The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-24
The Treasury Well Guarded.

1t was November Wnen rTtMlA N1o
gazetted to Nara, consequently there
We're few people in the station, and the
fact that Mrs Burton, Roses sister, re
mained up throughout the winter was an
acceptable one to the newcomer.
Not that Frewin tried TO coTVIacc
himself that he frequented The Deo-
dars" for the pleasure of meeting fat
Mrs. Burton, who perspired even in De-
cember, and whose conversation was
strictly limited to the wicked ways of
the servants, the shortcomings OF her
neighbors, and the weather He Owned,
alike to himself and the club, that Miss
Rowan was pretty and rode we'll, and
could talk of India and its people even If
she were totally ignorant OF all things
English, and could not appreciate the
difference between an NJ. P. and a county
councillor So he, in his heavy way,
taught her a little concerning England,
ana she, unknowingly. taught him many
things Indian, and society. as known in
Nara, having gone down TO Calcutta.
there were fewer venom-tipped tongues
TO wag.
Not that Rose would have cared If all
Anglo-India had risen to forbid her in
tercourse with this youthful civilian,
who represented to her the whole glory
cf the British empire and the perfec-
ten of mankind She adored with an
unreasoning alteration which would
have been foolish and superiuous in
tho heroine of a penny novelette,.
She was only twenty. and life so far
lad meant to her convent school and
Nara, with occasional weeks at Luck
nov, and one whole fortnight Of dissi-
patton in Calcutta.
Moreover she had the nature Of a
saint rather than a fiirt, and it was her
amazingly angelic temper which most
won Frewin man likes that sort of
CI:selda girI-until it pals. and he
wants a change
So they rode and danced and dined
together throughout the four months
winter, while Mrs. Burton beamed pro-
priety and conveniently went to sleep.
There was no definite engagement.
but Just the mutual understanding which
seems almost sweeter when you are
young and foolish. and the world Is
gay-the state which ''versteht sich Won
selbst,'' as the expressive German phrase
goes.
Frewin wrote home fanciful accounts.
In confidence. to his favorite sister 1T
is curious fact that most griflns do
this, and wrote Rose many chits when
he should have been attending to The
service of government. The spring wind
blew rose leaves through their small
thing
March brought back Nazras summer
population. including sundry of the
heaven born, without whose guiding
hands the station managed to do very
well during the winter months, but who
were absolutely necessary to the work
ing of things there when it began to
warm up In the plains.
Old c. S. men, with many rupees and
few joys. owing TO their touchy livers-
or their wives. younger ditto, to whom
Nara meant little work. much gayety.
and many nirtations. and who voted
India immense" not being able to
see from their comfortable place on the
top rung that Anglo India was situated
chiefly at the bottom of the latter. in
steaming plains. where there vas small
leisure and less heart for polo and lawn
tennis: sick men who had been con
siderately sent up by their firms in
order TO save giving them six months to
England: men without their wives, long