The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-10-15

"Fhat ocere you going to DO aoith that
piStOl%'
was against her shoulder tall and jolly
Mr.. Wagstaff. Accompanying him and
i'll animated conversation was a showily
dressed young woman, whose eyebrows
were dark and hair golden. Fearing to
be recognized by the gentleman and &C
cused Of abstracting the package of let
tiers from his pocket, Mrs. Thimberly
drew down her veil. This did not, how
ever, prevent her hearing very clearly
the artificial blond, who spoke in a
sharp, high keyed voice, and her com
panion, who talked loud, as became one
who had nothing to conceal. Yet they
were discussing the loss Of those letters.
Really, said the gentleman, 81 lost
them. give you my word did I had
them in my overcoat pocket, intending
to give them back to You this evening,
as you requested, and they must have
dropped out in the Cafe Savarin or on
the street somewhere, as l carried the
coat on my arm. "
but you wrote me your friend Lin
berly had them"
mot kimberly; Thimberly So he
did, but gave them back to me this aft
ernoon. Called them 'incendiary, and
said he didn't want them around.
"Oh, WELL suppose it don't matterl
Whoever finds them will he none the
wiser as to their writer or receiver"
"Not unless you are better known as
Cuddles than have imagined.
"Id box your ears if we were not in
the car. Much more likely you will be
identified as Lump Of Sweetness or Pop
sy Wopsy or Baby if some woman finds
them"
ooh, mol Baby at least is Of multi
tudinous application. Every fellow has
some one who calls him Baby"
They laughed, not because there was
anything to laugh at, but in sheer exu-
berance of spirits, as the innocently
happy laugh, but Mrs. Thimberly flush
ed and shuddered. mentally registering
a vow never to call Algernon pet names
any more.
"That new code of yours worked to a
charm, resumed Cuddles, ''and it was
awfully funny to see the triumph in old
Morgan's sour face when he told me-
He doesn't like me, even little bit,
you know, and it did him such good to
tell me you were in the country and
wouldn't be back for month
Little suspecting it meant that /
would meet you at the usual place and
time this evening.
Again they laughed merrily.
Tho trai,, Yoo,o1 tho ,fatiC,, or 1trb; oh
Mrs. Thimberly would have left it if
she had been going home instead Of to
her mothers. And-she had changed
her mind. Rising as the cars slackened
speed, she leaned over the couple in the
cross seat and dropped the package OF
letters in the girls lap, saying, "Per-
NIT me to return Cuddles' letters. AL
ready her back was turned when they
looked up In a few seconds she was
out of the car and ON her way home,
full Of joy over her restored confidence
in Algernon's honesty and truth. 1t is
true the memory of the "baby eyed
woman who paved him" and said she
would return later" did recur to her,
but in her improved and happier state
of mind only as stimulant to curiosity
which her husband would no doubt
fully satisfy. Yet in the midst of her
regained happiness cloud Of anxiety
swept across her mental horizon
what, " she asked herself, Unjust have
been the dear, good fellows feelings
when he read my cold and cruel fare
well and realized that I had left him
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