Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-23
A DUEL OF SABRES.
my Frank Pratt)

my Frank PfatD
A. everybody 10 these days Knows
Two crossed sahrH form the nhdse OF
l The cavalry. They wear that badge on
The fronts W their cowboy hats. Mhch
they come nome from the war, they
take the crossed sabros from their mats
and give them to their best girls.
Now. In our villure-whlch is, rath-
cr. q suburb ~ large city-there was
but one soldier boy came home from
the war who wna caValryman. ana ~
was named Norclifc sutton. lie looked
both aunhurncd aud yellow the hrst Jay
ho made his appearance IN the corner
drug store. where most 81 the Ecntty
N our village buy cigars and toilet soap
and do their Informal loanng, hut after
that. he very soon lost the yellow and
kept only tho sunburn. The girls nd
mircd the sunhurn on Norciinc's face
at least, that IL what must be inferred.
Tor. before the war. they saw absolutely
nothing about his face Co admire, and
after the war thOy-foNeral of them
said he was handsome. and the runburn
was all tho difference between the be-
fore ana the after. Two girls admired
this Hunhurn effect most cOnapicuously,
but II must be- said that they had al.
ways been admirers ~ Sutton IN n gen.
ctni wny-not " his face. of course.
These two were Norah Castle and ~.
cannr Grnnnla They both admired
Norciffe sutton, nnd - must have ad.
mlred each others taste. but. nt that
point their mutual admiration stopped
dead short.
II was getting on into tho fall o.
the year when. at church festival pre-
liminnry meeting. Norah and Eleanor.
commonly called Neil. mot each other,
the former wearing n sailor hat with
the badge ~ the crossed Hnbrca decor.
atinF IT, band.
Neil went NJ 70 Norah NJ the door
of the sChoolruom. where the meeting
was Just going TO begin. and said.
why. Norah isn't II rather late In the
season to be coming out In a sailor
hatg'
"whatf This" said Norah. why.
/ i've had this hat since last spring. Nell.
Funny you never noticed II before"
Others noticed that a little ok
change Of cuurtcniea between the two
bcautisa was beginning and paused TO
watch.
"oh. I noticed Il long ago" said
/ Nell. Isn't IL the same hat you had
last Year, Only l thought IL was past
aailor.hat time. Pumpkin pies arr In
season, you knew"
Ana Nen laughed laugh which
was meant to show that all these thinri
were said Ia a spirit VI friendly badi'
mage.
YES. hut I've trimmed II over. dom
you rcc7''
That last shot Of Soraha was .
good one. and with one turn ~ hol
head. which made the crossed SABRE
fash IN tho afternoon sun. she tfippot
through the door 81 the rchooltoom
And the bys,andofs agreed that tina
round was Ia Norah'H favor.
Nell went wondering Tor the rest %
that afternoon whether Norcllnc Suttol
rally had taken the badge On his ha
and given II To Nornh. A. has alrcadl
! been said. Notcliffe was the only boy II
the place who had brought back auth I
badge from the war. the others hni
. guns ana oak wrcatha, but not Habrcr
A. 20 tho fact itself. she did not max
up her mind, ur she would not ALLOW
! herself Co believe that she had made nj
her mind, - 20 tho practical iuau,
( rho was quite determined that N
d would see nothing further 10 admire !
Norclinc Sutton. After all, Hunhurn
< only skin deep. kind hearts nrr NOR
than crossed rnhrcs. and simple fat
than wafllkc rcnown, This Sutton wa
she told herself. unkind ana Veriidloua,
q hardly expected 10 see 20
! again" she said 90 sutton that Yer
evening. when he called. u though
you would be- busy In another quarter.
= haven't quite settled down {
business In the daytime yet" said IN
young man. 'lrt alone working q
night"
u didn't mean at the onlcc. mean
at Nnrnh CuHtlu'n,'
"Nhyf"
"Oh. 1 UNDERWOOD you were 10 u
congratulated. les a good idea that
saves giving engagement rings"
"liut im not engaged o. Miss Cas-
tlc"
AREN'T you?" said Nell. with a yer