Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-11-16

had given ne did not recall, and
though he went forth from her pres
ence with an air of injured dignity
which was calculated to cut her to the
heart, his relief was SO great that it
was not to be mistaken. BY way Of
Furnishing himself for it, he attended
strictly to official duties, and did not
pass out of the post, even once, for an
entire week. At the end of the week
he went in to see Miss Tyndall.
Shewas curled up in a heap of cush-
ions, reading a love-story in picture
magazine, and she was gotten up very
effectively in tea-gown Of pale sky
blue. Miss Tyndall always wore sky
blue. The weekly society sheets,
which said things about her in every
other issue, called her the "Blue
Belle" Sometimes the things they
said were not altogether kind, but she
was very nice girl, for all that; and
it was nobody's business, except his
and hers, if it took most of her ia
theirs moderate salary to keep her in
fine linen and pale-blue. For his
part, Patmore, as he sat and watched
her while she made the tea, thought
that the greatest happiness life could
hold for any man would be to have the
right to do just that very thing. She
was all but an angel descended
straight from the heavenly vault and
clothed in its own hue.
That, at least, was his idea of her;
but she was an entirely human young
woman, quite human enough to put a
spoke in Miss BarretPs wheel if she
were to get the chance.
"Who was that sweet little girl you
were with on the Tiburon ferry, the
other day." she wanted to know.
She cuddled down among the cush-
ions again and raised a daintier hand
than Miss Barrett's TO smooth her
soft brown hair.
You can call another girl sweet and
little in a way that makes the praise
very faint and damning.
Patmore looked uncomfortable as
he told her.
But Miss Tyndall was all interest.
"Miss Barrett" she exclaimed" was
it really? And you are engaged to
her, are you not?"
81 was" said Patmore, "but I am
not-unfortunately." The "unfor-
tunately" was nothing short Of heroic
under the circumstances. He felt
that himself, and also that it wiped
out several little conscience debts.
Miss Tyndall said: "Ohl indeed"
and asked if his tea were all right.
Patmore thought she had a great deal
Of tact. She supposed that he did,
and she supposed, moreover, that she
had scored a triumph. But she was
not content with that-not until all
his world and hers should know that
it was so.
Patmore was not student Of the
sex. So he thought it was all his own
doing and idea when he asked her to
60 with him to the post the next aft
ernoon and listen to the band play
For the same reason he did not think
how trying it naturally must be fol
Miss Barrett, who was wheeling the
youngest brother in his perambula.
tor, to meet them face to face, and to
have to smile when he presented Miss
Tyndall. Miss Tyndall was wearing
a bunch of forget-me-nots at her bell
-Patmore had sent them to her
and she gave spray to the baby
brother. Presently the baby-broth.
er, to whom beautiful girl in pale
blue shirt-waist did not matter nearly
so much as his own sister in any sort
Of clothes, threw it int the road. Mis-
Barrett glanced at it and let it lie
though there must have been a temp
tation to step on it. But Patmore
coming that way again several hours
later, saw it upon the gravel, and tool
it up.
1t was just month after this tina
somebody in power, who did not know
what to be at, saw fit to send him away
somewhere into the wilderness around
Shasta, to do sketches and make plan
that nobody had any special use for
anyway. He was gone for the entir
summer, and he only managed to liv
through it by reading over and over
until he could have repeated then
backward or any other way, the tw,
letters Miss Tyndali wrote to hin
during that time.
When, one foggy evening justafte
retreat, he returned to the post, h
was met with the news that his troo,
was ordered on foreign service, AM
was going to leave within six day;
1t seemed to him that he was the foot
ball Of the gods, their jest and sport
But Capt. Barrett did not concer
himself about that. He had thing
to do and to talk about, and he di
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