The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1898-01-25
An Army Sorry.

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rose ten years ago shone on gool
old day. There are railroads now. and
big garrlsons near towns, AID there are
no Indians Gas good old soldiers, I'M
derstood lndians), and gambling is in
discredi,, ard colopeis whose orders
are obscured by Liquor fumes have de-
creased 0S per cent, and there ar.
houses with every improvement la
stead of wall-tents and adobe huts,
and the mem have as many rights as
women in Wyoming, and the officers
have fresh oysters and don't pay dol
lar a bottle for beer, and their wives
have more interesting subjects to con-
slider than each others most sacredly
private Observation-Disclosures there is
no longer war in time Of peace. Never
theless. 10, IS, 20 years ago-when all
these things were not--was the good
old time before the service had begun
to go TO the particular bow-wows.
This that / ann going to tell happened
in the good old days. 1t could not very
well happen now, because, as i gay,
things have changed. At the time Bet
ty Mandeville's father was in command
at Apache and Betty was engaged to
he married TO an unusually fine fellow
whose name is not part of the story
He was second lieutenant and he was
in love, with all the beautiful disregard
of the facts of life that is characteristic
of the enamored state.
OF course the post knew of the en-
gagement before either of the two
most interested parties did. This was
because this happened in the good old
days. For the same reason-though IT
can occur sometimes even now-opin-
ions on the match flew thick and fast
and obscured the sky of charity. They
said that the second lieutenant was
making fool of himself, which was
the only unkind remark he fell heir to.
But Betty Jared worse. She came of
a bad strain. There were things in the
histories of both her parents that every
one knew and no one was supposed 70
know. Her father was English and had
been a jockey. He was the son of
concert-hail singer and a man whose
only nobility was his birth.
Miss Vaudeville, who was more
Mexican than. Spanish--bore a good
Castilian name which covered multi
tude of sins.
There were any number of Mande-
vile children younger than Betty, and
all unmistakably favoring their
swarthy mother. They were SO dirty
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But Betty was tidy-as TO dress-and
was blonde; fluffy, curlily blonde,
with fine skin and innocent blue eyes
and rosebud mouth. 1t was said she
looked like an English professional
beauty; but there was no one to recog-
nizc the startling likeness to the COR
cert-hall grandmother She had n taste
for laces, and hosiery. and l,igh-heeled
slippers, that may have been either IA.
Spanish or theatrical inheritance. And
she was beautiful beyond question.
with a beauty that was only skin
deep.
After she had promised to marry the
second lieutenant, Betty went down to
Lowell to visit her aunt, who was her
Capt. Locke. Betty knew that she
would enjoy herself more if the engage
ment were kept secret. She could
keep it quiet, because it was in the
good old days and news Travelled slowly
and distances were great.
On the second day of her stay her
aunt took her to stay over night with
Senior Franquelo in Tucson. Which
was the beginning.
The Franquelo family was large, and
most of it dwelt in the one house--an
adobe with the external whitewasll
broken off in oddly-shaped pieces, and
built as all adobes were built in the
good old days-one story around
There was nothing in the
courtyard but chickens and ollas-
broken and otherwise--for the soil of
Tucson is not fertile. Outside, where
the narrow doorway faced upon the
street, hardly less white under the
burning sun than the whitened walls
that lined it, a mocking-bid cage Of
willow hung against the house, with
red chile stuck between its bars. 1t
was the first time Betty had been under
the ancestral roof.
Besides her grandmother, who was
more unpleasant than the aunts, there
were many cousins, male and female.
of these, tvs second cousins--were in
love. They wer, Carlos and Ines. In
less than ten minutes Carlos had de-