Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1895-09-13
CUPID AND PSYCHE.

His name upon the ships books was
Edward Braithwaite Colchester, but be-
tween Tilbury and Sydney harbor he
was better known as Cupid. His mother
was q widow, with four more olive
branches, absolutely dependent on her
own and Teddy's exertions.
At the best Of times k~indergartens
for the children Of respectable trades
people arc not particularly remunera-
tive, and the semidetachod villa in Sy-
denham was often sorely tried for petty
cash.
But when Teddy was appointed fourth
officer Of the X. Y. q. company's steam
ship Cambrian Prince endless possibili-
ties were opened up.
II you will remember that every
thing in this world is ordained to a
certain end. on will see that Teddy's
future entirely depended on his falling
IN love-frst love of course, and not the
matter of fact businosslike affair that
follows later.
After his second voyage he obtained
q fortnight's leave and hastened home.
Being fond Of tennis and such like
Amusements, he was naturally brought
into contact with many charming girls,
who, because he was a strange man and
q sailor, were ofusively polite.
Then he fell hopelessly in love with
q horribly impossible girl, and in the
excitement of the latest waltz proposed
and was accepted ON the strength of a
fourth officers pay, an inoipiont mus
tache and q dozen or SO brass buttons.
During tho next voyage his behavior
toward unmarried women was marked
BY that circumspection which should
always characterize an engaged nan
He allowed himself to forget
this for an instant, and his cabin had
for its chief ornament a plush framed
likeness Of young lady gazing with a
wistful expression over a palpably pho
to9raphic sea.
Now, il was necessary for his ultimate
happiness that Teddy Colchester should
learn that, like his own brass buttons.
without constant furnishing q ycang
lAdy's affection is apt to lose mach Of
its pristine brightness, and hat too
much sea air is good for neither. Ho
licked of the days Of absence, and as
his calendar lessened his affection in
creased.
At Plymouth a letter met him, a
jeEky, inky schoolgirl epistle, evidently
written by a writer very cold and mis-
cradle. and tho first reading stunned
him.
Had he seen a little more of the real
world he would have been able to read
between the lines something to this eff
feet: You're Teddy, three months
away. and I'm madly in love with a
soldier"
Then he would have noted hat the
writer was staying in Salisbury, after
which he would have hunted up his
home papers and discovered that the
Royal Wiltshire yeomanry cavalry were
encamped at Huntingdon Down.
But as he had only seen life through
q telescope he could not do this. Conse-
quently his pain was a trife acute.
His mother wrote him four pages of
sympathy.
But though ho wondered at any girl
fitting her boy she could not help q
feeling Of satisfaction at its being still
IN her power to transmuto three-quar-
ters Of his pay into food and raiment
for her brood
Next voyage the Cambrian Prince
had her full complement Of passengers,
and the Kangaroo Girl, whom perhaps
you may remember, was Of the number,
At Plymouth q little reserved girl
Joined, and as she is considerably mixed
up In this story you must know that
she rejoiced in the unpretentious name
Of Kinks
For the first week or so Teddy held
very much aloof from the passengers, en-
Raging himself entirely with reoolleo.
tions Of the girl for whose sake no wa.
going to 1.-Two ''only in memory"
Being an honest, straightforward
young fellow, he Of course followed the
prescribed programme Of all blighted
love affairs. He began by plying him.
self for the sorrow he was undergoing,
then went ON to picture the future thai
might have been theirs had she married
him. but before they were clear Of the
bay b. had arrived at the invariable
conolusion and was plying himself foI
pltyihg tho girl who WAS foolish enough
20 jilt such an entirely estimablo young
man a. Edward Braithwaito Colchester.
One moonlight night, after leaving
'Gib. " no was leaning over the rails Of
the promenade deck feeling sympathet-
ioally inclined 10 the world IN general
when somebody stopped up behind him.
Il was Miss Kinks. She prefacod her