Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-07-06

the back way and aren t half awake and
don't even have Il collar on. -
'Now, Miss May, how unkindI'
Isn't it true?"
81 always have my collar on" He told
future truth. After this he would wear
a collar.
81 hate lazy people.
ooh, Miss May, how unkind You don't
hate me, hope" His eyes were on the
pink ribbon that futtered from her belt
He took hold Of it and wound it around
his finger, getting gradually nearer to her.
81 do, if you are lazy"
How can prove to you that 1 am not?'
That's easy enough. F"
Do tell me how"
just prove it."
By rising early and letting you see
me?"
"Well-yes."
II shall do so tomorrow"
But always go for a ride before break
fast"
May not join youP'
If you like don't care" Which is
feminine for caring very much indeed.
So DIR. Randolph rode with Miss Spen-
at the Lorrilards and he sat on the Lor-
rilards' porch to watch guard mounting,
and then he played tennis with Miss Spen-
Ger, and when it was too hot to do that
any longer they sat together on the porch
again, shaded by the crowsfoot and morn
ing glory vines, and read aloud by turns.
They parted for luncheon, but Immediate
ly afterward they met again in the Lori
lnrd J, oil f.N1 fbn
lin and guitar Randolph dined with the
Lorrilards, and then he and Miss Spencer
walked up and down the line until taps,
and after taps they sat on the porch once
more and talked in undertones
Occasionally the Roche boy made third,
and though he was far from welcome he
never guessed it.
Now it may seem incredible, but it is
true, that though this went on without u
pause for ten solid months Randolph still
modestly doubted if he were loved and
dared not voice his passion. Mrs. Lori
lard began to think that she had done
quite all that the family could expect of
her, and she grew hopeless and weary,
moreover, Of boarding free two hungry
young people. She told Miss Spencer as
gently as possible that she might go the
next time the ambulance went over to
Carthage, which was the railroad station.
Miss Spencer told Randolph she was going
and wept. And Randolph consoled her
from afar and actually thought she was
weeping at leaving her little nephew and
niece and her sister. There are men like
that.
The ambulance went a week later to
carry Major Roche and Teddy Roche to the
railroad. Teddy was offered a position at
Tucson and was going to take it. The ma
jor had government business at Carthage.
The Carthage road is Il branch 1t joins
the main line Of the A, r. and S. f. at u
station called San Antonio The major
would chaperon the young woman to Car
thage; thence she would go to the main
line and east and Teddy to the main line
and west Only Teddy and May compro-
missed. They both went to Socorro, which
is on the main line, a very little northeast
of San Antonio.
The contract doctor and Miss Spencer
had narrowing parting. The latter lost
her temper over his procrastination and
burst into tears. 1t nearly broke his heart
and entirely silenced his tongue
After she was gone, hopelessly gone, he
by letter. But being named Custis Ran
dolph he put off doing it, Instead he
swung in his hammock all day and thought
of her blue eyes and pretty face and guile
less smile and regretted his erstwhile con-
slant companion. The ambulance would
return, empty of it's lovely load, in five
days He knew that. He would write
when it returned.
So on the afternoon of the fifth day he
sat, still swinging in the hammock and
smoking pipe, the ashes whereof bo-
sprinkled his coat, when the four mules
and the ambulance ratified into the post.
They stopped at the majors quarters in %
cloud of dust, and two men and q woman
alighted. There was no doubt about who
the woman was. In his delight Randolph
lost his head. He strobe down the broad
walk to the Roches'.
Miss Spencer was still standing by the
ambulance, hunting-with the drivers
help-for something under one Of the seats.
The major and Teddy had gone indoors.
''Why, Miss May" said Randolph, and
this time there was no drawl, chow de-
lightful! What brings you back9"
ooh, my husband. Teddy and got
married in Socorro and Joined the dear old
major again in Carthage the same day"
GLOW delightful Randolph repeated
weakly.
"Well, Teddy seemed to think So but
the dear, sweet old major didn't. Any
way you know, he was SO horrid about
my shoes on the Bad Lands that day" She
smiled demurely.
And that was all any one ever knew
about it.-GWendolen Overton in Argo-
naut.