Soldiers of Fortune
 SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 

 

 BY 

 RICHARD HARDING DAVIS 

 

   TO IRENE AND DANA GIBSON 

 

 SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE 

 

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 "It is so good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room.  "I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except that they're always so cross if one puts them next to men they don't know and who can't help them, and so I thought I'd just ask you, you're so good-natured. You don't mind, do you?" 

 "I mind being called good-natured," said Miss Langham, smiling. "Mind what, Mrs. Porter?" she asked. 

 "He is a friend of George's," Mrs. Porter explained, vaguely. "He's a cowboy. It seems he was very civil to George when he was out there shooting in New Mexico, or Old Mexico, I don't remember which. He took George to his hut and gave him things to shoot, and all that, and now he is in New York with a letter of introduction. It's just like George. He may be a most impossible sort of man, but, as I said to Mr. Porter, the people I've asked can't complain, because I don't know anything more about him than they do. He called to-day when I was out and left his card and George's letter of introduction, and as a man had failed me for to-night, I just thought I would kill two birds with one 
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