Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-10-18

been hOlulnS ioiNh - l tba
Ire GIRL he was engaged TO, ana wv
ladies were purring approval Wl''o
the men yawned, when there Was :
smstla ~ skirts in the dark ana a
tired faint voice lifted itself
eWhere is my husbandI
Ido not wish in the least 20 reieeI
On the morality of the "ShiEarrls'
but it is ON record that TOUT nv"
iumped up as if they had been shot'
Three of them were married men
parheps they we're afraid THAT their
,,iyes had come from home unoe-
tnowpst. The fourth said that he
had acted on the impulse OF the mo
ment lie explained this atterward'
Tben the voice cried: "Oh, Lionel!
Lionel was the senior subaitern
name A woman came into the ut
tle circle OF light by the candles on
the nor tables, stretching out hel
hands 10 the dark where the senior
suboltern was and sobhlng. he
rose to our feet feeling that things
were going to happen and ready "
believe theworst. In this bad, snaii
world of ours one knows so little OF
the life OF the next man, which after
nh is entirely his own concern, that
one is not surprised when a crash
comes.
ANYTHING might turn mp any day
for any one. Perhaps the senior sub
altern had been trapped in hts youth.
| Men are crippled that way occasion
nlly We didn't know; we wanted 20
hear. and the captains wives were as
anxious as We. II he had been trapped
he was to he excused, for the woman
tromnowhere in the dusty shoes and
gray travelling dress, was very lovely,
with black hair and great eyes inli OF
tears, Shewas tall, with tine figure,
and her voice had a running sob ia
il pitiful 10 hear "A soon "a the
senior subaltern stood up she threw
! her arms round his neck and called
him my darling, and said she could
not bear whiting ulCne ~ England,
and his letters were SO short aud cold
and she was his to the end ui the
; world, ana would he forgifc her.
/ This did nOtsound quite Ike u lads +
way OF speaking. Il was TO demon
stratlye.
Things seemed blnck indeed, and
the captains wives peevcd under
theireyebrows at tile senior subaltrru
/ and the colonel face set like the day
: Of Judgment framed ii gray bristlrs
and no one spoke Tor awhile
Next the colonel said very shortly
"Wcll. sir?" and the woman sobbet
nlresh. The senior subnlteFn wai
l half choked but he grunted ont III
Z Il DID lcl never hnd wife 10 ms
life" Don swear, snid the col
onel 'CCms into the mess. W.
;. must slit this clear somehow," ans
i no sighed to himself, Tor he believes
+ in his .Shikarris, did tho colonel
, We trooped into the nnti.room
under the full lights, and there ",
, saw how beautiful She was So,
) stood up in the middle oil ~ all
o sometimes choking with crying thei
=. hard and proud. and then ho'Iiu.
out her arms 20 the senior subaltrru
II Was like the fourth net 81 Il trag
d edv She told us how the srniu
is subulteru had married her when h
n was home on leave rightsrn month
before, and she seemed to know nl
that wo knew. and more too, o, Ill
? people md his pnst life H. wn
Is white and ashy gray. trying mo-,
ana again to break into the tnrgrn
~ OF her words; aud We, noting ito,
! lovely she wns mud what crtminn
y he looked. esteemed him h.nst Z
a the worst kind We felt sorry 70
I, him, though.
is | shall never forget the indictmcn
le OF the senior subnlteru by his wit.
% Nor will he. II WAS 40 sudden. rual
n. ing out OF the dark ununuouncgdl !,
n, toour duh lives The captains wivs
10 stood back. but thcircyes were nlighD
10 and YOU could sce that they had q
10 ready convicted and sentenced III
IL scniorsubaltern. Colonel seemed tiy
in years older. One major wns rhndiu
his eyes with his hnnd nnd wntchin
he the woman from underneath it. Al
or other was chewing his mustAchn an
i. smiling quietly n II he were witness
he ingaplay. Full in the open space
be the center by the whist tables II
III senlorsuhnltcru's terrier was huntin
&c for tleas remember all this as Glen
e: ly as though a photograph were
II my hand. | remember the look
is horroron the senior subaltern lnr
ep ltwusruther like seeing u man han
MT ed, but much more interesting. +
ur nally the womanwound NJ by sayir
on that the senior subnltern cnrrird
he double +, VI. in tattoo on bis h.
nd shoulder. We oil knew that. and
on our innocent minds IL seemed
be cllnch the matter. But one of 4
nd bncbelor majors said ycry pulitel
=" u presume that your marriage Ger
iss iicate would be more to the purpose
* Tint reused the woman 4
I a stood up and sueered at The aeni
subnltern for cur aud M lsel 1
or major and the colonel and nil I
IN, rest. Then she wept and then .
tie pulled paper from her breast IN
| ing imperially: Take thntl And