Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-05-20

SELF ana any GOOD woman ne mlgnS
really love a wall that in all his days
could never be razed. He decided final
ly that the only course that would be
fair to her and easiest for all would be
an open one.
They sat together on the shady side
of low hill, late one day. 80,
Constance he said, I'm going to
ask your father to let you marry me,
il you are willing to-"
The bright color faded from her
cheeks. :.
Don't say you aren't willing" he
cried.
She still said nothing whatever.
"Are you, Constance?"
eyes" -
"Then why did you get so pale?"
II don't know. Did I?'
She cried little and said she was
very happy and that she would marry
him, even if her father would not con-
sent. "But don't ask him till after
the races, will your"
1.-TWO weeks!-a whole fortnight
Why?"
Because"
Every WELL"
He didn't see her again before the
races. She sent him note saying that
she did not dare to meet him, that her
father had forbidden the long rides
alone. She would wear his colors at
the track. For Lovat was to ride. So
We're several of the officers. 1t was
gentleman's race. The cup was given
by the garrison women.
Lovat won it. He and the officers
went into Miles City to rejoice. Some
were in a blackboard, some, with their
wives, in the ambulances, most were
on horseback. He rode with these lat
ter and watched Miss Chamberlain, who
was ahead on the road, riding with Lieut.
Carrot. She had not worn his colors;
though, to be sure, she had worn mono
at all. Lovat had kept studiously away
from the post.women all day, but just
once he had passed close to Constance.
"Will you meet me tomorrow at the
old place, dear?" he said, quietly.
She did not raise her eyes or seem to
notice him; but she answered.: eyes,
Wilton, at four"
1t happened that Lovat was riding
beside Capt. Chamberlain.
capt. Chamberlain" he said, las
have won the ladies' cup, do you think
they would consent to baptize it for
me?"
"Why, yes. should think so.''
''Then will you have the ambulances
and Miss Chamberlain stop in front of
Stewards, and 1 will send it out to
them?"
So the ambulances stopped at Stew
arts and the officers got out, but the
women stayed in, and Miss Chamber
lain and Garrett waited, too. Garret was
IA temperance man and very good. Lovat
filled the cup with champagne and sent
it out with his compliments and thanks.
He felt just bit bitter as he did so. He
watched Constance from an open win
dow. She did not see him, and when the
cup came to her she rejected it with
disdain. She was playing to Carrot
now. Lovat heard her say: Il Cont
drink wine, Mr.. Carrot, more especially
when it comes from a man like Mr..
Lovat."
perhaps it's only bluff" the Eng
lishman tried to tell himself. He hoped
so until the next day at four, when
Constance and Carrot cantered by him
as he waited at the trysting place, and
Garrett raised his cap to him, but she
ignored him and laughed her low, pref
ty laugh, as she said to the lieutenant:
what serious British face he wears.
Before long even the men dropped
Lovat. Still, they were sorry when he
shot himself in the lonely ranch house
one night. But Miss Chamberlain was
secretly rather proud.-San Francisco
Argonaut.