The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1895, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1895. Gertrude E fore: 3 arliest train pc morning hours to attend M po: ds, and taken cool dewy n i R by the 11 o’clock train to summer resort where she Enderby were domiciled zht. They had been 1 of the summer ready to t 1 But the tennis of the s was to come afternoon. for the world. 1 reasons wh doted e contestants redoubtable cham hir for the day, H ned to a bevy ends never gos: thus, from biscuits, a jar of chutney and some Par- mesan cheese. “Good enough,” said Miss Gertrude, and she brewed herself a cup of tea with the aid of a little “‘5 o’clock” kettle. en she proceeded to her mother’s nent, where she collected that lady’s cd laces in a parcel. “How cheerless the house seems,” she shivered to berself as she surveved the darkened rooms with vn bolland_draped furniture and i Ily deserted air. *“‘It isn‘t a bit like our own jolly home.” She passea from her own pretty chamber into the hall. A door, further down, stood invitingly open, and through it she could see the gleam of i veicome enough after the semi- S est of the house, with its drawn shades. she passed along 1 and entered the room. It was her brother’s own particular den, and bore everywhere, of masculine occu- . A Smoking-jacket lay upon a ; a collection of pipes and tobacco jars graced the desk, and along one side of he room stretched a row of the innumer- able pairs of shoes that seem so necessary to a certain order of man. Besides the pipes the desk was strewn with an indis- criminate litter of papers, books, muitiform and multifarious trip are sure to accnmulate during the annual escape from a house of its womenkind. “Dear, dear,” Miss Gertrude sighed, with a deprecating shake of the head, “how exactly like a man!”’ She ved the motley hesitatingly. “If only it were not so dreaafully untidy,” she said, ““I might sit down here and write some of the hundrd: i Her brother’s stationery case stood invitingly open, and after a end mindful of the wisdom of keeping out of sight until the guardian of the peace should pass on. It was, therefore, a wholly unlooked for bit of good fortune, he thought, when noticing the door of the house e saw that it was not closely shut. A gentle push sent it a trifle ajar. Cautiously, with bated breath, he stole into the dark basement batlway. “Kinder rum go, this,” he mut- tered. “The lady o’ this ’ere house seems t've jes stepped out.” Stealthily he re- connoitered below, and as stealthily as- cended to the floor above. The remains of Miss Gertrude's luncheon attracted his attention in the dining-room. “Stifflets,” he sniffed, taking a saline biscuit in his filthy fingers. Then with a sweep of his huge paw he crammed several of them | into his mouth. Next he essayed the | Parmesan cheese, thrusting it down his throat on the blade of the steel knife, which was all the utensil Miss Gertrude had been able to find. The silver was at the safe deposit. ‘Mighty slim stuff,”” was Mr. Wraggles’ comment on the Parmesan. *‘Good Limburger, now, 's good nuf fur this ’ere travelin’ gent.” The chutney, hot and highly spiced, was more to his taste. ‘“Prime pickalily,” he voted it. and stowed nearly the entire con- tents of the jar in his case-haradened stom- ach. He peered into the little Japanese teapot with a grimace of disgust, which changed to a grin of anticipation as his eye caught a decanter on the buffer. He caught it down and sniffed eagerly at its contents. Then he tipped back his head and applied the mouth of the decanter to his lips. *Bah!” he growled, in evident disap- pointment. *‘Slops.” And he gazed dis- contentedly at what his deep draught had left of Enderby Pere’s pet old nutty sherry. Then 'he thought better of it. | “Better'n nothin,”” he muttered, “'seein’ as | the old bloke’s got no sense fer honest beer,” and presently the pint or more cf sherry had gone to join the chutney. | After that Weary Wraggles made a tour of the drawing-rooms and %ibrur,\». | . “Coast seems clear,” he commented as | be crept back to the stairs. “I'll takea look aloft, not bein’ of a literary turn o’ | mind, an’ see what we shali see.” Into | one after another of the quiet rooms he | peered, noting with alarm in one Miss | Gertrude’s dainty traveling bag and hat. Peering into the former he extracted a | silver-mounted purse. ‘‘Careiess, like, to | leave that,’” he said facetiously, “I'd better | take charge o't,” and he slid 1t into some receptacle amid the tatters of his gar- ments. ‘‘Gitten’ nearer,”” he said as he } crept to the next door, but shook his head in growing wonder as this room, too, proved empty. Down the long hallway he wandered, stepping with the high, cautious pace of a | man not quite sure of himself, for the un- | wonted quantity of generous wine that he | had drunk was beginning to make an im- | pression upon him. At last, at the farend | of the hall he cautiously turned the knob | of the last door, and slowl ftly stepped into the little den where Miss Enderby lay | sleeping, her gentle resviration fanning | the long, tawny hair of the rugs about her face. Then he stood, spellbound, gazing upon the sight before him, his daz hali-drunken brain groping for a key to the situation. dually the uth | dawned upon him. The house was de- *“ EE CAUTIOUBLY TURNED THE KNOB OF THE DOOR AND ENTERED THE DEN WHERE MISS ENDERBY LAY SLEEPING, HER TAWNY HAIR ABOUT HER FACE.” Rafacl and the lakes, there was naturally | a rapid exchange of news. So it hap that when she had kissed cach of her friends in final farewell she had barely time to catch the very last car by which she could hope to reach the 11 o’clock boat. Fate willed, furthermore, that this car should be delayed by the ma- neuvers of the pig-headed driver of a big four-horse team, who would insist, despite the warning gong, in crossing the track in front of the speeding dummy. As a consequence Miss Enderby missed ber | boat and was conf: ed by the necessity of spending a lon, in town. Her heart sank at the prospect. She pictured to herse!f the look that would creep into a | certain pair of eyes as they searched the | carriages in vain for her. She had prom- ised to be there, wearing the colors, to pro- cure which had been one of her errands to | town that very morning. | But Miss Enderby was too genuinely | | thoroughbred to fret over the irretrievable; 100 loyally philosophical herself in her fin | de siecle girlbood, which is the best thing | left us in this doddering century, to fear | misunderstanding or doubt, and after the | first pangs of dismayed regret she pulled | herself together and began to consider what she should do to pass the hours until the late afternoon train should bear her inland. Then she remembered that her mother bad asked her if there should be time to go up to the family residence and procure for lLer certain . articles of which she had made a little list. The house, a handsome one on Pacific Heights, was closed for the season, only Mr. Fred Enderby, Miss Ger- trude's only brother, sleeping there. A | woman came each morning to do the nec- | essary tidying up. Beyond that the | dwelling was in the more or less efficient | charge of the private, watchman of the | block. | To think with Miss Gertrude was to act, | | | and so within ten minutes after her bitter disappointment in missing the boat she was speeding uptown on a bounding cable- | car to do her mother’s behest. A thought flitted through her brain of | calling upon her brother, at his business office, and having Juncheon with him. Then she remembered that he had planned running up country for the famous game of this afternoon, He was probably on the very boat she had missed. Well, they | would laugh loudly enough over her mis- | hap when next she saw her friends. | When she reached the house she discov- | ered to her surprise that she had the key to the rear door, instead of that which un- locked the imposing front portal. How- | ever, that was a_small matter. She fitted | the key in the lock, turned it and flitted | through the doorway without giving the | circumstance a second thought. I won- der if I cannot find a bite of luncheon?” she questioned to herself, pausing in the dining-room, on her way to the chambers above. A brief search brought to light some | reform. | that’s a fact,” number 'steen hundred and moment she began clearing a little space on the blotter. The pipes were pushed to a little heap at one side. The papers were stacked in a pile and a large, mounted reading-glass that was doing duty as a I ly on the ledge of a picturesque little hali-wheel of a window, just above the desk, Then she addressed herself to the task of discharging epistolary obligations among her friends. She had written to ‘“Dearest Ida,” ‘““Alice,”” “‘Geraldine,” and all of the rest, | drawing liberally upon the fraternal stamp and stationery supply,.when she finally leaned back, with a yawn. ‘There,” she said, “I believe that is all.” Then, witha look at her dainty timepiece, ‘“‘only 2 o’clock, and the train does not leave until 5. She yawned again, reflective of the early hour at which she had risen. “I'll take a wee bit of a nap,” she decided, “and be fresh for the hop this evening.” A soft, fur-rngged couch invited and she strolled toward it. Crossing the room her foot struck some small, metal object that rolled across the floor. Stooping, she picked it up and looked at it curiously. It was a cartridge. “‘How very careless of Fred,”” she com- mented, holding the thing gingerly in her fingers. “That might be a dangerous thing to step upon, now.” She deposited it daintily on the edge of the desk and snuggled cozily down among the rugs of the couch. “Dear old Fred,” she mur- mured, “‘be knows how to be comfortable, at all events,” and in another moment she was fast asleep. She was a pretty signt lving there, one slim white | hand tucked under Ler delicate cheek. the other nestled in her neck. Miss Enderby was_beautiful, with a clear-cut, aristo- cratic, cameo type of beauty. She was very ' beautiful, asleep, with her long lashes sweeping her cheeks, and the breath from her slightly parted, curved red lips stirring the long fur of the rugs into a pretty, rhythmic undulation about her face. Now the private watchman of the block and the policeman on that beat had met at a corner and were discussing municipal “We want good gov'mint, an’ ten was saying. “But we're not likely to be a-gettin’ it wid so much meddlin’ of the uninitiated into the businessof politics.” *‘That’s what it is now,” commented Teddy Flynn, the private watchman. “Whin I luk into the future I trimble to think of what all this stirrin’ up of partisan feelin’ is a-goin’ to bring us to.” “It’s right you are,” assented ’steen hun- dred and ten. “I 4o, so, myself.” Perhaps if they had not been looking so far into the future they might have ob- served Weary Wraggles stroll into the block and shufile down the area, but the: did not. He did not mean they should. He had dodgzed down that particular area as soon as he had caught sight of themn, noting that the house seemed deserted, r-weight Miss Gertrude stood care- | | serted save for this sleeping girl and him- self. She lay very quict, breathinz softly. Through the little, high, half-wheel win- dow above the desk the afternoon sun shone warmly. 1t fell upon the slight girl figure on the couch; it touched Wes Wraggles aslant across the shouide bringing out his grotesque, slouchin shape, the endliess rags and filth of his garments, the matted tangle of hair and beard about his sodden face, whence all semblance of manhood had fled. A few rays, caught by the lens of the reading- glass, gathered in round, bright spot on the edge of the desk. The moments passed, but the girl slent on and the creature in the room watched her, spellbound. Presently the sieeper stirred, sighed faintly, and sank into slum- ber still deeper. The creature started, then crept a step nearer, one shapeless hand outstretched, a horrible light in the bloodshot eyes. 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