The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1903, Page 2

2 THE SUNDAY CALL. ey ~=HIS, the fourth installment of somewhere else, I'll go on. yway. o from the distri i “The Thirteenth District,” con- el 5 cludes Bran Whitlock’s re- . markable book of American politics . l fi and the fateful influence of Washing- . ton society. If you have not read it from week to week you can get tie whole novel complete by buying The Sunday Call of Mar 22 and 29 and y April 5, which with this installment / fi b 3 ‘ 3 be theah, I'm suah, <ui ISTRICT By Brand \Wwhitlock to be addressed 2s contain the whole novel colonel as It pleases any man and he was 3 1 e o I ent regret that ne And then follows next Sunday the conscious of a mor n .Ar\“ ‘:’.(,1 = ash hims v first installment of the new interna- tional novel, “Tainted Gold,” by Mrs. C. N. Williamson, which will be pub- lished in these columns, complete.ir three numbers. It is even stronger, ‘ x : more thrilling and at the same time 8 » ainty la > more charming than “The Mystery 3 Rankin_any more Box,” which, as you doubtless re- o'léan on. ! member, was given to our readers o - ¥ by so swittly. - shortly after The Sunday Call's new a literary policy of publishing the best oo " - ., S at and latest books by the most famous . u azy worid was inaugu- s t have to read be- 1 v e eube- apter, which paints — - g Bt fon > e of the magic and R R B ¥ ali gla ,E s - London stage, to b L ol arceboinal hen Williamson is at Qtats e > Ler best in “Tainted Gold.” grounafo aresque fguro Then in rapid succession will fol- ha : t « ) low that thrilling new American ‘\;4 i s eution novel, “The Master of Appleby,” by ! : N een Rkt L The Gentieman From ¢ ¥ s—ever since oth Tarkington; *“The . e ‘ R 1 ubble,” by Emersou ity air tha e ging < -2 pan n ch pressed aga! ice in his it s 1 me . e ey itk s pau s v Puse white as ¢ wood's speeches his reief was Aaverti with bartender bro with the: green of he bowed leasure of i Ladd of Ce recall out of her scattered memories 1 the glow in her eyes m sve she had bovne him, ail occasion “Co’'se not,” s Dade; ‘“they really that scene didn’t count. Ah was gled all the pressed »n and off with them the hopes she had cherished, a plied y =0 quick. Ah wanted high envy Dade, to whom it had been 800d health to walt to see if—if— given to be there and behold that scer The cdlonel took a 3 the'd take befo’ And how he louking, e that?” straw ar writing y¥o', but they asked Emily when Dade ha told her at sat, warm ) nevah did, only. the last that she could thin< of no more to glossy bos . one with the baron, tell fo meet h 1 \ po’ ol soyl!” Dade turned toward her as if she had do its best armed and had frank ing toward her, “Did that one an unpleasant revelation to make, and that his ar told him so. nc 11 to his disc gaihering his sa- take?’ asked Emily, s esitatingly Well, « f casu she pictured him ber into his lap. with a languld return Emily—he's grown fat!" crats going to nominate N t & a kind of animated Rem- *You shall,”” His to the remoteness her of -the trim, narrow-waisted Beek of New York own experience had r own brown soldier lover. Well, suh.” the col egan, speak- valry boots and spurs, cheek flushed red un- hooked up at his belt, and der his brown skin. ® drawn her to, and with a = y only laughed Ing & with much consideratt ts holster swinging ready He cast a glance about sigh, also, ‘that her heart Yes," she observed, ““Mother Garwood s if he deed to deliver the judg- with gauntlets, t00, @ the armory, striving 80 quickly lost the perfume says his father filled out at his age. ment party P gray campal to shade his eyes. and to hide its bare walls of the youth that a moment _ Then Dade resumed her celebration of sonal ke to s Southe'n g ¥ hief knotted at upder the flags of all before been wafted into it Beck once more, and described for Eml man, of 1's it that reminds m £ e violet jons- that had been Dade was serious an' in- the glories of the army and navy ball. &n old friend of me, wt am vn to tant. And when she had done, she sat, her chin see me ‘Weil, ves. Ah thought it un her little white fist, ard looked dream- to ask that did, but you know, Em, those Ily out of the open window into the cool rememba ¥u'opeans ah simply impossible, 8reen foliage of the trees, where some discussion t's all. robins were building a nest. Emlly like- yeah abc 'And you were engaged to twelve Wwise fell into reverie, and they sat thero T of them! 1 thought the chaperon & long time before = the reverle was feila was an institution of Europe. broker was Dade at last who sald: always Yours couldn’t have watched you Emily, ah mah'ied people happieh than I got F v of aped there, The green ng by, some pick- ts standing stolidly in ed horses, a grizzled officer with a field their tubs offered no place ass, and perhaps some Indlans on their for a tete-a-tete. ponies impudently galloping in far-off She cast one glance his taunting circles, had completed ti ture her young imagir on had made of jer eyes. him “Yo' swo'd theah, fo ened w pic- way, and then dropped But he had presented himself before her instance, is an emblem or that evening as the apotheosis of the full- of vanity,” she went very carefully single people? . discuss dress uniform, with his cavairy caps over on hurriedly, in a final “Oh. (hey're just to see that the ~Thé chiidishness of the question was received him his shoulders—though it had one corner effort to regain her gyrls dew mah'y some one—that's ‘y""‘ o Emily, whose thoughts had po'ch, and heen busy W h the unpleasant task of niggah to \trasting her own girlhood's dreams suhs, we ha nd their fulfillment with the dreams of though I but- 01 esc ? “Yes, it's different with a all thrown back to g e more arm, and possib to show its own yeliow eedom to his right lost note of banter “why do yo' weah it aped ining—and his helmet with its long yel- in a ballroom? Ah low horse-hair plume hanging to his yo' in dangeh? No, American gyrl, yo' know: they Dade and their promise Yquah ous . slonally aceepted Beck's Shoulders, and adding at least a cubit to Yo' me’ely wish to Wwon't be watched, and Ah es- No,” she said in reply. Her volce was all. suhs slonally accepled Beck® his stature, after the cubit of 4 man. show that yo' can caped.” & mere hollaye mate. 5 s g Lic the Army & ¥y ball, DUl When they arrived at the armory, he had handle it skiliful- Dade had raised her arms to Ah yo' all happy?” sald Dade. this old mar - s D N e of the dofied the helmet and- the cape..but it ly in a‘dance- her head, with a graceful pre- es,” Emily answered. Her vol:e He was a £ oy i T .’ndau‘»‘, longer Was only to display himself in the more 'which yo iminary floutish™ to loosen Was stlll pitched on that hollow note. mah troog o hat she would postpone her return SOT8€ous magnificence of his helmet co: can't—" And \er sleeves at the elbaws, and Dade turned her head and looked at The coloned paused agals . v resamption of Doctor 2rranged on his breast with an Intricacy she thrust a i\s withdrawing the pins that Emily. She saw her greaf eyves biinking, ¥ might have time t % D vat cvent that would have bewildered @ jady's maid. hand .nto a fostened her hat. Emjly noticéd the tears brimming to their long lashes. paternal relation 1 e g g and his heavier aiguiilettes, which his de- rent in her that the pins were il headed She looked and wondered, looked as long had ridden witl T g tail as aide-de-camp now entitled him 1o overskirt, and with army buttons, with the "« as she dared. And the wide, wide dis- then went o wear, locped from his right shoulder spread it over sy AHélr bight MOCeNan el CRch BaRecn e O v aat, D e i e Hie shotlfer knots gave himiarn ieos HEn TRl In niasr told of the despoilment of some span by any words, but together they sat, diStinguished gentleme - a of greater broadness. and when he walked '/And those things, wuat do yo' call eavalryman's forage cap. She connected and pondered on the great thing that been brought fo'wahd by theah e B his long saber smote muiitantly against (hem? That heimct co'd, as Leften- these with the buckle Dade wore on L B fo' the high office was T4 - = the wide yellow stripe that ran doms ' ANt Wood $6° Bahiully explamed. f0 e, beit, the plain buckle of the West Poin es, with its hope and Seym nd Baya Now eg. His face. tanned to a chr prown that is ‘to hold yo' helmet on; but yo cadet’s belt, though over the washed gold hope, its othahs you'll rem P gt bv the suns of the Southwest, where he bave Yo' hetmet on now. And those of this one was a monogram of the ini- e and them seemed som - . had been chasing Apaches three Othah things, lak penciis, that knock in tials of Dade's name, “D. E.” in silver —— fellah fav y. N - years, was red to-night with the heat and Mah eyes in dancing, what good ah “Ahthu’ says— ' Dade began, stabbing VI ames seemed to ir o the excitement of this social expres: they? the pins buce into tne hat and flinging Though it was still early in May, favoiably, till BeRugee of the civilization he was so g ad to get _ Sbe touched with the top of her finger ¢ beside her on the coucr, “Oh, Em, he's though the b s of the nation was theah's I meaning - St an Sack ¢ nd his yeliow hair, cropped close his dangling aiguillettes, The touch the deahest man—pe fect umptious! pressing attention, though the reforms the di ah State, - in the military style, was twisting tightly thrilled him Ah must tell yo' abaout him.' promi by the party in power had not Suh & to % deputed And she began a celebration of the been brought to pass, and though two Garwoo would “Did you hear me g soldier, setting him in what was months must elapse before the candidates thereto by his brow into the curls that h he went on, All have cultivated had he been trs is, bowed ¥ ned to her mockery. had not been heard. She young ' = been haze some practical occupatic knew it had not been-heard, and she tried to her the pictaresque atmosphere of a for the Presidency could be nominated. -the acknowledgment t seemed to bs —-— b t their post The eclipsed civilian was glad encugh 10 Sa¥ ‘more, bui her mind would not looked Western army post, and drawing once six before a President coull be elected due the hon rred upon that minded. whenever they caught a glimpse when the band struck up a.wa'tz and WOrk: she caught her breath. They were v 4 WUt more, in all its derails, the plcture she and nearly a vear before he could be in- ! commonwea e i 3 gir] in the fine state of her rescued him from Dade's comparative B > on that side of the great hall. He witn sheworld hag imagine him, bosted and spurred ducted into office, the coming national ‘At the gic name of Davis, the b’ d closer h - the wide d auntleted, riding fofth with his conventions already .wrought & curious man Iit 1 - Nomnethen and g g y g D with Promethean gown, whirling by with their studies of uniforms, for he did ne ; the honor of the ser- quite recover his Individuality with his Did you hear me?” he went on. *‘You new partner, he could a forget i ,' 1 see me 80 if you will. I'll take you ese VOoun of. in the vertiginous ma herc—wi you gc & o ; She laughed sof eyes of her girl- o h flah,” i, g dusty troopers clattering behind to do the effect in the nation flah ntinued, his own lit- n”uf'nfi‘rflnx%rfg‘i\xi tngentle deeds that somehow have al- ~ In the first place, that strange artificial tle eves sparkling. “and, leaning fo wata 10ug ure ways filled the mind of the gentle thing which men call business felt a pe u- trembling like ar pen leaf, with the de- all the provincial- (i}, sontimental pleasure. liar numbing influence stealing over it. light he was a afraid to induige. e the lady whis- _Dade, left alone, began 1 g g ! : y were going out to Beck's coming to save he “It would be 4 treat, wouldn't ft.” she fsm of Mher little ".And oh," she said, “Ah must tell Men began to move cautiously, to speak Jooked cahf all about him and ool e S T Thah Moy of = baiiDwer said, “to see yo' on yo' native hegth? prairie town, .na% abaout his being o'dehed to proceed along guardedly, to control their opinions. ey his long seegah from his Iips. and thor h gentlemen? stress of this apprehensiin. s His face remained serious. His jaw set. cnown | the = daily The South Fo'k of the—something-cah- Srew crafty and secretive, as if the tread he whispehed: ‘But, colonel, amn't yo© all replied, but more for self more stiffly with e Dade.” he said, and she flushed crim- e nights Im Othah—Ah must write to-day and get the of events depended on what, in the next it's a leetle afrly? . Beck’s benefit than for her mother's, quiring thereby a gr v visl sor i's no use—l can't say it right— ‘, 1'.’}1 " the soul Name of that rivah—all hidden by cottor few months, they said or did. The great And so, suhs, he colonel resumed . whic just laak in tne Qquestion, of course, was not what shonld having bent hi# purple face to sip his only—I love you, that's all woods along its ban She hung her he sol £ know—and de: ngress.” of expre: er bah act of ( fed reckledbly on the him to f uld sound all the deeps of life. So it was roy all Piegan be done to make the people. better and Jjulep and glve his companions oppe d books, yc e moment wher salads ar es i Dade foresaw the discc Jus deserted. She couid , DO You hear, darling?” he continued, z Indians, He was a shavetail then, and happier, though there was abundant pro- tunity to pay his story the tribute of th the nights see him still dashing here and there on DPending -nearer. “Do you hear? You ahat out of €S didn't know a Piegan Indian from a tense that this was so, but who Jla laugh he demanded, “I feah 1o i, (n° f eck observed the outlook for her must excuse the bluntness of a_ sol- O @ e fallen she Sioux, and he nea’ly brought on a wah. .get hold of the offices, for only so far as Stance, suhs, it's a leetls airly fo' a - He had left the midlle of t floor dier—1 love you, that’s ail there s to e e han Dades 1f it hadn't been fo' his old first se’geant— the holding of offices and the drawing of Southron ' where the gyrating danc rs r his p =i "H Lic Vit T g"l:'_“‘]‘“x o8 radiant Oh. his men all love him, Ah know—eve'- ~'1!u;‘1v> could !m/(kih men ,y]m‘ x;’msn ae- “But, se'lously, suhs,” the eolonel »n absurd and even dangerous, and now e clutched the scabbard of his saber ‘ e crn- body does!” g pendent upon them happier did this ques- OD, after a proper pause, “I'm go applying the tactics of his arm of the ser. In M3 nervousness. Her hand had fallen o ‘f’,'f, “‘,‘,‘e morh “And so she flowed on, while Emily sat s of humanity enter into the t0 Kentucky the end of this my vice, was beating up the walls of o her side\ and with his own he seized L A et ee and listened with the mellowed smile of ns of men. &0 ovah to Frankfo't. and I o Tonm, Ccling HNet ihens BomEw it it, and crushed it between them. s of & longing 20, Indulgence almost motheriy ; Iready in office sighed as they Capitol Hotel, and theah I - cvnsr B, Rasg Pl R F i Listen,” ne said, “I love you, love you, o N 2 longing “%.And we ah going to live in Washington thought of the rapidity with which thefr friends of mah own. State, and - last his perspiring face lit up and he bore 19V, ¥oul Oh, if’we were somewhers SYmpathy Wik at first, he's General-What's-his-name’s terms had rolled around and wondzred I'll have so v down upon her in triumph. He sank into ¢IS6' You can't say ‘No' now; you must e eiimara @id now, yo' know. That's why he's al- how they might stay in. The greater poht when we the chair beride her, and drawing out a 1°!! You do love me, you must—listen, and girlhocs lowed to weah aiguillettes: Ah must show army of those who had been out of office, _“Like to g o < handkerchief, began 'to pat his brow dei. 40 You hear’—you must love me! If we B’ that stood .} 0 vo' in his photograph. But when and for whom the time had dragged so You, colonel ed ¢ y of Ohlo. fn cathly it it T Lo vat By brow dell- - were elsewheré I'd take you In my armee revealed . he's changed, we'll probably have to go slowly by, were wondering how to get in. t way t - i fore her. to some Weste'n post. Think of mah liv- ) suceeed. in either case it was not ne Dade, SWINEINE ing gout theah—an ahmy woman! Ah'll essary that men should have programm the jacket Bhe }.0."an Indian to cook fo' us, and yo' of reform and progress, or to have y had been Cart¥- ;.4 jeo _Mistuh Gahwood must come aout real understanding of the theories of gov- like to give his hot “Haye yo' a.l been having a good tahm?"’ drawled Dade, with her eyes far to away to where the Chinese minister was Strred, and turned her face half-fright- “e a good scrubbing. 111 do it anyway, here and now—what do i > And you couldn't stop me!” He leaned impulsively forward. She o'tain senss 2 geutlemaa s the male who, in a reversi A comrades ‘ rbaric tvpe, made a display of cross-examining some woman on the sub. ©0¢d toward Him. ing on he“E“""',"‘l', and visit us. He can get himself appoint- ernment, it was only necessary for them e o t night, and not the female. ject of her age and her maiden name Not here caught ed on a committee to inspect ahmy posts, to say that they belonged to one or the PGS oo about “the <o o Vo' all can save lots of money other of two great parties into which uniforms everywhere. The ~ ‘®o,” Beck said, bluntiy “Tell me, then, do you love me." S seeming 3 Marine Band itting N0 ““Ah’should think yo' would,” Dade re- ler eyes' looked full in his, and then walst 0% that way. Ah’'ve grown economical since the people had arbitrarily divided ther t . - gy ey Ao g s ‘and piied, coldly without dropping one of her Western r's led DBer Ah'm going to mah’y an ahmy officeh. selves, and to be able to control, some- sood ats, played the tunes that were Beck looked at her in alarm she said ;“""he They get awfully small salaries; it's a how, other men in the casting of their ch them to hrs at epring. while the proud and “Why?" he ventured You know, Arthur. house at o shame. But Mistuh Gahwood can have Vvotes. bosom, would be the subjects of a specia appy men mcved by in glittering spi “Yo' seemed to have difficulty in teah- He crushed her hand until she winced livelier step himself put on the committee—"" There were, of course, two or three dispensation of divahn Providence dor—navy officers, with their gold-braided ing yo'self away with the pain than she had “I'm afraid Washington has corrputed other parties, small and without hope .f Which T could acquiesce, suhs, with an Cress costs and low waistooats: army offi- — Beck's alarm bécame positive, known for many you, Dade,” said Emily. success, %o that the men who belonged to that would be tuhbulent &nd ers, in the white stripes of ”"y";”rf' “I have been looking for you every- ,‘:P‘:“il'l ?‘;;’;'{'fl;" o , “Corrupted me?" the girl repeated. them could honestly say what they A e vellow of the cavs or the red of where,” he said in earnest defense. Imily ar e he Jupstairs, where “Co'se it has, it corrupts eve'ybody. thought, but it was not consi » colonel. feeling that pe. the artillery: the memtcrs of some local | and then. she contimued, ercit o eli. . omily and Dade had kept up a cor- they could ' be ucat the mew BBV, mpofS oiat'eve'ybody does down theah, spectable or dignified to belong to 1 = rm = Shger 1) g company of rifies In their cadet gray and minate hersel from consideration as Tespondence that gusned from their pens Who was taking a morning nap, and 0"‘3 It's all puil—that's the way Ahthu’ got his of these smaller parties, and the N - e ciyel Tresb-teitn, then quickly as possible, ah yo' mot in uni. With all the olden spontaneity of their In the old familiar room that Dade had goi4i] a5 ald.” who adhered to them were ridiculed and 1 By g some forelgn officer in the pr f his fohm girlhood, though in the latter days this "l“”“" as Emily's in their girlhood, S‘h" Emily's face had lost its smile and had ostracizéed and made to feel ashame- got a contes’ on in yoah own pulchritde, and the happy con She turned toward him, and inclining thin, black-gowned matron who paused ppomPed Emily down on the boX coU®l gobered. A Everywhere in Washington. where k > sciousness that he was serving nobly in her head over her white shoulder, looked in her household dutles to sit down to .ha . Plumped herself yn_beslde Nad _ Yes.” she breathed with a sigh. “Did depend in some way upon fhe Govern- ) ad,” sald Garwood that hour because his uniform marked at him with an eye to sartorial effects, epistolary labors found it an effort which 204 When the vibration of'the springs Pec you sce Jerome there?” L e clcalirtom of the:fwn houses rueful 'expression sver. him out even in all that distinction of If you only knew how hot this dress caused her rueful smiles. to assume a SociitSelf, and she had ceased to bouRcd Dade looked at Emily questioningly an of Congress, in the rotundas and lobois ntenance. “and T know ne gold-mounted clothes niform is! He scoured his whole character that was akin to her anclent UP,20d down, Dade impetuously turned, yn iant and then she hastened to say: of hotels, in the clubs.and barrooms, in x| 5 the cntn and fixing her eyes on Emily under the "l o (iy1i3 6f me! To sit heah and drawing-rooms and parlors and in the I'he members of the diplomatie corps, visage with his ha brim of the mannish alpine hat she Wore., (a1 of Ahthu’ when Ah ought to haye cret chambers of the White House itself ndker hief. and angrily self. Dade in her letters from Washing- their ribbons nd pulled at the collar that was binding his ton had hinted darkly a se 2 wish e t b touch of splendor! neck B s O part when thes, veers, o ehe e pad she seized the matron hy both shoulders. i un” (hat yo' all weh dying to heah. men talked of nothing but these nationai t thim Fa Tty to Chinese Ministers ~ ~But just think how remahkably well heart to heart again, though her constamt @nd said: 2 abaout yoah husband. Oh, yes, Ah saw conventions. In Congress business was s i the s ake ans were there, gaz- yo' all look in it,” she said, her lips part- and enthusiastic celebration of Lieuten- Em, Ah'm engaged! him at a distance a numbah of times, and dragging. The usual daily sessions were With raive conceit of his which I far misty distance ing in & mocking smile ant Beck of the cavalry detracted some. _‘Again!” cried Emily, with the indul- one day Ah met him in the rotunda of held, and. perfervid speeches were d-liv- bat his presence woriG™ Jod There were, to be “Don't, please,” he said, quile seriously. what from the mystery she was saving B¢nce of the elder woman to a girl. ,. the Capitol. We weh in the gallery, ered, but there was no legislation, which Garwood ave te-headed old infantry cap- “Do you think we live only for unil- for Emily’s stupefaction ‘Again!” cried Dade, repeating Emily’s Ahihy' and Ah, and had heahd him was perhaps just ds well. Both partles 1 go out ot § cord on forms? When it was at last announced to her Word, and arching her brows. She re- make a speech.’” feared just then the possible effect legis- ¥0ur zun and in approv now but to show “Don’t yo'?" she asked. “Look at that that the Emersons were about to start for 1¢a8éd her hold of Emily's shoulders, and Emjly had leaned forward a little; her lation might have on the voters and eaca Kill off a few men I cou T rewards of mili- red commodo'e theah. He comes into the Grand Prairie Emily weicomed the news tHrowing her arms behind her, rested on jips were parted, and her teeth showed sought to put the other in an unpopular lfke it almost as wel ned hotel pahlo’ every night buhsting in that with ‘Joy, and fondly expected torenéw in them like two props, while she regarded i the first smile of real interest she had attitude before the people. In a word, as _The colonel made no leck, striding here and unifohm—he wouldn’t give it up fo' the Dade that blithe girlhood which, as she Emily with a mimicry of reproach. But gisplayed. She laid her hand lightly on -the correspondents wrote in the iength- But he looked a stern rebuk room floor, trampling wo’ld.” had sadly realized, had gone from her. her black evebrows twitched disobediently Dade's arm, finding it a comfort to touch ened specials they wired to their news- at one who trifled with grave any . muttered apolo- Beck smiled at the fat old sallor who But when Dade appeared one morning In the mirth that was turbulent that day gsome one who had been there in Wash- papers-.each night, the politiclans at Tious matter: 4 with grave and se as the vengeful looks the was wheeling gravely around at the bottom of the broad steps that led In her whole being. ington, some one who had seen him in {‘\'ashln!tnn ‘were playing politics. They sat there and drank and list him. but she did not cast “If it weh not fo' the unifohms we all to the veranda of Congressman Gar- _“Again!” she repeated, trying to pro- his proper place, some one who had heard To Garwood, however, this life was full to the colonel's stories until the somoi his direction to help him in would have no ahmy at all,” Dade per- wood's place, as the old home of the long the pose. “Yo speak as if mah hus- him speak, who had spoken to him and and satisfying. To saunter over to_the came. until the night itself had fail.> his quest. Rather, with her head inclined sisted; “it is the unifohm that keeps the Harknesses so soon had come to be band was d'aid, and Ah'd been mah'led touched his hand. House at noon, to saunger back, to leans And then Garwood recefved Pusey's i), ently. her long arms, in their black institution of milita’ism alive.” cailled, and mounted them with anything the second tahm!" ““What speech was it, Dade?” she asked, at the corner of the little bar In the Ar- gram. and it smote him dumb in the w1 mousqueiaire gloves, stretched straight “You seem to be thinking deeply to- but continental stateliness, Emily, stand- Emily gave a little distant laugh. eagerly. “The one in the tariff debate, Jington, one fogt cocked over the nther, dle of a laugh. Hé had only ti he m to her knees, her fingers knit together, night,” Beck replied. ing in the doorway to meet her, saw in a ‘I'm glad, dear,” she sald. ~ or—"" his broad.hat on the back of his heai Colonel Bird to request a feave g 2N she sat and talked to the black-coated “AH nevah had such a good oppo-tunity flash that however ardent and however Dade regarded her curiously and them _ *Oh goodness me’'cy me!” ejaculated and the Havama cigar between his teeth sence for him, hefore he hureics ac .. civilian, who. despite the eclipse into befo' fo' studying the vanity of man.” intimate their letters may have been, instantly voiced her thought. Dade. “Ah don’t know what it was on— tiited at an angle parallel with the lina pack his bag. The colonel ;,'1‘;’”,3““' t ch he and all his unnoticed kind were “If you could see us in the field, you their diverging lives could never meet *Yo' all talk lak some kind old auntiel” yo' can't tell a wo'd they say, they all df his hat brim, thus preserving to the of course. to have the ot B thrown by the blaze of uniforms that wouldn't think so,” Beck said, and he again 8 she said. “Why, gyrl, yo' ahn’t old’s Ah make so much noise. Ahthu' sald it was -eve the symmetry of the whole striking for a friend In any matter. Tr. #o i night, had manfully striven to shine in managed to put the words in the tone of To Emily the recognition was prompter am. Mah heaht's wohn to & frazsle. lak a sun dance of the Ogalalla Sfoux. picture he knew he made—this was exis- nothing could please him mora than o L. his own proper lus one who had suffered for a great cause. than te Dade, to whom, indeed, it never Ah've.been engaged befo’, oh, & dozen ~ “Tell me, how did he dook?’ Emily’s tence for him. enahled to rise in his place in tha He, 0" Yet from the y dark eye. Dade glanced at him. She had a glimpse came al all. Though she had roamed all tahms, Ah reckon—mo'n yo' all evah eyes were glistening. “You'll be on yoah State delegation to in all that morning dignity wiione 1 usa she followed Beck's frantic evolutions as of her Remington picture again. His tone over, the world, Dade had not grown in dreamed of!" “‘He looked sp, emfia. Pmily, endid. the national convention, I take it, suh?" sipation of the previous night emtq Lo \; dashed in and out among the promen- had touched her. She recalled all she had . experience, unless a cosmopolite’s knowl- “A dozen times!” exclalmed Emily, in He rose, yo' knbw, suddenly, and began Colonel Bird would say to him. ° pair. and mddress the S f _could i ading co uples. assuring herself again that head of the hardships of soldiers’ lives, edge of the conveniences of travel. a real amazement, and then with a touch to speak befo’ Ah knew it was he at all. ‘““Well,” Garwood would reply, “T don't may have been mere v (o il h‘,' oy, ehe had never known how handsome the and she softened guide-book acquaintance with art galler- of the spirit of their old intimacy she And he grew excited, and all the othahs know yet whether I'll g0 on at larga cr preciation of the confl s ra e young soldier was until f?.» !(.nh-\d him “Ah would lahk to see yo' all theah,” ies and a smattering of gossip about, If said: crowded in to heah—it must have been a not. 1It'll all depend on the situation In him that he went with Garw i prd ihat night for the first time in his unl- she confessed. not of, the fashionable courts of Europe *“But you never told me, Dade, only great speech. o when we get down to Springfield. Unless him safely aboard his train. on which na form. She had always longed to see him 'Would you He spoke eagerly, lean- could be called experience. She still that once!" Emily madé Dade tell her all she could the boys feel that I could do more good was to speed westward with tro '.1 ‘,' The Great International Novel “Tainted Gold” Begins in Next Sunday Call