The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-06

"Yes." said he; land this is how ]
know it: wrote a note to Miss Ware
and went out to post 1t. When got to
the mail box. found that 1 had this
thing in my hand" ~ 80
He passed me an unopened envelope
addressed to himself There was a tai
lor's name in the upper left hand cor
ner. -. - s,
dun. of COURSE" said he. Il thought
/ burned it Just before leaving the
room. but It must have been the note
to Miss Ware that I threw into the
CRATE. This looks Hike a piece of the
envelope"
And he raked a bit of charred paper
out of the fire.
NO" said 1; FITS here"
picked out of an overturned waste
basket lying between US an envelope
addressed to Miss Ware.
That's the first one 1 wrote her."
said Reed. It's no good. Told her !
was sick from eating some candy sent
to me through the mail. That's a
chestnut. The second one was much
better"
What pleasant fiction did that con-
tain?" l asked.
do you know that coal hole in the
sidewalk just to the left of the entrance
of this building2"
/ admitted having noticed IT.
well. about a year ago one Of the
elevator men went out in a hurry one
evening and stepped right into that
hole. They were putting in coal, and
the cover was of. He went down a
shoot 80 feet to the subcellar and came
out perfectly black and with two ribs
broken"
And you wrote her that that had
happened to your" said 1. why. she'll
know that the Aldine management
wouldn't be getting in coal at this time
of year. Understand, I don't condemn
the lie on moral grounds. which you
wouldn't comprehend, but
Neither do you comprehend the
present situation" he replied And then
he went on to tell me a wild. extrava-
CANT falsehood: that his breaking the
engagement with Miss Ware was en-
tirely for her sake and was founded
upon considerations which were Of tre-
mendous Importance and which he was
not privileged to divulge. If she had
gone upon the charitable errand which
she planned. the gravest results would
have followed. and he had prevented
her in the only possible way.
No one who doesn't know Reed could
believe that such rampant nonsense
could be plausfbly presented. yet at one
point of his story even was led to sus-
pect that there might be a germ Of
truth in 1t. That was Reeds speciality
to tell a falsehood in such a way that
the nearer might well suspect il TO be
false and would yet believe that the
truth was in IL. yelled for some vastly
important and romSnticalIy secret mo-
tive.
I'm rather glad burned that letter"
said Reed as he took the other one out
Of my hand and made a bad shot at
the CRATE with it "rIl write a better
one and describe a real occurrence"
He sat down at his desk and wrote
with incredible speed.
LAS I was passing that deathtrap
crossing at Thirty fourth street this
evening"" said he, folding the letter. "a
little girl tried TO get away from Sixth
avenue trolley and ran right In front OF
hanson. jumped for her and pull
ed her uit Of danger. but the shan OF
the cab hit me in the back and hurt
me quite badly, The iittle girl was not
injured. bun she was scared almost 20
death and yelled IKE IN indian To
pacify her / hired the cab that had
done the damage and sent ShA child 10
! her home On the east giSe. 40 80