. "flood, l.ord. how ihe years huve euteti Into him !" "Don't ihlnk that your work has been iinreeocnl.ed," he said, after u few minutes id desultory chutilng. "It hus lieeti, ami I know that r gultlon Is coming to you in the fullest meas ure. You are to work under me here ; It's a blK scheme thut we are prepar ing, my hoy, and only Kelleriaau and I, and yourself, will be acquainted with all the detullH, outside of the depart mental head. Y'ou remember Keller ma n?" Mark nodded, trying to piece to gather the pictures of the past. "We are working out the mohlllr.a tlOO plans for the llrst contingent, af ter it reaches France," Howard eoov I. "It's a bigger scheme than aiulhliig we knew In the past. You'll U t as my kubordioate ami lane an in timate knowledge oi the dataila a sort ol understudy, In tact, hut with n good deal of Initiative as well. And If war comes, us It Is sure lo come, we'll be sent over on the llrst transport, to pre pare things for the troops. Ah. Kel- lOBWO, lures Wallace, newly arrived to uike over ins unties. Mark saw not the slightest change In Kellerimin since Ihe days of the Cuban war. Kellerinnn was Just as llorlil as ever. Just as burly, with Ihe same rath er sinister way of glancing; his black hair was unlbiiined and untouched with gray. He had borne the years much heiter t tin ii Mark. if Kellerman reciprocated Mark's feetir,- I,.' showed no itgu (,f It In hie cordial handgrip. "Wo wore glad to tat you. Wallace," 'You'll Excuse Me For s Moment." lid Niiid. "You'll exeusi me lot a mo luetll, I'm sine " lie drew Coionei Howard aslda in conversation, while Murk twirled Mi fingers it i til looked out of the window llllll the busy lllve of n capilal, 11111 tiled to make lour .11 believe Hull it Was all llile. When Kellernian had gone the Colo nel Invited Murk to sit down, and launched Into business. "I must tell ou that It's a pretty nil Job lluil we're tackling, Mark," be said. "To begin with, we're a sort of nucleus of Ihe whole oiganlallou. Were In touch with every ill vision, xv ' have to luae the whole thing nl our lingers' ends and Us mainly a mutter of ships, animals, ami nans poll. And, to cap the climax, you can Imagine wind n lies! of Intrigue and espionage Washington hsi become in i i these days. And, as neutrals osten sibly ncutrnlK-Avc can do nothing to put an end to It." Hi' stretched out Ills linger and pointed tOWtird the big safe between the windows. "Any one nf sonic two hundred pa pers there, Mark, would give a valu able clue," he siild. "Kvery night, when work Is finished, your task will be to open the safe, take out the inner cose containing these documents, add those on which you have been working, In cluding every waste sheet and every scrap of the day's blotting paper, and bine Ihe day porter convey h"t.i, under yonf personal supervision, to the strong room, where you and either Ihe Qenernl. myself, or Kellerman, will place tin in In the safety vault. In Ihe morning the same proeiduro is re versed. And that is why I Insisted on our getting you, .Mark. I knew you, cud I don't know the hundred of other officers or Impeccable character whom we could have si cured. We cun't run risks we simply caul. That's why II has to hi htsl you and Kellerinnn and I. We had our leajOB In (lie old day. you know." lie frowned at ihe rcmcmhrnii' c, and (hen answered Mark's unspoken Question with another. "Where are you slicing. Wi'llacei" "At the Congressional.' "Well, I want you to mum and stay with us us soon us we're settled. We've rented u house In Massachusetts circle, and move In on the first of the month. Eleanor and Mrs. Howard are itll' In New York, but they're coming here In about ten days' time Just as soon as I can get the house ready for them, Eleunor is dying to see you. and Btrs. Howard has ihe plcusnntcst remem brances, of course. And now I'm going to take yon to the Brigadier." The short Interview with the hett'1 of the department contlnui'd Mark's Impressions as to the bti4iessllke na ture of Ho- plans of ihe war office. Mark went home. He was resolveij, al though he hud nol told the Colonel, not to become bis guest at least not unless be found that lie could lake up Ills life again win re lie hud dropped If, years before. And then but what was ihe use of I peculating? lie went home o bis hotel. He was surprised to find how easily he seemed to lit into his environment when he donned Us long nsglsr tod evening clothes and weni down to the llllllllg room of the Congressional. Al most the first face he saw was thai of a man of his class; within a few min utes Murk Wallace was sealed at the dinner table with a merry party of old friends and new SCSJttaJntanese. And the years had slipped away from him. till the next Btprnlng, when he toel: Up his iIiiIIcm, f was Willi the selis thai he was no long longer a stronger. ' 0 i her w n blngton was welcome lo him. At the Army dub, to which be was posted I')' Colonel Howard, lie found himself, much lo his surprise, often the center of it rSSpi fui aiicin p. e, eager to hear of the ww k of the army In the forlorn oiitpmts of tlie West. He discovered, P"i. with surprise, that he was by no nians as unknown us he hud Imagined himself to be. Then there-were Invitations thai hud to he accepted, receptions ami dinners ; yet through it ull Mark walled for the Charmed day when the house In M. cbuselts circle wax pi , opened, dis playing the princess of his Imagination, the little child of the hillside, the m boolglrl, grown into the image of his dreams. CHAPTER V. When at lust lie ullcjilod tli till door, and was shown Info the recep lion room, be fell that lie will almost I rem hi Ing with eagerness, lie looked uncertainly about him. at the group of young Officers, the ladles, at Mis. Howard, and then at (he styl ishly d i i young woman al her side. And, forgetting bis nuinneis, he ap proached her in stupefaction, Ignoring bis hostess for the moment. "Kleanor I" "Cntic Mark ! It's never you, Uncle Murk 1" cried the girl. "Why, 1 should never, never huve known you I" But would he have known her, had he not looked closely Into the clear eyes to discern the face of the little wslf beneath the beauty of the woman! He had often and often Imagined her, grown to womanhood, and dressed as he would have dressed her, hut some how she had always hud the look and aspect of the child, blended with the schiMilglrl. A sudden chill went through Ids heart at her self-maslery, the well bred welcome that had In It little of real eagerness. And he realized Unit, though he hud always looked on her as lost, al the bottom of ids heart he must hUVS hoped to find her again. He stood, a graying haired, uncoin loriuhlc, almost middle aged man, try ing to feel ut home, lie suw Keller man looking ut him across the room, as If lie re was Slime message In his eyes. "V, hope haii n't changed so much us all that," sjiltl Mark, trying to smile, ".Vo," she answered, looking at Iilm with a searching, direct ga.e. "Not really only al first appearance, Why, I in Is Marl,, yoiii hair Is turning gray. What have you been doing with your self?" He felt thai the tun ouscinus shaft bad gone well home. He only answer ed vaguely, Titers us a little in- loii' il dancing, and, as he fell befitted his age, he wall.ed a lew (urns with Kleanor ami sal back with Mrs. How ard, surveying the gay crowd, and re calling memories--about the most ills heartening thing thai he could have done. "Wluii do you think of Kleanor!" asked Mrs. Howard, "You didn't ex- , .MmKHtHKmmmmi inii SS pect in lino (tie utile scnooigiri grown up like hls, did you?" "Nor she me- like this," answered Mark humbly. Hut the Colonel's wife missed the allusion. "She bus been crazy to see you," Mrs, Howard continued. "She guve the Colonel no rest lifter he told us that he was trying to get you for the war office, I believe she had alwayi had u sort of romantic recollection of you, and looked upon you us a sort of guardian, although, of course, it was a fortunate thing for her and us and you, too that Colonel Howard did succeed In Inducing you to let us take her. She bus been everything to ns." "Of course," said Mark mechanic ally. "II would have been it terrible life for he! mil In the desert," sighed Mrs. Howard. "I think that you were very wis", Captain Wallace. And what a dreadful burden und responsibility you you would neve luiii !" This time Mark did not attempt to answer. "She has been a daughter to' bolb of US," pursued Ids hostess. ,"Aml now I'm afraid we're both afraid, Captain Wallace, that we cannot hope to have iter for long, Hhe wus quite the rage in New York lust season." Wallace followed the girl with Ills eyes. She had Just been dancing with a young officer ; it hud been a two step, und us the bund of tjirco pieces broke Into the wildest und merriest part of the piece he saw her, with flushed face and laughing eyes, accept Kellermiin's arm and surrender herself to tlie dance. Kellerman caught Mark's eyei across' Ihe room. He looked straight buck with a meaning challenge which wus unmistakable. Murk knew nt Hist moment that bis antipathy to Keller mini had returned, although he was In Cllned lo believe the other was not aware It hud ever existed. K Herman was a splendid figure, even In his civilian evening clothes. Fully six feel tall, with Ihe chest and limbs of un athlete, Horid, with crisp black hair und a sense of the posses sion of power, he looked at least five years Mark's Junior, though they had been horn In Ihe same yeur. "Hand some Kellerman" had been his sobri quet in Cuba. Murk remembered it across the lapse of years, und Into hii J mind there began to Miter, too, stray stories about him Mark did not Judge him by these, but by the Intuition which sent a cold wave to his heurt as he saw him with Kleanor. It seemed to him that Keller man's look, as he turned to the girl. was one of Intentional coaqweet In another man II might beVS been called Infaluailou; and the girl knew il and was happ) In It. The bitterness of thai moment was like a sword thrust, Had be t thai and mlhs for thai) l!ut what had been bUtUlOUghtS for Bb eiinor, his vague wishes as to her fu ture? He did not know, He bad dreamed dreamed of her, and never pictured her us she was. There was an infoimnl, stand up supper about eleven. Kleanor came lo Mark and asked him to lake her to the buffet. Mark was ciuisclous of a coldness, or hurt leseiitiiieul in the girl's maimer, us if he had neglected her. He brought her II plate mid sal he side tier iii aii alcove. They were alone, measurably, for the first time thai eve ning, "I'nclo Mark, you are dii in .," mid Rh iinor, "I Know It, and I'm winy for It." Willi Mark. "I suppose It's his I am nol me to be a hit like wh.il you expt ctt-d I "You are nol the least bit like what l expected, or remembered, Captain ; Mark," she answered. , In bis Jealousy he was conscious of the altered preQx. And, as Ueaaor looked at him with burl in her eyes 1 she broke off lo smile at a young officer ' across Hie room, who returned an ar- ; dent gaze across 111 rubicund shoul I ders of a very homely, but most Im ! portaut dame whom lie wus helping to , champagne. "Most of US experience disappoint ments In people whom we have ideal ised," Maid Msrk lamely. "You mean Oh, I'm sure I thank you, Captain Wallace," answered the girl acidly. "Shall we go back?" But Murk had a moment of Inspira tion. "Before we go, Kleanor," he said, "don't you think we might get to un dcrstand each other a Hitler I lup pose I have been rude-- but, you see,' I hsve been conscious of your disap pointment all the evening, and" He stopped In bewilderment, for Kl eanor wus laughing. 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