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

~ all Austrian hussars are handsome
0 was, moreover, about 80, clever,
Xell educated and good deal of a man
the world in German sort of way.
with all these charms of mind and
anner united in a single individual,
was not cause for the slightest won
rment among his friends that Miss
larry White, the daughter of Colonel
White, New York broker, who, with
'r mother, was spending the winter in
ienna, should fall captive to the
hnifest court that he paid her from
e first. The wonder really was that
lie held out as long as she did, for it
hs quite two months after she had first
Yet him before she agreed, at the expi-
Stion of certain time, to become his
Ne.
1T was accordingly settled that the
%bptenant should procure a leave of
Rsence as long as possible and appear
New York at the appointed time
"a following June--to claim his bride
the hands Of her father, although up
tethis time that particular functionary
bs wholly il the dark as to what was
6e required of him. These inciden-
preliminaries having been thus salts
ctorily arranged, the bride to be and
4 whom the lieutenant in
unaffected way already called
hanna set out for Paris to under
le the real, serious business Of the
lair, and for the next few months
BY were absorbed by the shops and
essmakers.
1History does not chronicle the doings
the lieutenant in Vienna during these
Feks of waiting, but lovelorn letters
pink paper with crest came regu-
ly to Miss Mary White-she hated
pink paper, but adored the crest
d were answered by her in good time.
Like all protracted seasons oftlonging
4 waiting, this too, at last went by:
d not only had the dresses and other
raphernalia been sent home from
ris, but the lieutenant at last found
nself on a 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
lore, neither Miss White nor any
mber Of the family, nor even the
achman, met him at the pier. He
IS forced to drive alone as best he
ght, to the apartments of an old ath-
tc friend in Fifty-ninth street, with
|om, as had been arranged, he was
Hodge while in New York. He final
Wreached the metropolis in very
ked frame of mind. Such a little
tier as this, however, although it
unded the lieutenant's vanity, even
his present state of submissiveness,
easily and satisfactorily smoothed
r and soon forgotten, and the few
Is intervening before the wedding
RE spent in round of gayety. So
ch did he see in such short time
many peisons 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
eff. Somehow or other the New
II 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-
Worse than all this, although he
been constantly in Miss Whites
hpany, somebody or other had always
IN there, too, and they had not even
an opportunity, as he reflected
hewhat bitterly, with an old world
ception of the part he was playing,
a single comfortable tete-a-tete or
Exchange of condolences. This par
hlar day he had been denied-heart-
Il ly, he thought, though they told him
- WAS necessary preliminary-the
= sight of the beloved object until he
IS laid 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
lts Upon one thing he certainly
gratulated himself, and that was
the end was near, and that his
hbles were almost over.
fhe wedding was to be military one
M certain extent. The groomsman
to be the Austrian consul in uni
I'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
Btituent part of their names. First
a IL, there is Trinity church proper, or
Trinity, which, as everybody knows,
Broadway, opposite Wall street;
there is its immediate offshoot,
lity chapel, extending from West
fnty-fifth to West Twenty-sixth
x. near Broadway, and, finally, there
Church of the Holy Trinity, al