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

while it lacked as largely in brilliancy !
as did the latter's in scholarship. But /
in the fencing and riding schools the |.
Yankee boy found congenial exercise to !
keep the body vigorous and healthy, |
spite Of the great strain upon the healthy
and vigorous mind. Aud in neither did
The dashing Creole fail to meet the match
for his most impetuous rushes, when
chance placed the cool and steady New
Highlander opposite his blade, or mount
ed by his side i'll the swirl of the charge
DO you note the peculiar difference
IN their riding:' the bluff old command
ant once asked Miss Van der Huysen, as
he watched with proper veterans ad.
miration the deeper glow in her eyes that
followed them as they swept by, neck
and neck Those eyes, glittering al
most to blacknexEwhen fixed on the rid
ers, seemed only1aughing brown as they
looked into the colonels rather blood
shot ones, and the voice was very quiet
in which she answered, slowly:
In real war, perhaps, Mr.. Latour
might kill the most horses: Mr., Everett
the most men"
The colonel made no answer in words;
but that night, over his third cigar, he
suddenly blurted out to the senior sur
geon:
May be sent to the frontier if that
Miss Van der Huysen oughtn't to be "A
troop captain. But damn me if | under
stand her, thought"
And not many men at West Point
that summer subverted military disci-
pline by knowing more on that score
than did the ranking officer. To men
and women at the hotel, to officers and
their wives in quarters, even to the labo-
riously distant cadets, the girl was cour-
teous and affable always-often brill
liant But under the affability was
something that repealed familiar APP
proach; and few of the hotel women,
headed by the anxious mamma of the
assistant surgeon, contidentially con-
fessed that they actually hated her."
with no given reason therefor.
But the son Of the leader of this anti
Van-der-Huysen cabal was ignorant of
its existence; and, revealing in that fire.
quent folly of the conquered, pride of
conquest, he would have laid his sword
and his scalpel his own heart, and the
maternal millions at her feet on the least
provocation. But, though ready to ape
the Caesar who bore the Egyptian to his
capital, the young doctor somehow never
: found just the opportunity to perfect his
triumph. Meanwhile the Hon. Alger
non was, as became possible peer, held
well in the silken leash by the taper but
, deXterous hand-growing FESTIVE ever
, and anon, but returning to obedient fol-
lowing at a single sound of the rich con-
tralto, which could WOO or command
with change of infection rather than of
tone.
Its deucedly odd, you know" his
| lOrdship III posse sometimes confded to
. Bonnie, who was by nature everybody S
, friend. 81 can't make out how she
; stands the Sawbones, really. But there
t is something about the boys, you know. "
And to the boys-as the Hon. Algernon
} designated the two six footers in wax
, fitting pigeon tails-Miss Van der Huy-
sens manner was quite perfect. Frank
and cordial, it never gave hint of stimuli
ated sisterhood- favorite cloak to
) warm cadet hirtation-and was equally
free from suspicion of anything like IAN
) affair with either.
l They are your property, dear" she
: said to Bonnie, i'll the quiet of still hunt
for cadets. Il really believe they are
} both i'll love with you, though | cannot
| tell which has the pas" At which i'm
: parchment the others rosy cheeks had
! become crimson; and her usually saucy
eyes, cast earthward, We're wholly limo
cent of the strange CLEAN that darkeneG
: her friends, though the velvety voice
A went on without pause or change:
Either one takes me as vicarious atone
, ment when the other has sailed away il
a waltz for the golden fleece. But | shall
g not enact the daughter of AIetes for
: really like both boys, and find them the
l only bearable pair of white legs in til,
a entire corps"
"Boys!" Bonnie ventured in pretty
: depreciation. "Why, Edith dear, they
n are both years older than we are. Dial,
$ was at Harvard before his appointment
= and Mr.. Latour was 20 in his secont
: class year"
/ Miss Van der Huysen smiled with he
T red lips and white teeth, but her eye
d ignored the levity Of the lower features
y as she slightly emphasized the title:
e "Mster Latour is scarcely as maturet
d as Dale so far as | can judge; and
: thought you and he were older friends
?, 1.-The families were," Bonnie broke il
l. quickly, with another blush. But hav
It known Dale never so long! He's such
l. brave, true fellow and so smart, isn't he
Y Adrien's mother and mamma were a
It school together in Paris; and his grand
d mother-Madame is the only way any o
r, them speak of her-is "A perfect mode
d of the old legitimiste one reads about il
It the Quarter st. German"
y "And they are immensely rich, ar
d they not;' Edith queried innocently.
l. Immensely, believe; but never I'm
Y derstand the details of those things"
- "You are u wonderful little girl, Ben
Is ME dear" Miss Van der Huysen reioin
l. ed. 81 do not wonder that all the mel
adore you, and that only not all tn
d women praise"
e The brown eyes gazed straight int
e the blue, which fell at the next ques
d ton:
le THE Latour plantations adjoin MI
If Beverly Mason's, do they not?'
d I'm sure don't know" Bonnie ar
Is swered, with something prettily akin
~ pout. "Aunt Tab has that part c
lie Louisiana geography so thoroughly q
h her fingers ends that never studied it.
.r "Du liebe kind" laughed Edit