The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1910-11-25

"How DOES FAPA SEEM TO TAKE 1T NOw2"
then followed, unhampered even by
his arch enemy, Fitzroy. who slipped
away to the stables three minutes after
the close of the conference. But he
was not even there when. along In the
spring, Mr.. and Mrs. Rawdon came
out for visit to DR.. Mayhem. Like
Rawdon. he had received his dis
charge. Unlike Rawdon. there was
serious objection TO his re-enlistment.
Even Snafiie dare not take him on"
again.
1t was not until mid-May that the
bodies Of the missing were found save
that of Cary. Cary, who, having been
given up for lost, turned up most I'M
expectedly the very day that FitZroy,
applicant for re-enlistment. was sum-
marily turned down. But Cary came
not Of his own volition. He marched
with a file of the guard. Cary's story
was simple enough. Rawdon and
Lowndes had hardly got away on the
train when Sergeant Stowell and his
party came searching. Cary hid. He
was still half drunk. Some one told
him of Kelly's arrest and charged him
with that and with running off the
Fosters sleigh. He dared not face
the music. He forgot his precious mis-
sive to Dora Mayhem until next day.
Then the storm held him. Not until
the fire night did he summon up cour-
age to sneak home. He had no money
left and could buy no more liquor. He
stole into Lanier's back door to return
the civilian suit and recover the caval-
Rafferty's room. He could hear the
lieutenant moving about overhead. He
had to strike light. He struck sew
eral matches, found the clothes, slip
ped out Of the "cits" and into his own.
He was cold and numb. He knew
there was liquor on the sideboard in
the middle room. The craze was on
him, and he risked 1t. He struck more
matches and threw the burning stumps
to the floor, drank his fill, then stum-
bled away, intending to give himself
up to his first sergeant for absence
without leave. Back round by way Of
the store and the east front he went,
but before he could reach the bar
racks came the appalling cry Of fire
Lanier's quarters-his doing beyond
doubt. and now, in dismay and terror,
he fed from the post. Poor Cary had
Ianier to plead for him before his trial,
but three months hard labor was the
least the law would allow.
BY this time, too, another wedding
WAS announced as near at hand. Only
two days did Mr.. Arnold and Aunt Ag-
mes allow Miriam in which to prepare
for the homeward journey, but 1t Is
safe to say that in that brief time their
views of frontier life and people had
undergone marked amendment, for
they had found an old expounder Of
their faith in the post chaplain for one
thing and many surprising facts as to
officers, men and Indians for another.
There came bright wntry afternoon
at the flag end Of the year when the
station platform held lively little as
sembly waiting for the eastbound ex-
press. The colonel and his wife were
there, the former by no means the
bloodthirsty warrior Of the elders imag-
ination. The STANDARDS had come In,
and the Sumters. Kate and Dad Ennis
the chaplain, and both doctors, and all
these surrounded the brother and sister
and held them in CHEEKY converse. while
Bob and Miriam sauntered. self GEN.
tered. away.
Lanier's eyes were glowing as he
drew her to his heart and gazed down
into the depths of those uplifted to his.
THAT brute of train has been late
for a week." said he. "but today It
comes on time 1t is going to be a
long, long wait for May. How does
papa seem to take II now?'
Papa is quick to make amends when
he has wronged any one, and now he
knows"
"well, so does Aunt Agnes. Miriam,
yet she doesn't approve"
well. Aunt Agnes. don't you know
she's different. She's good deal
like other women know. When she's
placed somebody else In false posi-
tiVn she thinks that person ought to
be very sorry for her and sympathize
with her for having been deceived and
misled. She thinks you ought to say
how sorry you are"
How can say I'm sorry when I'm
so glad-all gladT
well, then, there's Cousin Watson.
don't you know. He was always her
pet. He was brought up by a weak
mother and a doting aunt. and she
knows you don't approve of him."
Does she expect a man to approve
who maliQnad him aa Inwndea