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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Jo, you are the queen of the ball tonight," Todd Stewart, Junior, declared, as he led her to the cool veranda after their fourth dance together. Jo looked the part in the moonlight, as in the lamplight. "Oh, no, I'm not. Leigh Shirley is Thaine's favorite, and his choice is queen tonight," Jo said coquettishly. "Darn him! We all know who his choice is, all right," Todd said.
Todd Stewart, I'll have to kill you yet tonight. What do you mean by breaking up my party?" Thaine caught Jo's arm and with a mock thrust at Todd he whirled her into the house. "Did you really miss me?" Jo's big dark eyes were fastened on Thaine's face. "More than tongue can tell. Who wouldn't miss you?" Thaine's eyes were shining mischievously.
Thaine's regiment, not the "Kansas Scarecrows," but the "Fighting Twentieth" now, was one of the regiments on which rested the brunt of driving back and subduing the rebellious Filipinos. Swiftly the Kansas boys pushed into the unknown country north of Manila. They rushed across the rice fields, whose low dykes gave little protection from the enemy.
The mortgage for the loan was given to Horace Carey, as agreed upon between himself and Miss Jane Aydelot. "If Leigh knows it's Aydelot money she might feel like she's taking what should be Thaine's. Would the Aydelots feel the same if they knew it?" Miss Jane had asked. "The thing the Aydelots have never grieved for is this Ohio inheritance," Carey answered her.
Captain Clarke stood near Thaine's post, and as the soldiers rushed forward, Lieutenant Alford halted beside him. Even in the thrill of the hour, the private down in the trenches felt a sense of bigger manhood as he looked at the young officer, for Alford was every inch a king; his soldier uniform became him like a robe of royalty.
"No, you've got to stay here. Hold him, Leigh," Jo Bennington commanded, clutching at Thaine's arm. Leigh sat calmly disobedient. "He's his papa's boy, I guess, and he ought to go," she asserted. "You meany, meany," Jo whispered, "I don't like you." But Leigh paid little heed to her opinion. As Asher passed out of the room there was an ugly look in Darley Champers' eyes.
Tonight, as she stood in the doorway, Virginia could think of nothing but the pink roses that grew in the rose garden of the old Thaine mansion house of her girlhood. A vision swept across her memory of Asher Aydelot just Thaine's age then of a moonlit night, sweet with the odor of many blossoms, and the tinkling waters of the fountain in the rose garden, and herself a happy young girl.
"Thaine's going to stand by me," pretty Jo Bennington declared, pushing Leigh boisterously aside. Josephine, the week-old baby Mrs. Aydelot had gone to see one day nine years ago, had grown into a big, black-eyed, rosy-cheeked girl who lorded it over every other child in the neighborhood.
"Leigh Shirley wouldn't," Jo said softly and half sadly. Something impenetrable dropped before Thaine's face. "Let's go out to the honeysuckle arbor and not dance now. I'm so tired," Jo murmured, with a sweet pleading in her voice. "I fixed it just for you," Thaine declared as he led the way to the moonlit lawn and shadowy seat. "You are so good to me, Thaine.
Something impenetrable came into his eyes for the moment only and then the fire of enthusiasm burned again in them, for Thaine's nerves were a-tingle with the ambition and anticipation of the young soldier waiting immediate orders, and he changed the subject eagerly. "I came to tell you something, Todd. We are to sail the seas on the next transport to Manila, sure.
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