Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-09-18


Early the next morning there came to
the house, not Mr.. Mariscal bat Frank
Carroll, who, TO Iilias' intense amaze
ment, greeted Der as If he was her ac-
cepted lover. As soon as she cOuld
make up her mind to do so-she with
drew from his enfOlding arms and ex-
claimed:
'Why Frank How courageous You
are to venture here in such an assured
manner after what Aunt Hettie wrote to
your
"CourageousY' he repeated. ST don't
understand you; it is because I received
her card that I am here now. I must
own I was little surprised when read
it though"
''What could she have said to your"
asked Lilias in amazemeEt still
"Here it is-read it for yourself;
only got it this morning, having been
away on business, or I'd have been here
last evening"" he answered, handing a
postal card to Llias.
Mrs. AbuthnOt was one Of these people
who use a postal card for any and all
purposes she had a perfect mania for
them and could not be persuaded not to
write the most confidential things on
them; 30 Lllias was not at all surprised
that she had written her communication
to the two young men on these cards,
though most persons prefer to send such
misslves in a sealed envelope, she read:
$50 sorry that L cannot see you to-
night I write in haste and confusion
to say that I am more than willing that
you should marry Lilias, and I trust that
she will appreciate the compliment You
have paid her-frOm the past treatment
Of you I am sure she Will At any rate
it is my desire that she marry you and
no one else, on pain of my anger"
To this was appended her name and
the date Of the preceding day.
Lilias was mystided, Frank jubilant,
Nj. Arbuthnot mildly puzzled but acqui-
escent, and Minnie smiling but silent
When Mr.. ArbuthnOt told Frank that his
wife had said something about having
Lilias married within a month, even
though she vent away, and when Lilias
and Minnie agreed with him, he was only
too glad to aid in carrying out her ex-
pressed wishes, so the wedding dresses
were made up in a hurry, and in exactly
month after the date OF her card to
Frank Mrs. ArbuthnOt's older ward was
married to her true love.
An hour or so after the wedding Min
ME said carelessly to Lilias:
"Did you ever hea- any more of Mr..
Mariscal's desires to marry your"
"Bless me, no! I had entirely forgot
ten the mani Why, sure enough, didn't
auntie say she had excepted his offer and
what are you laughing at, Mipnie?'
said Lilias.
''DO you remember the night went
down to the library to get your watch,
and you wanted to know why was gone
so long? I said I had paused to read
the deaths and marriages 10 the paper
well, that was true, but there lay on the
library table two postal cards, in auntie's
own writing, addressed to your two
lovers. I picked them up and read them
Now don't frOwn, POstals are not pri-
vatel found that she had evidently
made a mistake in addressing them, for
the one bearing Mr.. MariscaI's name was
a very blunt request for him to keep
away from you; the other Frank has
shown you. was so afraid that she
would find out her mistake before she
went abroad that Just opened the front
door and ran out and mailed them"
Such was indeed the case. What
would otherwise have been Mrs. Arbu-
thnot's wrath at Minnie's haste to mail
the misdirected cards no one knows, but
as she CHANGED, almost as soon as she ar
rived In Paris, to learn that Mariscal
was already privately married, she never
in any way referred to the matter, and
as Frank made the best Of husbands, she
soon forgot that she had over been ep-
posed to the match.