The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-01-26

Aghast they looked at one another.
Was not all this to have been explained
by Wayne? Hadn't Wayne told her?
Told her? Told her what2 All Major
Wayne said to her about Willy was that
he was almost frantic with impatience
to meet her, but he'd-he'd have to take
his bath first. What did he mean by
sending such ridiculous stuff? What
were they all laughing-crying at2
Isn't here? Couldn't cross2 Can't he
swim? Why, the man she thought he
was would swim Niagara rather than
miss his wedding day! And then-oh,
day of days-perhaps her words an
INITIATED space and reached the ears Of
the maddened lover, for at the very mo-
ment came an Irish howl from the porch
without. "Oh, fur the luv of God, shtop
himl Don't let himl Oh, mother of
Moses, it's drownin he isI' And then,
all shrieks and terror, did most of the
party scatter for the balconies, while,
all shrieks and terror and protestations
that she'd never speak to him again il
he dared to, Kitty collapsed upon sofa.
Was over there q wedding day to
match itP Soaked to the skin, dripping,
but triumphant, Will Farrar rode out
of the floods and up the heights amid the
frenzied acclamations of the garrison,
and throwing himself from tho saddle
at the colonel's gate demanded to see,
il not t. squeeze, his bride. There were
they gathered, the elite of Fort Frayne,
some in wedding garb, some in travel
ing dress, and what q cheer went up as
he sprang to tho porch and his mother
wanted to clasp him, dripping though
he W ..s, to her heart Of hearts. Mo- SO
Kitty. "Don't you ONE lear me, you
dreadful thing!" she cried, and, laugh
ing and protesting, he was led away to
be caparisoned for the ceremony. Lu-
c~retia's spirits were once moro in
ebullition. Wayne was back, the re-
mains had come; so why longer delay
proceedings2
They were not. There was as blithe
and bright and joyous n soldier wedding
that perfect monday az ever was seen
within the walls of old Fort Frayne, and
Kitty made a bewitching bride, and
there was Il wonderful unloading Of
sorrow from heart after heart on to the
shoulders of ono luckless, soroly tried
man, Major Percival WayXe. Oh, Mad
Anthony! But here was one of thy de-
sccndants ten times worthy thy namel
In that one day there came crushing in
upon him the consequences of u genera
ton of misdoing.
1t was enough that he should have
failed to explain matters to Kitty. 1t
was worse when he took the first oppor-
tunity to explain matters to Jack. His
way of doing it was somewhat as fol-
lows, and they were dressing for the
ceremony, and Jack, gorgeous III his
full dress uniform as n lieutenant of tho
Seventh, was sick at heart over the cold,
constrained greeting accorded him by
Ellis.
"NNhy, Of course. old follow, you
n year before and that low fitted him
like the skin of n sausage. A sudden
o of II arm carried away the
breast button.
cts no use," he cried. "I'm worse
off than Peggotty. Every jumps a but.
on" And then Kitty caught sight of
him, aud then there came % scene.
"What's that?" she exclaimed. "That
isn't the man I married. l won't stir q
step with him in those things"
"But 1 haven't any other" pleaded
Will in despair.
WHO wants you to wear such
thinGS:' she fairly screamed in almost
historical laughter. 81 married q SOL
dler. Your uniform, sir, your best
blouse and trousers and forage cap, and
don t you dare wear cts till 1 tell you"
And, ms it was manifest that he
couldn't wear these now incasing him,
the groom II third time FASTENED away
RI thn ,1n,on, rapin,,o o,,l ,yliln lD,,,,,
clustered as before about Kitty, an ab-
sorbed group still hung upon the move
monts of the major. The light as Of
other days was dawning on his face.
He was searching still, and at last no
found and drew forth atiny box, at sight
OF which Lucrctia's maiden heart f1ut-
tered almost out of her throat.
And now what havo you u%noarthed,
old Rip Van Winkle!" doomed Fonton.
"A ring, by all that's gorgoous-a ring,
and n beauty, II an inscription on it.
r. w. to l.. T., 1874 Who's p. w. ?
Who's-but q glance 1T his sisters trans
figured face as she tottcrcd there at his
side warned the old warrior to dcsist.
Wayne was painting with excitement.
81 KNOW he cried. "Of course it
wasn't my class ring. 1t was this. 1
got 1t for And here he turned and
drew her to his arm, and the others
considerably moved away as at last
that ring was fitted to the finger that
had boon waiting for it 20 long years.
Five minutes more, and with Rorko
leading off in the cheers, with music
and sunshine, mirth ard gladncss, smiles
and tears and prayers and blessings, the
young couple were whirlod away to the
station, bound for tho bliss of the honey
But what made that wedding day SO
remarkable was that it seemed to lead
TO so many moro. There came n letter
from Martin to Jack Ormsby only tho
other day. The latter, being a New
York guardsman, was swcltering in his
tent at Peekskill, while Mrs. Jack con-
soled herself by % brief visit to tho
Leales at West Point. Tho former, be-
ing a West Pointer, fell back naturally
into tho V%ernacular Of his cadet days,
and this was somewhat as he wrote:
Your blessed brother-in-law continues
to BIO the joy Of the Twelfth, and tho
dovecot Is evory whit as lloSpitablc as
Amory's. But Of course Will and Mrs.
Will haven't outlivcd their salad days,
and their tiffs and mako ups arc too
funny for anything. Will is just as true
a soldier as ever, but wc always know
when the winds in tho east at tho