Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-16
TODAY'S lNSTALMENT.

Mt this timc?" asked Mr.. Holmes.
ooh YES, MIR. Holmes. We were en-
gagged after the first walk that we took.
Hosmer--Mr. Angle-was q cashier IN
an Office in Lcadenhlal Street-nnd-"
What oihceg'
That's the worst of it, Mr.. Holmes.
don't know"
Where did he live thenf'
"Ilc slept on the premises"
"And YOU don't know his addrcse2'
"No--exccpt that 1t was Leadenhal
Street"
Where did you address your letters
them"
"To the Lcadenhall Street Post Office,
TO be left till called for. He said that
II they were sent 10 the office he would
by chaircd by all the other clerks about
having letters from lady, so | offered
10 typewrite them, like he did his, but
he wouldn't have that, for he said that
when | write them they seemed TO
come from me, but when they were
typcwritten he always felt that the ma
chine had come between us. That Will
lust show YOU how fond he was of me,
MIR. Holmes, and the little things that
he would think OF"
at was most suggestive" said
Holmes. at has long been an axiom
of mine that the little things are in
tinitely the most important. Can you
remember any other little things about
Mr.. Hosmer Angel"
He was very shy man, MIR. Holmes.
He would rather walk with me in the
evening than in the daylight, for he
said that he hated 10 be conspicuous.
Very retiring and gentlemanly he was.
Even his voice was gentle. He'd had
the qunsy and swollen glands when he
was Young, he told me, and IT had left
him with weak throat, and a hesltat-
ing, whispering fashion Of speech. he
was always well dressed, very neat and
plain, but his eyes were weak, just as
mine are, and he wore tinted glasses
against the glare"
well, and what happened when Mr.
Windibank, Eour stepiather, returned to
France?"
"Mr. 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 Tesla.
meat. that whatever happened i would
always be true to him. Mother sale
he was quite right to make me swear
and that il was sign of his passion
Mother was all in his favor from the
first. and was even fonder of him thar
/ was. Then, when they talked o
marrying within the week, l began e
ask about father; but they both sale
never TO mind about father, but Just
10 tell him afterwards, and mother saiC
she would make il all right with him
/ didn't quite like that, Mr.. Holmes
II seemed funny that ! should ask hi
leave. as he was only a few years olde
than me; but ! didn't want TO do any
thing on the sly, so | wrote to fathe
at Bordeaux, where the company ha
its French offices, but the letter cam,
back 20 me on the very morning of tn
wedding"
1T missed him, them"
eyes. SIR: for he had started to Eng
land Just before it arrived"
Hal that was unfortunate. You
wedding was arranged then, for tn
FRIDAY. Was il TO be in church,"
Eyes, sir, but very quietly. II was :
be at st. Saviour's, near Kings Gross
and we were 10 have breakfast after
wards at the st. Pancras Hotel Hos
mer came for US in a hanson, but a
there were two of US, he put US bot
into il, and stepped himself into q foui
wheeler, which happened TO be the onl
other cab in the street, We got 10 III
church first, and when the four-wheele
drove up we waited for him 20 step ou
but he never did, and when the cabma
got down from the box and looked
there was no one therel The cabma
said that he could not imagine whs
had become OF him. for he had see
him get in, with has own eyes. Ths
was last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and hay
never seen or heard anything since the
20 throw any light upon what becan
Of him"
1T seems 20 me that YOU have bee
very shameiully treated, said Holme
ooh no, sir He was too good an
kind 90 leave me so. Why, all Vi
morning he was saving 20 me tina
whatever happened, was TO be tru
mud that even II something quite vi
forcscen occurred TO separate US, vi
always torcmembcre that was pledge
90 him, and that he would claim h
pledge sooner er later. IL SCENE
strange talk for wedding -morning, b.
what has happened since gives mea
inf 20 o..
Most certainly il does. Your ov
opinion H., then, that some uniorese'
catastrophe has occurred 10 him."
eyes, sir. j believe that he foresa
some danger OF else be would not ha'
talked So And then think that VIII
he foresaw happened"
"But YOU have no notion N to VIII
IL could have BEEN"
None"
zone more question. How did 70
mother take the natter"
"she was angry, and said that ] "
never 90 speak OF the matter again"
and your father Did you tell hun
eyes, and he seemed 20 think, wi
me that something had happened, al
that | should hear Of Hosmcr agar
As he said what interest could any O
have IN bringing me to the doors Of Z
church, and then leaving meY Now,
hc had borrowed my money, or if
had married me and got my money Sc
tied on him, there might be some re