The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-01-18

set StrathmOres teeth on edge, he must
be in very bad way.
All this worried Chester a great deal.
Frequent contemplation Of his one pho
tograph had furnished him with the
standard of comparison which Strath-
more lacked, and he could see what the
outcome Of things as they were going
was bound to be. He explained it TO
the photograph, standing before the
mantel-piece with his hands damned
deep in his trousers pockets and
quicker on his brow, which was fair to
the line of the cap and quite crimson
from there down. IF he marries that
freckled-face Halloran girl" he said,
hell want to shoot himself and her
the first time he goes East"-Chester
cherished a cynical kind of regret that
he hadn't done as much himself some
time before-"or he'll compromise and
take to drink instead. No." he nodded
his head decisively, "he shall not marry
Mamie Pearle, not''-he looked at the
picture a long time-''not if have to
marry her myself. Which heaven fore
/ fendw
The next afternoon he found Strath-
more in the sitting-room and proffered
a most unprecedented request. 81 shall
like, sir" he said, "tO be given a fur
Tough for a week" StrathmOre consid-
cred and frowned. "what'n become Of
me, Chester?" he asked plaintiyely;
"what will doT"
4ol
place, sir. He was Captain Lacy's
striker for several years, and he knows
his duties, sir"
Strathmore sighed. Every good" he
agreed, with sufficiently poor grace, 81
expect I'll make out somehow. Put in
your application with the morning re-
port"
Chester went away, feeling contemp-
tible and small, and Srathmore sat and
reflected .dismally that it was emergen-
cies of this sort that drove a man to
matrmony. He ought to have realized
that when a man marries because he
thinks the woman can be of use to him,
rather than he to her, he is making a
grave mistake. But he fancied the
vague dissatisfaction with his present
, lot was the yearning of affection, and
believed more than ever that he cared
t for Miss Halloran quite a creditable
deal Before Chester left the next day
he stood in front of the photograph
again. 'She'l wear curl-papers and his
/, forage-cap and cape" he reflected
t aloud. That was his notion of the point
p beyond which vulgarity could not go
t Its a devilish contemplate business
] | know it is. But then-my futures al
: behind me; and his is all ahead. He's
o only a boy He has all sorts of pulp
= what striker does not know about his
+ master is not worth considering at all
: "he will be able to get anything he asks
). for in Washington. Not" he unused
e that the American army offers mucl
a for a young man just now. But he cal
d get all it can give. If he behaves him
d self and marries the right knd-or bet
3 ter yet, doesn't marry at all-he ma.
l. rise to the soaring height of an attaehe
ship. All things are possible witt
Y pull"
e He stopped and bent down to knocl
e the ashes from his brier-ppe into tn
d fireplace. Then he took the photograph
Il in his hand and started to put it in tn
2 grip that lay on his bunk. But h
2, changed his mind and tucked 1t into tn
e tray Of his trunk instead. And he CAV
e, it last look as he closed down tn
is lid. I'm which case" ne finished a
y he turned the key, "he would be yer
rs likely to meet you"
1t A hunting leave is only a week Ions
& But great deal can happen in a wee
IF to a soldier who has cut loose and is az
d. countable to no one, or to a lieutenar
b, madly determined to become just tn
other way. What happened to Strait
h. more was, in sum, this:
II, The day after O'Toole took charge b
Mt rode over to the Halloran ranch. an
v when he came back he was engaged
is marry Mamie Pearle. When it wa
re done and he sat down to think,
g found that he was not radiantly hapr
he as he had expected to be. But the wa
n the sitting-room had been busted tn;
On morning had Disguised him, once az
n for all, with single life. The next da
ng he was officer of the day and couldn
of leave the post. The day after that
he had a cold which he had caught makir
an his rounds, and it confined him to Il
to house.
le- AS for Chester, the way he put in h
'er time never did become quite clear. b
for a period Of six days there was
err strange Engllshman in a town some 4
as teen miles the other side OF the Halo
I'm an ranch; some twenty-five miles til
MS is, or more, from the post It was
IN mud town, and its hotel was as bad