The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-08-19
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mo idea you could give us such q
ripping performance, Birdy," remarked
Hartley, land when your vito Joined In
was perfectly astounded"
jackson laughed softly.
"No. sho doesn't do 1t at all badly" he
admitted. You know, Dick, there's q
bit of romance attached to that whistle Of
hers. In fact, it was the means of bring.
ing our matrimonial desires to an abrupt
point at an extremely critical period In our
courtship."
Hartley gave mo gentle kick.
"1hen your union had spice of 70.
nance about itY' he said
"Ratherl Unique In the annals of love.
making, l should say. But. folks are SO
confoundedly inoredulous nowadays I've
never attempted to tell the yarn but once,
and then I sworo I'd never do 1t again"
But he had to on this occasion and soon
began to interest us as follows:
First Of all, you must know, MI.
King" addressing mo, 'I'm called Birdy
on account of having practced from earll
est infancy cheap form Of musical rccrea.
ton. Though cufred as boy, severely
rcprimandod for warbling in slack busl.
ness hours and soundly exeorated by the
| AUlSHDuIs, ptTfbNtTtl.
IA year this last summer came in for
sum Of money which rendered me
practically wealthy and independent man,
and to celebrate my good fortune threw
up my business berth and went into York.
shire TO spend fow weeks with profos.
sional bachelor friend and to idle generally.
'While there Twas introduced to Colo
mol Alton and his daughter Evelyn, aged
] ,hr It,r,, I t.,
innate friends of my chum. Nice girl she
was. Plenty of go, without being the
| least fast In loss than fortnight was
| over head and ears in love with her. The
| subsequent afternoons at Tho Chase were
| too hot for tennis Colonel Alton spent
| them snoozing in his study; Eyelyn's
elderly companion and her fathers house.
! kecpcr-for Mrs. Alton had been dead
some years-nodded in the shade of hor
fnvoritc elm, and my friend had invariably
to leave for en- important case before the
tea came ont. Very nice q him. !
thought.
"Fhus thrown together, Evelyn and
monopolizcd the arbor, and l used to
anluso her by trillnR selections from the
operas latest airs (comc and scrious), and
shc would occasionally join in as a kind
of FLIP to my performances. Though a
woman in every respect, she could whistle
In most Of the well known tunes, up to
date or pathctically aged, she excelod
owing to the fact that during the winter
months for some years past she had always
oilicated at the piano for the village pop
ular concerts, when tho vocal and instru-
mental items were naturally of an anus
ing and light orter-ut times scarcely high
class, perhaps
Then came the time when the colonel
had to be approached. The old man gave
me prompt md curt refusal. He had
other views for his child. tried remon.
STRANGE, then logged persistency, hut with
no avail Evelyn stood out like brick.
This burst Of independence resulted In her
immediate Punishment to regions UNI
known to me, under the surveillance Of q
relative OF mature age and experience, md
all communication between us streuuously
denied and forestallod. All chances OF
elOpcment even were reduced to nil
"A few days later l loft my friends for
Bournemouth, there to recruit my shattor-
sd health and hopes and think things over
quietly was crushed for the tine being.
As aliglited from my cab at the entrance
to the North Cliff, where 1 had taken
tooii'Si Si''uiis ihhy Shlllp ibNu lIt
steps. H0r face seemed somewhat famil. |
lar to me, though could not at the time !
recall to mind when and where had seen |
1t before When she started as she saw |
mo and somewhat hurricdly re- entered tho
hotel, l WAS further mystifed. A thought
struck mo as l was signing my name in
tho hotel register of visitors sometime lat
er. Two pages back l found an entry,
Miss Alton and Miss f.. Alton l tu!n.
blcd to it in a second then. The elderly
lady had encountered was undoubtedly
Colonel Atoms sister, who had been stay.
ing at The Chase and left two days after
my arrival in the village, and before l
knew anything of Evelyn had once pass.
cd her walking with tho colonel, and sbo
must have recognized me again.
"lromarked on the entry to the clerk in
casual way and ho volunteered tho infor.
nation that Miss Alton had hut q few mo,
mcnts previously given notice Of her in.
tchtinn to vacato their apartments tho
next morning. Tho news staggered mo.
Then Miss Alton certainly did not know
al and had decided on flight us the only
safe remedy under tho circumstances
mot glimpse could catch of Evelyn.
After dinner from u search Oh tho pier
returned to tho North Cliff and sat discm.
solhtely smoking out In the balcony of my
room in this growing dusk. Almost I'M
consciously lapscd Into melody and an
propriatc!y commenced to warblo softly
lico, Where Art ThOuY' A slight move.
ment on the balcony above mine and oue
window to the loft caused me to glance up
figure in white met my gaze, with ono
III Its hands, rs If demanding silence
pointing warnngly t. the window behind
her. Yes 1t was Evelyn, but her attend
ant dragon OF all aurJ was evidently close
at hand. Verbal communication. rs well
a writing, was out of the question; 1t was
already too dark for the deaf and dumb
manipulation, even provided she knew its
working. An idea flashed uIun me, Why
not try. No sooner thought of than dunn
Softly whistod Tho last lines of Whisper,
and Shall Hear refrain. A slight shake
Of tho head and then n rrndcring M
'Goodby, Sweetheart Goodbye floatcd
down. Then they wcrp really going away