The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-09-25
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In time for vnur party, Mss Hegiand.
"Oh, an awful hotherl7 said Hardness.
Stroklng his mustacie, aud looking very
InOde'tly ut lovely o i've
"l--aI-Said my sister had got twins"
l!ney continued $50 she has. YOU know;
and didn't think it necessary to say it was
thwreo years ago"
"l3ut if you are found outl" Olive cried
laughing.
'Oh, if | am found OUT" Struggling his
shoulders, as if that was very remote con
tiugencv about which ne need not particu-
larry trouble himself
well, YOU did get it, and that's the great
| thing, said Olive, smiling. $50 now come
and see the marquee l was on my way to
sec how the men are getting on with it. 1t
is where we dance this evening"" she added,
by way of explanation 10 Hardness
Hardness made her rave little bow,
followed 10y polite little speech expressive
of jcy at the good fortune lie had to he one
If those who were SO lucky as TO have the
chamc, oi dlncng in the big marquee that
| evening.
= ut YOU are really to Game she said.
'yoH are not to get into a corner aud look
as ii r,u were simply dyiug for cigar
"lnever smoke cigars, he replied, gravelv
lUry laughed out aloui. al should think
NOT; tue very foucst bwriar- wool YOU ever
saw in all your hfe," he informed Olive. al
assure You 1t sets eyewry one in barwracks
| coughing as soon as ever he bwrinss it out
Have You got it IN your pocket, HarknossF.
Il don't take it to make calls upon ladies, "
! IIarkncss answered. Nov, Lucy, on the
contrary, Miss Wey land, is SO ievote,ily at
| tsched to his clay that he goes so far as to
take il TO church with him.
Not really!" she said, smiling up at Lucy.
who began TO laugh in shamcfaced way,
| and Redeemed lite under the gaze of the
black frnged gray eyes.
~Ard week or two aro," Hardness went
on rutblesslv, he created unite sensation
III ldleminster cathedral, and set all the
granJecs of that distinguished city asog. 1t
was such jok' We had had an awful oil
swell of a general TO morning service in the
garrison church, and consequently 10 lunch
at our mess afterwards; and as this Old gen
tlenan sat and Iroscd and pressed till half
past three o'clock, it was all we couIi do to
get ont OF uniform ami into morning clothes
and drive down TO the cathedral In time for
afternoon service at four OF course Lucy
coukln't dc-do-l mean couldn't lire with
cut pipe, squeezed in somehow or other
SO Ire smoked on in the cab, and as We
reached our dies nation before it was half
finished lie Just showed it into his pocket and
went innoceh,ly IN, as if he hal never done
anything half 80 wicked as smoke a pipa in
all his life But by and by was sitting
i'll the row of stalls Immediately below him
I heard fearful sCufiia behind me, and a
smcthercd laugh, and when looked round
there was POOR Lucy, with face as red as a
turkey cock or bis fun dres tunic, trying
vainly to get at his coat tails, and his coat
tails Were smoking and Smudging like fire
ct picnic!'
Olives face had been growing more and
| more Interested with e1ch word that fell
from Hardness lips, and Der gray eye,
opened as widely as an astOnished child's
And how did you put it outl" she de
manded.
Hardness laughed more than ever
"Oh, one of cur officers happened TO H.
next to him. and promptly crushed the smoS-
ing tails into better behavior An awful
dandy he is, too-quite the Snowman of the
| regiment, and no was going ont to tea after
| service. l assure You Ills face of concen-
| tra'el disGust-when the excitement Of the
moment had passed over, AMI be realized thu
! fact that the spic and span yellow gloves
which had covered his hands when he left
barracks wero for the most part black
| enough for a funeral-was very fine"
ION, but / gave him mine, and-er-mine
we're newt put in Lury, with an air Of ex
p.istu' alton
oh, then its really truei7 Olive cried, in
urprise
"True'-as gosprl,' answered Harkn,ss,
soemnly; "ani if ne had happened TO sit in
INV place instead OF where he did. there is
no saving Hha: might not have been the
| consequences For ! sat between two Of the
c 'oreymen; MI II Lucy's pockets hal burst
into flames there, AMI lind set tn" SUPPLIES
on fire, why. that would have been flare up
no mistake about it,"
"Take care you lelve it behind to-day
Olive said, with laugh, to Lucy; "for am
going TO wear muslin frock, aud if you
happened TO set that on fire ont in the open
| should not have the ghost of chance"
| "rii take care never TO set your fwrnck on
fire. murmurcd Lucy, in a very low voirr
20 that his friend should not hear il;
tben added, rs Mr. Weylaul approached
them. If it were your heart now, Miss Wcy-
land"
"Ahl if it were my heart, Capt. Lucy
-he answered, cayly
"Yes dear dad, We are going TO see your
beloved horses certainly
| As the directive, her father. and Hark-
urss-novad AWAY in the direction Of the
stables. Lacy found himself singing uncon-
scouslv, a, hc followed them, in n very soft
voice. lins or two Of Q ives som;
| Fut vh-p seven I''te years cut,
| oh. thrp IN iulrwry sally.
| Aii oh how haTPiiy ven live!
| IN; not IN our allcy
! Olive heard him and looked back
"Nou don't sing it with much expression"
! sha SAID fYtruip,r In wall bosida him,