with the Regulars in the Philippines.






CHAPTER XXI

IN THE PHILIPPINES





David Cable lost no time in hurrying away from Chicago with his
wife and Jane. They were whisked westward in his private car on
the second day after the Bansemer exposure. Broken-spirited, Jane
acquiesced in all their plans; she seemed as one in a stupor,
comprehending, yet unresponsive to the pain that enveloped her.

"I can't see anyone that I know here," she said listlessly. "Oh,
the thought of what they are saying!"

They did not tell her that Graydon had enlisted as a private soldier
in the United States Army; Jane only knew that she loved him and
that the bar sinister existed.

Cable's devotion to her was beautiful. He could not have been
more tender had she been his own daughter, instead of his wife's