The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-30
HIS DREAMS

Ellis Moore was sitting in his room, blow
ing his clouds CT tobacco and dreaming the
dreams he had often dreamt, when there
came knock at his door. and there entered
young lady, whose veil scarcely concealed
the dancing light of the eyes beenath.
rs Nine. Rameau in?" she asked.
Nine. Rameau? She lives in the fiat
above this
20, thank you! Pardon me-" And she was
about to withdraw. Then she looked at him
again. And yet I'm not mistaken in one
thing. Aren't you Ellis Moore?'
= That is my name, madam
How funny that I should have met you
in this way! Don't you know me?' And she
face. ripping all over with smiles.
Kate Sabine!" he exclaimed.
Yes; but, do you know. you haven't i'm
proved. Have I?'' go ia
Il might return: the compliment and say
that you haven't, but that would be un-
true ." 10''
You were in search OF Nine Rameau? o"
queried Ellis
Yes; you're a queer substitute aren't
your" and her merry laugh again rang out.
dancing, you know. You say she lives over
head?
Yes, to my cost, 1 can hear the pupils
humping on the piano, and dancing round
at all hours and seasons. Are you to put the
last straw on the camers back?''
If you are the camel I'm afraid 1 must.
I cannot help it. 1t isn't really my fault
May l ask whose, then?''
I'm going to be married." she said
bluntly.
Married? The dickens you are.'
She nodded her pretty head.
Well I'm not interested in that On the
contrary"
1T gives me a little pain, you mean?" she
said filling up the sentence he had left IN
completed. WELL I'm glad that an old com
rade sympathize.''
who is the happy MANI he asked
There again, you'd never guess. A col
onel! Aren't you going to offer your congrat-
ulations?"
you asked for my sympathies Just now. -
THAT was only to soften the blow" she
said piquantly. You see the colonel wants
me to be lady. OF course, I was always
that; but I mean for style and department,
and putting the his in their right place. and
-and-ar that. But, dear me! 1 must be
before it's settled, if I may?"
In another minute Or two he could hear
her merry laugh upstairs. She was evidently
explaining to Nine. Rameau her mistake In
another five minutes he could hear the
drumming of the piano. with pauses be-
tween. Then he heard the pattering of feet
and in imagination followed one 1.-the, grace
full form as it skipped around the room
Then he fell to dreaming again. II
Kate Sabine was the niece of an old nurse
who had been connected with his family AS
children they had, indeed, been Comrades"
They fished together, played cricket together.
played marbles, SPUN tops and raced to-
gether When boy he thought her perfec-
ton.
Once he remembered giving her his own
favcrite penknife. 1t had only a. broken
blade, but gloried in piece of German sill
yer on the handle On this he had scratched
her name-"Kate"-in his best handwriting
Then he remembered long interview be-
tween his mother and the old nurse, and af-
ter that Kate had disappeared
He saw her again. after long interval
when he had finished his college course
Then he received a rude awakening. There
was the same bright, dimpled face-the same
pretty turn of the head but he noticed queer
vagares of speech-grammatca discrepan
cies which SHOCKED his sensitive ear
Now he had been again awakened Kate
was a diamond after ALL if rough one. A