The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-26

love with the widow or not. As he had
secured leave Of absence for fOu,-
months 1t seemed to him that he might
ashore
But when the steamer reached Gil
braltdr the ring suddenly found the
sahd being cut from under its feet bv
the undertoW- The "undertow'' came
aboard at that point. He was a tall.
solid man. with a merry eve and an
open face. and his manner was friend
~. 1t was safe TO say that ne was not
me scion Of aristocTats. and that he
mad neither a college diploma nor A
knowledge Of the rules of social ETH
queIte- He had scarcely slowed ayvav
his things in a Stateroom when he
made a bOlG-faced ATTEMPT to break
down the ring" Sir George was nae
ing the deck with his cigar when the
new arrival walked up to him and said:
II Keep you company if you don't
mind captain. I've been waiting here
Tor a week and I'm dOS-tired of old
Glib Plenty of guns and redcoats and
all that. but do you know I couldn't
tind cocktail in the whole place?
Positive fact, sir. Never even heard of
one. Think of a town without a cock
taiIr'
Sir George halted. Then he slowly
raised his monocle and adjusted it. He
stared at the stranger for d long half
minute before he exclaimed
sir, are you addressing me?"
BY George, but you're a cool old
boy" unused the other in tones of ad-
mira ton. Standing on etiquette. eh2
Well. maybe l was too previous. Ny
names JOslyn-COlonel Joslyn of Da-
kota. L. s A. I've got a sworn affi-
davit in my trunk from our county
sheriff that I've never been arrested
for murder. You've got a name, L sup
pOse?"
Sir" gasped the Englishman, as he
continued to stare.
And I'm making a little pleasure
trip all by my lonesome continued the
colonel Always said 1 would if / ever
got money enough. How are you on
poker 1 haven't played a game in
three months and am beginning to feel
hOmeSiCk.
Sir Georges hand went up to his
glass. The glass was removed from his
eye. Hand and glass fell together.
Then he faced about and walked off as
erect as a West Pointer. Colonel JOS
Iyn had been Snubbed. There were five
or six people looking on and enjoying
the affair. and they expected to hear
some outburst on the colOnefs part.
There was none. however. He merely
rubbed his hands together and smiled
and said to himself:
The old cock is either a jolly or else
he's standing on his dig because we
don't rent pews in the same church.
III see him later"
only half an hour had passed when
Colonel JOSlyn ran across the marquis.
The Frenchman had just finished a
promenade with Miss Blackman, and
had received what he felt sure was en-
enlargement.
Going TO stop at Malt?'' asked the
colonel i'm his easy going way, as he
extended a cigar in his fingers
The marquis smiled family and
shrugged his shoulders. He had seen
Sir George snub the American, and he
felt it a duty TO follow his example.
Don't understand, Ell? Well, il don't
matter much. 1 was just going to ask
if there was anything worth seeing If
YOU could talk English I'd also ask you
who that girl is you were walking
about with. I'll be hanged IL she isn't
the perfect picture of the Widow Tay-
lor's daughter Hetty. I've been a lit
tie sweet on Hetty for year or two
past. and when I first saw you with
Ghat girl my heart jumped into my
mouth
The marquis bit his lip and smiled
and shock his head and walked Off. but
If he thought he had snubbed Colonel
Joslyn he was mistaken. As he could
not speak English, and as the Colonel
could not speak French, how could
there have been snub
II was two or three days before an
other attempt was made to break up
the ring" Then the colonel met
TSr{ttman in the smoking room. The
situation was palmer now, and there
was a fatherly twang in the cOloneFs
tone as he said;
Look here. mister want to say
word or two for your own good It's
seldom I mix up in anybodys rows, but
l hate TO see d man fighting without
fair show"
WHO YOU vhas2" asked the attache
with considerable dignity, but not half
as much as he might have assumed had
not the Widow WOeburn refused him
an hour before.
Names Joslyn of the L. S. A. and
I'm doing a little trOtting about alone:
! see you belong to that little ring
but YOU are simply throwing your time
away"
The attache could not make out the
coIoneTs meaning until the case had
Faen gone over again and again. Then
he was furious. II was bad enough for
a stranger 10 approach him in that
blunt fashion. but for the same man 20
mix 1Ip in his love affair and give him
fatberIy advice was beyond endurance
10 wanted to swear and pound on the
+abIe and tell the colonel what he
Thought OF him. but his good breeding
restrained him. He simply sat bolt
upright and glared. The colonel tried
20 60 on but even he was nOnplussed-
Pm and bN the attaChe got uD and
walked away. AS he moved Off his
looks and bearing indicated that ne
had never heard of Colonel Joslyn of
Dakota. or Of the United States of
America. They were as nothing to
him.