The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-28
OLD POINT EPISODE.

| If there is one spot in the world where
people ought to be agreeable it is at Old
| Point Comfort. In the winter, of course
| But if there is one place where the angu-
larities and acidities of human nature are
accentuated it is at this fashionable sea
| side resort.
This was the conclusion that Colonel
Maxwell arrived at half an hour after his
name was added to the list of the guests
| quartered at the Hygeia, which everybody
knows has an unrivaled repute, and-wel
an unrivaled repute. The hotel is large
roomy and comfortable and as thousands
well know is in perfect harmony with the
great, solemn sounding sea as the best
| architectural achievements one encounters
the world over An admirable contrivance
| TO swallow up the individualities and ex-
ira allowances of liberal race OF travellers
The colonel had no sooner set foot in his
room than he wished he had gone to Flor
ida. Just outside his door dog snarled
at him. Dogs were his aversion. II he
had been less eonsiderate he would have
kicked the dog aside; instead he exclaimed
angrily, "Get out of my wayr' and passed
into his room. At that instant a little
child appeared in the hall. She looked at
the colonel with solemn big blue eyes
so solemn that the colonel's firm mouth
relaxed as he glanced at her. Then he
closed his door with a snap.
simultaneously door almost opposite,
and trifle ajar, was opened wide, and
lady beckoned the child in an imperious
manner. The child obeyed the silent man
date, was drawn into the room and the
door of No. o. closed with bang.
Half an hnnp later the door nf No NJ
opened, the colonel emerged, and as before
dog-the same he encountered as ne entered
his room, seemed to rise up out of the floor in
his path. And again, as before, the colonel
exclaimed, angrily, Get out of my way,
you nuisance Upon which the dog dis
ppeared-dissolved into air, apparently,
as the colonel's attention was attracted TO
the peculiar manner of the child he OBJ
served half an hour earlier and who now
vainly endeavored to conceal her doll as
she walked backward, recoiling from him
shyly but surely. Again. as before the
door of OF opened, the child darted into it
sidewise and the door closed with a signifi-
cant snap.
The coloneTs friends were in the habit
Of saying that it was a great pity, consid-
ering how much nature had done for him
in the way of features, figure. complexion
and voice that he took so little pains to
display his admirable qualities. How
much reason there was for this high esti-
mate I leave the reader TO judge.
When the colonel was seated at the din
ner table he found himself opposite the
child that had attracted his attention in
the hall. He was passionately fond of
children-a man who tossed up. caressed
and crowed over babies in secret. This
child's beauty was so rare that ne sat star
ing at her unwittiugly, until her manner ,
recalled him 10 himself; then he chided
himself for disconcerting her. He glanced
at the lady beside her-a brilliant b-,
nette. Finely penciled eyebrows, sui
ficient in themselves TO stock beauty: a
neck that was a marvel, and the head.
how exquisitely modelled, how fine tAs
lines of that head
Meantime, the beauty flashed glance
at the colonel II conlprehended the en-
tire outer man-she measured the inner
man two hours earlier III the day As the
colonel intercepted the glance ne actually I.
blushei, while the brunette apparently I
was unaware that she aad her charge were
not the sole occupants Of the table
odd. " thought The colonel
Two hours l-tcr Mrs. General Ollapod !
besmed upon the brilliant brunette as she /
met her with outS--e:cbed HANDS.
MY dear, have surprise FOR you. Ny I
particular friend Colonel Maxwell i here I
Now don't put nae out by being Indifferent i
after the times have planned % bring you /
together"
From which il ElaY be inferred thal 4
whatever military genius Or talent wss IL 4
the OllaDud batfSenolI MrS DliAIzo1 dld /