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The Tangled Telegram
{Continued from preceding page)
definite arrangement. I’m to let her know.”
“Oh. Jimmy, Jimmy! You need a guard
ian, and not a guardian angel, either. You
need the other sort. You deserve hours of
punishment for your thoughtlessness. Now,
go right away and send her word that I am
here and dying to meet her.”
“All right. We’ll have lunch here at the
Annex. You’ll excuse me just a moment,
and I’ll send her a telegram and ask her to
come in.”
/‘Yes, but hurry. You should have told
her yesterday. When will you ever learn
how to be nice to a girl?”
Jimmy, feeling somehow that he had been
guilty of a breach of courtesy that should
fill him with remorse, hastened to the tele
graph desk and scribbled a message to
Lucy. It read:
“Please meet me and Mary at Annex at
two o’clock.”
“ Rush that,” he said to the operator.
The operator glanced over the message
and grinned.
“Certainly, sir,” he said. “This sort of
a message always goes rush. Wish you
luck, sir.”
The operator has not yet completely
gathered the reason for the reproving stare
Jimmy gave him. In part it has been ex
plained to him. But, as Jimmy has said since,
the man deserved censure for drawing an er
roneous conclusion from another’s mistake.
It was then noon, so Jimmy and Mary,
at Mary’s suggestion, got an appetite by
making another tour of the shops. In the
meantime a snail-paced messenger boy was
climbing the Putnam steps with the tele
gram in his hand.
Ill
Lucy took the telegram from the boy and
told him to wait until she saw if there should
be an answer. She tore off the envelope,
unfolded the yellow slip of paper, read the
message, gasped, blushed and turned and
left the patient boy on the steps.
Into the house she rushed, calling to her
mother. She thrust the telegram into her
hands, exclaiming:
“Read that! Isn’t it what we might
have expected? ”
“Mercy! What is it? Who’s dead?”
“Nobody! It’s better than that,” was
Lucy’s astonishing reply.
Mrs. Putnam read the telegram, and then
beamingly drew her daughter to her and
kissed her. The two then wrote a message,
after much counting of words, to be sent to
Jimmy. It read:
“Of course. Mamma will come with
me. Telephone to papa.”
When this reached Jimmy he was non
plussed. He rubbed his forehead, studied
the message, re-read it, and then handed it to
Mary with the suggestion:
“Maybe you can make it out. I can’t.”
Mary knitted her brows and studied the
message in turn. At length she handed it
back.
“It is simple,” she decided. “She is a
nice, sweet girl, and she wants me to meet
her mama and papa. Or maybe she wants
us to be chaperoned.”
So Jimmy and Mary waited in the hotel
parlor until Lucy should arrive. Reminded
by Mary, Jimmy went to the ’phone and
told Mr. Putnam that Lucy was coming to
lunch with him.
“Well, that’s all right, isn’t it, Jimmy?”
Mr. Putnam asked.
“ Yes. But she told me to telephone you.”
“Why?”
“ I don’t know. But won’t you join us?”
“ Is that other matter arranged, Jimmy?”
“N-no, not yet.”
“ I told you I didn’t want to see you until
it was. As soon as you wake up, let me
know. Good-by.”
Jimmy, red, returned to the parlor, and
there was confronted by a vision of white,
with shining eyes and pink cheeks, who
rushed up to him and kissed him and called
him a dear old thing and said he was the
cleverest, most unconventional man that
ever was.
Limp, astounded, but delighted, James
Trottingham Minton drew back a pace
from Lucy Putnam, who, in her dainty
white dress and her white hat and filmy
white veil, was a delectable sight.
“ I want you to meet Cousin Mary,” he
said.
“ Is she to attend?”
“Of course,” he answered.
They walked toward the end of the long
parlor where Mary was sitting, but halfway
down the room they were stopped by Mrs.
Putnam. She put both hands on Jimmy’s
shoulders, gave him a motherly kiss on one
cheek and sighed:
“Jimmy, you will be kind to my little
girl?”
Jimmy looked from mother to daughter
in dumb bewilderment. Certainly this was
the most remarkable conduct he ever had
dreamed of. Yet, Mrs. Putnam’s smile was
so affectionate and kind, her eyes met his
with such a tender look, that he intuitively
felt that all was right as right should be.
And yet—why should they act as they did?
Into the midst of his reflections burst
Lucy’s chum, Alice Jordan.
“I’ve a notion to kiss him, too!” she
cried.
Jimmy stonily held himself in readiness
to be kissed. If kissing went by favor he
was preeminently a favored one. But
Lucy clutched his arm with a pretty air of
ownership and forbade Alice.
“Indeed, you will not. It wouldn’t be
good form now. After—afterward, you
may. Just once. Isn’t that right, Jimmy?”
“Perfectly,” he replied, his mind still
whirling in an effort to adjust actualities
to his conception of what realities should
be.
The four had formed a little group to
themselves in the center of the parlor, Lucy
clinging to Jimmy’s arm, Mrs. Putnam ey
ing them both with a happy expression, and
Alice fluttering from one to the other, assur
ing them they were the handsomest couple
she ever had seen, and they ought to be
proud of each other, and that Mrs. Putnam
ought to be proud of them, and that she was
sure that nobody in all the world ever,
ever could be as sublimely, beatifically
happy as they would be, and that they
must be sure to let her come to visit
them.
“And,” she cried admiringly, stopping to
pat Jimmy on his unclutched arm, “I just
think your idea of proposing by telegraph
was the brightest thing I ever heard of!’ ’
It is to be written to the everlasting credit
of James Trottingham Minton that he re
strained himself from uttering the obvious
remark on hearing this. Two words from
him would have wrecked the house of cards.
Instead, he blushed and smiled modestly.
Slowly it was filtering into his brain that by
some unusual, unexpected, unprecedented
freak of fortune his difficulties had been
overcome; that some way or other he had
proposed and had been accepted.
“1 shall always cherish that telegram,”
/Lucy declared, leaning more affectionately
toward Jimmy. “If that grimy-faced mes
senger boy had not gone away so quickly
with my answer I should have kissed him! ’
“I’ve got the telegram here, dear”’ said
Mrs. Putnam.
“Oh, let’s see it again,” Alice begged.
“ I always wanted to hear a proposal, but it
is some satisfaction to see one.”
Mrs. Putnam opened her hand satchel,
took out the telegram, unfolded it slowly,
and they all looked at it, Jimmy gulping
down a great choke of joy as he read:
“Please meet me and marry at Annex at
two o’clock.”
His bashfulness fell from him as a gar
ment. He took the message, saying he
would keep it, so that it might not be lost.
Then he piloted the two girls and Mrs.
Putnam to the spot where Mary had been
waiting patiently and wonderingly.
Jimmy tore himself away from the ex
cited laughter and chatter, ran to the
telephone and got Mr. Putnam on the
wire.
“This is Minton,” he said.
“Who? Oh! Jimmy? Well?”
“We’ve fixed that up.”
“Good. And when is it to be?”
“Right away. Here at the Annex. I
want you to go and get the license for me on
your way over.”
“Come, come, Jimmy, don’t be in such
precipitate haste.”
“You told me that was the only way to
arrange these matters.”
“Humph! Did I? Well, I’ll get the
license for you ”
“Good-by, then. I’ve got to telephone
for a minister.”
The minister was impressed at once with
the value of haste in coming, and on his way
back to the wedding party Jimmy stopped
long enough to hand a five-dollar bill to the
telegraph operator.
“Thank you, sir,” said the astonished
man.
“ I have been worrying for fear I had made
a mistake about your message.”
“You did. You made the greatest mis
take of your life. Thank you!”