Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-04-07
CHAPTER VIII.

Social circles at West Point at long,
rare intervals are shocked by scandal,
and at short ones, say every other sum-
mer-are stirred by some kind of a
sensation, and the FAIRY Sisters" were
the sensation Of the year ~. They
came in July; they went in September,
and meanwhile they were ION the GO
as they expressed it. from morn till
late at night. Physically they were
the liehtest weights known to the hop
room. Mentally, us their admirers i'll
the corps expressed it, "either of them
can take fall out of any woman at the
Point and this was especially true of
the elder-AIrs. Frank Garrison
whose husband was on staff duty in
the far est Both were slight, fragile
tiny blondes with light blue eyes, with
lighter, fluffy hair, with exquisite lit
tic hands and feet, with oval, prettily
shaped faces, and the younger, the
maiden sister, had a bewitching mouth
and regular, snowy dots of teeth of
which She was justly proud. Yet, as
has been previously said of Mrs. Frank,
while the general effect was in the ease
of each that of an extremely pretty
young girl, the cider had no really good
features, the younger only that one.
They generally dressed very much
alike in light, tlimsy gowns and hats,
gloves and summer shoes all of GaZ-
cling white-sometimes verging for a
change to a creamy hue-but colors,
except for sashes and summer shawls,
seemed bnnished from their WardroDes.
They danced divinely, said the corps,
and preferred cadet partners, TO the
JOY of the battalion. They rode fear
lessly and well, and had stunning hats
and habits, but few opportunities for
display thereof. They came tripping
down the path from the hotel every
morning, fresh ana fair as daisies, in
time for guard mounting, and at any
hour after that could be found chat
ting with cadet friends at the visitors
tent, strolling arm in arm about the
shaded walks with some of their many
admirers until time to dress for the
evening hop, where they never missed
= dance. and on rainy days, or on those
evenings, when there was neither hop
hor band practice, they could be found,
zach in some dimly lighted, secluded
nook about the north or west piazza
Or on the steps leading down to the
"Chan Battery Walk sometimes sur
rounded by Il squad of cadet friends,
but more frequently in murmured
tetc-a-tete with osly one cavalier. In
the case Of Mrs. Frank no member of
the corps seemed especially favored.
She was just the same to every one,
IN the case of her younger sister-Miss
Terriss-there presently developed a
lashing young cadet captain who SO
scientifically conducted his campaign
that he headed off almost all compet-
ltors and was presently accorded the
lead under the universally accepted
theory that he had won the little lady's
heart. Observant wonderland what
women are not observ&nt--of each
Other?-declared both sisters to be des-
perate firts. Society at the Point
frowned upon them and, after the first
formal call or two, dropped them en-
trely-a thing they never seemed to
resent in the least, or even to notice.
They were never invited out to tea or
dinner on the post--solemn functions
nowhere near so palatable as the whis-
pered homage of stalwart young man
hood. Mia is yet such IA child she
Infinitely prefers cadet society, and |
always did like boys explained Mrs.
Garrison. Some rather gay old boys
used to run up Saturday afternoons
on the Mary Powell and spend Sunday
at the loint-Wall street men of sc
years and much lucre. Dear old
friends of fathers" Mrs. Frank used
to say, and I've simply got to enter i,
tain them" Entertained they GER
tainly were, for her wit and vivacity
were acknowledged on every side, and
entertained not only collectively, but
severally, for she always managed to
give each his hours confidential chat,
and on the Sundays OF their coming
had no time to spare for cadet friends.
Moreover, she always drove down in
'he hir bus with them Monday morn