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HOW UTE JACK WAS TAKEN.
BY OWEN WISTER.
Augustus Albumblatt, young and new and sleek with the latestbook-knowledge of war, reported to his first troop commander at FortBrown. The ladies had watched for him, because he would increase thenumber of men, the officers because he would lessen the number ofduties; and he joined at a crisis favorable to becoming speedily knownby them all. Upon that same day had household servants become an extinctrace. The last one, the commanding officer's cook, had told thecommanding officer's wife that she was used to living where she couldsee the cars. She added that there was no society here "fit for man orbaste at all." This opinion was formed on the preceding afternoon whenCasey, a sergeant of roguish attractions in G troop, had told her hewould be a brother to her always. Three hours later she wedded agambler, and this morning at six they took the stage for Green River,two hundred miles south, the nearest point where the bride could see thecars.
"Frank," said the commanding