The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-15

| And sugar.?
yes, please You viii promise"
! 1.-TWO lumps?"
! "Only one. Not to open"
| 'Mik?'
| please. Or read"
| Cake, Mr.. vautrey?"
Thank you. But you will not re-
fuse?"
Mr.. vautrey, I neither refuse nor de-
cline"
Then"
81 must see the letter"
| "You must see before you decide?"
! Certainly
aBut it will be too late, then"
| L can't help that"
Miss Delacour, this is something very
important, indeed
$50 II would SEEM"
"And you persist in making Joke of
it."
| "I am mot joking, Mr.. vautrey;A far
from 1t, believe me. You come to me
with a mystery. Well, I adore mystic
ries. 1t is about a letter, and going
away Where are you going?"
'I hardly know"
"To the Riviera?"
probably
/ "well. we all do that every year; there
is nothing striking in that Then, there
| is this letter.
(Which, when 1t comes, you will de-
stroy?"
"As I said before, will consider the
point"
quence, you know"
mo"
"Or likely to interest you"
81 suppose not; but when did you post
your letter."
Last night"
'In town."
| Eyes"
'"Then, 1t should be here by now: 1t
will come by the afternoon post, prob
ably, and-yes. half-past Ait should he
here Immediately. Then you can tell me
all about it, or I can read it and de-
+, eide whether to burn 1t or not"
| minute later a servant entered the
room with a salver, on which lay sew
! eral letters.
Here they are, Mr. vautrey, and yes
here is yours. but-well, 1t didn't matter
about your request"
''Why? What has happened"
cit is only the envelope which is here"
And the letter.
'Has been lost in the post, evidently"
| "Ahi"
And now, what was in this letter,
which was not stuck down. and which
you were so anxious for me not to see?
You owe me an explanation"
ut was a matter which had better be
! left alone
II am not of that opinion"
| Miss Delacour, l assure you TO the
contrary. The incident is over, the let
ter Is lost
But it will be found"
NO. IT knew its duty, and sensibly
eTaced itself"
STILL there was an address on the
note paper?"
Perhaps. forget
You forget? Impossible!"
| Not at all"
Where did you write it?"
AT the club
Then the club has stamped note pa
per-"
''vgen?"
"And the letter will be returned to YOU
know how it is done. 1 wrote to Jessie
Cardington at Cairo. She had left. The
letter was opened and returned to me. SO
II viii be here. Now, Mr.. Vautrey, you
must tell me all about the letter, y
promise to send it to me when you re-
ceive it again"
And IL I can do neither"
"Then our friendship, Mr.. vautrey
| comes 70 an end
THAT is precisely what It has to do
IN any case"
| w nat 90 you mean
1T is the simple truth, Miss Delacour;
1t is no joke about my going away
81 understand less and less"
ut Is clear. nevertheless"
| Explain. please"
1.-THE letter which I wrote was a re-
quest which at the time might not have
| seemed so extraordinarily impertinent,
| because"
I 'eYes?'
because believed myself wealthy
"But the request?"
was TO marry me-"
GO on"
| After writing Il I learned by tele
gram from Castlehampt0n that the solic-
itors who manage my property have fail
ed absolutely. They have collapsed; not
I a red cent: 50 that you see I was II a
double predicament. I tried. little know
ling the red tape inlperru-osbtl Of the
department. TO recover my letter. Il was
i useless, but Fate behaved IN this par
ticu,ar instance Ike a gentleman ard
did tae straight thing. That IS all
c1oed-by. Miss DelacoUr. You see how Il
al is"
4 see nothing OF the kind"
But the world Is more clea--slghted .
You viii ob,ige me By sitting down
tagain-g
.-slr vautrey. yoa are very unkind TO
me"
/ IN what way-'
In acting as yoa have. have plenty
OF red cents"
7 knoW "
/ Wen. doesn't taai make Il al riEAt p
I You can't NARY man II ne md
( There IS a crossing a. the snd az the
street. Il ~ viii ozly take x. ard Il 1ou
da-t propose again directly J shah think
that yau care Tor ne 10 more
But 90 care srf l-aut thsrs.
rulBsd r.u, Tank a itt'
I sou't see WY shouid ;hiak % &
Dl5 vou mean The issferT"
When / wrate ft-yes"
And row.
'No- Z see TIRE inscssiSlliEy."
you have written . rae, Xr Fans~sv.
asking ne 10 zaarrv voa. / thark OK
toT your letter. an6--T acceVt yesr
o1er'
Il Senator Bsvertsse II Iz6iAns zas s1ss-
IUEsG fcr = Soe@ch AZ Topeka Cete5e~ 3.
The nzssouzl COMMITTEES has seEt worz
lthAt Bevsrl1Ee cannot coze