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She writes three pages for the purpose of telling me not to be anxious, and the very nervousness and tremulous style give me some cause for worry." "Why, in my letter Mrs. Stannard speaks of Mrs. Truscott as being so bright and well, and of their having such good times together, and being so charmed with Miss Sanford. It hardly seems there could have been so sudden a change in one day."
Each, however, had cordially liked the other, and Billings would have been slow to believe the statement as told him for a single instant except for two things, one was that Gleason was a new acquaintance of whom up to that time he knew nothing really discreditable; the other was that just before the regiment came East from Arizona the adjutancy became vacant, Lieutenant Truscott, who had long held the position, was detailed for duty at West Point and speedily promoted to his captaincy; Billings was brought in wounded and sent off by sea to San Francisco as soon as he could travel, and so heard little of the particulars of some strange mystery that was going on at regimental headquarters, and when, some months later, he rejoined the regiment in Kansas, it was with much mental perturbation that he received from "Old Catnip" the offer of the still vacant adjutancy.
By her side stood Grace Truscott, twining her arms around that slender waist and clinging to her with a new and sweeter sympathy. Who, who was the cynic that wrote that even as she stood at the altar plighting her troth to the husband she had chosen, no woman yet forgave the man whom, having rejected, she knew to have consoled himself with another?
"The ladies are lying down, and would he please leave word. If it was anything important, of course Mrs. Truscott would come." "Oh, no," said Gleason, loudly; "say I'll call this evening after retreat." But when he came they were all on the piazza, Mrs. Stannard, too, and he knew that he could not be too careful what tidings or rumors he manufactured in her presence.
Three years had elapsed since her mother's death, but her heart was still in mourning. But early in the spring of the Centennial year, after a stormy passage, she was safely restored to her own land, and the evening after the arrival of their party Captain and Mrs. Truscott were dining with them at the Clarendon.
Captain Truscott, however, bowed his thanks, said that he had just left the adjutant-general, and had his full permission to present in person this note from the superintendent of the Academy, and his, the captain's, request to be immediately relieved from duty at West Point with orders to join his regiment, then en route to reinforce General Crook.
Do spend it with us. We both ask it, Jack and I. It was such a disappointment to lose you in May, and now that we've got you again, though you said 'twas only for a week, we talked it all over last night, Maid Marion," and here Mrs. Truscott has recourse to one of the pet names of their school-days, "we talked it all over, Jack and I, and that was one of the things he went to the city for to-day.
Truscott, who lay there very white and weary looking. Grace smiled. "I must creep up to the window and see," she said; and for a moment they gazed in silence. He was bending down over her, so bright and brave and gallant, that the next thing the two ladies looked suddenly into each other's face, smiling suggestively. "Just what I was thinking!" said Mrs.
Truscott in the days that succeeded the troublous times at Sandy, though the days were very brief, and now it was her impulsive theory that Mrs. Truscott's odd behavior and Ray's presence at the house were symptoms of a revival of that suspected flame.
Blake's latest absurdity, that slangy paraphrase of Dante at the club-room?" "I heard of it," said Truscott, smilingly. "Who told you of it, Queenie?" "Why! I saw it to-day," she replied, as though suddenly conscious that she had put her foot on forbidden ground. Then, as he said nothing whatever, she went on in anxious explanation: "Mr.
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