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Show ; MAID, WIFE AND WIDOW IN TEN MINrUES. M H ,, Ten innutM a thi brief space ef time In which Miss Jtlldret Deuel of H 1 .tUhmond, V, counted the mages of llfo which most men reckon lij jeara. H ""i In tmt hort while she wus ii n nttl a wlte. and ft widow, and the mmaiiw H ' uhlch hnd nilect hei dreams had been realise I anl shaltci eel Hhe liecame Mm H j J lllrhail Mile Stanton while her husband was dying a victim uf fever con- H L , trncted In the rervlte f hla country in the Philippines H (i A Three jenrs ago Mlaa Deuel the daughter lit a tlientro mannger In Itlrh M VI , tnon, ipcme engaged tn snung Wanton aho was hut 1" years old and the H i t objections of hei pun nta inled the young pwplti when they talked nf marriage H j A JPnr at,r t,p young nuin i IHhIihiI a lonimlnlon ua Lieutenant In the volun- H I tecr nrm ami una sent in fight the 1 IHplnoH H v t L,e not geivernel In Ita Intensity according tn dlatnnre however nn 1 M ij t tnc ni eiwen Meul Flnntnii and Mlaa Demi ncrvt 1 hut to Increase the bbbbbbI 1 -A J affection the inlertnlneil for each other Thilr luienta agreed to their mnr- bbbbbI H1 SI? TiaKV unon nl r,,,,lr" ,n ,hl" "llnlry a'"1 wl,h the sole puriinse of greeting her bbbbbI 5 nfl roldler heio MIb Deuel went 1 1 nllfomla a ftw weel a ago M lift The trnneport enme Into tin linrhnr at Snn I'ranilaio and I.leut htanlon 1 i)t emaciated almost ! n I itco,nltlii) and weakened t helpleamoaa waa among H , ) the taanengeia Ilia nirUnl through u ndalake In the tiiiiamlaalon of nn or ler 1 ! J Pf the War department waa two weeka earlier than anticipated 1 J Mlaa Deuel fl 'I and the grietlng which I leul Hlnnlon hud looked forward tn waa denied him &(j L E Nearly a wtck had paaael and Lieut Htanton ahoweil no Hlgu of Improve LH .1 till ,n'nl Thc" CHIre " riny n,,cn tnr """Hltal waa telng lulled by n large party B i THi of Pin trancla o eoplo In tl e i arty waa Mlaa Deuel keenly ajmpathetU na BV lfj aho remembered the awertlnnrt for whom ahe waa waiting A pjuae bj a tot KB ly n fnlnt exclamation cf auiprlae, and a moment later the two inline penile weie J . i claaped In each nther'a nrma 1 ('!' Ueut Htanton rallleil from lila fever for a few diva an 1 tho doctors auld Jin lie waa on the road to ri(nry Ilia fiancee waa liltt innatiint atten lant and tho f TJ. atory of their romance apread through i ver waid 111 the hoapltnl One even ! Jng a meBaenger auinmnned Mlaa Deuel fn m tho ltaldeme of hei gianlpnrenla " ''l( with a meaaage atntlng that 1 lent Mtantnii waa alnklug nil I U ant coul I not Ift' llvo until morning ( A fevr mlnulea after her nrrlvnl at the hoapltnl the nung nfllcer In the prea rill tnce of hla mother nud alatera expnaaed the dialie to make Mlai Deuel Ida wife Jllj ao that alio might Inherit hla ropeit Time waa no time to be lost an 1 It waa lili too lato tn aummnn n minister hipping ciuh olliu a lunula tho nung peo la j jjl'i took tho von a of matrlmnu) tin 1 i n ilvll ngieimeui whkh waa duly wit 4 "i mssed by the iclntiven of both and n few mluutea later Lieut rUanton was !' dead |
