Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-09-19

Anything might turn up any dav
Tor any one. Perhaps the senior sub.
altern had been trapped IN his vort i
Aeh are crippled that way occasion.
any. We didn't know-we wantee
to hear and the captains wives were
as anxious as we. II he had been
trapped he was TO be excused. for the
woman from no where, in the dusty
shoes and gray travelling dress, was
very lovely, with black hair and
great eyes full OF tears. She was tall.
with a fine figure, and her voice had
a running sob in il pitiful to hear.
As soon as the senior subaltern stood
up she threw her arms round his neck
and called him my darling" and
said she could not bear waiting alone
~ England, and his letters were so
snort ana cold, and she was his TO the
end.oi the world, and would he forgive
her. This did not sound anite like n
ladys way OF speaking. Ii was too
demonstratiye.
Things seemed black indeed. and
the captains wives peered under their
eyebrows at the senior subaltern.
ana the eolonel's face set like fhe day
OF Judgement framed III gray bristles,
and no one spoke Tor awhile.
Next the colonel said very shortly.
We'll, slrs and the woman sobbed
niresh. The senior subaltern was half
choked with the arms round his neck.
but hegasped out, ''lt'sad-lie Inever
had wife ia my life" Don't swear. =
said the colonel. Come into the
mess. Ne must silt this clear some
no y" And he sighed 10 himself. for lie
believed ia his "Shikarris," did the
colonel.
We trooped into the ante.room nm.
der the full lights, and there we saw
how beautiful the woman was. She
stood up in the middle OF us all. some
times choking with crying, then hard
and proud. and then holding out her
arms TO the senior subaltcrn. II was
like the fourth act OF u tragedy. She
told az how the senior subaltern had
married her when he was home on
leave cighterii months before, and she
seemed "a know an that We knew, and
more, too. OF las people and his past
life. lie WAS white and ashy gray.
trying nov and again 70 break into
the torrent other words aud We noiins
how lovely She Mas and what a crinn.
mai hclooked, esteemed him n beast oi
the worst kind. We felt sorry for him
though.
shall never forget the indictment
81 tho senior eubaliern by his wife,
Nor wall he Il Was 30 sudden. rush
ing out Of the dark unannounccd into
our dull lives. The captains wives
stood back, bat their eyes were alighi.
Hndyou could sce that they had al.
ready convicted and sentenced the
senior subaltcrn. The colonel seemed
five years older. One major WAS shad.
Ing hlsrycs with Ills hand and watch
ing the woman from underneath IL.
Another WAS chewing his mustachc
and smiling quietly az II he were Wit
messing a play Full in the open
space Ia tile center by the whist tables
the senior subalteran's terrier was
hunting for ilras. remember all this
as clearly as though "A plot osraph
we're In my hand remember the
look ot horror ON the senior suhai
terms face !; was rather like seeing
man hanged. but much more inter.
csilug Finally thoWomnn wound up
by saying that the senior subalterncar
ricd a double r. VI. in tattoo on his
let; shoulder We all knew that. and
20 our innocent minds IL seemed TO
rllurh ihc matter. But one OF the
bachelor majors said very politely.
~ presume that your marriage certiii-
cate would be more TO the purpose
That reused the woman. She stood
up aud snccred AZ the senior subaltcrn
for eur, and abused the major and
the colonel and all the rest. Then she
wcpi, aud then she pulled a paper
from her breast. saying imperiously,
Take that Aud let my husband
my lawfully welded husband--read il
aloud il hc dare
There was hush. and the men
looked into each Others eyes as the
senior Eubaltern came forward in
dazed and dizzy way and took the
paper We were wondering, rs we
stared. whether there was anything
against any one of MS that might turn
up later on. The senior subaltern's
throat was dry; but as he ran his eye
over the paper, he broke out into a
hoarse cacklp Of relief and said TO the
woman you young blackguard' y
But the woman had fled through a
door, aud on the paper was written:
"This is TO certify that |, the Worm,
have paid in full my debts to the
senior subaltern; and, further that the
SEM subaltern is my debtor. by
agreement on the 23d OF February, asby
the mess attcsted, to the extent of one
months captains pay, in the lawful
currency of the Indian empire
Then a deputation set OF for The
Worms quarters, and found him,
betwixt and between, unlacing his
stays, with the hat. wig serge dress,
etc, on the bed lie came over as he
was. and the "Shikarris" shouted till
the gunncrs' mess sent over TO know
il they might have share of the fun.
think we were all, except the colonel
and the senior subaltern, n little
disappointed that the scandal had
come TO nothing. But this is human
nature. There could be no two words
about The Worms acting. II leaned
M npnr To n nasty tragedy ms any