| Show BIG BI BILlS MARGARITA I Romance of an m American Soldier In Panay HE MARRIED A FILIPINO FILIPINOS S UNDER UNDERGOES GOES CHANGE OP OF SENTIMENT S The Music of a Guitar and a a Beautiful ful mi Alto Voice Across the Way Is Discovered to Be Merely the Wel Welcome Welcome Welcome come of Margarita to Her New Now Husband I Chicago SO Inter Intel Ocean Private of company Y T United States Infantry sat t in ina Ina ina a carved mahogany rocker beneath beneat the portico of the company quarters at Jaro Jam in the island of Panay Penny and honed boned his razor His IDs eyes ees blinked bUnked dazzled by bythe bythe bythe the glaring sunlight when now DOW and again he paused in his task stare across ss the plaza The prospect as viewed by bO was not pleasing in inand and he kept up a running mutter of criticism Just luck at th sunbaked will yes said he gesticulating with the razor Av A th town were a mess m mav av Philadelphia scrapple It ft could not be done browner Luck at th thO wades an brush In desert av a plane plase An luck at th thO toy min mm av call thim min mm I call thin thim brown rats TIe Tisa a 8 waste av good gunpowder to shoot at th likes av thim Sloane we should Mould be with popguns Faugh A little grown woman was a wo we woman woman weman man although she weighed no more mor than the average American girl of ot 12 shuffled barefooted down the street To unaccustomed American eyes she ahe was wu wasa wua a mere caricature on womankind As she shuffled along she ahe puffed a huge cigar that in color length and cir circumference circumference matched her naked fore forearm forearm forearm arm And the lips Ups that poised the ci cigar cigar cigar gar were stained bright red and green from chewing betel nuts nuta and leaves But Margarita was a shapely little dab of femininity Her face was saucy aucy and fascinatingly impudent Her eyes were alluring And she chattered vivaciously with grace graceful graceful graceful ful little gestures of babyish ba brown hands and pretty of ot betel stained Ups lips And the poise and movement of her little head was birdlike Now luck at exclaimed Seven spot indicating Margarita with an another another another other wave waye of his razor Just tell me in th devil does Big Bill want av a loike bike av she got ot lost in th thO tall grass av th plaza there Bill hur her with a Av hed dab her with flour and carry her under his arrum annum hed wan av thim thirn peddle little in Chicago Think av a bike loike Bill off of an by a lit Ht little littie tle tie brown imp of a woman no bigger than a cigarillo Faugh And again spat upon the ground his countenance expressive of castor oil and Quinine Big Bill DillOn On the I out aut It lacked an hour of midday midda A mile mileto mileto mileto to the south of Jaro in a slight dip in inthe Inthe Inthe the rolling prairie two men in khaki uniforms wriggled cautiously through the tall grass gram The sun directly overhead volleyed arrows that pierced them through and through They reeked with perspiration perspiration perspiration tion their faces were and The horny right hand of each was wound in a blue handkerchief handkerchief handkerchief chief to protect it from the blistering heat of the rifles they dragged along the ground beside them They moved by ily inches their faces flattened to the ground After gaining each foot or Dr so 80 of ground they rested side by side their cheeks flat to the earth and look looking looking looking ing in each others bloodshot eyes They panted and their tongues lolled like those of ot dogs in August Their lips gasped for tor I water und their lungs wistfully for air Thus slowly arduously they progress progressed progressed ed for another mile Then one of them lifted himself cautiously to his knees and glanced first forward and then to the rear Then he flattened out again in a inand and panting whispered Were of th Ut way from timber Umber to timber Sight any pickets asked the other otherA A shake of the head was the th answer awer and anti again the two men panted and stared in each others eyes Their lungs labored labor d huskily The animate earth th seemed in a dizzy strangled sunned silence for lack of or air finally gasped the lar ian larger larger ger man of the two If it you were in the auditorium right now what would you order 7 lapped a swollen dust rough tongue along hie his cracked lips av tv I know he whispered but av I were in the Edelweiss Id rd d or order order order der corned bate bale an blInd cabbage cabba e an a keg av ar a cool beer Bill continued c after a breathing spell put a college collegeman collegeman man bike loike you OU in th thO regulars A Memory of the States Bill Bm hesitated under pretense of mois mole moistening moistening toning his lips with a mol tongue Then he whispered vehement vehemently ly fiercely Back in the states In the time of ot peace an enlisted man anna is 8 a dog he nodded But now nodded again But now continued Bill passion pas passionately passionately and right here by God a a soldier Is a man And he step aside ulde to kick the shins of the who look down upon him in the states Mates would he The featherbeds back there titers wonder what a fool soldier on 1560 finds to be proud of ot If one of them could be in my boots right now and could feel like I do in here right now hed know he Bill Bm struck his breast with his i clenched fist and Seven pot nodded n ded And then said Bill less Ie vehement vehemently ly there was a aHe a aHe a aHe He came caine to a full stop pot waited and then finished the sentence for him UA A woman in Jn It Not a 8 abrown abrown brown but a white Margarita An Jl ye think shell weep a a bit she sees your name among th thO did heroes An youre oure married to a brown wan an resumed Bill Bm did you ever hear a a bird sing on hIs island shook his head heed Then he said But theres an lizard lIArd about two feet long roosts ts In th Ut timbers over me bunk an shouts In his An theres another that clatters all night bike loike a machine May Maybe Maybe Maybe be he be do dobe be a singer The big man paid no so heed to this th witticism Did you ever hear a woman sing on cit this Island he asked Never said Seven pot but Mar Margarita garita garito that wife av cv yours Bill called me something th Ut it may mane ne It sounds He were ere a rale man were Big Bill B I Isaid said holding forth In quarters quarters that evening Ain Avin av ay he be did consort with a brown woman Shore he ho volunteered for th Ut trip with me I it at first be because bec because cause c use av th thO thought av that wife ay nv av his But all nil th Ut morain mornin mom In he were Sown own th lay o 0 land as 8 cool bike loike as asa a county coun y surveyor at home An n thin the brown began In he squatted there on wan knee an worked th Ut lever av his Krag Kr Kragas Kras as methodical as as If he were a machine gun an wound up for tor all yay Isy th Ut bullet wint through him he w wt wint t down on wan Show bow With win vas aA hand on ca his chist an luckin at me mt who was waa wa down me Krag to help him 11 ses ae t 5 Kape Spot kap kaj pin Im done for anyway an ve ye e must mut thy to kape thim back till tit t t byes com come coins out ut for yes yea An AD seem th tho blood comm in ir SpUrT spun a through his I fingers an Rn th thO film ft m 01 ot 0 his hs eyes I knew he hI So I wim whir wimon whirL on dR L with me kanin wan wait eye on Bill ills His wint out on Oil th ret west grass grau under him tilt till his head nodded down do in th crook rook av ac a his als Strum cream bike loike he were drowsy an off to Th bloody hand handon handon handon on his chist fell be bede de him This Thin T IRhe he opened his eyes loika an muttered bike loike he were er half hair dresnIn Tic a woman Thin he shut his eyes an dropped off clay aisy An I wint what on with me rat Mills Thin I heard hean th thO mountain guns barkin behind me an th thO fire from th front slackened I could heard hear you mi mitt a through th tW dry grass An here I am But Bill BlUhe he were a man Margarita or no Margarita It was the evening of the day diy after The men of ot Y were wen leaning listlessly out on the easements casements of or the big cas where the company was quartered to tit catch a breath of ot cool air Across the street there was a native thatched shack aback Under its projecting roof the forms of a man sian and a woman dimly visible The woman gently gentl touched the strings of ot a 8 guitar and just juat the suggestion of a plaintive melody meo ly floated across the way The men leaned further out of or the casements and lis its The Wail of Margarita J said little brown divil Margarita tuck it bar harr harrI Yd we putt away poor Bill th Ut morn in th tho bugle bUle sounded taps I shura thought shed herself into but a pint av wather ather Ts a a tinder Under heart she has baa under a bown skin I misdoubt me I may have mis judged th brown The banjo across the way gave gae forth fortha fort Ii h ha Iia a louder and then a moaning wailing walling heartbreaking mel melody melody ody a alto chanted sadly ly monotonously in the native tongue The soldiers looked and listened silently s The womans omans voice rose and fell vi i brantly in a weird chant full of tears and moans and broken hearts and then died away in a hopeless sob drew a long shuddery breath Tie th Ut first native I 1 iver heard sing she whispered 11 Who Wh is she Bills Margarita said Smithie company Ys Ye Y authority on ngo ago and customs Bills Margarita exclaimed Seven s en spot explains it voice not th thO brown brwn woman that Big Bill married Tas an echo an ana ana a he be wedded poor lad V Smithie nodded and puffed his cigar Poor little brown Margarita con continued continued continued Av A Y v I could sling th the lingo tic Us would go So an an ansay ansay say cay a kind to her Tic th death song av her love she were sin in inan an not unlike an honest Irish keen Tic sad me ouid heart is for th por pO 11 little brown divil left all Smithie threw back his hie head bead and laughed aloud t exclaimed Seven ot turn ing lug fiercely do yes so 8 funny in a brave soldiers widow be beshe beshe beshe she brown or black Explanation That Chilled Sentiment said Smithie putting a a restraining band hand on his hU friends threat threatening threatening threatening ening arm D Dont nt get sentimental mental in inthis inthis inthis this climate At least dont get that way till you know the ways and lingo of the Tags Tap That was no death song Bong no keen kee a love song And the poor little brown divil Bills Margarita singing Caging to her new husband She married him this after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon His name is Yen Shee Appropriate Appropriate name too In is means mean Number Two He is the wealth banker at Hollo Iloilo Savey If It Bills white Margarita in the was a ditto girl too he surely lost out against the love game Just then the guitar pi tar across the way thrummed again and again a deep d ep cheated alto began to chant a mourn mournful mournful ful rul song full of or tears and moans and broken hearts heart leaned far out of the casement and drew a deep breath His big chest rose and swelled until the arch of it touched his hia chin Then Theil he roared and the candle andle lights of or all Jaro Taro went out as b if it by the wind of his bellows Shut up Shut up caramba Shut up before I come and pull that epi shack about your our ears Ye female tarantula The alto voice quivered and stopped The dimly outlined figures of a man and woman disappeared stealthily an and 5 catlike within the door of the thatched shack Across the plaza the bugle bu 18 sounded taps plaintively The town was waa silent ilent and dreams of t home and a 80 white Margarita hovered over the cease casas of the soldiers to be dis disturbed disturbed now and again Cain by the crack of Remington or the bark of or oran an Americans Krag Knag as the outposts tl took sly Illy pecks at each other 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