The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-04-06

countable trembling at the fnger-tlps what
found inside was a check for three months
salary, with the notification to the effect
that in consequence of my great success in
having that morning made The Blunderer
the laughing stock Of all London, the pro-
prietors considered 1t due recognition OF my
talents that should not enter the office
kagan. For explanation I was referred to
the enclosed cuttings from that days daily
| newspapers, lifted one of the slips from
| out of the envelope, and what then met my
| eyes caused me to staggcr back speechless
| and breathless against the wall for there in
| that brief announcement Of the postpone
ment Mt the last moment OF For Life or
Death, saw the evidence OF the horrible
treachery of which had been victim. The
| evidence of my own ruin, utter and IRE
mediublc, stared me in the face. l had actu-
ally written detailed report and criticism
of an audience which had never assembled,
| of actors who had never appeared, OF a
piece which Rad never been produced.
"What need is there for me to tell you
more, when YOU can guess the rest for Your
| self! You don't want to hear that and the
| papers with which l had been connected
| came the by-word and scoff of England, and
| that the Bullsoye in particular never sur
viyed the shock. Nor do YOU need to be told
| that the few hundred enemies whom had
contrved to raise around me by exceeding
smartness turned the story in all ways so as
to tell to my disadvantage, or that my jour
naistic career, which meant my livelihood,
was practically at an end, If you can under
| stand the charitable eyes with which an ed
itor would be apt to look upon that Kind OF
mistake. Whatever / tried, wherever /
| 4 hn ,Nrr,
always the same-the black shadow pursued
me and closed every door in my face. Liz
zie, of all the world, was the only one who
clung to me in my trouble, and insisted on
carrying out her promise and marrying me
| in the teeth of her parents, who threw her
| off when they found her bent on allying
| herself to a pauper. She struggled on my
| side for two years, comforting and sustain
| ing me in our bitterest adversely with her
| love and faith, until one day she died in my
| arms. and the light of my life went out.
| Then, having nothing else in the world to
cling to, | clung to the drink the while it
dragged me down, down. down to what
am
"One thing more have to MENTION" said
the sandwich man, as he rose from his seat
and proceeded to hang the boards over his
shoulders again; sit was one day some
months after the events described that |
met Scrubby. 4 can't for the life of me un-
derstand how you came to fall into that ter
ribe blunder,' he said, especially after
the note left for you, telling how we had
all gone down to the theater on wild-goose
| chase only to find that the piece was post
| ponetl until the following week.
"Note! Left forme by you" calculated.
"Yes!-No now come to think of it,
didn't leave the note. | wanted to go down
to the Parthenon to see the new burlesque,
but gave it to man who said he would be
passing the club and would hand it in. Let
me see. All! have it now-you know him
Loydall, the Olympian heavy lead"-S.
Smith, in Outing.