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I By T. 0. DE LE01T,
Author of '"Creole and Puritan," "Tht
Hock or tho Rye," "lmr Years
in Rebel Capitals" etc.
fOopyrlRlit by the Author. All riRhts rnswved
CHAPTER 1.
' love's young dream.
'HuUuI 1'oit'H no 1icn?" interrupted the
(rrcprmtblc lloomcrano.
"Como along, old boy I Pvo fixed it at
last."
Thus cried Lieut. Tom Jones, U. S. A.,
bounding into my room in his usual hop-Blrip-and-jump
style, and causing thero
I by a deep gash in both tho chins reflect
ed in the cracked shaving glass of my
bachelor lodgings.
"1 rather think you have," I responded,
, hah! sav igely, as I mopped my bleeding
leaturo mm a pieco or uioiung paper
"I rather think you have; but what in
tho world havp you fixed, besides my
chin?'
"Oh, bother your bleedingl Just
listen: I'vo boi rowed tho major's gray
land tho suigeon's 'Jalap,' done Uncle
SBoh out of lus double sleigh, and we'll
unvo over to biiauynooic ana spend
Christmas. Hurrah!" And Lieut Tom
Jones. U. S. Boomerangs, spun round
my room a3 if he had just been pro
moted to tho first corps of tho "Black
Crook." I looked at him until ho re
gained a pose on the back of my arm
chair, withjiis feet on tho cushion. Then
I said gravely tho tone was meant to
convey tho most crushing barcasm:
"Sheer s Jalap and tho major s grayr
"Certainly why not?"
"Why not? Because, firstly, tho gray
never was in traces in his lifo; secondly,
because tho sorrel never would go in
doublo harness, you know."
"Yes, I know. But, then, they're both
old enough to begin; so come, old fellow,
pack our traps. I'll give tho ponies a
bwhhl down tho road to keep 'em quiet
and use em to tno bells, iiurry; I'll be
back before you say 'Jack Robinsonl' "
I stared at my fucnd to eeo if ho was
really in earnest before I replied:
"Tom Jones, do I look liko a lunatic?
Have you any reason to justify believing
Imo a lit subject for the padded room? My
dear hoy, I added gentry, rny neck is far
too valuable to my country to risk break
ing it for the sake of breaking old She
er's honel and your uuclo's sleigh."
"Whj , they'io at tho door now just
look at 'em," i espouded tho lieutenant,
walking to tho window. "Thoy're as
quiet as a pair of lambs. Tho sorrel has
iv
only one leg oer tho polo, and tho ser
geant and my orderly can hold the gray's
head nearly still Comol throw some
things into a valise and bo ready by tho
time 1 get back."
I threw mybelf on tho sofa and stretch
ed out my comfortable slippers to the
sea coal fue by way of reply.
Can t do it, Tom. I'm too valuable
a member of society to think of suicide
at present."
"Nonsense! Wo 11 have no end of a
jolly timo at Belton's raiso the neigh
borhood slcato on tho pond make
S floods of eggnogg shock the old 'un
and havo u glorious german to wind up."
i shook my ueau.
"Can't do it, T. Jones. Even did I
iwant to ruin my lifo insuranco people
I've engagements at noino l cannot
break," and I looked very important as 1
dwelt on this announcement. "You
lieo, J lead tno cuoir lor tueir (jnnstmas
praclico to-night; I'vo been pledged for
a mouth for my Christmas dinner at tho
mavor's. and 1 ahem I skato Miss Bet-
itio on tho pond this after"
I "Oil, what a head I have! " Tom broke
in. "Didn't I mention that? Uncle Bob
says Bot's to go with us, and she says
you must bo suro to come. And mind,
you are to tell him tho horses are dog
quiet Bet swears ho'1 never believo
mo."
Miss Bottie was goingl
f Beforo that young nontenant had half
Southed his sentence I was at tho win
dow gazing at thoso horses with an in
terest no quadrupeds over possessed for
mo before. Tho sorrel had fallen
in liis effort to got hia leg back
over tho pole, tho grizzly old ser-
tceant was Bitting composedly on his
frouiT
head, blowing hugo clouds
his pipe, whi)o tho orderly uubuckled
tho traces. Tho gray amused himself
meanwhile by snapping viciously at tho
boy who held him, and with every snap
ho mado a vain lungo with his heels at
tho orderly's fatigue cap, tho latter dodg
ing beautifully as over did a practiced
sparroi beforo a big bruisor. Tho view
was not encouraging. Thoy certainly
woro hardly tho pair to risk a young
lady's or my own neck with, oven
though Tom was famous throughout his
corps as a perfect Itaroy.
"By aeorgo!" I half soliloquized, "1
don't think she'd bo safe behind thoso
devils."
I "Boahl With mo driving? Only tho
belli! tttubo them a little for tho moment.
Ono turn down tho road and I'll bring
thuni back liko a pair of sheep."
'Butllmiilly think"
"And I uertalnly know. Comol Bet's
crazy to go, and nijs n!io depends on you
to jmrguurtu Unclu Bob thu horn nio
mifot.'
"Mjw JlullluuWf" I liiwltutttl. Thero
ww alumn In my throat will a ringing
ill my with; vuu ilutiuuilly nfriild of the
mad IwwIj iiiynelf, but tlioii tho wnnlm'
to go, w I iuMwIi "Willi, jKirlwpu lifter
!l llity limy Imj ii littlu ijulutur boom.
AjmL Tuiiii you ilu-uli -really lliliil
tfwui mtuf
"(.' H.iiii!.. ill i, mid JJttiliw, too
IIW IM U I'll flfml'l " TM lllXlidlll IJIC,
SB a'fia tertty
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jffflaa';-g; ' - I 1 - 4fak i. sift,, fc it. , iu .,ut .r. , j1, , i . jft ., A JilkdS k rf , i-Ui,r
felt who paw tho ttimbnl ready to bear
them to tho hungry kniro of tho firt
revolution "Tom Jones, I will go. of
course But, Tom, pray do not use that
horrid abbreviation of jour cousin's
name. Thcio aro eomo subjects too
snored for tho profanation of slangy con
densation, and your cousin's nnmo is" -"Bully!
You'll go then?" iutoirupted
tho irrepressible Booiueiang. "I'll wheel
'cm round tho block and bring 'cm in
cmroumltho block mul brine 'cm in 3..,,. n..n. 7. H .4 Iffl VH 4 r Ifl MM, fcfl H ...
cool, you Bet."
Ho bounded down tho stairs, sprang
into tho bleigh, seized tho leins, and, as
tho men jumped fiom tho hoises heads,
was off with a flurry of snow and u
huiiah f J oin tho crowd.
1 am not a dab nt tho classics, so I will
not say how, having plunged liko Cur
tlus into this gaping sleigh ride, I now
Bat liko Mnrius, amid tho ruins of my
wardrobe. But I did tuinblo nil its con
tents into tho middlo of tho floor and
then sat among them, hopeless of cram
ming into my small valise half enough
for this nil important Xmas n isitl But
she wanted to go! 1 was to risk my
ueek for her sake by her bide. Delicious
thought! So just as tho bells again
jingled at tho door 1 jumped upon my
distended poilninnteau.bprung tho lock,
and answeied Tom with a yell as wild
as his own.
Now, perhaps 1 should explain that
Tom Jones and I had always been chums.
Residents of tho Eamo village and clill
di on of intimate fi lends, wo had thumbed
tho samo algcbia, robbed tho samo or
chards and been flogged by tho bamo
pedagogue. In fact, wo had nu er been
U o weeks apart until his appointment
to West Point, five years before, had
separated us. Tom's persevering industry
in running bounds to "Cogens," and his
assiduous courbo of "Benny Havens," had
bearcely been thoroughly rewarded, for
his graduation third in Ins class count
ing from tho bottom made him a hie vet
second lieutenant in tho United States
Boomerangs. It had found mo a dignified
but patient lawj er in tho incipient me
tropolis of Piketon. Happy chanco had
tin own Tom at tho uisennl near by, and
had introduced his chosen friend to the
family ciiclo of his Uuclo Blythe.
There 1 soon became ami do maison.
Mayor Blythe ho was tho revered chief
magistrate of Piketon was a mother
lawyer, and a man of high social and
literary renown. Ho had n capitally
chosen libiary, a warm heart, a cole
bra ted cook and a iaro assortment, of
such wines! And then hem! like Jcph
thah of old, ho had "one fair daughter
and no more."
But such a daiighterl
Bottio Blytho was just turned of 19,
and tho most perfect mold of female form
divino. Of medium height, just plump
enough for perfection of rounded outline,
and with the tiniest models of feet and
hands that ever fell to tho lot of woman,
her face was still her chiefest charm.
Not regularly beautiful, with scarce a
feature in it that would have been pro
nounced lino under criticalanalysis, theio
was yet .in indescribable witchery in
that face, or in tho character reflected by
it, that bound mo haiid and foot from tho
fh-ot week I knew her. Thoso rich, dark
oval lines, with heavy bands of glossy
hair, seemed to command, rathei than
ask, a second look. And who could look
twico and forget?
Thcro w as a inei ry devil In her cj c
laigo, languid and black as sloe that
drew a timid man's heait right up into
his throat and kept it kicking there with
f oi ty-horso power. And then the face
was but an index of tho sprightly but
souud and well stored mind her father
had seduously cultivated during a long
widowcrhood. And the steady, tender
gleam that sometimes replaced tho mis
chiovous twinkle in thoso oyes could only
have been drawn from tho well spring of
a pure heai t.
"With tho first mouth of our acquain
tance I began to believo I cared for Bet
tie Blythe; with tho second I believed I
loved her, and with tho third I know
it for a certainty. On tho fourth month
I had told her I adored her wildly; and
for thieo subsequent ones had come,
again and iiRain, to the very threshold
of a repetition. Gentle and womanly,
she had at first told me gravely the rest
of the face demure, while tho eyes danced
a very witches' dance to tho tune of sup
pressed merriment that, though we
weio very excellent friends, wo weroBtill
almost strangers. I could oulyucknowl
edgo tho truth of what sho said, so 1
prayed for forgiveness and for hope. Sho
gave tho pardon, tho pardon gave tho
hope, and I wandered on in n fool'spara
dise. But though wo became better and
better friends, though sho let mo mean
der unchecked through tho most exten
sive fields of rhapsody and lay tho tallest
flowers ot sentiment a her toot, yet tho
fh-bt outright word I spoke carried up the
taper forefinger in arch warning, and the
ripo lips formed tho ono word, "Remem
ber!" I could not beliove Bottio Blytho was
flirting with mo. Tlicro was something
too genuine, too womanly, about her
whole being for that.
Sho could never stoop, I said to myself
for comfort, to a little triumph in tho
misery of tho heart she know to bo hers
in all honebty and ardor. No! Either
sho was trying to make a real "friend"
of me, oi delicious idea! sho was be
ginning to lovo mo without admitting it
to herbclf, I was wiling to take tho
chances of the first so long as I saw a
possibility of tho second. And besides,
e'ier fe'avo ,no 80 mucn ot ner delightful
uuciuiy,
Though no spoken word over passed be
tween us on tho subject thero was yot
that "muto converse of kindred sonls,"
and Tom Jones apparently sympathized
with me most completely. Bottio and ho
weio fast fi lends, and Mayor Blytho per
mitted hor to go nnywhero under protec
tion of "Coubin Tom," in whom ho placed
unbounded confidence. During thu burn
ing days of that August many a charm
ing picnic had wo in tho grand old woods
about Piketon; in tlmmellow evenings of
autumn many a never to bo forgotten
sail on tho littlu mirror of n lake. And
what teas wero thoso on tho old veran
da, with tho boft breeze sighing through
tho vines in sympathy with tho beatings
of my heait, and tho light just undecided
enough for mo to liiiiigino nny expres
sion in her fuco that lest suited my ar
dent louiinghl Later, when tho early
wiowh begun to tall, bow merry woro
thoho bleigh rldon In tin niuyor'a Hohor
family fcleigh, diiiv.-ii by tlmmher family
lioi-Mi, Tiiiii uhvi)b lictliig Juliul Aw
wiit'ii thu ii'U'i Itii'uth of winter blow
over the littlu lake, bhietluu It with u
tturfuco gluwy uiiiooth, I had tuuduily
stnipiMMl tli liny kluito thong loitml Hint
ruvUlillJKly till iii1 fiiiklu -IiimI liuld lliu
liijwr Ungci'i in iiilmi n wu Hlltled in
ttwift olruliM hut liaiild Ixwiiu An
Jilt It Mild 'J "III U lltuil)!) (Mill l "II
illllW Jlllllll, bill V.l HIUII Ulllh nil
( ss;"
rio iiin) mindful tit thu pMJunpliy un U
Anna Bolton was over Tom's compim
iOn. A quiot, fair haired, sensitive
mouso of a blonde, sho Was the direct
antipoilo in all things of her sworn ally,
Bcttie, under who'o fostering protection
sho would nestle confidingly as though
no harm could reach her thero.
Sho was solo heliess and solo compan
ion nt her splendid residenco, "Shndy
nook," of n very deaf but Argus eyed
gr.indaunt Unmaled hersolf for tho
full allotment of tho human sp.m, tho
senior Miss Belton had small coiilldonco
in tho tasto or honor of tho stonier sex.
Sho jealously watched tho ovory move
ment of her niece, religiously believing
that each man who set his eyo upon her
fragilo form used it but as a medium
through which to cast unholy glances at
tho estate somo ten miles back of Pike
ton whoso exponent sho was. But the
homo of tho spiuster had no groat cliarms
for her heiress unless brightened by tho
presenco of her stronger fiiond and ally;
so, when Bottio could not bo spaied
from her household gods, it was gieat
commit to quiet little Antin to Bit under
those ulbo, mid to stay theio meekly so
long as Betllo could alternately cajoloor
couiee the do if spinster into permitting.
But that ancient and unwiuking Coi he
ms had caiefully reconnoiteied tho sur
roundings ot tho mayoralty. She had
long siuco concluded that 1 was tho
property of tho lady of tho house, and
Tom, being ouly a pieco of live furni
ture, liko tho cat, was not to bo counted.
So littlo Anna's last visit had been al
lowed to run into mouths. Shu could
skato well, for all her .fragility, and her
tasto nnd touch in music weio botli deli
cate but decided. So, after all, wo made
hor useful, though I felt compunctious
twinges when I reflected how heavy on
liaud she must bo to poor Tom; for, be
sides all other reasons, it was an under
stood tiling among us that Miss Belton
wns engaged. If not formally contract
ed to him sho was bo far committed to n
certain Mr. Goldvvin as to make that
consummation a mero matter of time
Not a very enticing poison was Mr.
Goldwin, GO in years and monoy giub
in natme, but as tho senior Mibs Bol
ton was wont to say grimly if not a
brilliant man, ho was at least a safe one.
Twenty thousand a year was his allot
ment of this world's goods, nnd the very
soul of the spinster swelled within hor
when hhe lellected what that would do
for "Shadynook."
Yielding in all things, tho white
mousoappearcd to accept her fate in this
witli perfect composuro, but sho shrunk
with peculiar sensitiveness liom any al
lusion to it by ono of us. So, of course,
none was ever mado; but I and I was
sure Tom as well looked upon her as
ono of tho least interesting of the vic
tims to tho Moloch of conveuanco.
Henco I fully appreciated tho unselfish
friendship that caused him to becomo a
maityr to her stupidity, that I might be
left tete-a-tete with his glorious cousin.
Ono night when our bachelor pipes or
punch had been stiongcr than usual 1
said words to that effect. Tom's rejoin
der was characteristic. He thrust his
touguo into his check, shut one eye very
slowly, and nicking my glass with his
said, "Here's good luck, and bad 'cess
to old Goldwin!"
Verily, wo need never leave our own
circlo for evidences of the mysteries of
Nature's complex mechanism, aud what
very odd errors we mako in our estimate
of them sometimes! .
At 'length its heiress had been impera
tively called back to "Shadynook." The
unmatcd Aigus would havo her return
for its Xm.is dismahiess, tiijd when that
spinster foot w.is onco put down there
it staj ed- Exacting the promise of a
speedy visit.from Bettie, befoio Xmas if
posiiblo, and indulging in many mys
terious whispers and a perfect fusillade
of lrisses that &ct mo on pins and needles
of envy, tho whitc-mousoy one wept her
self into her sleigh and laded out into
the suowy avenue.
Tom and I, as members of Bettio's
perbonal staff, had, of couise, been in
cluded m tho invitation tv "Shady
nook," but no time was decided m our
council, and weeks rolled by with no
detimto plans about it. Happy weeks
they were to me full of miiislnno, with
only buch flecks of shadow as mado me
enjoy tho more. I basked in tho smiles
of tho only woman I had ever really
cared for, and, whether they wero all
for mo or not, 1 was inanely happy,
For there's notlilnp; half ho sweet iu lifo
As Lo o's ouag Ureain
(To be Continued.)
A J. Warner, chairman, and Lee
Crandal, secretary of tho National Ex
ecutive Silvei committe, give notice that
a meet of tho eommitten will lm holJ,at
Washington on Dec. 10.
A Washington 101 impendent asserts
that Census Superintendent was short
lSIi.OOO in his unofficial circular irivinir
the population of Now Yoik city, which
tho final calculation will show.
Almost 5,000 new postofliees, more
than any one year hofoio, havo been es
tablished tho past year. Tho star route
mileago has increased over 5,000,000 and
tho raihoad mileage over 11,000,000
milos.
Tho elegant btono residence patterned
after feudal castles of tho Old World,
situated on tho high hill at Nowton,
Conn, and owned by P. Lorillard Rey
nolds, was burned with all its contents.
The loss is $100,000.
Rov. All. Blown of Aliddletown, N.
S., assaulted G. II. King, a divinity stu
dent, on tho train because King sat on
his hut. King's noso was hioken and
both of his eyes blackened. The car
floor was covei ed with blood.
Williuni AI, Donahuo, a Boston post
oflice clerk, was aiiested in tho Spring,
field poHtoflico when ho presented tin ee
monoy oi dors for $100 each, payablo to
"GeoigeB. Swett," Ho lmd sent the
orders out from Boston and laised the
face valuo of 1 to $100.
Thu now constitution of Wyominj,
almliHhes the ofilio of probito judge.
Judge Bergman wim ordeicd to turn
over tho n coidu of IiIh ofllgo to tho cir
cuit com t. He rofiiM'd to obey thu ol
der and was hcnt to jnll for coiitompt ot
coiut, This si i woiricd him that lie at
tempted to talie his life,
When th.i Italians now under indict
iiiuut for the iniiidnrof Chief Uoiiuusy
of Now Oili'iiim wero culled bufoio the
bar tli.iir niiiiit'l moved tnijiiasli tho In
dlctini'iit on thu grouinltlmtiMoulbJiloi,
liot t'lieitlwl to Ui puwi'Ut wiiM in the
giiiml jury room during lliu'fuvuiilgu.
tion, The i'hho wax postponed,
Tim oxjMU I Jiccoiiiiliiut who U iuviuill
gating Uio iillitlr nf (Juriliiur t'lmsn &
Co,, hioliuiM of Itimliui, found of llui
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