1896.]
" No, no. I don't mean exactly that. I mean, Oh, Bess, don't
you know what I mean ? I mean that I love you, and I can't
bear to think of leaving you without knowing that you love me;
without having your promise to brighten my life."
The sweet eyes drop and a conscious blush mantles her cheek,
making it vie with the color of her ribbons. He doesn't need any
verbal answer. Her eyes tell him all he wants to know.
But after they have talked on the thousand and one trifles
which lovers find to talk about, Jimmy musters up the courage to
ask her if she will go west with him when his orders come.
" Oh, Jim," she cries, "we musn't think of that yet, you
know I can't leave papa." This is a poser for the young man,
and it makes him do some heavy thinking, for his love is strong
within him, and he finally says:
" But Bess, dearest, suppose yon didn't have to leave your
father, would you marry me scion ?"
" Oh, Jim, what do you mean." And he explains to her his
little scheme which, with the help of some of his political friends,
he hopes will prove successful.
Whether it was or not may be gleaned from an official looking
document which came to him at Mrs. Langton's, where he was
spending a few weeks. After reading it he takes it with a smile
on his lips and joy in his heart to Bessie, and this is what she
reads:
LMUTENANT J. M. LAWLER,
Albany, N. Y.
Sir You are hereby notified that you have been assigned for
duty as 2d lieutenant with the —th Regiment of Cavalry.
You will report to Colonel Alexander for duty on Oct. Ist.
By order of the Secretary.
JAMES SIMPSON, ,
Adjutant General.
Lieutenant Lawler did not report alone
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