The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-12-14

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staff, and when Mrs Maynard came no
/ overwhelmed her with cumbrous COM
! phments and inoessant calls. He was,
TO his confident belief, her chosen and
accepted knight for full two days after
! her arrival. Then Jerold came back
from a brief absence and as Ia duty
bound went to pay his respects to his
I eOiOnei's wife, and that night there had
been singular scene. Mrs Maynard
had stopped suddenly in her laughing
chat with two ladies, had started from
her seat wildly staring ct the tall,
! slender subalteTn who entered the gate
/ way, and then fell back in her chair,
fairly. swooning as be made his bow.
Sloat had rushed into the house to call
! the colonel and get some water, while
JerTold stood paralyzed at so strange s
reception Of his first call Mrs. Maynard
revived presently, explained that it was
her heart, OF the heat, or something, and
the ladies on their way home decided
that it was possibly the heart, it was
certainly not the heat, it was unques-
tionably something, and that something
was Jerrold, for she never took her eyes
of him during the entire evening and
seemed unable to shake of the fascina-
ton. Next day Jerrold dined there, and
from that time on he was a daily visitor
Every one noted Mrs. Msynard's strong
interest in him, but no one could &C.
count for it. She was old enough to be
his mother, said the garrison, but not
until Alice Renwick came did another
consideration appear. He was singularly
like the daughter. Both were tall, 1.-THE,
slender. Both had dark, lustrous eyes,
dark, though almost perfect, skin, ex-
quisitely chiseled features and slender,
shapely hands and feet Alice was "the
picture of her father" said Mrs. May
nard, and Mr.. Renwiok had lived all
his life in New York, while Mr.. Jerrold
was Of an old southern family and his
mother a Cuban beauty who was the
toast Of the New Orleans clubs not many
years before the war.
Poor Sloatl He did not fancy JeTrold
and was as jealous as so unselfish
mortal could be of the immediate as
cendancy the young fellow established
in the coionel's household. 1t was bad
enough before Alice joined them. After
that it was we'll nigh unbearable Then
came the Sd Of July dinner and the
colonel's one annual jollihcation. No
man ever heard Of Sloat's being intoxi-
Gated. He rarely drank at all, but this
evening the "reminiscences Of the day,
the generous Wine the Unaccustomed
elegance Of all his surroundings, due to
Mrs Maynard S taste and supervision,
and the influence Of Alice Renwick's
exquisite beauty had fairly carried him
away.
They were chatting in the parlor,
while Miss Renwick was entertaining
some young lady friends from town and
listening to the band on the parade.
Sloat was expatiating on her grace and
beauty and going over the album for
the twentieth time when the colonel,
with a twinkling eye, remarked to Mrs.
Maynard:
II think you ought to show Major
by act Of congress officers may be aid
dressed by the title of the highest rank
held by them in the volunteer service
during the war. The colonel always
punctiliOusly so addressed his friend
and subordinate, although in the army
his grade was simply that Of first lieu
tenant Sloat the 'directoire' picture,
my dear"
Alice would never forgive me, said
madam, laughing though I consider
it the most beautiful we have of her"
ooh, where is it," "Oh, do let us
see it, Mrs. Maynardp was the chorus
of EXPLANATIONS from the few ladies
present ooh, insist on seeing it, mad
am, was Sloat's characteristic contri-
button to the clamor.
~ want you to understand it, said
Mrs, Maynard, pleased, but still hest
tating 1--WE are very daft about Alice
at home, you know, and it's quite
wonder she has not been utterly spoiled
by her aunts and uncles, but this pic
ture was a specially. An artist friend
of ours fairly made US have it taken in
the wedding dress worn by her grand
mother. You know the Josephine Beau
harnais 'directoire' style that was worn
in seventeen ninety something. Her
neck and shoulders are lovely, and that
was why we consented. I went, and
so did the artist, and we posed her,
and the photograph is simply Of her
face and neck, too, but when Alice
saw it she blushed furiously and for
babe my having them finished. After
ward, though, she yielded when her
Aunt Kate and I begged so hard and
promised that none should BE- given
away, and so just half a dozen were
finished Indeed the dress is by no
means as deoollete as many girls wear
theirs at dinner now in New York. but
poor Alice was scandalized when she
saw it last month, and she never would
let me put one in the album. "
"Oh, do go and get it, Mrs. May
nardP pleaded the ladies. "0h, please
let me see it, Mrs. MaynardP' added
Sloat and at last the mother pride pre-
vailed. Mrs Maynard rustled up stairs
and presently returned, holding in her
hands a delicate silver frame in fligree
work, a quaint, foreign affair, and in
closed therein was cabinet photograph
en- vignette-the head, neck and shout