Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-10

dear Frank an stop that nonsense II !
liye,. on the train which reaches there a,
O'Clock p m II am belated' VIII
telegraph from Kansas City.
No dispatch had come. OF course t''e
trains were on time. Only twenty-iour
hours. Well. the emergency must DE
met and there was no way | could thlnk
,,f but to take Harriet into my conn
dence. Harriet is not a person gwen 10
exclamation points. | hated to lower
myself. as knew | must, in her eyes
bv the relation. ii it was fact that the
advent of the girls had swept my mind
clear of the befogged sentimentailsn
which had reigned there in my lonel-
ness. it was equally fact that this sister
had not in her the capacity to believe
that anv man I'm his senses would be
guilty of the follies with which had
been entertaining myself tor the last
twelve months.
And how good she was! She listened
patiently. studying my face, meantime,
with something of the look with which
a pagan might have gazed down on the
remains OF his shattered idol. There
were sorrow, pity and deep solicitude IN
il. But she uttered no ungracious com
ment. OF course she had set me down
as insane. but she was mindful OF the
trite maxim for such cases, "humor the
patient"
Entirely ready she was to advise with
me on the preparations One might
have supposed, from the way she en-
tered into the business, that this was
matter of every day occurrence with
me. She agreed it was not best to men
ton the purport of the making ready to
the little ones or even TO Eliza They
might imagine surprise party was on
the docket One was, for that matter
All took hold.
She aud played the mysterious. and
such jocular, hilarious time as they
made of IL didn't feel especially hila-
ricus. Before Q o'clock the next morn
ing the house was decorated as for the
reception of princess. Edith said so.
| groaned Eliza planned the reception
programme think she had hint from
Harriet.
| And the hours sped byl Three O'Clock!
I Half past We issued forth. |, alone in
f the little basket phaeton. three mounted
sisters moving as guards on either side.
+ The railway gate was at the farthest cor
/ ner of my park, the road TO it winding,
( zigzag, measuring a full half mile.
Therei the train belt The cars, instead
+ of moving in, were moving out and
that was a thirty minutes stopping
place.
glanced at Harriet. knew it hazily
She had put back the clock. The pre-
cious girl! saving for me and them a
/ half hours respite. But what was that
The gate was opened. | was to pas:
through, enter the ladies' waiting room
find and snatch my bride land dear know;
how l should pick her out in the crowd
am short sighted, bear her to my car
rage, seat myself beside her, turn bach
again, pass through that gate-John
with his cue heightened by yard Of
white ribbon standing with it in hi
hand ready 10 close it after me-my
escorting cavalcade was to take up agaiI
its line of march, the direction being
home again.
said we had reached the gate. JOIN
had opened it. |, in pursuance Of thi
portion of my programme, was abou
urging my horse through when smar
buggy, containing two persons, dashed
into the space and stopped. 1t wa
Frank Howard. the showiest beau il
town, and a lady, a stranger.
"Ah, Mr. Howlandl Mr. Howland!
he started off effusively, taking off hi
hat and bowling low. low enough to d,
over. Congratulate me, Mr. Rowland!
His face was shiny enough to light
match by Let me introduce you t
Mrs Howard, taking the lady by tn
hand and doing the bow over again. m,
wife, Mr. Rowland! My wife, youn
ladiesl Half an hour ago Miss Lizzi
Kent Now. now!'-he swelled u
again-"Mrs. Frank uowardT
"Hurrah!" | fairly shouted.
Sod be praisedr' | heard calculate
from the lips OF our good Harriet.
My whole being echoed the thanksgiy
ing. 1t seems she had been holding til
J manacles ready for me or both of US.
was paper Howard had thrown ava
that picked up. He had then &c
through the mountainous experienc
that marked my initiatory work. NJ
Lizzie had been corresponding wit
! him for three weeks, and she too
: me up and kept me along, becaus,
! you know. If anything should hal
pen TO despoil her of the first,
would be well to have a second in IL
! house to fill the gap. That Dear Frank
: letter was intended for him. In II
! hurry OF getting it OIL she mixed up OF
names. Harriet found that out somehow
I'm il free man and there aren't in a
:. the forty-tWo states six prettier, mic,
= girls than are my sisters, and there ism
= "a prouler, happier old bachelor than
: their brother Francis. A 7 Perry
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