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David Cable lost no tio with his wife and Jane They hisked ard in his private car on the second day after the Bansemer exposure Broken-spirited, Jane acquiesced in all their plans; she see, 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 hter, instead of his wife's imposition

Jane was ill in Pasadena for many weeks Her depressed condition made her recovery doubtful It was plain to two persons, at least, that she did not care whether she lived or died The physicians were puzzled, but no explanation was offered by the Cables It was not until certain Chicago sojourners generously spread the news, that the cause of her breakdown becairl who sat, wan and distrait, upon the flower-shaded piazza was an object of curiosity to fashionable Pasadena As soon as she was strong enough to endure the trip, the hunted trio forsook Pasadena and fled northward

San Francisco afforded relief in privacy Jane's spirits began to revive There had not been, nor was there ever to be, any ht and its revelations What she may have felt and suffered in secret could only be conjectured by those who loved her Bansemer's name was never uttered His fate remained unknown to her The far-away, unhappy look in her eyes proved to thehts

David Cable was in Chicago when Mrs Cable received word from her sister, once Kate Coleman, that she soon would reach San Francisco with her husband, bound for the Philippines Kate was the wife of a West Pointer who had achieved the rank of colonel in the volunteers, by virtue of political necessity His regi hiirl of sixteen

Colonel Harbin had seen pleasant service at the Eastern posts where his wife had attained a certain kind of social distinction in the army fast set She was not especially enamoured of the prospect ahead of her in the Philippines; but the new colonel was a strict disciplinarian on and off the field He expected to be a brigadier-general if fortune and favouritish Mrs Harbin could never be anything more than a private in the ranks, so far as his estihter Ethel had, by means of no uncertain favouritisht have ranked as sergeant in the family corps