The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-27

Next day was Sunday and Captain les
| sop came To church I'm the morning and
walked home with us, looking very smart
ana handsome in his uniform. Miss Creaph
walked back alone on the other side of the
road
That's the first sign" said Netty
when he had said goodby to us i'm the hall
lie always walks home with them from
,hurch. He'll come Ia tea this afternoon
and take us a. the evening service"
| And he did.
! Next day we rode together. and after
| that began a time in which Captain .Jessop
was my shadow We rode together nearly
every afternoon and danced together near.
| " ever5 evening He attended any func-
tion 70 which | went, making il clear il
was only for that reason He fulfilled Net
tys prophecy by confiding TO me about his
iirst love and about many other things.
AS time went on he began To drop into
.he hotel in the mornings, and If we didn Z
happen To bc going out any evening no
was sure tn find an excuse for coming
over
captain Jessop was one of tho smartest
men In Cairo, and | was pleased and fiat
tered, If at times little bored for,
enough good tn look upon, he most un-
uouDtedly was not brilliant
Netty was protligal In her warnings, and
perhaps l should have been inclined to
heed them had she been little less suspi-
ciously bitter and had / been less well
aware of her manner Of conducting herself
where mankind was concerned
Once hinted to Captain Jessop that
mad heard he was not a model of fidelity
and he was very much hurt
II may not he much of fellow" he
s'fd, hut at least | may fatter myself
that 4 nevor give up friend -
And he promptly guessed who had said
this thing of him, which, despite Nctty's
free permission, had not intended to dis
close
by IA few words he gave me To under
stand that there was Reason, with cap
ital II, for her bitterness
About this time his feelings had become
very easily injured. He was hurt if /
didn give him as many dances as he ex-
pected, hurt If l suggested that he might
talk To somebody else for change, hurt ut
my insisting on II right tn speak To other
men when he was present and very fire.
quently hurt at my not discovering that
he was hurt He remained i'm dignified
and mournful seclusioh for three days be-
Nah'N utb'tu tNitt Wlln MT.
Kelly and said l liked it, but when he
found that instead of being ready to apol-
ogizc, ! was very angry he gave In com
pictely, and IL was after this reconciliation
that the pace grew quite too hot To last, as
Netty said, and that became for the first
time slightly alarmed.
One day a lady in the hotel we knew "A
little asked Netty and me To ride out to n
moonlight dinner party AT the pyramids,
bringing our own escort, and, as "a matter
of course, Captain Jessop was mine.
We left the hotel at about u on u deli
cious evenings party of IA dozen, all in
excellent spirits.
The first part of cur ride we spent in an
animated discussion as 20 the advisabiity
of Captain Jcssop's ceasng To glue himself
to my side when we reached the pyramids
and the latter part in an argument as To
the rights and duties of Platonic friend
ship, including the advisablity of hand
kissing, which | refused to consider neces-
sarily included.
l maneuNcred not to sit next my Pla-
tonic friend at dinner, in consequence of
which he sulkcd, but afterward, when a
moonlight expedition to the sphinx was
organized, he came up to me most amia-
bly,.
81 am going To walk up with Miss Ogil-
Wy" he said. IL consider you, as you
know, the greatest friend | have In the
world; SO, of course want To do as you
wish "
IF you selected Mrs Ogilvy, / might
be more touched with your self sacrifice,
said, laughing Your act of remuneration
will he little softencd by the fact that
Rose Ogilvy is the prettiest girl here to-
night"
Indeed he bore the infliction so we'll that
not only did he walk up to the pyramids
with Miss Ogilvy, but also rode down on
donkey beside her.
cam / not virtuouss" he said as he
passed me with "a smile on the balcony
and proceeded TO mount Miss Ogilvy
while began to be u little surprised
/ was still more when he and she rode
calmly away together, leaving me to the
rather cross attentions of a little man i'm
the artillery who was her proper escort
We rode the whole eight miles together, he
and |, and bored each other to extinction
II told you So" said Nctty when we
parted for the night
"What utter rubbish you do talk" |
said snappshly. Il particularly asked |
him to be civil to Miss Ogilvy
"Well, all can say is he has been un-
commonly obedcnt, returned Nctty
There had been Il ride half arranged for |
next day, but Captain Jessop did not turn |,
up, and our next meeting was i'm the even. |
ing at private dance
He was talking to Miss Ogilvy when we |
came into the room, and Nctty gave me a |
significant glance, in return for which | |
could chcerfully have shaken her He |
looked across at us, smiled and bowed but |
made no movement.
The first dance began, and my pro.
gramme was 10y no means full
Captain Jessop passed me as sat among
the wallnowcrs with Miss Ogilvy on his |
hrm.
you mustn't begin by being lazy, Miss
Dalison," he said why aren't you dane
ing?"
| thought of Miss Creagh, of the intro
ductions ! had declined, and the men | |
had not thought good enough to dance
with. felt capable of arising and insist
ing that somebody should dance with me
and welcomed the arrival of young and
rallow subaltern with an effusion which
must have surprised him, as also my
him two waltzcs without dcmur
would have been happy to give him all the
rest rather than leave Captain Jcssop an
opening for another such remark
A lanccrs came third on the programme,
md In the visiting figure Captain Jessop
md his partner came to us.
at is too late to ask for a dance now, |
suppose. Miss DalisonS" said he non
,halantly.
I nodded, with three vacant places In
NY programme staring me In the face.
81 am awfully sorry | hadn't chance
4 asking you before, - he said, but | did
rope that you would keep "a dance or two
or u friend