The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-06-20

cigars Indeed he had long since don,
so) 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 hi
ions changed but slowly, whereas WON
EMS ''Well, I'd rather be dead thar
out of style, Frank!"
And so it went.
But if she did not love her husband
there was one being in whom hel
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 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 a soul save
those who knew them in former days on
the frontier would have suspected it.
Mrs. Frank in evening dress didn't look
over 20.
One lovely evening early in August,
just about the time that Cadet Capt.
Latrobe began to show we'll 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 filmy,
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 a
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 minute as they studied
the bill of fare, and virtuous matrons at
other tables, tanning vigorously, would
ri of
know that supper bill by heart. 1t
never changes" All the same. at the
bottom of this public display of sisterly
devotion and harmony and in spite of
occasional titfs and differences, there
was genuine affection on both sides,
for as a child Nita had adored Margaret,
and there could be no doubling the
elders love for the child. Some regi-
mental observers said that every bit of
heart that eldest Terriss girl had was
wrapped up in the little one. Neither
girl, even after Margaret's marriage,
would listen to word in disparagement
of the other, but in the sanetity of the
sisterly retreat on the third floor of the
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 was
in an admonitory frame of mind They
had known Mr. Latrobe barely three
weeks, and yet as Mrs Frank was
sauntering around turn in Filtration
Walk, leaning on the arm of the cadet
adJutant, there in the pathway right
ahead stood Nita, lovely little picture,
with downcast eyes, and Pat" Latrobe