The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23
He KEEPS OUT OF SIGHT
It's Sure Thing That Mcguire
Is Scared.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN IT
The Gallant Theater Manager Gave a
Note to a Woman Which Has Led
to No End of Trouble-Explan-
atoms Don't Go.

Missoula April 22.--It is not often that
John Mcguire fees from anything.
Those who know him, well know that.
Those who know him by reputation
only have always heard that regarding
him. But John fees now. He keeps
very much out of sight these days and
it is not till the electric lights are
turned on that ne shows himself, even
to his friends. 1t is a sure thing that
John is scared. AS Miles Finlen would
say. it is 10 to shot that he is. Those
who are familiar with the local situa-
ton would be willing to give even
heavier odds than that. John is afraid.
John, who has never before known the
meaning of the word fear, is now afraid
He is scared. He is not willing to run
the chance of meeting the person of
whom he stands in such abject fear in
the streets, SO he stays out of sight
when there is any chance of her being
seen or of seeing him. For it is a wo-
man who has terrified John Mcguire.
That is terrible announcement to go
forth, but it is true. When this story is
read by those who have known John,
10, these many years. they Will find it
difficult to believe. but there is nothing
else for them to do. They must believe
it. even though it skaters ain idol of
theirs. John is afraid of woman.
This is how it came about. One after
noon this week handsome woman
came into the Standard office. Mr. Ma
guire was in the office at the time, sit
ting at one of the desks and the WISH
tor addressed herself to him. She want
ed to know how to get a permit to go
through the state prison. That was
easy for Mr.. Mcguire. He told the fair
applicant that it was the easiest thing
in the world to get into the prison. The
only thing that was worrying a great
many people, he said. was how to keep
out, not how to get in. He would write
a note to his friend, Colonel McTague,
and he was certain that the latter
would grant the permission asked for.
The genial John then proceeded to in
dite the note to the warden of the pen.
The fair visitor said something about
it being very kind of him and of her
husband and of other things, but John
was busy with his writing and paid but
little attention to what was said. He
caught the reference to the husband
and at once grasped the situation. SO
the note that he wrote ran something
like this:
Dear Toni hope that you will be
willing to grant the favor that this lady
asks. She is very anxious to see her
husband, who is in your institution, and
/ hope that you will grant her every
facility that you can to enable her to
visit him. The lady has been to con-
siderable trouble and expense to get to
Deer Lodge, and I trust that you will
relax your rules little in her behalf"
This he signed and folded and hand
ed to the lady, who accepted it with
thanks and left the office. The above
is not the exact wording of the note,
but is close to it. John will not tell
all that he wrote and the lady will not
show the note. so it is impossible to Sc
cure an exact copy.
In a couple of hours the lady came
back. And she had the note With her.
She also had a CLEAN in her eye and
when she entered the Standard office
there was a drop in the temperature.
1t became very, very chilly for those
who We're there. John was not one of
them. He had gone. 1t was well for
him that he had. He has been glad
of it ever since. The lady asked for
him and the reporter who answered her
inquiry was glad that it was for John
that she asked. He wanted to know if
he could do anything for her, but she
said that he could not. She wanted to
see the man who wrote the note. But
she left word for him. When John got
that word he was gladder than ever
that he had BEEN out at the time of the
last call.
The lady had politely refrained from
looking at the note when it was handed
to her and did not read it till she
reached home. Then she did read it and
when she had read it she came back
down town. She left word for John
that her husband was not in the pen.
He had never been in the pen and he
was not the kind of a man that gets
into the pen. Her husband was visit
ing in Deer Lodge and had asked her, if
possible, to secure for him a permit to
look over the penitentiary, of which he
had heard so much. She didn't want to
see the pen. Il was her husband, and
how could anybody have obtained the
impression that her husband was in the
pen? When she had made this eX-
PLANTATION those who heard 1t laughed
They could not help it. When the lady
saw them laugh she laughed, too. But
she wouldn't give up the letter She
wanted to show it to the man who
wrote 1t. The man who wrote it will
be very careful that she does not show
it to him. He is, as already stated, in
hiding. But he has maze many reso-
luton that hereafter when anybody is
speaking to him he will listen carefully,
especially if the contents of letter de-
pend upon what is being said.
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