Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-01-10

and limit her dances. She was blithe
and radiant and fancy free when Frank
Garrison reached the post, wee bit
hipped, 1t was whispered, because of
the failure of somewhat half hearted
bounded into the darkness of his life
and fairly dazzled him. Somebody
had said that Frank Garrison had
money.
There is no need to tell of the disillu-
sion that gradually came. Frank found
his debts mounting up and his cares in
creasing. She was all sympathy and re-
gret when he mentioned it, but-there
were certain comforts, luxuries and
things she had always been accustomed
to, and couldn't live without. Surely he
would not have her apply to papa. No,
but-could she not manage with lit
tie less? He was willing to give up his
cigars Cndeed, he had long since done
SOY and to make his uniforms last
year longer-he who was in his day the
most carefully dressed man at the
Point. Well-she thought perhaps he
ought to do that-besides-men fash
ions changed but slowly, whereas wom-
EMS SWELL, I'd rather be dead than
out of style, Frank"
And SO it went.
But if she did not love her husband
there was one being in whom her
frivolous heart was really bound up
Nita--her "baby sister," as she called
her, and when Terriss, the colonel, went
the way of all flesh, preceded only a few
months by the wife of his bosom, the
few thousands in life insurance he had
managed to maintain went to the two
daughters. Not one penny was ever
laid out in payment of the debts of
either the father or husband. Nita was
sent to an extravagant finishing school
in Gotham, and along in May of the
young girls graduating year, blithe lit
tie Mrs. Garrison arrived, fresh from
the far west, and after few weeks of
sightseeing and shopping the sisters
appeared at the Point, even half-mourn-
ing by this time discarded. Thirteen
years difference was there in the ages
of the Fairy Sisters, and not soul save
those who knew them in former days on
the frontier would have suspected it.
Mrs. Frank in evening dress didn' look
over 20.
One lovely evening early in August,
just about the time that Cadet Capt.
Latrobe began to show well to the
front in the run for the prize, the two
sisters had gone to their room at the
hotel to dress for the hop. 1t was their
custom to disappear from public gaze
about six o'clock, and when they came
floating down the stairs in flmy,
diaphanous clouds of white, the halls
were well filled with impatient cavaliers
in the natty cadet uniform, and the
women waiting to see. Then the sis
tiers would go into the dining-room and
have some light refreshments, with q
| glass of iced tea-and no matter how
torrid the heat or how flushed and
dragged other women might look, they
were inviting pictures of all that was
ever fresh, cool and fragrant. The two
fluffy blonde heads would be huddled
close together a minute as they studied
the bill of fare, and virtuous matrons al
other tables, tanning vigorously, would
sniff and say: "All for effect. They
know that supper bill by heart. Il
never changes" All the same, at tn.
bottom of this public display of sisterlJ
devotion and harmony and in spite Of
occasional tiffs and differences, there
was genuine affection on both sides
for as child Mia had adored Margaret
and there could be no doubling tht
elders love for the child. Some regi
mental observers said that every bit o.
heart that eldest Terriss girl had wa,
wrapped up in the little one. Neithe,
girl, even after Margaret's marriage
would listen to word in disparagemen,
of the other, but in the. sanctity of tn,
sisterly retreat on the third floor of thu
old hotel there occurred sometimes
spirited verbal tits that were quite dis
tinctly audible to passers-by in the cor
ridor, provided they cared to listen
which some of them did. On this es
pecial August evening Mrs. Frank WA
in an admonitory frame of mind. They
had known Mr.. Latrobe barely thre,
weeks, and yet as Mrs. Frank wal
sauntering around turn in Filtration
Walk, leaning on the arm of the cade
adjutant, there in the pathway RICH
ahead stood Mia, a lovely little. picture
with downcast eyes, and pat" Latrob,