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

you interest me extremely" said
Holmes. And since you draw 50
large a sum as a hundred a year. with
what you earn into the bargain, you
no doubt travel a little, and indulge
yourself IN every a | believe that
a single lady can get on very nicely
upon an income Of about $50"
Il could do with much less than
hat, Mr. Holmes. but Q under
stand that as long as l live at home
and so they have the use Of the money
just while l am staying with them.
OF course, that is only just for the
time. Mr.. Windibank draws my In
terest every quarter, and pays II over
to mother, and / find h a | a do
pretty well with what I earn at type
writing. It brings ne twopence a
sheet, and ! can often do from fifteen
to twenty sheets In q day"
you have made your position very
clear to me-" said Holmes. "This is
my friend, DR.. Watson, before whom
you can speak as freely as before my
self. Kindly tell US now all about
your connection with Mr.. Hoslner
Angel
A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's
face, and she picked ~nervously at
the fringe Of her jacket. Il met him
first at the gasfitters' ball." she said.
They used to SEND father tickets
when he was alive, and then after
wards they remembered US. and sent
them TO mother. Mr.. Windibank did
not wish us TO go. He never did
wish us to go anywhere. He would
get quite mad if I wanted SO much
as to join a Sunday-schoOl treat.
But this time I was SET on going, and
[ would go: for what right had he to
prevent? He said the folk We're not
fit for us to know, when all fathers
friends We're TO be there. And he
said that I had nothing fit to wear,
when | 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 /, with Mr.. Hardy, who
used to be our foreman, and it was
there | met Mr.. Hoslner Angel"
Il suppose" said Holmes. that
when Mr.. W~indibank came back from
France he was very annoyed at your
having gone to the ball"
ooh, well, he was very good about
it He laughed, 1 remember, and
shrugged his shoulders. and aid there
was no use denying anything to a Wo-
man, for she would have her way"
Il see. Then at the gasfitters' ball
you met. rs / understand. a gentle
man called Mr.. Hosmer Angel"
yes, sir. I met him that night,
and he called next day to ask il we
had got home all safe, and after that
we met hin-that IS to say. Mr..
Holmes, I met him twice for walks,
but after that father came back
again, and MIR. Hosmer Angel could
not come to the house any more"
MOP"
Well, you know. father didn't i
anything OF the sort He wouldn't
have any visitors if he could help it.
and he used to say that a woman
houid be happy in her own family
circle. But then, az I used to say to
mother. q woman wants her own
circle to begin with. and I had not
got mine yet"
But how about Mr.. Rosmer An
gel? Did he make no attempt to
see you?"
Well, father was going off to
France again in g week, and Hosner
wrote and said that it would be safer
and better not to see each other until
he had gone We could write in the
mean time, and he used to write every
day. I took the letters In IN the morn
ing, so there was no need for father
to know"
Were you engaged to the gentle
man at this time?
oh yes, Mr.. Holmes We were
engaged after the first walk that we
took. Hosmer-Mr. Angel-was a
cashier in an Office in Lt.adenhau
Street-and-"
What office? ?"
That's the worst Of it, Mr.. Holmes
I don't know"
Where did he live. then ?"
HE slept on the premises"
And you don't know his address,"
"No-except that it was
hall Street"
Where did o address Your let
tiers, then"
T the Leadenhail Street Post
ofice. to be left till called for. He
said that if they were sent IN ~.
office he would be chafed by all the
other clerks about having letters
from a lady, SO I offered to type-write
them. like he did his, but he would
Mt have that. for he said that when
/ wrote them they seemed to come
from me. but when they were tvne-
written he always felt that the ma