The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-11-14

or he, MT homes, ala the Mite
things that he woul think Of"
"It was most suggestive" said
Holmes. 1T has long beer an axiom
OF mine that the little things arc
infinitely the most important Can
you remember any other little things
about Mr.. Hosmer Angel"
He was a very shy man. Mr..
| Holmes. He would rather walk with
me in the evening than in the dav-
light. for he said hat he hated to
be conspicuous. Very retiring and
ge~ntlenanly he was. Even his voice
was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and
swollen glands when he VAS yoGng.
he told me. and il had left him With
a weak throat, and a hesitating.
| whispering fashion OF speech He
was always well dressed, very neat
and plain. but his eyes were weak.
just as mine are. n he wore tinted
glasses against the glare"
We'll, and what nanpened when
Mr.. Windibank. your step-father, re-
turned to France"
MIR. Hosmer Angel came to the
house again. and proposed that we
should marry before father came
back. He was in dreadful earnest.
on the Testament, that whatever
happened / would always be true 70
him. Mother said he was quite right
to make me swear, n that il was
q sign Of his passion. Mother was all
in his favor from the first. and was
even fonder Of him than I was. Then,
when they talked OF marrying within
the week. l began to ask about ia
Their; but they both said never to
mind about father, but just to tell
him afterwards, and mother said she
would make it all right with him. I
didn't quite like that, Mr.. Holmes. It
seemed funny that 1 should ask his
&c ta yyo amy ., Yax- --n- -,
older than me; but l didn't want TO
do anything on the sly, so | wrote
to father at Bordeaux, where the
company has its French offices, but
the letter came back TO me OF the
very morning of the wedding
ut missed him., hen
Yes, sir: for nc had started to
England just before it arrived
Ali that was unfortunate. Your
wedding was arranged, then, for the
Friday. Was it to De in church,"
Yes, sir. but very quietly. 1t was
TO be at st. S~aviour's, near Kings
Cross. and we were to nave breakfast
afterwards at the st. Pancras. Hotel.
Hosmer came for us in a hanson, but
as there were two Of us, he put us
both into ii, and stepped himself into
a fOur-wheeler, which happened to
De the only other cab in the street.
We got to the church first, and when
h four wheeler drove up We waited
for him to step out, but he never did.
and when the cabinan got down from
the box and looked, there was no
one therei The cabman said that he
could not imagine what had become
of him, for he had seer him get IN
with his own eyes. tina was last
Friday. Mr.. Holmes. and l have never
seen or heard anything since then TO
throw any light upon became OK
him"
"It seems to me that you have been
very shanefully treated" said Holmes.
"Oh no. sir! He was too good and
kind to leave me SO. Why, all the
morning he was saying to me that,
whatever happened, I was to be true:
and that ven if something quite IN
foreseen occurred to separate us, L
was always to remember that l was
pledged to him. and hat he would
claim his pledge sooner or later. It
seemed strange talk for a wedding
morning, but what has happened since
gives q meaning to it,
Most certainly it does. Your own
opinion is. then, that some unforeseen
catastrophe has occurred to hin?
Yes, sir. / believe that he foresaw
some danger, or else he would not
have talked So And then / think
that what he oresaw happened"
But you nave no notion as to what
it could have ZEN"
None"
zone more question. How did your
mother take the matter?"
She was angry, and said that !
was never TO speak of the matter
again"
And your father? Did you tell
him."
Yes; and he seemed to think, with
me, hat something had happened.
and that l should hear Of Hosmer
again. As he said, what interest could
any one have in bringing me to the
doors OF the church. and then leav-
ing me? Now. II he had borrowed
my money, or II he had married me
and got my money settled on him.
there might be some reason, but Hos
mer was very Independent about
money, and never would look at a
shilling OF mine. And yet. what could
nave happened? And why could he
not write oh ~ dp{1oo mo ho1S-