Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-25

pCth toohs oi III thiC o'CSiaSV, lhVAC are too many descendants for the first class passengers alone. After consd- ering for a minute l said in rather an embarrassed way that I wasn't quite sure yet whether I would be either"
 "You must be one or the other, you know, or you'll be like the bat in the fable who was neither bird nor beast, and so was out of all the fun on both sides. I may be prejudiced, but I ad- wise you to be a cadets lady. And you'd better decide now on account of tonight"
 "Tonight?" l repeated, puzzled.
 "Yes, on account of making out your card. Say, Lady Betty, if you are go- ing in with us, can make out your ! card"
 Then arose Clamor. It appeared that they all wanted to make out the card-whatever it was. 1 asked if l couldn't have one from each, but 1t appeared that you couldn't do that. My cadet had spoken first, so he said that he would do 1t, but the others could give me bell buttons and chev- rons and decorate fans for me instead
 "Do you like hops, Lady Betty?" in- quired a perfect pet of cadet, who | looked like a cherub in uniform. "Hops?" I wondered why he should ] ask me such an irrelevant question, but I answered as intelligently as 1 could. T don't know much about them. 1 think they're graceful, but I don't like the smell"
 He looked petrifed. ''The smel?"
 "Yes. II makes one sleepy"
 "I guess we won't give you much chance to be sleepy tonight" said he, "at our hop"
 Then 1 understood. But what . funny thing to call ball-a 'hop"
 They explained, too, when they saw how stupid I was, that you were an officers lady" if you danced with them and walked with them and firt- cadets, or vice versa. Then I decided at once that would be a cadets lady, though I was sorry I had only one night to be it in. They were sorry, too, and showed their sorrow in so many nice ways that l enjoyed myself immensely and quite saw how nice it must feel to be out if you are suc- 1 cess They wanted to draw lots for which cadet should take me to Fir tation Walk, but I said I had to go with Mir Parker.
 He must have been listening from a distance, though he ought to have been I talking with pretty girl who had no hat, for he came up to me at once and announced that it was time to go now. He rather put on airs of having right to tell me what must do, and I didn't like it much, especially before those dear cadets, but it would have been childish to make a fuss. Be sides, l was his guest
 l I went like a disagreeable lamb sulking on it's way to the slaughter; !, but. thank goodness, I was engaged already for nearly all the dances, and most of them had to be split in two, there were so many cadets for them. q think, by the by. shall try to get | Stan to take me to Sandhurst some day to see if it is at all like West Point and whether they have hops.)
 Potter made fun of the cadets and called them white neat and little things that got in the way" But when I asked straight question he had to confess that he had been one himself only six years ago. T was twenty-two when I graduated" he said. "One of the youngest men in my class" Which was the same as telling me that he Is twenty-eight now. Ten years older than I am. It makes him seem quite old.
 Somehow, although he is so nice to me in most ways, he stirs me up to feel antagonistic, as though I wanted to contradict him and not like things that he likes, and I believe 1t is the same with him about me, for I make his eyes look angry very often. l felt he was disappointed because I ad- mired the cadets so much and had promised so many dances, and I was in mood to tease him. But I fancy he isn't the kind who would take teasing well, and the scenery he was showing me was so beautiful that presently I resolved to be good.
 We saw Kosciusko's monument, and would insist upon his telling me things about Kosciusko himself, though Potter didn't seem to think him important. And then we began winding our way along a most ex- quisite path overhanging the river. al- ways shadowed by trees. Sometimes 1t was cut through a green arbor. with a light like liquid emeralds. Some 1 times it ran high on the rocks. Some times it dipped down close to the wa ter, but invariably there was just enough room for two, and no more. to walk side by side.
 We met several couples-cadets and girls, young officers and girls-saun- tering or sitting down close together in out of the way places. But by and by we seemed to have passed beyond the inhabited zone. Then Potter asked me if I were not tired from so much walking and If wouldn't like to rest. I said no, and he promptly pretended to be done up. which I thought very 1 silly. But of course I had to sit down by him on rock with a green, moss 1 velvet cushion.
 This is what I've been longing for | all day" said he.
 I hadn't and I was thinking about