The Monticellonian., 1894-10-05

We had Welsh rare bit and some beer before we left. Miss Rohan liked beer, but think sue was disap- pointed in the rarebit.
 She came upon the porch the next morning to see guardmounting, and she brought Ter manicure set with her. If you can get use to it, a woman really looks fascinating when she sits before the world in broad daylight and does. her nails, more especially if you hap pen to be one of several lone baehel- ors who have not looked on the face of young woman for six months.
 After guard-nounting, she went for a ride with Blake and Bayard She sat her horse splendid y, although she did hold the reins in both hands; but that was a habit she had picked up from riding hard mouthed cart-horses, she sweetly explained. Blake and Bayard took luncheon with her. ". sat Hy and bettcd on the outcome.
 In honor of the young la}dys arrival we had hop that night. It was quite an affair-twenty couples in all, some of the best people from the neighbor ing railroad town having driven over. We promptly discovered that Miss Ro- han could not dance; at least, her way was not our way. She went around in a circle, which was enough to make even soldiers head swim; but then she took it so cheerfully and sweetly when she stepped on our pat. ent-leather pumps, and informed us so honestly that she guessed she never had been much at dancin',' that we were only too anxious to assure her that she-was a perfect fairy. In course of time she came to believe it.
 She had one habit which was de lightful, it was so old-fashioned and quaint, she said: "Yes'm" and "No'm, "Yessir' and "Nosir," always. Capt. Grant said it was like q servant girl, but then he had just been on leave and was engaged to an eastern girl.
 We thought she was very good com pany. and so did the garrison children. They took violent fancy to her. She played tag and prisoners base with them; she climbed fences and wood piles; she sat on the top of the barns; and she rode barebacked horses around the post. And then she was such a thor orghlY good-hearted girl, generous to the last degree, and such cook
 For long time Bayard and Blake divided the honors. Miss Rohan and fate smiled on both equally. Bus Miss Roh1n was a girl with eonsidera ble natural tendency to aim high; more over, her married sister had an eye to the main chance If there was ono thing more than another that she hoped for, it was 10 see the girl Kate Bayard.
 Here is the case stated plainly: Given a lieutenant of tweHty-siX, who is born with f0ndness for feminine society, who has not had any of it for at least a year-that is. not any young feminine society; given also two wom- en, one of them married and deter mined, the other unmarried and not unattractiye. It needs no great wis. dom to see the natural outcome. Had Bayard, just then, had one redeeming, womanly influence, had he broken away for month and gone back among his equals, or had one of his equals come to him he would have been saved. As it was, he was left alone with his ambition and this girl.
 He fell in love; therefore he lost his reasoning powers, otherwise he would have been bound to see that this won- an and ambition could not both be in his life. He fell III love, and he mar ried her then and there She wore the diamonds of the stately old mother, as she sat on the porch at guard-mount- Ing with her manicure set.
 The first intinaton we had of the way the wind blew in that family was when the young Mrs. Bayard sat one day on the front steps and read a copy of Don't" which she told Us that my husband had bought for her She was very much pleased with the gift and took much pleasure in read ing it. Me noticed after that that she was most careful about breaking. biting, and cutting her bread din- ner, breakfast and lun -heon, but Don't" evidently did nos include any reference to rianlcure-sets. think Bayar3 told her about them, though, at;er time, for she ceased making her appearance in public with it, but she Dlb her HHlIS AefNOuSIX-
 went away on leave about this time When l came back, there was little Bayard, which promised to look very like its mamma There had been a great quarrel as to the naming of the child. There were good many quar- rels now, anyway. Mrs. Bayard had liked the name of Kathleen-she said 1t was her mothers name, and, for my part, it seemed that it was very musi. cal and pretty-but the father was de- termined upon Beatrice, with the ac. cent on the second syllable. The child was baptized Kathleen.
 When l had gone east on my leave Bayard had begged me to give my at tention and what personal influence had to his promotion as captain and commissary at Washington. He want ed it even worse than he did foreign attache-ship.
 saw the turn affairs had taken that madam was growing stouter, ugly, and untidy; that she neglected even the manicure-set for the very noisy and unprepossessing baby; that poor Bay ards spiell-and-span clothing and app pearance were a thing of the past; that he looked worn and did not seem to feel at ease among his brother officers Sc carried to him some encouraging news with regard to bis erst-while de. sired appointment l told him that knew it to be sure thing; that the eRviable post in Washington would soon be his; that ere long he would apain be in his native air.