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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1897)
THE COURIER. 3T 1- a I 3t N s I Wh en Woman Gets Second Place. the frhoiikiUF. This is a story bf a woman whose plans did not succeed, it ib a short stnrv which shows It itt not safe to go too far with a woman. Above every thing else a woman has pride; when this pride is injured she will have revenge. So will a man, but with a difference, for a woman is baptised when scorned, with a spirit of mischief and deviltry. Of all the men who cams out to us that year, Capt. Maryott was easily the most popular. He could sine and play a guitar and act a little enough for ue play polo excellently and shoot uner ringly. His regiment was stationed with us for a year and no one in halt the world has less to do than an army officer out here. He rode,and picnicked and tang and danced with the ladies, and gave the largest odds at a wsger with the men. Every one voted him the best that had come out for a long time. Now there was with us a Mrs. Dun combe, and it is the of whom this story tells. Maryolt met her at the tJarring ton dance and at once they seemed to get along famously. A month or two pes-ed and be showed her an unusual amount of at tention. They rode together every morning down the "Black Path" and or ganized picnics and pig hunts innumer able. Of course these lalter always re quired many consultations for the de tails of the little dinners, etc, are numberless. Any one who had any thing to do with such things will un derstand. Especially when there are one or two a week one must have variety. All of this, then you see, required that they should be much together. It went on in this way and the two , got to Le very intimate and other people looked and talked a little. Suddenly Maryott realized that things were going a trifle f far. Mas. Dan comb) bad got to like him very much and showed it to him in meny little wajF. He had entered upon the affaif with merely the idea of a little ilirta tion, but things were getting more serious than be had anticipated. It happened one day while they were riding. Just what waB said was never known, nor what had occurreJ, except that lhre hud been a smash. The cap tain had calkd it a "nasty bit of affair ' and would spca'x no further even to his jntimat?, Major Prewitt. Every one saw that something had happened, yet neither one of them mide it apparent particularly, and so thirgi went en as before. Only they were cot together. In ths spring Mis3 Ssfford cinie out to her aunt. She was a decidedly pretty girl an1 struck Capt. Maryott's fancy at once. Tien the tame incidents were tepeated that had happened between the captain and Mrs. Duncombe in the fall. Bet this time it was in earnest on, bis part and by the first of May he had as'ied atd had been accepted and the announcements were out. They roie ths ''Bites Path" and only had eyes and ears for each other, and the days passed on. Mrs. Duncombe seemed to have entirely forgotten whit had gone before and smiled at the talk and gessip. The first of June was the day set and it was to be a quiet wedding in the little chapel. It ws to be at ten so they might catch the steamer at Koahpoor. Maryott had four months leave. At 9 o'clock he slatted for Major ."Prewitt, who was to be best man. It was a gloomy day and drizzling a little. A 'carriage was standing near the door as be went out and he calltd it to him and climbed in. The native diiver shut the Coor Marjo'.t Icined back, dreaming dreams. He otvir thought to where he wished to go. His mind was too full of other things. Neither did he know that the dnver was none other thanMrp. DuDctlmbe's. But how should he know? All the natives look alike with an ill smelling blanket around their head on a wet day. His thoughts were pleasant ones as every one knows. The carriage went on and it began to rain in earceit, but he never noticed it. Suddenly it pulled up with a start and the driver got down and told him he could go no further. Capt. Maryott, brought back so rudely to lib position, looked out and to his utter astonish ment found himself on a muddy country road. "Great Heaven?, where are you taking me?" demanded Marjott, frantically. "To Colonel Brodroore'e." "Wby, j ou miserable brute. I didn't want to go there. Take me to town at once!" The driver stroked his long beard and finally said that it was too muddy, and they would have to wait. Maryott pulled out his watch and saw it was a quarter of ten. At this he turned pale. Ten was the hour set Ho v could he get across all that muddy road in fifteen minutes. The awfulnese of his position struck him, and he got paler than before. The driver stopped, pulled at his beard and became frighten ed. He had seen Englishmen look like this before. Then a calm came over Maryott and he quietly opened the door and stepped into the mud. This calmness frighten ed the driver even more, and he stood trembling. The captain seized the whip and said 'Now.you are going to get the worst whipping that was ever given any rascal." Z2 The story tjrat the driver told of it in the market and the bazars, was perhaps woree than rosily happened, but anyone could see from the great welts on his face, and the swelled eyes and mouth that it was bad enough. A loaded whip handle is a savage weapon. Major Prewitt Captain Marjott'e friend afierthe matter had been fixed up and the pair had ben married quiet ly, said that the morning of the wedding, hu was sitting in his room as much as tonished as any one at the disappear ance of his friend. While he was wander ing what could make a man drop out of sight on his wedding morning, he saw something riding along on a harnessed horse, with the harness dragging in the mud and water. It came straight to his place and stop ped, and be saw it was a man. On his head was a black lumpy mass which ono might have supposed to have been a tall fca The long coat was ripped io three beautiful parallel Iinps up the back, and the trousers and boots were indistinguisbably spattered. Over all was the red mud of Tanquor road, wash ei and sifted about the fellow by the heavy rain. One might have taken him for the worse pagan b?ggar in Asia from the looks of him, and from hie fluency in Christian oaths. "1 went to ihe door.'' he said in tell ing it, "and told ths thing to go away thtes times, and each time it said through its muddy mustache some thing about Maryott, and 1 was just going to kick it when, by jove, I thought I would die with laughing. If it wasn't the old boy himself. GEO. C. SHEDD. At 117 so. Tenth. and his tell Ib located the city ticket of the North western line the greatest railroad system touching Lincoln, with shortest mileage to Chicago and St. Paul and making quickest time. 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