The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-19

Ethel Harbin was com.ng through
the grounds toward them. Her face
was clouded by a dark frown, and she
was visibly excited.
Its all off, she announced as she
came up.
Where is the usual hero?" asked
Graydon.
I'm through with the real army
They've dismissed me- That is, father
and mother have. They are driving
me to the Salvation Army" she ex.
claimed, seating herself beside Gray.
don. Il wish l were Jane and my own
mistress"
Dear me. Ethel, what an ambition, ~
said Jane. What has happened t.,
upset you so?"
Father has
~ should have asked who, not
| what"
Il suppose they expect me to marry
Salvation Army man. They say Har.
~ isn't good enough. think he LIS q
very moral young man."
Harry Who is Harry7''
why, haven't you heard? Harry
| Soper. I'm engaged to him."
The lieutenant
Certainly. He's going to be pro-
NOTED, though, If he ever gets on the
firing line It's not his fault that he
has to do duty In the walled city. He's
aching to get out and fight But
father Here she paused, her lips
coming together with a firmness that
BODIED i'll.
Colonel Hardin doesn't approveT"
mo. He says Harry is a little pup
| It's outrageous, Jane"
Don't cry, dear. The world is full
Of men,"
Not for me-" said Ethel dolefully.
I've picked Harry out of hundred
l,or more, and 1 think my discrimina-
ton ought to be considered. I'm the
one to be satisfied. Father has no.
But how about that young fellow
back in New York? You used to say he
was the only ONE
He is the only one in New York.
But look how far off he is, 1t takes
weeks for his letters to get to me-"
But he writes every day"
Harry telephones every day. I tell
you, Jane, the voice has a good deal to
do with it. You like to hear n fellow
say nice things. 1t beats ink ali to
pieces. 1t will go hard with him per
| haps, but he's young. He'll get over
| it."
You are young too. That is why you
| have got over George"
I'm not as young as l was. But I've
| decided on Harry. If father doesn't
let us get married right away I'm liza
| Bile to get over him too. It's silly doing
| that all the time. One might never get
married. you know. But father is firm.
He says I can't. and he says he'll kick
| Harry into the middle Of next summer.
| Father says / shall not marry into the
| regular army. He says they don't
make good husbands. I've got the
| joke on him, though. He appealed TO
I mother. and she forgot herself and
said the same thing. They were quar-
reling about 1t VIXEN left the hotel
1t was an awful jar to father. For two
| cents I'd elope with Harry
1T would be pretty difficult for an
/ officer on duty to elope. don't you
Think" asked Graydon, am~sed.
Not IL he loved the girl. He does
too. But haven't told you the worst
| Mother says 1 am being absolutely
spoiled out here In Manila, and she
says fatty that she's going to take me
| back to the States. Isn't ii awfult"
Back to the fellow in New York ?
smiled Jane encouragingiy.
Ethel thought for a moment, and a
dear little smile came into her troubled
| eyes.
Il hope he hasn't gone and fallen In
| love with some other girl she said
| 1t was true, az Jane soon learned
| that Mrs. Hardin had concluded to re
turn to the United States with Ethel
| James aunt had grown Unnecessarily
| tired of Mainland perhaps a little
more tired OF the colonel. It was she
who aroused the colonel's antipathy tc
little Lieutenant Soper. She dwelt
upon the dire misfortune that was pos
sible il Ethel continued to bask n. the