The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-12
PART lat THE NORTH.

Nor was the Hon. Algernon far wrong,
for utterly oblivious of Photographic it
Grafton in camp and of sugary spite OF
other girls, the two most noted cadets
of that encampment spent every hour
off duty with Bonnie Standish and her
friend.
"Davie" and "John'-as their devo-
ton to each other had dubbed them in
that cadet nomenclature which borrows
its pet names less often from Scripture
than elsewhere-had quite as marked
dissimilarities as had the two girls
Edith Van der Huysen had said Of them
to Bennie:
"To the rest they are marrons glaces
to unpuiled taffy. cannot understand
why really sensible girls should hunt
down the cadets as they do, submitting
even to be snubbed for the sake of being
bored. Really, these boys are the most
limited creatures | ever met-even in
society. But your two friends seem to
be men, and they surely are gentlemen.
And the bellies intuition had not erred
tn this conclusion, made on short &C
qualntance.
Adrien Latour was French au bout des
ongles An orphan of Creole family
that boosted noble blood on both sides
and inherited imperious Incidence with
its wealth, lie was a born soldier. He
had given his guardian and the naughty
old grandmother, who idolized him, no
peace until family influence had secured
him the coveted appointment to the
academy, which he fastened from school
III Paris to accept.
Rising grade by grade in the corps,
he had never received one military de.
merit, while often periiously grazing d
find" at the semi-annual exams;
only saved by his quick intelligence
making up for negligence of class work.
That he valued his first captaincy in the
corps far above commission in the en-.
i gineers, all his friends understood; and
he frankly avowed only ambition enough
for graduation in the cavalry arm
Frank, impulsive and prodigally gener.
Gus as the race and fortune he was born
to warranted, the young Creole wa'
conceded as the best rider and swords
man Of the whole corps, with one ex
ceptiOn. LII the fencing school his peCul
iarly quick eye and fexlle wrist evel
met one opponent whose GOODNESS ant
strength caught his lightning like pla,
and repaid hit for hit. When the riding
hall was thronged with beautiful ant
brilliant women and their cit dang
lcrs, with occasional officers off duty
pretty faces flushed and bright eyes ea
gerly followed the 1.-THE, tall form tina
sat IA horse with centaur like natural
ness, guiding him seemingly more b,
intuition than by the light touch tina
hid the nervous strength Of Il hant
trained from childhood. Near Latour
the best riders appeared effortful an,
stiff, the lightest rein seemed to tug a
the bit In all the ''show movements
he was the exposure of bright eyes ant
experienced ones alike; and even Gal
lery Pete"-,as the cadets named a show
kentuckian who erode for the girls
failed to win the praise for his set feat
which fell to Latour for ease and uncon
scious grace.
But when the wild rushes came an,
the flying ruck of riders swung at tn
hurdles; when the CLEAN of sabers mad
the air one flash of steel, in right all
left cut at rolling "heads;" when til
unsteady went down in the sawdust, a
imminent risk to limb if not to life an
the hot frenzy of the cavalry charge wa
mimicked almost to reality, then eve
beside the proud. olive face of the Creol
was another, pale and placid even, wit
its steel gray eyes only cleaning unde
the fair brows that scarcely emphasize
the broad white forehead.
Fer Dale Everett was a born soldier
too, carrying in his veins blood that hat
boiled hot enough under oppression t.
send his ancestor across seas to set hi
foot on Plymouth Rock: blood that ha(
later flowed in Indian fight and Revolu
ton; blood that had lately made hi
clear faced mother point to his grand
sire's name, boldly standing out anon!
the signers of "the Declaration" hun,
in the rarlor of the old Massachusett
homestead. as she blessed him in fare
well and babe MIN study and remembe
what that name demanded of those VIII,
bore it. lie was clear type Of tina
''Brahmin caste" of New England whic
has set its seal upon all her best work
which, in the glow of its pride, fuse
conservative blgotry and supreme stead
fastness into an amalgam that harden
under stress into the density an
strength of her own granite hills.
Holding first place in his class for tw
years past, Everett had naturally devote
less caro- than his impetuous friend t
the soldier side Of cadet life. But dut
was his creed, and his military record Il