The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-04-23
How They Met.
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Pont avenue. at II a. M. Thursday. April
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singular" unused Pemberton, that
must go His mother would never
forgive me if stayed away"
He looked ut his watch and. seeing
that he had just time to reach the
house before the ceremony. left the
club and proceeded thither. arriving as
the obseques We're beginning. Direct
ly opposite him sat very pretty young
woman. on whom his eyes We're riveted
all through the services When they
were over and the family and Intimate
friends We're entering the carriages to
follow the dead 10 the cemetery Penn
bertou saw the lady who had caught
his fancy handed into the last carriage
In the train He stepped to the car
riage, was ushered in by the attend
ant the door was closed and the car
riage driven away There was no one
inside except the lady and Mt Pember-
ton
1t Is not to be supposed that lady
and gentleman will drive several miles
alone together without j word. In
this instance it was incumbent on the
lady to speak first. and she did so.
Il noticed" she said. that the age
of the deceased was omitted from the
death notice DO YOU know how old
he was:"
Il noticed that myself" replied Penn
berton. bit mustered Gus was al.
ways sensitive about his age. and |
dare say he left it out on purpose"
The lady looked at him wonderingly.
81 mean" added Pemberton hastily
II suppose that the family, knowing
Of his preference in the matter. omit
ted it,"
Zone of the Fairweathers wrote a
quest"
"AIartin Fairweather. He had great
talents. It's a pity he was cut Off
while entering on q brilliant career"
WAS Her Conquest a posthumous
work.
NO" replied Pemberton; "he was
forming plans how to follow up the
situation. Il think he wrote it before
he died"
Again the lady looked up suddenly,
and Pemberton explained that he
meant the book was published while
the author was yet living.
Are you an intimate friend Of the
family?' she asked.
mo. Gus mother and mine are very
dear friends. I have known Gus fairly
well. but not intimately. And you, ]
suppose you are close to him?'
"A very distant relative. though
confess | scarcely know them"
On the way home Pemberton ven
tured to ask permission to call upon
the lady which was granted She in
troduced him to her family as an init
mate friend of the Fairweathers whom
she had met at Augustus FairWeath-
er's funeral, 1t happened that several
friends who saw her with her new
devotee asked her where she had met
him. Stories grow by telling. and at
last she explained that he was friend
of her cousin. poor Gus Fairweather.
who had recently died.
But 4 few months had passed be-
fore there was an engagement between
Pemberton and Miss Anita Brown. the
lady he had met at the Fairweather
funeral The conrtShip being short
and Mr.. Pemberton being known to
very few of Miss Browns friends. the
engagement OccaSiOned great surprise
among them. The first question al
ways was Where did she meet him?"
and the reply always was: He was
bosom friend of Gus Fairweather, and
the Fairweathers. you know, are close
kin to the Browns. They first saw
each other while poor Gus was being
lowered in the grave. Wasn't it
melancholy meeting to result in such
happy EVENT.
One day some months later Pember
ton and his wife were walking togeth-
er when suddenly the former stopped
and stood stock still. He was white as
sheet and trembled all over, looking
straight before him.
Edward" gasped his bride. What
is it,"
PembertOn put his hand to his brow.
cam all right? Do dream?"
ooh, Edward"
Meanwhile young man approached
and called: Hello. Pemberton. How
are you? This is the lady, suppose.
I've heard all about it, Met at my I'm.
cle's funeral. Am glad the old duffer
brought some happiness before he died.
He never did while he lived
"Wwhere were you when-your un.
cle-died? stammered Pemberton.
in Europe. Didn't know anything
about it till I got home. And how do
you suppose l first heard it? Why, at
being told of the romantic attachment
that had been started between Ne6
Pemberton and Miss Anita Brown
while weeping over the old fellows
gravel
There was no age mentioned in the
notice.
Age? Nobody knew. He was old
as the hills
By this time Pemberton had regained