The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-01
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me in such hurryY' asked Sherlock
Holmes, with his 1inger-tips together,
and his eye sa to the Lock e1fl caSe the
somewhat vacuous face Of Miss Mary
Sutherland. eyes, I did bang out OF
the house, she said, "for it made me
angry to see the easy way in which
Mr.. Windibank-that is, my father
took it all. He would not go to the
police, and he would not 60 to you,
and kept on saying that there was no
! harm done it made me mad, and l just
on with my things and came right away
to y%9u:n so+,,r ,, s.;a uo,r,os .vonr
step-father, surely, since the name is
different.'''
eyes, my step-father. I call him
father, tho it sounds funny, too, for he
is only five years and two months older
than myself.'
"And your mother is alive?'
"Oh yes, mother is alive and well.
I WASH It best pleased, Mr.. Holmes, when
she married again so soon after father g
death, and a man who was nearly fif-
teen years younger than herself. Father
was a plumber in the Tottenham Court
Road, and he left a tidy business be
hind him, which mother carried on with
Windibank came he made her sell the
being a traveller in wines: They got
a. 700 for the goodwill and interest,
which wasn't near as much as father
could have got if he had been alive
l had expected to see Sherlock Holmes
!; impatient under this rambling and in
consequential narrative, but, on the con-
trarv, he had listened with the greatest
concentration Of attention.
; "Your own little income,' he asked,
, "does it come out of the businesss'
"Oh no, sir. It is quite separate,
and was left me by my Uncle Ned in
Auckland: 1t is in New zealan a{o stock;
five Hundred pounds was the amount.
3 but can only touch the INTEREST,"
"'You interest mo extremely said
t Holmes. "And since you draw so large
. a sum as a hundred year, with what
!, travel little, and indulge yourself in
l every way. I believe that single lady
: can get On ao0 very cry nicely upon an income
| IT could do with much less than that
u Mr.. Holmes, but you understand that al
j. long as I live at home don It wish tt
o be a burden to them, and so they have
0 staying with them. OF course, that i
y only Just for the time. Mr.. Windibanl
e draws my interest every quarter, ant
r, pays it over to mother, and find tina
9 T can do pretty we'll with what 1 earl
:. at type-writing. 1t brings me twoopenc'
u to twenty sheets in day.
"You have made your position yer,
!. clear. to me, =" said Holmes. "This Il
f my friend, DR.. Watson, before whom
l. you can speak as freely az before my
Q self. Kindly tell us now all about you
g connection with Mr.. Hosmer Angel
A flush stole over Miss Sutherland'
d face, and she picked nervously at tn
a fringe of her jacket IT met him frs
I at the gasfitters' ball" she said. "The,
n used to send father tickets when h
was alive, and then afterwards they re
t membered us, and sent them to mother
d Mr.. Windibank did not wish us to go
4 He would get quite mad if wanted s.
I much as to join Sunday-school treat
It But this time I was set on going, an
% I would go; for what right had he t
10 PREVENT He said the folk were not f
st were to be there. And he said that
had nothing fit to wear, when had m
h purple plush that 1 had never 80 muc
" as taken out of the drawer. At last
it when nothing else would do, he wen
I'd off to France upon the business of tn
t. firm, but. we went, mother and I, wit
IF and it, was there L met Mr.. Hosme
m An 9ge .r,,o.o ,, s.,a uo,r,os "+h.
er when Mr.. Windibank came back frol
q. France he was very annoyed at you
es having gone, to the ball"
ne it. He laughed, I remember, and shrul
Oh ged his shoulders, and said there we
We for she would have her wav.'
nv II see. Then at the gasftters' ba
y yss5 %eS IT, as Hos unasrstana
is. he called next day to ask if we had e
ed home all safe, and after that we M
ar, ,him--that is to say. Mr.. Holmes, M
tie him twice for walks, but after TIL
Wv father came back again, and Mr.. Ho
pc mer Angel could not come to the hou'
sSS any HHN leTIS;
er "W,ell, you know, father didn't Ill
,ly anything Of the sort. He wouldn It ha,
ng any visitors if he could help it, and
dy used to say that a woman should
nd happy in her own family. circle: b
ut then, rs / used to say to mother,
he woman wants her own circle to beg
he "But how about Mr.. Hosmer Ange
Did he make no attempt to see you?"
be- "Well, father was going off to Fran
ar again in week, and Hosmer wrote al
'on said that it would be safer and bett
air not to see each other until he had gor
,ut We could write in the mean time, and
TOO used to write every day. I took t
yet letters in in the morning, 80 there W
len no need for father to know
led "W We YOU ~; engaged 9g; to the gent
nd man at this tlmeg''
re. t>'Oh yes, Mr.. Holmes. We were G
a gagged after the first walk that we toe
not Hosmer-Mr. Angel-was a cashier
ed. an office in Leadenhall strest-and-'
I've "What offce?'
:. ~"That's the worst of it, Mr.. Holm
the I don It know
to -HWhere did he live, then9'
Tile sEHe slept on the PREMISES
lall "And you don t know his address {
MT "No--except that it was Leadenh
asy "Where did you address your lette
yed ITO the Leadenhall Street Pc
her office, to be left till called for. He SC
ted that If they were sent to the office
would be chaffed by all the other cle1
hat about having letters from a lady, sc
ing offered to type-write them, like he
his, but he wouldn't have that, for
but said that when I wrote them tn
It'll seemed to come from me, but when til
ing were typewriter he always felt tt
ave the machine had come between us. I'll
18th will just show you how fond he v
'ad:. Of me, Mr.. Holmes. and the little thi1
ard that he would think Of. -
else EIt was most suggestive,' s;
Holmes. 1T has long been an axi
nt %Re thu bea most ae s snssc Cam
see remember any other little things alb,
Why Mr.. Hosmer Angel7''
ttHa WAS n verv shv man