St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-01
CHAPTER XVI.

Having tidied myself, | descended to
the little parlor and found the Quaker
esses in conversation with fine-look-
Ing, elderly man and young widow.
She was very handsome, very graceful,
and had a pretty, petulant expression
which was almost infantile.
/ Her father did the talking, and re d.
marked. among other things, that he
was amazed that the young gentlemen
of Philadelphia permitted me to leave
that city, a speech that did not please
the Friends and that made his daughter
curl her lip a little. AS for me, | was
not quite displeased as you may imag-
line.
Col. Garthwaite would. I felt, be a
/ very pleasant companion on the long
Journey. l was quite as sure, how
ever, that l should not like his daughter,
Mrs. Parker.
We were, found. to depart on the
morrow, and by s o'clock on the next
morning my adieuX were said and
was launched into the world again
under rather pleasant auspices.
will spare the reader a description
OF the railroad journey. The old colonel
was gallant and continually repeated
that he wished he were but thirty years
younger, and though his daughter
treated me IN very irritating fashion,
found that my training at the Quaker
school enabled me to conceal from her
that | noticed it. Her GOODNESS changed
to open anger, when at the railway
station we were met by an army wagon
III which were several young officers.
1t was not my fault that. being intro
duced to me. they looked at me, talked
TO me and We'd each other in showing
me little attentions. while they treated
her with the more reserved respect
which, no doubt, they believed that her
recent widowhoOd, her weeds and her
position as the colOne's daughter de-
manded. From the moment when they
manifested their Intention to devote
themselves to me during the journey,
her eyes blazed and her air was one OF
demonstrative scorn.
These young officers told me a great
deal about the army society. lamented
that was not to live at the fort, and ex-
pressed a hope that they would see me
often.
The young men who thronged Jonah
Hancock's shop for my sake bore no
comparison to these youthful soldiers,
and | admired them all exceedingly.
Certainly the pleasures of the trip out
weighed its annoyances until we arrived
at the fort, where l was to remain few
days until the wagons wentout with the
stores and provisions.
Atthe fort the ladies appeared in full
force, and as Col. Garthwaite's daugh-
ter. Mrs. Parker was received with I'M
pressment. l was only the little teacher
going to the Indian school, but l think
the ladies would have been agreeable to
me if left 10 themselves. That they
would not, knew very well, for while
/ was making myself neat in a little
room with the fraiiest of partitions,
orh inn Of
on the other side. Mrs. Mai. Marlowe
was to entertain US. and she was with
Mrs. Parker, who was making her tot
let for tea.
II think | never saw such a pretty
girl as that little teacher" said Mrs.
Marlowe.
but her manners are frightful,''
said Mrs. Parker. "She actually male
such dead set at dear papa that |
feared l should find at the end of the
journey that | had a prospective step
mother. AS for the young officers. her
conduct with them was disgusting, so
much so that l have turned the cold
shoulder to her in the most pronounced
manner"
s''As 1 SHALL" said Mrs. Maj. Mar
lowe.
f'And l." said a cracked, old voice.
that afterward found belonged 10 Mrs.
Marlowe's mother. Mrs. Gen. Vinney.
This amiable intention the ladies car
ried out. There was little dance that
night. 1t was not natural that should
refuse the invitation Col. Garthwaite
gave me to be present. The
colonel himself introduced every young
officer TO me, and l in my plain
grey frock was the belle of the evening.
laughed that night among my pillows
oyer the thought that if Mrs. Parker
were the commanding officer l should
probably have been ordered to be shot.
On the next morning. as l was going
away from the fort, took the beauty
stone from my bosom and kissed it
fondly while no one was looking.
(TO be Continuedl