Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-08-25
"Some business matter?"

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"Oh, no; it's not a business matter.
My father,you see, has cancer which
may carry him away at almost any
time left instructions where to
cable me in case he should become sud-
denly worse" #
Mr.. Hart expressed great sympat thy.
Let me see, it must be nine years now
since that cancer killed poor father,
but that excuse was my only hope. AS
soon as we land must get the cable
gram and start for home. It will be
hard to wait SO long for Mile to re-
turn to America.
June 12.-ln spite Of my plotting, we
are in Paris. When we had been ashore
about five minutes Hart discovered
that train left for Paris in an hour,
and he sent me to see about the bag
gage and went himself to inquire for
MY cablegram. lie congratulated me
when he found none; informed me that
mo news is good news"
We are in the hotel where the Aims
legs stopped. I found their names on
the register, and, underneath, that of
Sir Arthur Pemberton. According to
the clerk here, he is a young man who
is travelling with the Ainsleys. From
the same source I learned that Mr..
Ainsley will return to Paris in a day
or two, alone. Therefore l must re.
ceive that cablegram as soon as pos.
sible and get out of France.
June 17.--For the last few days l
have made no entries, everything hav.
ing run with remarkable placidity.
The fictitious cablegram worked
nicely, and I parted from Mildred on
Saturday afternoon. am positive
that there were tears in her eyes. Al.
though 1 knew that no vessel sails till
Friday, l came directly to Cherboura
and took rooms in this unassuming lit.
lie hotel.
Monday and Tuesday I spent wan.
dering about the town. This morning
l started out once more to cover my
heat. l had been walking about ter
minutes when l was shaking hand.
vith-Hart!
He, it seems, received a bona fide
cablegram on Tuesday necessitatina
his immediate return to America tt
straighten out some business affair
SO he and Mildred came to sail on Fri.
days steamer. Mildred and I took
long walk, and, among other things,
she observed that l seemed strangely
gay for man hurrying to the bedside
Of dying father. So 1 had to trump
HI
vest c;day-which said that he was
much improved, but that my presence
was required. II ..
June 24-If all goes well, we shall be
in New York by Saturday. The voy.
age has been very pleasant and quite
without incident. Mile and I have
been together most of the time, and it
is practically decided that we are to be
married in the late autumn, if papa's
Hooking up of me proves satisfactory
which it will. On e matter, however,
has been causing me much uneasiness,
and this morning I decided to have it
settled.
1t was question only of days when
Mr.. Hart should discover that father
has been in his coffin these nine
years; and l feared trouble when he
should unearth my deceit. This morn
ing took him aside and-in the light
of an excellent joke-told the whole
story. Of course, ! had to put little
gloss on some of the rough features.
but he got the main facts. Lord: he
was mad! It took an hour of incessant,
artistic 'jollying" to make him see the
matter in the light in which WAS try
ing to look at it; then we both laughed
heartily CD over the whole thing.
June 30-Home again. The kjnl in
Harris business was Strengthened out
much more easily than he had expected,
aud now we three are going for trip
through New England. I have written
Miss Airsley, apologized for so long re-
laying my answer; and said that, for
various reasons, / should remain in
America this summer. Now, unless
some ons should identify me with that
j. "Sprague who signed his name in a
cramped and almost illegible backhand
at Paris and again at Cherbourg, I
think l am safe from that quarter.
Everyone here believes that I was Wis
iting in the west between the fourth
and the 27th of June. Still, safe as I
know myself to be, can't help feeling
that it may be little awkward for me
to- meet Miss Ainsley in the fall. Well,
8 thus conscience doth make towards
Of us ALL OK.
- On the back page of the same diary
are pasted these self-explanatory clip
pings. The first is from a New York
daily, the second from London pape,
of the same date:
MARRIED. .... F.. ~.
Sprague-Hart. On Tuesday, October n
at the residence of the brides father Wes