The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-03-01
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BLUE--FOR CONSTANCY.
The Story Told by the Locket.
by GwencoIen Overton.

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moderate salary TO keep her in fine
linen and pale blue For his part. Pat
more, as he sat and watched her Will,
she made the tea, thought that tho
greatest happiness life could hold fOi
any man would be 10 have the right
TO do just that very thing. She was
all but an angel descended straight
from the heavenly vault and clothed
in It's own hue.
That, at least, was his idea OF her
but she was an entirely human young
woman, quite human enough to put Il
spoke in Miss Barret's wheel If she
were 10 get the chance.
"Who was that sweet little girl you
were with on the TiburOn Ferry, the
other day." she wanted to know. She
cuddlcd down among the cushions
again and raised dainticr hand than
| Miss Barretts 10 smooth her soft
brown hair.
You can call another girl sweet and
! little in 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
II, really? And you are engaged to
her, are you nOtf"
II was" said Patmorc, "but ] am
overwhelmingly" The "unfortuh-
atcly" was nothing short of heroic
under the circumstances He felt that
himself, and also that II wiped ont
several little conscience debts.
Miss Tyndall said, "Oh! indeed" ana
asked If his tea was all right Pat
more thought she had great deal of
tact She supposed that ne did and
she supposed. moreover, that she had
scored Il triumph. But she was not
content with that-nOt until all his
world and hers should know that il
was so.
Patmorc was not student Of the
sex. So he thought IL was all his own
doing and idea when he asked her TO
go with him to the post the next after
noon and listen to the band play. For
the same reason he did not think how
trying IL naturally must bc for Miss
Barrett, who was wheeling the young
est brother in his pcrambuator, TO
meet them face to face, and TO have
TO smile when he presented Miss Tyn-
DAN. Miss Tyndall was wearing
bunch of forgct-me- nots at her belt
Patmorc had sent them TO hcr-and
she gave n spray TO the baby brother.
tItt l,t
a beautiful girl in a pale blue shirt
waist did not matter nearly so much
ms his own sister I'm any sort OF
clothes, threw il into the road. Miss
Barrett glanced at II and let II lie,
though there must have been n temp
tatiOn to step on IL. But Patmorc,
coming that way again several hours
later, saw it upon the gravel, ana took
1t up.
Ii was just n month after this that
somebody in power, who did not know
what TO hc at, saw tit to send him
away, somewhere into the wilderness
around Shasta. to do sketches and
make plans that nobody had any spc-
cial use or,any way. He was gone for
the entire summer, and he only man
aged to live through II by reading
over and over, until he could have re-
pcated them backw ward or any other
way, the two letters Miss Tyudall
wrote TO him during that time.
When, one foggy evening. Just after
retreat. hc returned TO the post. he was
met with the news that his troop was
ordered on foreign service, and was
going 10 leave within six days. Ii
seemed 10 him that he was the foot
ball of the gods, their jest and sport.
But Captain Barrett did not concern
himself about that He had things
to do and to talk about and he did
not even remember that there was
such being on earth rs Miss Tyn-
dali, SO he kept Patmorc occupied un-
I'll tattoo.
What Patmorc should have done
after that was TO go To his quarters
and straight to bed, because he would
be very busy the next day. What he
did do. however. was TO shave aud
dress and go just as fast as his feet
and the car would take him to dance
that was happening in the city. Miss
Tyndall was To bc there. She had told
him so in her last letter, sent three
weeks before
The first person he saw when he
went into the ball room was Miss Bar
rctt When he stopped to speak to
! her she gave him look he did not un-
derstand There was something in IL
besides the usual devotion. lie was
not sure what. But he did not wait TO
! find out. lie was far too intent upon
! finding Miss Tyndall for that
When he did find her he refused TO
/ lose time on preliminarics and cX-
way through the group around her.
/ and said that he believed this was his.
and forthwith took her away. She
! put her hand on his arm and looked
mp at him lie could not understand
that look either. Ii seemed to he al
most fear. They were walking in full
sight of the whole ball room. But
Patmore did not mind that. He would
not have minded even II the music
had not begun just then. As has been
said, ne took himself seriously. lie
felt that he had waited too long al
ready. There was no longer time.
do you know that am ordered to
the Philippines7' he sale.
She nodded her head
II have got to 20 inside Of six days
Will you marry me before thatT"
There were two chairs i'm corner
half hldden nm q nook OF dnte nalms