Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-04-20

beautiful, most fascinating creature
above ground. Her dancing, her rid
ing. her music, were all perfection, and
Frank used to declare that she could
beat even Fred. Belton hollow at
shooting
why, I've seen her. Frank ex-
claimed, take her revolver and put a
bullet through each of the fingers of
my glove while | was throwing it in
the air ten PAGES away from her p
In short, she was the ideal of all
that woman can or might be, and we
looked forward with interest to her
promised appearance on our class day.
Well introduce Camlion to her, and
he shall make her an offer of marriage!'
said Belton, with chuckle
The joke of this suggestion lay in
the fact that the else heroic Camiion
was what is called afraid of young
ladies, that is, he could seldom be got
to open his mouth in the presence Of
any women who was not over thirty
and married, and if brought to bay he
would stammer and blush like school
boy, and stand twisting his great
hands behind him and glancing anx-
iously this way and that for chance
to bolt. To imagine him carrying on
courtship was too daring flight of
fancy for any one but Bolton. With
children, however, Camlion was COM
pletely at home, and he would spend
hours of uproarious happiness in a
nursery, tumbling his gigantic frame
about on the floor amid the screams of
delight of the small people. He treat
ed them with ardent reverence and
abject forbearance, and they led him
INTERESTINGLY captive.
Our class dav came around at last
the longest and loveliest day of sum-
mer-with its spreads in the mems
rooms, it dancing on the College Green
it's illuminations in the evening, and
its various other diversions. Miss
Capel was there, and beyond doubt she
was, in appearance at least, nearly all
that Frank had declared her to be- But
for my own part, while recognizing
the bewitcbing brilliance of her face
and manner. | found her slender lips
TOO satirical and her clear brown eyes
| too unsympathetic to command my
entire fealty She was one of these
women who, as bare return for con-
descending to exist in the presence of a
man, demand from him devotion
scarcely dstinguishable from slavery.
She was witty, rapid and at once sub
tile and daring There was in her, l
fancied, more Of intellectual apprecia-
tion of passion than Of passion itself.
She seemed to think that the proper
place for her arched foot was on the
neck of the rest of humanity. She
had never been opposed, much less
rebufed or humiliated she expected
that your eye would fall before hers.
Her figure was tall and 1.-THE, and no
bly, proportioned, graceful, erect and
alert. But l was brutal enough to
think that some of the ear-boxipg
which she had doubtless administered
to her slaves at home might have been
wholesOmely returned to her own de-
fant head. Fred Belton, on the other
hand, considered her divine and
'squired her about almost inveterably
she accepting his homage in good part,
and laughing with him, or at him,
quite affably. For several hours he
was general object of envy. At
length, catching sight of Camlion, he
whispered few words to his beauti
full companion, glanced at our serene
Hercules, and she nodded her head.
A moment later he had been brought
up and presented.
See you again in half an hour in
Harvard hall, said Bolton, and was
off, chuckling TO me, We've cooked
old Camiion's goose for this time, at
all events
Perhaps be had, though not in the
way he imagined. What induced Miss
RosaliDd absolutely to lay herself out
to captivate Camlion Of all men? Was
it from subtitle feminine perception
| that no woman had yet won him,
W hen yet he was worth any womap's
winningf Was it, perhaps, that she
was really impressed by something in
the mans noble simple nature that re-
vealed to her possibilities she had
never till then suspected? Or was it
mere whim, because she was weary
of being worshipped, and wanted to
have the novel sensation of finding her.
self on the soliciting side? l cannot
say; but, at all events, she did it
how effectually and lastingly no one
knew until years afterward. Mean
while, it may be remarked that she
and Camlion did not make their ap-
pearance at Harvard hall, where Fred
waited for them until his patience was
exhausted. On the contrary they kept
together by themselves all the rest of
the day and evening; and it was not
until the Examinations were over and
most of the merry makers dispersed,
that Belton came across them wander
ing arm-in-arm under the trees at the
outskirts of the college grounds. They
met his rather discounted greeting
composedly.
i thought you two must have de-
camped for good = he exclaimed, with
reproachful look at the lady. You
know, Miss Capel, you were engaged
to dance the first waltz with me at the
hall, and afterward to come to my
spread and
Il found better employment inter-
rupted Miss Cadel, with glance of
superb insolence.
Her white bands, which Belton no.
ticed were ungloved, were clasped over
Camlions mighty arm, and now she
looked up at him in the bright moon
light, with what seemed to Bolton an
expression of secret intelligence. Cam
lion bent toward her and said some
thing; but in 80 low tone that Bel
ton did not catch it. Miss Capel then
turned to the latter and demanded
brusquely whether he knew where her
brother was.