Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-10

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"That was all, and as Jim didn't re-
fer TO the subject again after we post
ed the letters of introduction the con-
versation slipped my mind. didn't
think any more about II until weird
things began TO be copied into London
| papers from New York ones and your
mother wired Jim TO ask what, IL any
thing, could be done to punish Fox
ham. You see, she thought you were
on the Baltic.
Jim soothed all her worries, so you
needn't be anxious about her, as of
course You would II you thought she'd
been alarmed. When l saw para
graphs In the papers talked to Jim,
and It was only then that he told me
what he'd done, how II was all his
fault really, and he was very sorry,
because everything had turned out
lot worse for you than he'd ever
dreamed of wanting 1t to be. Fate
took n hand In the game and played 1t
for all IL was worth Jim said. @
ut seems that Foxham, your man.
asked Jim TO cash a check signed by
You one night not long ago. Don't you
remember when he and | were at Bat
tlemead and you came down for Sat
day to Monday? Jim suspected some
thing wrong, but wouldn't speak to
you till he'd made sure. because that
wouldn't have been fair, and Foxham
was such an invaluable valet. A few
days later, when Jim was making In
quiries about the man, he found out
that the horrid creature had actually
unprecedented you at two or three ho-
tells and run up bills In your name. II
was the very evening before your let
ter about America came that Jim got
the first part Of this information. and
day by day more kept coming In up to
the time when we heard Foxham had
given you notice. All along Jim was
thinking out the idea Of that lesson for
you--the Joke that was to be half In
earnest-and then when Mr.. Wander
pot couldn't sail In the Maurotania the
whole plan was mapped out without
word being said, even TO me.
"Of course l want to assure you
again, and Jim will write a postscript,
that he meant nothing worse to hap
pen to you than a disappointment and
blow to your conceit. He telegraph
cd to several Of the people to whom
you had letters, saying that II per-
son turned up calling himself by your
name before the Baltic landed they'd
better wait and make sure before be-
Ing nice to you that you weren't your
own abscondlng valet sailing under
false colors. He didn't say it wouldn't
be you, and he supposed that his
friends would simply hang back for n
few days, making no sign, thus giving
you to think that you weren't rs i'm
portant In America as you'd fancied.
lie imagined, too, that the heiress bust
ness wouldn't come off quite as easily
as you expected and that altogether
You might be little sobered down.
As for your trouble with the bank, we
know now that this Is what happened:
Ii turns out that Henry van Cotter
has lately become partner In the
bank which corresponds with yours In
London. and, having got Jim's wire
about the valet probably at the same
time when instructions arrived from
the London and Southern, naturally
he told his people to DO prepared and
not to pay. How could Jim think OF
such thing happening or that Mr..
van Cottcr and the others would run
about gossiping Of what he told them
} as a mere superstition? 1t must have
been too dreadful for you at the hotel.
, And. as for that Mr.. Milton, I'm sure
he Is u horror.
"Then IL was another contretemps
that neither Jim nor | saw the news
papers at first. OF course the minute
Jim knew what had been going on he
wired everywhere and wrote long let.
tiers OF explanation. too "a little earlier
than he'd originally meant, to put an
end to the misunderstanding he'd set
In motion. But meanwhile you'd dis
appeared from New York. Poor dear.
my heart quite bleeds for you! And yet
and yeti wonder II all that you've
gone through is entirely n matter of
regretT
J 1t was here, after the "Affectionate
Cousin Betty" signature, that the 9th
J er handwriting began.
IL wonder too! want to know
what you think about It. Now it's all
1 explained and you see just where and
r how much I'm to blame for what's
, past you may or may not be inclined
: to forgive me for trying to play Provi.
b. dence that good might come of evil
r But II there is anything which you
, don't regret perhaps you'n partly un'
/, acknowledgements and me- Anyhow
!. | apologize, having now done my best
to atone, In case you want to go back
+, TO New York In u blaze of glory and
be made lion Of. Meanwhile / await
your verdict and am, as the writers
Of anonymous letters are supposed to
sign themselves, your friend and well
, wisher,' jim"
? Again fate had "taken hand In
the game and used Miss Moon as
n catspaw. Into the fire in her bedroom
!. at Bonnerstown went all those elab
/. crate explanations, and Ioveland did
. not dream that he had only to com
municate with the bank In New York
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