Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-11-12
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J BY GWENDOLEN OvERTON.

! by you IS not an unmlAeu pleasure
Miss Bradfords sister, Mrs. Gallatin
was doing her duty by Miss Bradford
The former was not at all pretty. The
latter was very, very pretty-which l.
so much more charming than being
very, very beautiful. But Mrs. Gallatin
was married and Miss Bradford was
not. This came of the fact that Mrs
Gallatin had visited at Fort Preble ana
had captured an unfedged Lieutenant
/ by maneuvring and "A miracle. and that
Miss Bradford had spent her p years
in small Maine town.
Boys in the village had been in love
with Bessie Bradford, but she had not
/ been in love with them, and she had.
moreover, decent appreciation OF her
/ own value and knew she was far too
! good for such as they. There had been
n college youth. also. once; but he and
| she had quarreled before the end of his
summer visit. And now Bessie was one
! and-twenty and the family worried. II
worried itself into state where even
! the raising of a mortgage on the home
! did not seem too great n thing, if il
would but insure her marriage. With
! the money thus obtained she was sent
across the continent. with instructions
TO get herself welded before she came
back. Those things are treated as
business in New England hamlets. She
was told 10 marry a general if she could.
If not-anything down TO n second lieu
tenant. But rank was TO he the primary
consideration. Miss Bradford agreed.
She picked ont a very nice general. men
tally. He would be about fve-and-
thirty, and handsome and daShing.
That years went with rank was one of
the things the civilian novels Of army
life she had read had not taught her
BESIDES, she was romantic-as a very
pretty girl should be. So she promised
that grade should govern her choice
Then she departed TO visit her sisters a
the Preside.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Gallatin lived in the
building known rs the Corral" II the
Corral were in the city. il would be
called tenement. But Uncle Sam
doesn't quarter his officers in tene-
meuts. The Gallatins were cramped
for room-vcry cramped. They had
three children and second lieutenant's
pay. So they were poor. Therefore.
taking Miss Bradford in was not a pleas
ure. II was a duty. And Mrs. Gala
tin would not have been n New Eng
lander if she had not done her duty.
But Bessie felt the npleasantness of
the situation the very day Of her ar
rival.
capt. Soutter is going 10 take YOU 10
the hop this evening, Ress." Mrs. Gala
TIN said; Bessie was cutting paper bird
cages for her niece. Mrs. Galhtin was
mending pinafore.
Eve promised TO go with Mr.. Nil
ford" answered Miss Bradford, stop
ping and looking up from the scissors.
"Nfr who?"
"Mr. Milford. Col MNiord's son. who
lives I'm st. Louis"
'Where have You met him. The
"him' warned Bessie that she was run
ming on rocks.
ION the train. We got acquainted.
Hes in business in st. Louis. and he's
coming to visit his people because he's
IN bad health. He is very nice man"
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