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

cts deucedly odd, You know" his
lordship in posse sometimes confided to
Bennie, who was by nature everybody's
friend. 81 can't make out how she
stands the Sawbones, really. But there
is something about the boys, you know.
And to the boys-as the Hon. Algernon
designated the two six footers in wax
fitting pigeon tails-Miss Van der Hwy
sens manner was quite perfect. Frank
and cordial, it never gave hint of stimuli
ated sisterhood-t favorite cloak to
warm cadet tlirEation-and was equally
free from suspicion of anything like IAN
affair" with either.
"They are your property, dear" she
said to Bonnie, III the quiet of still hunt
for cadets. II really believe they are
both in love with you, though / cannot
tell which has the pas" At which i'm
parchment the others rosy cheeks had
become crimson; and her usually saucy
eyes, cast earthward, were wholly limo
cent of the strange CLEAN that darkened
her friends, though the velvety voice
went on without pause or change:
Either one takesme rs vicarious atone
ment when the other has sailed away in
a waltz for the golden fleece. But shall
not enact the daughter of Eetes, for !
really like both boys, and find them the
only bearable pair of white legs in the
entire corps"
"Boyst' Bonnie ventured in pretty
"Why, Edith dear, they
are both years older than We are. Dale
=sx ct H%rysss. Iefora bis appointment,
and MIR. Latour was 20 in his second
class year"
Miss Van der Huysen smiled with her
red lips and white teeth, but her eyes
ignored the leyity Of the lower features,
as she slightly emphasized the title:
Mister Latour is scarcely as matured
as Dale SO far as l can judge: and !
thought you and he were Older friends
THE families were" Bonnie broke in
quickly, with another blush. But have
known Dale never so long! He's such Il
brave, true fellow and SO smart, isn't he?
Adrien's mother and mamma were at
school together in Paris; and his grand
MISUNDERSTANDING is the only way any of
hem everspeak of hers a perfect model
II the old legitimiste one reads about in
he Quarter st. German"
And they are immensely rich, are
hey notT' Edith queried innOcently.
Immensely, believe; but / never IN
lerstand the details of those things"
You are wonderful little girl, Ben
ne dea Miss Van der Huysen rejoin-
ed. II do not wonder that all the men
adore you, and that only not all the
praise"
The brown eyes gazed straight into
the blue, which fell at the next ques-
ton: cezqza
1.-The Latour plantations adjoin Mr..
Beverly Mason's. do they not?'
I'm sure l don't know" Bonnie an
swered, with something prettily akin to
q pout. Aunt Tab has that part of
Louisiana geography so thoroughly at
her fingers ends that never studied it. :"
"Du hebe kind!' laughed Edith.
Truly art thou Elaine of the tower,
loving Launcelot for his shields sake
and his doughty arm, not for the jewels
of his tourney. And yet, when I had
you in town last winter, all the world
said Mr.. Mason was very
"Very-so he was-very kind and nice
to me? So he was" Miss Standish broke
in, not without suspicion of petulance.
Hes an old, old friend of papa's, closely
connected with him in business, and"-
Here come David and Jonathan,
prompt to military time" Miss Van der
Huysen interrupted in her turn, her tact
telling her more than the others words.
And the prettily contraste2 pair rose
from the recks, where they had kept
tryst for the young men, and advanced
to meet them with that mixture of con-
venance and school recess freedom which
perhaps is the real charm to society Of a
West Point summer.
Lettering through the grand old walk
the couples drifted apart, Dale and Ben
ME Standish gaining hundred yards
while a refractory shoelace somehow re-
sisted Miss Van der Huysen's firm fin
gers. And when the graceful head was
raised at last, the glorious eyes looked
straight through the cadets, when she
said, naturally, as though continuing a
subject:
Had Guineyere been Elaine, do you
believe Launcelot would have let his
great love outweigh his love and loyalty
to the king
Like as not. Launcelot was ponder
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