The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-09-14

luck to look until the last. Her eyes
were very dewy and were exactly
the kind that look we'll in that state.
When she wheeled around, she
came almost face to face with SAKE
and only raised her lashes long
enough to give him a glance of such
delightfully."- bewitching sorrow that
any other man would have tried to
console her then and there and ran
as fast as she could into the house.
SAKE went on his way with a new
admiration for Kitty, whom he had
always considered a very heartless
child. He was glad to see that she
was capable of loving some one to
the extent of crying over his depar-
ture. He did not wish he were tho
lucky man, however. Thas stage
was yet to come.
The third error was very serious,
and it was the usually unerring SAKE
who committed it. He deluded him,
self with the fallacy that fire viii
not burn if you put on the asbestus
gloves of indifference when you
handle it. He felt sorry for poor,
bereaved little Kitty and conceived
1t to be his duty to go over and con
sole her. If it had been a disagree
able duty. he would not have shun-
ned it. but it was not q disagreeable
duty. In the moonlight before tat
too he went to sympathize with Miss
Foster. That "a the error. When
he left, he was glad that he had lis
tened to the promptings of con-
science. 1t had seemed to do the
girl much good. She was really a
far more earnest and woInanly little
person than he had supposed, not as
shallow as one would imagine. She
was bearing up against her troubles
bravely. and he admired her for it.
After he had gone Kitty went up to
her DON and sat in her window
looking out upon the parade ground
and smiled and counted one point,
very much as if she had been play
ing whist. She did not forget Apple
ton. She cried again when she went
to bed and took his picture to put
under her pillow and lay awake for
a half hour thinking about him, but
when she dropped off to sleep it was
with a distinct under consciousness
of triumph instead of loss.
She went at her part in perfect
cold blood and played it we'll. See
ing that SAKE was greatly impressed
by the constancy and affection, she
determined to act that role, for a
time at least. Her natural paleness
was increased the next morning by
a black frock, usually despised for
its simplicity, and which made her
blond hair, drawn back in loose
coils, full of a golden light. She
looked at herself and was pleased.
Several Of her hopeless admirers
came to her porch during guard
mounting with the hope that they
might see her, but she kept within
doors until her watchful eyes de-
serted the approaching form of Lieu
tenant SAKE. With q weary and list
less 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 just for a mo-
ment and spent the morning with
Kitty in sweet and low converse.
She grew a 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 to the very face of an
other. 1t was only in her mamie,
that her sorrows we're observable.
She spoke of books and chapel and
sewing, was very domestic in a mild
way and never became so interested
in her game rs to forget her lines.
1t was a master stroke for her to de-
clineSaxe invitation to go to tho
hop with him that night, and she re-
allied it. At - o'clock she excused
herself to write a letter to catch the
afternoon stage, and the man went
away with the firm conviction hat
here was at least one faithful wom-
an. He thought Appleton a lucky
dog, but went no further.
AS for Kitty's letter, it was quito