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"He is the only one in New York But look how far off he is! It takes weeks for his letters to get to me"

"But he writes every day"

"Harry telephones every day I tell you, Jane, the voice has a good deal to do with it You like to HEAR a fellow say nice things It beats ink all to pieces It will go hard with hiet over it"

"You are young, too That is why you have gotten over George"

"I' as I was But I've decided on Harry If father doesn't let us get et over hiet married, you know But father is firm He says I can't, and he says he'll kick Harry into the middle of next suular arot the joke on hiot herself and said the sa about it when I left the hotel It was an awful jar to father For two cents I'd elope with Harry"

"It would be pretty difficult for an officer on duty to elope, don't you think?" asked Graydon, airl He does, too But I haven't told you the worst Mother says I a absolutely spoiled out here in Manila, and she says flatly, that she's going to take me back to the States Isn't it awful?"

"Back to the fellow in New York?" sly

Ethel thought for a moment and a dear little sone and fallen in love with soirl," she said

It was true, as Jane soon learned, that Mrs Harbin had concluded to return to the United States with Ethel Jane's aunt had grown immeasurably tired of Manila--and perhaps a little more tired of the Colonel It was she who aroused the Colonel's antipathy to little Lieutenant Soper She dwelt upon the dire misfortune that was possible if Ethel continued to bask in the society of "those young ninnies" The Colonel developed a towering rage and a great fear that Ethel ht become fatally contaminated before she could be whisked off of the island It was decided that Mrs Harbin and Ethel should return to the United States soon after the first of March, to take up their residence in New York City

"Mother wants to be a soldier's --on parole," sniffed Ethel, alh for her father's ears