Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-09-09
Saint Maru's Beacon
A NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW.
(Continued from First Pave. |

letters in his hands because be had
encountered the evening postman
on the doorsteps.
She wanted to help him to spread
the tablecloth and arrange the food
but he said il would make him i'll
il he did not wait on himself, be-
cause he was so used TO doing it.
So she read her manuscript aloud
TO him instead, and he criticised it
as he stumbled about with plates,
knives and forks.
They took their meal in merry,
picnic fashion, like children who
had knosn each other all their
lives. and when hunger was satisfied
they exchanged some further conf
dences. They were both alone in
the world, both dependent on their
pens, although in vastly different
lines ; and were both young, not
withstanding the fact that Jeremy's
hair had sprinkling Of gray in it.
Her name was Margaret, and he
told her that had been bis mothers
name. She was very glad, although
she scarcely knew why.
Il have several literary irons in
the fire. he said presently, 'and
these letters look like business.
May | open them ? Thanks. Then
il the news is good you will be the
first one to congratulate me; and
il it is bad, there will be some con-
ISOLATION to hear you say: Poor d.
! beg your pardon, / mean poor
fellow /; | have not spoken to lady
for three years.
lie opened the first letter.
Good he said The Tip-Top
Magazine accepts Mr.. Grigson's Sc
rial, the first instalment of which
will appear next month"; That
manuscript has been lying Mt the
Office Of the Tip-Top for six months
and | have written about it three
times without being aele to elicit a
reply
Nothing succeeds like success,
said Margaret. open the next
He did so.
'Still betterv he exclaimed. Il
applied for post just vacant on
the staff Of the Pulverizer. 1t
means three hundred a year for q
weekly column of criticism. The
last man was q great swell, and he
gave it up because one of his own
books was smashed to atoms by
mistake in another part of the pa
per. Well | have got the post
Splendid = she said, now the
last one.'
Best of ALL he cried, as he
glanced through it. Because il
shows human nature in an agreea-
BILE light. My publishers inclose
check for f200 in consideration
OF the phenomenal success of THE
Book and they will be happy to
allow me to make my own terms
for the next one. Margaret, | am
waiting to be congratulated
He called her by her Christian
name quite unconsciously.
She sprang to her feet, blushlng
furiously, and began hunting for
her gloves.
Il can't say half / mean about it,
she stammered. won't you take
it for granted how glad | am?
must go now; the evenings are
long, but they don't last forever.
| want to thank you and | dom,
know how
when may ! come to see you %
ooh, never! ] live in such a
wretched place. and you are among
the great ones of the world nov,
you know
'Of course he SAID coolly, 1T
doesn't matter in the least whether
you give me your address or not,
because l am going TO escort you
home, and then shall find ont fol
myself. Are you ashamed to be
seen with me? We cculd stop at q
tailor's on the way. but there would
be certain drawbacks to that com.
promise
My clothes are infinitely worse
than yours she said humbly.
Quite 9 different CASE be as.
sured her. Il believe you would
look well dressed in a gunny. sack.
Then they set out together. lie
did not offer to take q cab. An
hour earlier he would have done so,
but ne was comparatively speaking
rich man now, and he dared moi
Ia IL