Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-05

It was just sheer luck fer hiln that he dld not let his tongue slip and cali her Cuddles, for really lie had n very narrow escape from sodoing. The word flashed into lis memory ssllcll their lins met. and as he was very fond of his Wlfe Inc pet name suddenly .seemeo fo him pretty and suggestive. But the thought of who it belonged to saved h1m, and insteadsof betraying him into trouble, the remembrance inspired him with a good idea. Wagstaff was also 2 director and would be at the meeting to which he was going. Those letters could be returned at once. He took them from the safe, which was behind the cashiers desk, put them in bis pocket and went out with Mir. Bulgerbv
 Hardly had he been gone five minutes when young woman entered the outer office and asked for Mir. Thimberlv. She was showily dressed, wore excessively high French heels and had dark eve. brows and very light golden hair. She was told that he would be in shortly. and the cashier--a sedate, elderly man. who was not fayorably impressed by her appearanee--inyited her to take a chair outside the railing. She accepted 1t, but after sitting it few minutes sprang up, gave herself an all around shake which filled the office with rustic and the cdor of patchouli, said she wonld 'eome back later. ' and wen. away
 F Mrs. 4himberly, peeping out from Algelnon's den, saw, heard and won dered, Another! Oh. what q wretch Algy wasi
 Jennie had met Mr. Wagstaff acci dentally alad in conformity to his in- structions came to reclaim her letters from MT. Thimberly But she was restless young person, conscious of de- serving admiration, enjoyed evoling it, and, happening to remember that she was near Wall street, suddenly realized that she had much better be out dag zling susceptible young brokers than wasting her sweetness ill a dingy office waiting to get some letters about which she did not really care much from a man who might be 60 years old for augIt she knew to the contrary.
 Hardly was she well out of the way when Mrs. Wagstaff returned, and, hay ing what the office boy mentally char aeterized as "a very pretty nerve of her own, /" did not wait to be seated outside the railing or even detained i'll the out CT office, but marched straight into AL gernon's den, the door of which now stood a little way open.
 Mrs. Thimberly was aghast at the audacious familiarity demonstrated. But no wonder!' she reflected "A creature who calls herself Cuddlesw Who she was Mrs. Wagstaff did not care or even trouble herself to imagine. She was not Jennie. and that was enough. How could she know that? Well, she had seen another of Sam my's friends, and the fellow-whether from malice or because he was just plain fool, who can say?-had per- mitted himself to tell the jealous wife all he knew about MT. Wag staff s apparent delinqueneies. It was not much. He had seen Sam on two or possibly three occasions dining publicly with young woman-a very light blond, quite flashing in appearance and little overdressed-who might, for all he knew to the contrary, be Jennie. She looked like the sort of young per son liable to be called Jennie or Fanny CT anything like that. And on one of those occasions, two or three months ago, maybe more, at Delmonico's, he believed MT Thimberly sat at their ta- ble little while He would not swear it was Thimberly, but he thought il was
 "'Aha" thought the jealous wife. Now let Algernon look me ill the eye and deny knowing Jennie if he daresl' Of course if she had found him he would have done so, for he was a con- sistent man, who having said thing would stick to 1t. Furthermore, in this particular instance he would have been right, for the tattler was at fault,in naming him. But he was not destined to be put to the test that day. Instead of him Mrs Wagstatf found another woman and charitably said to herself: "Poor Mrs. Thimberly! How she, too, is deceivedr That this lady might be she did not occur to her. In fact, her mind was so full of Jennies that there was temporarily no room in it for tanner inaginings or interest in less rep rehensible personalities. Since this lady did not fit. the description given of the young person who dined abroad with her husband, Mrs. Wagstaff had no con cern as to who she might be. So, after moments embarrassed pause at the door. she turned upon her heel, told the office boy she would return later and disappeared She was gone before Al gernon's wife had sufficiently repressed her indignation to determine whether to address her as Cuddles and wreck her then and there or wait until by fair speech she should have entrapped 'the creature'' into some self betrayal.
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