The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01

/ Hosmer Angel"
! Why did you come away to consult
I me in such d hurry?" asked Sherlock
Holmes, With his finger tips. and his
I eyes - the ceiling.
Again startled look came over the
/ someN nat VacuOus face Of Miss Mary
/ Sutherland. Yes. did bang out Of the
I house. she said. for il made me angry
/ 10 see the easy way in which Mr. Wind
lDauk-lhat Is, my father-tOok it all.
lie would not go TO the police, and he
Wouid not go TO YOU and so AT last, as
I he would do nothing, and kept on say
/ ing that there was no harm done, it
made me mad, and / just on with my
/ Ihlnss and came right away TO you.
Your father" said Holmes your
steptather, surely. since the name is
different
Yes, my stepfather. / cali him faith
en- though it sounds funny, too, for he
rs only five years and two months Oh
der than myself"
And YOUR mother is alive?''
on, yes, mother is alive and we'll
/ wasn't best pleased, Mr.. Holmes,
when she married again 50 soon after
fathers death, and man who was
nearly fifteen years younger than her
self. Father was plumber in the
TOttenham Court road, and he left a
er carried on with Mr. Hardy the fore
man, but when Mr.. Windibank came
he made her sell the business, for he
was very superior, being a traveller in
wines They got E4.I00 for the good
VIII and interest, which wasn't near
as much as father could have got if
he had been alive"
| had expected to see Sherlock Holmes
impatient under this rambling and in
AL
trary, he had listened with the greatest
concentration of attention
Your own little income" he asked,
does it come out of the business?"
"Oh no. sir. 1t is quite separate.
and was left me by my Uncle Ned i'm
Auckland. 1t is in New Zealand stock,
paying 4 l-2 per cent. Two thousand
five hundred pounds was the amount,
but / can only touch the interest.
You interest me extremely said
Holmes. And since you draw so large
sum as a hundred year. with what
you earn into the bargain, you no doubt
travel little, and indulge yourself i'm
every way. / believe that a single lady
can get on very nicely upon an income
of about $50"
= could do with much less than that.
Mr.. Holmes. but you understand that
as long as ] live at home l don't wish
10 be a burden TO them, and so they
have the use of the money just while l
am staying with them. OF course thar
is only just for the time. Nh. Windi-
bank draws my interest every quarter,
and pays IL over to mother, and / find
that I can do pretty well with what
earn at tyEeWTitinE. Ii brings me two
pence Il sheet, and / can often do from
fifteen 10 twenty sheets a day
You have made your position very
clear 10 me- said Holmes. This is my
friend Dr.. Watson. before whom you
can speak as freely as before myself.
Kindly tell US now all about your con-
nection with Mr.. Hosmer Angel"
A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's
face, and she picked nerVOusN at the
fringe OF her jacket Il met him fIrst
at the gasfitters' ball" she said. They
used 10 send father tickets when he
was alive. and then afterwards they
remembered Us. and sent them TO moth
er, Ar Wiudibank did not wish US to
go. he never did wish as to go any
where He would get quite mad If I
wanted 30 much as 10 join the Sunday
school treat But this time / was set
on going, and / would go: for what
right had he to prevent? He said the
folk were not fit for us TO know, when
all fathers friends We're to he there.
And he said I had nothing fit to wear.
when ! had my purple plush that / had
never so much as taken out of the
drawer At last. when nothing else
would do. he went off to France upon
the business Of the firm. but We went
mother and /, with Mr. Hardy. who
used 10 be cur foreman and it was
there ] met Mr. Hosmer Angel"
Il suppose. said Holmes, that when
Mr.. Windibank came back from France
he hon inc
gone TO The ball"
"Oh. well, he was very good about it.
He laughed, l remember, and shrugged
his shoulders, and said there was no
use denying anything TO a woman. for
she would have her way
Il see. Then at the gasfitters' ball
you met. I understand, a gentleman
called Mr.. Hosmer Angel"
Yes sir / met him that night, and
he called next day 10 ask if We had
got home safe, and after that We met
him-that is TO say. Mr. Holmes, / met
him twice for walks but after that
father came back again, and Mr.. Hos
meT Angel could not come To the house
any more
Mo-"
"Weu, YOU know. father didn't like
anything of the sort. lie wouldn't have
any visitors if he could help il, and he
used to say that a woman should be
happy in her own family circle. But
then, as ! used TO say 10 mother "a wO-
man wants her own circle 10 begin with
and ] had not got mine vet"
But how about Mr.. Hosmer Angel >
Did he make no attempt 10 see you?"
We'll, father was going off to France
again i'm a week. and HOsmer wrote
aud said that il would be safer and
better not 10 see Zach other until he
bad gone We could write in the mean-
time. and be used too write every Jiay.
I took tho letters i'm the morning so
there was no need for father to know. %.
Were YOU engaged TO the gentleman
at this time? ?"
"Oh yes. Mr. Holmes. We We're en-
gagged after the first walk that we took.
HosmeI- Mr. Angel-Was d cashier in
an office IN Leadenhall strickland -"
What office"
That's the worst of IT, Mr.. Holmes,
1 don't know"
Where did he livc?"
Tie slept on the premises"
And YOU don't know his address,"
"No-exeept that il was Leadenhall
street
Where did you address You letters.
them"
TO the Leadenhall Street Postoffice.
to be left till called for. he said that
Il he were sent TO the Office he would
be cha6ed by all the other clerks about
having letters from Il lady. SO / offered
to typewrite them. like he did his. bat
he wouldn't have this, for he said thai
when / wrote them they seemed 10
coine fTOm me. but when they were
rypeWritten he always felt that the
machine had come between US. That
win show you just how fond he was OF
me- Mr. Holmes. and the little things,
hat ne would think Of"
1T was most suggestive said /
Holmes. 1T has long been an axiom /
81 mine that the little things are in |
initely the most important. Can you |
any other little things about /