The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1898-09-30
LIEUTENANT CLOVER.

turbed He walked to the win
- dow and gazed out at the empty
parade. He walked % his desk, and
Adjt Caldwell Clover, who was sign
Ing orders, glanced out of the corner of
his eye and saw that the colonel was
pulling his mustache.
Then the colonel sat down and said
rather sharply, Are you busy,
Clover?"
1t was not customary for the colonel
70 address the officers by their names In
this way. He was supposed to address
Adjt Clover as lieutenant, and to say
that the young man was surprised
would be placing It mildly. OF course
he didn't object. In fact, II pleased
him to have the colonel speak to him
Familiarity, only It was so unexpected.
IL am not busy. colonel" said the adj
Jutant
"IIow old do you think am,
Clover? asked the colonel.
why, | don't know. colonel" STAN
mercd the adjutant, mot any older
than-than you ought to be-"
Tho colonel was slicing n sheet Of
paper with the paper knife. II want
you to 40 something for me, Clover. I
have come to depend on you so entirely
for everything that | am going to put
this personal matter in your hands.
want you to write a proposal Of mar
rlage to q young lady for mo-"
The colonel was much embarrassed.
His face was red under the tan.
"a proposal of marriagew echoed the
adjutant
Eyes. II any one had told me was
afraid of woman, would have laugh
cd ut him. tried to speak to her about
II last night at the hop, and when she
looked ut me with those steady brown
eyes of hers couldn't say word"
Then It's Miss Laccy?" said the ad-
Jutant.
1T is Miss Lacey"
VERY well, colonel" Adjutant Glover
received the order just as he would
have rcceiveda order to appoint sub
stltute captain for the recruits or any
trivinl thing Of that sort, and he turned
to his desk as the colonel went out.
There are those who think an adju.
tant has nothing else to do save listen
to thirty seven bugle calls day and
look his best from revcille to taps. 1t is
mistake. lie has a thousand and one
things to do He oversees guard mount.
He selects the colonel's orderly. lie
writes letters and signs papers, and
now Adjutant Caldwell Glover OF
Troop y Is asked to write n proposal
for his colonel to Agnes Lacey.
When Captain Lester went east and
returned with golden-haired young
wife, Lieutenant Glover danced with
the bride at the reception given them.
Il am sure shall not be lonely here, "
she said to him. II find 1t all so new and
interesting and then In the summer my
sister is coming to me-" They were
promenading then, and she looked IN
at the six feet OF handsome manhood
beside her, and said: you win like my
sister. She is not at all like me. She
IL almost as tall as you are and indie
pendent and brave" And from that
night Lieutenant Glover looked for.
ward to the coming of Captain Testers
fair sister-in-law.
Alice Lacey reached the post in July
Mrs. Letser had been watching for the
coach, and when It appeared on the
brow of the hill Lieut.. Glover handed
her n pair of fieldglasses. ana when al
last the rumble of the wheels was
heard they walked across the parade
and II was Lieutenant Clover's hand
that opened the stage door and ther
reached up to help the girl alight.
When he took off his cap to her anC
then escorted herself and sister to tn,
captains quarters. Agnes Lacey fell
that all her sister had written abou
the courteous young officers of the pos
must be true
The summer was a quiet one at tn,
post There were q few dances; som,
rides over the prairie. q picnic or two
and long. quiet hours on the verandas
and then one day there came news o
Captain Testers transfer TO anothe
, post 1t was on the day before the on
J set for HIS departure that the colone
gave his adjutant his peculiar order.
: When the colonel had gone, Lienter