The Desert and The Sown

nd paced the room with his short, stiff-kneed tread. He st

edding finery are going to hurt poor little Moya like the deuce. Confound the woman! Dressing my daughter for me, right in my own house. Takes it in her hands as if it were h

military families in the Department of the Columbia. Moya herself had written some time before, in the self-conscious manner of the newly engaged. Her aunt knew of course that Moya and Christine Bogardus had been room-mates at Miss Howard's, that the girls had fallen in love with each other first, and with visits at holidays and vacations, w

a deep in-breath. He reseated himself and began his duty letter in the tone of a judicious parent; but, warming as he

e Presidio, a widower, but an awfully good fellow. And she has chosen a boy, full of transcendental moonshine, w

Irish vowels against such a name as that! She had a fond idea that it was from Beauregard. But she has had to give that up. It's Dutch-Hudson River Dutch-for

e. She runs the property and he spends it, as far as she'll let him, on the newest reforms. And there's another hitch!-To belong to the Truly Good at twenty-four! But beggars can't be choosers. He's going to settle something handsome on Moya out of the portion Mad

is that every West Pointer, before he gets his commission, should serve a year or two in the ranks, to raise the type of the enlisted man, and chiefly, mark you, to get his point of view, the which he is to bear in mind when he comes to his command. Oh, we've had some pretty ar

by the dry grass terrace of the line, are a favorite gathering place for young persons of leisure at the Post. They face the valley and the mountains; they lead past the adjutant'

is quarters. There was no excuse, at this hour, for two young persons lingering in sentimental corners of the steps,

His eye caught a shape, or a commingling of shapes, ensconced in an angle of the steps; the which he made out to be his daughter, in her light eve

ed look in his face. He had said too much; he always did-to Annie; and now he must hedge a little o