Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
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vexing her.
would you really, Johnnie?"
Certainly Where is hep"
"He went of in the direction of the
village"
And he strobe down the garden with
strong. nnasterful steps.
Hugo was not in the Carnnody Arms
He was standing on the bridge over
the Shrine, his eyes fixed on the water
John began to feel his way into the
subject he had come to discuss.
Nice day." he said.
What is?" said Hugo.
"This."
I'm glad you think so, john" said
Hugo. Il want your advice. I've gone
and got engaged TO Pat"
Having exploded this bombshell,
Hugo ga5ed at his cousin with certain
moody satisfaction.
''Yes?" said John.
You don't seem surprised" said
Hugo, disappointed.
"Oh, I'm astonished,' said John.
How did it happen?"
1T was that bloke Bessemer's we'd
ding that started the whole trouble" ne
said You remember I told you about
Ronnie's man, Bessemer?"
II remember you said he had re-
markable ears"
Like airplane wings. Nevertheless,
he got married yesterday. The wed
ding took place from Ronnies fiat"
"Yes?"
Hugo sighed.
We'll you know how 1t is. John.
There's something about a wedding,
even the wedding of a gargoyle like
Bessemer, that seems to breed senu-
mentality. 1t may have been the
claret cup. I warned Ronnie against
the claret cup. But he said that, II
thought was going to waste cham
payne on the Brighter, was mistaken.
SO we more or less bathed III claret cup
at the festivities, and 1t wasn't more
than an hour afterward when some
thing seemed to come over me all in
rush"
WHAT"
well, sort of aching, poignant
feeling. All the sorrows of the world
seemed to be laid out in front of me in
a solid mass. I just sat there, bursting
with pity for the whole human race,
and suddenly it all seemed in fash.
as it were, to become concentrated on
Pat"
You burst with pity for PATE"
Eyes. You see, thought about you
and Pat and how Pat wouldn't look at
YOU and all at once there flashed
across me what I took to be the ex-
PLANTATION Something seemed to whis-
per to me that the reason Pat couldn
see you was that she was secretly PIN
ing for me-"
what on earth made you think
that?"
Looking back on it now, I can see
that it was the claret cup. That ana
the atmosphere of a Weddng1. sat
down, John, and I wrote Pat. asking
her to marry me. I was filled with a
sort of divine pity for the poor girl.
But. after I'd mailed the letter, rea-
lized what a mistake the whole thing
was and I looked up trains to Rudge.
Are you aware, John, that this place
has the rotteneSt train service in Eng
land. After the Sis, which I'd missed
there isn't anything till $40, And,
what with all this on my mind, missed
that, too, In the end, I had to take
the milk train. But got to Rudge, at
last, and, racing like hare, rushed to
Pats house. l had an idea / might in
tercept the postman and get him to
give me my letter back"
He wouldn't have done that"
He didn't have to, as things turned
out. just as got to the house he was
coming out after delivering the letters.
think must have gone to sleep stand
ing up. At any rate, I came to with a
start and I was leaning against Pats
front gate, and there was Pat looking
at me, and said, 'Hullo!' and she said,
'Hullo!' and then she said that she'd
got my letter and would be delighted
to marry me-"
And them"
"Oh, I said. Thanks awfully,' or
words to that effect"
John reflected.
Let me see," he said suddenly,
when did you say Pat got engaged to
your"
ut must have been around 9, I sup
pose"