The National tribune., 1898-11-17
INCoNSISTENCY-A LONELY PICKET
POST-SAXING A WAGON-TRAIN.

"A DISAPPOINTED RESCUER-FEMININE
INCoNSISTENCY-A LONELY PICKET
PoST-sAyING A wAGON-TRAIN.
Gratitude, someone says, is the poetry
iof the heart.
Someone else ought TO say-if he has
not already done so-that poetry cOnsid
cred as an emotion is the poorest and
most unsatisfactory element in human
action.
In her first overwhelming 10Y at being
rescued both from the too-familiar jew
and the brutal detective, Miss Artenlsia
Simpkins hung flushed and palpitating
about the happy Karl's neck, and If that
young gentleman'S evidence is at all re
iiable-which his state Of mind at the
time makes exceedingly doubtfuI-she ac-
1ually embraced him in her transports.
a few steps farther her exubeTaDce mod
Grated 10 that extent that she was con
tent with leaning heavily on his arm.
She walked on thus, and thought on the
absurd position she had allowed herself To
be placed in, and by certain curious
1ransmutation, peculiar TO the feminine
intellect, began 10 transfer the indigna-
ton she had felt against the jew and the
detective To those who had Witnessed her
umiliation-eSpecialIy as they wore the
uniform Of the enemy.
81 wish i hat protted dot rascal nit my
bayonet." said Kari as he remembered
the fellows infinite sacrilege in laying
hands on his darling.
Indeed I'm glad you did no such cruel
thing" she said with very perceptible
iciness at the same time removing her
hand from Karl's arm.
why for why?' said Karl in amaze
ment.
because the more think of the matter,
the more am certain that the gentleman
acted under a misrepresentation, which
could have explained away in a minute,
If ! had been given an opportunity. This
last with evident Indignation.
Ivy, de ruflian! / meier saw a man
dreat lady sol"
You're unable TO understand the i'm
petuosity Of our earnest, warm -blooded
men."
81 raider tinIk we understood it very cor
rectly and dreated IL as it deserved
only not severe enough"
sit is simply horrid OF you to talk in that
%ay-it'S brutal-tTying 10 excuse yourself
sor the injury you have done poor gen
1leman."
Poor man-gentleman~
Eyes poor man, and gentlemani / am
sure he did not intend 10 do wrong. You
linteriered as he was on the point of see
ling his mistake and ! am sure he would
have made apologies
But you were screaming for help
why, how dare you say such a thingl'
IF we had not knocked him down there
is no telling what he might not have
done"
That is not true. You attacked the
man without sufficient reason in "A way
that was positively savage. Indians
would not have been more so. ] fear you
have killed him. ! ought 10 go right
back, and see II ! can't do something for
him"
Nonsense" said Bronson, speaking for
the first time; you will do nothing of the
kind. il is our duty 10 see you safely
home, and we intend 10 do il. Memphis
would be much better OF If about COG
such as he were killed of. Come along
please"
When Miss Artemisia reached home the
only persons in the world whom she could
remember as having injured her were she
said 10 her aunt in a deiuge Of tears,
two horrid, nasty Yankee soldiers, +" who
overlook her on the street and insisted on
walking home with her.
And poor, puzzled Kari, 10 whom the
Nagaries Of womankind were as confusing
as the eccentEcitieS Of the Summer mists
or the soft June rains, went back 10 his
barracks feeling that his love was farther
away from him than she had been when
rebel armies interposed between them.
That he should ever see her again
seemed very doubtful, and still more that
he could break through the barriers Of
hatred with which she surrounded herself
as cities are surrounded by cheveaux de
fIise.