The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-07-28
HOW SHE KNEW HIM.
Exchange.

Mir Thomas blloCGy IS me iInlof part
 ner in the grea. firm of B.l5uY. Back
 thorne X Co, tea merchants. of Calcutta
 and London. The senior partner Is Mr.
 Joseph Biibury, his father. who has avery
 nice house a, Kew; and until within
 year or two ago, there was tAlrd mem
 Der in the firm in the person of Thomas
 rncle, MT. Babbing,on Black;horne, the
 Calcutta representative of the establish
 men. But. unfortunately, MT. Black
 thorne. like many Englishmen who live
 in India. drank too much Scotch whisky
 and Bass ale, and ate too much curry and
 100 many Bombay ducks - the resul,
 being that at the age of ntty-hve his liver
 declined to bear the strain pu, upon t,
 collapsed, leaving is owner so weak and
 Ill ,ha, he had barely time ere he died 70
 telegraph 10 his partners in England d brief notice of his impending fa;e. The alarming dispatch arrived a. a par;lc ularly
 inopportune moment. Mi. Thomas Bl-
 bury had on the day previous married very charming young lady. Lydia Lap pies by name: and the intelligence oih!s
 uncle's sad condition necessita;ed iha; the newly made husband-who. by the
 way, had only become acquainted with
 his bride abou, six weeks before ma,riay ye
 
 the train for Dover. cross 10 Calais. and thence go by the auiekes; route to Call eu,ta. The affair was pressing. Nr.
 black,horne's death would certainly
 throw the business in;o confusion. and
 ners might imperil the future ot the firm. Go a, once my dear boy. wrote Mir Joseph Bilbury 10 his son. vho WAS n the l-f~ ,f 1 ,fa. will take care of her and see her settled in your new home a. Richmond lwou,d 90 myself, but my gou, won't allow
 me. And, above all things. ,ake care of
 your liver
 There was no help for i,. MT. B.l-
 bun, IT,, felt tha, he mus, go. so go he
 did putting the bes, face or the matter.
 and bidding very long and tender good-by to his poor little wife. He es- corted her across to Portsmouth. pu; her into a London train, kissed her. saw her of, and then took the nex. tram for Dover.
 She settled down in her new home on Richmond Hill and he for many months af;erward worked hard at his desk in Cal eg,ta, arranging the worldly affairs of his
 dead uncle, and from time 10 time send
 ing home reports of his progress. and
 love letters to Lydia
 C Two years. in fact. elapsed ere he was able 10 return to England and then he returned. as he had gone ou, q. mo- menis notice. Unforeseen circumstances suddenly lief, him free and unwillins ,o
 lose day. he took the firs, homeward
 bound steamer. which. so i, happened
 was also taking 10 Richmond letter
 written a few days earlier. in which N.
 Bilbuy, among other matters. regretted
 to his wife that the pressure of business
 would not leave him a, liberty for al leas; month.
 He travelled home without adventure landed in due course as Dover. arr.yei IF London late a, night and wi,hou; havins written word of warning 10 Lydia hur- ried on next morning 10 Richmond Hill. Why he did not write or telegraph we cannot say perhaps he though, his sud den appearance would agreeahiy surprise his wife or perhaps he was too ex-i;ed to think at all. Bu; in any case he neither
 wrote nor ,elesraphed single word of preparation
 It was a fine sunny morning in sum- rner; Mir. Thomas B,lbuy had scarcely
 seen his new home, which he hai taken
 ID hurry immediately before his we'd
 ding and he was walking eagerly up the
 short carriage drive leading to the house, when, happening to cas, his gaze toward
 the upper windows, he caught sigh, of a fair, white draped ngure, which was watering some towering plants ,ha, stood h row on the sill. He a, once recos- nized the figure as ,ha, Of his wife, and
 ~as about to utter a cry of salata;.oa, when he suddenly became conscious ina; she did no, recognize him for with graceful modessy, she with irew from the window and disappeared as soon AS she became conscious that he was watching her. An idea struck him. 1, was fool ish, but no; wholly unnatural one. He would pretend 70 be some one else-a friend. say of her husbands. and would ask to see her as such. Of course she would at once recognize his voice bu, then the surprse. and the conseq aen, pleasure would De the more complete fl he thus deferred them. He knocked therefore, a, the door and, 70 the servan, who appeared. announced that he had just returned from India and desired 10 see Mrs. BilbrY. He gave no name i: but he was admitted and snown into the drawing-room. where. in some per- turhation of mind. he awaited the ai- vent of the wife from whom he had been so long and cruelty separated.
 Il suppose ,ha, she will know me. he replied, as he stood with his back 10 the window .' bu, i, IS true tha, have grown tolerahly big beard since went away. and that l have become considerably tanned. However. the beard ought 70 make no grea, difference suppose ,ha; she would knox me If she saw me m my shsyt-sleeves or with both legs cu. oE q, the knees On the other hand. she thinks that am still a; Calcutta tor she mus, have had my las, letter this morning. hope nay sudden appear ance here won, upse, her. mus; be careful
 Here his thoughts were s~itchei aside