The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-13

elOr anu WnO WAS stlu 10 Uc loosecSeu
of the whole story, but there was no use
asking Malcolm Leale 10 tell anybody's
secrets, and when Fenton came to
Frayne, promoted to the command SO
recently held by a man they all loved
and honored, it was patent to everybody
that he felt sorely, as though he were
an usurper. Fenton was many long
the Twelfth the day of the tragic battle
OH the Mini Pusa, and it was long
months thereafter before he appeared ut
regimental headquarters, and then he
brought with him as his housekeeper his
maiden sister Lucretia, and in Lucre-
tia Fenton-the dreamiest, dowdiest,
kindliest, quaintest middle aged pratt
tier that ever lived, moved and had her
being in the army--the ladies OF the
Twelfth found so much to make merry
over that they well nigh forgot and for
gave the unhatterirg Indifference to
feminine destinations of her brother,
the colonel.
When Fenton came, the Farrars,
widowed mother and devoted daughter,
had been gone some weeks. The shock
of her husbands death had well nigh
shaken Mrs. Farrar's reason, and for
months her condition was indeed de-
pIorable. The next summer tho Farrars
spent at West Point. 1t was Wills first
class camp, and Will was cadet captain
of the color company, and capital
young officer despite boyish face and
manner, and then Jack Ormsby, who
never before had taken much stock in
West Point"-the battalion looked SO
small beside the Seventh, and the band
was such a miserable little affair after
Cappa and his superb array-Jack not
only concluded that he must go up there
every few days to pick up points on
guard and sentry duty and things of
that kind, but Jack decided that Kitty,
his precious sister, might as we'll go,
too, and spend fortnight, and she did,
under the wing of a matron from Goth
am with daughters of her own, and Kit
ty Ormsby, only 16 and as full of vivac-
ity, grace, sprightliness and winning
ways as girl could be, pretty as peach
and brimming over with fun, coquetry
and sweetness combined, played havoc
in the corps Of cadets, and-could any
thing have been more fortunate?-the
victim most helplessly, hopelessly, ut
terly gone was Cadet Captain Will Far
rar. To the CONSERVATION of the widow
I'd mother she saw her handsome soldier
boy led day after day more deeply into
the mcshes-led like slave or like the
piggy i'll the nursery rhyme, with the
ring i'll the end Of his nose-by this be-
witching, imperious, fascinating little
creature, and there was absolutely no
help for it. Anywhere else almost she
could have whisked her boy under her
wing and borne him away beyond
range, but not at West Point. She had
TO learn the lesson so many mothers
learn with such bewilderment, often
with such i'll grace, that the boy was no
longer hers to do with as she would,
but Uncle Sans, and Uncle Sam un-
fcelingly said, "Stick to your camp duty
with it's drills and parades, roll calls,
practical engineering. forthcoming and
spooning in stolen half hours, no matter
what the consequence.
Mrs Farrar couldn't carry Will away
md couldn't order Kitty. About all she
law Of her boy was drilling with the
battalion at distance or dancing with
Miss Ormsby close at hand. and, on the
principle that misery loves company,
she soon was comforted by fellow suf-
ferer. for just in proportion as the moth
er's heart was troubled by the sight of
her boys infatuation for this pretty
child, so was Jack Ormsby made miser-
able by seeing the attentions lavished
by officers and cadets alike on Ellis Far
rar.
And yet the little blind god was do
ing Jack far better work than he ever
dared to dream. The mother longed for
Will, and no one else could quite take
his place. The lover longed for Ellis.
and what earthly chance has 'cit"
lover at West Point, even though he be
a swell and sergeant in the Seventh?
1t resulted that in the hours when the
mother and Jack had to sit and look OH
they were brought constantly together,
and then in these hours of companion
ship Mrs. Farrar began to see more and
more how manful, honest, self reliant
was the gallant follow who had fought
by her husbands side. Little by little
she learned to lean upon him, appeal to
him, defer to him and to see in him,
after all, man in whom she could por-
haps confide even SO precious trust as
her daughters heart, and that summer
at West Point won the mother even if
it did not win the lady Of his love.
All that winter Ellis had continued
her course at school, but was to come
out in May, and during the long months
from September she was comforted in
the comfort her mother found in the
companion that had been chosen for her,
a gentle, refined and evidently we'll
bred woman, who came upon the rec
ommendation of their rector. and who
was introduced as Mrs. Daunton-Hel-
en- Daunton, a woman with sad his
tory, as the grave old pastor frankly
told them, but through no fault or fol-
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