Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-07-18
LIEUTENANT CLOVER.

The colonel seemed much disturbed.
He walked to the window and gazed
out at the empty parade. He walked to
his desk, and Adjutant Caldwell Glover,
who was signing 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
to address the officers by their names in
this way. He was supposed to address
Adjutant 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, it pleased
him to have the colonel speak to him
Familiarity, only it was SO unexpected.
81 am not busy, colonel said the
adjutant.
''How old do you think I am, Clio
ver?'' asked the colonel.
"Why, don't know, colonel" SIAM
mered the adjutant, mot any older than
than you ought to be- "
The colonel was slicing sheet of
paper with the paper knife. II want
you to do something for me, Glover. I
for everything that I am going to put
this personal matter in your hands. [
want you to write proposal of mar
riage to young lady for me-. -
The colonel was much embarrassed.
His face was red under the tan.
ga proposal of marriage!'' echoed the
adjutans.
eyes. If any one had told me was
afraid of a woman, would have laughed
at him. I tried to speak to her about it
last night at the hop, and when she
looked at me with those steady brown
eyes of hers L couldn't say word. -
''Then it's Miss Lacey?'' said the adj
jutant.
sit is Miss Lacey
every we'll, colonel Adjutant
Glover received the order just as he
would have received an order to ap-
point substitute captain for the re-
cruits or any trivial 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 81 bugle calls day and look his best
from reveille to taps. 1t is mistake
He has thousand and one things to do
He oversees guard mount. He selects
the colonel's orderly. He writes letters
and signs papers, and now Adjutant
Caldwell Glover of Troop K is asked to
write proposal for his colonel to Agnes
Lacey.
When Captain Lester went east and
returned with a golden haired young
wife, Lieutenant Glover danced with
the bride at the reception given them.
81 am sure l shall not be lonely
here she said to him ct find it all so
new and interesting, and then in the
summer my sister is coming to me"
They were promenading then, and she
looked up at the six feet of handsome
manhood beside her and said: ''You
will like my sister. She is not at all
like me. She is almost as tall as you are
and independents and brave" And from
that night Lieutenant Glover looked
forward to the coming of Captain Les
ter's fair siSter-in- law.
Alice Lacey reached the post in July
Mrs. Lester had been watching for the
coach, and when it appeared on the
brow of the hill Lieutenant Glover
handed her a pair of fieldglasses, and
| when at last the rumble of the wheels
was heard they walked together across
the parade, and it was Lieutenant
Clovers hand that opened the stage
door and then reached up to help the
girl alight.
When he took off his cap to her and
then escorted herself and sister to the
captains quarters, Agnes Lacey felt
that all her sister had written about the
courteous young officers of the post
must be true.
The summer was a quiet one at the
post There were a few dances, some
4 rides over the prairie, picnic or two
and long, quiet hours on the verandas,
and then one day there came news of
Captain Testers transfer to another
post. It was on the day before the
one set for his departure that the colo
mel gave his adjutant his peculiar order.
When the colonel had gone, Lieuten-
ant Glover leaned back in his chair and
. clasped his hands behind his head. He
was to propose to Agnes Lacey for the
.coIonel He thought over all the hours
he had spent with Agnes, and his face
grew tender and his lips quivered a lit
| fIe as he remembered that tomorrow she
was going away, then he said to him
Golf. ssWhat's the use Of my feeling like
q dog in the Manager? She wouldn't
,,a,rv me She'll never think of me
,o,:n after she leaves here. He took
m his Den. then hesitated as he dipped
i in fine ink. MY, but it will be lone