Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-12-14

royal forickshire regiment, he said.
Betty had heard tales about English
men pretending TO be what they were
not, but the colonel looked honest
enough, and the girl was haIf ashamed
81 herself when she went TO library in
the city and took doWna British military
gazette from the shelf anu looked Tor
loyal Horlckshire regiment She found
i all right, and with the name OF Reg
maid Southeote set down as colonel
thereof.
From that time Betty was very cor
dial 10 the colonel. She turned ire con
Yersation occasionally on the Beer war,
expecting 70 hear some deeds OF daring
modestly told, but the colonel was
strangely silent on the subject Of field
service, and Betty put il down to a
brave mans reticence when 1t came to
speaking Of his own acts on the field ol
battle. Betty might not have liked it
had she known that when she was look
ing up the colonel's regiment he was
making inquiries in certain financial cir
eies about the extent OF her bank ac-
count. The report seemed to please
him, and he proceeded to make hay
while the sun shone. and ii was a particu-
iarly cloudless month at Lowland Glen.
Betty knew with a girls intuition that
an offer was not far away. She felt a
pang, however, every time she saw Capt.
Lanyard. and saw how miserable he
looked, though he tried to put a brave
face on the matter If the truth be
told, Betty cried little in the privacy
Of her room when she looked at the
glorious old flag floating in the sunshine
at the lagstaff peak in the fort beyond,
and sighed. and sighed again
One day Lawyer Coke. who looked
after Betty Rawlins estate, heard from
a close friend that a certain English
man had been inquiring about Betty's
financial standing Fortune hunter II
not a fraud, said old Coke to himself,
and then. as luck would have it, he
happened to pick up a copy of the
Broad Arrow, the journal OF the united
services Of Great Britain Lawyer Coke
looked at f. His eye fell on a para
graph and nc chuckled He folded the
paper up, put Il in his pocket and took
the first train for Lowland Glen. He
marked the paragraph In the paper and
put Il where he knew Betty would be
sure to pick it up. and from the nature
OF the publication he knew that she
would be sure TO read Il from start TO
finish
Betty Rawlins felt that the hour was
coming when she would have to an
swer a question put to her by Col. Reg
inald southcote. She was thinking OF
this when she picked up the Broad Ar
row. She knew what the paper was,
for she had heard Of II. She read It
eagerly. The date Of the paper was
three months back. The marked para
graph caught her eye She read this:
Gen. Powell-Baden inspected the
Royal Yorkshire regimnt last Thurs
day. It was the first training day OF
this militia organization for a year
The men were In poor trim, and Col.
REGINALD Southeote. who has seen no
foreign service and very little at home
had hard work to give commands and
to sit his horse properly. The regiment
will need overhauling to bring II up 70
even militia standards
The paper dropped from Betty's fin
gers. Millitiaman, never saw days
real service: couldn't sit on his horse; "
and then Betty gasped Her thoughts
turned 70 another paragraph that she
had read in an American journal II
told how one Capt Roy Lanyard had
received the congressional medal Of
honor for personal gallantry in the saw
ing OF the life of a comrade under fierce
fire in the Philippine islands.
Betty knew that night at the ball at
the hotel that Col. Reginald Southcote
was seeking her out, but she avoided
him. Capt. Roy Lanyard met her and
she smiled on him, and there was look
in her eyes that made the young SOL
dier's heart leap. Wont you go for a
walk with me?" he said.
yes" she answered, softly
As they passed down the hotel steps
the moonlight fell fun upon them, and
LAWYER Coke. who was standing on the
veranda. smiled, and, being a bit Of
wag he turned TO a friend who had
been watching the course Of events for
a month past and said:
Alas, Poor Yorkshire Chicago
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