The herald., 1894-01-12
LIEUT.. LENDHEIM.

UuduuSOlE0 l6lOW SOtS WltuouJ say ing,
~ all Austrian hussars are handsome.
Q was, moreover, about 32, clever,
ell educated and good deal of man
the world in German sort of way.
with all these charms of mind and
anner united in single individual,
was not a cause for the slightest won
rment among his friends that Miss
Iary White, the daughter of Colonel
White, New York broker, who, with
F'r mother, was spending the winter in
ienna, should fall captive to the
bnifest court that he paid her from
10 first. The wonder really was that
lie held out as long as she did, for it
lis quite two months after she had first
ut him before she agreed at the expi-
zion of certain time, to become his
Me-.
lit was accordingly settled that the
%bptenant should procure leave of
ksence as long as possible and appear
New York at the appointed time
q following June-to claim his bride
the hands of her father, although up
athis time that particular functionary
bs wholly in the dark as to what was
We required of him. These inciden-
preliminaries having been thus salts
ttori]y arranged, the bride to be and
4 whom the lieutenant in
unaffected way already called
hamma set out for Paris to under
Se the real, serious business of the
air, and for the next few months
BY were absorbed by the shops and
essmakers.
BHistory does not chronicle the doings
the lieutenant i'll Vienna during these
teks of waiting, but lovelorn letters
pink paper with crest came regu-
ly to Miss Mary White-she hated
pink paper, but adored the crest
were answered by her in good time.
Like all protracted seasons ofdlonging
d waiting, this, too, at last went by:
not only had the dresses and other
raphernalla been sent home from
ris, but the lieutenant at last found
nself on Bremen steamer half way
New York, whittier Miss White and
mother had already preceded him.
He arrived early one sitting morning
the pleasant suburb of Hoboken. By
series of contretemps, although the
ssel had been reported the evening
fore, neither Miss White nor any
|mber of the family, nor even the
bchman, met him at the pier. He
IS forced to drive alone as best he
ght, to the apartments of an old ath-
&c friend in Fifty-ninth street, with
om, as had been arranged, he was
Hodge while in New York. He final.
A4 reached the metropolis in very
xed frame of mind. Such a little
liter as this, however, although it
unded the lieutenant's vanity, even
his present state of submissiveness,
easily and satisfactorily smoothed
pr and soon forgotten, and the few
Is intervening before the wedding
RE spent in a round of gayety. So
lch did he see in such short time
many persons and places-that to
day he does not know whether Del
nico's is street or theater, or that
Ferside drive is not part of the
ttery. One thing, however, he does
hember, and that is the exact location
the Church of the Holy Trinity,
ich he vows he could find in the dark
but that is anticipating the story.
When the day of the wedding came
he ceremony had been fixed for the
ning-the lieutenant drew sigh of
ef. Somehow or other the New
Il rk visit had not been quite satisfac-
to him. He had been whisked about
hat it had not only confused him,
had begun to tell upon him physic-
T. Worse than all this, although he
been constantly in Miss Whites
hpany, somebody or other had always
ii there, too, and they had not even
an opportunity, as he reflected
lewhat bitterly, with an old world
ception of the part he was playing,
a single comfortable tete-a-tete or
exchange of condolences. This par
llar day he had been denied-heart-
/; ly, he thought, though they told him
y was a necessary preliminary-the
4 sight of the beloved object until he
% Wuld meet her at the altar, and he
rather wretched time, which he
nt variously in retrospection, polish
his cartouch and vigorously rub
up other metal parts of his equip
ats. Upon one thing he certainly
Eratulated himself, and that was
+ha and Uac naar and that his
1bles were almost over.
Mfhe wedding was to be military one
R certain extent. The groomsman
s to be the Austrian consul in uni
m, and with that minute attention
ii letail that characterized all the we'd
G preparations it had been arranged
out of compliment to the diplomat
the nationality OF the groom him
the Austrian national hymn should
played during the service. The cere-
by was to take place at o'clock at
Church of the Holy Trinity.
low, it must be borne in mind that
Re are in New York no less than
be churches of the Protestant Episco-
denomination having Trinity as a
btituent part of their names. First
ID IL, there is Trinity church proper, or
Trinity, which, as everybody knows,
Broadway, opposite Wall street.;
there is its immediate offshoot,
hity chapel, extending from West
nty-fifth to West Twenty-sixth
Tx near Broadway, and, finally, there
O Church of the HOLY Trinity. al