The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-05-29

Lieut. Ewing had secret service to
perform near his station The job
would require two weeks of his time;
but inasmuch as the town was some
thing Of a watering place and, as he
knew. fairly filed with guests, he had
no fear of dying from ennui. Girls |
were sure to be there and with the I
gent1er sex Ewing generally held his |
own and sometimes a part belonging
to someone else.
He was a dashing fellow. He had |
the true military bearing, the soldiers
walk, the athletes carriage, eyes as |
blue as the emerald sky, face that |
denied he was Of plebeian birth, and a
forehead that denoted intelligence He
needed no one to tell him that he was
good looking. At Attica, his point OF
destination, he registered as G1ovan
Colbert There wasn't much of pur-
pose in concealing his Identity Still
his home village was not SO very Tar
away and at certain times in his life
he had said things to young women Of
his community that lead them to be-
| lieve he was very much in love with
| them and really wanted to marry
when such a thing was not true at
| all Perhaps some of his escapades
| were still fresh in the minds of those
| about him News travels fast and
| bad reports 1inger painfully long Per
haps some of his firtations 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 q
| dream of 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; her laugh had
| mirth to it, her eyes had the light of
| June morning. Try he might,
| Ewing could not get an introduction
to her She seemed to have few &C
| quaintanees. 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, he
| lay hidden behind a foliage of honey
suckles. Instantly he was on his feet
and she, seeing what had happened,
seemed for the moment quite dis
mayed
But the accident gave the soldier
the chance he had been looking, long
ing for She fastened an apology
and he in turn made little of the in
cident- Indeed, the arrow had done
no further harm than to make a hole
in his coat. Ewing would have been
willing for it to have penetrated his
skin-aye, to have taken off piece
OF deSh- from that morning th61r
| courses took shape rapidly enough.
He lost time in placing his devo-
tiOns at her feet. He sang for her
| in a glorious tenor; he played the
| guitar for her at the window in the
| evenings when the other boarders
| wished him sick dead, or something
| of that sort: he sent her costly flow
ers and he forgot his business entire
| ly, which is sometimes the way OF
men in love.
But Miss Agnes Dickinson, which
was the name of the young lady
| seemed unrespOnsive to his appeals
| Indeed, she did not hesitate to inform
the dashing young lieutenant that she
had precious little confidence in what
unmarried army officers, who ha6
been educated at West Point, had &c
say about love. She had known toe
many of them. She had seen a hal.
dozen of her young female friends
heartbroken because they had listened
to what some of them had had to say
| when the moon was soft and the
chickens had been to roost very long
| time
One day she went into more specific
details. She asked him if he had evel
| known Lieut.. Ewing. Did he know
Ewing? The question fairly took hi:
breath away. Was it possible that sht