The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-12-11

to anyone else in the regiment
Her Indignation restored her. self
possession, and she replied, as quietly
as he had done:
That may be, but there is subject
that must not be postponed to an indef-
mite hereafter, and that is the loss of
your beautiful horse. If you will not
allow uncle to be my agent in the mat
ter, papa will feel under the necessity
of coming out here.'
The captain rose and looked down at
her q moment with quickly-changing
face.
miss Farwell,'' he said, and she
started at the change in his voice; s'if
you feel that you owe me any gratitude,
please cancel it now and forever by
agreeing never to mention that subject
again." Then he added with return
to his quiet manner: ssYou had nothing
to do with the loss of the horse; it was
its own viciousness that brought it to
an untimely end.''
He turned abruptly and left the room
and they had no more tete-a-tetes that
eveninr
CHAPTER ".
Miss Farwell went to her room that
night in a very subdued mood. Lieut..
Carleton had walked home with her,
and on the way question had been
asked and answered very conclusively
to the two persons concerned, although
the uninitlaIea might not have been
any the wiser from listening to the con-
versation. 1t was with feeling that
life was, somehow, going altogether
wrong that she laid her head on the
pillow. She had put aside the love of
one man and quarreled with another to
whom she owed her life, and the world
seemed to be full Of cross purposes.
The last evening of her visit at the
garrison came. as all things do which
are governed by Father Time. There
had been grand farewell ball given in
her honor the night before and she had
been the reigning belle and had had the
satisfaction of hearing that the lady
who had SO freely discussed the state of
her affections at that first garrison ball
was stigmatizing her at this last one as
o heartless fiirt and warning some of
her confidential masculine friends not
to be ''taken in.n
As she sat with her aunt before the
cheerful wood fire in their little parlor
thinking soberly over some of the
events of the summer, it seemed to her
that she had been trying ever since
that first ball to give people that i'm
preston of her and she grew hot as she
thought how she had let the opinion of
person for whom she did not care
influence her.
Her aunt put an end to her musings
with: "Well, May, wonder what you
are thinking of"
TELL me what you were thinking of
first, aunty," May answered,
Mrs. Farwel1 leaned her head back
against her chair and laughed.
81 believe will; it will do me good
to confess" she said; ''but first, May,
tellme do appear to you to be born
matchmaker"
why aunty. you horrify mel You
may have your faults but that you are
one of those wicked persons never
will believe"
Thank you, May, you only make my
confession harder to make. Charles
has always accused me of being one and
although have never owned it to him,
I have had doubts of my innocence
myself. / never see two people who
seem especially suited to each other but
what | long to help them along little.
And May, when first saw you and
Capt. Armstrong together. it seemed to
me that you were just born for each
other and did all that I dared to help
you 10 realize it. 1t seemed to me that
everything was going swimmingly for
awhile, and every time saw you two
| felt like saying: Bless you my chill
dren.' But alas for the vanity of such
matrimonial hopes, you developed into
the most commonplace of friends and
have just hidden each other good-by
without the least trace of sentiment,
and tomorrow morning you start for
the east and he leads company away
to-no one knows where, to look after
the troublesome Apaches."
All but Nays eyes was covered by
fan which she was holding to screen
her face from the fire, but her voice
came gayly from behind it:
ssYou shock me, Aunt Hannah.
wouldn't believe from any lips than
yours that you could have exposed my
heart to the wounds which such a gay
deceiyer might have inflicted upon It, Il
/ had not been warned IN time. .'s'---,-;'a