Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1904-07-11


E6GNSol ditions Of happiness, # only
&@@Rs@1 had SO and so, or If / only
were So-and-so, and the thing is done.
Each successive state, however, sug
gests one more happy, and each graft
fed wish leads to another desire more
imperative. Miss Katharine Wilton,
however, did not confine her conditions
to units. There were in her case three
requisites for happiness-perfec hap
piness and could they have been salts
fled in all probability she wotsa1 have
come as near to the wished for state as
poor humanity on this earth ever does
come to that beatific condition. She
certainly thought so and with charac
teristic boldness had not refrained from
communicating her thoughts to her fa-
ther.
The astonishing feature Of the situ-
alton was that he was inclined to agree
with her. There was nothing astonish-
ing In itself In his agreement with her,
for he usually did agree with her, but
in that her conditions were really his
own. For 1t is rare, blessedly so, that
two people feel that they require. the
same thing to complete the joy of life,
and when they parallel on three points
tbs most remarkable. Even two low
ers require each othey-very different
things, / am sure. Stop! I am not so
sure about the third proviso with the
colonel. I say the third because Miss
Wilton put it number three. though.
perhaps it was like a woman's post
script, which somehow suggests the
e. L~%A
ture-the last, not will be, but should
be, first.
Here are the requisites: Ffrst-The
flag floating gracefully from the peak
of the spanker GAIT above them In the
light air Of the sunny afternoon should
be the stars and stripes instead OF the
red cross Of ST. George Second-The
PROV Of the ship should be turned to
the wooded shores of Virginia, and the
Old Dominion should be her destina
ton instead Of the chalk cliffs Of Eng
land! Third-That a certain handsome,
fair, blue eyed, gallant sailor, who an
swered to the name of John Seymour,
should be by her side instead of anoth-
err, even though that other were one
who had once saved her life and to
whose care and kindness and fore
thought she was much indebted. Her
present attendant was certainly gen
tleman, and to an unprecedented eye,
which hers certainly was not, quite as
handsome and distinguished and gal
LIANT as was his favored rival, and boast
ing one advantage over the other in
that he bore titled name not such a
III finn Orio OH of
that time, however, as 1t was after
ward destined to become. and in a girl
of the stamp of Miss Katharine Wilton
possibly no advantage at ALL
But, could the heart of that fair dam
sci be known, all talk of advantage or
disadvantage or this or that compen-
satlng factor was absolutely idle. She
was not a girl who did things by
halves, and the feeling which had
prompted her to give herself to the
young sailor, though of sudden origin,
had grown and grown during the days
of absence and confinement till, in
depth and intensity, it matched his
own. She was not now so sure that,
among the other objects of her adora-
ton, he would have to take the second
heart would lead her to think first of
her country. Insensibly had. his image
supplanted every other, and with all
the passionate devotion of her gener-
Gus southern nature she loved him.
Lord Desborough had ample oppor-
tunity for ascertaining this fact. He
had seen her risk her life for Sey-
mour's own. He could never forget the
glorious picture she made standing
across the PROSTATE form of that young
man, pistol in hand, keeping the mob
AT bay, never wavering, never falter-
ing, clear eyed, supreme. He would
be almost willing to die to haye her do
the like for him. He could still hear
the echo of that bitter cry, Seymour,
Seymour which rang through the
house when they had dragged her
away. These things were not pleasant
"Reminiscences; but, like most other I'm
pleasant memories, they would not
down.
In spite OF all this, however, he had
allowed himself may. his permission,
he vowed, had not been asked-to fall
Violently in love with this little colo
nial maiden, and country maiden at
that. Not being psychologically in
chned, he had never attempted to an
alyZe her charm or to explain his SEN
stations. Realizing the fact, and being
young and therefore hopeful, he had
! mot allowed himself to despair. Real
ly he had some claims upon her. Had
he not interfered she would have been
murdered that night in the dining
room. He had earned the gratitude
then and there of her father and OF
| herself as well, and he had earned
| more of it, too, when he had shot dead
"a certain brutal, rnarauding >blackguard
of the name OF johnson at the first
convenient opportunity, having, recetv-
ed incidentally in return for his mes
sage of death bullet in his own
| breast to remind him that there are al
ways two persons and two chances in
duel
A part OF the debt Of the Wiltons
had been paid by the assiduous and
! solicitous care with which they-Kath.