Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-10-04

was q habit she had picked up from
riding hard mouthed cart-horses. she
sweetly explained. Blake and Bayard
took luncheon with her. We sat by
and betted on the outcome.
In honor of the young lady's arrival
we had a hop that night. twas 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 a 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 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 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 thenshe was such thor
oughly 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. But Miss
ROhan was a girl with considerable
natural tendency to aim high; more
over, her married sister had an eye to
the main chance. If there was one
thing more than another that she
hoped for, it was to see the girl Kate
Bayard.
Here is the case stated plainly:
Given lieutenant of twenty-six, who
is born with fondness 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
unattractive. 1t 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 wom-
an and ambition could not both be in
ried her then and there. She wore the
diamonds of the stately old mother, as
she sat on the porch at guard
ing with her manicure set.
The first intimation 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 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. We noticed after that that she
was most careful about breaking,
biting, and cutting her bread at din
ner, breakfast and luncheon, but
Don't" evidently did not include any
reference to manicure-sets. l think
Bayard told her about them, though,
Of fnp fo, Oh L.
her appearance in public with it, but
she bit her nails nervously.
! went away on leave about this time
When came back, there was a little
Bayard, which promised to look very
like its mamma. There had been
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
it 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 had gone east on my leave,
Bayard had begged me to give my at
tention and what personal influence I
had to his promotion as captain and
commissary at Washington. He want
ed it even worse than he did a foreign
attache-ship.
l 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 spick-and-span clothing and APP
pearance were thing of the past; that
he looked worn and did not seem to
feel at ease among his brother officers.
So carried to him some encouraging
news with regard to his erst-while de-
sired appointment. l told him that I
knew it to be a sure thing; that the
enviable post in Washington would
soon be his; that ere long he would
again be in his native air.
An uneasy look came into his fine
brown eyes. He shrank back as his
wife and the baby came into the room
For an instant his glance rested on
them.
'Thank you, old fellow" he said.
II think I shall be content to pass the
rest of my life on the frontier, far
from the maddening crowd you
know" he added, with choking
laugh.
Poor Bayard! And this was the end,
But knew he was right, and went
away, leaving him with his future and
with his wife. -Gwendolen Overton, in
San Francisco, Argonaut.
The Contagion of Mirth.
Curious how contagious mirth is!