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Show HAS TO SPOON UNDER GUARD Ohio Artilleryman in Embarrassing Predicament When Sweetheart Visits Him in Guardhouse. Three attractively dressed young women came to Ft. Benjamin Harrison to see a young soldier of the Ohio artillery ar-tillery battalion, says the Indianapolis Indianapo-lis News. They found he was in the guardhouse. Undismayed, they called at the guardhouse and received permission per-mission to see their friend. 1 The soldier bounded down the steps" of the post prison and greeted his visitors vis-itors gayly. "Guard out !" The order was shouted from the guardhouse office, and a soldier sol-dier of the provost marshal's guard de- ' tached himself from the group on the veranda and took a station five yards distant from the prisoner and his guests. Tbe girls and their soldier friend chatted for a few minutes, then two of them took leave, promising to meet the third at the luterurban station sta-tion later. The soldier and his sweetheart strolled across the parade ground, the guard wdth a rifle trailing them and maintaining his distance of five yards. An hour later they returned. "Corporal of the guard, one prisoner." prison-er." shouted the guard. "Bring him in," came the gruff response re-sponse from Insfde. , The girl threw her arms about the youth and for a moment they enjoyed one long ecstatic kiss, regardless of the tittering on the guardhouse porch and the cries of "break away" and "have a heart." from prisoners peeping through bars of the basement cells. "This spooning under guard Is all right if you like if that way, I reckon," said the soldier who had accompanied the lovers, later. "But, believe me, it's sure hard on the guard." |