The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12

dodge and heightened color on the part
of the half-dazed recipient) And you
too, Miss Lawrence" (Both hands
but no kiss-one nand calmly accepted }
"Ah, then know how happy you are
Mr.. Willie Gray" (Beaming arch
smiles upon that flushed and flustered
young officer. Then. turning again TO
Irvine a jeweled arm about the slim
waist of their hostess, to whom she
chung as though defying any effort TO
dislodge, yet pleading for protection:)
Who on earth could have foretold
THAT we of all people should have met
out hereof all places? How long did
you say you had been here? A week -?
And of course, Mrs. Marsden has done
everything TO make il lovely for you. |
should have died without her" And 50
the swift play CT words went on. the
rapid fire of her fluent tongue cover
ing the movement of her allies and
drowning all possibility of reply. 1t
was an odd and trying moment. Mrs.
Marsden, well knowing. as who in Hon
olulu did not. of Mrs. Franks devotion
20 the young lieutenant, barely six
months agone, was striving to welcome
the shrinking little scare-faced thing
that blindly and helplessly had drifted
in in the elder sisters wake. The intro
auctions that followed, after the Amer
iCdii ldSilloI, were DIS pSIluAClOIy eto
well-bred women can permit. The
greetings were almost solemn, smile
less, and, on the part of Mia, fiutter-
ing to the verge CT faint: and moth
ing but Witches plucky and persistent
support, and the light flow of airy slat
and laughter. carried her through the
ordeal The two young soldiers stood
stiff1y back, red-faced and black-brow
ed; the father. p9llid and cold, could
n n
lips mumbled the name Mrs. Frost,
as ne bowed at presentation; Miss
Prime erect and trembling; Mss Law
renee, with brave eyes but heightened
color. To leave at once was impos-
sible; to remain was more than en-
barrassnent. Most CALAMITY did they
battle, Mrs. Marsden and Mrs. Frank,
to lift the. wet blanket from the group
and relieve the scrainH Reward came
to crown their efforts in strange, un-
-iookedfor fashion. Hoofs, wheels and
haGhing lights were again at the en-
trance gate, even as Mrs. Frank. spark
ling with animation, distributing her
gay good humor over the silent semi
circle. suddenly. exclaimed: ''Oh, if I'd
only known you were here, l could have
provided the one thing to make our
reunion complete, Ii we were not going
on at aybreak l should do 10 yet"
Then hoofs and wheels and lights had
come to stop at the front CT the house,
and in measured, martial tread a mans
footsteps were heard upon the lanai.
Then. all on a sudden with a cry of
joy, Witchie burst in again: Should do
it'll shsll do ii, Said / not / was the
fairy queen? Beheld me summon my
subjects from the ends of the obed-
lent earth," And. waving her parasol
as she would a wand, gayly pirouetting
as she had that night in the tent at old
Camp Merritt, she danced forward:
Sound We the trumpets, slaves. Hail to
the chief See the conquering hero
comes, Enter Brevet Brigadier General
Stanley Arms trongl-though his arm
is anything but strong"
Bowling gravely TO the sprite in front
of him. vaguely TO the group in TIE
shaded light at the edge of the lanai.
and joyousiy To the little hostess, as al
most Historically she sprang forward
and clasped his hands, the colonel Of
the Primeval Dudes stood revealed be-
fore them.
Colonel Armstrong, How-when did
you get here? What does this mean?
Is your arm quite we'll again? Why
didn't you let know you were COM
ing?' were the questions rained upon
him by Mrs. Marsden, Immediately fol-
lowed by the somewhat Illogical state
ment that she was actually GREATNESS
with surprise
Shall 1 answer in their order?" said
he. smiling down at her flushed and
joyous fare by the Sedgwick. This