The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-14

and quietly, he put the Letter back in
| the bureau and the portrait back in its
place on the wall He Sat down in
/ front of the portrait and gazed at it
pretty, yellowhaired girl with
mOuruful eyes, who had loved him
well and thought him nobhe- And God
had taken her and left him to the COM
position OF an intensely humorou story.
+ He had once the belief that he " as
man Of feeling and honor, land he has
now lost the belief and he cannot live
I without it. Late at night b. goes out.
/ He goes down to the Embank.nent with
the intention of killing himself.
He does not do 1t, because he arrives
/ there Just In time to stop another man
( from killing himself. The other man,
/ q stranger to Wylmot, is young man
with sandy hair-to-wit, Mr. Albert
/ Weeks.
"I think says Wylmot, speaking
I firmly, but with a curious smile on his
face, ''yOu had better come back with
me TO my rooms and talk th&-over." He
stops passing hanson.
What it got to do with you,o" Weeks
begins.
You happen to have saved my life"
That's lie. You saved mine, though
I didn't want your damned interior
I ence. You pulled me back as was on
the parapet. What do you mean by
saying I saved your life?'
All" Wylmot says, with the same
dreary smile, that is what want you
60 come and talk about. | also had In
tended TO commit suicide. Surely that
is sufficient introduction. Come now;
get into the cab"
At Wylmot's chambers the servant
with an anxious expression on his face,
let them IN. 1t vanished as he saw
Wylmot. he had been nervous about
his master. and he was glad 70 see him
no longer alone and looking in better
spirits.
Albert Weeks felt mazed and won
dering were the events OF the last Few
days that had driven him to despera-
ton unreal. or wastthis unreal? The
two men had drawn their chairs up in
front of the fire. Albert Weeks slipped
the fragrant coffee and bhnked mis-
eyes; he was in n kind of dream.
Through it he heard Wylmot speaking
'Ye. II II nad not ucen Tor Won 1
should have drowned myself tonight.
The sight OF another man on the verge
Of committing exactly the same act
suddenly showed me that suicide was
running away. One should not run
away. 1t is not brave, though brave |
men have done it through sudden panic. /.
You have placed me under a very great /.
obligation % you"
Weeks shook his head. "You saved /
me. too"
No. no. saved you from an isolated I
act. You saved NE from an entirely !
wrong principle. I do not know wheth- /
er ! make myself clear. But feel the 4
obligation deeply, and ] will speak ~ il 4
again afterwards. In the meantime you /
should know my name" lie handed I
Weeks a card.
Weeks glanced e. Il and said: II
have no card. but nv name is Albert
Weeks. and l used % live a. No. %, liar
riet Terrace, Fulham- ! was q journal
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know the Inner Circle2''
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say that ever read it,
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was all had 10 1--we OF. I'm married.
with children Il was very difficult y
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thing taken elsewhere. aot often
borrowed little m0nev on ~ furn.-
t1re When I got kicked OF the
Inner Circle couldn't pay me interes:
due, and - the Jew took tie furniture
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her married sister, Mrs. WARRIOR
she wouldn't have ne. aid she yrsdzes
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children; they'll come 20 The work
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