we now conversed more he touched the coat and with interest felt of the quality of the cloth looked me up and down seemingly with admiration � more likely with amazement � shook his head and said some class i must say you re right there sport with the and walked off it was in this style that i my for my ordinary day s labor i wore other clothes but sometimes when stealing a march on my city editor saturday or sundays or evenings i had to perform a lightning change act in order to get into my finery pay my visit and still get back to the office between eleven and twelve or before in my ordinary clothes sometimes i changed as many as three times in one afternoon or evening my room being near here this a little later when i was more experienced i aided myself to this speed by wearing all but the coat and hat an array in which i never presumed to enter the office even my impressive suit and my shoes shirts and ties attracted attention mr my pet office boy at the republic once remarked to me as i entered in this array yon certainly a book about myself look as yon ought to own the paper i the don t look like yon the sporting editor the editor the dramatic editor all eyed me with evident ton certainly are laying it on thick these days remarked beaming on me with his one eye as for my lady love � i reached the place where i could hold her hand pat my arms her kiss her bnt never i induce her to sit upon my lap that was reserved for a later date chapter l ay love contain an element of the � i presume but to each how very important i pass mine over with what i have already said save this that each little in her costume however slight in her or the way she looked or amid new all seemed to re the perfection that i had discovered and was so as to possess she gave me her photograph which i framed in silver and hung in my room i begged for a lock of her hair and finding a bit of ribbon that i knew belonged to her that she not allow me to visit at where she taught being this new but nevertheless on several sundays when she was at her home up the state i visited this glorious region by her presence and tried to decide for just where she lived and tf � her sacred rooms i a little later an or state fair was held in the enormous building at and olive streets and here when the were first on and later when the gay began a sort of harvest rejoicing winding up with a great parade and ball i saw more o� her than ever before it was during this time in a letter that she confessed that she me before this however seeing that i made no progress in any other way being allowed no intimacy beyond an stolen kiss i had proposed to her and been accepted with a kind of morbid i had had to ask her in the most definite way and be formally accepted as her husband thereafter i my last cent to purchase a diamond ring at secured through a friend on the and then indeed i felt myself set ap in the world as one who was destined to tread the conventional and peaceful wi of the majority a about in spite of my profound i vas still able to � n beauty in other women and be moved by it the attractions and which draw oa away from one and to another are beginning to be more clearly understood in these days and to our more formal notions of and order bnt even at that time this in myself might have taught me to look with suspicion on my own emotions i i did imagine that i was a scoundrel in after other women when i waa so deeply involved with this one bat i told myself that i most be in this way that all men were not so that i myself and probably would hold myself in etc all of which merely proves how and non self can be the processes of the human mind not only do we fail to see ourselves as others see ns bnt we have not the faintest conception of as we really are an incident which might have proved to me how shallow was the depth of my supposed feeling and that it was nothing more than a strong sex desire was this one night twelve a message to the stated that on a branch extension of one of the car lines seven or eight miles from the city a had just been committed three entering a lone owl car which ran from the city to a small village had shot and killed the conductor and fired on the a young girl who had been on board the only passenger had escaped by the front door and had not since been heard of � or so the message stated ab i happened to be in the office at the time the story was assigned to me by good luck i managed to catch a twelve o clock car and arrived at the end of the line at twelve forty where i learned that the body of the dead man had been transferred to his home at some point farther out and that a of male of the region had already been oi and were now helping the police to search this country round for the n toes when i about the girl who had been on board one of the men at the bam exclaimed sore she s a a book about wonder t yon want 