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diff --git a/23806.txt b/23806.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcd99a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/23806.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1224 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Temporary Dead-Lock, by Thomas A. Janvier + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Temporary Dead-Lock + 1891 + +Author: Thomas A. Janvier + +Release Date: December 10, 2007 [EBook #23806] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TEMPORARY DEAD-LOCK *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + +A TEMPORARY DEAD-LOCK + +By Thomas A. Janvier + +Copyright, 1891, by Harper & Brothers + + + + +I. + + +Mr. John Amesbury, Senior Warden of St. Jude's Church, Minneapolis, to +the Rev. Clement Markham: + +Vestry of St. Jude's, April 4th. + +Dear Mr. Markham,--At a special meeting of the wardens and vestry of St. +Jude's Church held this day, it was unanimously decided to grant your +request for leave of absence from your duties as rector of this parish +from June 1st till September 13th, inclusive, proximo, with permission +to go abroad. I am instructed further to state that the wardens and +vestry of St. Jude's have much pleasure in granting your request, as +they feel that your zealous and very successful administration of +the affairs of the parish has abundantly entitled you to a period of +relaxation and rest. Your salary for the term of your absence will be +paid to you in advance. + +In my personal capacity, my dear Markham, permit me to add that I am +delighted that you are to have this holiday. You richly deserve +it. By-the-way, a good deal of amusement was caused by the rather +characteristic error in the date of your formal application for leave. +Were you to receive precisely the holiday that you asked for, you would +have to turn back the wheels of time, for your letter was dated _last +year!_ + + + + +II. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Tremont, Boston: + +St. Jude's Rectory, Minneapolis, May 15th. + +Dear Aunt Lucy,--We are getting on famously with our preparations for +the summer. Dear Clement is full of his visit to England, and I am sure +that he will have a delightful time. The bishop has given him a letter +of introduction to the Bishop of London, and another to Dean Rumford, +of Canterbury, so a very desirable introduction to the best clerical +society is assured to him. He expects to sail from New York on the +_City of Paris_ June 5th, and to sail from London on the same vessel on +September 4th. This will bring him back to New York in plenty of time to +get home to preach on the next Sunday, the 14th. He expects to write his +sermon on the voyage. It would be delightful to go with him, but this +is impossible on account of the children. I have engaged board for +the summer at a small but very good hotel in the White Mountains--the +Outlook House, Littleton, New Hampshire--and I expect to be very +comfortable there. I made a funny mistake in writing for my rooms. I +directed my first letter to Littleton, New York. Wasn't it absurd? + +Dear Clement expects to get some vestments in London, where they +make them so well, you know, and he has promised to bring me from +Paris--where he will spend a fortnight--two dozen pairs of gloves and +six pairs of black silk stockings. Fancy my having six pairs of black +silk stockings at once! I shall feel like a queen. The children are very +well. + + + + +III. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement Markham, Littleton, New +Hampshire: + +On board "City of Paris," June 5th--3:80 p.m.... I stayed with my brother +Ronald last night, and he and Van Cortlandt came down to see me off. +I barely caught the steamer, for I forgot my watch--left it on the +mantel-piece in Ronald's chambers--and did not remember it until we were +half-way down town. Ronald said, in his chaffing way, that I left my +head somewhere when I was a boy, and that I have been going around +without it ever since. I wish that he and Van Cortlandt hadn't such +silly notions about my incapacity in the ordinary affairs of life--not +that I really mind their nonsense, for you know how well I love them +both. I am very glad that you consented to go directly to the mountains +instead of coming to New York to see me off. There was a great crowd on +the dock, and I much prefer to think of our tender parting.... Be sure +to cable me on the 15th--the day that I get to London. The address, you +know, is simply, "Clement, London," and I am to arrange with my bankers +to have the despatch sent to me. Good-bye, my--Here is the pilot. + + + + +IV. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement Markham, Littleton, New +Hampshire: + +[Cable Despatch.] + +London, June 16th. Why have you not cabled? + + + + +V. + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement Markham, Littleton, New +Hampshire: + +Charing Cross Hotel, London, June 16th.... After I cabled you this +morning I remembered that I hadn't arranged with the bankers about my +cable despatches. When I had rectified this error of omission I received +your despatch of yesterday. It was a very great relief to my mind to +have direct news from you, and to know of the safety and health of my +loved ones, who are dearer to me.... + + + + +VI. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement Markham, Littleton, New +Hampshire: + +Charing Cross Hotel, London, August 20th. + +... I had a delightful fortnight in Paris.... I bought the gloves and +the stockings--it was droll, and not quite proper, about buying the +stockings. I will tell you all about it when I get home. And I also +bought you Something Else that I am sure will be a pleasant surprise to +you when you see it.... + +His lordship, Dr.------, has been kindness itself to me. I dined again +at Lambeth Palace yesterday--a farewell dinner. I was a little late, I +am sorry to say, for I got into the wrong boat at Westminster Bridge, +but his lordship very cordially accepted my excuses. At dinner I was +seated next to a very interesting man who has charge of a large parish +in the east end of London. Such poverty as there is in that wretched +region, and such moral depravity, are sickening to contemplate. Thank +Heaven, there is nothing like it in Minneapolis.... + +I shall sail (D. V.) on the _City of Paris_ two weeks from to-morrow. +I think that the best arrangement will be for you to come down to your +aunt Lucy's on the 11th, and on the 12th (D. V.) I will join you at her +house in Boston, whence we will start for home that evening _via_ the +Boston and Albany. I must be in New York for a few hours to see Ronald +and to make the final arrangements about the new stained-glass windows. +If you prefer to meet me in New York, arrange matters with Ronald, who +will meet you at the station and take you to a hotel. As I shall go +directly to his office on landing, I will find out at once what you have +decided to do.... On referring to your letter of the 10th I perceive +that you are afraid that I may have made some mistake about the sizes +of the stockings and gloves. Of course I got the right sizes; I had it +written down: "No. 61/4, long fingers," and "No. 8 1/2, narrow ankles." +Don't fall into Ronald's way of fancying that I always get things wrong. +It was about the narrow ankles that--But I had better wait and tell it +to you when I get home. It certainly was very droll. I have bought a +most satisfactory chasuble, very elegant in material and beautifully +made. I should have hesitated to buy so costly a garment for myself; but +this is for the Service of the Sanctuary. It will make something of a +stir among the congregation, I think, the first time that I wear it in +dear St. Jude's.... If, as is probable, I go down into Wales next week, +this will be my last letter. My heart is full of joyful thankfulness to +think that so very soon I shall see again (D. V.) my own dear Margaret, +who.... + + + + +VII. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Tremont, Boston: + +Littleton, August 29th. + +Dear Aunt Lucy,--I have just received a long and delightful letter from +dear Clement. He had a lovely time in Paris, and he has bought me the +gloves and the silk stockings, and also Something Else; but he won't +tell me what this other thing is, for he means it to be a surprise. Do +you think it could _possibly_ be the silk for a dress? He knows how much +I want a new black silk. But I shall not think about it, for I don't +want to be disappointed. He has had such delightful dinners with his +lordship the Bishop of London at Lambeth Palace. His lordship was +"kindness itself," Clement writes. Clement must have made a very +favorable impression, of course. And Clement writes that he has bought +such a love of a chasuble. It will stir up the whole congregation the +first time that he wears it, I am sure. + +If it is _quite_ convenient to you, dear Aunt Lucy, I shall come down to +you, with the nurse and the children, on the 11th. That is the day that +Clement will arrive in New York, and he writes that he will come to +Boston the next day--after seeing Ronald, and attending to the final +arrangements about our beautiful new chancel windows--and join me at +your house. + +But if this arrangement is the _least bit inconvenient_ to you, please +tell me so frankly, for I can perfectly well meet him in New York, +where Ronald will take care of me till he comes--a plan that he also +has arranged in case I do not go to you. Dear Clement always is so +thoughtful and careful, you know. Please answer soon, so that I may know +what to do. The weather is quite chilly here now. The children are brown +as little berries and very well. Baby has cut another tooth. + + + + +VIII. + + +Mrs. Winthrop Tremont to Mrs. Clement Markham, + +Littleton, New Hampshire: + +No. 19 Mount Vernon Place, August 30th. My dear Margaret,--I write at +once because, I am very sorry to say, it will be impossible for me +to have you here on the date that you name. I have just completed my +arrangements for having the entire house papered and painted. All +the furniture is locked up in the dining-room (that was done up, you +remember, last summer), and I set out this afternoon on a round of +visits that will fill up the time until September 12th, when I am +promised that the work will be done. The servants are to have holidays +and the painters and paper-hangers are to be in complete possession of +the premises. Could I be sure that they would keep their promises and +get through by the 12th, I should urge your coming on that day, which +still would be in time to meet Clement, instead of on the 11th. But you +know how uncertain people of this sort are. Much as I would love to have +you and Clement with me, I think that you had better follow out your +second plan, and go to Ronald's care in New York. + + + + +IX. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mr. Ronald Markham, New York: + +Littleton, August 31st. + +Dear Ronald,--Clement had arranged, in case we could stay at Aunt +Lucy's, to meet me in Boston on his return. But I have just received a +letter from Aunt Lucy in which she says that her house is torn up, and +that we cannot possibly come to her before the 12th. Therefore I must +adopt the other plan that dear Clement, with his usual thoughtfulness, +has suggested, which is to meet him in New York. He tells me to ask you +to engage rooms for me in some quiet hotel, and also to ask you to meet +me on my arrival with the children and nurse. I shall leave here on +the morning of the 10th by the White Mountain Express (that gets in +at Jersey City, I think); and if you will care for me in the way that +Clement suggests, I shall be very grateful. + +Clement has had a lovely time during his holiday. He has been especially +favored by seeing a great deal of the higher clergy. He has dined +repeatedly with the Lord Archbishop of London at Lambeth Palace, and +I am sure that he must have created a very favorable impression among +them, and given them a highly satisfactory idea of the clergymen of the +American branch of the Anglican Church. Please answer soon, so that I +may know what to do. I forgot to say that Clement expects to arrive on +the 11th. He is to sail on the 4th. + + + + +X. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement Markham, Littleton, New +Hampshire: + +[Cable Despatch.] + +Liverpool, September 3d. Sail to-day. + + + + +XI. + + +Mr. Ronald Markham to Mrs. Clement Markham, Littleton, New Hampshire: + +[Telegram.] + +San Antonio, Texas, September 5th. + +Here for a week on railroad business. Van Cortlandt will secure you +rooms and meet you. Write him at No. 120 Broadway. + + + + +XII. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt, New York: + +Littleton, September 5th. + +Dear Mr. Van Cortlandt,--By a telegram that I have just received from +Ronald, I find that he is in Texas. I had written to him to ask him to +secure rooms for me at some quiet hotel, and to meet me at Jersey +City on the evening of the 10th, on the arrival of the White Mountain +Express. Of course he cannot do this now, and he telegraphs me to ask +you to do it all in his place. I feel that I am taking a great liberty +in asking so much of you, but I really cannot help myself. I had +expected to meet Clement in Boston at my aunt's, but my aunt is out of +town; and now Ronald is away from New York. It is very provoking. So, +you see, I can only throw myself on your mercy. But I do this with the +less hesitation because I know how strong your friendship is for my dear +Clement, who will be, as I will be also, very grateful to you. + +I am very much puzzled by a cable despatch from Clement that came two +days ago. It reads, "Sail to-day," and is dated September _third_. +Clement's passage was engaged on the _City of Paris_, which I know was +advertised to sail on September _fourth_, and that is the date that he +all along has named for his return. Can the date of sailing have been +changed? Ought I to come to New York one day earlier? Everything seems +to be going wrong of late, and I am both worried and perplexed. If +you can think of any comforting explanation that will account for this +change, I shall be very much obliged to you. Please give my kindest +regards to Mrs. Van Cortlandt. + + + + +XIII. + + +Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt to Mrs. Clement Markham, Littleton, New +Hampshire: + +Law Offices of Van Cortlandt, Howard, Warrington & Edgecombe, Equitable +Building, 120 Broadway. + +[Dictated.] + +New York, September 7th. + +My dear Mrs. Markham,--Your favor of the 5th is received. I am very glad +indeed that I shall have this opportunity to serve you. You must not +consider yourself under any obligation at all. Remember how close +Clement is to me, though our ways in life have separated widely, and +how true his friendship has been to me through all these years. I am +delighted that Ronald is out of town, and that I am to be permitted to +serve you in his place. + +I regret exceedingly that Mrs. Van Cortlandt is still in the +Catskills, and that our house still remains in its condition of summer +dismantlement. Were she at home, and the house in order, you would +come directly to us, of course. As this cannot be, I have engaged an +apartment for you with my old landlady, Mrs. Warden, No. 68 Clinton +Place. For a number of years before I was married I occupied rooms in +this house, and I am confident that you will be far more comfortable +there than you possibly could be at any hotel. Mrs. Warden, who is a +motherly old body, and who remembers Clement well, will take the best of +care of you, and I have arranged that your meals shall be sent across to +you from the Brevoort. + +In regard to Clement's cable despatch, I am as much puzzled as you are. +One of my young men has just returned from the office of the Inman Line, +and reports that the _City of Paris_ sailed on her regular date, the +4th, and is due to arrive here on Wednesday next, the 11th. My young man +was assured that no steamer belonging to any of the regular lines left +Liverpool for this port on the 3d. The Cunard steamer _Samaria_ did +leave Liverpool on the 3d, however, for Boston. It is possible, of +course--since your original plan seems to have been that you and Clement +should meet in Boston--that he has sailed in the _Samaria_. But I do not +think that this is probable. The _Samaria_ is a much slower boat than +the _City of Paris_, and I think that even Clement would perceive that +by sailing in her he would lose time instead of gaining it. Frankly, my +dear Mrs. Markham, I think that Clement simply has mixed things up in +his despatch by writing "today" when he meant "to-morrow." Bless his +dear old heart! he always did have a faculty for getting things wrong, +you know. I decidedly advise you, therefore, to come down to New York on +the 10th, as you have already arranged. + +I observe that you speak of the White Mountain Express as coming in at +Jersey City. This is a mistake: it arrives at the Forty-second Street +Station. Bear this fact in mind, please; and I advise you to write on +a card--which you had better have easily accessible in your +pocket-book--Mrs. Warden's address, No. 68 Clinton Place. Then, should +I miss you in the crowd at the station, or should any other mischance +occur in regard to our meeting, you will know where to tell your driver +to take you, and where to send your trunks. Do not fear that any such +untoward accident will occur: it is only professional prudence that +leads me to provide for every contingency that may arise. As a further +precautionary measure (we lawyers are full of precautionary measures, +you know), please telegraph me from Littleton on the morning that you +leave. + + + + +XIV. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt, New York: Littleton, +September 9th. + +Dear Mr. Van Cortlandt,--Your very kind letter came last evening. I +cannot tell you how grateful I am to you for all your goodness and +thoughtfulness. With such explicit directions I cannot possibly go +wrong. You must be right, I think, in regard to the cable despatch. Such +a mistake would be just what dear Clement would be almost certain to +make when in one of his absent-minded moods. I will do all the prudent +things which you so thoughtfully advise, and I shall keep your letter +to show to dear Clement, so that he may know how much trouble you have +taken to make everything about my arrival secure. Of course, the train +does not come in at Jersey City: I remember about it now perfectly. I +am in the thick of packing to-day, and expect to get off in the morning; +but I will telegraph you before I start. I don't want to bother you +with this letter at your office, so I send it to your house. I find the +address in Clement's address-book. Am I not considerate? + + + + +XV. + + +Dr. Atwood Vance to Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt, New York: + +[Telegram.] + +Tannersyille, New York, September 9th. Mrs. Van Cortlandt taken +dangerously ill in night, and continues in critical condition. Come at +once. + + + + +XVI. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt, New York: + +[Telegram. Endorsed: "Not delivered. Party out of town."] + +Littleton, New Hampshire, September 10th. Will arrive on White Mountain +Express this evening. + + + + +XVII. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Clement Markham, No. 19 Mount Vernon +Place, Boston: + +[Telegram. Endorsed: "Returned to sender. Unknown at this address."] + +Breyoort House, New York, September 11th. Arrived this morning. Will be +with you (D. V.) to-morrow. + + + + +XVIII. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Tremont, No. 19 Mount Vernon +Place, Boston: + +[Telegram. Endorsed: "Returned to sender. Addressee absent from +Boston."] + +Breyoort House, New York, September 11th. Is Margaret with you? Please +answer at once. + + + + +XIX. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Clerk, Outlook House, Littleton, New +Hampshire: + +[Telegram.] + +Breyoort House, New York, September 11th. Is Mrs. Markham still at +Outlook House? Answer prepaid. + + + + +XX + + +Clerk, Outlook House, to the Rev. Clement Markham, New York: + +[Telegram.] + +Littleton, New Hampshire, September 11th. Mrs. Markham left on morning +train yesterday for New York. + + + + +XXI. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mr. John Amesbury, Minneapolis: + +[Telegram.] + +Breyoort House, New Tore, September 11th. Has Mrs. Markham returned to +Minneapolis? Please answer immediately. + + + + +XXII. + + +Mr. John Amesbury to the Rev. Clement Markham, New York: + +[Telegram.] + +Minneapolis, September 11th. Mrs. Markham has not returned. Glad you are +back safe. + + + + +XXIII. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mr. Ronald Markham, Menger House, San +Antonio, Texas: + +[Telegram.] + +Breyoort House, New York, September 11th. [Delivered September 12th.] + +Did Margaret communicate with you in regard to her intended movements? I +cannot find her and am much perturbed. Answer at once. + + + + +XXIV. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt, No.--Broadway, New +York: + +No. 68 Clinton Place, September 11th. Dear Mr. Van Cortlandt,--I was so +sorry that, after all, we did miss each other in the crowd last night. +But I got along very well, thanks to your forethought in telling me just +what to do, though I must confess that I had five very dreadful minutes +while I was looking for the card on which I had written Mrs. Warden's +address. And where do you suppose I found it at last? It was in my +pocket-book, just where you told me to put it! Wasn't it absurd? So then +we came down here very comfortably, and found the delightful apartment +that you had secured for me. As for Mrs. Warden, she is as good as gold. +She even had warm milk ready for Teddy, and a delicious cup of tea for +me. I never shall be able to thank you enough for all that you have +done. + +What arrangements have you made about bringing Clement to me? If the +dear boy hasn't gone on that slow ship to Boston, and has come, as you +think he has, on the _City of Paris_, he ought to arrive today. I should +love to go down to the dock and be the very first to welcome him. But +in such a crowd as there will be I ought not to venture, ought I? Please +let me know by bearer just what you have done about our meeting, and +when I am to expect my dear boy. + + + + +XXV. + + +Mr. Robert Warrington to Mrs. Clement Markham, No. 68 Clinton Place, New +York: + +Law Offices of Van Cortlandt, Howard, Warrington & Edgecombe, Equitable +Building, No. 120 Broadway. + +New York, September 11th. Miss (or Mrs.) Margaret Markham: + +Dear Madam,--Replying, in the absence of Mr. Van Cortlandt, to yours +of even date, I would say that Mr. Van Cortlandt was called out of +town suddenly yesterday by the dangerous illness of his wife. I have +no knowledge of the matter concerning which you inquire, and regret, +therefore, my inability to supply the information which you ask. I +may say, however, that the _City of Paris_, as I have ascertained by +telephone, arrived at her dock about half an hour ago. Should you desire +to telegraph Mr. Van Cortlandt, his address is the Bear and Fox Inn, +Tannersville, Greene County, New York. + + + + +XXVI. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt, Bear and Fox Inn, +Tannersville, Greene County, New York: + +[Telegram.] + +68 Clinton Place, New York, September 11th. [Delivered September 12th.] + +What arrangements did you make for letting Clement know where to find +me? If he came on the _City of Paris_ he is here in New York now. I am +anxious. So sorry about Mrs. Van Cortlandt. + + + + +XXVII. + + +Mr. Ronald Markham to the Rev. Clement Markham, New York: + +[Telegram.] + +San Antonio, Texas, September 12th. Do not know Margaret's plans. Think +she arranged matters with Van Cortlandt. See him. + + + + +XXVIII. + + +Mr. Hubert Van Cortlandt to Mrs. Clement Markham, New York: + +[Telegram.] + +Tannersyille, September 12th. Made no arrangements. Expected to meet +Clement at dock. Sorry if I have occasioned you annoyance. You know +cause of neglect. Mrs. Van Cortlandt now out of danger. + + + + +XXIX. + + +The Rev. Clement Markham to Mr. Ronald Markham, San Antonio, Texas: + +[Telegram.] Breyoort House, New York, September 12th. Van Cortlandt in +Catskills with sick wife. Saw his partner, Edgecombe, who can tell me +nothing. + +I have ascertained that Margaret left Littleton day before yesterday for +this city. With her departure from Littleton all trace of her is lost. +She has not returned to Minneapolis. I am wellnigh crazed with grief and +anxiety. Advise me at once what is best to be done. Shall I advertise? +Will it be well to employ the police? For Heaven's sake, answer promptly +and fully! + + + + +XXX. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Tremont, Boston: + +[Telegram.] + +68 Clinton Place, New York, September 12th. _City of Paris_ arrived. +Mrs. Warden been to dock and got passenger list. Clement's name in it, +so he certainly made mistake in his cable despatch. I state facts fully +and clearly, so that you may understand why Mr. Van Cortlandt was called +suddenly to see sick wife in Catskills, and so, while Clement must be +here in New York, perhaps close by me, am unable to find him, and he, of +course, does not in the least know where to find me. There are hundreds +of hotels here in New York, and he may be at all of them. I don't know +what to do, and am almost frantic with anxiety. Telegraph me at once, +dear Aunt Lucy, and make telegram perfectly clear, like mine, and long +and full and explicit. This is no time to think about what telegraphing +costs. Perhaps Clement has gone on to you, or the other ship may have +got in sooner. If he is with you, implore him to return to me at once. +Would it be well for me to employ the police? That was my first thought, +but I was afraid that I might make his disappearance get into the +newspapers and be a scandal, and that would not do for a clergyman. And +he has not really disappeared; it is only that we neither of us know +where we each are. My head is one horrible buzz. Shall I advertise? Had +I better offer a reward? Give me your best advice, dear Aunt Lucy, and +please answer immediately. + + + + +XXXI. + + +Mr. Ronald Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Tremont, + +Boston: + +[Telegram.] + +San Antonio, Texas, September 18th. [Delivered 18th.] + +Clement is at Brevoort House, New York. By characteristic blunder has +missed Margaret. If you know her address, please telegraph him. + + + + +XXXII. + + +Mrs. Winthrop Tremont to Mr. Ronald Markham, New York (forwarded to San +Antonio, Texas): + +[Telegram.] + +Boston, September 12th. [Delivered 13 th.] + +Margaret is at No. 68 Clinton Place, in great distress because Clement +does not come to her. What foolishness has overtaken these innocents +now? Please set them right. + + + + +XXXIII. + + +Mrs. Winthrop Tremont to Mrs. Clement Markham, No. 68 Clinton Place, New +York: + +[Telegram.] + +Boston, September 13th. Clement is at the Brevoort House, quite close by +you. + + + + +XXXIV. + + +Mr. Ronald Markham to the Rev. Clement Markham, Brevoort House, New +York: + +[Telegram.] + +San Antonio, Texas, September 13th. You will find Margaret at No. 68 +Clinton Place, directly across the street from your hotel. + + + + +XXXV. + + +Mrs. Clement Markham to Mrs. Winthrop Tremont, + +Boston: + +St. Jude's Rectory, Minneapolis, September 23d. + +Dear Aunt Lucy,--We left New York early last Monday, and by Tuesday +night we were once more safe and together here in our own dear home. We +had no misadventures on our journey, except that we nearly missed our +connection at Syracuse (where we left the parlor-car for the sleeper) +by getting on the wrong train. Fortunately dear Clement found out his +mistake just in time. + +I had not the energy to do more than telegraph you from New York that +all our troubles were ended. I was too much upset by the agony that I +had been through to write. It was a very dreadful two days, dear +Aunt Lucy; the most dreadful--especially that second day and the last +night--that I have ever known. And dear Clement suffered even more than +I did, for I knew at least that he was alive, and he knew absolutely +nothing about me at all. It all seems now like a horrible dream, and +when I shut my eyes and think about it, I turn giddy and feel sick and +faint. You cannot possibly imagine, dear Aunt Lucy, how utterly, utterly +dreadful it all was! + +If it had not been so very dreadful, it would have been a little absurd, +I think; for, you know, all the while that we were in such terrible +distress about being unable to find each other, we actually could have +opened our windows and talked to each other just across the street! As +I found out, when at last dear Clement came to me, his room in the +Brevoort House was directly opposite my apartment at No. 68 Clinton +Place. Was it not strange? And what was still stranger, dear Aunt Lucy, +was that the very morning that our agony ended I happened to look across +the street, and there, hanging beside an open window of the hotel, I saw +a lovely chasuble that I knew must belong to some clergyman, and it +made me think of the chasuble that Clement had written he had bought in +London--and it really was that very chasuble, you know, for Clement had +hung it there to get the creases out of it--and seeing it set me into +a perfect agony of grief, for I thought that I never was to see my dear +husband again, and that my children were fatherless, and that I was +a widow, and that there was nothing left for me in the world but the +blackest despair. And it was while I was crying my very heart out that +there was a knock at the door, and then, in a single instant, all my +sorrow was ended as I found myself once more in dear Clement's arms. + +Yesterday dear Clement preached a beautiful sermon about man's +liability to error, and the mysterious ways through which human error +providentially is set right. It was a very impressive sermon. In the +service he wore his new chasuble. It is exceedingly becoming. Everybody +was very much moved by the sermon; and I was moved, of course, most +of all. I could not help crying. Dear Clement's voice trembled once +or twice, and I saw that there were tears in his eyes. The gloves are +perfect, and the stockings really are too good to be true. They are +open-work over the ankles, and three of the six pairs are ribbed. I wish +that I could tell you what a queer time dear Clement had when he was +buying them. He bought them in a French shop in Paris, you know; and +when he asked for stockings with narrow ankles, the young woman who was +waiting on him--But it will be better to wait until I can tell it to +you. It was very funny. And the very best of all, dear Aunt Lucy, is +that the surprise that Clement would not write to me about _is_ the silk +for a new black silk dress! It is a lovely quality. I do wish that you +could have heard Clement's beautiful sermon yesterday, and that you +could have seen how handsome he looked in his new chasuble. The weather +to-day is very warm. The children are wonderfully well. + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Temporary Dead-Lock, by Thomas A. 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