Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-10

praised by Miss OctuvH and uguin by WigrIus A long telegram from my assistant that reached me while l dress ed for dinner had urged my immediate attendance upon my office Some or my best clients, now reopeuing ther houses for the winter were in desper- ate straits But Octavia Hollisters do not occur in the life Of every young man. and both Cecilia and Hezelliah had taken strong hold upon my imagi- nation Wiggins place among the dra- matis persouae would in itself have compeued my sympathetic attention. and the nine silk hats thut | had seen bobblug over the stile still danced be- fore my eyes.
 Miss Uollister." l said, my time is yours to command My office is well organized. and l am sure that my as. sistuut is equal to any demands that may be made upon him Pray state in what manner ] may serve you
 CT 1u ~eiag far. l know, Mir Ames, but beg that you will not be In haste to leave my auuts house. She must have been strongly preiudiced in your favor or she would not have asked you here on so short acquaintance. l am confident that she has no thought of your leaving She expressed her great liking for you at luncheon, and l am sure that she will see to it that you do not lack for entertainment assume that you must have gathered from what Mir Wiggins told you of my acuualntauce with him the peculiar plight in which I am placed.'
 l bowed 1T she groped in the dark and needed my help in finding the light was not the man to desert her ] had dropped my plumb line into too many dark chimneys not to feel the fascination of mystery. As express cd again my entire willingness to abide at Hopefeld Manor as long as she wished. the footmau announced Mir Hartley Wiggins,
 We had hardly exchanged greetings before another man was announced, and then another. I should say that 1t was at intervals of about three min utes that the sedate servant appeared in the curtained doorway and announc- ed a caller until nine had been admit ted. My spirits scared high as the gen tlemeu from the Prescott Arms ap- peared one after the other The ear Her arrivals rose to greet the later ! ones. and as they were an in evening ! clothes l experienced, as when l had ! seen the same gentlemen in their after l noon raiment crossing the stile, a sense i of something fantastic and eerie in them. In the interest of brevity and Co avoid confusion, I tabulate them here with a notation as to their resi- ] dence and occupation, taking such data from the notebook in which. at subse- 1 quent dates, l set down the facts which are the basis of this chronicle.
 Hartley Wiggins, lawyer and farm. CT, Hare and Tortoise club, New York
 Iinnaeus B. Henderson, planter, Roa. noke Va
 Cecil Hugh, Lord Arrowood, no oc- cupauon, Arrowood, Hauts, England.
 Daniel P. Ormsby, manufacturer of knit goods, Utica. N. r.
 S. Forrest Hume, lecturer on Scan. dinayian literature, Occidental univer. sity, Long Trail, Okla.
 John Stewart Dick, pragmatist, Oma, ba. Neb
 Pendennis J. Arbuthnot, banker and horseman Lexington, Ky.
 Percival B. Shalleuberger, novelist and small fruits, Sycamore, Ind.
 George W. Gorse, capitalist Red lands Cal
 We rose and stood in our severa places when a moment later Miss Oc tavia entered. She greeted the suitori graciously and then in her most charm ing manner called one after the othel to sit beside her on a long davenport the time apportoned being weighed with nicety. so that none might fee himself slighted or preferred. These interviews consumed more than hall an hour. and the movement thus occa stoned gave considerable animation tC the scene.
 It may seem ridiculous that min, D gentlemen thus paying court to young woman should call upon her a the same hour. but l must say that thu gravity Of the suitOrs and the enur' sobrlety of Cecilia did not affect m, humorously, nor did feel at all out O place in this strange company. l foun' ! myself agreeably engaged for severa ] minutes in discussing Ibsen with th P Oklahoma professor, who proved to b e a delightful fellow. Ills experience O a life was apparently wide, and he toll 3. me with aR engaging frankness of hi , meeting with the Hollisters in Franc and of his pursuit of them over man T weary miles the previous summer. A
 no one had elected his courses in tn
 university at the beginning of the ta
 term. he had been granted a leave O absence, and this accounted for hi
 freedom to press his suit at Hope l field Manor at this season. He was ' big fellow. with clean cut feature and bore himself with a manly dete
 imitation that ] found attractive He alone. I may say. of the min
 men who had thus appeared in Mi'
 Octavia's library met me fin a cordi'
 spirit Even Wigglns seemed n' s wholly pleased to find me there agai y though he had asked me to remal O The manner of the others expresse