The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-02-01
S'POSE IT'S SATAN.

$50 boys OF DIR. kellar'S school dlS-
ported themselves. But besides the
boys present there were at least $50
demons and angels of ambition, envy,
loyalty, per6dity and truthfulness.
The doctor himself, in new suit of
tweed, seemed to the boys to be far
more approachable here in the midst
of their sports than when in academic
cap and gown. He cast gloom through
their ranks by stalking along with that
searcll-light eye of his we'll turned on
the discontinue of the evil tloers.
However, even at these grewsome
times the boys admitted among them
selves that Kellar was. u gentleman
and that they'd rather take 4 hiding
from him than punishment drill from
a cad any day.
For they were all proud of Kellar's,
loyal to the school and ready to battle
to the bitter end against any common
foe who dared to asperse it in the
lightest degree.
A little lad of 10 had just run light
heartedly on to the ground when the
aforesaid search light, fell upon him,
and simultaneously the head master
shouted out: III ......
"Colville two. thought you had de-
tention?" Id.
Colville two, a red-headesl, merry
faced boy, smiled cheerfully as if de-
tention were good joke to which he
was we'll accustomed and replled with
pleasant promptness:
$50 have SIR"
"Then what brings you out here?" T.
Il s'pose it's Satan--he's always do
ing it," s>ry.- -.
"Doing what?" =.
making me naughty" said Colville
two, with pathetically fearless frank
ness. =, saa
Then Kellar's little daughter went
up and kissed him NJ. u. !. !.
Twelve years later the battle OF
Tamal was being fought and Colville
two was in the thick of it. He had
been slightly wounded in an attack
that had been made upon McNeil's
Zareba a few days previously, and his
colonel had mentioned him strongly
for the ". c. for personal gallantry.
On the strength of this Lieut.. Col
vile had written to the girl he was
engaged to, who was at Cairo with her
mother; telling that he would not wait
to marry her a day after he had got
his company. .,-
give always been lucky fellow,
though I've been in no end of scrapes
all my life," the boy wrote, "and now
the browning luck Of all is that shall
win you and the Victoria Cross at the
same time. Heaps of fellows deserve
it just as much as do; only ! happen
ed TO be in the front. you see, and was
lucky enough to lie able to make my
self Il target for the concealed enemy,
who had been picking off our men like
ninepins. The Arabs turned their lire
on me and our fellows were able to see
where the beggars fired from. must
bear charmed life, think, for the
ground was riddlcd all ronnd me. Bob
Dob was her brother) and | fought
shoulder to shoulder for hours and
we shall again many day, ] hope"
The girl who got this letter was
worthyof the gallant. light-hearted
boy who wrote it, and she sent him
pages of such loving, proud, encouragg-
ing words as only a proud, loving
woman can write.
II wish were yourwi that l light
90 to the front and dress your wounds
myself, my own love. Even as it is
am capable of dressing as boy and
going to the camp. | quite under
stand Constance de Beverley's bowling
her pride and riding for three long
years in Lord Marmion's train. Only
Jack, there would he no blowing of
PRIDE in my case. l should be proud
er than ever if I could only do some
thing to show the whole camp, the
whole world, how dearly love my
boy"
Then she went on to tell how regu-
larly she wrote to his mother, keeping
her posted up in all that Jack was do
ing and suffering and winning. "She
is my beloved mother, and only she
can fully understand how dearly l
have loved you ever since that day
when I kissed you because you said
you 'S'posed it was Satan made you
naughty"
Violet Kellar had foughta hard fight
before she had gained her fathers con-
sent to become engaged to penniless
Jack Colville. The girls brilliantly
good looks. attractive manners and
general cleverness had brought num-
bers of far more eligible men to her
feet. But she had been faithful to her
first love through it all.
II hate poverty but I love Jack,
she would say when her father point
ed out to her how far more sensible it
would be of her to marry a man who
could give her a good eetablishmentin
which he could stay at home in ease
with her, than to link her lot with
that of mere subaltern in march
ing regiment.
"Probably after they have settled
this disturbance in Egypt his rcgi-
ment will be sent of to India for three