The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-30

consultation with his wife; then they
left the house together; he to have a
low toned and very stern talk to rather
than with the abashed Clancy, WHO lis
tened, cap in hand and with hanging
head; she to visit the sick child of Mrs.
Flanagan, of Company X, whose quar-
tiers adjoined those to which the Clancys
had recently been assigned. When that
Hibernian culprit returned TO his roof
tree, released from durance vile, he was
surprised to receive q kindly and SYM
pathetic welcome from his captain wife.
who with her own hand had mixed him
some comforting drink and was plan
ming with Mrs. Clancy for their greater
comfort. ''If Clancy will only promise
to quit entirelyr' INTERCEPTED the partner
of his joys and sorrows.
Later that day. when the doctor had
a little talk with Clancy, the ex-dragoon
declared he was going to reform for all
he was worth. He was only a distress to
everybody when he drank.
"All right, Clancy. And when you
are perfectly yourself, you can come
and see Lieut.. Hayne as soon as you like. >"
"Loot'nant Hayne is it, sirs Shure I'd
be beggin' his pardon for the vexation /
gave him last night"
''But you have something you wanted
! to speak with him about. You said SO
last night, Clancy" said the doctor, look
ing him squarely in the eye.
"Shure 1 was dhrunk, sir. didn't
name it." he answered; but he shrank
and covered.
! The doctor turned and left him.
''If it's only when he's drunk that con-
science pricks him and the truth will
out, then we must have him drunk
again." quoth this unprincipled practi-
toner.
That same afternoon Miss Travers
found that a headache was the result of
confinement to an atmosphere somewhat
heavily charged with electricity. Mrs.
Raynsr seemed to bristle every time she
approached her sister. Possibly it was
the heart, more than the head, that
ached, but in either case she needed re-
lief from the exposed position she had
occupied ever since Kate's return from
the Clancys'in the morning. She had
been too long under fire, and was wearied.
Even the CHEEKY visits of the garrison
gallants had proved of little avail, for
Mrs. Rayner was in very ill temper, and
made snappish remarks to them which
two of them resented and speedily took
themselves off. Later Miss Travers went
! to her room and wrote letter. and then
the sunset gun shook the window, and
twilight settled down upon the still
frozen earth. She bathed her heated
forehead and flushed cheeks, threw q
warm cloak over her shoulders, and
came slowly down the stairs. Mrs. Ray
ner met her at the parlor door.
''Kate, am going for walk and shall
stop and see Mrs. Waldron."
"Quite an unnecessary piece of infor
alton. saw him as well as you. He
has just gone there"
Miss Travers flushed hot with indigna
ton.
81 have seen no one; and if you mear
that Mr.. Hayne has gone to Maj. Wal
dron's, shall not"
"No; I'd meet him on the walk; i
would only be a trifle more public"
"You have no right to accuse me o
the faintest expectation of meeting hin
, anywhere. Irepeat, had not though
of such a thing"
''You might just as well do it. Yol
cannot make your antagonism to m.
husband much more pointed than you
have already. And as for meeting Nh
Hayne, the only advice presume to Civ
now is that for your own sake you kee
your bushes under better control tha
, you did the last time you met-that
, know Of" And, with this triumphan
insult as parting shot, Mrs. Rayne
wheeled and marched off through til
parlor.
, What was girl to do? Nellie Traver
I was not of the crying kind, and was dt
= MED q vast amount of comfort in const
quence. She stood few moments quiz
G ering under the lash of injustice and il
;. suit to which she had been subjected
She longed for a breath of pure fires
?. air; but there would be no enjoymeI
, even in that now. She needed sympath
!, and help if ever girl did, but whei
; was she to find it? The women WI
:. most attracted her and who would hay
:, warmly welcomed her at any time-tl
$. women whom she would eagerly hay
!, gone to in her trouble-were PRACTICAL
denied to her. Mrs. Rayner in her qua
. rel had declared war against the cava
ry. and Mrs. Stannard and Mrs. Ray wi
!, had shown disposition to WELDON
r. Nellie warmly, were no longer callers
the house. Mrs. Waldron, who WI
, kind and motherly to the girl and love
:, to have her with her,was so embarrasst
- by Mrs. Rayner's determined snubs TIL
10 she hardly knew how to treat the ma
- ter. She would no longer visit MI
Rayner informally, as had been her Gu
tom, yet she wanted the girl to come
"A her.
~ If she went, Miss Travers well kne
;, that on her return to the house s.
- would be received by volley of Sc
casms about her preference for t
society of people who were the avow
enemies of her benefactors. If she ]
u manned in the house, it was to become
= person the target for her sisters un6
~ served sneers and censure. The situ
:. y ton was becoming simply unbearab
Twice she began and twice she tore
:, fragments the letter for which Mr.. V
- Antwerp was daily imploring, and Il
- evening she once more turned a
slowly sought her room, threw off /
wraps, and took up her writing desk.