Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-07-01


Sabiuo's lashing tail and precipitated
row. Sabiua clawed and struggled:
the outraged caudal bristled like bot
tile washer; Katesie sought 10 soothe
with more hugs and kisses and those
emotional and passionate mouthings
which women lavish on their feiino
fayoritcs. "Oh, am Cattums. -um
Kittums!-um Possums.-um Twee-
tums," rapturously exclaimed Miss
Walton through her close pressed lips,
ms she buried her nose in the fluffy fur:
and this was more than Lambert could
stand. With sudden quick decision he
| lifted the astUnishsd Sabina from the
| damseus arms and dropped her on all
fours on the grass plot below. Then, as
( quickly, he seized her mistress by her
/ empty hands.
"Eatesie, do you suppose I've waited
/ all these weary months 10 see you
/ squandering kisses on cat? Have YOU
/ no answer now, after all I've told you,
after my coming so many hundred
/ milcs?"
Her hands were writhing about in
| his grasp, making every pretense, and
! no real effort, at getting away. "Ah
didn't tell you to come she finally
! pouted.
It's no time for trihing, Katesie.
I've loved you dearly-ever so long
ever since the time you leaned this bon
ny head upon my shoulder"
"Ah didn't! All nevuh didl"
You did; and I've got five glossy
threads of your beautiful hair to prove
| it"
"It was all the fault of that hold
shoulder-strap. Ah hate it, and youth
hateful TO- reminding me OF it," And
still her hands kept writhing in vain
impotent pretense at struggling. He
held them with scarce an effort.
Well" snid he, solemnly, "they win
never vex your soft cheek again,
Katesie. l have worn them for the
last time"
"Yo' have?" and now the struggles
seemed gradually to cease, or their con-
tinuanoe became purely mechanical,
and the big, deep gray eyes looked wist-
fully up through their long, curying
lashes. "Whut-whut fob, Ah'd like 10
know" She didn't quite say ''!ahlle."
well, several reasons have been set
before me Mother is getting on in
years, and wishes l could be near her,
instead Of half across the continent
away"
She was looking up at him very SOL
ernnly now.
"Ah nevuh could beah you in those
things-cits," she said at last.
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vernacular already, Katesie,' he an
swcred, his eyes twinkling. And do
YOU think YOU could bear me if / con-
tinued to wear the old shoulder-straPs?
All. Katesie, it's too late. Here they
are And, transferring unresisted one
snowy wrist to contact with its fellow
in the grasp OF his left hand, he drew
forth from an inner pocket an oblong
parcel in which lay the light-blue vel
vet straps, wound round and round
with sill1en threads Of hair. 81 couldn't
bear TO turn them over to anyone but
YOU" he solemnly said. "They ore
mine no longer"
she was silent a moment. Then the
deep gray eyes were again uplifted,
studying with troubled gaze the sol
dierly, sun-tanned young face.
"Ah'd much rather you were going
to keep on weahing them" she said.
But 1 thought you hated the very
sight of them-aud the uniform?'
THAT was befo' Brothuh Floyd woh
It,"
He had repossessed himself of the
little hands by this time. Then you
do like the army blue a little? How
wish I'd known this sooneri"
"The army isn't 50 bad, now that
some southern gentlemen are going
lack into It," she answered airily.
at would be still more attractive
with a certain southern girl I know in
it"
"Ah don't see how that would do you
any good, f you're going to leave it."
"Ah. 1t was the army was thinking
Of Just then-not myself. Thank you
for thinking of me, Katesie." And now
his eyes were brimming over with
mingled tenderness and merriment. He
had raised her hands, and, placing them
palm to palm, stood clasping them,
their rosy finger-tips close to his lips.
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hands. Mist Lambuht." And once
again she began 10 writhe, simply to
feel his resisting power. "Ah wouldn't
live like some of those women do at the
foht-just like gypsies.'
''No," responded Lambert, demure-
lv. That's what lady friend ofyours
told me; she said you were spoiled
little southern girl, brought up without
any idea of housekeeping or care and
responsibility"
'Who dayuhd TO say such spiteful
things?" demanded Miss Walton, all
ablaze in an instant.
"She said" calmly resumed Lambert,
chat the main reason you didn't care
to be soldiers wife, probably, was
that you'd always been made a pet "f
| and wouldn't know how to look after n
brute of n husband and one room and a
! ldtchcn-all a lieutenant's allowed, you
! know"
"Who dayuhd to say such things? II
wasn't Genevieve!-Ah'd never speak"
wait till tell you the rest pursued
Lambert, calmly. "She said she really
couldn't see why I wanted to marry
YOU: YOU were not at all the sort Of girl
she'd expect a-porthcrner TO marry"
"Ah never huhd such outrageous Inn
pudence in all ma bawn days. Who was
it? Ahu never speak I you again +
YOU don't tell me this instant. AhU
never let you leave this spot till you do
tell me"
/ I'm only too glad to stay. l was
afraid you might send me away any
how, even after you found / had given
up the shoulder-straps-fo your sake,
since Esther told me I'd find il hard
work to make You soldiers wife"
"Esthuhl She said such mean things
bout me? Oh, Ah'I pay huh Off 70 that!
All could manage just as well as she
could, and keep house ey'y bit as well!
| Alive been out theyh often with Jenny
Sweet, and seen just how they man
aged Ah'd been wutchiug-and study
! ing" (sobl "and w-now"-with sud-
den iuspirution-"A b'Iievc you're just
laughing at me! An hate you moh than
evuh, and Ah'll neyuh mah'y you
! ncyuh-us' TO lcaEiu' the ahmy and
! not hayiu' sufficient confidence in me to
! think | could be a soldiers wife. Al
might have doucit-Ah would, perhaps,
If you had stayed, but-but-'
! But now she was seized and strained
! TO his heart, and the furiouslv biushiug
! face was kissed again and again,
! though indignant tears were starting
from her eyes. 1t was useless 20 strug-