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

I've written her that / have been
ordered out there and must report at
my station at once. No time to be
married here She is to go out to join
me on the ship 1 sail in today, but
doesn't know that | will be aboard.
What / am aiming at is to win her
over again. She will never recognize
in the bearded man of thirty the
smooth faced cadet of twenty. She
knows that I'm in the infantry, and
what want your suit with its artillery
facings for is to complete the decep-
tion."
II see-what you are after is to win
your fiancee from yourself
'Or anew"
well, Morris, all i have to say Is
that, judging from my experience with
women, l expect you'll succeed"
But don't you see that in either case
1 win?"
"Oh, don't care whether Captain or
Cadet Norris is to be the lucky man.
you've no romance in you, Haw-
kins. For my part l don't consider
marriage without the spice of romance
in it anything more than a business
contract"
Take care that you don't have so
much romance that you'll lose the girl"
NONSENSE! A woman is woman,
to be won, held or taken away until
she is wife. Then she becomes
amenable to what we call honor and
not before. Marian Singleton was the
most desperate fiirt who ever tackled
the corps Of cadets, She moved us
down as with Calling gun. But l
believe she Is q good woman. I'll
draw her into her old habit. She'll
firt with me, but she'll tell me that
her hand is promised and she will not
marry me, or at least without her
fiance's release. Don't you see what
a delicious situation it will be for me
to release her so that she can marry
mel"
"Oh, don't bother me with your love
games. What do they all end in for
us army men anyway? Logging half
a dozen children from post to post,
to have a ranking bachelor officer turn
us out of our quarters when he takes
q fancy to do So Here's your uniform.
/ think it will nit you exactly. All I
ask in return for it is that you shall
write me as to whether Cadet or Cap
tain Morris wins the girl
'I'll do it. What's more, I'll keep a
diary noting down how the affair pro-
crosses and send it to you when the
matter is decided"
In the time required for a trip to
the Philippines and return Captain
Hawkins received fat envelope, the
main points of which are contained in
the following synopsis:
Sept. 5.
Sailed this afternoon. Didn't recog-
nize Marian till / got the purser to
point her out to me. She is changed
from giddy girl of eighteen to a
dignified woman Of twenty:seven. Still,
l can see in her traces of those facul-
ties so attractive to men with which
she bowled us all down at West Point.
She seems to be under the care Of a
gentleman about forty years old, who
is starting on tour of the world.
Sept. Z.
Have concluded to consider myself
corps of observation for awhile.
Marian spends lot Of time on deck
with Merton, the gentleman who ap-
pears to have her under his care. He
Is very smooth cut man, and lady
who knows him tells me that he is
very intelligent. He seems also to
have plenty Of money. Marian, am
quite sure, is at least flirting with
him, and there may be something deep
er In her intentions. 1t doesn't seem
to matter whether l am in the infan.
try or the artillery so far as she is
concerned. I don't appear to cut any
figure in the matter at all.
Sept. 8.
Have been introduced to Marian as
Captain WitEers. She received me as
she receives every one-cordially--but
there was not the slightest sign Of rec
ognition. 1 would have been more like
ly to recognize her than she to recog-
nize me, since / have bushy beard
and am pretending to be In a different
corps from what she expects. pass
ed half an hour with her on deck