Telegram-herald., 1890-02-06

fesrects thoroughly n love With his pro-
/ fess.7n. A falrer type Of the American
cavalry oelcer, ~ heu once he GOT IA sad
d.e ana s,,iled down 70 business, one
would hardly asA 70 find Iall athletic
slender of bmld. with frank. laughing
( blue eyes. curly. close cropped, light
Z brown hair and q twirlng muslsche
I that was source OF inexpresslble delight
+ o. is owner and OF some envy o. las
F brother subalierns. Mr Perry was prob
/ ably the best looking ot the young oli-
+ cers who marched with the battalion TO
T this far away station on the borders II
! the Ilano Estacado lie had been Tn
wears in service. counting tho fou he
s-.s.t as "A cadet, had just won h.s ..rcr
/ bar as the junior fret lieutenant 81! tbe
! regiment. was full 10 the brlm Of health.
/ energy, animal spirits aud fan, aud. bar
/ ring few duns and debts ia his earlier
/ experiences, had never known a heavier
| care in the world than the transient
/ and ephemeral anxiety As % whether lie
would be called up Tor recitation on a
subject he had not 50 much as looked at
or "hived" absent from a roll call he had
/ lazily slept through.
Any other man. his comrades said.
would have been spoiled dozen times
/ over by the petting he had received from
both iuen and women. but there was
something essentially sweet and genial
about his nature-someth.ng lacking in
guile about his perceptions, said a cyni-
/ cal old captain OF the regiment-and a
/ ioyial, sunsniny way Of looking upon the
world as an Eden. all men and all women
as friends, and the army as the protes-
sion above an others. and these various
7 attributes combined 20 make him popular
with his kind and unusually attractive
( % the opposite sex As q cadet he had
been perpetually on the verge Of disnis-
sal because Of the appalling array of de-
merits he could roll up against his name,
and yet the very officers who jotted down
+ the memoranda OF his sins-Omission
and cOmmisSion-aga the regulations
were men who openly said he had the
making of one of the finest soldiers IN
the class" As junior second lieutenant
-''piebe'-of the regiment. he had been
welcomed by every man from the colonel
down, and it WAS considered particularly
rough that he should have 10 60 TO such
company as Capt. Canker's, because
Canker was a man who never got along
with any of his juniors; but there was
something so irrepressibly frank and
contrite in Pcrry's boyish face when he
would appear at his captains door
in the early morning and burst out
with by Jove, captainl / slept
| through reveille again this morning,
and never got down till stables
were nearly over" that even that cross
grained but honest troop commander
was disarmed and, though he threat
ened and rcurimanded, he would never
punish-vould never deny his subaltern
the ia ntest privilege; and when promo
ticn took the captain 10 another regi-
ment he bade good by to Perry with eyos
that were suspiciously wet. why.
blow it all. what do you fellows hate
Cauker 50 fory" the youngster often
said "He ought to put ae IN arrest
time and again. but he won't. Blamed
If don't put myself IN arrest. or confnC
myself 10 the limits 81 the post, and dc
something. % cut all this going - town
and hops and such things Then can
stick TO the troop ike wax and get up al
reveille. but If IN out dancing tiii OF
3 in the morning its 10 use, tell you,
just can't wake Up"
IL was always predicted Of Ned Perry
that he would be married and done
for" within year Of his graduation
Every new face IN the FIVE years that
followed revived the garrison proph
ecy. Now he's gone, surel but how
ever devoted he might seem 10 the damso
IN question. however restless and impa
tient be might be when compelled by hl
duties 20 absent himself from her ado
however promising - casual Observers
perchance 20 the damsel hcrsef-m Zh
be all tie surface Indications. the abso
lutte frankness with which he proclaimed
his admiration 20 every listener. and a.,
fact that he thad been just so with bah
a dozen other girls. enabled tho cooici
heads Of the regiment 20 decide that th.
time had not yet cCme-oI st least th'
woman.
u 10 wish. said Mrs Turner. "tha'
Mr Perry would settle on somebody. be
eau.e just 50 long - be doesn't, IS g
rather hard 70 tell who ne belongs ~. %
Aui. az Mrs Turner had long been a
reiguing belle among the married women
= the -tb. and one % whom The young
ofoers we're always expected g. show
much attention har whimsical waY -
describing the situati9n was readily un.
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