The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-07-15

was making inquiries in certain finan'
cial circles about the extent of her
| bank account. The report seemed "a
please him. and he proceeded to make
hay while the sun shoIe. AMI |: was Il
particularly cloudless month at Low.
| land Glen.
Betty knew with girls intuition
that an offer was not far away. she
felt pang. however. every time she
saw Captain Lanyard and saw how
miserably he looked. though he tried &c
put brave face on the matter. If the
truth be told. Betty cried n little in the
privacy of her room when she looked
ut the glorious old flag floating in the
sunshine at The flagstaff peak in the
fort beyond. and sighed and sighcc
again.
One day Lawyer Coke. who looked
after Betty Rowlins' estate. heard
from close friend that certain Eng
lishman had been inquirlng about Bet
tvs financial standing. "Fortune hunt
or, If not n fraud" said old Coke tc
himself. and then. as luck would have
1t, he happened to pick up copy Of
the Broad Arrow. the journal of the
united services OF Great Britain. Law
yer Coke looked AT it. His eyes fell or
a para ragraph and he chuckled. Ee
folded the paper up, put 1t in his pock'
ct and took the first train for Lowlar1
Glen. He marked the paragraph in
tie paper, and put 1t where he knew
Betty would be sure to pick it up. and
from the nature of the publication he
knew she would be sure to read II from
start to finish
Betty Eawlins felt that the hour was
coming when she would have to an.
swer a question rut 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 it. She read it
eagerly. The date OF the paper was
three months back. The marked para.
graph caught her eye. She read this:
General Powell-Bad inspected the
Royal Yor!ckshire Regiment last
day OF this militia organization for u
yca:. The men were in poor trim, and
Colonel Reginald Southcote, who has
seen TO sorCign service and ve"y lit;lc
ut 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 Batty's fnG.
c"s. "Militiaran: never saw day s.
real service; couldn't sit on his horse
and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts
turned 10 another paragr? I that she
read IN an American Journal. 1t told
how one Captain Rcy Lanyard had re-
ceived the Congressional medal OF hon
or 20: personal Gallantry in the saving
of the life of Il comrade under fierce
fire in Tho Philippine Islands.
Betty knew that night at tEc 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 & look in her eyes tEat made
the Young soldiers heart leap. Won't
YOU go for 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 n bit OF Il
waG. he turned TO friend who had
been watching the course Of events for
month past and said:
"Alas. poor Yoric!ishire" - Edward
e. CLARK, in Chicago Eecord-Hec2!1