Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-08-28

NO snow Tor one or uncle sam
poor artillerymen when there's one OF
King Edwards men with drawl and
a monocle about" sighed poor Captain
Roy.
Colonel Reginald Southcote was not
long in finding out that Betty Raw
Inns had pot of money and that she
adored the military. Betty asked him
one day what his regiment was, and
he replied promptly: Il am the colonel
of the Royal Yorickshire Regiment"
he said
Betty had heard tales about English
men pretending to be what they were
not, but the colonel looked honest
enough, and the girl was half ashamed
of herself when she went to library
in the city and took down British
military gazette from the shelf and
looked for Royal Yorickshire Regi-
ment She found it all right, and with
down as colonel thereof
From that time Betty was very cor
dial to the colonel She turned the
conversation occasionally on the Boer
war, expecting to hear some deeds Of
daring modestly told, but the coloneI
was strangely silent on the subject OF
field service, and Betty put it down
to brave mans reticence wh.n ii
came to speaking of his own acts on
the field of battle Betty might not
,l,n Ia
she was looking up the colonel's' regi
ment he was making inquiries in GER
tain financial circles about the extent
of her bank account. The report seem
ed to please him, and he proceeded to
make hay while the sun shone, and il
was a particularly cloudless month al
Lowland 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
miserable he looked, though he tried
to put brave face on the matter. II
the truth be told, Betty cried little
in the privacy of her room when she
In the sunshine at the Flagstaff peak
in the fort beyond, and sighed and
sighed again.
One day Lawyer Coke, who looked
after Betty Rawlin's estate, heard
from close friend that certain Eng
lishman had been inquiring about Bet
tvs financial standing. Fortune hunt
er If not fraud" said old Coke tt
himself, and then, as luck would hav,
1t, he happened to pick up a copy OF
the Broad Arrow, the journal of the
united services of Great Britain
Lawyer Coke looked at it. His eyet
fell on a paragraph and he chuckled
He folded the paper up, put it in his
pocket and took the first train fol
LOwland Glen. He marked the para
graph in the paper and put it where ht
knew Betty would be sure to pick Il
up, and from the nature Of the publica
tion he knew she would be sure to reat
it from start to finish.
Betty Rawlins felt that the hour wa.
, coming when she would have to an
swer question put to her by Colone
Reginald Southcote. She was think
ing Of this when she picked up tn,
Broad Arrow. She knew what tn,
paper was, for she had heard Of it
She read 1t eagerly. The date of tn,
paper was three months back. Tht
marked paragraph caught her eye. Sh,
read this:
General Powell Baden inspected tn,
Royal Yorickshire Regiment las
Thursday. 1t was the first trainin,
day of this militia organization for
year. The new men were in poor trim
and Colonel Reginald Southcote, VIII,
has seen no foreign service and yer,
little at home, had hard work to Civ
commands and to sit his horse prop
erly. The regiment will need overhaul
Ing to bring it up tofeven militia stand
ards"
The paper dropped from Betty's fing
ers. "Militiaman; never saw day
real service; couldn't sit on his horse !;
and then Betty gasped. Her thought
turned to another paragraph that sh
had read in an American journal. /
told how one Captain Roy Landyar
had received the Congressional media
Of homer for personal gallantry in tn
saving of the life Of comrade unde
fierce fire in the Philippine Islands.
Betty knew that night at the ball q
the hotel that Colonel Reginald Soutl
cote was seeking her out, but sh
avoided him. Captain Roy Lanyar
met her and she smiled on him, an
there was look in her eyes that mad
the young soldiers heart leap. "Won
you go for walk with me?" he sait
YES" she answered softly.