The Florence daily tribune., 1898-03-07


Tremaine says he was wild as loon
when the men brought him in. They
saw that he was burning with fever for
days, and begged him TO 80 to the can
tonment for medical attention, but he
bade them mind their own business
and o5stinately stuck to the work. The
gentlemen of the survey soon saw that
he was going tiighty and, later, dc.iri-
Gus, and they took the responsibility Of
telling the sergeant he must be sent
thither. They made fore-nnd-aft lit
ter by lashng saplings together. hitched
on couple of packmules, ropcd RAN
dy inside the thing. and made four
day march OF it. Luckily, Tremalnc
had capital medical officer and Randy
n big start. but DR.. Wells and Tre-
maine's people were utterly devoted
to him, and pulled him through, but
you never saw such living skeleton.
DR.. Wells says he will mend rapidly
now. as he cats about six square meals
n day and is hungry between times.
Mrs. Tremaine nursed him like n
mother. Heaven bless her! and now
Miss Florence reads to him by the
hour"
And at this point in Whittaker's IN
nocent missive. Mrs. Hnyne, who was
clinging to her husbands arm and
reading with him, suddenly looked up
in his face and said: "Oh, Lawrencc!
wouldn't that be-almost ideal?"
"Floy" Tremainc. as she was called
in the regiment, was an only child, born
of her life had been spent in the east at
schcel, bit with that exception it had
known no companiorship or association
9us@idc the garriscn that was the tenn
porary home OF her fathers company.
An open-air, joyous, healthful life it
was, admirable for nerves, arteries and
digestion, yet destructive to complex
ion, for at IL Floy Tremaine was as
brown as a Navajo. when they took
her TO St. Anne's TO school, where she
was promptly dubbed 1.-The Squaw."
The first six months there, despite the
fact that her mother was, near at
hnnd, took good deal of heart out of
Florence and some of the prairie tan
from her face. Her big, soft brown eyes
grew even more eloquent and pathetic,
aud her pretty mouth gained some wist-
full lines about its sensitive corners.
She did not take to city girls, nor did
they to her, until her father came in
on leave, and. noting the change in
his precious child, took counsel with
an old Manhattan friend, ordered a
~
bade her join The class at Dickel's acad-
emy-no, that she needed teaching to
ride, but the exercise and open air to
be had in the daily demure canter in
the park. One or two of the girls were
quite dnshing horsewomen. and excited
the envy and admiration CT their class
mates by the ease with which they took
the conventional leaps at the hurdles
and bars; and when one of them.
flushed with triumph, after receiving
the compliments of the master, reined
up beside our silent Florence, on
rainy afternoon when their ride had to
be had within doors. and rather patron
izingly queried: "Ah, don't you do
something of this sort out on he plains,
Miss Tremaine?" Florence reddened a
bit and said. "The children do some
times which led TO prompt inquiry as
to her meaning, and the explanation
that the cavalry~horses and even the
Indian ponies would take such obstacles
in their stride and hardly rise to the
leap at all. Asked to illustrate. she
put her bay at the hurdles. clearing
them like a bird; then, turning to Miss
De Ruyter. she said: "You noticed
even this horse hardly had to spring.
Now ii Mr.. Diclsel will let me have the
bar a foot higher can show you where
he has to exert himself bit;" and she
did. and no other one of the girls dared
attempt it. Then she asked TO have
her saddle removed and rode her horse
over the hurdles bareback and when
he was going at an easy canter about
the ring amazed the class by leaping
lightly off and on again, her slim,
strong young hands erasping the name,
yet never dragging upon the rein. This
made her envied. but hardly enviable,
for the erstwhile champions of the
school gave it out that she had been
"child wonder" in some far-western
circus. 1t wasn't until Flo's second
year at ST. Anne's that she began to
find either friends or appreciation there.
When she left at the close of that sec
oDd year. there was one set at least
among whose members she. was we'll