The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-10-23

with oUtstretched hand and G. smile on
his face, but she Just touched the eX
tended fingers and indicated Millic.
DO You know this lady?" she asked.
The young man announced rs Mr..
and Mrs CareW looked at one another
across the table, II have not, to my
knowledge, that pleasure" he said po-
litely, and then stared with amaze
meut at the relief On his betrothed's
face and the Dawilderment on that OF
the strange lady.
Il knew itv' cried Doris with heart
felt relief. "She said-she must be
crazy-that you were her husband"
II her husband"'
"Is this your Henry Carew?" Millic
finally found voice to say to Doris.
Yes, of course it is! Now will you
kindly explain what you mean by say
ilg he married you month ago:'
Il never saw this gentleman before
in my life. I said I was married to
Henry Carew; in my husbands pocket
this evening found the letter I
showed you just now
in fact. except being about the same
height, there was not the smallest re-
sembiance between the visitor and Mil
lies husband.
"Ab, the letter. cried Doris; that's
what so bewildered me-" She turned
to her Harry. "Where is the letter l
wrote you by the first post this morn
ing, addressed to your club, which you
ought to have received:"
Il did receive it; st 2 o'clock to-day,
when I went to rhe Acanthus for
luncheon. Il have it now,"-he dived
into bis breast pocket Of his great coat
-"why, no! it's gone"
"Hcw did it get into my husbands
coat?" demanded Millie; "that's where
I found it"
Henry Carew the second took the let
ter and envelope Mrs. Carew produced
and gazed wonderingly at them.
"This is positively uncanny" he stated.
'Bas the coat been out Of your pos.
session." asked Doris, as he seemed
unable to give any explanation.
''Let me think. read the letter in
the vestibule and put it in the breast
pocket of my overcoat. I hung the coat
on peg in the luncheon room while I
lunched. Then I put it on and went
out No, 1 didn't. I had half an hour
to spare, and had game of billiards
and gave the coat to waiter, and be
brought it to me when I finished, and
I put it on and went out. All! Is your
husband a Henry Carew% inquired
tie young man of Millie.
"Of course" said Mrs. Carew, impa.
tiently, "or all this trouble wouldn't
have arisen"
Then I believe I know who your
husband is" was the triumphat reply.
Millic, who in her bewilderment, was
beginning to wonder whether the ex
istencc Of her Harry was not imagina
ton on her part, gave him all her at
tention, and Doris began to think he1
supposition that her visitor was crazy
might be incorrect.
Hes Paul Carew, the junior part
ner OF Stephens & Co., the wool brok
crs:" asked the young man.
Yes, yes,' cried Mrs. Carew, Gag
crly, and in her excitement ungram
:natically added, like the monks when
they spotted the thieving jackdaw
"that's him.
But STILL" continued Miss Forbes's
Harry, speaking more to himself thar
to his eager audience, ''that doesn't ex
plain how he got-why, I don't believe
this-is my coat!!'
He was feeling in the pockets Of his
oyercoat with a puzzled expression
and looking at a season ticket pass
drawn from the ticket pocket.
That's Harry's ticket! You've go;
on his coat" cried Millie, ray Of lighl
Illuminating the puzzle. "and he's go1
yours-but they're exactly alike"
"Of course they are" said Harry Ca
rev; Harry and patronize the same
tailor He must have been at the clut
to-day, though I didn't see him, anC
the waiter mixed up our coats"
"You know my husband?
II should think I do. Why, we're
first cousins, and have been great
chums till a year ago, when we quar-
relied over some trifling matter, anG
haven't spoken since. 1 heard he re
Gently married. Hasn't he never tolC
YOU of his cousin Harry Carew? Fancy
that"
"Well, Harry" said Doris. "you've
never told me you had cousin Of tlK
same name as YOURSELF
Haven't I? That's just how we'vt
drifted apart. l must make it up with
Harry; I'm Harry Solus, he's Henr!
Paul Carew. Now, is everything clear
to you two ladies, and are the charac
ters of Harry and Harry Paul cleared?
And both the matron and the maiC
declared the two Harry Carews wert
completely vindicated.
Harry went home with his relation
by marriage to fetch his own overcoa'
and return his cousins, and then lefi
with a message to his old chum tha'
he would call on him on the morrow
at his office and make up" their quar-
rel. and presently Mr.. Carew returned
and A1illie made full confession of al
that had happened since his departure
SO. the moral of it is, never judge by
circumstantial evidence. - New Yorl