Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-05-10

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land caressine his hair, she whisperedc |
Gov deaS boy, is it a. very hard
Would you Ike % 90 to her at once?"
And the boy buried his face il her
lap tvincd lis arms about her slender
waist, and almost groaned aloud as he |
! answered: For PHYS sake help me if |
! YOU can. Mildred, I'm almost mad.
Early in August the swiftest steamer
of tie line was splitting the Atlantic |
surge and driving hard for home, with |
Gov cursing her for canal boat. The |
dav after IL reached New York lie had
traced and followed the White Sisters to |
West Point, and Margaret Garrison
stared in mingled delight, triumph and
| GiSmay at Tire card in her hand; de-
| light thai She could show these eXclu |
siye Pointers that the heir to one Of
thc oldest and best names il Gotham'- |
-Four Hundred was slave to her beck
! and can. Gismayed to think OF the scene
that might occur through his jealousy
when ne saw the devoted attentions
She received from so many men-otli
GERS, Civilians and cadets. Old Cashton
came up NOW as regularly as Saturday
night came around, and there were
others Margaret Garrison was more
talked about than any woman in Or
| aunc county. yet who could report any
thing of her beyond that she was n UNI
| ycr7al faNorite, and danced, walked pos
siuly Hirted with a dozen different cav
alier. every day Of her life. There were
some few people among her accuscrs,
dmure and most proper-eYen prudish
women OF whom, were the truth to
be told. 80 little could not be said.
.'Go> Prime took the Only kind Of
room d be had in tie house, so full Was
it-a little seven by ten box on the
office floor He would have slept in the
coalbin rather than leave her. lie saw
her 60 off to the hop looking radiant
CHANGING back over her shoulder and
smiling sweetly at him. lie rushed to
his trunk dragged out his evening
clothes and stood at the wall looking
on until the last note of the last dance
he, a noted German leader in the
Younger set and the best dancer of his
years in Gotham. Not so much rs
single spin had he, and he longed to
show those tight-waisted button-be
strewed fellows in gray and white how
little they really knew about dancing,
we'll as many Of them appeared on the
floor. His reward was rendered as the
hop broke up. She came gliding to him
with such Wtehery in her appraised face.
Nov. ,ir il is your turn. couldn't
give YOU dance, for my card was made
out days ago. hut Mr.. Latrobe was glad
enough Is get rid Of taking me home.
He is dart about Mia, and Of course
Sire can't Lei him tako her to more than
enc hop week Mr.. Stanton is her
escort Tonight
Ihcl She Faccd her little hand IL.
his urm arG drew herself TO His side.
and vheI II would have followed the
others. GOING straight across tie broad
plain to the fights at the hotel, turned
him to the lett I'm going to take You
all the way round. sir She said. joy
ously. Then we can be bN ourselves
at least ten minutes longer
And 50 began the second period of
Gouverneur Primes thralldom. A
young civilian at the Point has few
opportunities at any time, but when
the lady Of his love is a belle in the
corps, he would much better take a
long ocean voyage than be where he
could hear and see, and live in daily
torment One comfort came to him
when he could not be with Mrs. Car
rison (who navely explained that
Gov" was such a dear boy and they
were such stanch friends, real com
rades, you know. lie had early made
the acquaintance Of Pat Latrobe, and
there was bond of sympathy between
them which was none the less strong
because, on Primes side, it could Meth
er be admitted nor alluded to-that
they were desperately in love with the
sisters, and ii was not long before it
began to dawn on Prime that pretty
Mia was playing a double game-that
even while assuring her guardian sister
that she had only a mild interest in
Latrobe, she was really losing or had
lost her heart to him, and in every way
in her power was striving to conceal
the fact from Margaret, and vet meet
her lover at hours when she thought it
| possible 20 do so without discovery.
As the friendship strengthened be-
tween himself and Latrobe they began
using him as Cupid's postman, and
many little notes and some big ones
found their way 10 and from the Fourth
division Of cadet barracks. Mrs. Frank
was only moderately kind to her civil
ian adorer then. granting him only one
dance at each hop, and going much
with other men, but that dance was
worth seeing. Primes was the only |
black "claw-hammer' in the room, and
therefore conspicuous, ana cadets who
know good thing when they see it
and many a pretty girl partner would |
draw aside to watch the perfection of
their step and the exquisite ease with
which they seemed 20 float through |
space circling and reversing and wind |
irc among The other dancers. he ever
alert. watchful. quick as a cat and
! 1.-THE and strong as panther-she all
/ yielding lissome, airy grace, That dance !
j ~. ..l..t., pri1l1r's reNNnr.l and almNst !