Marching Men

Chapter 1

Margaret Ormsby was a natural product of her age and of American

social life in our times. As an individual she was lovely. Although

her father David Ormsby the plough king had come up to his position

and his wealth out of obscurity and poverty and had known during his

early life what it was to stand face to face with defeat, he had made

it his business to see that his daughter had no such experience. The

girl had been sent to Vassar, she had been taught to catch the fine

distinction between clothes that are quietly and beautifully expensive

and clothes that merely look expensive, she knew how to enter a room

and how to leave a room and had also a strong well trained body and an

active mind. Added to these things she had, without the least

knowledge of life, a vigorous and rathe