The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-07
EDITORIAL OFFICE
OF THE CREPUSCoLo.

She entered, mounting the stairs slowly
and looking doubtfully ahead What
should she cay when she went in9 In the
first room, the professor had told her. were
the editors. all men, all youngl And in a
little separate parlor he, the chief editor.
the handsome man with the short auburn
beard, the knocking smile, that she had
looked at SO many times, furtively, through
the window blinds. She must take cour-
age, turn the door handle with firm hand,
and enter-enter with reserved manners.
as became an honest girl, but frank and
natural. Then. after all, she WAS not 60
ing into those rooms from a bad motive.
from vanity or coquetry.
She was going to sell her work, 10 give n
proof of her love for her dear little old
woman Oh, for shamel She had been ca
pable of hesitating so much She could
think so much of herself. of her sensitive
ness of timid child She turned the door
handle and entered with firm step, saying
GOOD morning" At first, near sighted
as she was, and blinded by the smoke OF
the cigarettes, she only perceived at the
end of the room large table, with several
men seated around it writing.
They all raised their heads, and one OF
them, very young man with large, weary
eyes, went attentively forward TO meet her.
''The chief editort" asked AnninA, with
a thread of voice.
The editorial staff began 10 write again,
discriminating an equiyocal smile, fortu-
nately unnoticed by the girl.
'He will be here in moment" replied
the young man. 'If you will wait for
him
And as Aunina looked around her, fright
ened. he added hurriedly, preceding her;
Come into the chief EDITORS room; 10
will not be 50 cold there" And be opened
the door of little parlor, richly furnished.
where in the fireplace was cracking
beautiful, lively fame.
The Young man made low bow, then re-
turned 10 his task Of cleaning up the CORE
spondence, saying 20 himself:
Where the deuce have seen that little
face and those pleading eyesY'
No one permitted himself the slightest
comment in regard 70 the morning visitor.
They had seen others very unlike her
The young girl mean " hile-whose breath
had constantly grown shorter - looked
around her with INGENIOUS admiration.
How warm one felt in that beautiful little
room, with carpet on the floor and heavy
plush curtains at the windowi And To
think that all those furnishings, all tboss
expensive trifles. one could earn them By
work with the pen, inventing beautiful TO
manoes, writing poems. making critical
articles upon fine books. foreign and Itsi-
ian. On. IL sas could succeed Ia al that
Then mamma-
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with a glass in his left ere, entered with a
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