Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-01

fit for us to know, when all fathers friends
were to be there And he said 1 had
nothing fit to wear, when l 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 I, with Mr.. Hardy. who used
to be our foreman and it was there 1 met
Mr. Hosmer Angel"
81 suppose" said Holmes, that when Mr..
windibank came back from France he was
very annoyed at your having gone to the
ball?'
"Oh, well, he was very good about it. He
laughed, 1 remember, and shrugged his
shoulders, and said there was no use deny
ing anything to a woman, for she would
have her way"
Il see. Then at the gashtters' ball you
met as I understand, a gentleman called
Mr.. Hosmer Angelo"
yes, sir. 1 met him that night and he
called next day to ask If we had got home
all safe, and after that we met him--that is
to say, Mr.. Holmes, l met him twice for
walks, but after that father came back
again. and Mr.. Hosmer Angel could not
come to the house any more"
"No?"
well, you know, father didn't like any
thing of the sort He wouldn't have any
visitors If he could help it, and he used to
say that a woman should be happy in her
own family circle But then. as I used to
say to mother. woman wants her own
circle to begin with, and had not got mine
yet"
But how about Mr.. Isosmer Angel? Did
he make no attempt to your"
oil fofh So to IN,o,
again in a week, and Hosmer wrote and
said that 1t would be safer and better not to
see each other until he had gone. We
could write in the meantime, and he used
to write every day. l took the letters in
the morning, so there was no need for
father to know"
Were you engaged to the gentleman at
this timer"
"Oh. yes Mr.. Holmes. We were engaged
after the first walk that we took. Hosmer-
Mr. Angel-was a cashier in an Office in
Leadenhall street-and---"
What Officer"
That's the worst of it, Mr.. Holmes
don't know"
Where did he live?"
HE slept on the premises"
And you don't know his address,"
"No-except that it was Leadenhall
street"
Where did you address your letters,
them"
ITO the Leadenhall street postoffice, to
be left till called for. He said that if he
were semitic the office he would be chaffed
by all the other clerks about having letters
from lady, so I offered to typewrite them,
like he did his, but he wouldn't have that.
for he said that when 1 wrote them they
seemed to come from me, but when they
were typewriter he always felt that the
machine had come between us That will
show you just how fond he was of me, Mr..
Holmes, and the little things that he would
think or"
at was most suggestive" said Holmes.
at has long been an axiom of mine that
the little things are infinitely the most inn
portant. Can you remember any other little
things about Mr.. Hosmer Angelo"
HE was a very shy man. Mr.. Holmes.
He would rather walk with me in the even
ing than in the daylight. for he said that
he hated to be conspicuous. Very retiring
and gentlemanly he was. Even his voice
was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and
swollen glands when he was young, he told
me, and 1t had left him with a weak throat.
and a hestating. whispering fashion OF
speech. He was always well dressed very
neat and plain, but his eyes were weak,
just as mine are, and he wore tinted
glasses against the glare"
We'll and what happened when Mr..
Windibank, your step-father, returned to
France?"
'Mr Hosmer Angel came TO the house
again, and proposed that We should marry
before father came back. He was in dread
full earnest, and made me swear, with my
hands on the Testament. that whatever
happened I would always be true to him
Mother said that il was quite right to make
me swear. and that it was a sign of his
passion. Mother was all in his favor from
, the first, and was even fonder OF him thar
was. Then, when they talked of marry.
ing within the week, began to ask about
, father; but they both said never TO mind
, about father. but just TO tell him after.
wards, and mother said she would make 4
/, all right with him. didn't quite lie that
, Mr.. Holmes. 1t seemed funny that should
ask his leave. as he was only a few year:
older than me; but I didn't want to dc
anything on the sly, so 1 wrote to father a
Bordeaux where the company has III
French Offices, but the letter came back L
me on the very day Of the wedding"
1T missed him thenT'
Yes, sir; for he had started to England
Just before 1t arrived"
"Ha! that was unfortunate. Your we'd
ding was arranged, then, for Friday. Wai
It to be in church,"
Yes. SIR, but very quietly. 1t was I,
be at st, Saviour's, near Kings Cross, anC
we were to have breakfast afterward a
the ST. Pancras hotel. Hosmer came To-
US in a hanson, but as there was two o
US, he put us both into it. and steppe,
himself into four-wheeler. which hap
pened to be the only other cab in tn
street. We got TO the church first. an,
when the four-wheeler drove up we waite
for him to step out, but he never did, an
when the cabman got down from the boz
and looked, there was no one there! Tn
cabman said that he could not imagin
what had become OF him, for he had see
him get IN with his own eyes. That wa
last Friday. Mr.. Holmes, ana / never hay