Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-05-09


stopped writing. pen poised In air, as
II she had suddenly been petrided.
The newcomer was the first to
speak. She fairly gushed: Harry
Mallory-of all people"
kitty! Kathleen! Miss Leweliyn!"
Just to think Of meeting you
again"
Just to think Of It,"
And on this train of all places"
"On this train OF all places!"
"Oh. Harry. Harry"
"Oh, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!"
you dear fellow, it's SO long since
saw you last"
$50 long,"
ut was at that last hop at West
Point, remember?-why,i It seems only
yesterday, and how we'll you are look
ing. You are we'll. aren't your
mot very" He was hopping his
brow In anguish. and yet the room
seemed strangely cold.
70. course you look much better In
your uniform. You aren't wearing
your uniform, are your
mo, this Is not my uniform"
"You haven't left the army. have
you?"
Il don't know yet"
Don't ever do that. You are just
beautiful In brass buttons"
Thanks"
Harry"
whats the matter now?"
This tie, this green tie, isn't this
the one knitted you?"
Il am sure ! don't know, l Dor
rowed it from the conductor
Don't you remember? did knit
you one"
Did you? | believe you did! /
think | wore 1t out"
"Oh, you tickle boy. But see what
have. What's this?"
He stared through the CLASSY eyes
of complete helplessness. 1T looks
like a bracelet"
Don't tell me you don't remember
thIs!-the little bangle bracelet you
gave me-"
"D-did l give you a baygled brang-
LETT"
"Of course you did. And the in
scription. Don't you remember IT."
She held her wrist in front OF his
aching eyes and he perused as II it.
were his own epitaph, what she read
aloud for him. From Harry to Kitty,
the Only Girl / Ever Loved"
Good night" he sighed to himself.
and began to mop his brow with
Snoozleums.
You put 1t on my arm said kath-
leen, with a moonlight sigh, land I've
always worn It,"
"Always?"
Always! no matter whom l was
engaged to-"
The desperate wretch. who had not
dared even to glance in Marjorie's d.
rection, somehow thought he saw
straw OF self-defense. You were en-
gagged to three or four others when
was at West Point"
II may have been engaged to the
Others" said Kathleen. moon-eyeing
him, but | always liked you best.
Clifford-er, TOMMY mean Harry"
You got me at last"
Kathleen fenced back at this:
We'll. I've no doubt you have had a
dozen affairs since"
oh. no! My heart has only known
one real love" He threw this over
her head at Marjorie, but Kathleen
seized 1t. to his greater confusion:
"Oh. Harry, how sweet OF you to say
It. 1t makes me feel positively faint"
and she swooned his way. but he
showed a chair forward and let her
collapse into that. Thinking and hop
Ing that she was unconscious, he
made ready to escape, but she caught
him by the coat, and moaned: Where
am II" and he growled back:
I'm the Observation Carl"
Kathleen's life and enthusiasm re-
turned without delay: Fancy meet
ing you again! could just scream"
so could l."
"You must come up In our car and
see mamma"
rs Ma.mamma with you" NAL
lory stammered, on the verge of i'm
becility.
"Oh, yes, indeed. we're going
around the world"
Don't let me detain you"
Papa is going round the world
also"
rs papa on this train, too"
At last something seemed to EN-.
barrass her trifie: mo, papa went
on ahead. Mamma hopes to overtake
him. But papa is a very good trav-
eler."
Then she changed the subject. do
come and meet mamma. 1t would
cheer her up SO. She IS 80 fond OF
you. Only this morning she was say.
Ing, OF all the boys you were ever
engaged to, Kathleen. the one l like
most Of all was Edgar mean Clar-
ence-er-Harry Mallory"
"Awfully kind of her"
You must come and see her-she's
some stouter now!"
"Oh, is she? Well, that's good
Mallory was too angry to be sane.
and too helpless to take advantage OF
his anger He wondered how he could
ever have cared for this molasses
and mucilage girl. He remembered
now that she had always had these
same cioying ways. She had always
paved him and, like everybody but
the pawers, he hated paving.
It would have been bad enough at
any time to have Kathleen hanging
on his coat, Strengthening his tie,
leaning close, smiling up in his eyes,
losing him his balance, recapturing
him every time he edged away. But