Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-04-01
FALSE DAWN.

truth OF this story, though women may
whisper it to one another after dance
when they are putting up their hair for
the night and comparing lists of VIC
Tins. A man of course cannot assist at
these functions. So the tale must be
told from the outside, in the dark-all
wrong.
Never praise sister to sister in the
hope of your compliments reaching the
proper ears and SO preparing the way
for you later on. Sisters are women
first, and sisters afterward and you will
find that you do yourself harm. Sau-
marez knew this when he made up his
mind to propose to the elder Miss Cop
leigh. Saumarez was strange man,
with few merits so far as men could see,
though he was popular with women and
carried enough conceit to stock vice
roy's council and leave little over for
the commander in chiefs staff. He was
civilian. Very many women took an
interest in Saumarez, perhaps because
his manner to them was offensive. If
you hit pony over the nose at the out
set Of your acquaintance, he may not
love you, but he will take a deep inter
est in your movements ever afterward.
The elder Miss Copleigh was nice,
plump, winning and pretty. The young
er was not SO pretty, and from men dis
regarding the hint set forth above her
style was repellent and unattractive.
Both girls had practically the same fig
n or Elzannco ha
tween them in look and voice, though
no one could doubt for an instant which
was the nicer of the two.
Saumarez made up his mind as soon
as they came into the station from Be-
har to marry the elder one. At least we
all made sure that he would, which
comes to the same thing. She was two
and twenty, and he was 33, with pay
and allowances of nearly 1 400 rupees a
month. So the match, as we arranged
1t, was in every way good one. Sau-
marez was his name, and summary was
his nature, as a man once said. Having
drafted his resolution, he formed Sc
lect committee of one to sit upon it and
resolved to take his time. In our un-
pleasant slang the Copleigh girls "hunt-
ed in couples that Is to say, you
could do nothing with one without the
other. They were very loving sisters,
but their mutual affection was some
times inconvenient. Saumarez held the
balance hair true between them, and
none but himself could have said to
which side his heart inclined, though
every one guessed. He rode with them
q good deal and danced with them, but
he never succeeded in detaching them
from each other for any length Of time.
Women said that the two girls kept
together through deep mistrust, each
fearing that the other would steal a
march on her. But that has nothing to
do with man. Saumarez was silent
for good or bad and us businesslikely at
tentive as he could be, having due re-
gard to his work and his polo. Beyond
doubt both girls were fond of him.
As the hot weather drew nearer and
Saumarez made no sign women said
that you could see their trouble i'll the
eyes of the girls; that they were looking
strained, anxious and irritable. Men are
quite blind in these matters unless they
have more of the woman than the man
In their composition, in which case it
does not ixatter what they say or think.
maintain it was the hot April days
that took the color out Of the Copleigh
girls cheeks. They should have been
sent to tho hills early. No one, man or
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weather is approaching. The younger
sister grew more cynical-not to say
acid-in her ways, and the winningness
of tho elder wore thin. There was more
effort in it.
Now, the station wherein all these
things happened was, though not little
one, off the line of rail and suffered
through want of attention. There were
no gardens or bands or amusements
worth speaking of, and it was nearly a
days journey to como into Lahore for
dance. People were grateful for small
things to interest them.
About the beginning of May and just
before the final exodus Of hill goers,
when the weather was very hot and
there were not more than 30 people IN
the station, Saumarez gave moonlight
riding picnic at an old tomb six miles
away near the bed of the river. 1t was a
"Noah's ark" picnic, and there was to
be the usual arrangement of quarter
mile intervals between each couple on
account of the dust Six couples came
pltogether, including chaperons. Moon
light picnics are useful just at the very
end of the season before all the girls &C
away to the hills. They lead to under
standings and should be encouraged by
chaperons, especially those whose girls
look sweetest in riding habits. l knew
case once. But that is another story
That picnic was called the great pol