San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-08

eyes, that could glow almost 10 blacknes
under impulse of subdued passion, to pro-
claim her ''to the manner born" Self
reliance, decision and conscious power
showed in every movement, while the
olive brown complexion, clear as a
blondes, and the massive coils of almost
blue black hair, gave Spanish cast to
the face which its features denied.
Straight descended from the real Dutch
stock, Edith carried easily as right her
early won queenship in the society of
the metropolis; and the reputed empti-
ness of Philip Van der Huysen's pocket
had not retarded his daughters unsouSht
advance to the very front e. ':-lleship.
Left motherless in early childhood,
her Unborn savoir-faire had carried
her safely through the social teething,
and she lad escaped those diseases fire.
quent in society infancy. Nor had two
seasons of charity balls and German CO.
tillon made any outward change, what
ever inner revolution they may have
worked, in the perfectly posed type Of
metropolitan womanhood, which 1T once
attracted and dazzled the coterie of
hyper gilded youth who tried to patron
ize her at the debutante's ball.
Invited for sojourns everywhere that
wealth built country seats, aud with
that rare tact which shortens visits to-
the exact point of insistent renewal,
Edith Van der Huysen had seen more of
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in her two years of society than had
most of her set already balancing on
the uncertain edge of old maidenhood.
Indeed she WAS 20 mICl in demand that
society quite rebelled at her giving the
major part of two consecutive summers
to Bennie Srandish, first at West Point
for encampment; this year to the quiet
of Rose Villa. But the girls had been
friends and neighbors in childhood, had
been finished abroad together, and
Edith held with apparent loyalty to the
old affection.
She had not gushed greatly over the
Point, as is the wont of bellies and would
be bellies, married or single, and an early
indiscletion-scarcely unintentional in a
wom"n whose strong point was tact
might in itself have barred her way to,
popularity with those petted, if not pru-
dent, darlings of the sex, the cadets. At
her very first cadet hop she had most
innocently remarked to the dashing in
structor Of cavalry tactics:
mo well brought up girl could hell
being good up here. 1t so reminds one
of the boys in her Sunday school class. y
There is a mental photograph at The
Point which seems to record even
thoughts i'll every tent simultaneously;
and ''that stuckup Van der Huysen girl
was promptly voted, mem. con-, not much
of a beauty and not bit bright. The
cadets let her severely alone, with an o.
tentation of indifference that she bore
with placidity that set all the women
wondering, while she accepted what
consolation she might from the ugly as
sistant surgeon. So grateful, indeed.
did this seem to Miss Van der Huysen
that it caused equal disquiet to his mill
ionaire mother, presently domiciled at
the same hotel, and to the Hon. Alger-
non Herbert Harcourt Greyling Spencer,
younger son of Lord Martindale, who,
being her shadow in town. had naturally
followed her out of it.
"Deuced odd, you know, Miss Stand
ish, ne had one day confided to Bonnie,
as Edith and the doctor disappeared
round q curve on Filtration. Cant for
the life o. me see how she stands it. She
tells me Sawbones isn't good form by
any means; talks shop, you know. But
when she isn't with him, round Flirta
ton here, hang me if she isn't always on
the plain, or at hop, with one of those
twin kidsr
Nor was the Hon. Algernon far wrong,
for utterly oblivious of photographic it
Grafton in camp and of sugary spite OF
other girls, the two most noted cadets
Of that encampment spent every hour
off duty with Bonnie Standish and her
friend
"Davie" and Johns their devo-
ton to each other had dubbed them in
that cadet nomenclature which borrows
its pet names less often from Scripture
than elsewhere-had quite as marked
dissimilarities as had the two girls.
Edith Van der Huysen had said of them
to Bonnie:
''To the rest they are marrons glaces
to unpulled taffy. cannot understand
why really sensible girls should hunt
down the cadets as they do, submitting|
even to be snubbed for the sake of being|
bored Really, these boys are the most
limited creatures 1 ever met-even inl
society. But your two friends seem to|
be men, and they surely are gentlemen" II
And the bellies intuition had not erred
in this conclusion. made on short &C
ouaintanca