6 LULLABY LAND A ship is sailing for Lullaby Land, Arid what may the cargo be? A wooll* dog and a china cat, A truniiiet of tin and an old torn hat, Are ready to rro to sea. For Lullaby Land her sails are set— (O pray ye the winds be true!) Khe will gently glide across the sea of Dreams, 'Mid the moonbeams bright and the star light gleams, 'Neath the skies of sapphire hue. No" All aboard for Lullaby Land!" (One liny traveler to go)— The woolly dog and th • trumpet of tin, Two chubby hands have folded within. While a golden head droops low Lullaby Land Is reached at last; The captain's duty is done— By her sweet low voice, and her face so fair, She has sailed the ship—the rocking chair- To the Land of the Setting Sun. —Lena S. Thompson, in Good Housekeep ing. K(N6. jr* . story Air-iy Life in The f^ili^incs. ICopyrlght, 1899. by F, Tennyson Neely.] CHAPTER IX.— CONTINUED. And so began the second period of Gouverneur Prime's thralldom. A young civilian at the Point has few opportunities at any time, but when the lady of Lis love is a belle in the corps, he would much better take a long ocean, voyage than be where he ■could hear and see. and live in daily torment. One comfort came to him when he could not be with Mrs. Gar rison (who naively explained that "Gov" was such a dear boy and tliey were such stanch friends, real com rades, you know). He had early made the acquaintance of Pat Latrobe, and there was a bond of sympathy between them which was none the less strong because, on Prime's side, it could neith er be admitted nor alluded to —that they were desperately in love with the listers, and it was not long before it 'began to dawn on Prime that pretty Tv'ita was playing a double game—that even while assuring her guardian sister that she had only a mild interest in ILatrobe, she was really losing or had Cost her heart to him, and in every way in her power was striving to conceal the fact from Margaret, and yet meet her lover at hours when she thought it possible to do so without discovery. As the friendship strengthened be tween himself and Latrobe they began vising him as Cupid's postman, and many little notes and some big ones found their way to and from the Fourth vision of cadet barracks. Mrs. Frank 'was only moderately kind to her civil ian adorer then, granting him only one • dance at each hop, and going much with other men, but that dance was worth seeing l . Prime's was the only black "claw-hammer" in the room, and therefore conspicuous, and cadets—who liifMOw a good thing when they see it — nnd many a pretty girl partner would draw aside to watch the perfection of their step and the exquisite ease with •which they seemed to float through ■space, circling and reversing and wind ing among the other dancers, he ever alert, watchful, quick as a cat and lithe and strong as a panther- she all j ieiding, lissome,airy grace. That dance was "Gov" Prime's reward, and almost only reward, for hours of impatient waiting. Other women, charming and pretty and bet ter women, would glad- Jy have been his partners. Some two •or three whom he met at the hotel even (intimated as much. But not until Lady Garrison told him he must —to protect her from scandal—did he ask another fco dance. At last came the end of the summer's encampment. Ilic return of the corps to barracks and studies, one blissful week in which he was enabled »to spend several uninterrupted hours >each day at her side, and then a cataclysm. A letter intended only for Nita's hands fell into those of her sis ter. It was bulky. It was from La trobe. She hesitated only a moment, •then, with determination in her eyes, •opened and read—all. Two days after Xita was whisked away to New York, and within another week, leaving two most disconsolate swains on the Hud son. the sisters, one of them bathed in tears, went spinning away to the west, where Frank Garrison was on duty at •department headquarters. Prime was permitted to write once a fortnight (he sent a volume), and Latrobe forbidden, but already the poor boy owned a thick packet of precious missives, all breath ing fond love and promising utter con «tancy though she had to wait for him for years. For a month Xita would hardly speak to her sister, but in Oc tober there were lovely drives, picnics and gayeties of all kinds. There were attractive young officers and assidu ous old ones, and among these latter was Frost, with his handsome gray mustache and distinguished bearing, and that air of conscious success and possession which some men know so well how to assume even when their chances are slimmer than my lady's band. ?.'be sisterly breach was healed before that iieautiful month was over. Frost dined at the Garrisons' four times a week and drove Miss Kit a be hind his handsome bays every day or two. In November he asked a ques tion. In December there was an an nouncement that called forth a score of congratulations around headquar ters, and in January the wedding cards went all over the union—some to West Point, but to Latrobe, who had been looking ill and anxious for six weeks, eaid his classmates, and falling off fear fully in his studies, said his professors, only a brief note inclosing his letters «nd begging for hers. At reveille next morning there was no captain tore- ceive the report of roll call from the first sergeant of company l>. "Where's Latrobe?" sleepily asked the officer of the day of the cadet first lieutenant. "I dn' know,"was the answer, and to the amaze of Latrobe's roommate, who had gone to bed and to sleep right after taps the night before, they found evidence that "l'at" had left tin' post. He had not even made down liis bed ding. Ilis cadet uniforms were all there, but a suit of civilian clothes, usually in a snug package up the chim ney, that had been used several times "running it"to the hotel after taps in August, was now, like its owner, miss ing. After three days' waiting and fruitless search, the superintendent wired Latrobe's uncle and best friend, old Gen. Drayton, and that was the last seen or heard of "Pat." In tiie spring and ahead of time his class was grad uated without him, for the war with Spain was on. In the spring an irate and long-tried father was upbraiding another only son for persistent failures at college. " 'Gov' Prime w ill get the sack, not the sheepskin," prophesied his fellows. And then somehow, some where the father heard it was a mar ried woman with whom his boy was so deeply in love, and there were bit ter, bitter words on both sides —so bit ter that when at last he flung himself out of his father's study "Gov" Prime went straight to Mildred's room, si lently kissed her and walked out of the house. This was in April. The next heard of him he had enlisted for the war and was gone to San Fran cisco with his regiment with the pros pect of service in the Philippines ahead of him, but that was full four months after his disappearance. Thither, late in July, the father followed, bringing Mildred with him and—the reader knows the rest. CHAPTER X. One of Col. Frost's consuming ambi tions was to be the head of his depart ment, with the rank of brigadier gen eral. but he had strong rivals and knew it. Wealth he had in abundance, It was rank and power that he craved. Four men—all with better war records and more experience—stood between him and that coveted star, and two of the four were popular and beloved men. Frost was cold, selfish, intensely self willed, indomitably persevering, and though "close-listed," to the scale of a Scotch landlord as a rule, he would loose his purse strings and pay well for services he considered essential. When Frost had a consuming desire he let 110 money consideration stand in the way, and for Xita Terriss he stood ready to spend a small fortune. Every body knew Mrs. Frank Garrison could never dress and adorn herself as she did on poor Frank Garrison's pay, and when she appeared with a dazzling necklace and a superb new gown at the garrison ball not long after Frost and his shrinking bride left for their honeymoon, people looked at her and then at each other. iNita Terriss was :*old to "Jack" Frost, was the verdict, and her shrewd elder sister was the dealer. Mrs. Frank knew what people were thinking and saying just as well as though they had said it to her, yet smiled sweetness and bliss on every side. Frankly she looked up into the faces of her sisters in arms: "I know you like my necklace. Isn't it lovely'.' Col. Frost's wedding present, you know. He said I shouldn't give Xita away without some recompense, and this is it." But that could have been only a part of it, said the garrison. An honorar ium in solid cash, it was believed, was far the greater portion of the consider ation which the elder sister accepted for having successfully borne Xita away from the dangers and fascina tions of the Point—having guarded her, drooping and languid, against the advance of good looking soldier lads at headquarters, and finally having, by dint of hours of argument, persuasion and skill, delivered her into the arms of the elderly but well preserved groom. All he demanded to know was that she was fancy free —that there was no previous attachment, and on this point Mrs. Frank had solemnly averred there was none. The child had had a foolish fancy for a cadet beau, but it amount ed to absolutely nothing. There had been no vows, no pledge, no promise of any kind, and she was actually free as air. So Frost was satisfied. They made an odd looking pair, t was bony built but sturdy, and Xita seemed like a fairy, indeed as un substantial as a wisp of vapor, as she came down the aisle on his arm. They were so far to the south on this honey moon trip as almost to feel the shock and concussion when the Maine was blown to a mass of wreckage. They were in Washington when the congress demanded full satisfaction of Spain, and Col. Frost was told his leave was cut short —that he must return to his station at once. Going li:"st to the Ar lington and hurriedly entering the room, he almost stumbled over the body of his wife, lying close to the door in a swoon from which it took some time and the efforts of the house physician and the maids to restore her. Questioned later as to the cause she wept hysterically and w rung her hands. Khe didn't know. She had gone to the door to answer a knock, and got dizzy and remembered nothing more. What became of the knocker? .She didn't know. Frost inquired at the office. A bellboy was found who said lie had taken up a card in an envelope g'iven him by a young feller who "seemed kind o' sick. Airs. Frost took it and flopped," and a chambermaid ran into her, and then hurried for the doctor. "What became of the letter or note or card?" asked Frost, with suspicion of jealousy in his liearL Two women, mistress and maid, and the bellboy swore they didn't know, but the maid did know. With the quick intuition of her sex and class she had seen that 1 there was or had been a young lover, ! and sympathy for Xita and a dislike for ! Frost, who gave no tips, prompted her CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 17, r 9 oo. to hide it until she could slip it safely into N ta's hand, Nita who read, shud dered, (ore it iuto minute scraps, and wept more, face downward, on the bed. They had reached their winter station before the cable flashed the stirring tidings of Dewey's great victory in Ma nila bay, and within half a week came telegraphic orders for Col. Frost to pro ceed at once to San Francisco, there to await instructions. The first expedi tion was organizing when he arrived, his pallid little wife by his side, and there were hi.- instructions i<> proceed to Manila as chief ol' his department— .lll independent position, and. yet it was 1 horrid blow. Hut there was no re- I course. Nita begged that she might stay with lier sister. She could not bear the idea of going. Frost knew that 110 women could accompany the expedi tion, and, shipping his chest and desks by the transport, he had secured passage for himself and wife to Hong-Kong on one of the splendid steamers of the English line from Vancouver, and so in formed her. It dashed Nita's last hope. They were occupying fine rooms at the Palace hotel. The city was thronged with officers and rapidly arriving troops. Other army women, eager to accompany their husbands, were rail ing at the fate that separated them, and Nita had been forced to conceal the joy with which she heard their lamenta tions. But she had yet to learn how ex acting Frost could be. It had never oc curred to her that he could obtain per mission togo except by transport. It had not seemed possible that he would take her with him. "You should have known," said he, "that even if I had had togo by transport, you would have gone by the Empress of India. It is only f>o hours from Manila to Hong-Kong, and I could have joined you soon after your arrival. As it is I shall see you safely established there—l have letters to certain prominent English people— then shall go wer to join the fleet when it arrives in Manila bay." That night she wrote long and des perately to Margaret. "lie swore he would follow rne wherever we went un til I granted him the interview. You know how he dogged me in Washington, followed me to Denver, and any mo ment he may address me here. F. w ill not let me return to you. He insists on my going to llong-Kong, where he can occasionally join me. But IJollin holds those letters over me like a whip, and declares that he will give them into Frost's hands unless I see him when ever he presents himself. You made me swear to Frost I never eared a straw for my darling that was. O God, how 1 loved him! and if these letters ever " Oh Rollio." she cried. "I dare not.' reach the man to whom you have sold me, he would treat me as he would a dog, even if he doesn't kill me. Meg— Meg—you must help me, for I live in terror." And that she lived in terror was true, some women were quick to see. Never would she go anywhere, even along the corridor, alone. If the colonel could not come to luncheon she was served in their rooms. If she had togo calling or shopping it was in a carriage and always with some army woman whom she could persuade togo with her. One day, just before their intended departure, she drove out paying part ing calls. It was quite late when the carriage drew tip at the Market street entrance, the nearest to their elevator. The door boy sprang across the side walk to open the carriage, and a* she stepped wearily out a tall young man, erect and slender, dressed in a dark traveling suit, fairly confronted her, raised his derby and said: "You can give me ten minutes now, Mrs. Frost. Be good enough to take my arm." Bowing her head she strove to dodge by. but it was useless. Again he con fronted her. Piteously she looked up in his pale, stern face and clasped her hands. "Oh, Rollin," she cried, "give me my letters. I dare not—see you. Have mercy—" and down again she went in a senseless heap upon the stone. Col. and Mrs. Frost did not sail with the Empress of India. Brain fever set in and for three weeks the patient never left the hotel. Frost made his wife's dangerous illness the basis of an appli cation to be relieved from the Manila detail, but, knowing well it would be late summer before the troops could be assembled there in sufficient force to occupy the city, and that his clerks and books had gone by transport with the second expedition in June, the war department compromised on a permis sion to delay. By the time the fourth expedition was ready to start there was no further excuse; moreover, the doctors declared the sea voyage was just what Mrs. Frost needed, and again their stateroom was engaged by the Empress line, find, though weak and languid, Mrs. Frost was able to appear in the diniugroom. Meanwhile a vast amount of work was saddled on the de partment to which Frost was attached, and daily he was called upon to aid the local officials or be in consultation with the commanding general. This would have left Mrs. Frost to the min istrations of her nurse alone, but for the loving kindness of army women in the hotel. They hovered about her room, taking turns in spending the afternoon with her, or the evening, for it was speedily apparent that she had a nervous dread of being left bv her- self, "or even with her nusDand," said the most observing. Already it had been whispered that despite his assid uous care .mJ. A- gtosler'u J Broad Street, EnparlM, Pa.. 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