The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-07-15
PART TWO,


man at this timer" asked Mr.. Holmes. |
'Oh, yes, Mr.. Holmes. We were en-
gagged after the first walk that we
took. Hosmer-Mr. Angel-was
cashier in an office in Leadenhall
Street-and-"
What Officer"
That's the worst of it, Mr.. Holmes,
don't know"
Where did he live, them"
He slept on the premises"
And you don't know his address,"
"No-except that it was Leadenhall
Street"
Where did you address your let
tiers, them"
ITO the Leadenhall Street Postoffice
to be left till called for. He said that
if they were sent to the office he
would be chaffed by all the other
clerks about having letters from a
lady, so | offered to typewrite them,
like he did his, but he wouldn't have
that, for he said that when | wrote
them they seemed to come from me,
but when they were typewriter he al
ways felt that the machine had come
between us. That will just show you
how fond he was of me, Mr.. Holmes,
and the little things that he would
think Of
1T was most suggestive" said
Holmes. 1T has long been an anxiom
of mine that the little things are in
finitely the most important. Can you
remember any other little things
about Mr.. Hosmer Angelo"
He was a very shy man, Mr..
Holmes. He would rather walk with
me in the evening than in the day
light, for he said that he hated to be
conspicuous. Very retiring and gentle
manly he was. Even his voice was
gentle. He'd had the quinsy and
swollen glands when he was young, he
told me, and it had left him with a
weak throat, and hesitating, whis-
pering fashion of speech. He was al
ways well dressed, very neat and
plain, but his eyes were weak, just as
mine are, and he wore tinted glasses
against the glare"
We'll, and what happened when Mr..
Windibank, your stepfather, returned
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, and made
me swear, with my hands on the Tes-
lament, that whatever happened |
would always be true to him. Mother
| said he was quite right to make me
swear and that it was a 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,
began to ask about father; 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. l didn't quite like
that, Mr.. Holmes. 1t seemed funny
that should ask his leave, as he was
only few years older than me; but
| didn't want to do anything on the
| sly, so l wrote to father at Bordeaux
where the company has its French
offices, but the letter came back to me
on the very morning of the wedding.
at missed him, then?"
Eyes, sir; for he had started to Eng
land just before it arrived"
"Ha! that was unfortunate. Your
wedding was arranged, then, for the
/ Friday. Was it to be in church,
Yes, sir, but very quietly. 1t was
to be at st. Saviour's, near Kings
! Cross, and we were to have 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 it, and stepped himself intt
a four-wheeler, which happened to b.
the only other cab in the street. WE
I got to the church first, and when thu
four-wheeler drove up we waited 70
him to step out, but he never did
and when the cabman got down from
the box and looked, there was no on
there! The cabman said that he coult
not imagine what had become of him
for he had seen him get in with hi
own eyes. That was last Friday, MI
/. Holmes, and | have never seen o
[ heard anything since then to throw
any light upon what became Of him.
1T seems to me that you have bee
very shamefUlly treated" said Holmes
''Oh, no, sir! He was too good an
kind to leave me so. Why, all tn
morning he was saying to me thai
, whatever happened, | was to be true
and that even if something quite ur
foreseen occurred to separate US,
was always to remember that | wa
, pledged to him, and that he woul
, claim his pledge sooner or later
seemed strange talk for a wedding
morning, but what has happened sine
! gives a meaning to it."
r Most certainly it does. Your ow
opinion is, then, that some unforesee
catastrophe has occurred to him."
D Eyes, sir. l believe that he foresa'
some danger, or else he would ne
r have talked so. And then l think tia
+ what he foresaw happened"
! But you have no notion as to whs
it could have been?"
y None"
I "One more question. How did yor
I mother take the natter"
= "She was very angry, and said thu
J. l was never to speak of the matte
/ again"
}, And your father? Did you tie
/, him."
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