Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-08
ters totally different.

tai ignorance of the fact that there was to be a party at the doctors the night he had driven out with Nina and his sis ter; that Nina had pulled the wool over her mothers eyes" and made her believe she was going to spend the even ing with friends in town, naming a family with whom the Beaubiens were intimate. A long drive always made the old lady sleepy, and as she had ac- companied Nina to the fort that after noon she went early to bed, having se- cured her wild birding, as she suppos- ed, from possibility of further meetings with Jerrold For nearly week, said Cub, Mime. Beaubien had dogged Nina So that she could not get moment with the man with whom she was evi- dently so snitten. and the girl was al- most at her wits end with seeing the depth of his filtration with Alice Rem wick and the knowledge that on the morrow her mother would spirit her of to the cool breezes and blue waves of the great lake. Cub said she so worked on Fanny's feelings that they put up the scheme together and made him bring them out. Cad, if old Maman only found it out, there'd be no more germans for Ninal She'd ship her of to the good Sisters at Creve-Cpur and
 slap her into a convent and leave al her money to the church.
 And yet, said city society. old Ma man idolized her beautiful daughter ! and could deny her :o luxury or indul I gence. She dressed her superbly, thougt with a somewhat barbaric taste, where
 Nina's own good sense and eastern
 teaching did not interfere. What she | feared was that the girl would fall il love with some adventurer or-what | was quite as bad-some army man who would carry her darling away to Ari
 zona or other inaccessible spot. Hcl l plan was that Nina should marry hert l at home-SOme one of the staid young
 merchant princes rising into prominence | in the western metropolis, and from the
 very outset Nina had shown q singular
 infatuation for the buttons and straps
 and music and heaven knows what all
 out at the fort. Shc gloried ill seeing her daughter prominent in all scenes ot
 social life. She rejoiced ill her triumph.
 and took infinite pains with all prcpa ] rations.
 She would have set her foot against
 Nina's simply dancing the german at
 the fort with Jcrrold as q partner, but
 she could not resist it that the papcrs
 should announce on Sunday morning
 that the event of the season at Fort
 Sibley was the german given last Tues
 day night by the ladies of the garrison
 and led by the lovely Miss Beaubien'
 with Lieutenant or Captain Anybody.
 There were dozen bright, graceful,
 winning women among the danes and
 damscls at the fort, and Alice Renwicb
 was famous beauty by this time. Ii
 was more than Maman Bcaubien could
 withstand that her Nina should lead | all these, and so her consent was won.
 Back they came from ChequamegOn, and
 the stately home on Summit avenue re
 opened to receive them. It was Monday
 noon when they returned, and by 3
 o'clock Fanny Sutton had told Nina
 Beaubien what she knew of the won
 derful rumOrs that were floating ill from
 Sibley. She was more than half disposed
 to be ill love with Jerrold herself. She
 expected proper amount of wOmanly
 horror, incredulity and indignation, but
 she was totally unprepared for the out
 burst that followed. Nina was trans
 formed into q tragedy queen on the in
 stant, and poor, simple hearted, foolish
 Fanny Sutton was almost scared out nf
 her small wits by the fire of dcnunCia-
 tiOn and fury with which her story wa>
 greeted. She came home with white,
 frightened face and hunted up Cub and
 told him that Sh" hnd bc..n t.lliny Nina
 some of the queer things the ladies had
 been saying about MT. Jerrofd, and
 Nina almost tore her to pieces ana
 could he go right out to the fort to set
 Mir. Jerrold? Nina wanted to send {
 note at once, and if he couldn't go sh,
 had made her promise that she would
 get somebody to go instantly and tC
 come back and let her know before 1
 o'clock.
 Cub was always glad of an excuse [, go out to the fort, but coldness hat
 sprung up between him and Jcrrold He had heard the ugly rumors in tha mysterious way ill which all such thing, are heard, and while his shallow pat, could not quite conceive of such mon strous scandal, and he did not bclicv, half he heard, he sagcly felt that in tn,
 presence of 20 much smoke there wa: surely some fire and avoided the maI
 from whom he had been in>cparablc Of course he had not spoken to him or the subject, and, singularly enough this was the case with all the officers q : the post except Armitagc and tho com ? mandcr. It was understood that tn , matter was in ChestCr's hands, to q, with as was deemed best. It was bclicv cd that his resignation had been tender ed, and all these 4S hours since the sto 1 " might be said to be fairly before tn l public Jerrold had been left much {, I himself and was presumably in tn depths of dismay.
 One or two men. urged by their wives; who thought it was really time some thing were done to let him Understar, he ought not to lead the german, hat - gone to see him and been refused admiS :, sion. Asked from within what the $ wanted, the reply was somewhat diff e cult to frame and ill both cases resolve, j. itself into 'Oh, about the german, t
 which Jerrold's voice was heard to say
 ''The germans all right. I'll lead i :, I'm well enough and am not bothere
 to death meantime. But I've got som 2 private matters to attend to and am nc
 seeing anybody today" And with thi n answer they were fain to be content. l d had been settled, however, that the off e cers were to tell Captain Chester at 70 o'clock that ill their opinion MT. Jel e rold ought not to be permitted to atten d so long as this mysterious charge hun a over him, and MT. Rollins had been nc V tified that he must be ready to lead. Poor Rollins! He was ill sore perple1 i ity. He wanted nothing better than { le dance with Nina Beaubien. He wor re dered if she would lead with him c r. would even come at all when she learn a ed that Jerrold would be unable to al d tend. Sickness was to be the ostens