In her dainty bathing-dress, Miss Allison's wings werediscarded.
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A
TAME SURRENDER
A STORY OF THE CHICAGO STRIKE
By
Captain Charles King, U.S.A.
AUTHOR OF "THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER," "MARION'S
FAITH," "CAPTAIN BLAKE," "A SOLDIER'S
SECRET," "SERGEANT CR[OE]SUS,"
"CAPTAIN CLOSE," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA
J.B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1896
COPYRIGHT, 1895 AND 1896,
BY
J.B. Lippincott Company.
Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
In her dainty bathing-dress, Miss Allison's wingswere discarded
"May I trouble you for those despatches, Mr.Elmendorf?"
"All that space in there will be needed in fiveminutes from this time."
"Is it potent—only at Christmas?"
A TAME SURRENDER.
CHAPTER I.
She had met him the previous summer on the Rhine, and now "if they[Pg 7]
aren't engaged they might as well be," said her friends, "for he is hershadow wherever she goes." There was something characteristicallyinaccurate about that statement, for Miss Allison was rather undersizedin one way and oversized in another; at least that, too, is what herfriends said. She was not more than five feet in height nor less thanfive feet in breadth "measured from tip to tip of her wings," as herbrother said. Miss Allison had wings, not because she was an angel, butbecause it was the fashion,—wings that sprouted at her fair, plump,shapely shoulders and billowed out like balloons. Her brother Cary,above referred to, a sixteen-year-old specimen of Young Americanimpudence and independence, said further of her, in the spring of '94,that if Floy's sleeves were only[Pg 8] inflated with gas she could float onair as easily as she did on water, and on water Miss Allison wasbuoyancy personified. On water, too, and in her dainty bathing-dress,Miss Allison's wings were discarded and her true proportions moreaccurately defined. She was anything but slender. She was simplydeliciously, exquisitely rounded now; but the question which sodisturbed her feminine friends as to call for perennial repetition was,What would she be a few years hence? This, however, was a matter thatseemed to give the lady in question no uneasiness whatever. Certainly itresulted in no loss of flesh. Perhaps it might have been better for herfuture figure if it had. With her perfect health, digestion, anddisposition, there was absolutely no way of worrying off a pound or twoa week. She was the soul of good nature and content. She had anindulgent father, a luxurious