Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-11-04

sleep each night. Her acquaintance was
absolutely based on ancestry, and guest
without a coat-of-arms was as unknown
at her home as a noiseless street car ~
Gotham.
No wonder, then, that she was dis
pleased when her dearest friend, pretty
Mrs. Juilliard (horn Won Twillei) asked
leave over the telephone to bring friend
Of her husbands to the musical which
Mrs. Wrenn desired should be most ex
elusive, and for which she had secured
the brightest star Of the metropolitan
Opera House armament.
"Who is the man ?" Mrs. Wrenn de
manded, as soon as she could control hel
feelings.
81 really cannot tell you, was the
answer the wire brought. Ellis name
is Bill and he's Western, but present
able. He simply must come, or DICE
and l shall have to stay at home. THIS
'BilP is to be our house guest, and tins
is his first evening here.
So, a reluctant invitation was tele'
phoned to "Bill' the unknown, and Mrs
Wrenn growled about it the rest OF the
day. Little sympathy she got from VIM
nifred Darlington, her husbands pretty
niece from Virginia, who was spending
the winter with them. The girl had
been terribly tried by this endless talk
OF family" and longed for the Virginia
way, where, as she put it: ave all have
ancestors, and everybody takes it for
granted"
So "Bill" came to the musical, and
was the only one who had to be pre-
scented. That he was the most striking
man that she had seen in months did
not put any warmth into the hostess
greeting. Nor was it less cold when his
last name was pronounced the same as
her own. Her manner was still blighted
with the frost of it.
''Strange about the names, is it not?'
he asked easily. "They seem to be
identically the same"
"You spell your name with one n, |
presume ?" she offered in tone as cold
as a steel-engraving.
mo, we always tack OH second N,
though it does seem rather useless"
Indeed y she said sharply, "Tllat
second N makes no end of difference,
young man." Then, turning to Mrs.
Juiliiard, she smiled and said: you're
to do just as you please, my dear, until
Nine. Goritz comes. Thank Heaven, we
can be informal tonight !"
81 wonder what she is like when she
is formal" the Westerner observed.
'.She is lovely woman, Mr.. Wrenn,
and she'll be back at you on the family
question before the evening is over see
if she's not. Now, l am going to intro
duce you to that charming girl i'll whom
my husband is showing entirely too much
interest. You may be as devoted as you
like"
He already had looked twice at the
girl they we're approaching. Her shout
ders, standing out like marble from a
beautiful gown of black crepe de sole.
first caught his eye. There was bloom
on her cheek that a child might have
envied, smile on her lips that was be-
witching, a CLEAN OF mirth in her eye,
and above all this a crown of golden
yellow hair as regal as queen ever wore.
miss Darlington, this is MIR. Wrenn,
our friend from the Vest" said Mrs. |
Juilliard, and she carried off "Dick'' to
look at new picture.
give fallen among familiar names to-
night" he said in his easy Western way. |
1.-THE name of our hostess comedies with |
mine, to superfous letter at the end,
and Darlington is my middle name"
''Now, isn't that strange ?'' she said in
a voice carefully moduated. They are
not common names, either. Aunt Emily
will rejoice to get hold of you and talk
family"
"But l can't talk family. | don't
know it."
''You will before she is through with
you, and you have my sympathy" She
told him Of the parchment scroll that the
aunt had forced her to dig out of dull
genealogies.
SIT might be dangerous to take one Of
those out to Wyoming -and show it,"
he was saying, when the Autter over the
arrival Of the singer began.
Gan Evening With Wagner" Mrs.
WFenn's invitation had read, and Nine.
Goritz certainly did justice to the mas
Ter. Her first selection was "Elizabeth's
Prayer" from ''Tannhauser.
From his seat just back of Mrs JUL.
lard he could watch Winnifred Boring
ION without attracting attention, and he
made the most of it. musician herself
and lover of music in the truest sense,
The felt its every emotion. Az these
played across her beautiful face, there
,ame over him feeling that here was a
woman he could love. Before Johanna
doritz finished her last selection, a weird
part from ''Parsifal," which was new to
Ill OF them, Wrenn knew that here was
! woman he could not help loving. I'm
Ter his breath he swore by the several
strange things which men Of the plains
lold holy that he would make her love
him, and that one day she should be his
wife.
The formal program over, the Thirty
md one Immediately relapsed into iDfor-
nality, and Mrs. Wrenn found time to
eek out the stranger who bore her hus-
,and's name. He was talking with
Dick" Juilliard as she approached, her
rm resting caressingly on Winnifred's.
You're in for it" whispered ''Dick,"
exchanging smile with Miss Darlington.
"They tell me your name is Dorring-
on Wrenn? p the matron began at once.
William D. Wrenn, | make it on