The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-11

ne might De, hayes was TOO much VI an
abject coward to resent personally any
little attentions which his rivals might
pay to Cat.
His Excellency is minded to pick
the wing of a. chicken for breakfast
said the lady Of the Bugle to her niece
the next morning; "go you over to
Farmer Briggs and get one. Pluck It
had dreamed all night of many things;
OF being "The Capfin's lady," His Ex-
cellency's lady, even of being the
Countess of Galgenstein, while vision
Of laced cloaks and hats with splendid
feathers In them had lowered about her
bed. She was such simple. silly, lit
tie country maid you see. At Cat pass
ed the stables she saw the horse-boy
saddling the two chargers. and learned
from him that the Count and his cor
poral were to ride forth presently with
out waiting for breakfast, the noble
captain having awakened with loath-
Ing for food and a great thirst for
small bear. Pretty. innocent Cat said
nothing. bu tripped on her way. She
had been sent to Farmer Briggs. Why
was It,. then. that mile or two from
the village. In quite another direction
from Farmer Briggs's the noble Count
Max Won 0algenstein. riding his coal
black warhorse. with its silver trimmed
furniture and its scarlet horse cloth,
ing flowers by the wayside in the
freshness of the morning the while she
warbled little rustic ballad? Did the
pretty songstress hear the hoofs, of
the approaching horse or see, out of
the corners of her eyes, the horseman
stealthily dismount and come up close
behind her? Oh, no; not in the least.
Cat was too much absorbed In her fow-
ers and her singing. And when the
Count, taking on his gold-laced hat,
said: Your humble servant, my dear"
she gave little start and scream and
palpitated; "Oh, how you scared me. to
be sure. your lordship!"
The two had long talk there in
the fowery fields with the result that
when old Brock came up with his re-
cruits Mistress Cat. using the toe of the
Counts polished boot for q stepping
stone was lifted by him upon the crup-
per behind him. and SO rode away with
the noble captain into that world of
which such visions had haunted her
dreams the night before.
'Egad." Count Max used to say IN
after years when he was on the subject
Of his conquests, II bore her or on my
black horse like-like Aeneas did his
wife from the siege of Rome"
So Mistrtss Catherine was now the
Captains lady, and had all the fine
clothes OF which she had dreamed
one Of the parties to It is profession
al lady-killer. are likely to be of short
duration and sudden end To do the
captain Justice, this one would have
been SO had he had his way, for in q
noieh, IN month
three rann.hs ~ nes ansry. IN
ans p.vSeeueu 70 piows
ever threw cat ~ M Tue is,e Lnas
SAID he one dav whar
griess 70 rsornora, prnn1- ..y auns nis
toe had hss,, c,,t ~ hasa... wssneo my
cd as a ladder 10 tbia i,ttia 1880
About a wear after the $500
carried or Catherfne thev xvera i,v,n1
In Birmingham. where ina T,o,,rx h.S
placed himself In FUNDS slyvr aexAr,.ss,ng
his skill at cards aeainat 4 Satr 49,
warwfckshirec saufre. ana bav,ns,
bought four new laced coats frecuent-
cd the assembIy rooma ana cast his
eye about for q rich bride. He dis
missed hts servants made Catherine 40
her own work as wen as wait unon
him, and plainly fntimated that ha.
wished she would take herself or
Catherine replied to his intimat,ons ~,
throwing plates legs of mutton. anv-
thing which came handy at his head
and one day chased the noble captain
around the dining room with a carving
knife--and would have used 1t too, had
not Corpiral BLOCK tnterfered and
disarmed the virago. GaIgenstein de-
clared he could not stand such a life
any longer ana his faithful corporal
at once presented himself as a sacri-
fee. offering to marry Catherine at
once and take her off the captains
hands. The matter being preached to
the fair Cat, she heaped insult ana
contumely upon the corporal and threw
water jug at the Counts head
Her condition was now such that
even Galgenstein hesitated to take de-
cisive measures with her Just at pres
ent In short. Catherine was about
to become a mother.
Soon after that Interesting event
occurred, the child, a sturdy boy, was
placed at nurse with the family of a
blacksmith named Billings in a neigh
borhoring village. and the captain
again bent his energies to getting rid
of Cat. He had hooked his rich heir
ess and proposed to a pot-fouse COM
panion of hts one Tom Tippet, to turn
Catherine over to him. "As for TINT
ScoundreI of a Brock" said he to Tom
.he really is too bad. I must get rid
OF him. too. Egad, I will have him
drummed out of the army"
NJ prook having ovarbeara through
49,. a. az din,ns roon, aoor az
thonghtt,i little. arrsneements when
hi. nah1a commandar was making for
h.saYs "a ME- CO.. stratght-,a1 70
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