Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-12-16

sunmixed pleasure & from the total, uhi.,
onditlonal, obvious surrender of Miss
Hampden. She was as open ID her In
5fatua ton az she had alway VI been il ev-
,erything else. And Ardsley was equal.
~ infatuated. He took back the class.
ring and gave her 4 diamond which
cost him three months pay. They were
altogether happy So. just q fortnight
before the day arranged for their swed-
ding. the gods demanded the first pay.
ment on their loa d.
Ardsley was ordered Of on q scout.
Miss Hampden was the sort Of girl
who might have been expected to take
this reasonably. But abe did not. She
chung to Ardsley and cried like any
little girl, and did not behave In the
least like q woman who had seen count
less scouts. And she let him 20 to the
wars. remembering her standing with
her arm against the wall and her head
upon her arm, sobbing as If her heart
were utterly broken. He himself was
moved and stern. Loring would have
liked to remind her that hearts which
.WSAO AS0AAJ WAuuss I'LL uOG ouOW l0elr
pain, He had not yet recovered.
Ardsley did not come back from tho
scout. He was in fight on what should
have been his wedding day. Others
were killed and their bodies were re.
covered and buried, but Ardsley's body
was never found. There was q tale that
fire had been seen on the battlefield
the night afterathe encounter, and in
the midst Of the fire tree with form
which might have been that Of man
against it. There.were Indians grouped
around it. Miss Hampden never heard
the story. She never even guessed at
what had happened until 20 years aft.
erward. iiSs5s a
She was the superb and spiritless wife
of mighty general, and she was ac-
companying herEhusband on tour Of
inspection in the west. They were at an
agency one day, and were visiting the
tepees. It was the agency Of the In.
dams that young Ardsley had fought
two decades before, and the generals
wife was nerving herself not to show
that she remembered this.
The general was examining the trim
kets that hung on a string around the
neck OF q half-blind squaw.
"Here is West Point class ring!" he
exclaimed. Il. 81 p !, 7t@
His wife repeated her words Of 20
years a-past. ss$z.3h tss.f
''May I see it?"' she asked, coolly.
She took It in her. hands and turned
it about. She could make out the de-
sign, though it seemed to have passed
through some heat that had melted It.
There was no doubt in her mind. New.
ertheless she looked inside. The heat
had not affected i there. and the in
itials were quite plain even yet.
I'd. A." she said; "it was David Ards.
ley's ring. The fire did not touch the
letters. understand now why they
never could ten me which was his
grave" ..5 ."
The general broke the string and
picked up the class ring from among the
scattered baubles:t The squaw waschat-
tering and whining and clawing around
on the earth. The general held the
ring out to his wife. She raised the
dark eyes that had been so bright and
happy the last time it had been held
out to her. ..z.5. s..:.s :. Az
"Can have it2''| she asked. ...s. 5..
The general put it in her hand, and
the hand closed over, it.
Thank you She said.--San Francis
co Argonaut. I. MIL .3,.