The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-13
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Soon alter the captains return to his
quarters, it seems, q messenger was sent
from Mrs. Rayner requesting Mrs. Clancy
to come and see her at once. She was
ushered up stairs to madame's own
apartment, much to Miss Travers' sur
prise, and that young lady was further
astonished, when Mrs. Clancy reap
peared, nearly an hour later, to see that
she had been weeping violently. The
house was in some disorder, most of the
trunks being packed and in readiness for
the start, and Miss Travers was enter
tanning two or three young officers and
waiting for her sister to come down tc
luncheon.
"The boys" were lachrymose over her
prospective departure least they af-
fected to be-and were variously
sprawled about the parlor when Mrs.
Clancy descended, and the inhamed con-
dition of her eyes and nose became APP
parent to all. There was much chaf and
fun, therefore, when Mrs. Rayner finally
appeared, over the supposed affection OF
the big Irish woman at the prospect Of
parting with her patroness. Miss Trav-
ers saw with singular sensations that
both the captain and her usually self re-
liant sister were annoyed and embar-
raised by the topic and strove to change
it; but Fosters propensity for mimicry
and his ability to initiate Mrs. Clancy's
combined brogue and sniffie proved too
much for their efforts. Kate was in a
royalty bad temper by the time tha
youngsters left the house, and when
! Nellie would have made some laughing
allusion to the fun the young fellows had
been having over her morning caller, she
was suddenly and tartly checked witht
"We've had too much of that already.
Just understand now that you have no
time to waste, if your packing is unfn-
ished. We start tomorrow afternoon
''Why, Kate! L had no idea we were
to go for two days yet! OF course 1 can
be ready; but why did you not tell ms
before?''
81 did not know tat least it was moi
decided-until this morning, after the
captain came back from the Office. There
is nothing to prevent our going, now that
he has seen the colonel"
''There was not before, Kate; for Mr..
Billings told me yesterday morning, and
1 told you, that the colonel had said you
could start at once, and you replied that
the captain could not be ready for sew.
eral days-three at least"
"Well, now he is; and that ends it.
Never mind what changed his mind
1t was unsafe to trife with Nellie
Travers, as Mrs. Rayner might have
known. She saw that something had oc-
CURED to make the captain eager to start
at once; and then there was that imme-
diate sending for Mrs. Clancy, the long,
secret talk up in Kate's room, the evil
dent mental disturbance of both FEM
4 mines ON their respective reappearances
and the sudden announcement to her.
While there could be no time to make
formal parting calls, there were still
some two or three ladies in the garrison
whom she longed to see before saying
adieu; and then there was Mr.. Hayne,
whom she had wronged quite as bitterly
as any one else had wronged him. lie
was out that day for the first time, and
she longed to see him and longed to full
fill the neglected promise. That she
must do at the very least. If she could
not see him she must write, that he
might have the note before they went
away. All these thoughts were rushing
through her brain as she busted herself
about her little room, slowing away
dresses and dropping everything from
time to time to dart into her sisters
room In answer to some querulous call.
Yet never did she leave without a quick
glance from her window up and down
the row. For whom was she looking?
: 1t was Just about dusk when she heard
crying downstairs-a child-and appa.
rently in the kitchen. Mrs. Rayner was
with the baby, and Miss Travers started
for the stairs, calling that she would ga
and see what it meant. She was down
in the hall before Mrs. Rayner's impera-
tive and repeated calls brought her to
full stop.
"What is it2" she inquired.
"You come back here and hold baby.
1 know perfectly what it is. 1t is Kate
Clancy, and she wants me. You can do
nothing"
Too late, madame! The Intervening
doors were opened, and in marched cook,
: leading the poor little Irish girl, who was
sobbing piteously. Mrs. Rayner came
!, down the stairs with all speed, bringing
: her burly son and heir in her arms. She
: would have ordered Nell aloft, but what
:. excuse could she give? And Miss Trav-
T ers was already bending over the child
! and striving to still her heartbreaking
cries.
''What is it? Where's your fatherY'
> demanded Mrs. Rayner.
: sob, ma'am, 1 don't knowi / cams
here to tell the captain. Shure he's dis
!, charged, ma'am, an his hearts broke
entirely, an mother says we're all to go
,, with the captain tomorrow, and he
a swears he'll kill himself before he'll go,
an I can't find him, ma'am. It's almost
IS dark now"
''(io back and tell your mother 1 want
her instantly. Well find your father.
r Cor she repeated. as the child shrank
d and hesitated. "Here-the front way!''
,, And little Kate sped away into the shad-
s. ows across the dim level of the parade.
Then the sisters faced each other.
There was a fire in the younger's eye
d that Mrs. Raynor would have escaped If
u she could
n skate, it is to get Clancy away from
the possibility of revealing what he
re knows that you have planned this sud-
ID den move, and 1 know it," said Miss
S; Travers. ssYou need not answer