Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-11-25

own son. We can enjoy a trip, you
old simpleton, guess, same as thirty
years ago, before the great George was
thought Of.
George and Miss Lyman walked on
in an embarrassedsi silence. At last the
lady's Indignation prevailed over her
amazement.
q think, Mr.. Norris" she said,
haughtily, extending her hand for the
parasol, "that can find the rest of
my way to the hotel [ will not de-
tain you
George gave her the parasol and
turned back. His father and mother
were gone from the library, and he
walked toward the barracks. On the
way he met his roommate. "My
partner has come," said Lyman;
''she's prettier than ever. Tell me,
where is my sister," George told
him, and continued on to his room,
knowing that he would soon have a.
message. Presently it came, and Ly-
man delivered it very curtly: "Miss
Lyman wishes to excuse herself from
being MIR. Morris partner at the ger
man." George made no answer, and
his roommate went out and left him.
Then George saw that the world was
against him. He cursed the fate that
had made them poor; he cursed the
lLVmans for looking down on him.
He turned for comfort to people who
had been kind to him. He thought of
Dora, and for the first time felt a sort
of pity for her that she had been
treated as he considered Miss Lyman
had treated him. "Confound it," he
said, beginning to compare her with
other ladies he had seen, "she is as fine
a. lady as any of them. [ will find
where she is and go and make it up"
AS he sat there into the twilight he
found himself going backward from the
age when he knew Dora to the time
when he was little boy, knowing no
high or low except by his mothers
simple rule that "handsome is that
handsome does" It gave him a. pang
to remember the time when he thought
his father and mother the greatest
people in the world. He thought of
how proud his father had always been
of him, and now he recognized how
little there had been to be
proud Of. He remembered how
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to-day; he remembered her dress and
every thing, and there flashed upon his
mind a picture of her as she must have
been at home carefully planning that
simple dress and patiently working
on it with her own hands for many
days to make it worthy of him.
Two big tears jumped into his eyes;
he made O. desperate swallow and
seized his cap and started for the no.
tel on a run. Fathers and mothers
are easily won back; in half an hour
in less time-the three were walking
together toward the famous ballroom.
eve won't go in, George" said the
old lady tremblingly-he had wanted
her to 60 in, that was enough-and she
cried again and said to herself that
George was the biggest and the best of
them ALL
But they did go in, and here was
George just ordering people around
and getting his mother q seat, and
when that was done he pointed out
his classmates that he had written
about and the professors who had
taught him. And the mother looked on
at the magic scene and wondered how
George could be familiar with such
splendor. In the midst of all she ex-
claimed: 'FWhy, there's Dora?"
"DoraW cried George, thunder
struck. Dora! Where?"
Then he saw her-waltzing like a
fairy with some one who had chosen
her for the figure. just the same as in
the old days, only more maturely
beautiful-golden hair, cherry lips,
peach bloom cheeks-only more beau
tiful than ever. Her dress was soft,
glimmering white watered satin, and
as she stood for moment under the
gas-jets, timid pearls threw little swing
ing shadows on her cheeks.
George watched her as kind father
might have done and gave her tend
er, good wish for every step of her fly
ing feet. "Peace be in her true and
gentle heart" He watched her through
the figure and while she was going to
her seat, and it made his own heart so
full that there was no place in it for
surprise when hes saw that her seat was
with Lyman. So Dora was Lyman's
beautiful partner of the evening, who
was to be his beautiful partner in the
May german of life.
After the hop George met young Ly-
man in their room. "You have been
finding me out, Lyman, but the same
discovery has taken me all my life. If
we ever meet again perhaps [ shall be
different man."
They did meet again. It was in
New York at the marriage of Miss Ger
trude Lyman and Lieut.. George Nor
ris.
So it was that the last day at West
Point he took his first step on the
road to being a gentleman. So it was
that the last day he underwent the
mysterious change that changes not
only the cut of Prince Albert coats,
but something else as we'll.