Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-08-05
ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL EPISODE

Betty had heard tales about English
men pretending to be what they We're
not but the colonel looked honest
enough, and the girl was half ashamed
Of herself when she went to a library
in the city and took down a British
military gazette from the shelf and
looked for Royal Yorkshire Regi-
ment. She found it all right, and with
the name of Reginald Southcote set
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 colonel
was strangely silent on the subject OF
field service, and Betty put it down
TO q brave mans reticence when it
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 looking up the cOloneps 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 it
was a particularly cloud!ess month at
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 a brave face on the matter. II
the truth be told, Betty cried little
in the privacy Of her room when she
looked at the glorious old flag floating
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 a close friend that a certain Eng
| lishman had been inquiring about Bet
tvs financial standing. Fortune hunt
er If not fraud" said old Coke to
himself, and then, as luck would have
it, 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 eyes
| fell on q paragraph and he chuckled.
He folded the paper up, put it in his
pocket and took the first train for
| Lowland Glen. He marked the para
graph in the paper and put it where he
knew Betty would be sure to pick it
up, and from the nature of the publica-
ton he knew she would be sure to read
it from start to finish.
Betty Rawlins felt that the hour was
coming when she would have to an
swer a question put to her by Colonel
Reginald SouthcOte. She was think
Ing of this when she picked up the
Broad Arrow. She knew what the
She read it eagerly. The date Of the
paper was three months back. The
marked paragraph caught her eye. She
read this:
General Powell-Baden inspected the
Royal Yorickshire Regiment last
Thursday. 1t was the first training
day Of this militia organization for a
year. The new men were in poor trim,
and Colonel Reginald Southcote, who
has seen no foreign service and very
little at home, had hard work to give
commands and to sit his horse prop
erly. The regiment will need overhaul
Ing to bring it up to even militia stand
ards"
The paper dropped from Betty's fng-
erS. "Militiaman; never saw q days
real SERVICE couldn't sit on his horse;;"
and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts
turned to another paragraph that she
had read in an American journal. 1t
told how one Captain Roy Landyard
had received the Congressional medal
Of honor for personal gallantry in the
saving Of the life of a comrade under
fierce fire in the Philippine Islands.
Betty knew that night at the 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 that made
the young soldiers heart leap. won't
you go for a walk with me?" he said.
EYES," 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 a bit
Of a wag, he turned to a friend who
had been watching the course Of
events for a month past and said:
"Alas! Poor Yorickshire. "-Chtcago
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