The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-18


dress and equipments, and his regiment
called him Buffstick and grew to love
him all the same. He commanded a
brigade after Cedar Creek, and now
just think of it!-hes capitalist.
'Does he know Captain Barclay, do
you think?' she asked after a reflective
pause.
"I'm sure don't know. Probably
not, :" was the answer "They never
served in the same part Of the army
Why do you ask?"
ooh, was wishing-I couldn It help
thinlsing-how much Mr.. Winn needed
some good friend too'
"Winn and Lawrence are very differ
ent men, - said Blythe gravely. Claw
renee has made friends, while poor
Winn has only enemies, fear, and
really mono worse than himself.
! Mrs. Blythe sighed as she turned
away. It was much as her husband
said. The Wins had come to the reai.
ment after round of receptions, dir
ners and dances III their honor all the
way from Washington to Worth AID
had "started with splurge," as the
4 chroniclers declared. Laura's Cow
and airs and graces won her no esd 6
prominence, but very few Fl $.
Winn's "high and mighty" -. -
they were termed by all the ga.- =
in which at that time only two Or
West Pointers could be found,
alienated all the subA most Of the $
Tors and many of the women. Their
travagance during the first year OF
ice, the explanations and excust, i.
dered by Laura in the next and liar
rvs increasing moodiness and dist,
ton served only to widen the brlae j,
Men and women both, who began | ;
envying, turned to openly decryllg
Cutting things were said to Lau-...
whose mendacities provoked them
Suecring or at least suggestive thin g.
were often s,,id in presence of Winn, i
not exactly to Linn, for there was one
quality about the swell the garrisns
had to respect-his cheerful and CT iri
readiness to fight on very small provo
cation-and those were the days whei
the tenets of the "code" were not total
ly forgotten, and there still remained
in the army sentiment i'll favor of tn,
doctrine of personal responsibility fol
disparaging words. There would b.
fewer courts martial today were ther,
more of it left.
But when women heard the storie
about the big bill at the suffers ant
others that came by mail, and made
little icy comments about some peopl
being able to afford much more thai
they could, Laura laughed off the allr
sions to their superior style of Twin:
by stories Of an indulgent papa, unit.
papa's death left her without furthe
resource from that quarter. Then sh
set af1oat a fabrication about q dotip.
aunt of Harry's who had no childre,
of her own-an amiable old widow VIII,
was to leave him all her money. Fl
did have an aunt of that description
but she didn't have the money, ant
there were men who were maliciou
enough to refer in Winn's presence t.
their wish that they had wealthy ia
thers-in-law or doting dowager aunts
THEREBY giving some other fellow
chance to say. "And so Goes Fuller, N
doubt"
Indeed SO practically friendless wer
the Wins that among nine out Of tel
families along officers row there was
, feeling Of lively curiosity to note tn
|. effect Of this supposedly crushing bio,
on the unhappy pair and consequen
!, sentiment, only partially yelled in man
cases. of keen disappointment when tn
news flew around the garrison that MI
, Winn had announced his readiness t
meet the demand in full
"Why, it can't be true" said man
/, woman. I'm believe it whom Sc
the money, . said many man. sd
| you suppose--Ee could have accepted
/ from-Captain Barclay" asked, i
strictest confidence, Mrs. De Lancy {
Laura's erstwhile intimate, Mrs. Fault
ner.
"Not Harry Winn. probably" III
swered Mrs Faulkner, III confasne
, enHaIs iEy-..1,s. III AL Il