Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-08
An International
 Episode
By EDWARD E. CLARK

DEITY RAWLINs had a bank ac- | ID count, and a huge one at that. But
 betty had greater fortune in her face, for she was as pretty as spring beau ty, and though she was perverse and
 pouty 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 i from Fort Sherman, & big garrison with l enough young officers on duty to fill the ranks of company, had they been forced to drop the sword and shoulder the Krag-Jorgenson. Betty loved the
 military-what 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 colonel, and when she l thought of it she sighed, for the colonels 1 in Uncle Sam's regulars were all so
 dreadfully old. and Betty was only 19. mind you.
 l There was young Roy Lanyard sta l toned at Fort Sherman. He was mighty 1 good looking. Betty admitted this to herself, and 1t wouldn't be bit hard l to love him, but Roy was only a captain,
 and nothing but a colonel would do. Capt. Lanyard, to get into the middle 1 of things at once, was just as desper- l ately in love with Betty as young sol-
 dier just old enough to know his own 1 mind can be. He didn't care rap about Betty's bank account; in fact, he never gave it thought. It was just pretty Betty herself that he wanted, but
 he didn't dare say 80.
 Now, Betty had another failing, not l uncommon among American girls notold enough thoroughly to understand that l Yankee husbands are the best in the world, and that was firm belief that the ideal condition in married life would I be that which would come from hus-
 band who was combination of Eng 1 lishman and English army officer. "The colonels are younger over there," said Betty to herself, "and they are all of
 aristocratic family, and, oh, we'll, Eng lishmen are just too lovely for any, thing."@
 The summer colony at Lowland Glen was unusually large that season. There l were punches of swell doings, as the slangy Yale cousin of Betty would put 1t. 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 Rawlins. Betty saw the evi- l dence clearly, and how she did wish l that the president would retire some few
 hundreds of superior officers so that Roy Lanyard could tack the abbrevia- tion Col" to the front part of his l name.
 l One day there was excitement at 1 Lowland Glen Mrs. Calumet had in- yited 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. 1 Twenty young women had told her
 about 1t. Let the girls alone for spread ing news of this kind. And Betty" said one of her informants. lone of the Englishmen is colonel in his majesty's service, and young and good looking at that"
 Betty's heart gave thump. "At last" she murmured to herself
 1 The next afternoon Betty met the Eng lishman at the Dexter Country club. Her l heart fiuttered little as the younger of the two men-the other was old and l out of the running--was introduced to her. Col. Reginald Southcote was his name. Itfairly rang of aristocracy and
 militarism. Betty knew that he was a
 simon-pure Englishman all right enough, because of his name. his accent
 and his clothes-which didn't fit. For the next week Col. Reginald Southcote was Betty Rawlins' shadow. ] Capt Roy Lanyard looked on and was miserable. Betty gave him two dances and about three words during the entire week.
 ''No show for one of Uncle sam's poor artillerymen when there's one of 1 King Edwards men with a drawl and monocle about, t,' sighed poor Capt. Roy.
 Col. Reginald Southcote was not long
 in finding out that Betty Rawlins had | a pot of money, and that she adored the military. Betty asked him one day what his regiment was, and he replied
 
 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 l of herself when she went to library in 1 the city and took down British military 1 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 as colonel | thereof From that time Betty was very cor-
 dial to the colonel. She turned the con- versation occasionally on 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 a l brave mans reticence when it came to