The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-09-25

lSRt I'LL VI eLc ot1H- 4uo women Wnrm
all with him and that meant far mors
than may seem possible outside the
army. There was many q gentle dana
IL the old days OF adobe barracks who
could be an Artemisia In the cause Of a
friend
No one knew Just what object Ned
Lawrence had in coming back to Dixie
Every one knew he had Indignantly IA.
fused the second .lieutenancy, despita
the fact that one or two men with war
service and rank almost equal tn his
own had meekly accepted the erudrino.
ly rendered commission and others vera
said to be about to follow suit-all, pre-
s1mably. with the hope that their
friends and representatives in congress
assembled would speedily leRislata
them back where they thought they b.
longed. No one knew where Ned Law.
renee had made q raise Of money. bpt
raise he certainly had made, for. N
Blythe's indignation, there came a draft
Of 800 20 cover the expenses, he said
Of his children and Old Nanny and n
pay the latter some Of her wages. Tha
balance he would settle, he wrote. when
he arrived Blythe would far rather he
had waited until his accounts were ad.
tusted; then, If Lawrence were in
funds, Blythe could have found no fauIt
with this insistence on at least partially
defraying the expenses incurred in mo-
Viding for the little household. Law
renee hoped to have his accounts adjust.
ed. his letter said, and he had reason 10
believe, from what friends in Washine.
ton told him, that he would find his
successor willing to receipt to him for
missing items, trusting to luck and the
hotsam and jetsam of the frontier to re.
place them in course of time. Lawrence
indeed was curious now to meet and
know Captain Barclay, for he had been
told many things that had gone far to
remove the feeling Of unreasoning an
tagonism he had felt at first.
Only one thing did he say to Blythe
that threw light on his future plans
81 am dreadfully sorry." he wrote, ito
hear such i'll tidings about Harry winn.
1 was always fearful there was some-
thing wrong about that fellow Mars
den, and, sometimes stroye to caution
him-I, who could not see the beam in
my own eye-I, with two scoundrels in
my orderly room, trying to warn him
against the one in his. Winn is a
proud, sensitive, self centered sort OF
fellow, whom wealth perhaps might
have made popular. He is no better
manager than /. He has n wife who
could never help him to live within his
means, as poor Kitty certainly tried to
do with me-" ooh, the blessed touch Of
time Oh, tie sweet absolution of deathl
Kitty was an angel now, and her ways
and means were barred with all that
was mortal Of herr And. worse than
all. poor Hal has no one. fear, 10 help
him now, as-I write it with blinded
eyes, dear Blythe-it has pleased. God
should find il many friends in the days
of my sore a3ye-sity-you and your
blessed wife, and the colonel. ard
BroOEs-even rough old Follansbee and
our dilettante De Lancy, and that in
imitabls ColIabone. NY heart overflOws.
and my eyes. too, at thought Of all you
and they havo done ana said and writ
ten for me and mine. And here. too.
where in nv bitterness / thought | was
deserted of all, here is gallant oil Front
de Bpuf (you remember how we swore
by him in the valley after Davy Russell
was lilledj. He has housed and fed and
nurSed and cared for me like brother,
and Senator Howe aud even old Catnip
God bless him-have worked hard
for me. aud tha1gh NJ soldier days
seem over for the. time at least my stub
born spirit has had TO surrender 10 such
counselors and friends as they have been
to me. They all say congress will
+ surely put rio back next winter. and
meantime Buffstick says I'm to have
salaried position in big company with
which he is associated and TO begin
I work as soon Is my health is re-estab-
/ lished and KY accounts Strengthened
! out. F"
"Who is Buffstick?'' queried Mrs.
! Blythe at this juncture.
"Buffstick2 Oh, that was our pet
name for Colonel Dalton of the -th Mas
sachusetts, Lawrence's friend and host
in Washington; a magnificent fellow,
dear, with head and chest that made
some lover OF Scott liken him to- Front
de Beuf.. ont Of 'Ivanhoe, you know
But he Was q seickler for neatness IN
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