The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-10
THE LOSER WINS!


On q bright spring morning, few years
ago, my regiment marched out OF Col.
chester en- route for ireland. where we had
been ordered, 10 the unspeakable disgust
Of the youngsters, who looked upon duty
in the Sister Isle as foreign service. The
sadness with which we marched out oil
our pleasant quarters was deepened into
profound melancholy by many days
marching from Dublin TO cur new station,
and we took over our barracks with heavy
hearts.
However, after six months residence
our feelings had undergone considerable
change; hall tho regiment was at out
stations within easy distance Of head
quarters, where our band played twice a
week, bringing together to croquet tights
and afternoon tea the surrounding tami'
lies, who returned our small attentions
with boundless hospitality. Six months
dinner parties, croquet parties, riding par
tics, and picnics, had done their work but
100 eiiectually, for the meas casualties
showed two Captains married aud three
subalterns engaged.
The Captain OF my troop, Frank Eyre.
mont, was an essy.going fellow rs any
in Her Msjesty's service; SO, freed from
the CONSTANTS of headquarters, our du.
ties were confined &c morning parade.
We left stable duty TO the special super.
vision OF Providence and the Sergeant.
Major, and at l p. NJ, when the uniortu'
mates at headquarters were confei to the
stables, learning TO hate everything In the
shape OF a trooper, We were generally 10
be found driving through the village 10
some scene Of festivity.
Our station, Bsllywilliam, was u curl.
Ously, dirty village, in undulating grass
country, studded with comfortable farm.
houses, and some large domains and resi-.
dences. The country was well wooded;
the fields Of that emerald green, so sci.
dom seen out CT moist Ireland, where
Nature paints her most beautiful land.
Scapes In water colors, and the skyline
broken by a serrated mountain range that
supplied q background leaving nothing tc
be desired.
A birds eye view Of the country show.
ed Bsllywilliam set In the midst, like q
refuse heap 10 garden. A salmon river
lowed by the barracks, and, In winter,
hounds met four days week within easy
distance. The people OF the neIghbor-
hood were hospimble; fishing and shoot
ing without end were freely given us; 80
E.remont and we're fain to confess that
our good fortune had drifted us into q
capital station.
"WherO away to-day, JackY' asked
Ggremont one morning, us we sat smOk-
Ing after parade in the room that did
duty as mGss.roOm.
VI think l shall fish the GrangemorC
waters" replied.
A shadow passed over EgremOnt's open
face as | spoke; he made no further re-
mark, but immersed himself in the Field
The Mercdyths of Grangemore were
our stauuChest allies. A week after our
arrival, Mr.. MGredyth had called upon IL;
10 month friendship had sprung up, aud
efe the summer had well come an alliance
offensive and defensive was completed
between the barracks and Grangemore
Need l say tho attraction that drew uI
there almost daily was not Mr.. Meredyth
with his genial bOnhOmmie, nor yet Mrs
Meredyth, who as the organizer Of every
social amusement won all hearts? MOI
yet the sons Of the house-one home from
India, the other devotipg his talents Il
the destruction Of the various animals
birds, and fishes, the killing OF which
COMES under the head OF sport" No,
may as well confess ut once-there was
daughter, and such q daughter o
Adela Meredyth shall not give an an
SIytic description; she was dark, and, a
even the ladies allowed, very beautiful
with nameless grace in every movemen
o. her beautiful figure; heaven Of lustr'
IN her dark eyes, and that charming in
souclsnce that makes an Irish girl so lata
to the unwary, especially 10 an English
man, accustomed TO the more staid cold.
ness Of our English ladies, Her Msjesly'
Twenty-ninth Hussars wept down befort
her charms without the shadow Of resist
anCe. Ere the September gold had cloth
% tho Corn.delds, I was hopelGssly Il
love, and as hopelessly despairing, for
saw that Egremont had also stuck hi
H'g to the GrAngemore queen. A uni
VSetsal tayOrite, rich, handsome, and gifted
20 was everything woman could desirt
dared not hope, with him for rivA
and saw, with all the pain that jealou
papgs could intllct,, that while often sileu
Sad constrained with me, with him Adel
NGTedyth was always gay and charming
Hall an hour after my. announcement
70 Egremont found me walking along thI
liver bank toward GTangemore, ostensi
SSIy to fish, but in reality TO euIoy, moth
IKE, the light Of her presence. As
walked along, for thetwentieth time / dt
iermined 10 "do or die" aud 10 learn m,
late Il oportunity offered. IrrsT,Sts HI