The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-28
LIEUT.. LENDHEIM.

Lieutenant Won Lendheim was an
Austrian officer of hussars That he was
a handsome fellow goes without saying,
for all Austrian hussars are handsome.
He was, moreover, about b, clever,
well educated and good deal of a man
of the world in a German sort of way.
With all these charms of mind and
manner united in single individual,
II was not cause for the slightest Won
derment among his friends that Miss
Mary White, the daughter of Colonel
White, New York broker. who. with
her mother, was spending the winter in
manifest court that he paid her from
the first. The wonder really was that
she held ont as long as she did, for it
was quite two months after she had first
met him before she agreed, at the eXpi-
ration Of a certain time, to become his
wife.
It was accordingly settled that the
lieutenant should procure IA leave of
absence as long rs possible and appear
in New York at the appointed time
the following June to claim his bride
at the hands of her father, although up
to this time that particular functionary
was wholly in the dark as 10 wha was
to he required of him. These inc idsn-
tai preiminaries having been thus salts
tactorily arranged, the bride 10 he and
l. ~,
his unaffected WAY already called
mamma set out for Paris to under
take the real serious business Of the
affair, and for the next few months
they were absorbed by the shops and
dressmakers.
History does not chronicle the doings
of the lieutenant in Vienna during these
weeks of waiting, but lovelorn letters
on pink paper with a crest came regu-
larly to Miss Mary White-she hated
the pink paper, but adored the crest
and were answered by her in good time.
Like all protracted seasons of longing
and waiting, this too, at last went by.
and not only had the dresses and other
paraphernala been sent home from
Paris, but the lieutenant mt last found
himself ON II Bremen steamer half way
to New York. whittier Miss White and
her mother had already preceded him.
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=, ,ho ,,loos.r+ srbprb Of uohol,on Nv
- san;ds ~ ,ontroto,nns although tbo
vessel had been reported the evening
hoforo neither Mis- White nor any
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,ati', e,.;a,,d i, F;ft,. ri,,tl, a+,,.o, Win
whom nc had bopn arranged he was
70 ,ad,,,' ,.hi1. i, Now Yo,k Tie final
~ reached thr metronolis in - very
,,,ivod fro,rc of mind Sneb - httle
,,.ttor nc ,his bowover nlthouob if
,yonpdod fine li.utenant's vanity. even
in his nresnnt STATE Of sub,nissiycnrs,.
was easily and satisfactorily sinoothed
over and soon forgotten. and the few
DAYS interveui, y before the wedding
were sncut in a rouud of pavetv. So
much did ne see in sn.h a short time
So muuv nersous and places that to
this dav he does not know whether Del
monico's is n street or theater, or that
Riverside drive is not n mart of the
Ratterv One thing. however. he does
remember and that is the exact location
of the Church of the Holy Trinity.
which he vows he could find in the dark
lint that is anticjuatinp the story,
When the dav of the wedding came
the ceremony had been fixed for the
eyeninp-the lieutenant drew a sigh of
relief Somehow or other the New
York visit had not been quite satisfac.
torv 70 him He had been whi~lied about
so that if had not only ro{,fle Il him.
but had begun TO tell upml INN phvsic-
ally Worse than NIL this. although he
had been constantly in Miss White s
co,nnanv. somebody or other had ALWAYS
been there too. md they had not even
had an o,inortunitv as he reflected
somewhat bitterly with AN old world
conrontion If tbe MARI he was plaving
for !, sipoIo comfortable tete.,,-tefe or
an evcbanoo of con6donces This mar.
t;c,,lar dov ho had b.ep denied heart
los.lv ho tbn,.,h+ tbongb 4hev told him
II WINS rocos.arv ny,li,ninorv -tho
first s;ubt Of fine bejoved obioct until he
should nn.t hnr ot tbe altar and no
had r,thor . wrotcbed fine which ba
snont variorslv in rntro.nection nolisb-
~, his ,.,rt,,,,nh ona ,,i,,a,orsi, r,b-
b;9g mn other metal narta of bis conin-
II:
conoratnl.tn1 himself and tbat was