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Show An Army Siory. In civil life, the good olil days were at u time not nearer than, '.50 year, n-pasl; but in tin! uerviccii'sun that rose, iten years ago hIioihj on a jtocaI old day. There arc rullroudV. now, and i big garrisons near tow ns, ur.d there are no Indians (oa good old arKUcM, un derstood Indians), and gambling is in discredit, and eolniveJu wnose order are obscured by l.quor tunics have decreased de-creased 03 per cent., rjul there- nr. houses with e-cr,v improvement iii-stead iii-stead of wall-tents and adobe huts, nnd the mew have an many riglitH n women in Wyomiiig, and the officer. have freah oysters and don't pay a dollar dol-lar a bottle for boor, and their wives have more Interesting subjects to consider con-sider tJinn eacli other's most sacredly private business wherefore there in no longer war in time of peace. Nevertheless Never-theless 10, 1G, 20 years ago when all ' these things were not was the good old time before the sendee bad begun to gO"to the particular bow-wows. This that I aim going to tell happened in the good old days. It could not very well happen now, because, an I ay, tilings have changed. At the time Hetty Het-ty Mandcvlllc's father was in command at Apache and Betty was engaged, to be married to an unusually line fellow, i whose name is not, part of the story, j lie was a second lieutenant and he was I in love, with all the beautiful disregard of the facts of life that, is characteristic of the enamored state, j Of course the. post knew of the en- gogcrncnt before either of the two , most interested parties did. This was I because this happened in tiie good old days. For the same reason though it j can occur sometimes even now opin- i ions on the inntch flew thick and fast ' nnd obscured the sky of charity. They ' said that the second lieutenant was making a fool of himself, which waa 1 the only unkind remark he fell heir to. i Hut Betty fared worse. She came of n bad strain. There were things in the histories of both hbr parents Uiatcvery one knew nnd no one was supposed to Know. Her father was English and had been a jockey. He was the son of a ' concert-hall singer and a man whose only nobility voh his birth. Miss Mondcvllle, who was more 1 Mexican than- Spanish boro a, good Castilian name which covered a multitude multi-tude of sins. ; There were any number of Mamie-vllle Mamie-vllle children younger than Betty, and I all unmistakably1 favoring their i swarthy mother. 'They were so dirty that they were a disgrace to tin posr. i Hut Hetty was tidy uh to dress and was blonde; Huffily, curlily blonde, J with a fine skin and innoceitt blue, eyes and a rosebud mouth. It was said she ( looked like an English professional beauty; but there was no one to recog-' recog-' nie the startling likeness to the con-- con-- eert-hnll grandmother. She had n taste i for laces, and hosiery, and high-heeled I slippers, that may have been .either a. ' 3 , Spanish or theatrical inheritance. And she wns beautiful beyond a question. I with a beauty that was only skin j deep. I After she had promised to marry the second lieutenant, Betty went down to ' lowcll to Isit iter aunt, who wa.i her mother's sister and was the- wife ot Cnpt. ocke. Betty knew that she would enjoy herself more if the engage-i engage-i ment were kept a secret. She could i keep it quiet, because it was in the good old dnys and "news traveled slowly j and distances were great. I A On the second day of her stay hei j aunt took her to stay over night with jj Senor Franquclo in Tucson. Which was the beginning. 6 The Franquclo family was large, and I most of it dwelt in the one house an ' adobe with the external whitewash broken oil in oddly-shaped pieces, and built as all adobes were built in the good old days one story around a t courtyard. There was nothing, in the courtyard but chickejis and ollas !, broken nnd otherwise for the- Mill of $ Tuoson is not fertile. Outside, where the narrow doorway faced upon the k street, 'hardly less white under the r burning sun tluui the whitened walls I that lined it, a moeking-bi.nl cage of willow hung against the houhe, with a led chile stuck between its bars. It was the llrst time Betty had been under the ancestral roof. Besides her grandmother, who was more unpleasant than the aunts, therG were many cousins, male and female. Of these, tvvi - cjt ond cousins were in lote. They wen Cnrlos and IneH. In I less than, ten minutes Car)oa had de- k scrted black-browed Ines and way hui- iriiishingnl Hetty with his twosofteyes. ineB was openly wretched, Carlos open- ly Infatuated, Betty openly flirting. I Hut Carlo did not know that. j? Betty and her aunt went back to iowell tlio next day, and the same oven- i i Ing Carlos rode- over to the poHt to see fe her. I Then were nix. officers calling on .! Miss ManilcvHIe, so Carlos Hat apart and sulked; but ho outstayed hom all, When they had gone, after a supper of -canned oyster stew and tamales, he drew his chair close bcsldo the sofa upon up-on which Betty wns half reclining. "Wy do you like do;e ooJTecccra better bet-ter dan me?" he united her. "I don't,"' wild Betty; "they're a bore." "Uo you SKot, truly?" "Of eutin-e I don't: how ould IV Carlos wa. rot o.ceuitomcd i Holtv'a like, tfnd, nu ei: those vi hd should ha-v c known bWtor, had believed Iter, Iwc'auoo of her round, blue eyes, he was not to be blamed for his faith. "Would you . rader talk to meV" "A great deal rather." "But dey hr.f stayed so late dat I must soon go." "It's not late. Its only half-past twelve. It would lie too bad of you to go just when we begin to get. a chance (o settle down to a nice, cpzy talk." Carlos persisted coyly. "But you vveel weesh to sleep." "Very well," Miss Mtndcville shrugged her shoulders, "then you had better go. Ines may get angry if you stay, and you like her more than.you do me." Carlo'a-denied this in words that were neither kind nor, just to Ines; but Hetty Het-ty damned her with faint praise. She was not a clever conversationalist, conversational-ist, nor was Carlos Franquclo, but they kept each other interested until very late, and when Carlos went home Betty stepped out to the front porch with him and put her hand in. his, with the least hit of a pressure. "Can I kees you?'' Carlos asked, baldly. bald-ly. "I suppose so because we'recouslns, you know," Betty assured him, as she raised her innocent face to his handsome hand-some Mexican one. lie whispered: "I lofc j'ou, oh! T lofe you. You are becutiful, beeuti-ful," beeuti-ful," and Betty laughed a little, and told him lie was silly, when they had only known each other for two days. Now, with Betty's beauty and other attractiveness, it was natural tl1at ahe should have a great deal of attention from the bachclarf but Carlos' devotion was so marked that they drew off one by one, leaving the field pretty much to him. They resented Betty'a permitting permit-ting the young Mexican to follow her about incessantly, even though he were a second cousin. As for the girl, until un-til it was too late she did not see the harm she wns doing. Then all the officers offi-cers had deserted her and there was only Carlos. Well, Carlos was handsome hand-some and good enough game, bo she led him. on. It was not her fault, surely, that she dUln't know the ways of Mexican lovers. Sho had told plenty of other men that she loved them, and nothing had happened. But one night, she told this to Cnrlos ut his urgent request, and the next day, at about "stabler," as she was sv ingiut, lazily in the hammock or the porch, slie haw three buggieo, containing tv.o men each, coming up the line In the firat sat Carlos and hia brother, in the othei.s, remoter male relative!. Betty guoshrd the truth at once, and her pink clicoVa turned white. Sho ran into the house, and screamed, loudly for her uncle. "Oh I, Uncle 2nt," she begged, when she found him in his room, "CartoB, and .lose, ami all his nasty old relatives arc coming here. Send them away, won't' 3'ou? I'leaso do." She clung to his arm. "Why shall I send them away? Are they going to murder the poor little girl?" "No, no, no. But I think they're going go-ing to ask you to let me marry them!" "All of them?" Betty-lost her temper and flew into a white rage. "Stop your fool joking, and do what T saj ! You tell thorn I'm sick, and tell that Carlos that I hate him."" She ran nnd hid just w the bell clanged. Carlos found tiro captain, and made his demand in duts form. The yotiUjj 'ady's father not In'ig i'h'.c, ho u'lr that her uncle u ' 'u i. 1 o iho pl.n "i ii parent. He wichwl to a-i the hunt! of his beautiful niece, know ing that she her.self was willing to bestow it, ''How d6 you know that?" the cup-tain cup-tain asked. "Sho tell me m." "When?" "l,as' night. She tell mo dat she lofed me, so to-day 1 come for to ask liar from you." "Are you sure she said she loved you, Franquelo?" "Oh! ylss', salrtlnly. She kees ine, also." ,,, The captain left tho room and vp nt' to find his niece. "Elizabuth, that' fellow ays that you told him you 'loved him. Did you?" .' tH "The old fool!' ' "Did you?" "Supposing I did? He made mo. He's at idiot to think I mean evory Utile thing I say." t . "l)d you kira him?" ' "&-.,, ' imemmmmmmemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm j Tlic captain's fnee cleared thon lie bethought lihn of tlie wnvs of women. "Did you let lijm kiss yoii?" "rerhnps. I don't know." lie cnuffhf her hand. "Conic In here , j to Franquelo nnd explain yourself, i You'd better pny you'll marry him after I that, proceeding." i Betty was frightened. Jler deflani'o 1 ehaiifj.'(l o plKidiiiff. ''Plense don't jnmkpjine see him, Unele Nut, dear. i l'leasq." . , ','CorM on." I "Hut jTfJnclo Nat, T can't sny I'll marry him. 'T was cmy fooling1. I'm engaged to .'mother man." ' Cnpt. Locl-e dropped her hand and ' returned to the sitting-room, ' "Frnnqiielo," he said, coldlv, for he ' dtslilied hh nephew sincerely. "I regret j that li't unpleasant thing xliould have , htippened to you under m roof. Mv i , nidce tells me that she was not In , parncst, and she li gooii to marry an-f an-f jwW inai. HoweVcr, slue wUl not stay I nij$Bier day with me to trouble you or . 1 ttuyqne i lse. 1 shall tsond her home to- niffb't." L'orloh' faee.'as he sllentlj- left the ' room, w.ii an ugly sight. j |