The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-29
Pierced by an Arrow.
W. II. cRoMIN.

Copyright, 1902. by Daily Story Pub. Col
 Lieutenant Ewing had secret. service to perform near his station. The job would require two weeks of his time; but tn- asmuch as the town was something of a watering place and. as he knew. fairly filled with guests, he had no fear Of dyini from ennui. Girls were sure to be there and with the gentler sex Ewing general iv held his own and sometimes part be- longing to someone else.
 He was. . dashing fellow. He had the true military bearing. the soldiers walk. the emerald sky, a face that denied he was of ptebian birth. and a forehead that denoted Intelligence. He needed no one to tell to him that he was good looking. At Attica, his point of destination. he registered as Giovan Colber. There wasn't much of a purpose in concealing his identity. Still his home village was not so very far away and at certain times in his life he had said things to young women of his community that lead them to. believe he was very much in love with them and really wanted to marry when such a thing was not true at all. Perhaps come of his escapades were still fresh 'fns the minds of those about him. painfully long. Perhaps some of his fiirt- ations were known to the guests of this resort. Therefore to be on the safe side, he would conceal his identity for the time being.
 He had not been in the village more than two days before he saw dream of a woman. She possessed all the graces which belong to her sex. Certainly she was beautiful of face and figure. She dressed differently from the other women; the light of June morning. Try as he might. Ewing could not get an introduce tion to her. She seemed to have few ac- qusintances. Her walks were made alone, and when she rowed on the little lake that fronted the hotel there was no one else in the boat with her. Her greatest delight seemed to be in the practice with bow and arrow and in this she was quite an expert.
 Five days after Ewing's arrival one Of her arrows pierced his coat, as he lay hidden behind a foliage of honeysuckles. Instantly he was on his feet and she see- ing what had happened. seemed for the moment quite dismayed.
 But the accident gave the soldier the chance he had been looking. longing for. She hastened an apology and he in turn made little of the incident Indeed, the arrow had done no further harm than to make hole in his coat. Ewing would have hec- willing for it to have pene- trated his skin-aye, to have taken off a piece of flesh. From that morning their courses took shape rapidly enough, He lost no time in placing his devotons at her feet. He sang for her in glorious the window in the evenings when the other boarders wished him sick or dead. or something of that sort; he sent her costly flowers and he forgot his business entirely, which Is sometimes the way of men in love.
 But Miss Agnes Dickinson. which was the name of the young lady. seemed un- responsive to his appeals. Indeed. she did not hesitate to inform the dashing young lieutenant that she had precious little confidence in what unmarried army offi- cers, who had been educated at West Point. had to say about love. She had known too many of them. She had seen half dozen of her young female friends heartbroken because they had listened to what some of them had to say when the
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