The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

GA4lOS 4A11pOSS1O1O OHDDDst5 n4lJ CQl1Q6Otk1U
between the original Of this portrait and
Mr.. Heaphey's ,strauge visitor, beFOnd the
fortuitous resemblance which impressed
him SO strongly. Calling up the porter,
Mr.. Hesphey asked him by whom this roll
of paper had been left. The porter replied:
II have no idea. I-never saw It before. -
did you not bring itwith the last mailS ?"
''No, sir, it didn't come with the last
mail"
Now, there was no letter slit in the door
of the studio. The studio itself had been
locked and the key in the porter's possession
during the whole time.
The man protested solemnly that he had
only come into the room to bring up the
mail, that the roll of paper was not carried
up by him, and that to the best of his recol-
lection, though upon this point he could
not be positive, no such roll of paper had
been on the desk when Ee left the letters
there.
Mr.. Heaphey finally took the paper and
put it into his dispatch box, marveling not
a little in his mind as to the meaning of
these inexplioable performances
Gradually, however, the whole matter
passed out of his mind. until some weeks
afterward, while staying with friend in
one of the midland counties, he took the
engraving up and-be could not exactly
say why-felt suddenly moved TO make a
sketch from memory of the lady whose
face it recalled to him SO wildly. He pre-
pared his materials, went to work, found
the picture growing rapidly and satisfac-
torily under his hand, and grew so inter
ested in the occupation that before he laid
his brushes down he had made what
seemed to himself very good and striking
sketch. which might well serve as basis
for finished portrait. He put this sketch,
with the engraving, back into his dispatch
book, and again the subject passed out of
his mind.
Two or three weeks passed by. Visiting
another friend-in Yorkshire, near the
Derbyshire Hne-Mr. Heaphey found him
self seated at dinner next to a gentleman
of an old family and of good estate in
Derbyshire, who had entered into CORE
spondence with him some years before
with an eye to inducing him to come down
into Derbyshire and paint portrait there
very much attached, and Rhogcould not
conveniently be carried up to London.
Finding Mr. HeapheY nesr his residence
ILlo 'CLIIStStOd t11l1 SO4AO Wv CA
at the end of his Yorkshire visit, pass two
or three days with him and paint this por-
trait. 1t was not very convenient for Mr.
Heaphey TO do this, but such was the ur-
gency of the Derbyshire man that he final
ly gave way.
81 shall be going home myself in q day
or two," said the Derbyshire man, who
was visiting aneighbor of Mr., Heaphey' 8
host in Yorkshire, land I will have every
thing ready for you. You viii take the
train at such station" (naming it,,
change carriages at such junction ana
in twenty minutes after that you willfnd
yourself at a little waystation, where my
carriage will be in waiting for you and
bring you to my house"
1t was gray, rainy morning when Mr..
Heaphey took the train to make his trip
into Derbyshire. a ready guard found an
empty first class carriage for him, put his
shaVls and bags into it and closed the
door. Putting on his travelling cap and
taking ont a novel Mr.. Heaphey settled
himself back into a corner OF the carriage
for a comfortable quiet hour in the train.
Long before the mishaps of Col. Valen-
tine Baker startled and scandalized the
world the unprotected female had made
herself terror to sedate and solitary male
travellers on The English railways. Great
therefore was the disgust of Mr.. Heaphey
when, just before the train was to start,
another guard came up, opened the car
riage door and handed in q lady, with the
usual paraphernalia of umbrellas, bags
and shawls.
The train moved off, and Mr.. Heaphey
after a while, glancing around from his
corner, became aware that this lady WIS
looking at him fXedly through brown
veil which obscured and blurred the out
lines Of her countenanos. 1t is unpleasant
to be fixed il this way from behind a veil,
and Mr.. Heaphey felt unusually and IN
accountably restless under the iDdiction.
His uneasiness was soon removed, how
ever, for the lady, throwing her veil aside,
revealed to him the face of his mysterious
visitant of the summer. She seemed not
in the least surprised at finding him in the
carriage, but very quietly asked him
whether he was going to such place
manning the residence of the gentleman
whom be YVES about to visit, and expressed
her satisfaction at meeting him as COM
posedly as if they were ordinary acquaint-
urces who had parted an ordinary circum-
stances a week or so before.
This cool daneanor aided Mr.. Heaphey
IN segaining his oomposure, and he met
her in the same spirit
You have made the sketch of me, have
you not, Mr.. Heaphey?" she said suddenly.
Good heavens, yes! but how did you
know thatS'
DeigniDg no reply, she went on:
why did you not finish it? You had
sothing to do the next day at such a
place" naming the country sect at which
he had really made the sketch.
Mr.. Heaphey stammered out some ex-
ttlse, which Yves cut short by her asking
him whether the engrsvtngh had not helped
aim as she had told him il would.
Very much" he said; 'but-but I never
quite knew how you sent that to me"
NO. suppose not, ;" she said, and chang
ing the subject began to speak of some
book which she held in her hand.
The conversation went on until the train
reached the point at which Mr. Heaphey
was TO leave it. The lady apparently in
tended TO continue her Journey in the di-
rection of London, for she made no offer to
get out, babe l5r. Heaphey good morning
very composedly and as he got out of the
carriage said to him:
Now you viii so on with the sketch
and | viii try and let you see me again. 1t
should be done
Without quite owning it to himself Mr..
Hesphey was greatly pleased TO find him
self IL a different carriage going in diff
ferent direction, for it was impossible to
resist a singular and uncomfortable i'm
preston that he was dealing with pro
fouudly mysterious if not with an unearth-
" parsonage, and yet in the face of the
very carriage and derneanor of the lady
and of all the external circumstances Of
the affair it Appeared to Mr.. Heapaey quite
n bs,lr.3 p, jndrllye these iIuDreSsiOnS he