The Washington times., 1904-01-03
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.

~ city RAwLINS had a bank ac-
X count, and "a large one at that.
L. But Betty had greater fortune
in her face. for she was as pretty
as d spring beauty, and though she vas
perverse and pouty when she wanted
Go be she was ordinarily as sweet as a
violet
Betty lived in the summer time al
Lowland Glen. not many miles removed
from Fort Sherman, a big garrison with
enough young officers on duty to fill the
ranks of company had they been
forced to drop the sword and shoulder
the g-Jorgensen. 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 th-ak OF looking at anything
less than "A colonel. and when she
thought Of it she sighed. for the colo
nels in Uncle Sans regiment were all
so dreadfully old. and Betty was only
nineteen, mind you.
There was young Roy Lanyard sta
toned at Fort Sherman. He was
mighty good looking Betty admitted
hard to love MIN. but Roy was only a
captain. and nothing but a colonel
would do. Captain Lanyard, to get into
the middle Of things at once. was Just
as desperately in love with Betty as a
young soldier 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 gave it a thought II was
just pretty Betty herself that he want
ed, but ne didn't dare say so.
Now Betty had another falling. not
uncommon among American girls not
old enough thoroughly to understand
that Yankee husbands are the best in
the world, and that was firm belief
that the ideal condition in married life
would be that which would come from
husband who was a combination Of
Erglishman and English army officer.
The colonies are younger over there. -
said Betty to herself. and they are all
Of aristOcratic family. and, Oh well.
Erglishmen are just too lovely fer any
thing
The summer colony at Lowiand Glen
was unusually large that season. There
were punches Of swell doIngs. as the
slangy 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 Rawlins. Betty saw the evidence
clearly. and how she did wish that the
president would retire some few hun
drcds Of superior officers so that Roy
Lanyard could tack the abbreviation
col" TO the front part Of his name.
One day there was excitement at Low
land Glen. Mrs. Calumet had invited
two Englishmen, one OF them an army
| officer. 10 spend the month with them
at their summer ONE. The news reach
ed Betty the morning after the arrival
of the Calumets' two guests. Two young
women had told her about it. lie, the
girls alone for spreading news OF this
kind. And Betty, said one Of her in
forrnants ''one OF the Englishmen is a
colonel in his maJesty's service, and
young and good looking at that.
Betty's heart gave thump. AT last -
she nlurmured TO herself.
The next afternoon Betty met the
! Englishmen at the Dexter Country
! Club. Her heart fiuttered little as
1 the younger Of the TWO men-the other
was old and out of the running-was in
troduced TO her. Col Reginald South
| cote was his name. It fairly rang Of
aristocracy and militarism. Betty knew
that he was a simon-Dure 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. Ray Lanyard looked on and was
miserable Betty gave him two dances
and about three words during the en-
tire week
mo show for one Of Uncle Sans poor
artillerymen when there's one OF klng
Edward men with a drawl and a mon
Ocle about. sighed poor Captain Roy
Col Reginald Southcote was not Ions