The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-17
Herman SeviIIe'S BIunderS,
BY BERTHA BERTON.

A sCrawl, of mot available, across
the Top of a prim looking sheet of
manuscript and it was refolded and
passed to the the left hand of the table
with an air that bespoke its fnel dis
posaI; then the young editor gave his
attention to a more interesting subject.
That literary men, especially editors,
should have time to devote to senti-
and love making, would hardly be
supposed when one takes into consid-
Grafton their audious duties, and as
Herman Seville sat in his cosy sane
tum with a formidable pile of bulky
packages before him. while at his side,
and gaping like a hungry, young robin,
stood the capriciOus and suggestive
waste basket, no one would have sus-
pected that he was penning a tender
little note, most carefully worded, and
literally trimming with sentiment and
fervOr.
Incredible as it would lave seemed,
yet, so it was; and he has sandwiched
it in as q sort of relish among less de-
lectabIe business.
Twice he read it over to see that he
bad said exactly what he meant to say,
to see that he had used rhetoric, i'm
FASHIONED and eloquent language. Yes,
as he carefully folded the note and laid
it by itself upon the table, he felt that
he had left nothing unsaid; and well
satisfied with the effort, calmly conf
dent of its effect he proceeded to the
business of the morning, which was
the consideration of the vast accumu-
lation of manuscripts before mentioned
that awaited his verdict of approval or
disapproval.
There they lay in various shapes and
sizes according to the fancy and con-
Venienca c. their respectable writer's,
and through that long summer morn
ing Herman Seville read and criticised
and crossed redundant words and
phrases, and into the hungry basket
dropped rejected articles.
A few marked accepted were pushed
to his right hand. but those were for
tunate ones, for the editor was ex-
tremely fastidious, and inferior articles
never appeared in his columns, conse-
quently the aspirants to the heights of
excellence contained in that Weekly
Journal were kept in a continued and
a decidedly uncomfortable state of sus-
pense regarding their articles.
One there was among the number
that particularly pleased the young
editor. A sketch, short and lively and
interesting, i~nterspersed with plenty
of dialogue, the language beautiful
and fowery, the sentiment tender and
pure, and that was Hphesitatingly ac-
cepted.
A new writer, it seemed, and the
rather euphonious nom de plume of
"Pansy Blossom was given, the real
name Mile Mckay and the editor re-
peated it to himself musingly.
She was evidently a writer of ability,
and he would just write her a little
note of acceptance, with a request,
also, that she would become a regular
contributor to the journal
Then he thrust it into an envelope
and laid it beside another undirected
wrapper which contained the little
poem with the fateful words, not
available" branded upon its first page.
1t was almost dinner time, and edi-
foa.a ne x1alI ~ n,o~o ooxTn.on~lnao
mortais, feel the cravings of appetite.
Herman Seville began to think Of the
wants Of the inner man; then his
thoughts went back to the sentimental
note he had written to the girl he
loved. and glancing at the first lines.
that there should be no mistake. he
placed that also in the envelope.
Just then the telephone set up such
a jabberlng that he sprang up and
answered a message; then he directed
those letters and mailed them on his
way 70 dinner.
And, as he seated himself at the
hotel table, a tribe impatiently, per-
haps. awaited the filling Of the bill Of
fare, he had the calm self-consciousness
81 having done q big stroke Of busi-
ness.
Yes, be had really doae much more
than he gave Himself credit FOR.
That same evening be called at tile,
home Of Ethel Vinton. the young lady
to whom k5 had that forenoon. penned
such a tender little note.
He was to be her escort to an opera,
and the anticipation Of spending the
evening by hor side was very pleasing
His surprise. therefore, may be i'm
agined when. instead OF bis charmer,
be found ! note awaiting him. She
had decided not to attend tae opera
and the maid handed him q letter.
Ali that would doubtless explain.
Perhaps The dear girl was III; and with
that rogretful thought the editor con-
signed the note to a breast pocket 10
the immediate region Of his heart
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