The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-09-17

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promptly: q #ams@tAe colonel -ofs-the
royal Yorickshire regiment, . he said.
Betty had heard gtales about Hnglish.
men pretending to b what they were
not. but the colonel looked honest
enough. and the girl was half ashamed
OF hefseifgwhenshew went t0.Ii 7librafyln
sthe cityand took down : British military
gazette from the shelf and looked for
Royal Yorickshire regiment. She found
It all right, and, with the name. Of Reg
inald southcote set down q colonel
thereof. a
From that time Betty was very cor.
dial to the colonel. She turned the con.
'versation occasionally Oh the. Boer war.
expecting to hear some deeds Of daring
modestly told, but the colonel was
strangely silent ON the subject Of field
service. and Betty put 1t down to .
brave mans reticence when 1t came to
speaking Of his own acts on the field Of
battle. Betty might not have liked It
had she known that when she was look
ing up the colonel's regiment he was
making inquiries in certain financial Cit.
cles about the extent of her hank ac-
count. The report seemed to please
him, and he proceeded to make hay
while the sun shone, and it was . particu-
larly cloudless month at Lowland Glen.
Betty knew with girls intuition that
an offer was not far away. She felt :
pang, however, every time she saw Cant.
Lanyard. and saw how miserahIa IA
looked. though .he tried Ia MT !. brave
face on the matter. If the truth be-
told, Betty cried q little in the privacy
of her room when she looked 1t the
glorious old flag floating in the sunshine
at the Flagstaff peak tn the fort beyond.
and sighed, and sighed again.
One day LAWYER Cokes who ,ookAd
after Betty Rawlins' estate heard from
close friend that : certain Engl,ah-
man had beenlinouiring about Rettv'a
financial standing. .Fortuna hunter n
not 4 fraud ~ safd zo,daC Cake - hir,.r,e.s
and then. A -ln,clr-wn,,ia-hava q No
happened to nick ma s.convsS. .of.sstha
Broad Arrow. tho in,rna M ~ INA nnated
services of Great Britain Iawver Cokn
looked at IT. His eve fell, On nara.
graph and he chnckled He folded ~.
paper up. nut It in his rocket and toot
the first train for Inwland clen ia
marked the narapranb ,ns,ha r.na, aya:
mt IL where Ia knew Rettvfwnnld -
sure to nick r. rn.-and .from tha natnra
of the nuhlicatinn he knaw that an
would be sure "a Rad q from starr ii
finish. s,
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coming When shs vn,,,d hsr &c ~ 80 -
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rcw cha .,ar 49, rs. "a. g:
for .he nod ha.rds :, j. sha So IS.
eagerly The da+a ~ tho nanar So !.
thrsa morths hao,. 1rha 40 - r .,lea -
pranh caught her ava sh 40 raad +h t,. q
acer, pnva,1.ns,sn ,nsna s. as 80 y.
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had h.rd VOL, - a,ra ca 49, - s ana
- s,t his horse nronar,v TIC -as,n ~. 49,
w,,, raad an 40. h.,a.. .e ~ y.
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- s11ss sASe
ana tnen Betty gasped. Her though@.
turned 70 another paragraph that she:
mad read IN an American Journal. lt
toid now one Capt. Roy Lanyard had:
received the congressional medal e,
honor for personal gallantry in the saw
ing OF the 1ie OF comrade under ieree.
nre IN the Philippine Islands. ~
Betty snew that night at the ball a.
the n0fel TnAt Col. Reginald Snl1GhcnfA,