Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-12-21
The Man Who w uld
Never Betray
tcepyrisA,. Ioo,. b. Joseph .. BowIs.l
By cosMo HAMILTON

tcopyrisht. isos. By Joseph D.. Bowlss-l
I want you 10 tell me. I've got my
own ideas on the matter. Was Din
ton coward or llari
There IL Q woman In the story. and
Dinton has . straight nose. . hns
mustache. and no stands six foot one
In his socks.
Canon Dlnton had one son, MAJ
Carbis one daughter. Their houses
lay near to each other In village out
side Gloucester.
Harry Dinton and Mary savernaks
Carbis knew each other by sight before
either was able TO pass the time Of
day In words tabulated by johnson
For some years they were wheeled oui
side by side. For some years they ran
together hand In hand. Then came
Harrow, and q ''school for the daugh'
ters of gentlemen" at Brighton. In
the holidays they raced on ponies
blackberried and kissed each other In
o brother-and-sister way. Then the
boy entered the SHOP" o. his father
had wished to do before him, and the
girl remained at Brighton. In the
holidays they still raced on ponies
played tennis and golf; but they black
berried and kissed each other no more
In o brother way. At II
they were. very secretly (no one must
know, engaged to be married. Har'
rvs mustache could be twisted; Just
half Mary's hair had gone up.
Jove. how time slips on from chapter
70 chapter!
Harry Dinton grew into Q fine young
man. straight-backed. clean-eyed, hard
Of hand. On the great day upon which
he came down to the drawing-room In
his first uniform he looked evory inch
o soldier.
"Will he do. Dinton? VIII he do?"
said the major. with Q slight moisture
In the corners Of his eyes. due very
likely to govt.
Hes q credit" replied Canon Din.
ton, In the stiffsst speech he ever per-
petrated, due, very likely. to govt also,
"to his father. to his friends. and to
che nation"
Eth. Mary my dear, eh?"
Eyes. indeed" said Mary, while in
her heart she cried: Hes man. and
he's mine-he's mine"
And then Harry "ioined." and began
70 live az most Of them live: no bought
things he couldn't AFFORD. and gambled
and paid up with other peoples money.
and fiirted little with young married
women. Soon. quite soon. his mental
perspective began to change. The
three figures which hitherto had
dwarfed all others In his sight became,
respectively, dear old dad" afunny
old chap" poor little Mary"
Poor little Mary read. and re-read,
and kept his letters-we know the let
ters-and laid her flowers. her heart
her faith. her trust. at the foot Of ths
pedestal upon which she had placed
the image Of the man who would never
betray. For you must understand that
Mary was no ordinary girl.
She was hero worshiper. an enthu-
siast, an optimist. Q believer In things;
she was very simple. 30 far a. she
knew, she had never possessed moth
or. you will remember. Her environ
ment also kept her from becoming "a
other girls are. The country was all
she needed. Her garden. her animals,
the management Of her fathers house,
filled her days. Her designations were
the croquet matches she played with
the Canon and her father. till the light
failed. to be followed by cut-throat
bridge with them under the green
shaded lamp. She needed no frocks.
She attended no sales. She borrowed
NO money. She met no smart" peo-
nile. She saw no life. but she lived
to her own complete satisfaction In her
dull. stupid village. There were the
letters, you will remember. eve know
the letters.)
Do not for a moment run away with
the notion that Harry did not believe
the high-Aown. not badly-worded SEN
timents he professed tri-weekly to the
young woman DO was TO marry. Al
that time he did, although he received
many three-cornered notes from MRS,
Tarporley, who kept open house and
possessed no available husband. he
said to himself that the whole thins
was different: that. really and truly,
Mary was the only woman In the
world. zone has to be ordinarily civil.
don't y see." And 20. to the surprise
of his best pal. he still continued te
play the game. more or less according
TO rules.
Then came Q day when the regiment
was ordered to India. Harry spent hii
leave at home. For the nrst few day.
the general petting he recsived was
very pleasing. Then the croauet bored
him. and playing bridge for love didn't
amuse. It was all 20 quiet. % siow.
% off-the-map. There were many
things he was missing. the opera. with
but that doesn't matter: . new play:
q polo match ct HuriinGham. o.
course, Mary was the most beautiful
girl In the world and al that: but why
didn't somebody tell her not 10 weai
dresses cut In that wayf Thsy weren't
worn. And her hair-nobody ala haiI1
In that outrs manner. Everything irri.