The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-10-01
An International
Episode
BY EDWARD B. CLARK

- count, and a huge one at that. But
Betty had a greater fortune in her face,
for she was as pretty as a spring beau
ty, and though she was peryerse and
p0uty when she wanted to be, she was
ordinarily as sweet as violet.
Betty lived in the summer time at
Lowland Glen, not many miles removed
from Fort Sherman, big garrison with
enough young officers on duty to fill
the ranks of a company, had they been
forced to drop the sword and shoulder
the Krag- Jorgenson. Betty loved the
miitary-wnat girl doesn't?-and if
truth be told Betty's heart was set on
marrying into the soldiery but she had
made up her mind secretly that she
couldn't think OF looking at anything
less than a colonel, and when she
thought OF it she sighed, for the colonies
in Uncle Sans regulars were all so
dreadfully old and Betty was only 10,
mind you.
There was young Roy Lanyard STA
toned at Fort Sherman. He was mighty
gOod looking. Betty admitted this to
herself. and it wouldn't be a bit hard
to love him, but Roy was only captain,
and nothing but a colonel would do.
Capt Lanyard, to get into the middle
Of things at once, was just as desper
ately in love with Betty as young sol
der just old enough to know his own
mind can be. He didn't care a rap
about Betty's bank account; in fact
he never save it a thought. 1t was just
pretty Betty herself that he wanted, but
he didn't dare say so.
Now, Betty had another failing, not
uncommon among American girls not old
enough thoroughly to understand that
Yankee husbands are the best in the
world, and that was a firm belief that
the ideal condition in married life would
be that which would come from a hus-
band who was combination of Eng
Hshman and English army officer. The
colonies are younger over there, said
Betty to herself, and they are all of
aristccratic family. and, oh, we'll, Eng
lishmen are just too lovely for any
thing
4AC ottAtiAA4CA NCAO4iS az - " ietbh NilS II
was unusually large that season. There
were punches Of swell doings, as the
slaney Yale cousin of Betty would put
it, The army officers from Fort Sher-
man were much in evidence, and one
young captain in particular was very
much in evidence in the vicinity of Miss
Betty Rawins Betty saw the evi.
dence clearly. and how she did wish
that the president would retire some few
hundreds of superior officers so that
Roy Lanyard could tack the abbrevia-
ton Col" TO the front part of his
name.
Cnc day there was excitement at
Lowland Glen. Mrs. Calumet had in
vited two Englishmen, one of them
an army officer, to spend the month with
them at their summer home. The news
reached Betty the morning after the ar
rival of the Calumets' two guests.
Twenty young women had told her
about it. Let the girls alone for spread
ing news of this kind" and Betty
said one of her informants, zone of the
Englishmen is a colonel in his majesty's
service, and young and good looking at
that"
Betty's heart gave thump. Eat last"
she murmured to herself
The next afternoon Betty met the Eng
lshman at the Dexter Country club. Her
heart fluttered little as the younger OF
the two men-the other was old and
out of the running-was introduced to
her Col. Reginald Southcote was his
name. 1t fairly rang of aristocracy anC
militarism. Betty knew that he was
simon-pure Englishman all right
enough, because of his name, his accen
and his clothes-which didn't fit.
For the next week Col. Reginald
Southcote was Betty Rawlins' shadow
Capt. Roy Lanyard looked on and wa!
miserable. Betty gave him two dance!
and about three words during the entir,
week.
"No show for one of Uncle Sam!
poor artillerymen when there's one o.
King Edwards men with a drawl anC
a monocle about, sighed poor Capt
Roy
Col Reginald Southcote was not Ions
in finding out that Betty Rawlins ha,
a pot of money, and that she adoret