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Up in Albany lived the Widow Colehters Mrs Coleman's husband died on the battlefield, and she, like many women in the North and the South, after years of moderate prosperity, was compelled to support herself and her family She had been a pretty woot their personal attractiveness Not -house in which the railroad h, theopened a book and newsstand Her home was on the floor above the stand, and it was there she brought her little girls to wo, haru as he dropped in to purchase a newspaper It was at the end of June, in 1876, and the country was in the throes of excitement over the first news of the CusterHorn River

Cable was deeply interested, for he had seen Custer fighting at the front in the sixties Frances Coleirl he had ever seen, sold hih Albany without visiting the little book shop

Teant in love, Cable, once convinced that he cared for her, lost no ti her, whether or no In less than three months after the Custer massacre they were married

Defeated rivals unanimously and enviously observed that the handsoeous little coquette between New York and Buffalo As a matter of fact, she had loved him frohtedly pricked his heart into subjection

The young husband settled down, renounced all of his undesirable habits and beca suddenness that his friends rew accustomed to her frivolous ways, overlooked her th of a free rope," as he called it He was contented and consequently careless She chafed under the indifference, and in her resentment believed the worst of him Turmoil succeeded peace and contentment, and in the end, David Cable, driven to distraction, weakly abandoned the doood wages, and all for the sake of freedonored her letters and entreaties, but in all those ret the impulse that had defeated hio back and resuotten