The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1895-09-14

loose coils, full of golden light. She
looked at herself and was pleased
Several of her hopeless admirers came
to her porch during the guard-mount-
ing, with the hope that they might see
her. but she kept within doors until
her watchful eyes deserted the APP
preaching form of Lieut.. Sake.
With weary and listless air she
went out on the porch and sat on the
steps, with her chin in her hand and a
pensive look that was not unbecoming.
The bait caught the fish. Sake had not
come past with the intention of being
again a CONSIDER of distressed beauty,
but-well. he stopped jast for mo-
ment, and spent the morning with
Kittie in sweet and low converse. She
grew little more cheerful at about
the third hour, but not to an unseemly
degree. OF course she had not the bad
taste to mourn the loss of one man in
the very face of another; it was only
in her manner that her sorrows were
observable.
She spoke of books, and chapel, and
sewing, was very domestic in mild
| wav, and never became SO Interested
| in her game as to forget her lines. 1t
was a master stroke for her to decline
Saxe's invitation to go to the hop with
him that night, and she realized it. AT
| twelve o'clock she excused herself to
write a letter to catch the afternoon
stage, and the man went away with
| the firm conviction that here was at
least one faithful woman. He thought
| Appleton lucky dog, but went no
| further.
Nothing had happened that Apple
ton was not made acquainted with,
and yet he was entirely ignorant OF
all he should have known. SAKE per
sisted in his error, making it many-fold,
and in time Miss Foster came to the
conclusion that the mantle of sorrow
was threadbare and would soon be-
come transparent, SO she threw it away
altogether. Sake asked her to go to
the next fortnightly hop, but she told
him, with only due amount OF regret
in her tones, that he had been fore
stalled. 1t could not possibly have
been jealousy which made SAKE
gloomy for the rest of the day, but
Kittie was pleased to put that con
struction upon it, and chuckled.
One day she told him that he wal
very like Appleton in appearance. do
you know, if it were a dark night,
I couldn't tell you apart" she said, ant
, Sake was undecided whether to b'
, charmed with the comparison or other
, wise.
But he seemed to go just SO far ant
, no further. Kittie could not under
stand this, and was FESTIVE. She began
) to fear it was becoming a sort OF Pla
tonic friendship, and that was thin,
5 she scorned, being convinced that onl
strougminded and unattractive wome
could indulge in them. AS the time @
1 Appleton's return drew near, sh
, strained every nerve-withouta pparen
S anxiety, however-to make SAKE CON
S init himself. He would not, and sh
!. marveled.
/? 1t was quite beyond her conceptio
;. of human motives that one man shout
{ be so loyal to another AS to hesitate
n make love to friends promised wife
e She feared that she was losing HI
o allegiance, and in her fear took severe
S false steps. In fact, she began maxim
+" love to SAKE when SAKE would DC
O make love to her. Under ordinary Gil
cumstances, he would have drawn o
at this, but he was past seeing an
4 fault in the girl whom he had Gel
a sured so severely once. 1t was quit
Y too soon for Kittie that Appleton cam
back, but she did not let him que:
r this from her manner.
a Now, the fourth error was one whic
4 seemed to have no direct connectio
n with the matter. 1t was the diggin
h of post hole in the wrong place. AZ
# the fifth error was again Miss Foster
n OF the three dances which she gave
II SAKE, she sat out two in a corner, ha
e hidden by garrison flag. Either
a woman thinks a man a very bs
II dancer or else she has an object
view when she sits out dance wit
. him. Kittie had an object in vie,
:, There were Just two chances for her
- accomplish that object, and she $
a. herself to the task with will. ii
:, tactics were admirable,
N First she leaned back with defect
ID and wistful air, answering only
w monosy llables. SAKE asked her VIII
. her trouble might be, and she sho
" her head with sigh; he insisted up
ee knowing, and at last she threw asi
ne all restraint, and complained that
G. ing engaged was not all pleasant. 20
he cannot see enough of the-people-o
as likes" The hesitation said what h
words did not. SAKE suggested tn
nd if one were really in love, there shor
no not be any other person worth SEER
If Kittie's Yes was dubious.
rn Aren't you in love, Kittie?"
n asked. He had never called her by tt
lie name before.
lie Another uncertain Yes"
no Besides, ! can't sec that you {
| a under any restraint"
- s.Xo,, don't know a"