Show no angela s 4 j W marriage M arriage j 9 af i I 1 5 bu HAROLD CARTER vl VV copyright 1316 luy by nv V a 0 chapman angela stood in the mother super superiors lors room lit in tile Calla diall convent rending reading tho lite letter her eyes were blinded with will tears and it was with di dini culty that ole could make out her fathers writing how aitu I 1 marry a man whom il 1 have never seen been asked angela your father knows what la Is best my little one replied tho the good mother herself distressed on account of her charge angelas father had written front from paris stating that lie he lind had her to monsieur vidal lite his new york business representative and angela brought up under the nuns care ever since her mother died und and knowing knotting her father only from froin a busty ten tell minutes visit isalt each year never thought of u refusing obedience her father had hinted nt at some bamo such thing on tile tho occasion of ills last visit to the convent now she wits was to go to now new york to become the wife of p stranger a wealthy man of her lie own nationality but of thoin she WILS was completely ignorant dutiful as ai she was angela might have accepted this position as aa being tier her part in life except for tho the mysterious I 1 young man of whom she thought with a wonderful trepidation and heart beating ile he had seca been her when the girls walked out two by two under the patronage of tile the nuns angola angela had C P 0 anre stood tho the young man whom she had seen I 1 cnown that lie he was wag a stronger tit til the own ills ilia eyes bad seemed to seek ur ier own and to hold them site she had liou glit of lim blin diore than she had dared routes confess to herself then a night or two later a wonder I 1 ul thing filing lind had happened angela had il a low singing beneath her winlow it was between christmas christinas land new cw year and intensely cold she had bought it was a wandering singer front froin lite village nevertheless site elie crept out f her lied and looked from froin the winlow and there stood the young whom sh ph lind had seen and lie he caught ler gaze gaii and blew three kisses toward iter angela in terror had run back to her bed and hardly slept till dawn mid and till nil next duy day site she went about rubout tier her work avith a sense T cou constraint a sense or of fear of terror and delightful joy that sho she had never experienced before the ext day when the girls went but ut for their accustomed walk ole saw tho young nian mail again tills this thue ills his looks cereso were BO ardent that the sister lo in charge herself lier self between him and angela and frowned us as severely as faa able to anggi was covered with confusion and on oil the following follo iving iday lier ter fat fi liers athers letter arrived monsieur vidal ans to lo call for hein two weeks and they were nvere to be mar inar ried lied it in the parish church near tho lite convent afterward lie would take her to new york upon their honeymoon the letter said bald nothing moro inore about mon bleur vitial poor angela pictured him in her dreams dr yuna at one ona time he be was un an elder ly patriarch with a snowwhite snow white beard alij u bald head at another an elderly business man luan with a severe clean shaven face and at another a gentle elderly man with a pointed beard hut dut he be was always elderly when the message cunie came that the mother superior gr wished to see angela in alp vec eption room she nearly fainted e d with terror but bu controlling herself with an effort and many prayers the ebe went in A gentleman was vented beside the mother superior and andio ho was vi elderly derly and lie ho was a business num man and he be was severe and lie he had a pointed beard i angela bold looked at him in horror then she blurted out 1 11 I cant canti I 1 cant I 1 cant what inquired monsieur vidal 1 I cant marry you ou she rhe sobbed alii ain I 1 so hou homely lely then inquired the tha elderly gent leinati whose face softened wonderfully as tho the twinkle cattle came into ills his eyes I 1 1 I dont know you wept ancelm tho the mother superior who had alwi to glicr ter feet seemed about to lut but the gentleman checked lier ter with a gesture 1 I 1 think mn mademoiselle demoiselle that it Is your wish to obey your our fathers instructions lie ho said tile twinkle ills appearing angela raised lier her licad and looke I tit at blin fixedly yes if I 1 must tho she murmured 1 I hen seii bald monsieur vidal ns as time Is pressing I 1 will take you ou away us its soon us as your hiir trunks tire lira packed angela staggered irom from tho the room the mother superior with one niia arm about her tried tiled to console lier her it Is a n shock lillo bald to ineat ones future husband on oil the lie day of ones marriage for tile first time hut but it not bo be so terrible blo ns as you iou suppose my dear an ali hour later inter when monsieur paved the reception impatiently looking like a drooping illy with Alonsi cur al conducted lier her to ills cur car and they started till tile the plushy snow enow toward the parish church chur cli wittier wither thel another superior wits already hastening by alio th elane inne across the field Alotis monsieur leur didat turned to angela you do not relish becoming my wife lie ho inquired gravely gra ely oil yes answered the girl forgive inc monsieur monsieur queried the other Is it not your our intention to call mo ale my lily naino of alphonse little wife to be but stay I 1 since I 1 cecin so BO terribly oll old to you yot lyou you shall call mo 1110 yes murmured angela then let ineal me licar ar that unnie alne ii yes pupil it Is well sold said monsieur vidal placing ills arni arin about me tl e girl and here we are nt at tho the church my lily deni dear and lit in a short leour you mill be a bride do you fuel feel more cheerful now aneel gelef n angela gulped and nodded bilut elio ebe know that it the young mau with brown eyes were anywhere near sho elio would iby for protection to ills arins adint why could lie ho not come now to carry her olt off like it a rescuing tile princess front from the terrible and elderly draghu lie ho wits was there I 1 ile lc was there in the lie di chinch beside tho the inether superior who avas ans talking to ailin in grave tones andas and as monsieur vidal und and angela entered lie ho cattle came forward with an all eager gesture well little litti eone one and la Is marriage so ter now jiow ached monsieur vidal a smile and Angelu as looked at him in terror lie ho added this Js tuy my von your sour future husband tf it von will take lalni argela angela yoi yes lie Is also 1 montleur Monh leur vidal and wishing to fe bee the wife who had been chosen chosed for him lie he lias has spent two in ili tit alm village kii trying to discern you iou by my lily uie the other gillil will you have litin angela kut but there was no DO need to ask for angelas arm was drawn through the ho filing mail find nd lie had given elien her her first kiss tind ind it Is ta to be hoped hn his 1 you are an willing cheur persisted monsieur vidal angela turned a radiant face to him blin yes I 1 papa alii site answered I 1 |