The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-15

had d l0Tely tine Al the dance. ard
awoks in the morning restless and
worried.
She communicated With the czee
81 cncs % learn Il snErhsng had esen
heard CT the h2Ehle AMI vas further
depressed By Al a1sxar in the ~
E4rive- o. course she didn't have auv
appetite for breakfast and went hack
% her room determined to get ali the
police officers and detectives and
sieuths intown after Il But hef0re
she had tine TO do anything desperate.
. box Of flowers from a Broadway
florists was sent up. She was SIRE
sehe knew who sent Il. because she re-
called with q blush vhas a certain
very lovely yo1ng man had been say
ing 70 her the night before. and. Of
course. there wasn't anything more
natural than that ne should send her
box of flowers the very first thing
on his way down town She opened
the box at once. Just to have some
thing else 10 think about than her
troubles. but, loi and behold, there
was no card therel Neither was there
any indication from wnom the flowers
came, but in the midst Of the bed
OF roses lay the lost article accompa-
MED by a poem written in an IN
known hand. and one apparently not
disguised. This poem the girl gave
nae copy of. and | carry il around
to be handy in case of an emergency.
Let me read 1t TO YOU
The lady took from her pocketbook
a typewriter manuscript and spread
it down by her tea cup to get the
effect of the white tablecloth on the
thin paper.
Listen" and she read as follows:
TO THINK THAT / WOULD NOT
HAVE KNOWN HER.
Twas at a dance. In vain l tried
To feel less like a social martyr,
When lying near the door | spied
A thing Of yellow silk. a
/ put a dash there, for tbs said
To write it plainly out amiss is,
Yet England's motto may be read
Upon just such thing as this is.
l stopped and hid it in my hand.
And wondered who might be the
loser;
She could not ask me for the band
How such question would confuse
her!
Returning with it TO my place.
/ wonder if my cheek were flushing.
II turn l scanned each lovely face,
Until | say how you were blushing
My own perception had wronged
To think that l would not have
known her
To whom this dainty band belonged;
No one but you could be the owner.
So thus | send it back to you,
Around this bunch of blushing roses;
One found it whom you do not know,
Whose name no hint of mine dis
closes.
would not have you guess twas l,
For that might put constraint upon
you;
Perhaps you'll know me by and by.
Perhaps you'll love me-when I've
won you.
I'd whisper that twas who found
This singing silken band of yellow:
We're strangers, still will be bound
You, and no other. have its fellow.
And now may my respect for you
Plead pardon for these rhyming
fancies;
For never motto was more true
Than Honi soft qui NAL y pense is
Now. isn't that just too lovely?"
asked the reader amid a chorus OF
commentator which was almost ap-
plause. And still It is a fraud, be-
cause the writer. the girl is sure,
wasn't at the dance at all, and she
is perfectly sure that she never drop
ped it in the ballroom. It would have
been too dreadfully awful. besides
everybody would have seen it. She
has her suspicious of one of three
young men who had apartments FOR
about two weeks on the same floor
with her and were coming in at all
hours of the night One of the young
fellows was from Chicago. one from
Boston and one from San Francisco.
and they all went away the day the
flowers came"
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