Trooper Tales — page 130: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

118 A Soldier of Misfortune. The commissioned officers stood by the vessel’s side in the pier and kept the soldiers back until the American ladies had tripped down the gangway. And one of the ladies saw two gray eyes riveted upon her that wild win- ter’s day. She remembered those eyes and the hideous pallor of the man’s face for many long nights afterward, which was well. What Duffie did the next ten days any soldier will guess. At the end of that time he sent what money there was left to his old mother down in Texas. And not long after that he set out for the other side of the world to join his regiment in Manila. Such is the story of a flower from a summer land—a flower which withered beneath the icy breath. And the heart of Trooper Duffie, soldier of misfortune, withered with it. Eomicbdooks.co