The Van Buren press., 1895-08-10

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gaze was greatly Impressed By hes
eonstancy and sAsction, she deter.
mined to oct that role. for . time u
least Her natural paleness was In.
creased By . black froch, usually de-
spised for its simplicity, and which
made her blonde hair. drawn back In
loose coils. full Of . golden light she
looked 1t herself and was pleased.
Several Of her hopeless admirers came
to her porch during the guard-mount-
ing, with the hope that they might zee
her, but she kept within door until
her watchful eyes deserted the ap-
proeching form Of Lieut. eaxe
With . weary and listless air she
went ont on the porch and sat on the
steps. with her chin in her hand and .
pensive look that was not uubecoming.
The bait caught the fish. SAKE had not
come past with the intention Of being
again . consoler of distressed beauty.
but-well. he stopped Just 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 IN unseemly
degree. OF course she hsd not the bad
taste to mourn the loas Of one man in
the rery face Of another; it was only
in her manner that her sorrows were
observable
she spoke Of bookA and chapel. and
sewing, was very domestic in mild
way, and never became 50 interested
In her game IS to forget her lines II
Vas . master stroke for her to decline
Saxe's invitation to go to the hop with
him that night. and she realized il At
twelve o'clock she excused herself to
write 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.
As for Kittie's letter, 1t was quite .
model Of frankness. 30 far as the tell
ing OF facts was concerned. Aawoman
can write . letter or tell . s4ory. all
the truth, in which no fact or phrase
may be omitted, but with the position
Of . word, or the changing Of . apunctu-
alton mark, or even with telling the
whole thing too opOly, she can con-
vey an impression very different from
the real matter; nor does she count
this IS dishonesty either. Kittie was
not given to analy sing her sentiments
aloud, she considered IL destructive of
the feminine charm OF inconsequence.
Nothing had happened that Apple
ton was not made acquainted with,
and yet he was entirely ignorant of
I'll he should have known. SAKE per-
sisted In his error, making it many-fold,
and in time Miss Foster came to the
oonclusion that the mantle of sorrow
was threadbare and would soon be-
come transparent, so she threw it taway
altogether. SAKE asked her to go to
the next fortnightly hop, but she told
him, with only q due amount Of regret
in her tones, that he had been fore
stalled. It 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 was
very like Appleton in appearance. "Do
you know, if 1t were . dark night, ]
couldn't tell you apart" she said, and
SAKE was undecided whether to be
charmed with the comparison or other
wise. sfat
But he seemed to 60 just 20 far and
no further. Kittie could not under.
stand this, and was restive. She began
to fear it was becoming sort Of Pla-
tonic friendship, and that was thing
she scorncd. being convinced that only
strongminded and unattractive women
could indulge in them. As the time Of
Appleton's return drew near, she
strained every ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
anxiety, however--to make SAKE cou.
init himself. He would not, and she
rnarveled.
1t was quite beyond her conception
OF human motives that one man should
bc 20 loyal to another ss TO hesitate &c
make love TO friends promised wife.
She feared that she was losing his
allegiance, and In her fear took several
false steps. In fact, she began making
love to SAKE when SAKE would moi
make love to her. Under ordinary cir
eumstances, he would have drawn oh
, at this, but he was past seeing any
fault il the girl whom he mad cen.
sured 80 severely once. It was quite
too soon for Kittie that Appleton came
back. but she did not let him guess
this from her manner.
Now, the fourth error was one which
seemed to have no direct connection
with the matter. 1t was the digging
Of post hole in the wrong place. And
the fifth error was again Miss Fosters
OF the three dances which she gave tc
SAKE, she sat out two in q corner. hall
hidden by a garrison flag. Either q
woman thinks a man q very bad
dancer or else she has an object in
view when she sits out q dance with
him. Kitsie had an object in view.
There were just two chances for her te
accomplish that object, and she sci
herself 70 the task with . will Hel
tactics were admirable.
First she leaned back with . adejected
and wistful air, answering only In
yaonosy lla bles SAKE asked her what
Eer trouble might be. and she shook
her head with sigh; he insisted upon
knowing, and ct last she threw aside
all restraint, and complained that be
ing engaged was not all pleasant, zone
cannot see enough Of the people-ons
likes" The hesitation said what hel
words did not. SAKE suggested tha,
II one were really in love, there should
not be any other person worth seeing
kittie's "Yes" was dubious
Aren't you in love, Kittie?" he
asked. He had never called her BY tha,