Arms and the Woman

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Arms and the Woman, by Harold MacGrathThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Arms and the WomanAuthor: Harold MacGrathRelease Date: December 19, 2005 [eBook #17359]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARMS AND THE WOMAN***E-text prepared by Al HainesARMS AND THE WOMANA RomancebyHAROLD MacGRATHNew YorkDoubleday Page & Company1905Copyright, 1899, byS. S. Mcclure Co.Copyright, 1899, byDoubleday and Mcclure Co.To her, that is to say, to the hand that rocked the cradle.ARMS AND THE WOMANCHAPTER IThe first time I met her I was a reporter in the embryonic state and she was a girl in short dresses. It was in a garden,surrounded by high red brick walls which were half hidden by clusters of green vines, and at the base of which nestledearth-beds, radiant with roses and poppies and peonies and bushes of lavender lilacs, all spilling their delicate ambrosiaon the mild air of passing May. I stood, straw hat in hand, wondering if I had not stumbled into some sweet prison offlowers which, having run disobedient ways in the past, had been placed here by Flora, and forever denied their nativemeadows and wildernesses. And this vision of fresh youth in my path, perhaps she was some guardian nymph. I was ...