The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-07-15

was making inquiries in certain imam
cial circles about the extent of her
bank account. The report seemed 10
please him. and he proceeded to make
hay while the sun shone. and it was a
particularly cloudless month at Low
land Glen.
Betty knew with q girls intuition
that an offer was not far away. She
felt a pang, however. every time she
saw CAPTAIN Lanyard and saw how
miserably he looked, though he tried TO
nut a brave face on the matter. II the
truth be told, Betty cried little in the
privacy of her room when she looked
at the glorious old flag floating in the
sunshine at the flagstaff peak in the
fort beyond, and sighed and signed
again.
One day Lawyer Coke, who looked
after Betty Rawlins' estate, heard
from a close friend that certain Eng
llshman had been inquiring about Bet
tvs financial standing. Fortune hunt
er. if not a fraud" said old Coke TO
himself. and then. as luck would have
it, he happened to pick up copy Oh
the Broad Arrow. the Journal OF the
united services of Great Britain. Law
yer Coke looked at it. His eyes fell on
a paragraph and he chucEled. lie
folded the paper up. put it in his pock'
ct and took the first train for Lowlana
Glen. He marked the paragraph in
the paper, and put it where ne knew
Betty would be sure to pick It up anu
from the nature Of the publication ne
knew she would be sure to read 1t from
start to finish.
Betty Rawlins felt that the hour was
coming when she would have to an
swer a question put to her by Colonel
Reginald Southcote. She was thinking
of this when she picked up the Broad
Arrow. She knew what the paper was
for she had heard Of 1t. She read IL
eagerly. The date Of the paper was
three months back. The marked para
graph caught her eye. She read this:
General Powell-Baden Inspected the
Royal Yorickshire Regiment last
Thursday. 1T was the first training
day of this militia organization for a
wear. The men were in poor trim, and
Colonel Reginald Southcote, who mas
seen no foreign service and very little
at home, had hard work to give COM
mands and to sit his horse properly.
The regiment will need overhauling to
bring it up to even militia standards
The paper dropped from Betty's ing
ers. "Militiaman; never saw days
real service; couldn't sit on his horse
and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts
turned to another paragraph that she
read in an American journ9l. 1t told
how one Captain Roy Lanyard had re-
ceived the Congressional medal Of hon
or for personal gallantry in the saving
of the life of comrade under fierce
fire in the Philippine Islands.
Betty knew that night at the ball at
the hotel that Colonel Reginald South
cote was seeking her out, but she
avoided him. Captain Roy Lanyard
met her and she smiled on him, and
there was a look in her eyes that made
the young soldiers heart leap. won't
YOU 60 for a walk with me?" he said.
"Yes," she answered softly.
AS they passed down the hotel steps
the moonlight fell full upon them, and
Lawyer Coke. who was standing on the
veranda smiled, and, being bit Of
was, he turned to friend who had
been watching the course Of events for
month past and said:
"Alas, poor Yorickshire" - Edward
B. Clark, in Chicago Record-Herald.