The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1897-01-30

again and again II I thought mign'
win Rose In the end. Speak up Tor me
won't you, ColonelT
III a favorable moment comes Du'
7 don't see what my recommendation
can do for you"
..Hasn't she known you all her hie'
and doesn't she think you worth any
number of young fellows put togeth'
erY, said Rawdon. THE chief suDJect
of conversation when we dance OF
when we sit out together seems TO be
the PROJECTIONS Of Colonel Clitheroe,
and I've had to tell her all coniu
think Of about you when the regiment
was out in India. After exhaustine
facts | try fiction, seeing that II Is the
only way TO win a SMILE and the
young fellow laughed.
The gray-haired man Of six-and-iorty
was thinking over this conversation as
the train carried him down to Sussex
but he thought Of It even more as soon
as Rose, In her bright young beauty,
stood before him.
Harry Rawdon was a good fellow
enough. but not good enough for the
pysarts daughterl Who. indeed,
would be worthy Of such a wifef
Nevertheless, reflected the Colonel,
81 knew his father when we were Dotn
boys at school / must do my best for
Harry. and one Of these days | will
sound Rose on the subject and get an
idea of the state of her heart"
Opportunities of private chat were
not difficult to find.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dysart regarded Colonel
Clitheroe as a sort of venerable friend
with whom Rose might be sent TO walk,
talk or ride without outraging even the
narrowest notions of propriety.
Yet the Colonel felt a shrinking from
mentioning the subject of young Raw
don's desires, and from speaking up for
his many excellent qualities. He liked
much better to talk over dear old
times" as Rose called her golden days
OF childhood.
81 must have been positive nuisance
to you. wasn't l, ColonelT she said one
day as they paced side by side the ter
raced walk while waiting the summons
to breakfast. Il know l was always
running after you, yet you never SEEM
ed cross and bored"
Il should think not, indeed" and the
Colonel laughed. "Your advances were
so nattering. l could not reckon up
the times you assured me your inten-
ton to marry me when you grew big
enough. All, child" and now a cloud
followed the smile, Il suppose one OF
these days l shall stand among your
wedding guests-and | don't think |
shall enjoy the ceremony a bit"
you will never be a guest" and now
Rose colored, yet held out her hand as
bravely as when she was child Col
onel, am going to do something dread
full, l suppose. Please never tell any
one; and please say no if you would
rather give that answer But | am
big enough now, and l tell you exact
ly what | did when / was years old:
III marry you'-or l shall certainly
never marry anyone"
And in that moment Colonel Clitheroe
knew that though his hair was plenti-
fully streaked with gray and though
his face had lines on it which nothing
hut the passage of years can trace, he
loved Rose Dysart as a man loves only
once in a lifetime
1t was only when he told Mr.. and
Mrs. Dysart of his good fortune that
he remembered Harry Rawdon's COM
mission.
"Never mindr' said Rose. "Your rec
ommedation of him as a husband would
not have been of the slightest use. l
have loved you first and last and al
ways-ever since l was two
That is how there came to be
young bright girl, VINO, bearing the
title of Mrs. Colonel Clithroe. walked
by the side of her elderly husband one
sunny Sunday to the accompaniment
of the church bells. Snow in his hair
summer in her face. yet they were
happy, with a happiness which is the
portion of very few of the men and wo.
men whom the world considers well
matched.-Household Words.