Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-02
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY JANUARY 2, 1890.

town knew 1ttlc Gertrude : story. and
how near Robert percival came to being
sent after her. That was his version.
Tho third-class postmaster who knew
Robert clean through, advised him to
dream less and lie seldom.
Amos Blake connected with the steam
er on time. There was a very successful
i|mpromptu farewell dinner on board for
three. The twins we're not Overdemon-
strativc, but we'll pleased. AS the long
black hull swung into mid-stream, they
stood larm in arm, as usual aud waved
their hats at Amos from the pier head.
He will bring her by Christmas,
Edgar said Alfred.
ro MES we we S can safely count on that"
II was October ~ when Amos Blake
landed at Marscilles. Eight days later
he was at Vienna. There we're certain
unavoidable delays. OR November o
he reached Buda-Iesh, in Hungary.
The next morning found him "a steamer
passenger on the broad, yellow tortuous
Danube.
BY evening of that day the boat was
at Neusat2. Here he saw the cele-
brated Petrawardein or "rock-fortress,'
on the rivers opposite bank. At sum
rise he was summoned TO land at Bel
grade.
Another letter came from Europe
during the first week in December,
which was opened by one of the two
best men in Som erstown, Mass, and
read by both of them. This letter, or
rather its envelope, resembled
an egg with II double yolk,
for there was u long, grateful
epistle from Gertrude aud minute bust
ness-like particulars from Amos Blake.
He said the doctors had willingly sur
rendered their charge after reading the
official papers, though they demurred
somewhat at receiving the liberal pres
ent sent them 10y the twin uncles of the
poor orphan girl they had %humanely
saved for a happy, brilliant womanhood.
DIR. Berteil wanted nothing for himself,
aid only asked to be permitted to ac-
company Mile. Gertrude as far as Paris,
whittier he was returning. This nod
est request was granted. OF course. Miss
Jermyn's wardrobe would be purchased
at Vienna and Paris, at both of which
cities they would stop en- route. Amos
further said that he had arranged to be
in Liverpool on the 18th of December,
in time for tho Atlantic westward
steamer departing that day. He would
write again from London, and send a
cablegram from Liverpool the morning
they embarked for home.
III bcIbtuuc > lcubtf WIS IL TGCtllb
photograph of herself. No wonder the
Servians had so quickly noted the like
ness between the drowned woman with
golden halr and the wave-crippled
child thrown upon their hospitality.
Once more the twin bachelors imagined
they gaZed upon the beautiful iace Of
their unfortunate sister.
At Vienna there was a most provoking
detention. Amos Blake's itinerary some
how refused to work easy on the back
track. The party reached Paris five
days late. Amos wanted to push on to
London, but Dr.. Francois Bcrteil said
mo" so emphaticaliy and gr%aciously
that they remained his delight for
twonty-iour hours. He was presented
by Gertrude with a costly gem souvenir
n was d~isconsolate indeed when the
train containing his American friends
rolled swiftly outof the French capital.
london had to be skipped. The
flyer" to Liverpool was hastily
boarded. Amos never got hurried in
England. The steamers deck was
reached eighty minutes before her tide
hour on December u. TWAS sufficient.
When Alfred was subsequently told OF
this at Somerstown, he said, looking
across AT Edgar:
Just the eXac number of minutes |
had TO wait for you, my dear brother"
Home at SomerstOwn-on-the-Hill. mis-
tress of Somers house, queen of all
hearts, including the single one of her
two %Cncles, Gertrude Somers Jermyn
took her mothers former place in soci-
ETY.. She had not come by Christmas,
but that was the fault of head winds.
Amos could not consistently reproach
either himself or the Vienna
modistes with the final delay.
The winter elements do not work
on schedule. Christmas dinner was
therefore, philosophically eaten at sea
about $50 in the afternoon. Two days
later they were rafting through New
Works. awful streets toward the Grand
Central depot.
The borrowed holiday was hung up
for future needs. 1t had been such q
success that Amos Blake used it the fol-
lowing summer, when he visited Europe
more leisurcly with his handsome wife.
There was no mistress at Somers house
until they returned.
The twin brothers again opened cor
r~espondence with their obedient, hum
BILE servants, the London bankers. Let
ters or administration. granted 10 the
daughter of Mrs. Gertrude Jermyn, de-
ceased, were duly approved; and by re,
quest Of the heiress, Mrs. Gertrude
Somers Blaze, that long standing bal
ance of "a trifle less than seven hun.
dred pounds sterling" was transferred
to the name of Francois Berteil, doctor
OF medicine, Paris, France.